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Subject: how would u improve the flood?
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alot of people make bad coments about the flood, so knows you'r chance to state the improvments that you think would make them better.

  • 08.02.2004 7:44 PM PDT
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The need a sense of humour...and definately some weak points. It's a shame you can't really use the sniper rifle effictively on them.

It's also a shame that you just can't use melee attacks effectively on them either.

Hmm. They did get a little monotonous. especially in the library :S.

I guess they just need to be more...well...weak?

  • 08.02.2004 8:04 PM PDT
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It depends on what you mean by IMPROVE, you could like give them better aim and the abilty to use suicide grenade attacks, or to improve them the OTHER way, make them succeptable to melee attacks, I still try to hit them :(

  • 08.02.2004 8:19 PM PDT
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There's a few things I'd improve, here they are:
* Allow more bodyparts to be blown off the Flood. We all like the 'armless buddies' and the missing stomach of a 'Marine Combat Form' but what I'd love is to kneecap one of those suckers so it can't walk proberly! For the 'Elite Combat Forms' I want to be able to shoot off the useless Elite head.

* I want suicidal Flood. When you take off their arm with the gun or when they know they're doomed they'll pull out a Plasma Grenade and arm it. Maybe even run towards you with it.

* I'd like to have a version of the Flood that can climb walls. Maybe if the Jackal was considered to have enough biomass then the Jackals could be these. This is mainly because of one scene of 'The Mummy Returns' when those badass creatures are following the car.

* Ever seen the some of the early pictures of Halo's Flood? The early versions of Halo had animals on the surface, so when the Flood broke free these animals were transformed into these huge monsters. I would've liked to see one or two of these roaming around.

* A crazyass Flood Form that looks nothing like we've seen before. We can't get too close to it because it runs away to attack something else so we don't see it up close, but we see it. We then find out that what we saw was actually the Fore that activated Halo the first time. He had survived in a cryobay that was unaffected and unfortunately came out of it just before the Covenant released the Flood. It would add that little extra to the flood.

  • 08.03.2004 7:43 AM PDT
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shotgun blast right to their skull. that is how i like improving the flood.

[Edited on 8/3/2004 7:54:36 AM]

  • 08.03.2004 7:54 AM PDT
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You CAN blow off an Elite Combat forms head. Ive doen it many of times...just because I enjoy it. The other way I would improve the Flood would to be to allow them to infect hunters. Imagine, youre walking across one of the bridges in Two Betrayals when two hunters LEAP from the other bridge in and land in front and just behind you.

  • 08.03.2004 11:11 AM PDT
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The best improvement for the flood would be to get rid of them....

OR if thats not an option, I would love to see marines and covenant turned into combat/carrier forms in front of my very eyes, like when a infection forms jumps on a marines you see it taking control of it, and then him turning on you all while being deformed by it, and ift does the same to elites and stuff, and you can see the infection form try and get into the hosts chest cavity, that would be interesting.

  • 08.03.2004 3:58 PM PDT
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the only issue i have with the flood is their tendency, when they're holding a rocket launcher (the only time they are really dangerous, even on legendary) disalow their "dying shot" as i call it. when they have aquired their target (you) but haven't taken a shot yet they fire a dying shot and with a rocket launcher and the tons of frags these guys carry it is deadly within 10 ft range. the flood's deadly rocket accuracy can be reversed with a few shots from a pistol. some might say they're invulnerability is extremely annoying but every unit turns invulnerable in halo. except the stupid grunts! maybe its just the fact they're so easy to kill.... well, flood invulnerability makes them very dangerous for people not experienced in campaigns. however, when a flood form takes a swing at me, i wait 1 second, and blast its freakin head off. one thing that makes the flood weak is that they rarely straight out sacrifice themselves. one guy came up to me with a rocket launcher and took a swing at me and i was able to pop him before he blew me straight to hell. the flood have many strengths due to their obvious weakness to getting shot in the face by a shotgun. but one ability that is too strong is to fire a dying rocket round... i hate it when you liberate a flood with judiciously and then bam you die in a ball of fire. this is especially annoying when your trying to beat the whole game on coop normal/heroic without dying.

what reallly sucks is that your own men are not allowed to use a rocket and blow your entire squad up when they try to shoot a grunt with it from 5 ft away. and yet your men are allowed to throw frags at you on lower difficulties. back up is totally useless except for the main room on truth and reconciliation. the only level my friend hasn't beaten on heroic single player w/o dying. covie bastards can be hard too!

[Edited on 8/3/2004 5:13:08 PM]

  • 08.03.2004 5:10 PM PDT
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Some sort of Flood vehicle, like a giant dragster or something.

  • 08.03.2004 5:22 PM PDT
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You can Blow off the usless heado f the Elites

  • 08.03.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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you cant blow off elites heads can uyou?

  • 08.03.2004 5:36 PM PDT
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elites flood form head=can be blown off, regular elite no. and a huge dragster... i hope that is a joke

  • 08.04.2004 3:48 AM PDT
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I would make them scary and evil. (They aren't that scary in the game) Like if you shot ones legs off, it would start crawling towards you, or they would be able to climb on walls, and such, and make them stay in the shadows and stuff like that. Now that would make me piss in my pants.


Peace

  • 08.04.2004 5:23 AM PDT
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i know someone that almost pissed there pants the first time they saw flood. they are very unexpected. and i don't see how climbing on the cieling would make anything better. its just stupid. they're not spiders they're undead. think zombies. with guns. and whips.

  • 08.04.2004 9:00 AM PDT
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I wouldn't improve the flood, I just want to play as them in multiplayer, so I can kick ass and jump from a base in blood gulch to one of the cliffs, and be invulnerable to snipers...

  • 08.04.2004 9:36 AM PDT
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It would be fun if they had more AI. And if they regenerated (like shields). And that they would be almost impossible to kill (although almost as easy to neutralize), like you shoot their head and arms of, then thay would kick you. You shoot their legs off, and then they would still lay their and twitch and try to roll against you.
And they should be fewer. (I have always thought that i's strange that most of the flood are elite forms. On 343 guilty spark (the level), you see almost as many ex-elites as you have seen elites in the entire game so far. There are, for example, way more flood elites than grunts and jackals)
And it would be cool to see the flood take over their victims as you watched

  • 08.04.2004 11:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: focused7
shotgun blast right to their skull. that is how i like improving the flood.


yes, that is about the only improvement i can muster.

  • 08.04.2004 12:10 PM PDT
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not let them come back to life, its really annoying when you shoot them w/ a shotgun point blank, then 10 seconds later they stand up and throw a grenade on your back. the only way i have found to ensure that they can hurt you anymore is to take a plasma pistol and blow thier arms off. also make them weaker to snipers and melee attacks(not that i want to get close enough anyway.)

  • 08.04.2004 8:00 PM PDT
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LOL, yep that IS the way it's done. I like ur style

  • 08.04.2004 9:15 PM PDT
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and when u got the little infection forms coming at you, shoot em with the AR, but if theres only 1, let it infect the butt of your rifle.

  • 08.04.2004 11:55 PM PDT
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well i agree that hunters should have became flood but they would lose most of the armor and the fule rod gun would be weaker cuz the flood wouldnt understand the charge but the arm with would be really long and stretch to hit you. if they had gian flood monsters they should have had you face one durring a battle with covi and flood in two betryals and shown one going to ram the PoA at the end of the maw that would be kool. and i think that cortana should have foud survalience vedios of the flood being released by the covi bastards!
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alot of people make bad coments about the flood, so knows you'r chance to state the improvments that you think would make them better.

  • 08.05.2004 12:16 AM PDT
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i particularly dont like the flood id rather just whoop some covanet ass but it would be really cool if the flood infected spartan and if some flood resulted into canobalism

[Edited on 8/5/2004 5:27:07 PM]

  • 08.05.2004 12:40 AM PDT
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don't impove em on any thing it could possiblie make 'em impossileble to kill them.

  • 08.05.2004 1:52 PM PDT
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Kill em all

  • 08.05.2004 5:44 PM PDT