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* In ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', combat forms will not disintegrate from successive melee hits when they are dead like in ''Halo 2'' and ''Halo 3''. | * In ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', combat forms will not disintegrate from successive melee hits when they are dead like in ''Halo 2'' and ''Halo 3''. | ||
* In ''Halo 2'', all combat forms are also capable of driving and boarding vehicles and are able to do so in ''Halo 3'', though the ability to drive vehicles is lost. They still retain the ability to board slow moving vehicles however. | * In ''Halo 2'', all combat forms are also capable of driving and boarding vehicles and are able to do so in ''Halo 3'', though the ability to drive vehicles is lost. They still retain the ability to board slow moving vehicles however. | ||
* In ''Halo 2'', all of the Sangheili forms encountered use one armor palette; the [[Sangheili Minor|Minor]] [[ | * In ''Halo 2'', all of the Sangheili forms encountered use one armor palette; the [[Sangheili Minor|Minor]] [[Combat harness|Combat Harness]]. In ''Halo 3'' however, the Sangheili Forms will retain its host's armor palette. Strength of each Sangheili Form will be dependent on the ranks of its host; an infected [[Sangheili Major]] will be considerably harder to kill than a [[Sangheili Minor]]. Killing a Sangheili combat form is often more difficult than killing a human or Jiralhanae combat form, due to the fact that the infected Sangheili often retain their [[Sangheili personal energy shield|personal energy shielding]]. | ||
* Flood combat forms seem to take on physiological and biological changes throughout the Halo trilogy; these changes from game to game could be due to the Gravemind's influence in attempting to create a better Flood soldier or they could simply be graphical updates. | * Flood combat forms seem to take on physiological and biological changes throughout the Halo trilogy; these changes from game to game could be due to the Gravemind's influence in attempting to create a better Flood soldier or they could simply be graphical updates. | ||
* While most Flood combat forms wield the weapons of their host's former species, it is not uncommon to encounter them using weapons that their hosts never could have or would have used - human forms with Covenant weapons, Sangheili forms with Jiralhanae weapons, Jiralhanae with human weapons, and many other strange combinations exist, all of which would be rare for their 'living' counterparts. | * While most Flood combat forms wield the weapons of their host's former species, it is not uncommon to encounter them using weapons that their hosts never could have or would have used - human forms with Covenant weapons, Sangheili forms with Jiralhanae weapons, Jiralhanae with human weapons, and many other strange combinations exist, all of which would be rare for their 'living' counterparts. | ||
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===Halo 2: Anniversary=== | ===Halo 2: Anniversary=== | ||
*Both human and Sangheili combat forms retain much of their host armor. Human forms have the body armor of former UNSC Marines while Sangheili forms all have [[Sangheili Minor|Minor Elite]] [[ | *Both human and Sangheili combat forms retain much of their host armor. Human forms have the body armor of former UNSC Marines while Sangheili forms all have [[Sangheili Minor|Minor Elite]] [[Combat harness|combat harnesses]], much like in the original game. | ||
{{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Images of Flood combat forms}} | {{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Images of Flood combat forms}} | ||