- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Even at the beginning of the level! In fact, the flood are watching you the entire time you're moving through the swamp. If you take the path to the right, you will see several covies get blown to crap by an unknown explosion up on the cliff to your left. Moving further, you'll find a crashed covenant dropship. Nothing interesting there except a few grunty killables. But look just beyond the dropship to the fallen tree, and you will see a flood elite spawn there, look at you for a few seconds, and walk away (I have a picture of this elite on my other computer.) He runs up the trunk to the turret, where he will stop for a few more seconds, turn and run into the structure. While you're on the tree trunk, look to your right and you will see a few flood running along the cliff towards the structure. Upon reaching the structure, the infested elites (It looks like marines) firing upon a group of covenant, and a frag explodes, knocking a turret out. When you go into the structure, take note that the elevator comes zooming back up. Later on, right behind the crazed marine with a pistol, you see massive quantities of flood blood, and a burning ramp to your left. Not much else until you reach the place where you meet the flood in person.
On a side note, the flood elites out in the swamp show up as yellow on your motion tracker.