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  • Poll [22 votes]: Should flood be available during MP?
Subject: MP Flood
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Poll: Should flood be available during MP?  [closed]
Hell yes:  18%
(4 Votes)
Yes:  9%
(2 Votes)
I dunno...:  9%
(2 Votes)
No:  9%
(2 Votes)
Hell no:  55%
(12 Votes)
Total Votes: 22

i was reading someone's post in another thread when i came up with this idea.

what if you could be a flood in MP? it would obvioulsy be combat form. they have their own advantages to help compensate for the lack of shield. like super sniper resiliance. but, they also have weaknesses, like a really bad allergy to shotguns.

even though i came up with the idea, i don't really like it. it would just be... well... weird. i just was curious to see what other people thought about it.

  • 06.03.2004 10:09 AM PDT
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I think that the Flood should be in MP, but not as a playable class. Since the maps seem to be based in the Halo universe this time around with humans vs. Covies, it would make sense to have AI-controlled Flood attacking both sides during the match. Of course, it would be toggleable.

  • 06.03.2004 10:16 AM PDT
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The only way I would want Flood in MP is if they were in a grinder mode.

  • 06.03.2004 10:17 AM PDT
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it just wouldnt work right: your a flood carrier about to die so you self destruct and let your little bacterias finish them off. i mean it would rock but still unfair

  • 06.03.2004 10:30 AM PDT
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For the people the want bots, the bots should be the flood, cuz bots are just for killing and everyone hates, but loves killing, the flood!

  • 06.03.2004 10:33 AM PDT
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I like terran's idea. I thought of that basic idea before, but I've never had a mind to post it. I think it could really make for interesting multiplayer matches. Heh, imagine a CTF while worrying about being sniped and getting beaten to death by a roaming band of flood forms. That would require some serious cover.

  • 06.03.2004 10:35 AM PDT
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No no no no no no no. For me, Most of halo (post-flood) wasn't fun anymore. I loved fighting covies, and hated everything about the flood. Therefore, the fewer modes the flood are in, the better. IMO.

  • 06.03.2004 10:47 AM PDT
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The game became much more fun when you finally got the shotgun. I can still here those dying Elites... *sighs*

  • 06.03.2004 10:50 AM PDT
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Posted by: HaloPlaya
it just wouldnt work right: your a flood carrier about to die so you self destruct and let your little bacterias finish them off.


Yeah, a big problem is there would have to inevitably be an AI implement because of the infection forms.

  • 06.03.2004 10:51 AM PDT
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I hate the Flood, they never stop coming, maybe a survival mode, fighting the Flood, but I dunno

  • 06.03.2004 10:52 AM PDT
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Grinder mode flood would be neat

  • 06.03.2004 10:55 AM PDT
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Well as for playing as the Flood it would be neat....maybe instead of a shield regeneration you have a health regernation ability (up to a certain point of course). Or you could play a sacrifical horde of like 60 infestation forms that impact on the enemy and kill them. Afterwards you take over the body transforming it into a Combat form and then the little ones follow and slowly die off on their own.....then again that wouldn't work, but would be cool.

Especially if someone got 16 people together and made all but three players the Flood. Imagine seeing that horde come over a hill or something. Or running away from all the players running after you inside Lockout. That would be freaking scary.

  • 06.03.2004 10:56 AM PDT
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If not playable in multiplayer, at least as bots. If you could play as them,they could certainly hold their own in campaign mode, so why not MP

  • 06.03.2004 10:57 AM PDT
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I think Hikaru hit the hypothetical head of the nail about flood in multiplayer, and my point. That would be awesome

  • 06.03.2004 11:00 AM PDT
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The idea of actually being the flood in MP just doesn't work out, but certain MP maps that you would find AI-controlled flood attacking both sides in, that seems somewhat good.

  • 06.03.2004 11:01 AM PDT