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Posted by: Mark V guy
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Posted by: Mark V guy
Posted by: chickenlittle
Posted by: Mark V guy
But surely its a good thing that Pure Forms are harder to kill, because they are like Halo CE and 2s FloodAre you stupid?
Harder to kill =/= better
They have to be fun to fight! When you can 1-hit even the most supposed-to-be difficult enemies, it isn't challenging anymore. Tank forms are useless if you have a sword, the stalkers are a pain to hit, and the ranged forms are just annoying. They don't add any challenge to gameplay, just create an impediment.
But how are CEs Flood fun to fight?
Flood constantly rushing you
Arise from the dead if you kill them with anything other than a Shotgun or plasma weapon
Cant melee them
Just shooting them as they run straight towards you
Halo 2s flood were at least more interesting
They're supposed to, the name the Flood is part of their nature, to swarm at you and the Flood are supposed to be a threat that even the Covenant fear. It makes sense and I enjoy having them charge at me (although the library does get tedious).
The whole rise from the dead is no different from an Infection form reaching the body of a Flood Combat form in Halo 2/3 so i'm going to say that argument is invalid in my opinion.
I was fine with being unable to melee, it did have a small effect by stunning them temporarily but really the Flood are supposed to be stronger in CQB anyway, as they're overwhelming etc so you're supposed to keep them back.
Halo 2's were the biggest threat and were more interesting in my opinion, as Melee truly did nothing (CE's did injure them marginally). The Flood were often hard to shoot on the later High Charity levels due to the flood spores being everywhere creating an eerie atmosphere but again, as long as you had one medium/longrange weapon capable of a headshot, they were still nothing more than a small threat. I feared Jackal Snipers and Drones more in Halo 2, at least on higher difficulty levels anyway. And lets not forget they could use vehicles...
The thing about Halo 2 and 3 was that if you killed all the infection forms flood couldnt ever come back. In CE you could headshot a group of flood just for them all to come back
I think being physically weaker makes the whole idea of flooding the enemy in numbers more believable. They are made on decomposed bodies, they should be broken into pieces by melee. Together they overwhelm you, but by themselves they arent a big threat
I'm not so sure the flesh was decomposed...i may be wrong but if memory serves the Flood merely use calcium to restructure the body and create things like the tentacles, which are far stronger than the average Human/Elite. If that is the case then the Flood in theory can stand until the Infection form can't use the body anymore.
And as for gameplay, you could shoot off the Flood's arms anyways and from Halo 2 onwards, doing so would cause the Flood to selfdestruct leaving just the infection form.
Oh, and could someone confirm the decomposing bodies for me? Thankyou :D