5/11 update adds more Flood to FF

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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  • Increased the amount of Flood enemies in each wave. This increase varies for each map but equates to roughly 20% more Flood enemies.
  • Various Flood waves have been tuned to make the Combat Forms more common relative to the Carrier and Pure Forms.
  • A new Stealth Flood Combat Brute enemy has been added to various waves. This enemy has Active Camo and light shields. Any Brute Stalker infected by the Flood will transform into this character as well.

Excited to see how much harder FF is now, and good to see updates come in more frequently.

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How did you find this? I cannot find ANY news about todays update anywhere!

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Always check the Halo support site first.

https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/5178835359380

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Thanks for the clarification mate. A very nice little patch!

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You’re a saint friend!

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This is awesome! Logging back in to play just because of this.

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Yeah something must have gone wrong or maybe they forgot to push the update to steam :grimacing:

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Okay, this makes me think they have to be adding Stealth Elites back in soon. if the function is working for Brute Stalkers, it’s gotta mean they’re close to restoring that unused Elite rank.

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I must sadly admit I have yet to even try flood fire fight. Is flood firefight just for odst or is it in reach as well. I had it selected on the composer along with two other selections and didn’t get a flood match, granted I only played two games but didn’t have much time and just wanted to complete the challenge.

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It is only for ODST.

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So I played a match with only flood and Brute Stalkers immediately after seeing this post, but none of the infected invisible Brutes’ behaviors changed, and I didn’t see it as a Firefight enemy option either. Must have accidentally been left out.

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Hopefully they’ll improve and expand on it as an option when they eventually restore Stealth Elites at some point down the road.

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Are you guys playing Floodfight in matchmaking or custom games? I tried it out at launch with a custom game with Black Eye removed, but when I jump back in I didn’t know if the update would affect the original custom game variant or if it only applied to matchmaking.

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I largely play customs, its how I initially missed the elite spawns in arcade fight as well as the nighttime spec ops elite allies (of which I hope they add the spec ops grunts back in for)

Still, stalker behavior was described as being affected after infection, however it seems like it might not be working, or it might only affect nighttime boons.

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I’ve noticed a bit of an issue, I have a gamemode that’s supposed to be entirely flood pure form and tank sets, every set a bunch of these new invisible brute flood spawn with just a few pure forms alongside them…
I wonder if this is due to both the stealth brutes, and fast pure forms being titles “stalkers”.

Edit: ah nevermind, it seems that they just added combat forms to spawn in every wave of pure forms… :confused:
Guess that variant is out the window, it’s just regular floodlight but with higher ratio of pure forms.

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