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Posted by: Scott2k44
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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


You really are clueless.

In summation;

The Flood can infect using spores, so size isn't an issue.

Hunters must have a communal nervous system, which would be used by the Flood to control them.

Happy?

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  • 06.17.2006 5:02 PM PDT
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if i go down ill take some gamer with me

if they are many, then why would they not just let got of the infected .... worms then destroy them.

because the infection would have to make its way to the .... brain? but it would have time to react. (i think)

or perhaps the armor has some sort of a hidden efect on the hunter, keeping them as one .. guy.

i do NOT know for sure, but then no one else does. (except for bungie)

  • 06.17.2006 5:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: Redoubt
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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.


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.


A biologist huh? Well im guessing you havent played halo to long or you have not been on bungie that long. Well bungie has said that hunters cant be taken by flood. By the way this is halo not some animal game. ok!!!!

  • 06.17.2006 5:13 PM PDT
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"The Flood can infect using spores, so size isn't an issue"

no, they can't. Nowere in the books or bungie or the game says they can and there is no logical reason why they could.

Although i cannot find an argument about the Hunter's communal nervous system it is controlled by a hive mind.The reason why a Hunter cannot become infected is because once the hivemind dies it is essentialy useless unless the flood can somehow replace the hundreds of minds inside of the hunter.

The flood is controlled by a hive mind but they each have their own individual minds, and the same thing is true with the hunters, although their individual minds are probably alot more primitive.

Also, we simply don't know how an infection form can take a hunter as a host because they need someting substancial to take control of (such as the spine in most of the covenant and humans)

Aside from the point, I'm hoping you were joking about being an Experianced Biologist because even if you are that the most ridiculously pointless thing to say on the forums because very few people care and even fewer probably belive you.

  • 06.17.2006 5:19 PM PDT
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tomkiller is right so all you biologist who dont know anything bout halo go back to the forest and go find out something bout animals

  • 06.17.2006 5:21 PM PDT
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Well Mr. Biologist, this isn't real life were talking about. That is probably why hunters cannot be taken over.

  • 06.17.2006 5:23 PM PDT

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The Hunters are created from hundreds of tiny worms.. They couldn't all be taken over as a whole.

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Besides, in the game, the hunters don't act like the flood...the hide behind stuff, and appear to be intelligent. Plus, they would have to be cooperative to do something like, say...the great Hunter rebellion

Don't take the game to heart, the flood are much smarter then the hunters... Hell they learned how to use human/covenant/and Forerunner technology in a matter of days. They even managed to take controll of the pillar of Autmn and began to repair it by the time you arrived, and in halo 2 they crashed the In Amber Clad into High Charity and effectively obliterated everything able to sustain them once they landed the dropships... although they aren't the smartest in Halo 2, it was because they were under the direct influence of Gravemind, and he had enough bodies to overrun and infect every covenant troop in the city.

The flood also don't care about the disconfort of their host and will crush an enemy simply by numbers. and they have a lot of numbers

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hotsauce is right this isnt real life this is halo so as i said before go classify some animals

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tomkiller is right so all you biologist who dont know anything bout halo go back to the forest and go find out something bout animals

Not quite, but you get the idea.

EDIT: watch it or you might get blacklisted 7000, we made out point clear (hopefully).

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  • 06.17.2006 5:27 PM PDT
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You never know when some random biologist spends their time shooting the hell out of aliens as a pass time. Don't you think he should be out finding us a cure for cancer or something, rather then fighting the covies, I think we can handle that.

  • 06.17.2006 5:28 PM PDT
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Hey, my Doctor plays halo 2 on a treadmill, and its not that bad an idea...

  • 06.17.2006 5:29 PM PDT
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if i go down ill take some gamer with me

even if it was real (witch it is not) whos to say what could or could not happen, i mean look at HUMANS, in the past we thought that the EARTH was flat, then we thought that it was cubed.

THEN we thought the sun went aroud the EARTH and the the EARTH was in the center of the unverse.

many mand MANY years later ... we now know the truth.

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Bungie is to say it could not happen since they created the Halo Universe.

"many mand MANY years later ... we now know the truth"
Dude, in terms of the history of mankind thats a blip, it was only 1-200 years ago? thats not very long considering that humanity has been alive for i i forget how many years can someone tell me so i can fill it in?

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  • 06.17.2006 5:31 PM PDT

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Frankie is awesome.

[Edited on 7/7/2006 by Frankie]


I wonder what he said before Frankie edited it?

Posted by: tomkiller
Besides, in the game, the hunters don't act like the flood...the hide behind stuff, and appear to be intelligent. Plus, they would have to be cooperative to do something like, say...the great Hunter rebellion

Don't take the game to heart, the flood are much smarter then the hunters... Hell they learned how to use human/covenant/and Forerunner technology in a matter of days. They even managed to take controll of the pillar of Autmn and began to repair it by the time you arrived, and in halo 2 they crashed the In Amber Clad into High Charity and effectively obliterated everything able to sustain them once they landed the dropships... although they aren't the smartest in Halo 2, it was because they were under the direct influence of Gravemind, and he had enough bodies to overrun and infect every covenant troop in the city.

The flood also don't care about the disconfort of their host and will crush an enemy simply by numbers. and they have a lot of numbers


You forget that the flood takes over a persons body, and can tap into the hosts memories, thoughts, and brain functions. So, fixing a human vessel would be relatively easy if they had taken over the body of a human engineer, because they would simply tap into that memory.

So really, they aren't smarter. They're just better at adapting.

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  • 06.17.2006 5:32 PM PDT
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True, but how many engineers do you think were left after they established that bace on the plateau? Only a hundred or two, and that only leaves the bodies that survived the crash, which probably wasnt that many, but we don't know.

And yes, I know they recovered a engineer from the ambush battle with the flood.

Even if they did use some of the bodies that were on the autmn, they wouldnt have any memories in them because they were dead. I think the majority of the infected repairing the POA were etheir simply combat forms whose infection forms leanred how the ship worked, and perhaps infected engineers?

Only bungie knows and its going to be silly to argue over what was repairing the Autmn because we dont know.

EDIT: I just thought of this :Then how do you explain the flood useing the sentinal beams in Quarentine Zone or the Icon?

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  • 06.17.2006 5:39 PM PDT

Posted by: GDemon
Frankie is awesome.

[Edited on 7/7/2006 by Frankie]


I wonder what he said before Frankie edited it?

Posted by: tomkiller
True, but how many engineers do you think were left after they established that bace on the plateau? Only a hundred or two, and that only leaves the bodies that survived the crash, which probably wasnt that many, but we don't know.

And yes, I know they recovered a engineer from the ambush battle with the flood.

Even if they did use some of the bodies that were on the autmn, they wouldnt have any memories in them because they were dead. I think the majority of the infected repairing the POA were etheir simply combat forms whose infection forms leanred how the ship worked, and perhaps infected engineers?

Only bungie knows and its going to be silly to argue over what was repairing the Autmn because we dont know.

EDIT: I just thought of this :Then how do you explain the flood useing the sentinal beams in Quarentine Zone or the Icon?


First off, you're right about arguing, and I don't intend to. It's silly.

But, I will answer your last question. The sentinal beam is most likely a "pull the trigger to make it shoot" type of gun. Because, let's face it. You can use one as well, but you have no idea how the sentinals work; atleast, no more than the flood do. Then again, we might just be diving too deep into something that isn't really worth pondering over for the longest time. I doubt even Bungie would give us an answer straight away without making it up, because it's much too trivial for them to think about.

  • 06.17.2006 5:53 PM PDT
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Yeah, but is interesting to find out about..

  • 06.17.2006 5:54 PM PDT

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Mr Biology M4s73R!! STFU!!!!

It does not matter what you think or know. HUNTERS DO NOT EXIST IN REAL LIFE MORON!! They are Bungie's imagination, and therefore do not follow natural law neccessarilly. The reason they cannot be taken over is for BALANCE ISSUES!!!

  • 06.17.2006 6:06 PM PDT
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Thanks for claering up the first part, but the combat forms probably learned what the weapons did by themselves, as you said he couldn't controll each one individualy, and mass knowledge wouldn't work because the flood had a variety of weapons, come of which they probably havent seen before.

Flood infection happens with an flood infection form driving its penetrator into its hosts's spine. It then sifts through its memories and wipes what it dosent need and keeps what it does. since a infection form trying to find the Hunter's centeral nerve would mutilate it way past the point of use it just leaves the hunters the way they are.

  • 06.17.2006 6:07 PM PDT
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yes another person who believes me! (also nice signature hope you dont mind bout me coping it)

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  • 06.17.2006 6:07 PM PDT
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Yep you have won against the other biologist, well he deserved it.

  • 06.17.2006 6:14 PM PDT

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