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What do you think of the idea of having flood hunters the most powerful enemy you'll ever see
here is some things it will have by what I know about halo and it's characters
Powers as normal hunter
* Almost invicible except with the weakspot
* Have a giant feul rod cannon of death
* Giant sheild that obliterates anything it hits
* Needlers don't even attach to it
* Grenades don't hurt it much
Powers it will have as a flood
* No weakspot
* sniper rifles don't even hurt it at all
* Full body armor
* Jumps higher then superman
* Has a feul rod cannon of death
* Has giant sheild of smack you sillyness
* Can be completely disembodied and still kill you
* Now is invincible basically
* grenades don't really affect it

  • 06.17.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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first off this has been said a billion times HUNTERS CANT BE TAKEN OVER BY FLOOD. The reason why they cant is because they are not a single celled host they are controlled by many different "worm like" creatures.

  • 06.17.2006 4:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: VELOCITY 7000
first off this has been said a billion times HUNTERS CANT BE TAKEN OVER BY FLOOD. The reason why they cant is because they are not a single celled host they are controlled by many different "worm like" creatures.


Shut up, for your own good.

Now, as an experianced biologist, I can safely say that the Hunters, without a shadow of a doubt, MUST have some form of communal nevous system to operate as symbiotically as they do (ie, fight!).

Oh, and for the record, single celled creatures cannot be taken over by the Flood, as told by 343.

Now please, leave the thinking to the thoughtful.

  • 06.17.2006 4:34 PM PDT

...And so the hero crawled through the fissure on the surface of Tyr. There, the lone Dwarf stared into the cold, dark eyes of Soulblighter...The fiend hefted his blade over his shoulder as a flock of raven took upon his form...

-TBG-

True but the Hunters cannot be taken over by the Flood

  • 06.17.2006 4:35 PM PDT
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nice try...hunter worms lack the biomass to sustane the flood

[Edited on 6/17/2006]

  • 06.17.2006 4:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: teamblackgrave
True but the Hunters cannot be taken over by the Flood


Likely only for balance reasons. I mean, a Flood hunter would be unstoppable.

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Posted by: Redoubt
Shut up, for your own good.

Now, as an experianced biologist, I can safely say that the Hunters, without a shadow of a doubt, MUST have some form of communal nevous system to operate as symbiotically as they do (ie, fight!).

Oh, and for the record, single celled creatures cannot be taken over by the Flood, as told by 343.

Now please, leave the thinking to the thoughtful.


I'm sorry to say, but the idea that Hunters consist of hundred indivudual worm-like creatures comes from Bungie themselves. It's OFFICIAL that one Hunter is, in fact, a hive of smaller creatures combined. Discuss it with them, and not a random forum-goer who happens to tell you the truth.

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Posted by: HaLfLuCkClOvA
nice try...hunter worms lack the biomass to sustane the flood


Rubbish. They're sentient, so they're viable. Besides, you have no idea how big the creatures that comprise a Hunter are, for all you know a Hunter could be a grand total of 2 worms.

Like I said, they must have a communal nervous system, which could be taken over.

  • 06.17.2006 4:40 PM PDT

Sigs are stupid.

That's freakin' scary.
I love the shield of smack-you-silliness by the way.
-B

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Posted by: Redoubt
Shut up, for your own good.

Now, as an experianced biologist, I can safely say that the Hunters, without a shadow of a doubt, MUST have some form of communal nevous system to operate as symbiotically as they do (ie, fight!).

Oh, and for the record, single celled creatures cannot be taken over by the Flood, as told by 343.

Now please, leave the thinking to the thoughtful.


I'm sorry to say, but the idea that Hunters consist of hundred indivudual worm-like creatures comes from Bungie themselves. It's OFFICIAL that one Hunter is, in fact, a hive of smaller creatures combined. Discuss it with them, and not a random forum-goer who happens to tell you the truth.


Something has to co-ordinate the worms.

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sombody already started a thread about the flood hunters but like i said in the other thread that would be pretty cool to fight one in halo 3

  • 06.17.2006 4:41 PM PDT
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The worms that make up the hunters are so small that an infection forms pinchers just cut it in two. The hunter does have nevous system except it is a group of worms that just like any other worm gets cut in half by the infection forms pinchers.

  • 06.17.2006 4:41 PM PDT

Holy crap where did you guys find all of this out?

  • 06.17.2006 4:42 PM PDT

Sigs are stupid.

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Posted by: VELOCITY 7000
first off this has been said a billion times HUNTERS CANT BE TAKEN OVER BY FLOOD. The reason why they cant is because they are not a single celled host they are controlled by many different "worm like" creatures.


Shut up, for your own good.

Now, as an experianced biologist, I can safely say that the Hunters, without a shadow of a doubt, MUST have some form of communal nevous system to operate as symbiotically as they do (ie, fight!).

Oh, and for the record, single celled creatures cannot be taken over by the Flood, as told by 343.

Now please, leave the thinking to the thoughtful.

Either that or the thing only has Hive instincts as a mind, therefore all worms defend themselves accordingly. As a biologist, you should know that.
-B

  • 06.17.2006 4:43 PM PDT
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hey guys imagine a hunter with no armour it would be a giant walking orange thing

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  • 06.17.2006 4:45 PM PDT

Couldn't the radiation from the fuel rod gun play a big part in the Hunter's inability to be taken over? Radiation is what saved Johnson, so isn't it possible that the gun that shoots radiation save the hunters as well?

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Posted by: Bee Boy
Posted by: Redoubt
Posted by: VELOCITY 7000
first off this has been said a billion times HUNTERS CANT BE TAKEN OVER BY FLOOD. The reason why they cant is because they are not a single celled host they are controlled by many different "worm like" creatures.


Shut up, for your own good.

Now, as an experianced biologist, I can safely say that the Hunters, without a shadow of a doubt, MUST have some form of communal nevous system to operate as symbiotically as they do (ie, fight!).

Oh, and for the record, single celled creatures cannot be taken over by the Flood, as told by 343.

Now please, leave the thinking to the thoughtful.

Either that or the thing only has Hive instincts as a mind, therefore all worms defend themselves accordingly. As a biologist, you should know that.
-B


Hive instincts may work for a few hundred seperate creatures, but when those 100+ creatures come together to walk, see, think, and fight, you need something a little more co-ordinated than instinct.

It'd be like fighting someone with your eyes closed and someone telling you what to do. It's just too slow without nerves, which is all the Flood need to infect a creature.

Finally, the Flood don't have to use Infection forms to infect something, those spores you see in High Charity at Halo 2's closing moments can be used to infect things also.

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Posted by: Killer of You
Couldn't the radiation from the fuel rod gun play a big part in the Hunter's inability to be taken over? Radiation is what saved Johnson, so isn't it possible that the gun that shoots radiation save the hunters as well?


There's scores of different radiation, and it's incredibly unlikely that the radiation emitted from plasma grenades is the same as the fuel rods. It's possible, though.

  • 06.17.2006 4:48 PM PDT
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if i go down ill take some gamer with me

perhaps they comunicate by thought?
but they have to be so close to each other for it to work.

that might also help to protect them from being taken over by Flood.

(besides being so small in nature that they can not be taken over.)

just a thought.

  • 06.17.2006 4:49 PM PDT
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whether or not it would be possible in life, think about the gameplay of that. it would have almost no weaknesses.....

  • 06.17.2006 4:52 PM PDT

Posted by: GDemon
Frankie is awesome.

[Edited on 7/7/2006 by Frankie]


I wonder what he said before Frankie edited it?

I know someone is going to get mad at me for using Halo novel reference here, but here it goes:

Recall the 2nd book, The Flood. During the Silent Cartogropher*spelling*, there is a section where the Hunters have active minds, i.g. the last one to die in a certain part is glad that he will go to see his "brother" when the Master Cheif kills him. How would a hundred worms form a thought process without a central nervous system or some other way to move the body?

Of course, this is just for the Novel fans. In the game, or by going with the handbook, a Flood Hunter seems illogical.

  • 06.17.2006 4:55 PM PDT
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if i go down ill take some gamer with me

except for the BOOM STICK! (Rockets)

also if there a bunch of worms, then perhaps they would just let go of the ones that got infected by the Flood.

then make a few cuts and there, i just grew back an arm. (the hunters)

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I wasn't asking for a big arguement about how they can't be taken over by a flood I know they can't all I was saying is that what if a hunter ended up being consumed by a flood say gravemind wanted more pwer so he started one by one consuming the hunters he came across by a slow process of individually infecting everyworm it has in a weird way or maybe completely removeing the worms from it and placeing flood inside of the armor

  • 06.17.2006 4:57 PM PDT

Posted by: Roxfox
Posted by: Redoubt
Shut up, for your own good.

Now, as an experianced biologist, I can safely say that the Hunters, without a shadow of a doubt, MUST have some form of communal nevous system to operate as symbiotically as they do (ie, fight!).

Oh, and for the record, single celled creatures cannot be taken over by the Flood, as told by 343.

Now please, leave the thinking to the thoughtful.


I'm sorry to say, but the idea that Hunters consist of hundred indivudual worm-like creatures comes from Bungie themselves. It's OFFICIAL that one Hunter is, in fact, a hive of smaller creatures combined. Discuss it with them, and not a random forum-goer who happens to tell you the truth.


you sir just got owned

  • 06.17.2006 5:00 PM PDT

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