The Flood is a big part of the halo universe, with the focus on the Prometheans again with the Warden Eternal and the new Promethean Soldier variant, do you guys think that there is still a slot for the Flood to return in the game?
I hope so. I mean it could be a possibility. Kind of like a surprise in campaign.
I hope 343 is keeping their return in Halo 5 a surprise. I want their fear factor from CE to make a comeback.
I am hoping there may be some symbolism in the Escape from ARC Warzone map. Holding back the flood…
Today AAA gaming is hard to keep surpises cause of pre-orders numbers and leaks, halo as franchise is a victim of leaks for while, but I have my hopes up with the teases from Halo:Escalation for example.
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> Today AAA gaming is hard to keep surpises cause of pre-orders numbers and leaks, halo as franchise is a victim of leaks for while, but I have my hopes up with the teases from Halo:Escalation for example.
exatly what i was thinking.
i doubt they’d tease us without showing them in the end.
I really hope that if they do come back, I want them to be the massive all consuming galactic force they were that got the Forerunners so badly beaten that they only remaining option to stop them was to wipe the entire galaxy clean
The flood was nearly killed off in H3 and in Halo 2 they were a gone wrong and accidentally released if you played its campaign.
For them to bring back the flood in campaign it probably wont be as nearly of a large scale of that in the previous halo games. Unless of course they do find a way to populate faster now which is highly unlikely of them too.
I enjoyed flood as much as anyone haha but to bring them back when they were all killed off practically is a hard feat to accomplish for 343i imo.
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> The flood was nearly killed off in H3 and in Halo 2 they were a gone wrong and accidentally released if you played its campaign.
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> For them to bring back the flood in campaign it probably wont be as nearly of a large scale of that in the previous halo games. Unless of course they do find a way to populate faster now which is highly unlikely of them too.
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> I enjoyed flood as much as anyone haha but to bring them back when they were all killed off practically is a hard feat to accomplish for 343i imo.
You’re about to be corrected by folks that are invested more deeply in the lore than you lol.
Just a head’s up.
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> The flood was nearly killed off in H3 and in Halo 2 they were a gone wrong and accidentally released if you played its campaign.
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> For them to bring back the flood in campaign it probably wont be as nearly of a large scale of that in the previous halo games. Unless of course they do find a way to populate faster now which is highly unlikely of them too.
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> I enjoyed flood as much as anyone haha but to bring them back when they were all killed off practically is a hard feat to accomplish for 343i imo.
Frank O´Connor said on a Halo:Legends interview for IGN that the Flood will always be the ultimate bad guys of the franchise, If they are not a threat in Halo 5, they will be on Halo Wars 2 or/and on Halo 6.
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> > The flood was nearly killed off in H3 and in Halo 2 they were a gone wrong and accidentally released if you played its campaign.
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> > For them to bring back the flood in campaign it probably wont be as nearly of a large scale of that in the previous halo games. Unless of course they do find a way to populate faster now which is highly unlikely of them too.
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> > I enjoyed flood as much as anyone haha but to bring them back when they were all killed off practically is a hard feat to accomplish for 343i imo.
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> You’re about to be corrected by folks that are invested more deeply in the lore than you lol.
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> Just a head’s up.
At this point, most of us just let it slide as it’s been explained a ridiculous amount of times over the years.
Yes! Bring back the Flood and show us the extant of possible Pure Forms.
I don’t think 343 will do it, I don’t expect that from them. I’m daring 343, but they won’t give us a wow surprise factor. Prove me wrong 343, or are y’all going to just throw away the flood along with brutes and play things safely and dull. The flood is prophesied to return, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they waited to Halo 6.
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> I don’t think 343 will do it, I don’t expect that from them. I’m daring 343, but they won’t give us a wow surprise factor. Prove me wrong 343, or are y’all going to just throw away the flood along with brutes and play things safely and dull. The flood is prophesied to return, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they waited to Halo 6.
I agree, from what we’ve seen there’s a lot of other story lines going on right now that they want to get through before reintroducing the flood. But it’d definitely be cool if they did it in Halo 5
Yes, I want the flood back. With these new mechanics in Halo 5 we could see some really impressive flood variants enter the game from the first time. Hopefully flood that are closer to their description in the books.
why people like the flood always confuses me. Every flood level across all halo games are the worst levels i guarantee if you name your least favourite level from each halo (ce,2,3) it would be a flood level. They are also boring to kill they are walking bullet sponges
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> why people like the flood always confuses me. Every flood level across all halo games are the worst levels i guarantee if you name your least favourite level from each halo (ce,2,3) it would be a flood level. They are also boring to kill they are walking bullet sponges
No they weren’t, the Flood will always the best. It’s not really Halo without them. Makes no sense to me why some people hate on the Flood when that’s part of what made Halo amazing. If there’s anything I hate then it be Promethean’s.
They seem pretty hesitant to reveal a whole lot of information on the campaign. All we’ve gotten is some screenshots, an article about Mission 2, and a linear part of a mission that is not representative of the final game at all. It sort of seems like they’re hiding something…
I’d say Halo 6.
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> I hope 343 is keeping their return in Halo 5 a surprise. I want their fear factor from CE to make a comeback.
that’s a brilliant idea, i would love to be walking through a mission with Osiris (as they haven’t encountered the flood before), and out of no where they see an infection form, they have no clue what it is, they follow it and they find a proto gravemind and a flood colony. the player knows whats up, but i want to see the chat between Osiris as they collectively soil themsleves.