- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Have you guys honestly read anythingyou have been typing?
First, the Flood are not mindless, they are not stpid. "Their parasitic nature belies the Flood's intelligence." The reason, I have read, that their AI in the game is so... suicidal is for lack of time. Also, out-numbering a guy a million to one leads to a certain confidance in the ability to simply overwhelm him with numbers. I do believe the flood have a 'hive' mindset, similar to the borg, if you will.
Also, what part of 'dead' and 'noninfectios' do you people not understand? Sergeant Avery J. Johnson will not magically turn into a combat, carrier, or infection form. Do you know why? Despite the fact that he has been 'stung' and has been 'infected' with Flood DNA, he has no Infection form to habitate him, to complete the process of turning him into anything more than a human with a few intact flood gene fragments.
As to Master Chief John, the infection form that attacked him did have a split second to 'deliver a shock to his nervous system,' however, again, he does not have an infection form presently attached to his body to complete his transformation. I seemed to get a sense from HALO: The Flood that all the combat forms had an infection form holed up inside of them, without the infection form, I do not believe a transformatin can be complete.
EDIT: And about cortana. She does not have 'regenerative' abilites. Period. She can replicate herself, but these replicants are flawed. As Zamamee said, she is stretched to the limit of her abilities maintaining the data from HALO and trying to operate as 'normal.' I just wish she would find the time to sort out all the data and compress it efficiently to give herself some breathing room.
[Edited on 6/22/2004 6:38:05 AM]