I have a really important question about the new flood mode aka infection.
In custom games, will the Flood be able to hold weapons like the real Flood, or are they stuck with that claw thing?
If the flood cannot use weapons = Infection ruined
I don’t think anyone other than 343 knows this.
This will ruin infection unless they can use weapons i hope someone answers.
It wouldn’t ruin it for me. I only ever played sword-zombies. I guess if you wanted speed demons or something like that it would ruin it for you. I’m pretty happy with how it’s turned out so far.
Maybe they can left hand it?
No we couldn’t even play Halo on Halo you remember in halo 3 where there would be an infected player in the middle of the ring and the survivors riding on mongooses until the infected player kills them or until they reach the point where they could kill him? Or what about duck hunt? If you say well make the survivor be the one in the middle then how would the flood drive the mongooses with that claw?
Maybe they could left hand it but i want an answer so i can be sure.
yeah wouldnt really ruin it for me either, the only infection ive really played is the ones with the sword. Seeing as how the sword is used for the mast majority infection games only a small ammount of games would be ruined. Yes cops and robbers and games such as this may be gone, but for me its well worth the trade. Also who knows we may be able to customize gametypes similar and make it work?
> I have a really important question about the new flood mode aka infection.
> In custom games, will the Flood be able to hold weapons like the real Flood, or are they stuck with that claw thing?
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> If the flood cannot use weapons = Infection ruined
I don’t think flood be ruined just cos they don’t a weapon I’m liking the new changes to flood.
> This will ruin infection unless they can use weapons i hope someone answers.
There will still be a regular infection where players can hold guns, but they will be just other players, not flood.
Flood and Infection are two different modes.
> > This will ruin infection unless they can use weapons i hope someone answers.
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> There will still be a regular infection where players can hold guns, but they will be just other players, not flood.
> Flood and Infection are two different modes.
Considering the recent bulletin proclaimed this new mode as the spiritual successor to Infection, you could very well be seeing this as the new, dominant, infection gametype. Just like how spiritual successors were used in H3 and Reach, you could very well be seeing this utilized only.
As for the question, it is undetermined at this time whether we will be able to hold weapons as infected. You might be able to, then again, you might not be able to.
> There will still be a regular infection where players can hold guns, but they will be just other players, not flood.
> Flood and Infection are two different modes.
> > This will ruin infection unless they can use weapons i hope someone answers.
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> There will still be a regular infection where players can hold guns, but they will be just other players, not flood.
> Flood and Infection are two different modes.
I’m pretty sure infection is gone. As to answer the question, I don’t know. You have to wait and see.
> > > This will ruin infection unless they can use weapons i hope someone answers.
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> > There will still be a regular infection where players can hold guns, but they will be just other players, not flood.
> > Flood and Infection are two different modes.
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> I’m pretty sure infection is gone. As to answer the question, I don’t know. You have to wait and see.
Wasn’t the point of the previous Zombie incarnations was that Zombies only had swords? This is coming from a Halo 2 player, where Zombies Mode originated in the Halo series. Zombies, by default, shouldn’t have weapons.
> > > > This will ruin infection unless they can use weapons i hope someone answers.
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> > > There will still be a regular infection where players can hold guns, but they will be just other players, not flood.
> > > Flood and Infection are two different modes.
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> > I’m pretty sure infection is gone. As to answer the question, I don’t know. You have to wait and see.
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> Wasn’t the point of the previous Zombie incarnations was that Zombies only had swords? This is coming from a Halo 2 player, where Zombies Mode originated in the Halo series. Zombies, by default, shouldn’t have weapons.
He’s wanting to know for custom games, basically.
To answer your question, the claw is just a reskinned sword, so most certainly, you can modify the loadout of the flood, while keeping their armor.
I imagine they’d have to hold it left-handed if so.
That’d be weird, amirite?
> To answer your question, the claw is just a reskinned sword, so most certainly, you can modify the loadout of the flood, while keeping their armor.
Except the claw isn’t being “held” by the Flood forms, as you can see from their model design. It’s a part of them. So the character model would have to change to have a normal hand, so as to be able to support holding a different weapon.
That’s where the problem is.
Not sure on how it would ruin infection since in past halo games the infected players only had the sword and now they have the flood claw which is the equivalent version of a plasma sword.
> Maybe they could left hand it but i want an answer so i can be sure.
343 isn’t going to answer you, we’re the best you’re going to get.
OT: I’m assuming “Infection” isn’t being removed from customs, but “flood mode” is being simply added to the game. You’ll most likely have no problems re-creating old infection game types.