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Flood in Halo: Infinite
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Well, with your Disney world quote, you are clearly ignoring how important that it being located in the right place is. There is a good chance of seeing flood on a halo ring, on the Ark, or in a forunner research facility. You are, obviously less likely to see the flood at any other location. Currently, in the halo universe, introducing the flood would have to be done at the right location and time. I do believe that there is, at least, a 65% chance that the flood will make some kind of an appearance. Especially when the entire community wants them.BANGHART wrote:Nice excuses.TheCrimsonAVIAN wrote:Halo 4 took place on a shield world, they wouldn’t have flood there for fairly obvious reasons. Halo 5 simply didn’t take us to any locations likely to contain the flood.BANGHART wrote:to me this isnt even up for discussion.
without the flood you dont have Halo.
them being omitted from 4/5 was pure incompetence and shows you they really had no idea what they were doing as far as the storyline goes.
4/5 might aswell have taken place in disneyworld for all I care.
The flood are 100% integral to Halos storyline. The fact they were omitted is more likely due to them aiming for a T esrb rating more than anything. That and like I said before a bunch of people working on the game that "dont even like Halo" and pure incompetence. defend that if you want all day Idc, any old school Halo fan knows this was a massive mistake.
I hope they bring back same style whip arms as in previous games.Blast9867 wrote:Seeing the Flood return in the campaign levels in Halo Infinite is going to be one of the best.
The Prometheans were kind of the fill in for the flood, and the sentinels.RedPandaRiot wrote:YES, FLOOD! SCREW PROMETHEANS!
Well if the flood is no longer around we could make some cousins to the flood in a new faction of sorts.TwistedTriumphs wrote:Ah, both my best and worst enemy. I hope they add all the flood types not seen in games but the expanded universe types
The Covenant limping on makes sense though, because you would have religious fanatics that would carry on, despite the greater group having its leadership removed. It would fracture and split. Jul's Covenant/The Didact's Hand just seems to be the largest of these splinter groups. If a form of the Covenant are back in Halo Infinite (I have no doubt that they will be), they could now revere Cortana as a god, just as Jul's did with the Didact. But they certainly aren't The Covenant anymore.Chimera30 wrote:I hope the Flood won't be in Halo Infinite, at least not in a way that's integral to the plot. I don't like the logic plague fan theory that seems so popular right now. And honestly I think the whole "Flood is the true enemy" thing is played out. They had their arc in the original trilogy. Halo 3 was supposed to be the end of the Covenant and The Flood, yet the Covenant limped on for 2 more games and maybe will be in the next one. I don't want the Flood to similarly not have actually been defeated in Halo 3 (something Halo Wars 2 has already kind of done, but thankfully not to the point where the events of Halo 3 were rendered completely useless).
I'd be pretty annoyed by that, actually. Considering Prometheans are purpose-built to kill the Flood, and there's nothing to indicate they were ever actually bad at killing Flood forms.Dance of Curse wrote:I would take the flood over the prometheans any day. It would be a bonus to see the flood wipe out the prometheans.
It's always amusing to see Flood perform well in sheer numbers against enemies they normally have trouble with. In your mind, just replace the Hunter pair in this vid with Knights: https://streamable.com/wniroDance of Curse wrote:I would take the flood over the prometheans any day. It would be a bonus to see the flood wipe out the prometheans.
Hmm we did see Sentinels and Enforcers being overwhelmed by Flood at times in H2. The Flood has the advantage in numbers and attack speed (discounting the badly implemented Pure Forms). Of course, H3 Flood would never stand a chance against Prometheans, but H2 Flood combat forms combined with HCE fast running Carriers? I think those could stand a chance.Trenchbird wrote:I'd be pretty annoyed by that, actually. Considering Prometheans are purpose-built to kill the Flood, and there's nothing to indicate they were ever actually bad at killing Flood forms.Dance of Curse wrote:I would take the flood over the prometheans any day. It would be a bonus to see the flood wipe out the prometheans.
Unless you mean it as far less one-sided than I think you mean. Like, the Prometheans putting up one hell of a fight, but getting overrun in the long haul because Cortana integrated old Covenant races and such into the Created army like the alliance with Balaho would suggest.
Yes, but not the Storm Covenant itself; The Grunt homeworld is actively allied with the created, and grunts are good for Biomass if nothing else. (Flood controlled Goblins, anyone?). It's not unreasonable to think that Brutes, Jackals, Hunters, etc would be coerced or otherwise forced into serving the Created, considering the hate specifically for the UNSC* Cortana seems to have. So it's more 'former Covenant races forcibly integrated (Not into Prometheans, just forced into service)' than actual 'Covenant'.SlidingAlGhul wrote:It's always amusing to see Flood perform well in sheer numbers against enemies they normally have trouble with. In your mind, just replace the Hunter pair in this vid with Knights: https://streamable.com/wniroDance of Curse wrote:I would take the flood over the prometheans any day. It would be a bonus to see the flood wipe out the prometheans.Hmm we did see Sentinels and Enforcers being overwhelmed by Flood at times in H2. The Flood has the advantage in numbers and attack speed (discounting the badly implemented Pure Forms). Of course, H3 Flood would never stand a chance against Prometheans, but H2 Flood combat forms combined with HCE fast running Carriers? I think those could stand a chance.Trenchbird wrote:I'd be pretty annoyed by that, actually. Considering Prometheans are purpose-built to kill the Flood, and there's nothing to indicate they were ever actually bad at killing Flood forms.Dance of Curse wrote:I would take the flood over the prometheans any day. It would be a bonus to see the flood wipe out the prometheans.
Unless you mean it as far less one-sided than I think you mean. Like, the Prometheans putting up one hell of a fight, but getting overrun in the long haul because Cortana integrated old Covenant races and such into the Created army like the alliance with Balaho would suggest.
I'm not really up to speed with the canon (as of H5), but are you suggesting that the Prometheans having Covies as allies would ultimately be a liability since they're vulnerable to the Flood? So the greater the Covie presence, the more Flood can be produced in the midst of battle. Are the Covies still allied with the Prometheans? I had that impression watching footage of the last level of H5 even though the alliance shouldn't have held at that point.
Or are you saying that the integrated Covies are markedly weaker than the humans/Forerunners who were turned into Promethean Knights?
I see, thanks for the info. That'd be a good reason to keep the Covie races around and up to date in terms of combat tactics and performance.Trenchbird wrote:Yes, but not the Storm Covenant itself; The Grunt homeworld is actively allied with the created, and grunts are good for Biomass if nothing else. (Flood controlled Goblins, anyone?). It's not unreasonable to think that Brutes, Jackals, Hunters, etc would be coerced or otherwise forced into serving the Created, considering the hate specifically for the UNSC* Cortana seems to have. So it's more 'former Covenant races forcibly integrated (Not into Prometheans, just forced into service)' than actual 'Covenant'.SlidingAlGhul wrote:I'm not really up to speed with the canon (as of H5), but are you suggesting that the Prometheans having Covies as allies would ultimately be a liability since they're vulnerable to the Flood? So the greater the Covie presence, the more Flood can be produced in the midst of battle. Are the Covies still allied with the Prometheans? I had that impression watching footage of the last level of H5 even though the alliance shouldn't have held at that point.
Or are you saying that the integrated Covies are markedly weaker than the humans/Forerunners who were turned into Promethean Knights?
But that's just a possibility I see, obviously. You shouldn't be getting a wholly separate Covenant/Promethean faction dynamic like we had in 5, Flood or not.
*Have I mentioned that it seems to be specifically the UNSC Cortana really hates? That's the only faction explicitly kneecapped by the Created uprising, unless there are any 'insurgents' or 'free governments' of Humanity that she's paid attention to, that I know of. I really don't like that.