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Ah, one of my favorite parts of the game....Library/Legendary.
Those who advocate patience are exactly right, patience is rewarded given the sheer volume of flood, and the abuse you will take if you are too aggressive.
My tips:
1-Make sure that you grab up a shotgun ASAP, and your main second weapon should be something that allows you to reach out and touch somebody from a distance, I typically prefer either the Magnum (though future rounds can be tougher to come by at times) or most often a Plasma Pistol. The advantage of the PP is that it helps stun combat forms and they drop their weapons and they are just all over the place, you will never run out of ammo.
2-Try to avoid shooting/exploding the carrier forms unless there is something else near them that will get taken out by its explosion. You get more bang for your buck that way.
3-Always remember that if you stay in one area too long you are going to have visitors from behind on a regular basis in the form of waves of carrier flood. They can ruin your day so keep your eye on your motion sensor when you have cleared your path forward for those bastages forming up behind you.
4-DO NOT HESITATE TO BACK UP AND LET THE FLOOD FOLLOW YOU. It will save your health and your bacon many times. In areas that the flood keep spawning over and over (up to 7 times), find a corner to let them come to you and take them out with the shotty, move forward to spawn them, reverse course to your hidey hole and take them out. Do this until they stop wave spawning. It gets a bit repetitive but it is the only way to survive the sheer numbers of flood. It is also the best way to keep your shotty pretty much full up as you will almost always encounter shotty bearing flood in certain waves. Be careful though, as you pile up the dead bodies and the grenades they drop, eventually a carrier floods explosion is going make quite a dramatic set of secondary explosions. That can ruin your day in a hurry!