I really hope they add the Flood as an enemy. Imagine fighting against waves of infection forms, carrier forms, and combat forms, then slowly progress to flood pure forms (and maybe some new forms?). This continues until you are finally overwhelmed and are infected.
Enemy Flood and AI allies, with all out vehicle warfare and limited lifes
We’ve seen previously that 343i is willing to introduce new stuff to Firefight. The HCEA Firefight map (Installation 04 I think) introduced NPC friendlies in the form of ODSTs.
It would be great to have Flood come into Firefight if it returns. There could either be Flood only maps, or have Flood come at a certain wave and infect bodies that were killed in the previous wave.
With massive amounts of customization options, Promethean enemies, Covenant enemies, the Flood, and friendly NPCs, a new generation of Firefight would have the potential to be a blast.
Only if they do a good overhaul on the Flood’s gameplay mechanics. For a long time I was thinking this would be the most awesome thing ever, but now that I think about it there are a lot of problems.
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The Flood always charge, there is no variety with that, they will charge until you die or they die, never retreat.
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Their mainline forms really lack variety. All we’ve had in the FPS Halos are the human, elite and brute combat forms all of which act the same except the elites have energy shields sometimes. Then there is the infection forms which we all know. Then there is the carrier forms that just charge and explode. The Pure forms were pretty insignificant in function since the only one that was a real tactical threat was the ranged form.
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The Flood in Halo 3 lost their power and they couldn’t melee well and they would explode once you hit them.
Don’t get me wrong I would love Flood Firefight, but I really want them to be better enemies so that they’re more fun to fight.
and this is a stretch but to have the different factions fighting eachother like flood swarming covenant and flood vs prometheans
I think this is a good time to bring up how they should put more of an emphasis on Firefight Versus. It was a great idea, and just imagine playing as a Flood form in Firefight.
> and this is a stretch but to have the different factions fighting eachother like flood swarming covenant and flood vs prometheans
To do that without it turning out stupid, they could simply handle it the Doom/Gears of War 3 way, where if one type of enemy shoots the other in the back while trying to shoot at you or hits the other one with some kind of an explosion, the other one turns around and they start blasting away at each other. They’d still be trying to kill you, but put each other as higher priorities.