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- Needle SMG
Needle SMG
Sprays needles at close range. The Needle SMG is a standard-grade smg in Squadbreak that any class can use, as a primary or as a sidearm.
Stats
As it drops, and with every upgrade part at its Standard cap (3 levels, before Augment Cores). Your level, skills, mods and boosts add more damage and fire rate on top.
| Stat | As found | Fully upgraded |
|---|---|---|
| Damage per shot | 10.5 | 13 |
| Shots per second | 9 | 10.35 |
| Magazine | 50 | 80 |
| Reload | 1.5s | 1.05s |
| Range | 550 | 682 |
| Bullet speed | 1,000 | 1,240 |
| Spread | 0.12 | 0.077 |
| Crit chance | 0% | 9% |
| Damage per second (with reloads) | 74 | 220 |
How to get it
The Needle SMG only drops in missions, from gun cases (amber) dropped by enemies, bosses and mission wins. It can drop once you’re level 1 or higher: gear more than 2 levels above you never drops.
Standard is the grade rolled on 45% of drops on tier-1 maps, 40% of drops on tier-2 maps, 15% of drops on tier-3 maps, and 0% of tier-3 boss drops. See loot and drops.
A gun you already own is scrapped for gold when it drops again.
Builds that use it
Upgrades
Spend gold in the Inventory to upgrade each part up to its grade’s cap. Taking every part to the cap costs about 14,345 gold. An Augment Core plus gold then pushes a capped part 2 levels further at 1.5× strength.
| Part | Group | Per level | Max levels |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Barrel | Damage | +8% damage | 3 |
| Precision Optics | Damage | +3% crit chance | 3 |
| Hollow Points | Damage | +20% crit damage | 3 |
| Hair Trigger | Damage | +5% fire rate | 3 |
| Stabilizer | Handling | +12% less spread | 3 |
| Long Barrel | Handling | +8% range and bullet speed | 3 |
| Extended Mag | Handling | +20% ammo capacity | 3 |
| Speed Loader | Handling | +10% faster reload | 3 |
| Burst Chamber | Rounds | +1 extra round per shot | 3 |
| Penetrator Rounds | Rounds | +1 more enemy pierced | 3 |
| Phase Rounds | Rounds | +1 wall passed through | 3 |
| Seeker Module | Rounds | +1 homing strength | 3 |
| Shrapnel Tips | Effects | +8% of each hit splashes nearby | 3 |
| Vampiric Rounds | Effects | +2% of damage heals you | 3 |
| Arc Coil | Effects | +6% chance to arc to another enemy | 3 |
| Elemental Core | Effects | +10% elemental effect chance | 3 |
Other smgs
All smgs · Every gun in Squadbreak · Weapon tier list
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