If The Flood Returned..

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I understand not everyone would like to see the Flood return to the Halo universe, there is still a great population who would enjoy their return, such ad myself. But how wojld the Flood return, you may ask.
Since the Flood arc has ended as it would seem, the series has taken the approach to look more st the Forerunners now. This doesn’t negate the factor that the Flood did make it out of the galaxy before the Halo array first fired during the Forerunner-Flood war. There are also planets and Forerunner research installations containing them. Personally, I would like to see the Flood return, even if for a small piece of story in the main games or in another novel or comic.

I’ve been thinking though, since a lot of Flood are still out there, wouldn’t it be cool to at least get new forms of them? In the lore, many Promethean Warrior-Servants fell to them and became infected, and that is briefly shown in one of the Halo 4 terminals. What if a Promethean combat form appeared as a boss or enemy? They would be far more menacing and powerful than the Brutes or Sangheili combat forms. They would be roughly ten or eleven feet tall, faster, stronger, wearing damaged Forerunner combat skins. They would be weilding various energy projected weapons.
They would be menacing and incredibly difficult to combat.
I would absolutely love to see such a feature in game, even if it’s just a Warzone variant.
If not a main story, maybe even a comic? Or book.

What do you think? If you are a fan who wants more Flood, especially in new forms, would you like the idea of Promethean Flood soldiers?

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If the flood returned… I wouldn’t mind

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If the Flood returned I’d be excited to hear or see from the smartest creature in the Galaxy. The Gravemind!

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> If the Flood returned I’d be excited to hear or see from the smartest creature in the Galaxy. The Gravemind!

Same here but I feel if they had Forerunner combat forms they would be so much cooler, give some of them a menacing feel

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I’d personally be annoyed, never liked them outside of Halo Wars or the books. I always feel like the games never do them any real justice. Maybe for infection yes, I’d be excited.

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I want to see the Flood return for a short time, for two simple reasons:

  • To see Prometheans battle it out with the Flood. Bound to be an impressive sight.
  • To see Flood with next-gen graphics and better programming. I imagine that they could REALLY get the ‘parasitic invasion’ feel of them very accurate with the new technical power they have.
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The Flood shouldn’t return by being released on a Halo ring, but by the Precursors return, as prophesied by the Primordial in Primordium.

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> The Flood shouldn’t return by being released on a Halo ring, but by the Precursors return, as prophesied by the Primordial in Primordium.

ending halo 5 after credits cutscene.
infinity makes random jump from messy place
pillar of autumn makes random jump from messy place

infinity ends up at halo ring
pillar of autumn ends up at halo ring

spartan aboard PoA finds flood on ring
gues what, poA carried 2 spartans. the infinity more like 300~

and since the rings are known to have flood samples on them…
halo 6 + flood?
i can see cortana and the prometheans fight the flood

would be awesome.

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i think that it would be a great twist to the story to see the flood again. the way i see it, the Spartan IVs are being trained to fight off Promethean and covenant forces, aside from that fact, the flood outbreak also infecting Prometheans would be horrifying in my opinion. with the advanced tech of the Prometheans, the floods arsenal would be dang near limitless, and if the knights and solders are infected, the warping ability that they use could add an even more challenging attack structure for the flood. Plus, i think another interesting factor to add, would be if the knights are infected, that when they deploy watchers, the watchers could also deploy flood spores.

another idea i think would be interesting if not terrifying, would be a possibility of Cortana finding the gravemind as well. with her connection to the mantle, she would be an asset to the gravemind. and with the graveminds knowledge, he may be of importance to Cortana. with this idea in mind, i personally think that a temporary truce between cortana and the gravemind could pose a very high threat to both covenant and human forces. also, the graveminds greedy and twisted nature in mind, i think that it would be interesting to see him once again take cortana as he hid in halo 2 to halo 3, and strip her of her new found knowledge, and find a way to access the mantle, but, if once again, chief finds cortana. it might be possible that if she is stripped from the mantle, that she could be taken back to Halsey and be repaired, re uniting her and Chief as they were in halo 2 and the non impending rampancy parts of halo 4.

but thats just my opinion, if anyone has any other ideas about the flood, lay them out.

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> i think that it would be a great twist to the story to see the flood again. the way i see it, the Spartan IVs are being trained to fight off Promethean and covenant forces, aside from that fact, the flood outbreak also infecting Prometheans would be horrifying in my opinion. with the advanced tech of the Prometheans, the floods arsenal would be dang near limitless, and if the knights and solders are infected, the warping ability that they use could add an even more challenging attack structure for the flood. Plus, i think another interesting factor to add, would be if the knights are infected, that when they deploy watchers, the watchers could also deploy flood spores.
> another idea i think would be interesting if not terrifying, would be a possibility of Cortana finding the gravemind as well. with her connection to the mantle, she would be an asset to the gravemind. and with the graveminds knowledge, he may be of importance to Cortana. with this idea in mind, i personally think that a temporary truce between cortana and the gravemind could pose a very high threat to both covenant and human forces. also, the graveminds greedy and twisted nature in mind, i think that it would be interesting to see him once again take cortana as he hid in halo 2 to halo 3, and strip her of her new found knowledge, and find a way to access the mantle, but, if once again, chief finds cortana. it might be possible that if she is stripped from the mantle, that she could be taken back to Halsey and be repaired, re uniting her and Chief as they were in halo 2 and the non impending rampancy parts of halo 4.
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> but thats just my opinion, if anyone has any other ideas about the flood, lay them out.

This would be cool. Technically, any flood that exists in the galaxy has a neurolical commection to each other, so they can transfer imformation to each other, mostly to graveminds and keyminds. So basically, the Gravemind from Halo 3 was able to attain whatever knowledge existed from it’s predecessor by gaining knowledge from flood on other research stations in the galaxy.
The Domain is a Precursor artifact, and since Halo’s firing, it has been damaged. It’s easy to see the possibility of it corrupting Cortana, and easy to see another AI be effected by a gravemind and their logic plagues.
I do see Cortana releasing the Flood. But personally, I see Cortana’s ascenscion to the Mantle’s control only being a tiny plot piece of the full reclaimer saga. I think there is far more to happen and she isn’t the main enemy. The flood could play a large, yet less violent role.

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The flood are disgusting :disappointed:

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> > i think that it would be a great twist to the story to see the flood again. the way i see it, the Spartan IVs are being trained to fight off Promethean and covenant forces, aside from that fact, the flood outbreak also infecting Prometheans would be horrifying in my opinion. with the advanced tech of the Prometheans, the floods arsenal would be dang near limitless, and if the knights and solders are infected, the warping ability that they use could add an even more challenging attack structure for the flood. Plus, i think another interesting factor to add, would be if the knights are infected, that when they deploy watchers, the watchers could also deploy flood spores.
> > another idea i think would be interesting if not terrifying, would be a possibility of Cortana finding the gravemind as well. with her connection to the mantle, she would be an asset to the gravemind. and with the graveminds knowledge, he may be of importance to Cortana. with this idea in mind, i personally think that a temporary truce between cortana and the gravemind could pose a very high threat to both covenant and human forces. also, the graveminds greedy and twisted nature in mind, i think that it would be interesting to see him once again take cortana as he hid in halo 2 to halo 3, and strip her of her new found knowledge, and find a way to access the mantle, but, if once again, chief finds cortana. it might be possible that if she is stripped from the mantle, that she could be taken back to Halsey and be repaired, re uniting her and Chief as they were in halo 2 and the non impending rampancy parts of halo 4.
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> > but thats just my opinion, if anyone has any other ideas about the flood, lay them out.
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> This would be cool. Technically, any flood that exists in the galaxy has a neurolical commection to each other, so they can transfer imformation to each other, mostly to graveminds and keyminds. So basically, the Gravemind from Halo 3 was able to attain whatever knowledge existed from it’s predecessor by gaining knowledge from flood on other research stations in the galaxy.
> The Domain is a Precursor artifact, and since Halo’s firing, it has been damaged. It’s easy to see the possibility of it corrupting Cortana, and easy to see another AI be effected by a gravemind and their logic plagues.
> I do see Cortana releasing the Flood. But personally, I see Cortana’s ascenscion to the Mantle’s control only being a tiny plot piece of the full reclaimer saga. I think there is far more to happen and she isn’t the main enemy. The flood could play a large, yet less violent role.

yea, i mean with halo CE, 2, and 3, i think the flood should still be a huge roll, but like you said, maybe no so much as a overly violent role, but still have have a large part in combat, but more towards the story.

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It is highly likely they are coming back, they play a big part in the Halo lore.

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I’d like to see a mission in Halo 6 where most of Infinity crew is consumed by the flood and have to fight you’re way through the ship to save Halsey or Laskey. As big as the Infinity is you could turn that into a huge and very long mission fighting as Chief, not Locke!

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I wouldn’t mind seeing them return

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> I’d like to see a mission in Halo 6 where most of Infinity crew is consumed by the flood and have to fight you’re way through the ship to save Halsey or Laskey. As big as the Infinity is you could turn that into a huge and very long mission fighting as Chief, not Locke!

That would be pretty brilliant. A setting where they have to detonate certain parts of the ship or jettison airlocks and other containment protocols to combat them. The Wargames after all is training to combat new enemies, including the flood, so Humanity has their own Flood containment plan developed by the Spartan IV branch. This would be an awesome campaign level.

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It would be worth seeing, but yeah i don’t really care for the flood.

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I wouldn’t mind at all

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I would be hapy if the Flood returned, but not in the Reclaimer Saga; they should reserve their return or the next saga of games. This is because the Reclaimer Saga is mainly about who gets the Mantle of Responsibility. The next saga should be about upholding the Mantle, which means the Flood should be the main “Big Bad.”

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Halo 6 having Flood has been indirectly confirmed by 343 guys, saying something along the lines of “no flood in H5, but they’re coming” a month or two before the H5 release.