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Subject: Is there a reason why the Flood can't be hurt by Snipers?
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Andy

After playing through CE, I remembered the Flood couldn't be hurt using the Sniper Rifle. I tried it, and the only thing I could do was take off limbs and kill Infection Forms, but otherwise it did no damage. Is there a canonical reason for this, or is it just a bug?

  • 12.18.2011 4:20 PM PDT
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I think (and I'm not sure) that it's because a lot of their biomass is just mushy, fleshy tissue that the sniper rounds pass through too quickly to do any real damage. I thought it said that in the Flood novel.

  • 12.18.2011 4:23 PM PDT

Posted by: DoctorCoitus
I think (and I'm not sure) that it's because a lot of their biomass is just mushy, fleshy tissue that the sniper rounds pass through too quickly to do any real damage. I thought it said that in the Flood novel.

This is what I was going to say.

It's stated during The Flood while Chief is going through The Library I believe, so this is exactly right.

[Edited on 12.18.2011 4:52 PM PST]

  • 12.18.2011 4:51 PM PDT

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For some reason I thought you were talking about the forum "The Flood" on Bungie. lol OT: I don't know.

  • 12.18.2011 4:58 PM PDT

Why are you here?

What DoctorCoitus said, or maybe just game physics.

  • 12.18.2011 4:59 PM PDT

This applies to all Halo games.

The Flood's biomass makes the bullet pass through it with a silent murmur causing no damage.

  • 12.18.2011 5:02 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

Too squishy.

  • 12.18.2011 5:04 PM PDT


Posted by: HundredJono
This applies to all Halo games.

The Flood's biomass makes the bullet pass through it with a silent murmur causing no damage.

Doesn't it OHK them if you hit the infection form in the chest?

  • 12.18.2011 11:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: HundredJono
This applies to all Halo games.

The Flood's biomass makes the bullet pass through it with a silent murmur causing no damage.


This.

It's why shotgun, plasma bolts, and the explosive rounds of the Magnum do great damage on the Flood.

  • 12.19.2011 5:52 AM PDT

Didact's Reprisal -
Now is the time of our unworlding
One final effort is all that remains
And I am not afraid
We shall fulfill our promise
We fight for the grace of the Mantle
And this time none of you will be left behind


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Posted by: HundredJono
This applies to all Halo games.

The Flood's biomass makes the bullet pass through it with a silent murmur causing no damage.

Doesn't it OHK them if you hit the infection form in the chest?


This might be for the later Halo games, when there was a headshot option.

  • 12.19.2011 7:37 AM PDT

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Posted by: Im SteelAssassn


This might be for the later Halo games, when there was a headshot option.


Yep. Although canonically chief could have one-shotted the infection form, this was simply not a design consideration in CE.

  • 12.19.2011 3:18 PM PDT

To be honest, when I first saw all this in the weekly update I thought 2 things.
#1- there is an actual legendary ending but,
#2- No matter what anyone does,(kill all the bobs, hit all switches etc) that until the "time" mentioned in "There'll be another time..." is reached there won't be a legendary ending.

The weekly update by bungie has slowed my hardcore search for what unlocks the legendary ending.

The flood doesn't use vital organs, but uses the body as a whole for its bio mass. A sniper is designed to kill people by hurting their vital organs (heart, brain, etc). Since the flood uses the whole body, the sniper is useless against them, with the exception of the infection form being shot by the sniper.

  • 12.19.2011 3:25 PM PDT
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This (and THIS) was for Reach...and/or Harvest

I don't know other opinions on the matter but it always annoyed the heck out of me.

Especially considering that they can be killed by other projectile weapons AR/SMG/Turret etc.

But we are now two back to back games without them so, lessens the blow maybe.

  • 12.19.2011 6:47 PM PDT

Carrier forms = NO sniper and no headshots, best use AR or pistol or grenade or pop small infection forms next them.

Combat forms = YES headhots with sniper or pistol etc. Generally their heads we're to the side hanging off their shoulder so you have to adjust your aim for the headshot. Although their bodies still come at you a bit.

  • 12.19.2011 7:44 PM PDT