If I join a flood game already in progress as a human I will have an assault rifle and pistol as my primary weapons. I can’t select a loadout, and everyone, including spartans, will show up as enemies which I can get points for killing. This happened to me a couple of times.
I’ve also seen games where players would join, and they would have their own armor instead of the normal green.
If you’ve experienced this please comment so 343 can take a look at it.
> If I join a flood game already in progress as a human I will have an assault rifle and pistol as my primary weapons. I can’t select a loadout, and everyone, including spartans, will show up as enemies which I can get points for killing. This happened to me a couple of times.
This is a virtual team assignment failure.
Basically, the game’s normal team system doesn’t have features that Flood needs, so Flood has to implement its own “virtual team” system from scratch, using a different part of the game engine. Sometimes, things go wrong and Flood just fails to put a player on either of its virtual teams – not a Survivor or a Flood.
> sometimes when I see that red dot in my radar and I panic and shot that “enemy” and get betrayal. It is very frustrating when they are using camo.
This is similar to the above glitch. Flood manages teams by starting with an FFA gametype, and manually setting pairs of players to be allied. Sometimes, this desynchronizes – some consoles will ally two players, while other consoles will forget to – leading to “fake” enemies that count as betrayals when killed.
> I’ve also seen games where players would join, and they would have their own armor instead of the normal green.
Trait assignment failure. A player is put on the right team, but their player traits don’t synchronize fully for some reason. The host will generally compensate for things like shields, but appearance traits are never resynchronized until the player dies.
I’ve deduced some stuff about how Flood works under the hood, and have written a technical analysis of the gametype and its bugs, if anyone’s interested.