EVERY METHOD OF FLOOD INFECTION in Halo Lore EXPLAINED

[@HiddenXperia]

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[@kitmaelstrom1407]

Eh, logic plague would be ok. I mean, at least you'd have a nice chat prior to it.

[@Secure.Contain.Protect.]

@@kitmaelstrom1407 agreed

[@EternaIShark]

I would definitely choose the logic plague can't take what's not there 😁

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

Hey do you want to cover the new Lore for Anvil Initiative at all? :D

[@enderdanger4112]

Jokes on you, I’m playing war thunder right now.

[@LaperLarden]

Waterborne Flood infection? Bruh, and I thought the government putting chemicals in the water to turn the friggin' frogs gay was the worst of my worries.

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

dear GOD, THEY'RE TURNING THE FREAKING FLOOD GAY, protect you buttholes when pooping or a tiny infection form will go up your bum

[@Baldus-the_bald_guy]

damn that chlorine must be some strong stuff

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

@@Baldus-the_bald_guyits called atrazine. And its banned everywhere except third world countries and the US.

[@Baldus-the_bald_guy]

@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 i didnt do my research i just knew they put chlorine in the water and went with that

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

@@Baldus-the_bald_guy got ya. Its poisonous to all mammals, and actually makes you develop features and chemicals exclusive to the opposite sex

[@S1337theoddoneout-ip9xc]

At this point hidden xperia should have an honorary doctorate in exobiology specialized in the flood.

[@darthshaggy9697]

We need Roanoke to help him get a degree lol.

[@traxaslyhr3232]

I went and made one for him

[@joshuaneal8501]

I second that

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Agreed

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

@@darthshaggy9697 That would be interesting

[@davidjohnson4171]

The Logic plague is part of the reason I continue to hold the belief that the Flood is the single most powerful character/faction in fiction, it's so absurdly intelligent that a mere conversation can win anyone who hears it to it's side, regardless of the strength of their own beliefs and mental faculties.

[@logicplague]

Why, thank you. Do you have a moment to talk about the Gravemind's plan for you?

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

@@logicplagueLOL

[@EastlakeRasta7]

I'd make the argument Lex Luthor would brush off the logic plague, both in the comics and the Justice League animated series it mentions that he has at least a minimum of a 12 level intellect 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@davidjohnson4171]

@@EastlakeRasta7 If Lex is twelfth and Grax is twentieth it'd stand to reason that as the developer of every sentient race in the galaxy that the Precursors and by extension the Flood would be a the barest minimum a 21st level intellect by DC standards.

[@davidjohnson4171]

@@logicplague HA!

[@LTMaverick27894]

A HiddenXperia AND Installation 00 Upload on the SAME day? We're eating good tonight!

[@TrueTributes13]

Lol true that buddy🫡🫡! Hands down some of the best content creators out there👌🙌

[@MothFable]

@@TrueTributes13prolly like the only two actually good halo KZbinrs left. The others have fallen to doomer grifting.

[@TrueTributes13]

@@MothFable yea sadly i see that

[@bloodgulchpatrick]

I don't... quite like the spore-lore. Considering how everyone fighting Flood in Voi would be infected from inhaling them... heck, even Chief himself would carry some leftovers from Alpha Halo back to Reach and Earth on his armor (and in his body, as he took off his helmet). Now, how about all the Elites, including Half-Jaw and future Arby, who fought Flood before in unsealed helmets? Better yet, let's return to Voi... surely those spores would have time to spread through waterways and air despite glassing of the area. Arguably it would make it worse through convection, lifting spores high in the atmosphere all over Earth.

[@kyrroti]

My only justification is that humans, elites, and others have some immune system that can deal with small amounts, but they can be easily overwhelmed. Apparently the lore implies otherwise tho.

[@helio-r4u]

The immense heat is meant to obliterate miles into the crust of any planet… they literally wiped HALF of Africa from a small city… they did what they could… Did you even watch or try to grasp what you were watching…????

[@mushroomfish300]

I see your point, as in the cutscene in halo 3 where Arby kills truth, he casually breathes in a bunch of flood breath exhaled from truth and suffers no consequences

[@alexlarson5910]

It may not show it in the game but their energy shields canonically destroy the spores and based on other lore chief and arby are so skilled that their shields don't deplete from combat.

[@bloodgulchpatrick]

@@alexlarson5910 what about the Marines? What about the Longsword that the Chief flew, as well as other Installation 04 survivors? What about spores in Voi?

[@MadaraUchiha-yu5vg]

Falling into a body of water infected with Flood sounds like Fallout's F.E.V dunking but a million times worse.

[@UnrulyRantLord]

That point I'd just try to drown myself first

[@Tarotb]

I actually preferred it when the lore suggested flood spread via spores and the combat forms were essentially piloted by the popcorn floodforms like meat puppets. It was different; making them just a virus where one touch = infection just turns them into regular zombies.

[@4nkle]

same

[@AwesomeMutation]

Just wanted to say, thank you for sticking with Halo. It's clear we're in tough times for Halo fans, and these videos have been keeping my interest, and likely the interests of many others, alive. Your videos are so high quality and we really appreciate it, man! Edit: In fact, take a channel membership. I've been watching since around 2019-2020, and I feel like I need to support you in some way. Again, thank you for the amazing high quality videos!

[@MitsukiTakeda]

You missed another canon time something Flood bit someone and turned them. It was in Halo Wars 1 in the mission "Ander's Signal". ODST: "One of them bit me and ran off... Is that bad?" ODST: "Something's wrong. I feel funny..." After that, the entire squad turns into Combat Forms.

[@Lazypackmule]

I love the cosmic horror of the gravemind so much. When you first learn about the logic plague, you think oh, the worst thing it can do is manipulate you. But then you realize the worst thing it can do is tell you the truth

[@MrRuminski]

If there’s so many infection vectors, how did the Arbiter stay clean during the events of Halo 2? He’s not wearing a breathing apparatus to filter out super cells.

[@msmith1890]

The Arbiter survived because he was a player character.

[@MrRuminski]

Nah, I’m looking for a lore explanation that isn’t “because plot armor”.

[@msmith1890]

@@MrRuminski It could be due to Arbiter's energy shielding?

[@RedCommunistDragon]

@@msmith1890There didn’t seem to be any spore mounds on Delta Halo during the events of Sacred Icon and Quarantine Zone and since canonically neither Thel or Rtas got wounded or even had their energy shields taken down; we can presume that’s how they managed to stay uninflected.

[@Medved725]

Hell, what about all the marines who fought in every Flood outbreak during the war? Even Sgt. Johnson's Borens' syndrome/ORION augmentations can only go so far, and even if it made him immune, how has he not infected every other marine he's come into contact with via flood cells on his person? Or what about Pavium and Voridus from Halo Wars 2? Sure they wore gasmasks when they fought the flood, but they were ABSOLUTELY drenched in flood gunk when they decided to take their gasmasks off afterwards.

[@konahrikb1578]

He ever going to talk about how the Chief was almost infected by the Flood during the novelization of Halo CE? If it wasn't for Cortana killing the thing with a redirected current, the Flood would've escaped Alpha Halo with an infected Spartan as their vanguard.

[@kyrroti]

Luckily Chief dealt with Keyes before this point, keeping some important info from the Covenant. But if this happened, the Flood would sweep through the Covenant, and wipe out Earth as soon as it’s found.

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Very weird taking future lore into account. Johnsan due to his altered nervous system made it difficult for him to be infected and this would apply to all spartan 2s, meaning that part doesn't really fit with established canon.

[@konahrikb1578]

@@AxisChurchDevotee Nobody said Spartan-II augmentations had the same effect, only Spartan-Is. II's had the most invasive procedures, while I's and III's were more chemical than anything. Not sure about IV's, but we know they aren't immune to the flood in any way shape or form, just look at Fireteam Leviathan at Site 22.

[@Dekky129]

I believe the novelization is not considered canon

[@bananakinflyswatter904]

Yunno, now that I think about its history, its usage, its method, and the strategy behind it: Theoretically any creature (or construct) with a formal and intimate understanding of neural physics could probably utilize their own form of Logic Plague. It'd be no cakewalk, but it might be an interesting thing to ponder about.

[@michaelrodriguez4818]

Two things. 1: did i start playing the all flood playlist on the mcc immediately after watching this video? Yes I did. Read into that what you will. 2. It amazes me how utterly useless the forerunners were. They threw a temper tantrum because they got written out of their parents will. Then when the parents gave them a chance to redeem themselves, they screwed it up even after having literally thousands of years to study for the test. Then even after all that they still claim to be the better sibling. Reminds me of pre-empire jedi.

[@GreatestKidsMC-zf1ti]

Please never stop doing Halo stuff.THE best!

[@TrueTributes13]

Nothing better than the good old flood, hands down the most interesting enemy in all of halo! There is sooo much to them!

[@Onocarcass]

I know this isn't the right place for this necessarily, but I want someone to tell me if this sounds like a good idea. A survival horror game set in the Halo universe. It would be set on High Charity while The Flood are infecting it. There would be 4 main characters who you switch control of per chapter, choices you make effect what happens. These choices effect character relationships, they might get injured, they even might die thereby no longer being available in later chapters. Imagine a Dead Space x Until Dawn style game set in the Halo Universe. MAIN CHARACTERS [Can be injured at many points throughout the game, If a character dies before a level you'd play as them in then you play as Vance in that level instead] 1] CPL, Vance Johnston [UNSC Marine, A battle hardened veteran of The Human-Covenant War] -> He can only die in the 14th level. 2] PVT, Brandon Scott [UNSC Marine, A newer still unadjusted soldier of the UNSC] -> Chances to die in levels 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, and 14 3] Yek [Kig-Yar member of The Covenant, A jackal sniper used as overwatch by The Covenant war machine] -> Chances to die in levels 6, 9, 10, 13, and 14 4] Bipyap [Unggoy member of The Covenant, A grunt minor meant to be used as cannon fodder by The Covenant war machine] -> Chances to die in levels 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, and 14 LEVEL LIST (Note these level names would not be their final names just placeholders) [The descriptions of each level assume nobody dies before the level but obviously playthroughs will be different based on player choices] 1] Prison Break [This is an interactive cutscene recapping the events of the level Gravemind in Halo 2 where The Master Chief frees the marines, Vance and Brandon are the only 2 that survive and get seperated from The Chief] 2] Seperated [Playing as Brandon, you and Vance must navigate some tight Covenant corridors at the start of the Flood outbreak] 3] The Gardens [Playing as Vance, you and Brandon retrace your steps through the gardens. Bipyap is met in this level] 4] Council Chambers [Playing as Bipyap, the three of you retrace further toward the council chambers where you take the central elevator down to the lower city. Yek is met in this level] 5] Lower City Outskirts [Playing as Yek, the four of you begin heading towards the tower with In Amber Clad's wreckage hoping for a pelican dropship] 6] Sanitation Sector [Playing as Brandon, the four of you must make your way closer to the tower through the sanitation sector] 7] Unggoy Dwellings [Playing as Bipyap, the four of you make your way through the city's Unggoy district] 8] Wrecked Tower [Playing as Vance, the four of you must make your way up the towar In Amber Clad crashed into. The Flood outbreak has run rampant at this point] 9] In Amber Clad Wreckage [Playing As Yek, the four of you navigate In Amber Clad's wreckage looking for an intact pelican. The wreckage is the most infested area thus far] 10] Pelican Down [Playing as Brandon, the pelican crashed just outside the inner city so the four of you head closer to the inner city] 11] Inner City Streets [Playing as Vance, the four of you navigate the thoroughly consumed streets of the inner city] 12] Ministry of War [Playing as Bipyap, the four of you enter the ministry of war building serching for an entrance to the maintanance area] 13] Engineering [Playing as Yek, the four of you must make your way through the near completely infested engineering area connecting the ministry of war with the starship bay] 14] Starship Bay [Playing as Vance, the four of you traverse the fully infested starship bay to commandeer a Covenant Corvette starship to escape High Charity] 15] Epilogue [This is a cutscene where it recaps what happens after the game based on your choices with different possible endings for each character, the "Good" ending would involve all 4 surviving and being rescued by the Sangheili blockade around flood infected High Charity]

[@30cal23]

Add in an elite char and it sounds great

[@Rocco049]

If this were a real game I’d buy it

[@Onocarcass]

@@30cal23 I considered it, I think it was the overshields that made me not add one.

[@paulsmith-jv6rx]

I think it would be a good idea that if any of the characters die during the levels you could have a 1/4 chance of meeting said infected character as a mini boss style encounter (since at that point the grave mind would know there plan atleast up until the end of that chapter/mission and making it entirely plausible for the grave mind to send the now infected former ally to stop them and use psychological warfare against the remaining characters)

[@Onocarcass]

@@paulsmith-jv6rx That does sound like a pretty good idea. See this is why I like sharing stuff with people, multiple minds = more chances for cool ideas.

[@generalcjg]

What fascinating timing HiddenXperia to release this video. At the same time you release this video about the Flood infection, is the same time that I got infected by the covid virus that is making me have a fever, headaches, mucus and phlegm since yesterday. Coincidence? 🤒

[@UnrulyRantLord]

Best graces on you future carrier form

[@stevenldoe7838]

I want a flood movie. Just them taking over modern day earth like a horror show. At the end the forerunners show up to ignite the sun. Only to be countered by a flood ships

[@NoWayAnyHow]

In Halo Wars, there was a unit that was just a living cloud of infection that mortar units and flood incubation eggs could spawn. They would dive onto units that could be turned in less than 30 seconds. Is that a different variant of infection form or just an aggressive supercell fog?

[@makeitwork1714]

Thanks for keeping halo lore alive in this dark times

[@NightBane345]

Flood for me is the best alien virus in Sci-fi to this date

[@sphere117gaming]

It’s invincible according to all knowledge. Especially since Xperia doesn’t actually touch on how far it goes. Goes even further. As it’s impossible to fight against and nothing can defend against it. Like even the Orks in 40k despite everything about them they’d still get infected because their reflection abilities and immunity doesn’t matter to the Flood super given how it works as a infinitely small super cells so can’t be affected and also perfect replication. Doesn’t help the ultimatum that’s the effects of being basically corrupted precursors(screw the new book)(time effects and time makes mold) so they have complete control and dominance over real space, reality and the universe. (In their influence) So like the Trynids and the Swarm would be the ultimate meal for the Flood.

[@deadman9335]

Necromorphs for me, after doing a lot of research on the Necromorphs of dead space, there are very few things that can compete with or against them.

[@sphere117gaming]

@@deadman9335 possibly Dead space things are still pretty mysterious. But it’s certainly a all pervading force like the Flood Super Cell. At least from what I know.

[@deadman9335]

@@sphere117gaming it is actually a lot more terrifying than the flood, I put another comment explaining their methods of infection on this video.

[@sphere117gaming]

@@deadman9335 at least their nowhere near as much of a galactic threat like the Flood. Don’t exactly have the same end goal of devouring the entire universe and spreading. Far as I’m aware typically their restrained by those big black things(can’t spell rn which is also why I’m not calling them By their species) or at least they don’t end up infecting time and space continuum. As they don’t travel from planet to planet or galaxy to galaxy. Like what the Flood would. Their limited by people technically I guess. Up to people to spread the disease.

[@kaleb2643]

In Halo Wars, one of the marines has a line when fighting the flood: "One of those things bit me and then ran off, is that bad? Something's wrong, I feel funny."

[@EternaIShark]

You know I want to say thank you hidden Xperia I had to do a assessment at school and you could do anything so I did it on halo and I used a lot of your videos to get my info (and the books) and I passed so thanks a lot for your videos

[@iunnor]

So many interesting concepts that could have been explored deeper in a horror game

[@nathanoutdoors7981]

Man, I want the FLOOD to come back

[@truesnakegod]

I'll be honest if given the chance to just talk with the primordial/gravemind, idk if I'd be able to pass it up even though I know I'd likely go insane. I'd just be too excited at potentially having any and all questions I have about the universe answered. I will admit though that the possibility of being outright consumed by the flood would be the only thing that would make me consider keeping my questions to myself.

[@Pack52022]

The flood and lambent from gears of war is my favorite infections/zombies in media

[@gamermagnum]

I like turtles..... Flood turtles.

[@TrueTributes13]

LOL

[@UrDadsFavouriteMaleEscort]

The only good reason to use an ai prompt image generator

[@Whyyyyyyyyyyyy552]

Hello :D

[@Lord_Insectious]

Baby flood turtles 😈

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

I just pictured a flood turtle power rangers mecha, it's literally just a dozen turtles stuck together with their shells acting as armor

[@benjaminscheper1052]

Corrupted, infected, zombie gods....... Damn that's terrifying

[@celestialspartan1176]

Seeing the H2A Flood Combat Forms again made me appreciate how well 343 brought those old ‘04 models into the early 2010s. They made them look even more absolutely RANCID and disturbing.

[@UnrulyRantLord]

Oh they were absolutely terrifying in the original

[@celestialspartan1176]

@@UnrulyRantLord true. But, it’s just my own personal tastes. I can only imagine what The Flood might look like in the CE Remake.

[@UnrulyRantLord]

@@celestialspartan1176 The flood 17 years later still absolutely fucking terrify me

[@ThatOneOf3StrongholdPlayers]

Me when the flood adds me to its hive mind: (It suddenly is suffering and wishes for death due to my autism)

[@falloutthewindowcrazy7608]

That's a FOOKIN hoot and laugh worthy comment

[@amari5886]

I always thought that flood Tadpoles were developing Infection Forms

[@tangotanjomusic]

The flood of the coolest enemies in a video game

[@rhysbrett187]

so true

[@KrisKlicks]

Didnt realize i was eating good today

[@TrueTributes13]

LOL😂! Dining with the gods tonight

[@UnrulyRantLord]

Hidden is so good he can describe the absolute horrible disgust of the flood that it won't kill your appetite

[@thatonestrangerwholikestop866]

If i see an infected doggo, you better bet im still gonna pet it

[@UnrulyRantLord]

You wanna know what a rabid coyote looks like?

[@HAVOCSLEGACY]

This feels so classic yet so fresh you are and always will be one of my favorite KZbinrs

[@setriaphtfk208]

So... all it takes is the slightest touch... what about that time Chief had an infection form literally compromise his suit and stick a tendril into his spine, because all this video does is highlight that the current flood lore is a giant plothole. Rtas lost his mandibles to a fight with the flood, two open wounds, and a distinct lack of an environmental suit, Arbiter does not have an environmental suit, chief's was compromised. I thought what it took was the supercell getting into the bloodstream, not that it's so insanely overpowered it's impossible for the story to play out how it does, and the assumption with that is that the supercell isn't just ANY flood cell, but something special and specific.

[@CJ-111]

Good point. It's stated that there's no way to slow it down, yet chief's augmentations are said to help his immunity to infection

[@setriaphtfk208]

@@CJ-111 Same with Johnson, however, that doesn't explain Rtas or Thel, and I'm sure many more stories. Even the Monolisa story, they don't have their helmets on the whole time and ODST armor isn't exactly vacuum sealed.

[@helio-r4u]

@@setriaphtfk208I think it’s because the Flood already developed a proto and knew to develop further, it put that distress signal and lessened the spores as to not give away their presence, and sent scouts instead to the hanger.

[@CJ-111]

@@helio-r4u they've been around for millions of years though. It's far from the first outbreak

[@joemills7704]

Johnson's spartan 1 upgrades projected him from the flood and upgraded his healing by a MINOR amount in lore after halo 1, since Chief is a spartan 2 his biological upgrades are superior and maybe had more protection

[@Tomahawk1]

Imagine if the Flood arrived when the Dinosaurs were still around

[@UnrulyRantLord]

Calm down Satan

[@crusader7eth163]

Always an instant click. Great video again!!!! I have a new fear that Xbox working with sweet baby inc is going to meddle with the next halo… not again….😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@herpesisnice1443]

Oh God, why would they do that

[@TheBLUEravioli]

I love you're vids man, you're detail in all of your storytelling is flawless. Keep up the good work. 👍🙂

[@freddyfazbear2408]

Wait.... I've seen this at least 4 times before......

[@GRANDTHEFTBATO]

The ocean in itself is scary as is I can only imagine what kind of monstrosity would be living in a flood infested water

[@UnrulyRantLord]

"Emergency. Nearby Apex Leviathan is showing signs of extreme aggression Evade."

[@liameyles1450]

man this species never gets old they still managing to be terrifying the logic plague is quite unsettling i wish not to tear into your flesh and mold you into something horrific but just to chat soon you will come around to my way of thinking

[@ryenjimenez4172]

I just realized how terrifying an underwater flood hive would be

[@voidwraith4271]

There is another instance of someone being infected by being bit by a combat form. In the first Halo Wars when the Flood is first introduced there is a side objective to save groups of marines. With one of these groups a marine says that he was bit and a soon as he finishes speaking he turns into a combat form.

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

Okay, I don't know if anyone has seen that new extraction shooter Forever Winter, but now I want that same concept but in the Halo universe. Basically, you are a small scavenger trying to survive a massive war in a grimdark near future. But, the game's claim to fame is the fact that, unless you prove yourself to be a threat, the two factions will be more interested in killing eachother. A game like that would work so well in Halo... besides the fact that most Covenant will kill any human they come across and same goes for the Flood. 😅

[@chipsdubbo5.56]

Love your content man

[@ishikaorimura6803]

Dang for some reason i just imagined a flood infected Godzilla...idk just intrusive thoughts i guess.

[@Sunny-ld4nn]

I'm just curious. WHY did the forerunners preserve flood samples in their installations?

[@Handle_Space_Goblon]

Iirc for research to eventually figure out a cure. They didn't know there was no cure.

[@Wad3y]

well they ran out of time to find a cure bc they lit the rings

[@UnrulyRantLord]

They knew they had no way of knowing the flood were completely eliminated. So they kept samples to keep on studying

[@steveivey645]

These are the videos I live for. Halo lore videos from Luc.

[@threaders9411]

Ahh hiddenX doing what he does best I really hope that 343 doesn't screw up the flood mission in ce remake

[@aFreeBurrito]

Love the thoughts you have the subject. defiantly earned a follow!

[@StonerzPlayz]

I just had a weird thought, it's kind of hard to explain but you know how scientists have found multiple multiple planets that have earth-like conditions and may contain life etc etc if you think about the aliens in Halo their planets do not really look like they would support human life I mean just think about the grunts for prophets sake so even though they found all those planets there could still be 10 times as many with life because maybe they're just basing those numbers off of human-like livable conditions (and yes im very stoned)

[@ArandomHitman]

BABE WAKE UP ANOTHER HIDDENXPERIA FLOOD VIDEO DROPPED

[@Tortillasoup-se7sh]

We actually see another instance of the flood spreading from biting in halo wars as one. Of the odst units you save will say there were bite then turn into a flood combat form

[@monkeycat48]

I love everything you describe about the flood🤩🤩🤩

[@UnrulyRantLord]

Infection form by far is the scariest way to go out.

[@Rtas.Vadum-2557]

The flood is amazing

[@TrueTributes13]

Nothing better🙌

[@UnrulyRantLord]

I'm terrified

[@hunterh.1238]

You should make a video going over all connections between biblical stories and Halo

[@oopsydaizi3s824]

Snooze fest

[@MXvsATVnovice]

L

[@meleestarter5025]

rampancy + Logic plague = A.I combat form

[@game_life_1]

343 haven't ever think of making a new spinoff for Halo. I would love if they add new spartan team that happens to be in some colony. Someone have accidentally broke a regular looking vile but have flood spore inside it and it spreads the floods from one person to another faster. It would be interesting because you can lot's of stories and games on it, it have huge potential because I think everyone is looking for floods come back not just on Lesser Arc on Halo Wars 2. I'm still waiting for them to look on flood rather than playing safe, adding Spartan flood didn't really look that interesting if you can't fight it as flood behavior rather than players plays like it is just normal Spartan. Yeah it is cool you can jump higher than normal Spartan and is Aesthetically look cool, but I don't think I would enjoy it on the long I wants to fight Abomination on Halo wars 2 on FPS I wants to shoot it with missiles and Mach Cannons. I wants to fight every single combat forms and infection forms

[@ultdestroyer1176]

Do you believe we will ever get a blight land or flood world and the coinciding blight walkers and other forms? I do truly hope we do but I am not sure 343 is willing to put this into practice.

[@haadi7363]

maybe the water on delta halo is flood infected cause mr chief gets snagged by the gravemind in it

[@UltraSpartanProductions]

The flood are so cool

[@Baylor1993]

I get that the Flood is OP, but holy crap it seems like they make the flood more so at every opportunity. Eventually it’ll become where you’re simply within a certain radius of the infection before you become infected… it’s actually kind of annoying tbh

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

That's why I dislike the biting and wound spreading infection. Too op and generic, plus it makes it less believable that the flood could have been beaten in the original trilogy. Edit It also brings the question on why the gravemind would even use infection forms if regular injuries can spread the infection.

[@Baylor1993]

@@AxisChurchDevotee inhaling- nevermind just making regular physical contact with- spores, biting, and wounding is just too much IMO. It’s kind of gotten dumb to be honest

[@helio-r4u]

@@AxisChurchDevoteebecause it provides number. Infection is another purity of survival for any virus or bacteria or whatever.

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

@@helio-r4u Not really given that with this, a single infection form can create multiple combat forms in a short time. Like the infector from dead space.

[@lyrimetacurl0]

Did you ever hear the story of darth Flood? It was made so powerful and so unstoppable, that they had to use plot to kill it off.

[@Dacamster101]

ive got questions, but for now the idea of a halo game in water is interesting. new alien life opportunities and flood horror scenes 😮 if i remember to come back after work ill edit this with ny questions 😂

[@nathanm1174]

@HiddenXperia, would you ever considering doing a video ranking all the halo novels?

[@Brawl847]

The idea of late-stage Combat Forms spreading the logic plague made me think back to the beginning of The Mandela Catalogue, when what sounded like a horde of Alternates were right outside I-forget-his-name's room and making all sorts of noise to drive him insane. Just imagine a generic 'holed up in a secure spot to fend off the zombie horde' scenario, except one day the zombies all start talking to you through the walls/barricades in the same echoey, clearly-understood voice until they convince you to just come outside and let them take you.

[@konstantin8824]

I’ve got a serious question for any Halo fan reading this; Some say that the Flood are not corrupted Precursors, but instead ARE the Precursors as they were. If that is the case, how did the Forerunners nearly wideout the Precursors before the creation of the halo rings?

[@deadman9335]

How does Flood infection methods stack up against Necromorph infection methods. Waterborne: yes, the urchin was stationed in the Ishimura's water supply in an attempt to infect anyone who drank it, there are also necromorph fish in the books, grabbers that hid in the water of the Ishimura's sewer system, nest have been seen to sit in "aquatic" environments and throw out nest swarms, and finally Tau Volantis was an aquatic planet that only froze due to the machine so all previous necromorphs dug up were aquatic or semi-aquatic. Spores: yes although they don't use spores, instead using bacteria which already grows across everything but using gas from the corruption and wheezers, they are able to make this bacteria airborne along with corrupting the very air you breathe. While the corruption does this passively, it doesn't do so very quickly, enter wheezers. Wheezers are stationary forms where the lungs have burst from the host back and expanded to be slightly larger than a person to larger than buildings each with 1 being described as the size of a house, the more they inhale, the more they exhale replacing good air with air that will rapidly weaken you in a mater of moments to the point you can't move as you struggle while also infecting you. Landborne: Yes, and in a way more affective way than the flood to. The corruption and bacteria infinitely spread even without new biomass as the marker will just send energy to them to keep growing and dividing. This process isn't slow either, able to grow hundreds of cubic feet of material in an hour, this material serves to slow down anything not infected by grabbing it, if skin contact is made, it will instantly assimilate the person by connecting to their nervous system, it can emit gas, and form necromorphs out of its surface in an instant as seen in 1 of the books where a wall turns into a brute in less than a second, and then producing dozens of slashers moments later. This can also be used to form larger forms like hiveminds, Leviathans, Slugs, Spiders, grave robbers, the urchin, tormentors, and more plus dedicated facilities to produce Tripods, and likely more. Biting, slashing, stabbing, and more: yeah, they do this, all of them. The best example is from extraction when Nathan McNeil fought the spider, a walking factor necromorph, after seemingly defeating it, it stabbed him through the arm and pinned him down to the deck. Unable to escape with oxygen running low, McNeil used a plasma pickaxe to remove his arm just above where it was stabbed. However approximately an hour or more later, McNeil turned into a slasher(with all 4 arms mind you) and attacked 2 other survivors although they were able to fight him off. Infection forms: while the flood has at least 1 type of these, it uses its whole body to infect an individual quickly turning them into a combat form. This process as mentioned can fail with age and can't infect spartan 1s, 2s, and possibly also 3s even enhancing Johnson instead of infecting him, these are not issues for the necromorphs who are completely immortal. With the necromorphs, there is 1 form called swarmers which act very similarly to the flood's except they are much smaller and still strong enough to over power something like a spartan, these prefer to enter the mouth and burrow into the spine, instantly turning the host into fodders which are necromorphs that can still use weapons like machine guns, rocket launchers, axes, and more but also alter the body internally instead of externally so that if enough damage is taken, they can split in half revealing that the spine and intestines have been turned into spiky bone whips that weigh 300 pounds. These protrude from both the legs and lower body simply depending on which side was more damaged. Secondly, infectors, these are entire humans who have transformed into a murderous kite capable of gliding at high speeds, fitting through small spaces, overpowering Augmented humans, stabbing straight through people, and reanimated corpses into what ever is currently needed, not just slashers, they can make other infectors, leapers, slashers, pukers, stalkers, and even brutes if enough biomass is assembled to do so for it. It does this by injecting necromorph tissue directly into a body which rapidly grows through it and transforms it into whatever while the infector just goes and gets another corpse. Machines: not quite infection but they can affect them with marker pulses which causes tech to go haywire with 1 A.I. becoming super hostile towards Isaac Clarke, an automated drill has also been used to try and kill him. So while they don't convince them or infect them, they can break them in highly specific ways to help them even just to make doors repeatedly open and slam shut hard enough to obliterate you however they can also assimilate technology directly into forms with Twitchers reversing the effects of stasis units in their bodies to make them go super fast or slow themselves and their victims down at close range so that other necromorphs may kill them. Something that the flood don't have however is the carrier wave, this is a signal from the markers which sends energy to all necromorphs, information throughout the hive mind, corpses for reanimation, and to weak minded or low resistance victims causing them to turn before dying. Note that the marker seemingly have infinite range, they just have to find the corpse or see a corpse through someone's eyes to reanimate it(since that are actively reading your mind, they know where you are and by proxy where the corpse is). Note that this isn't shown in game but in the films where we see that a marker fragment that can fit in your hand is capable of focusing its power into a single corpse and turn it into a 40 foot tall giant in seconds. Eating their flesh: consuming necromorphs will turn you into a necromorph called a feeder which is now infinitely hungry. They remain fully in control and unaltered at first, but as the body processes the meat, it puts the person in desperation mode where you are willing to eat none infected people, it amplifies your senses to the point you can smell people through walls, and it increases their strength and durability as it transforms their tissue into necromorph tissue. They do eventually lose their minds but this took months, and they were luring people away to eat them up until they were locked in an underground facility.

[@omegaraver7399]

Gerston actually did reanimate. After the infected marine bit him, he came back as an infected. Even if it was for a few seconds

[@kOruphoria]

Great video but you did miss one method of infection, becoming assimilated into a gravemind/protogravemind

[@oopsydaizi3s824]

5:18 oh no step-gravemind what are you doing?

[@askjeevescosby2928]

Imagine a flood shark

[@UnrulyRantLord]

I thought Subnautica had the crown of ocean horror....

[@askjeevescosby2928]

@UnrulyRantLord it would be like the ranged form but it could shoot its teeth.

[@EvanMorgan-no8kq]

it feels good knowing that if a youtuber elevant to me is sponsored by warthunder I can redeem the bonuses bc I got it last week

[@anthonymedina3561]

Forgot about the grave mind infection

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

"We did it, Patrick! We saved the city!" - The Forerunners

[@tenletters5889]

17:07 probably gonna get shamed for this but like tell me why I'm jealous of Catalog rn. Have I been logic plagued?

[@johnmcconnell7052]

For an infection here its how fast do we handle it that would show we're good or dead

[@zacharybrogden3038]

In Halo Wars an ODST was bitten and turned during the first Flood encounter.

[@slicer940]

The Mona Lisa marine that was bitten did reanimate but was put down by one of the other marines after first being executed by them.

[@icyknightmare4592]

13:37 If you don't want to wait, Installation 00 dropped that video less than an hour ago.

[@ArthurHuizar]

I need a Halo that has super graphic flood infection animations. Halo 3 is aging.

[@Tactical_plumber95]

If halo studios doesn’t hire people like hidden xperia to make sure they don’t mess up the series like 343…. I fear for the future of halo

[@emojothejojo]

I've never played a Halo game in my life. I still like the flood

[@guitarbass22]

I still don’t understand how the Arbiter survived his exposure to the Flood both on the gas mine and on Delta Halo. And then again on High Charity in Halo 3. “Plot armor” isn’t a satisfying answer; what was it about him specifically?

[@UnrulyRantLord]

Bungie kinda overlooked that one. My guess is in the original cut of High Charity Cortana mentions flood spores filling the life support. They probably cut it and thought we might not notice it. Hidden here did make a theory of possibly the energy shields but how would they breath? Eh it's a devastating hole but one that in no way hinders the game

[@UnrulyRantLord]

The only theory I could ever think of is he did inhale spore but the gravemind chose not to let it infect due to his intelligence knowing the very possibility he'll get the icon first. Might be odd because of the whole flood supercell process but keep in mind they can bend space and time

[@milkbiscuit166]

You should start doing book summaries

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

13:34 Is that actually this case? If not, that's one of the few things I'd (strangely) like retconned, as it would make the Flood even worse.

[@onikai7055]

What terrifies me is that the Gravemind is the primordial.

[@elijahsellers3727]

Hate to be That Guy, but did Captain Keys eat some more gas station sushi at 1:15? That stuff had some force behind it...

[@sandvicheatfresh]

if it did ever happen again what do you would think would happen if there was another jenkins situation ie a very old and weak flood spore infected someone

[@bigfury6636]

I was legit playing as the flood in halo wars when you posted this 😂 (its modded halo wars)

[@ajgarcia9879]

Honestly I kind of miss how mysterious the flood was, I love the lore of course but they were a lot creepier back in the day imo

[@VicvanLoon]

I just started with the books and finished the flood I am scared now

[@windchillstorm1025]

Back to the flood, Hell yes.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@windchillstorm1025 why are you a furry

[@JohnH-i5m]

Hyper-mind, the flood the size of the multiverse

[@cheesaliciousable]

Woo...multiple versions of getting nommed like a sandwich...

[@guijpc4145]

Out here in the halo ring straight up consuming it, and by it i mean, let's justr say, biomass