Talk:Flood/Archive 1

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Is the image above a mod or real? File:Halo_Scarab_Large.jpg|35px]] Fludz 'CarnttuchmeeKamekazi eliteGrunty friends! 15:39, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's a mod in that Flood are counted as allies. --Dragonclaws(talk) 20:45, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Parasite

In part of this article, it says that thousands of years after the Covenant war, a new creature, similar to the Flood, arose, called Parasite. Where is this information coming from? Jonasboy557 10:27, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


Probably Fan fiction.
BlacKarnagEnigmA 18:03, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Name Change

Does anyone know how to change this page's title? Because I think the page should be labeled "The Flood", not just "Flood".

I concur. Jonasboy557 10:27, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Flood Extinct

Question? Did The flood go completely extinct when the Master Chief blew up instalation 04 number 2 and damaged the ark? so are there any left in the galaxy?

Yes, instalation 4 only destroyed the flood on earth. #4 wasnt as powerful a a real heron, not complete and did not set off and of the other halos so it is probable that the flood survived. Gravemind is probably boned though.

Flood Brutes

Does anyone remember seeing flood brutes?--JohnSpartan117 04:44, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

No. I don't think Bungie put them in. --Dragonclaws 05:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
maybe juggernuts were flood brutes--Sangheili 00:42, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
The Middle section of a Juggernaught is too thin to be a brute--Will 16:16, 04 January 2007 (UTC)
As for Juggernauts, I don't really think there is an explanation for them, which is why you don't fight them in the game. Bungie just couldn't think of something for them on time. guesty-persony-thingy 00:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Yeah I agree with the Jug thing, (I think it should be noted as a discontinued Idea by bungie, not as an actual form) On Brute forms, i think bungie just didnt have time so we may see them in H3 (seeing as how the majority is Brutes), and the Jug could be a brute, the flood change the host to meet its needs so the thin middle could be just the way they needed it. BTW you can see that the thigh area looks like a spine and thighs, covered in loose flesh.

Lt.O'Brien 15:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I know that you sometimes see dead bodies turn into flood. Are Brutes just ignored?--JohnSpartan117 06:06, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Maybe we will see Flood Brutes in Halo 3, we just have to wait and see. User:Joshua 029
  • Wow, this is the only topic you guys could think of right now? Come on!--prophit of war 21:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

--Spade6179 19:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

--Maybe to hairy? To complex perhaps? Or maybe they were never thought of as a combat or juggernaut flood form...

They cant be infected because the brutes skin is to thick for flood to burrow inside it.

~Maybe Brutes aren't actually sentient, so they're invisible to Flood. They just spend all their time thinking about killing and eating, so they might as well be Flood already.

~Yeah, they're seen in Halo 3--me

Flood in Marathon?

I was looking at bungies marathon page and it mentioned and showed a picture of something called a fungal zombie which looked and seemed really close to the flood. —This unsigned comment was made by 70.141.203.60 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

The flood is a parasite, not a fungus. --ED(talk)(shockfront) 17:48, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
I know, but this was Marathon not Halo, so maybe the flood started as just a concept from Marathon that was carried over to Halo. Perhaps like the Phor Hunters?
The closest thing in Marathon to the Flood is the Simulacrums, which are robots identical to humans that run at you and explode. From a story-telling pov, the Wrkncacnter is close to the Flood, but they bear no real resemblance besdes their role. -69.129.211.26 12:27, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Flood = Flood

Hey, has anyone noticed there's a thing about the flood. They come in waves, waves of flood(parasite), floods can have waves in them(water). Anyone notice how they're similer?--prophit of war 23:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

hence the name. FallenMind 23:02, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that is probably how they got their name. --ED(talk)(shockfront) 17:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

complaint

Is this article pointless or is it just me?

no, it's just you. --CoH|Councillor]] SpecopsUserWiki:Specops306|306]] - Qur'a 'Morhek 20:33, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Spore Thing ... huh What?

  • Hey, does anyone know what that spore thing was for in High Charity at the end of Halo 2.--prophit of war 15:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
what spore thing in High Charity? The Brain forms?--Will 16:16, 04 January 2007 (UTC)
I think the spores are the basis for the infection forms. The spores get into a host, turn him into a carrier full of infection forms. I think the Juggernaut a conglomeration of bodies like the brain forms. —This unsigned comment was made by Spacecase610 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~
Yeah... we don't really know how it got started, but there must have been a first infection form, and it inserted its spores into someone, climbed in there to control it, and eventually more infection forms came out and did what the first one did. guesty-persony-thingy 00:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I think that the spore viewed in the begining of the post-game cinematic, is just a close-up shot of the stuff making the air look green. I think the reason that you don't see brute combat forms, is that they are used for a different purpose, or they might be too clumsy to be controled effectively by the flood.

eh, just like the above stated. just a close up of the spores the flood release into the air to change the enviornment to their liking. also i think brutes don't have as much mental function or perhaps the flood simply don't find them 'tasty'. they could have likes and dislikes too you know. also the thing about the spores and the first infection form, i'm gonna have to say it's wrong. i personally think flood are highly evolved viruses, in a way. though that's just me.The Black Phoenix

Well, now that Halo 3 is out, we know that the Flood can and will infect Brutes. I think the reason there aren't flood Brutes in Halo 2 is because they just didn't decide to make it that way yet. Or maybe you just didn't run into any Brutes that were infected by the flood. Maybe they take longer. Those are possible explanations. But the original reason that Bungie didn't put them in is because they just didn't make a flood-brute yet. --71.223.1.51 17:33, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I dont get it. Bungie said brutes could not be infected because the skin is to thick, but now there is brute flood in halo 3. Whats the point in that? Maybe it takes time for some infection forms to develop "taste" for certain sentient beings. By the way I know what Cortana said at the beginning of Halo: First Strike about the flood not tasting anything.

Change NOW!

the section with ideas on what the flood were, it seems to say "Many think" (or something to that nature) way to much, and needs to be changed. Lt.O'Brien 15:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to change it. --ED(talk)(shockfront) 17:48, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

EDITS

"The Flood demonstrated the ability to assimilate and infect non-sentient life forms such as those in the Hunting Preserve on the Infinite Succor."

The Animals were sentient-life, the were conscious. This only shows that the do not only assimilate Bi-peds (living things that walk on two legs).

"This is similar to the events in Halo 1 where the Master Chief boards a Covenant ship to find Captain Keyes. Cortana notes the Flood are gathering bodies and it is most likely for the Brain Form that was found on the bridge."

Also not true, moments later she says that they are gathering them 'most likely for food'

And the section titled "Rules for Fighting the flood" is completely out of context, written in a real-world prospective, and is not written professionally.

-Lt.O'Brien 15:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to correct any discrepencies. --ED(talk)(shockfront) 17:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Um.. last time I checked, sentient life meant capable of concious problem solving? Maybe not, just throwin' it out there.
According to Wikipedia: Sentience refers to possession of sensory organs, the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. The possession of sapience is not a necessity. The word sentient is often confused with the word sapient, which can connote knowledge, consciousness, or apperception. The root of the confusion is that the word conscious has a number of different usages in English. The two words can be distinguished by looking at their Latin roots: sentire, "to feel"; and sapere, "to know". --Dragonclaws(talk) 00:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Umm, wow, did you copy all that from Wikipedia? Capt Bartlett 15:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Shotgun error

In halo 2 the flood shoot shot guns with one hand. Yet they constintly shoot it with out having to cock it back. --Spartan 1 1 7 23:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I added that to the trivia. I noticed it too...-ED 20:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

They always makes mistakes like that! It fine by meMaster Chief Petty Officer 08:52, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Is english your second language Chief?--User:JohnSpartan117 [1] 04:46, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

You could say so, but I am half Australian, half ChineseMaster Chief Petty Officer 05:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Hah hah, looks like that went over your head. --ED(talk)(shockfront) 17:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: two-handed weapons. It could be the Flood infection forms have the cancerous-fiber-morbidly-referred-to-as-"muscle-strength necessary to wield big weapons one-handed. Mind, that doesn't explain how they can pump shotguns... Kriegsaffe No. 9 22:43, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

The flood could grow extensions that cock the shotgun from the inside.

The forerunner and flood relationship

I think that just like humans, the forerunner were on a fool's errand to gain all the knowledge and secrets this universe has to offer. They abducted species from all over the milky-way, maybe further, and released them in facilities similar but not halo's to research them. After the halo's were built, they stored all they learnt on the solid/liquid state quantum-computers in the halo libraries (the glowing blue installations seen