The Flood forms 343 made for Infection were rather disappointing to me.
They don’t look anything like the previous flood forms, even lacking those feathery antennae that they use to “see,” and the infection form in their chests, which strikes me as inconsistent with the material given to us by the previous games and books. They also lack the tentacles and blobby, rotten flesh that help contribute to the classic “Flood” look.
It’s not exactly a new look 
no one has seen what a Spartan would look like if it ever got infected by the Flood. So technically this is how they would look. The Spartan IV’s armour is holding the shape of him together a bit better too.
Marines never had that.
They are growing on me now tbh.
Oh and don’t forget the Flood infected normal humans/marines and their anatomy is different compared to a Spartans. Makes sense for them to be quite different.
They really don’t look like flood.
Besides, if infected Marines look so similar to infected Elites, why the hell would members of the same species not resemble them?
Also, the Elite flood forms retained a lot of their armor too, while still maintaining the look of Flood combat forms.
A few things:
This is a new Halo game, as well as new company making it, and the start of a new trilogy. Therefore, it makes sense for 343i to put their own spin on it. It may not look exactly like previous Flood, but it still very much resembles them, and I think that’s more than appropriate.
These are a type of Flood never seen before. Not only are they infected SPARTANS, which have never been in a Halo game before, they’re infected SPARTAN IV’s, which are new to the franchise as a whole (in game-form, anyway). So it stands to reason that they’d look different.
The infected players may not be infected via the spores, which are the reason for the “feathery antennas” you’re talking about. Therefore, it would make sense that those are absent. Especially considering it’s a simulation (e.g. a simulated form of Flood via The Infinity ship’s holographic system).
It makes sense to me. They look really great and detailed, they look terrifying (especially more so than a green SPARTAN with a Plasma Sword), and it’s a new breed. I definitely feel that it’s a good direction and I am 100% behind 343i in both their decision to include them in this Infection-based mode, and the design choices they made for them.
> They really don’t look like flood.
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> Besides, <mark>if infected Marines look so similar to infected Elites, why the hell would members of the same species not resemble them?</mark>
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> Also, the Elite flood forms retained a lot of their armor too, while still maintaining the look of Flood combat forms.
Because Marines aren’t the same as SPARTANS. Marines don’t have armour, and also, Elites looked fairly different than infected Elites.
Also, this is a simulation, don’t forget. One that is predicated on something that’s never happened before: SPARTANS being infected.
Let’s all just be glad that they’re included in the first place. A lot of people wanted this, and now some people are quibbling over a few aesthetic choices. Can’t you just be glad and enjoy it? It’s not like it’s going to ruin the game for you just because they don’t have ALL the typical Flood features, is it? If it is, I feel pretty bad for you that something so minor can skew your ability to have fun.
Pretty much what Nulfrost said…
And not for anything, but why so nit-picky? Flood Infection is what everyone’s always wanted. Lol. Be happy?
Once again, why would infected SPARTANs look so different if members of different species look so similar as combat forms?
I understand 343 wanting to keep its hitbox in a relatively human shape, but it could have been handled in a much better way.
Also, the antennae are also present on pure forms, so I would expect a different being the Flood infected would also have them.
Spartans are biological enhanced humans… it don’t think the spores would be able to des-composite their bones and flesh so easily so there they are.
And they look more like the Flood from Halo Legends, so yeah, it’s kinda retcon.
no prob with that.
I think they’re even more agressive and evil looking, honestly they look sadistic to me… I wouldn’t even go up to assassinate one. I never thought the time would come for me to become Rambo in Halo… here comes that day.
Infected Elites look VERY different from Infected marines.
The hitbox needs to remain similar to maintain some gameplay balance, one of the issues SvE had in Reach.
The armour a spartan wears will have a bearing on how they will appear.
They look freakin’ awesome!
> It’s not exactly a new look no one has seen what a Spartan would look like if it ever got infected by the Flood. So technically this is how they would look. The Spartan IV’s armour is holding the shape of him together a bit better too.
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> Marines never had that.
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> They are growing on me now tbh.
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> Oh and don’t forget the Flood infected normal humans/marines <mark>and their anatomy is different compared to a Reclaimers.</mark> Makes sense for them to be quite different.
You do know that all Humans are Reclaimers, right?
The only thing I don’t like is the face, Flood always looked soft and deformed. The guys in Halo 4 look demonic and hard, not like the old Flood at all.
Then again it’s a good multiplayer model for Infection, much better than a black spartan with a sword.
The Flood uses what it has to survive and spread the infection further. Obviously with Spartans this is what the Flood feels is needed.
What you see in Halo 4 is probably an infection due to the spore the flood release in atmo’ when they set out foot on a planet. The Flood doesn’t need the flood infection form to actually infect someone. The smallest spore can do the same to any life form minus the whole hole/tentacle in the middle since no Flood Infection form has jump into the corpse but instead the corpse has mutated from the inside.
Also Flood will be re-design as a whole if they someday return in future Halo.
> Once again, why would infected SPARTANs look so different if members of different species look so similar as combat forms?
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> I understand 343 wanting to keep its hitbox in a relatively human shape, <mark>but it could have been handled in a much better way.</mark>
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> Also, the antennae are also present on pure forms, so I would expect a different being the Flood infected would also have them.
If you think you can do it better, give it a try…
…Why do <mark>they have 5 fingers</mark> if those are infected elites?
Be lucky we’re even GETTING playable Flood.
> …Why do <mark>they have 5 fingers</mark> if those are infected elites?
If what are infected elites?
RE: “The Flood uses what it has to survive and spread the infection further. Obviously with Spartans this is what the Flood feels is needed.”
The flood has always been super adaptive, using weak and combat deficient animals to create infection and carrier forms, stronger animals to create the human, elite and brute infected forms, and the “pure” flood form from H3. These new spartan infected forms seem rather dangerous…
> …Why do <mark>they have 5 fingers</mark> if those are infected elites?
Ok, you’re sounding like an actual troll now.
I’m not answering about biology when it comes to a videogame.
It’s a retcon based on a new artistic direction, please just accept it.
Well Halo’s infection mode is actually setup around fiction, the entirety of multiplayer is so 343 can actually do whatever they want. It’s not as if Master Chief ever ran around with a Katana from Halo 3.
