Well sense everything in multi-player is canon don’t you think it’s a little bit weird for the Infinity to have a flood mode? Like why should the Spartan IV’s be training for something that went supposedly “extinct”. It could be that there are flood that are still alive somewhere but ONI won’t say anything about it. It could also be possible that ONI have flood spores in some undisclosed location and that could be why the Spartan IV’s are training to fight flood?
Well if you got anything to say tell me or anybody else in the comment sections below!
The flood is definitely not extinct.
All Halo Installations have flood testing/study labs. Installation 05 had a complete outbreak along with the Halo Wars Shield World. ( even though nobody knows about that.)
It’s best to prepare. Better safe than sorry ya know.
If I was 343I I’d just go with:
A group of rascals decided to hack into the war games simulation to bring more relaxed gametypes for when they were off duty.
That right there would pretty much explain everything.
> It’s best to prepare. Better safe than sorry ya know.
But it’s a horrible way to prepare.
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The spartans train for the quick and brutal combat that they would face with the top tier flood which are flood infected spartans
And any other way of training like using actual flood would be hazardous
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> The spartans train for the quick and brutal combat that they would face with the top tier flood which are flood infected spartans
But they are individual Spartans that aren’t acting the least bit like Flood due to the lack of a Gravemind. I mean, the claw is cool and all, but if it were the most effective manner of infecting why don’t ALL Combat Forms use them? Infected Spartans would be better off using traditional weaponry and then sending in the Infection Forms.
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> > The spartans train for the quick and brutal combat that they would face with the top tier flood which are flood infected spartans
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> But they are individual Spartans that aren’t acting the least bit like Flood due to the lack of a Gravemind. I mean, the claw is cool and all, but if it were the most effective manner of infecting why don’t ALL Combat Forms use them? Infected Spartans would be better off using traditional weaponry and then sending in the Infection Forms.
This form has a higher intelligence than the other forms ( a good example of what I mean would be the tyranids from warhammer 40k) and the other forms are adapted to different roles within the attack and not all forms have enough time to fully evolve. The lack of them using weapons is just an oversight by 343 since they would be more than likely use that along with their flood powers
> This form has a higher intelligence than the other forms ( a good example of what I mean would be the tyranids from warhammer 40k) and the other forms are adapted to different roles within the attack and not all forms have enough time to fully evolve. The lack of them using weapons is just an oversight by 343 since they would be more than likely use that along with their flood powers
That isn’t how the Flood works, ie specific forms being smarter than the others. The Flood as a WHOLE grows smarter and more dangerous once the Gravemind forms to direct them.
Game play comes first then cannon.
It’s a good idea to have a Flood simulation but so what if the game play isn’t realistic to how they were in campaign?
If cannon has to matter than Plasma weapons would be OP as hell and weapon tuning wouldn’t be allowed because it doesn’t affect Campaign and S ops.
Having the Flood play like they do in Campaign would be a lousy game type and if we go back to infection that would make even less sense.
343 doesn’t let cannon get in the way when they make a game type. Although I wouldn’t say that Flood couldn’t use some tweaks.
I don’t know why people ask about Flood’s canon when we have Griff ball and Action sack.
It seems to be the best way the Infinity can train the SPARTAN-IVs to face the Flood, and if they don’t know what the Flood is like, they can only try to create a accurate simulation.
The Flood are not extinct, the only Flood we’ve faced were from Installation 04 and 05, if we encounter the Flood from Path Kethona, we are pretty much screwed
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> But it’s a horrible way to prepare.
I think the best way to prepare would be to enslave all inferior beings, (non-humans), and then declare ourselves the true Inheritors of the Mantle.
Then we will crush those who rise against through the process of manipulating political issues within the offender’s civilization, or just plain old genocide.
As long as Humans are in charge, the Galaxy is safe and prosperous. All of the other countless species will fall and succumb to our dominance.
It has become a missive we fire out into the Universe that will give our enemies one simple warning: we are not afraid. We will not shrink from battle. We will not be cowed. We will meet force with greater force. We are Humanity. And we are ascendant.
I had this idea for flood in Halo 5…
Firefight mode that combines Flood and Firefight Versus from Reach: 4-8 players take on hordes of flood in large arenas with pretty big bases. Vehicles can be driven from base to base for supplies and resupply. Ordinance would also play a role. Each player gets 2-3 lives before they become one of the flood and have to try to convert the other players.
The flood should have there own maps with flood like backgrounds and make it so its like alpha zombies but with the look,sound,and movement and the small shields. But they have no AA.