Every Flood Form in Halo EXPLAINED

[@HiddenXperia]

Happy Monday, here's 35 delicious minutes of succulent Flood lore to spice your day up!

[@vulpeszeta5761]

Daddy

[@SamSCUBA-z3x]

Like the Captain Keys shirt by the way

[@jessejive1174]

You convert to Hinduism or just opened a 7/11?

[@STRAKAZulu]

Anything planned for Flooded With Flavour?

[@thevengeful9678]

Nice video, about the flood.. im working some great stuff on Arma 3 with Halo mods, and I think you might be very interested! I try to contact you on your email, if you want to take a look !

[@cyborgparrot1996]

It's ironic that Bungie cut out the Flood Juggernaut from Halo 2 because it could kill the player in a single hit, yet the Jackal Snipers on Legendary Difficulty aren't any different.

[@steelrexer1062]

The juggernaut is actually in the game, it just gets killed by the jackal snipers in every playthrough before it can be encountered

[@ryan_1099]

​@@steelrexer1062Based on their little lore tidbit from a Halo 2 Beam Rifle variant in Halo 5 this is completely believable for me

[@UnrulyRantLord]

😂😂😂 good ol Jason Jones

[@felipedelgado8117]

I swear I've watched this same video 10 times. Oh well, I'll make that 11 then

[@HiddenXperia]

Haha never made this one before (as far as I recall) but given how much I've talked about the Flood, I'm not surprised you feel that way lmao

[@DivinusPrime]

​@HiddenXperia I think you did when Awakening The Nightmare DLC came out for Halo Wars 2.

[@Plasmagon99]

@@HiddenXperia Yeah you remake this video and so much, lol. The Keymind no longer being planet-sized Graveminds and there being one Primortial as the central brain of the flood was new to me though.

[@yapyarlpthegrunt]

@@HiddenXperiaI’ve found 7 other videos explaining flood forms from you, to be fair most of them are specific kinds of flood like halo wars flood or pure forms but that’s a lotta flood form explanation videos

[@SMTBilly]

@@HiddenXperiahonestly I have no complaints I love the flood

[@VRHyoumaru]

It amuses me that the graphic of Dead Space 3's Breathern Moon has become so widely accepted as the representing graphic for the Flood's planetary stage.

[@Pharis111]

I mean if EA isn't going to use it...

[@SuperGlueFingers]

@@Pharis111 itsfreerealestate.jpg

[@UnrulyRantLord]

​@@Pharis111I so wanted DE4...

[@FinallyAlone]

Xperia: "this is the flood!" Everyone: "Xperia... this is the seventh week in a row you've shown the flood"

[@Titanic_Tuna]

Xperia: "I'm gonna do it again."

[@iNabber]

i see 35 minutes of flood lore, i click

[@HiddenXperia]

Based Flood enjoyer 🤝

[@gettysanimations]

@@HiddenXperiaaverage flood enjoyer vs average “humanity” fan

[@deadman9335]

​@@HiddenXperiaAverage flood enjoyed vs weakest necromorph enjoyer

[@deadman9335]

@@LostSoulchild89 name Original content, has 0 content

[@deadman9335]

@@LostSoulchild89 I only recently actually started uploading periodically, I'm at around 300 videos I believe but the best performance is still just untlder 2000 views and I've got less than 20 subs.

[@inderix]

If the Flood were to have been introduced to Infinite's story I think it could have been so damn fun to have the Gaunt as a form that could match the speed of the player with the grappling hook

[@chipsdubbo5.56]

Another missed opportunity; Infinite could have been so much better

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Or buff shifter floods stalker form so they are actually threatening. In halo 3 they are too easy to kill on legendary.

[@cd7677]

Welp, lets cope and wait for halo 7

[@LoreWithWes]

1:36 I love how chief is chilling just outside the doorway while this marine is violently converted into a combat form 😂

[@sakkra93]

"Sorry, Marine, but this is for science!"

[@bigyoshi5170]

“The Flood Chicken eh? I hear everything in the universe tastes like it.” -Garrus Vakarian

[@enclave6982]

Imagine if the flood infect a reaper

[@Necfreon]

@@enclave6982well if they can’t infect it they can definitely hack it after all if mendicant bias doesn’t make a reaper look like a bitch in terms of sophistication it’s at the very least equal and we all know the key mind corrupted mendicant bias fairly easily in the grand scheme of things

[@mrkrabskraps7085]

I swear your the only halo creator still making passionate halo content.

[@ricosuave62094]

Really milking every bit of lore possible

[@Randomgui220]

I’ll say Installation 00 too, love that guy

[@ia19753]

Wdym? This isn't passionate. This dude is literally reposting content.

[@Illusionyary]

GeneralKidd still makes some as well as that guy that does the insane jump challenges and room clipping etc.

[@moonshiners-cv6kd]

343 truly has killed much interest in halo

[@guitarbass22]

3:55 About the size of the infection forms, they showed us a model of one at Halo Outpost Discovery that I went to a few years back (amazing experience), and they are a LOT bigger than you’d think. Lol

[@dirtyblonde1011]

Aren't they like...big enough to entirely fill an adult's chest cavity?

[@martinnavarrete5279]

A metter tall, that is harrowing.

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Except in Halo wars where they are tiny.

[@UnhealthyHeartbeatObsession]

Love how you always show the planet- size Key/ Graveminds as Brethren Moons as the placeholder; they're seriously soooooo similar, soo smart, and soooo scary. Graveminds take the scary cake by a little bit.

[@ThatEffinMonke]

Fun fact on the Stalker form: it will usually never attack from the front, or when your looking at it. It will only attack you from the back and when your not looking at it which adds to its name.

[@LucaPalomo909]

Ah yes, Hiddenxperia talking about the flood. This is a health pack in video form. Keep up the awesome content Hiddenx, u r awesome!

[@franciothatguy]

"Staggering resilience" keymind proceeds to die

[@ray8413]

HiddenXpri when uploading a flood/Halo video “I will talk and you shall listen “

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Imagine God sends the Flood to wipe out humanity instead of the flood.

[@ThatEffinMonke]

"He's mocking us. Giving us the illusion that we have a chance."

[@metalsonic5669]

We're screwed

[@TheWhiteTrashPanda]

I always assumed the grunts were almost exclusively used for carrier forms, partially because of their smallish form but also due to the fact that in H1 and H2, all of the combat forms are pretty obviously humans, elites and brutes.

[@LegoMaster_7778]

you know its a good day when hiddenxperia uploads

[@LennoxParsec]

27:56 It was stated that the Primordial had knowlage from more than a 100 billion years ago, which means that only the Primordial itself is way, waaay older than the current universe.

[@brandonmcgregor9912]

Keymind being a evolution after/above Gravemind makes sense and adds to it's horrifying awe. That it's so colossal and distinctive from a Gravemind that it deserves it's own classification. Even if the potential ramifications are the same, the treatment feels off. Changing it to a "planet sized Gravemind" has the energy of "meh, it's just a Gravemind, but bigger." And even with all that aside, why was this retcon needed? It's seems like such a pointless thing to change for no discernable reason.

[@samuelkral414]

Yeah planet sized gravemind is so boring compared to keymind

[@UnrulyRantLord]

They literally said fuck you to Dead Space and copied the design 😂😂

[@kidusfikre5471]

10:25 Yapyap will make sure to dance on your grave in 500 years

[@PaintConsumer21]

Halo 2 High Charity could have been the first Keymind in the Halo games.

[@SnzyBat]

brosky is no longer digging for scraps, he's digging through the earth's mantle by now

[@chipsdubbo5.56]

The concepts behind the primordial, the grave minds, and the flood in general are honestly mind blowing if you think about it hard enough. I wonder who came up with it, Joe Staten or someone else? Thanks for the video Luc

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

Bungie invented the original idea of the Precursors in the Halo 2 era, and Greg Bear massively expanded on the Precursors in the Forerunner Trilogy on behalf of 343 that RUINED the Forerunners. (Who are humans)

[@benclark4823]

The forerunners were only “human” during halo 2 development and that clearly changed in halo 3 development with the terminals so it’s under Bungee that they were changed not 343 industries. 😒

[@chipsdubbo5.56]

@@benclark4823 actually no, Frank O'Connor made the terminals and he slipped those changes past Bungie towards the end of the development cycle and no one really checked his work anyway because he had already written some media (magazine articles) for them. Then he worked for 343 after Bungie was gone. So it's frank O'Connor (aka franklez) who is responsible for that dumb shit*t

[@benclark4823]

@@chipsdubbo5.56 And yet bungee NEVER once tried to retcon such such a change? Why keep it in if they didn’t want it to happen?? Also saying that because it was frank O Connor was the one who made that terminal entry doesn’t magically NOT make him a bungee employee. That’s the no true Scotsman fallacy. 😒

[@martinnavarrete5279]

​@@chipsdubbo5.56the terminals were actually made by several bungie employees 7 of them if i remenber correctly in the old bungie page you can find wich terminal is credited to each menber, and it is a myth that it was written at the end with no supervision, it was mid development and Joseph Stanten help wrote them (said in the same page, i wonder if the original post is still there)

[@spudman4270]

I love this video so much! NGL the PC deal really came in clutch cause my PC finally decided to lose its strength. Fingers crossed it's a good one, but if it's designed to be able to run Halo ..that gives great promise. Thank you so much for coming to me in my time of need XD

[@Thedeadlycut]

I love the flood, i love the idea of it, it's amazing.

[@UnrulyRantLord]

I'm terrified and I've been aware of them for 17 years

[@jacobkoster3808]

0:22 🤓👆 erm actually humanities first encounter with the flood was a hundred thousand years ago

[@andyfriederichsen]

You don't need a nerd emoji or an "erm" in your comment correcting a mistake.

[@UnrulyRantLord]

Ermmmmmm ACTUALLY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Masochistgamer123]

As someone who is trying to write a Halo fic where the main character literally is a part of the Flood, this video really helped out. Thanks, lore man!

[@gamermagnum]

Love the videos my fellow Spartan

[@alienatedjam5767]

The Infection form is a bit iffy when it comes to infecting before the spinal tap. Halo:The Flood, chief had an infection form dig its tendrils under his skin but not his spine. Chief ended up fine.

[@inductivegrunt94]

The Shifter Pure Form is easily my favorite Flood form. The three forms that it can take on and swap between on the fly make it an enemy that makes the player switch up their own tactics to match. Keeps players on their toes, like the Flood should being such an atypical force to face in combat.

[@TheQuadraticAttenuator]

Ahh yes, another deep dive on HiddenXperia's favorite topic, the *FLÜD*

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

0:44 HiddenXperia's Declassified Flood Survival Guide.

[@ElbowThief]

Bro as much as you've covered the flood this feels like the 100th time I've watched this video, yet you bet your ass I'm still gonna watch it

[@chilledkermit4311]

Love your halo lore videos man, I can always listen to them at work or at home to relax and stay busy or wind down after a long day.

[@S1AKEEB]

wow the photography and cinematography looks so good

[@theartisticspartan4488]

I always enjoy hearing about The Flood, regardless of whether or not I’ve heard some of it before, 9 times out of 10, I do learn something new. Not only are they terrifying, but they’re fascinating too. There’s honestly not enough Flood content out there, I’d like to see an official game revolving around it someday.

[@GHOST-mz6gt]

Hey Luc, I don't usually comment, but I just had to say thank you for all your high-quality content on Halo and other franchises. I love your videos, especially the lore, story, and news you cover. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@DeBode206]

What’s wrong, babe? You haven’t even touched HiddenXperia’s fiftieth flood video

[@dankdaze42069]

We need a horror game set in the Halo universe with flood or another game with them in it that's new and not a rehash or something or a cash grab game 🤤

[@thyrampantpigeon]

2:03, just got me thinking that there could be one single spore floating about, just waiting for its moments to bring absolute chaos.

[@briantassone9175]

This is exactly why the Elite Commander says in Halo 3, right after the Flood outbreak on Earth is contained, “One single Flood spore can destroy a species. Were it not for the Arbiter’s council, I WOULD’VE GLASSED YOUR ENTIRE PLANET!!” 😱😅

[@party4lifedude]

The general concept of the Flood is something that has had a significant impact on my nightmares.

[@darkreflection9087]

Halo Flood is one of my favorite Sci Fi Zombies

[@dragonseatcheese8727]

The Primordial is/was by no means the last Precursor. There are even still some in the Milky Way (they just don't DO much), and they most certainly were not limited to the 2 or 3 galaxies the Forerunners hunted them in. For every Precursor the Forerunners killed in the Milky Way, 30 more were just chilling on some random planet the galaxy over. Maybe alone, maybe taking the form of a primitive hunter gatherer, or maybe in an alien casino. The Precursors are perhaps one of the most ridiculously OP species in all of sci-fi. Perhaps THE most OP. The Forerunners had no means of actually wiping them out, and they got as far as they did because they got lucky with shooting the ship down on a dead planet. If that hadn't happened, all of them would have showed back up instead of having their minds get lost in the Domain. Even THAT might not have actually killed them. The Domain is a sentient mega library. It contains ALL of the information the Precursors had. Which includes everything from your memories to the cure for The Flood to the recipe for the perfect cake. Kind of a "monkey on keyboards" thing. So getting lost in there could take billions of years to get out if they had the capacity to.

[@m0urn1ng5tar5]

Appeared in my feed 7 minutes after upload - just as the forerunners intended

[@thephilifluffy1838]

this comment was posted 7 minutes ago...

[@Padfoot71]

Wonderful overview of the most scary sci-fi infection! Though I do have one question, if the Primordial's consciousness is perpetual, and Graveminds can coordinate at a seemingly unlimited range, why is there still feral stage outbreaks? Once flood forms come out of stasis, shouldn't they instantly connect to the nearest Gravemind? Unless that's the catch and there has to be an active Gravemind nearby, and the one on 05 was only reactived after the breach of containment on Alpha Halo.

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Think of the gravemind as a wifi tower with limited range. The primordial is in the internet somewhere and needs a gravemind signal to take control of the flood forms in it's range.

[@KeyboardTarantula]

@@AxisChurchDevotee wait... is the primordial twitter?

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

@@KeyboardTarantula Probably more like Facebook since in Halo 3 one of his IWHBYD quote's is "Welcome, to the social."

[@KeyboardTarantula]

@@AxisChurchDevotee ah, true.

[@DaveNBake]

16:50 me when 3 mikes hard lemonades

[@HiddenXperia]

LMFAO that got me

[@Sanjay-kx1pm]

Idc how many times you’ve remade this i’m here to support the boi Xperia 🔥🔥

[@arthurchurch743]

What if 500 years into the future humanity encounters the flood and its the version from the halo show.

[@Griffos_improve_heart_health]

Thanks for the lore videos! One of the few still posting through the almost 10 year long content drought.😭

[@IsmailShah-h6r]

Awesome content, with your videos I just can't get bored of Halo

[@markricheard1870]

“No no, you don’t get it. Somehow, the Endless are worse than the Flood. Why? Because we said so that’s why. And humans are not Forerunners because Frank said so.” -343 not Guilty Spark

[@ryan_1099]

I mean in the weird situation of being alone in a galaxy just cleansed of life by the rings, yeah that's pretty dangerous. But a dumb line anyway

[@hanging4176]

It rivals "Somehow, Palpatine returned" in terms of nonsensical writing.

[@conman7470]

So in the book The Flood an infection form pierced chiefs suit and skin (if I remember right) before Cortana saved him by overloading his shields. But shouldn’t the infection forms tentacles piercing his skin been enough to transfer some supercells into Chief if the flood can infect just by scratching?

[@Lazypackmule]

I perfectly understand the keymind retcon, "traveling" is too iconic a name to not refer to the character of the traveling in all possible incarnations

[@lofdz]

The Flood could be seen as a metaphor for black holes-universal forces of entropy and unification. As black holes represent one of the ultimate endpoints of cosmic evolution in real physics, the Flood consumes and assimilates all life, unifying everything into one collective.

[@Bizzarcyborg]

I like that you still use the dead space necromoon thing we gotta see if anyone is willing to commission a flood variant of it

[@WitchHunterSiegfried]

I like the Jackal Carrier variant from SPV3, know it's not cannon but it's still quite cool, if you've never seen it, it crawls on all fours and lunges at it's prey and then explodes from there.

[@alphaspack293]

Ik this doesn't have anything to do with this episode but in halo 2 McCain u can jump on the back of hunters and punch or put a grenade on them I found this out yesterday and it was sick😁😁

[@ColonelCluster]

Flood has always been my favorite thing about halo

[@Xi9V]

The blightstalker reminds me of those beasts we find and fight with Juun on Reach. Perhaps the flood takes inspiration from their body structure, taken from an ancient sister species not local to Reach. That or the primordial remembers that he made those things with his pals a few million years back and reused the design for their consumption

[@themrfives]

Something I've realized about the flood tadpole is that it's the flying infection form Origins Part 1. Either this is some sort of retcon and the flood tadpole is a separate form that can both fly and swim or they just reused the design.

[@TheSaintDario]

I will always always watch a flood lore video.

[@zearrak5704]

If I had to pick a favorite form of the flood, it has to be the Gravemind from Halo 2. That was my true understanding of how terrifyingly dangerous the flood were when I first saw it. In Halo 1 i thought they were a scary zombie-esc fungus species that were scary to fight thanks to their swarming capabilities. But Halo 2 truly showed me how small minded I was when I met that giant.....mound of whatever kind of mass it is. Its words were spoken in a way that I could not help but listen, fear and respect. And it is the reason why I love when villainous characters speak like that when other characters have more modern speech patterns.

[@johniephillips9267]

I never realized the flood was this relevant to the halo storyline.

[@KkawaiiPotato]

It's insane how beautiful the original trilogy makes you think its a regular humanity vs aliens thing only to throttle the story into a much larger cosmic scale that the entire namesake of the series is based on the weapons to be used against the flood

[@UnrulyRantLord]

I've been aware of these guys for 17 years of my life yet still at almost 25 they terrify the absolute hell out of me

[@shadowthoughts7959]

Despite how we can tear at each other online, the story binds us as one. An army adorned in a single suit of armor, and in the end, many corpses in one grave. I’m proud to have gone through the journey this far with all of you, through the best and worst of experiences. We are the Master Chief, and so we embody all that he represents. More than anything, we are lucky. Lucky that we persist strong and pure while devs fall to Flood-levels of corruption. Never forget that Covenant that binds us here, as a community, together. Never Forget.

[@dannyhaych]

Just moved into my new place. First entertainment of the evening whilst I pack away should naturally be a flood lore video 🎉❤

[@Ghostdahaloguy]

Slap unysheck

[@jamB2007]

Why don’t we just all work together and coordinate an entire halo project made by the entire halo community and make it all about the flood. I want to experience true horror! Imagine a halo experience playing as an elite and a human soldier. Two main stories with a set of classic style halo missions with clever new game mechanics and twists where we play as a first a human where it’s a covenant invasion where we are invading a covenant corvette as a human and then something passes by us in space where it is a piece of the original halo ring that was left mostly intact and even still holding its lands and chunk intact but is smashed into the ship causing the switch to play as an elite on the ship having to deal with the threat leading to you invading the connected halo ring chunk to leave a bomb that would destroy it and the ship along with the fast spreading parasite. Idk just an idea but I truly think the community is capable of us all working together on a halo project

[@Drownedinblood]

Basically every brute in that halo wars 2 cutscene should have been infected...

[@Nephalem2002]

If they ever add the Flood to Infinite, it would be the perfect spot to properly give us the Juggernaut. Like the size of Infinite Map would allow it to be effective to its best cuz of its size.

[@iAmBlazza]

The Flood truly are the most horrifying faction in all of sci-fi. If they do not return in Halo 7, I will personally cry.

[@josephmontanaro2350]

Weird question? If you destroy the gravemind what happens to any living local pure forms? Do they just stop functioning or go semi feral like pre gravemind combat and infection forms?

[@GhostofNykr]

I believe the smaller infection forms are literally rats or fish where you said the super cell in the form of gas will mix into the cracks and makes alot of sense

[@YTflagsCommentsOnMentalIness]

The one thing it seemingly can't do it change its appearance to silently takeover everything. Probably because that would be boring and over VERY quickly.

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

Indoctrination worked really well for The Reapers, its just after a point the long-con gets boring.

[@MAVBOT113]

Luke's Declassified Flood Survival Guide. Saturdays at 8pm EST / 7pm CT. Only on Waypoint!

[@jordonturner9559]

Can you do a halo weapons tier list?

[@hazat8123]

The channel Notpipi you once talked about is currently making a flood horror game in the classic Resident evil style

[@spasjt]

"This is the ultimate Flood survival guide." Zooms out and I see him in a Captain Keyes shirt and I think, "Hope it goes better for us than the Captain....."

[@willseesu]

Bro is keeping halo alive

[@primegoat]

Is that a Brethren Moon I see

[@danielbob2628]

You must have made this exact video before. How could YOU, of all people, not have made a comprehensive list video of every Flood form already?

[@partyrock4144]

3:17 Oh. I was thinking flood sharks but that works too i guess

[@JohnH-i5m]

They might also be the size of an entire universe

[@SnurkleMcDurkle]

I wish flood spores existed. Not only would I make a ton of money off of Raytheons brand new bioweapons division but it would create an introvert paradise when released

[@JohnH-i5m]

New keymind, the size of an entire universe

[@UnhealthyHeartbeatObsession]

Best Resident Evil weapons vs The Flood: Grenade Launcher- freeze, flame, 'cid, explosive rounds Linear Launcher Mine Thrower ( for Infection clusters) And the best- M66 quad barrel incendiary Rocket Launcher. An old but powerful weapon.

[@LinkyTea]

The Flood is like the ouroboros of the Halo universe. It's never ending.

[@SynthLizard8]

I'm curious as to how the Pelican crash landed in Halo 2 when it's cockpit was filled with biomass.

[@mannyperalta1064]

Honey wake up hiddenxperia uploaded a flood video

[@Spearofinamorata]

29:05 that's incorrect they did not use that to open a portal to the ark they used a separate portal entrance that was made on Mars

[@truesnakegod]

One thing I've often wondered about is what happened to the keymind planets of the forerunner flood war? I know they would have been destroyed by the rings, but what about the planet within it? Is the planet blown apart as the bits of flood throughout it are obliterated by the rings, or is the planet essentially left as a "skeletal frame" of what was beneath the keymind? Also are any of the planets still in orbit around some stars, or are they all gone/destroyed by the time of the human covenant war?

[@EthanDornton]

All of these would work so well in Firefight or at least most of them!

[@TheWhiteTrashPanda]

There's no way in hell infection forms are over 4 feet tall. That's almost the height of an average 12 year old human. That has to be a mistake.

[@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf]

Yeah, they're like knee height to Chief, and he's about 7 feet tall, so they're probably around 20" tall

[@halo21a1]

I'd say they're 2 feet tall max

[@ali_m_]

i was 5' 4 at 12

[@TheMesa22]

Everyone is gangster until the popcorn starts moving.

[@hollisterboi16]

Man, love a good Flood video

[@jessepotter8651]

Now could the Flood survive a Necromorph incursion? Like a infected Flood ship crashed in the hanger of an already Necromorph Outbreak on a ship.

[@golemofflesh3953]

My favorite way that I have described the Flood to newcomers is as "The Godplague" or "The disease that makes corpses scream in terror".

[@theearlofgrantham9816]

Always love a good halo video 😊