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how come the sniping rihel dosent kill the flood.

  • 06.04.2004 9:04 PM PDT
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It goes right through them.

  • 06.04.2004 9:13 PM PDT
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yeah it gos rite thtough every one els to haw come it dosent kill them though.

  • 06.04.2004 9:18 PM PDT
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The flood are also dead. The sniping bullet could have hit nothing.

  • 06.05.2004 5:03 AM PDT
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The only reason I can think of is this:
* The flood body is very soft and fleshy. Therefore the very powerful sniper bullet could go straight through and cause absolutely no damage.
* Think of the best weapon against the flood, the Shotgun. It fires an array of small pellets in a wide circle. Therefore the best weapons to take out the flood are ones that tackle the surface, not the ones trying to penetrate (or go through in the case of the sniper rifle)

One thing I don't get is: The pistol is quite good at taking out the flood? Why is this? The only reason I can come up with is: Because the Pistol is a kick a$$ gun!

  • 06.05.2004 5:14 AM PDT

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Well, the pistol has a High-explosive round. That's all I can think of. It doesn't go through the Flood anyway.

  • 06.05.2004 6:05 AM PDT

"Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round.

Because the Flood are really annoying and have large numbers, so the Sniper Rifle's small clip size makes it thus innefective.

  • 06.05.2004 6:20 AM PDT
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Well, think about it. When you snipe someone in the head, the bullet going through the brain, heart, lungs, etc. damages that, causing internal damage and hampering their ability to move and fight because of this. The flood take over people, and given enough time, the host will be nothing more than a vessel for the infection form, so even if, say, an arm blew off, the infection form itself will still be able to control the host. Suffice it to say, the bullet damages your internal functions by passing through it, creating a hole or something, while the flood works on another level, if that made any sense. :-)

  • 06.05.2004 12:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lovell
Well, think about it. When you snipe someone in the head, the bullet going through the brain, heart, lungs, etc. :-)


Wow, I didn't know my head had that much stuff in it. :)

  • 06.05.2004 12:55 PM PDT
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I've managed to blow flood arms off with the sniper rifle before, but even then it took a few shots

  • 06.05.2004 3:13 PM PDT
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The sniper rifle, being the elephant-killer that it is, should blow a hole the size of a coke can through whatever part of the flood form you shoot it at and turn its insides into a people putty, including that bastardized little infection form buried in its chest. Realistically, you'd be able to take down combat forms quite easily with a gun the size of the sniper rifle.

  • 06.05.2004 6:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 3920
Think of the best weapon against the flood, the Shotgun. It fires an array of small pellets in a wide circle. Therefore the best weapons to take out the flood are ones that tackle the surface, not the ones trying to penetrate (or go through in the case of the sniper rifle)


Yeah...so why does the Automatic Rifle take so damn long to kill em?

  • 06.05.2004 7:33 PM PDT
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Because the Flood are like zombies, and you're 'supposed' to fight zombies close up, or they aren't quite so scary. Ha. That's what I attribute it to, pretty much. A gameplay thing. But, you could say that the sniper round travels so fast it passes right through them and causes little damage, I suppose. The AR is shoddy at best against the flood as well, and it penetrates.. so the logic holds.

  • 06.06.2004 1:29 PM PDT

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My guess is the type of bullet. The AR fires 7.62mm armor piercing rounds. The shotgun fires gauge magnum (3.5") rounds.

  • 06.06.2004 1:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 3920
Think of the best weapon against the flood, the Shotgun. It fires an array of small pellets in a wide circle. Therefore the best weapons to take out the flood are ones that tackle the surface, not the ones trying to penetrate (or go through in the case of the sniper rifle)


Posted by: HawkEye707
Yeah...so why does the Automatic Rifle take so damn long to kill em?


Ok, compare the Shotgun to the AR.
Shotgun: Fires lots of tiny little pellets in a small radius, PER ROUND
AR: Fires 60 small bullets (not very accurately) in the same radius of the shotgun, PER MAGAZINE

Have you ever thought that those little pellets (around 100? 200? 300?) may do more damage than one AR bullet? The rate of one shot of the shotgun is a lot faster than offloading a whole magazine of the AR. Therefore the AR takes longer to take out a combat form flood

I rest my case

  • 06.06.2004 1:46 PM PDT
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if the Ar shoots armor peircing than it does the same thing the sniper does it goes through them liek the sniper

  • 06.06.2004 9:35 PM PDT