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Subject: what is the flood?
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i know what the flood is sinse i played the game but they didn't really explain it. what was the perpus of the flood and wy did the flood attack the cov. and humans also why did the flood have the humans and cov. wepons was it because the infect them. so please tell me its just buggin me

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  • 07.07.2004 11:19 PM PDT
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Gee..im the wrong person to ask..and i dont know anything about the forums..but

My friend claims that the "Flood" is a virus, And the Covie and the "Flood" are great (dont mind my spelling..im 12) enamies ... lol..and they have 4 differnt forms...infections..carriers..(how would i put this...) "infected" human (the smaller one) and the infected elite (biggger one) ...

  • 07.07.2004 11:39 PM PDT
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wonder is hes any right...

  • 07.07.2004 11:39 PM PDT
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Spoilers, so if u havnt beat the game, then beat it, damnit

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uhhh...beat the game again if u arent sure..its complicated and kinda long but more or less the flood was a species being studied by the forerunners(u better know who they are, they made Halo[not the game!!!!!!!!]) and somehow the forerunners have dissappeared and the flood are mindless and attack anything that moves(yes, that includes kittens).
They infect humans and covies(thats what almost happened to Keyes) and they take weapons. There are many speculations if u truly want to know in a much more detailed way, so just check the forums.

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srry, im tried

  • 07.08.2004 1:13 AM PDT
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this is the person who asked. i have beaten the game and it just didn't xplain it. thank u for tellin me. now tell me how do the humans get infected. i have a good idea, the things that attack keays and the other marins. i think the small flood things atach on the peple infect them

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  • 07.08.2004 3:10 AM PDT
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I hate the tiny flood some people call them flugs (acorrding to xbm) because they jump on you, you cant throw plasma grenades on them because they'le come to close ond you'll end up taking out yourself. I hate how the converted flood elites play dead. when you walk past them they jump up and shoot at you.

  • 07.08.2004 6:57 AM PDT
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Favorite level: Assault on the control room or two betreyals( because they contain banshees)
Favorite Vehicle: Banshee or scorpian
Favorite Weapon:Sniper rifle or needler
Favorite Enemy: Grunt

  • 07.08.2004 7:00 AM PDT
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If you shoot off both of their arms they will never get up.

  • 07.08.2004 8:10 AM PDT
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yeah they will, i often shoot off both arms and their head and they still get up, what difficulty do you play?

  • 07.08.2004 8:27 AM PDT
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Legendary... after you knock them down shoot their arms off and they either don't get up or if they do they just follow you around running into stuff. Either way with no arms they are worthless and you save bullets.

  • 07.08.2004 8:45 AM PDT
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oh, after you knock them down. I thought you meant shooting off their arms when they are still running at you, thats what i do.

  • 07.08.2004 8:46 AM PDT
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It's kinda fun to just get a horde of harmless armless flood following you around.

  • 07.08.2004 9:23 AM PDT
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The flood are a parasitic life form, They're like a common cold... just germs that infect any living tissue. They attacked the Covie's because the Covie released them in which they were imprisoned on HALO. And they Hold Covie and Human weapons because...oh jeez let me think... MAYBE because they've infected Marines and Elites.... as the flood have only 2 types of Combat Unites, Infected Elites, and Infected Marines...you can tell by their structure... the Covie Flood have those freaky hooved feet and the PREDATOR madrils, and the Humans have human skulls...and look like Zombies.

Are you all 10 yrs old or something?

  • 07.08.2004 9:47 AM PDT
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read the f ucking books retard. its fully explained there.

  • 07.08.2004 10:03 AM PDT
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It's explained in the game you...
-blam!- snipped


[Edited on 7/8/2004 11:22:46 AM by Sigma]

  • 07.08.2004 10:14 AM PDT
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hey scorpion, that wasnt very nice of you.
i'd say the flood is a made up program that bungie created. it lives in side TVs. why do u care? its just a game (and not even as good as brotherbear

  • 07.08.2004 10:47 AM PDT
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Wow LOL I can't believe someone actually admitted he was 12 (I've never seen that before) so congratulations on that and don't worry I'm not ageist(I made that up)

Flood are parsitic life forms that are tiny things which infect others and mutate them to their own causes, it all depends on the host(the thing being infected) of how it will turn out whteher being a solider,worker, or carrier....etc. Also they are surprisingly a very inteligent race although I'm not sure if it's because they extract knowledge from hosts or they are just naturally inteligent, nevertheless you can tell they get smarter because they at first learn to use weapons, then eventually try to repair space ships.

By the way, once you get good enough (like me, not to brag) you will be able to tell whenever floods are playing dead because they drop to early. Just blast them apart while they are on the ground. Use pistole and shoot them over and over in the head at long distance when they running at you, it's effective. AR sucks I'd personally rather use plasma weapons but some say AR is more effective...One more thing to note is that if you are close range to them and kill them (like with an ar or SG) you can be guaranteed they won't get up save for some very rare and unlucky occassions (bout a 6% chance of that happening...)

  • 07.08.2004 10:47 AM PDT
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thank you for helping me well some of you i thank. i had a fellin that the flood had 2 different forms when i first played the game i thaght that the humans wher the smoller 1 and the bigger 1 i thought the were humans 2 but i was wrong i have beaten the game on easy and im still playing legendary

  • 07.08.2004 12:42 PM PDT
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I thought the flood suck the nutrients ( Im twelve too i think a lot of these kids are as old as i am) and when they're done they rip of the heads. ( I saw what the flood crawl/slither on and it sticks out. Look closley.

  • 07.08.2004 2:59 PM PDT