- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Finally someone on this forum understands and pays attention to the books! Yes, it is true that the Flood themselves do not excell in the areas of intelligence and cognitive thinking. The Flood only follow their instinct: to find food. When an infection form takes over a host's body, they link into the host's mind in order to know everything their host knows. Ever notice the difference in how the infection forms attack and how the combat forms attack? The infection forms just swarm towards the nearest food source until they take it over and move on, even if that food source happens to be wearing a bio-mechanical suit with energy shielding and carrying a fully-loaded shotgun. The combat forms, however, attack with the weapons of whatever their host was carrying, because now they have their host's knowledge of how to use those weapons. It was the same with the ones who flew the Pelicans: if you take over a pilot's body and drain his brain, you kinda learn how to be a pilot.
Except in Halo 2, where even the infection forms back away from you.