Halo 2 Forum
This topic has moved here: Subject: What Flood are made out of.
  • Subject: What Flood are made out of.
  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • of 3
Subject: What Flood are made out of.
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Does anybody have any idea what flood are made of. in the game they sorta look like half machine half flesh and also half gooey stuff. if so please write.


[Edited on 7/17/2004 8:25:00 PM]

  • 07.17.2004 10:52 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

This should be in the Index but Flood are made of Flesh they are transformed Marines and Elites(and maybe Grunts).

  • 07.17.2004 10:53 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

a lot of green Jelo that would be my guess that and a brain and some sort of food senceor

  • 07.17.2004 10:54 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Didn't you know? They're made of [color=yellow]CHEESE![/color]

  • 07.17.2004 11:11 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

They're made of bread infested with bacteria.

  • 07.17.2004 12:02 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

har har to all the jokers, and for the serious response they are made out of genetically mutated flesh. since they all are in an advanced state of neoteny their bodys are rapidly degrading and rotting, so therefore they need to reproduce on a massive level to keep their numbers up, luckily the flood are quite good at reproducing due to the advanced state of neoteny.

[Edited on 7/17/2004 12:04:41 PM]

  • 07.17.2004 12:04 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

Flesh, Blood and Bone (or Cartilage, I suppose).

[Edited on 7/17/2004 12:09:46 PM]

  • 07.17.2004 12:09 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Boogers pumped full of puss

  • 07.17.2004 5:16 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Attention all halo 2 players, are u interested in joining a halo 2 online clan? tryout for Echo 419 which will be one of halo 2's most great and feared clan. Be a part of Echo 419!

Check us out at
http://www.freewebs.com/echofournineteen

  • 07.17.2004 5:21 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Well, first of all it could be pointed out that the only "true" flood forms are the (small, round) infection forms. The fundamental look and structure of the combat- and carrier forms will be dependant on what kind of life form these infection forms enter and "consume".

Having said that, the flood certainly seem to be all-organic (rather than having machine parts), and fair guesses would be that they are carbon-based, breathe oxygen and evolved or were created in an environment with a gravity similar to or weaker than that of Earth, as the infection forms seem fragile to a point where a high gravitational pull would simply pop them.
It's unknown how much (or if at all) infection forms need to breathe, and how their metabolism works, but at least they are able to go into a type of hibernation/dormancy and survive for at least 100,000 years without food (prey) or sunlight, something that no other known life form would be capable of.

  • 07.17.2004 5:49 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

As for the other flood forms, they are separate matters. Combat forms for instance, aren't really killed as such. An infection form after having neutralized a potential victim enters it (usually in the chest cavity when the prey is a humanoid), and controls its motions from there, and presumably in some way feeds off the host. To neutralize a combat form, you can either directly "go for the brain" and kill the infection form, or cause so much damage to the host that it can't sustain the infection form any longer, or at least so that it gets too badly damaged for the infection form to control.

Upon infection, it seems that the infection form erases most (if not all) of the unfortunate victim's thoughts and emotions, and replaces it with the endless, parasitic hunger of the flood. Eventually the victim's physical structure is also changed, in a way that seems to lead to greatly increased strength and durability, but also wears most host bodies down very quickly, as they are rarely intended for the kind of physical punishment the infection forms subject them to.

The final stage of the flood life cycle seems to be the carrier form, although I guess it's hitherto unknown whether a carrier form can be created directly from a host, or if a combat form must be created as a middle step, or if both ways work. While combat forms are obviously created to protect the rest of the flood colony and to subdue potential victims; the sole purpose of the carrier form appears to be evolving new infection forms in it's ballooning thorax, and "giving birth" to them through a rather powerful explosion which can be used in an offensive manner.

  • 07.17.2004 6:05 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

u type too much

  • 07.17.2004 6:16 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Ahem, and for the sake of completeness, I suppose that a fourth form of the flood about which very little is known would be the large, anchored form involved in the gruesome fate of Captain Keyes. It seems this type of being, whether or not it originated from an infection form, somehow "absorbed" Keyes and slowly dissolved his tissues, working its way into his mind and searching his memories. It's the only one of its type to be encountered, but as far as the novel goes, this form of the flood appears to be smarter and more sentient than any of the other forms, and displayed an ability for long-range planning rather than just charging and consuming whatever is closest.

  • 07.17.2004 6:18 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Furious B
u type too much


Well, sorry. Just figured some sort of in-depth discussion would be a nice change from the constant barrage of "whut weapn u think wud b teh coolest???"-threads.

  • 07.17.2004 6:20 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

apology accepted

  • 07.17.2004 6:57 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I think that the form that Captain Keyes and his unlucky partners had become a part of was the beginning of some sort of advanced hive mind or commander unit. This ties in with my belief that the Flood become more powerful the longer they have a stable population; the type of Flood we fight in Halo should be easy for a race as advanced as the Forerunner to exterminate, therefore it can be assumed that the Flood sentience and possibly physical form constantly upgrades itself providing it has the required resources (otherwise the threat posed by the Flood would not warrant building the Halos). Keep in mind, however, that it has not been confirmed that the Flood share a hive mind, and while it is likely it is still just a theory. My estimate of what would happen if the Flood had an entire planet's population and resources under its control for a few months would be the organization of a highly intelligent war machine with the means to bring the fight into space and enough bodies to overwhelm human or Covenant opponents.

I hope that satiates your desire for informed discussion on the Bungie forums.

[Edited on 7/17/2004 7:07:42 PM]

  • 07.17.2004 7:06 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Yeah, I agree that finding an explanation to why the Forerunners took measures like constructing the Halos to contain/combat the Flood isn't all easy. No matter how you weigh the estimated threat from the Flood based on what's known about it against the destruction of most sentient life in a galaxy, it doesn't appear to add up - so your hypothesis seems to hold out. It's a tempting thought, too.

  • 07.17.2004 7:28 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I derived much of it from the information released by Bungie a while back that says the Flood will be smarter in Halo 2 and there will be "Flood-encrusted" environments.

  • 07.17.2004 7:58 PM PDT
  • gamertag: Vash10
  • user homepage:

i guess u could call the flood super zombies

  • 07.17.2004 8:00 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

flood encrusted..hmmm, sounds like the flood have teken over some area of land and have warped it to their ways. sounds like they already have a planet (or ring) to themselevs for a good period of time, but then again thats just more speculation...

  • 07.17.2004 8:04 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

As you two said the flood form that Captain Keyes was in was in fact some type of leader form. The form is called the brain form. It doesnt have mobile skills and is an information related form. The combat forms that look more human or zombie like are usually marines and the bigger hulking combat forms are usually elites. The carrier forms are grunts or jackals but most usually grunts. The infection form is the the only actual non mutated flood form.

  • 07.17.2004 8:12 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

pixies did enough homework for all of us... it's all correct though.

anyways, flood encrusted terrain? I didn't think flood were confirmed in halo2

  • 07.17.2004 8:52 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Well.. if the hypothesis Terran Grunt took up (about how the Flood keep evolving into more advanced/powerful forms given some time and space) holds out to some degree, the Flood manipulating their environment seems to follow naturally. Perhaps some sort of larger, organical structures, similar in idea to the Zerg of StarCraft or the Tyranids of Warhammer 40K. This would make the Flood less parasitic and more self-sustaining, of course.

Either way, I hadn't heard any confirmations about Flood in Halo 2 either.. just going with Terran Grunt's word for now.

  • 07.17.2004 10:07 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Crap

  • 07.17.2004 10:11 PM PDT

  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • of 3