The NEVER BEFORE SEEN Flood!

Halo's universe is gigantic, and so there exist a number of things within that have never been encountered. Today, we take a look at the Flood forms that we know exist but have never been seen - the never before seen Flood...
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0:00 - Intro
0:48 The Blightstalker
2:29 The Keymind (Old)
6:46 The Hellion
7:43 The Gaunt
9:00 Origins Form
12:27 The Juggernaut
14:05 Flood Banger
15:54 Stealth Form
16:51 Infector Form
18:18 Flood Transporter
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[@HiddenXperia]

*FLOOD SZN IS INFINITE MY FRIENDS* I'm back from the Demo Ranch Texas Range day tomorrow, cool new vid coming this week!

[@adamfoust]

How was the range day

[@Lightslashed]

Hiddenxperia the pure form in Mendicant Bias' room looked like a stealth form on all fours not a transport form but good eye

[@daseanwalker5122]

What if 343 is saying that a planet size gravemind could get and will be bigger to infect different solar systems to an entire galaxy making it that is a true Keymind.

[@plaguenotprophet7840]

Testing munitions? Your off duty time is up spartan, the flood has returned...

[@plaguenotprophet7840]

Halo once again needs a creative touch to guide the story, and give us hope again. It's time. It's time to make sure all my hard work pays off. What do you say? One last time, into the howling dark?

[@emilianocastillejos1330]

I will never get tired of flood content, definitely my favorite zombie-like sci fi enemy

[@ITSSIRWAN86]

me too

[@Rocco049]

I want them back in a campaign so bad

[@robertrivers9087]

Agreed. Flood and Necromorphs lol

[@jonathanjoestar9714]

Goes Zerg, Flood, and Necromorphs for me.

[@DOOMSLAYER1993-4]

Facts the flood are just so cool

[@gesprite8971]

I want the flood back in a halo game so badly. Can you imagine running through the blight lands getting chased by the blight lands stalker. Pure cinema.

[@Nicolos117]

Cringe but flood are still cool

[@gesprite8971]

@@Nicolos117 🤓

[@samayoubi5818]

Yeah 343 make it happen

[@sporeham1674]

​@@Nicolos117nope, it's rad. If you physically cringed, you're just weak

[@Potato_Tomato-od2lz]

I think that’s why people didn’t like the 343 games just a main villain that made me want to play halo 1 2 and 3 but in the 343 games they’re talked about but we don’t see them

[@deeznuts23yearsago]

I love how the flood isn’t just a physical horror but a psychological one too for how just terrifying the fact it doesn’t just kill you, it’s makes you a part of its voiceless choir screaming is agony with no escape once you are part of it, not even after the gravemind destruction you are free as it literally can never be eradicated, only delayed

[@IntrusiveThoughts838]

You forgot eldritch and cosmic

[@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool]

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. - Acts 3:19 If you are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC. (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you’re English I recommend the Free Church of England (Different from the Church of England) Also online you can look up church finders for each of the groups, it will show you locations.

[@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool]

@@IntrusiveThoughts838🐪

[@AB-ln2py]

I prefer the Beast from Homeworld Cataclysm.

[@2010cam1]

A flood spinoff a bit like ODST with a focus on atmosphere and horror would be epic!

[@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool]

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. - Acts 3:19 If you are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC. (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you’re English I recommend the Free Church of England (Different from the Church of England) Also online you can look up church finders for each of the groups, it will show you locations.

[@LikeZoinksGangWay]

There is a fan made VR game with basically the same premise and it's really fun.

[@LILAC_CHAOS]

Play as Sgt Johnson during the first contact

[@tomahawkm4687]

"For God's sake, what is that music???" "A flood banger"

[@GRANDTHEFTBATO]

The flood is the best horror enemy ever made imo. The whole concept of them being intelligent zombies that are controlled by a hive mind that can never lose the thought of its previous versions of itself is a scary thought. Seeing the flood on the big screen in a movie in some way has always been a dream of me and if done well the flood in a movie would skyrocket its popularity and halo to unforeseen heights. Cause to this day a lot of people who don’t play halo still believe halo is just humans vs aliens and don’t know anything about the floods existence

[@jobo4756]

Couldn't the flood technically operate a scarab if it replaced the hunter worms that control it normally? A flood infected scarab that would be horrifying but awesome

[@Bondrewd_the_Novel]

Mgalekgolo are immune to the flood.

[@boundtobounce2983]

​@@Bondrewd_the_Novel Mgalekgolo are not immune to the Flood, nothing is. They can't be converted into combat forms due to the fact they don't possess a central nervous system but they can still be converted into Flood biomass.

[@Xeno-The-Wanderer]

It would have to expend a lot of biomass to do that and the worms would make it very difficult to use the harness that it would probably be better to try anything else

[@jobo4756]

I can't imagine it would need to use a lot, from what I've seen when fighting them that central core seems to be the only part that has worms so technically wouldn't it need to use only enough to convert that part to take control of the scarab?

[@jobo4756]

@@Bondrewd_the_Novel As boundtobounce said the flood would only convert them into biomass

[@sashautrera6935]

The Blightstalker looks ominously like the monster from A Quiet Place in terms of posture and it's limbs looks awfully alike. Must be a hyper lethal form

[@adaptcap115]

It such a shame there a lack of flood presence in 343 Halo campaign.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I think it’s mainly because they don’t want to copy what’s already been done. Star Wars Sequels and all that. A Forerunner Era Prequel Game would be preferable.

[@samayoubi5818]

SMH

[@cringelord2875]

​@jakespacepiratee3740 fair enough, with basically 4 1/2 games with the flood as major antagonists, I can't lie I would start getting burned out quickly if 343 just started throwing them in each title

[@alejandromolina7270]

The Flood is so powerful and all encompassing that if 343 make a game around it they would have to nerf the Flood, which wouldn't be fun to watch or play.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@alejandromolina7270 it’s powerful and all encompassing until green man appears

[@johnprice6271]

The Bretheren moons really are the closest we're ever going to get to a Keymind...

[@joshyua4653]

Having the flood lore back in full swing is nice, just the the og videos

[@xXZombieSlayerXx77]

I love that you used Dead Space Brethren Moons as the Key Mind examples XD Genuinely do wonder which of the 2 (Flood or Necromorphs) would be worst to deal with.

[@orionriftclan2727]

Flood, mostly because Flood don't have a real final form, only what's known

[@oopsydaizi3s824]

Hidden Xperia did a video comparison with Roanoke gaming and it was great

[@dashyboi6243]

​@@oopsydaizi3s824 Link

[@xXZombieSlayerXx77]

I've seen it! absolutely loved that video and the lore debates of Brethren Moons vs Key Minds@@oopsydaizi3s824

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

Necromorphs, they’re scarier and more dangerous than the flood. I don’t know how and why so many people go to the flood as the superior monster lol

[@RedDragonASMR]

I would like to point out that the grave-mind in halo 2 and halo 3 was possibly halfway to a keymind since high charity was technically half of a planet or at least a quarter of a planet

[@paytonallen1027]

High charity is not remotely close to the size of a half planet or even a quarter. It’s actually the size of the state of Ohio in the U.S. That’s still amazingly large for a mobile space station though. Also keep in mind, the city area that’s inhabited is only a portion of high charity. Most of the dome underneath the city is industrial forges and similar. I’m not the best at explaining this so let me share you a link

[@RedDragonASMR]

@@paytonallen1027 high charity literally a piece of the prophet home planet that was blasted from the planet along with all forerunner artifacts, you can't tell that the gravemind wasn't at least close to becoming a keymind, if the flood had chosen to go the thr prophets home planet then it would've achieved keymind status, I'm not trying to argue I'm just stating what I know and in all honesty you can see high charity is massive in halo 2 and halo 2 anniversary, the holo bridges where you first see the autumn fly past is the perfect place to get perspective on how big high charity is, it's the size of a piece of planet from the prophet home world and was sperated from the planet when the artifacts on the planet were triggered and messed with by truth, mercy, regret along with other lower prophets and after recruiting the elites they named high charity a covenant city yes but it houses enough covenant troops and civilians to fill an entire planet, their strength in numbers and supreme warriors are why they won so much until Alpha halo was found and the flood was released, until the flood came around the covenant was the strongest force because high charity house as many as 8 Billion troops and civilians, honestly I've played halo all my life and I've gained further knowledge through research and watching videos like this, I could be wrong and I'm not trying to argue just stating what I know for sure

[@paytonallen1027]

@@RedDragonASMR the prophet home world Janjur Qom is still intact and out there. The piece of planet taken with the forerunner dreadnaught was the size of a state or a European country, not a big fraction of the world. I’m going to look up the exact size of high charity. Brb

[@paytonallen1027]

@@RedDragonASMR height: 505 kilometers Diameter: 348 kilometers Mass: estimated 100 trillion metric tons

[@RedDragonASMR]

@@paytonallen1027 👍

[@infinitcheez]

Who else would watch a PBS-style Flood documentary with David Attenborough and HiddenXperia Xperia is just infodumping while Attenborough tries not to cry lmao

[@mowbrizzle922]

The Flood could be so much more, with the various life forms/wildlife that reside in the Halo installations, and other life forms throughout the universe that are vulnerable to infection. There could a much larger variety of Flood forms, they could really make something interesting out of it, the flood are one of the biggest, probably most loved factions in the halo universe and one of the main antagonists of the early games in the franchise.. It would be so good to see them return with all of their horror and open up a whole new chapter in the Halo story and gameplay, maybe even another unexpected temporary alliance like at the end of Halo 3's "The Covenant" mission, where they team up against The Covenant to stop Truth, but instead this time they team up against The Endless? Although it's unlikely, it would have been an interesting plot twist, given The Endless are supposedly "much more dangerous than The Flood".. Who knows, they could be working on something huge that's Flood related and we don't know anything about it yet.

[@federicogalvan2026]

Man I remember watching halo origins as a kid, the sheer variety of flood forms shown in a single video fascinated me. Really helped demonstrate the versatility and strength of the flood had back in the war

[@LordMdama]

Hidden you are BY FAR the GOAT of Halo Content, easily my favorite Creator!

[@Handle_Space_Goblon]

donald trump in fortnite!?

[@dSWISHm]

I got so happy when you said “carrier form” My day has been made

[@goggleheroomegamaple820]

i love that the Flood taps into our primal fears as humans.

[@havoccreations6746]

To be honest it'd be really nice to encounter the Guant from Halo Wars 2. Imagine fighting flood and out of nowhere you get pulled in a certain direction, like the Smoker from Left for Dead 2. And once it gets you isolated it drops down and starts trying to kill you by melee while other flood swarm you. Or you and your friends are holed up and suddenly you see your friend go flying, gets swarmed and promptly killed. It'd be a nice challenge on top of the already challenging flood forms we have encountered in Traditional Halo.

[@specs.weedle]

I think the combat forms using non-sapient species as a base should deserve some mention, like the ones in Halo Wars that used large non-sapient animals as living battering rams, or predatory flying animals as suicide drones that spat sharpened flood-spored bone fragments at things while trying to breach and infect air vehicles

[@hezgillies1916]

Hidden, you absolutely rule. Love this channel and I’d really like to thank you for introducing me to the books. I have recently started collecting and reading them. Just finished first strike and I am halfway through Ghosts of Onyx. You’ve got me absolutely ADDICTED!

[@treboris]

I read first strike before playing halo 2 so when reach came out and retconned the end of the novel I was really upset.

[@HiddenXperia]

Legend ❤ You’ve got Contact Harvest coming up which is one of my top 3 GOATs

[@double1777]

Wait until you get to the kilo-five trilogy, it’ll be awesome

[@samayoubi5818]

Click on it straight away watched all flood videos obbessed

[@MarkNuuuuuutt]

I think a flood snake would be cool. I mean by our standards they’re the worlds best organic killing machine, so seeing a flood that can see infrared and have insane senses while also creepily slithering would be so cool

[@demonwolfsunefurrygreyjedi]

Flood Transporter reminds me of a Zombie Half-Track from Zombie Army 4: Dead War

[@overnexus.]

Dude, you got me back into halo again, thanks bro 👍

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I wouldn’t be surprised if a Blightstalker existed somewhere on the Halo Wars 1 Shield World, Trove.

[@lordfrieza3792]

I would imagine banger spores are just regular spores that got too old before being able to infect something so they started to calcified hard exteriors for shrapnel and fill with some kind of extremely volatile or caustic organic chemical substance. Basically turning them into a smart walking flesh grenades.

[@secondarytrollaccount666]

Cortana: uh uhh no touching Gravemind: hey lil mama let me whisper iambic heptameter in ya ear.

[@DanielQuan97]

I see "Flood", my brain goes "neuron activation"

[@Enginner751]

I was terrified of the flood as a child :)

[@The_Redstone_Robot]

Who wasn't?

[@odinulveson9101]

Sheer ter.. you cant actually write the word on t, but yeah the Flood is the ultimate infection

[@sporeham1674]

I'm terrified of them as an adult

[@Enginner751]

@@sporeham1674 wow

[@mayojar5264]

halo 2 had a cut form that only existed in the original storyboards of the game called the flood hulk form which was a gigantic building sized flood form. I'm unsure if it's a combat form or a pure form but it's still a beast of a flood form none the less.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I’m pretty certain that the Flood Transport Form inspired the Halo Wars 2 Spawner Form. The Flood Infector Form inspired the Flood Infester Form, and the Seeder Infectors!

[@afterliferaven]

Perfect timing man, I was looking for more halo lore to watch

[@HumanThePerson]

The flood, TLOU cordycepts and the infested from warframe are my absolute favorite undead designs in all fiction

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

Don’t forget the Taken and Scorn.

[@JessicaSorrentino373]

it feels so good to have the good old flood lore back! Hope you keep making videos like this ❤

[@aithon6936]

I will never get tired of ur lore videos. Especially about flood or ONI

[@Dvrkstvr]

I appreciate the use of the dead space* bretherin* moons for a type of imagery

[@Ultrasonicomega]

7:21 so basically the hellion is also another version of the transport form(aka the giant stalker form)

[@Kunimouche]

omg love the addition of dead space for the keymind descriptions! /pos i am a fan of both the series. also i remember being sad that keyminds became canon limbo, so im glad youre talking about it here.

[@EternaIShark]

I love that every video hiddenXperia asks us who are new to subscribe hes finds a different way to say it every video he says it your my favourite youtuber hiddenXperia thank you for the years of entertainment

[@vypergaming4974]

Imagine the collective consciousness of the flood questioning itself if what it's doing is correct or wrong, then it would maybe think of the original goal unedited goal of the actual precursors, but then it begins disagreeing with itself, then somehow splitting against itself and fighting with humanity and the swords of sangheilios against it's next uprising...would it be stupid or fucking cool?

[@alphacraig2001]

It’s an interesting concept but due to the way the Flood thinks as a Hive-mind, I don’t think it’s possible. The Flood would essentially need to have two different Graveminds both developed separately from each other choose two different courses of action and refuse to compromise on them, leading to a split within their local forces. But because all Flood’s minds are synchronized with each other (including Graveminds) that’s not possible within the lore. Not only that, but think of how hard it would be to differentiate friend and foe Flood forms from each other on the battlefield from the player’s perspective?

[@mousecyr01]

Incredibly stupid, I'm sorry to be blunt. All flood exist within the consciousness of the grave mind, and before a gravemind is established, all the flood know are consume and compile. Absolutely feral instinct, no opportunity for "reflection" or "betrayal".

[@Omni601]

@@alphacraig2001plus I don’t think any race would allow themselves to be friends or allies with the flood. They couldn’t bear it

[@TexasDinoHunter]

Great video! Always love new flood lore. Still hoping for a video on the last two short stories on waypoint. Fingers crossed🤞

[@bijorno]

Top tier vid. Reminds me of the classic vids from back in the day

[@theonewhowatches-jp9st7gu4x]

So glad Flood lore is back! I hope 343 will canonically add them into the next Halo installment. As a question, ever think of doing Halo power rankings or vs battles, like for instance who would win Arbiter or Atriox?

[@user-kp4cz4qt4i]

they should make a remake of profound significance-- NOT like Halo CEA with literally... TOO MANY LIGHTS KILLING THE ATMOSPHERIC PRESENCE of potential alien life. Meaning, that Halo CEA2 or 3 should be focused on the same elements..... but with more realism. Take example of UE5. All they would have to do is: rewrite the story elements again, changing nothing except the prettier graphics. And as a personal preference: LASO is dead and needs a MAJOR update: crafting system, marine mode (in the same mode), take away only Iron skull and please make the game MORE horrifying. Bloody death screen, shattered HUD death, tips on how to survive death screens, etc.!!!

[@tylerjohn4607]

@@user-kp4cz4qt4i Imagine if we got them to remaster Halo 3 and add Guardian Forest in between the levels The Ark and The Covenant

[@user-kp4cz4qt4i]

@@tylerjohn4607 No. All of halo needs to be rewritten. It is not scary, they tried too hard with wars 1 & 2 and became dead too quickly: H5G is not even a game bc of multiple flaws: not scary, and mostly tedious! Am I wrong? HI was okay... except for tediousness.

[@mrlime9526]

@@tylerjohn4607That literally ruins the point of the reference.

[@paperclip6377]

LMAOOOO "i hope 343 will canonicallly add them into the next Halo installment" WHEN 343 GAMES AINT CANON 🤣

[@MasterOrona]

Pretty awesome. I think it’s cool some are based on actual Bungie made and cut content. I always assumed in Origins I it was artistic liberty through Cortana since later she says “I can only guess at some of this” or something to that effect. Much like the older looking art work on Attack on Titan. The basics are there but with a touch of added flair.

[@TMGGodLike]

So cool to see you referencing the Keymind to the Brethren Moons of dead space.. the flood and necromorphs are so cool imo

[@darko837]

What would be even scarier to see happen is a grave mind using the legolo and the grunts as cattle letting them get to a sertin number then using them to make more pure forms and established proto/grave minds

[@hightechredneck6017]

The Key Mind reminds me of what High Charity looked like in Halo 3 when it crashed into the ARK!

[@zs54243]

Awesome video!!

[@slayer-ih8dl]

thank you hidden i needed this

[@TheDivide_228]

Like water the flood ebbs and flows! Love the flood lore vids mate

[@captaingingey7571]

Love your lore videos. You should read us a halo novel I'm sure we would really enjoy it as your story telling is amazing. I find it relaxing listening to your lore videos

[@keithsvenson568]

"i want to see a scarab sized flood form boss battle" fam that is one the hottest sentences i've ever heard. IT MAKES ME MOIST. I NEED IT.

[@Sebastianguitar01]

Iconic flood video 11:45 the pure for on the middle left is a range form, the ones you fought in H3

[@ericmorris3948]

Your very fortunate that the 3 laws of robotics exists. Any Halo infinite NPC hooked up to the internet that saw this would have done whatever they could to kill you.

[@alexw2794]

Really hoping more flood content comes back to Halo. I'd also love to see a video about the change in ONI leadership from Admiral Parangosky to Admiral Osman and what that might mean for ONI's future operations!

[@18videowatcher41]

Imagine a Keymind or other Flood organism that would be the result of the Flood consuming an entire galaxy worth of biomass. Also, the Flood Bangers kind of seem like the Floods take on the Tyranid Spore Mine from Warhammer 40k.

[@yurizacharov9236]

Love the vids man

[@jamescorrigan8428]

A canpaign that focuses on the forerunners AND the Flood would be cool! Seeing them battle eachother like you see the enemies fighting eachother in halo 4. Seeing groups of sentinels swarming huge flood forms

[@inductivegrunt94]

Love some more Flood lore, and I really want to see all these forms in a future Halo game.

[@ajuntapall8860]

My understanding was that 343 had, in fact, addressed the "keymind" thing when they said that a Keymind (old definition) was a Flood form so massive and so intelligent that it defied all other classification besides just "keymind" (new definition)

[@ITSSIRWAN86]

flood videos always on top man keep it up

[@justinc.murphy]

i think a flood spin-off game would be cool. maybe play as one and be part of a hive or something.

[@codymcgrath2.3bviews3secon7]

I do and I don’t want the flood back. I mean some of my favourite and least favourite missions in classic halo are flood levels. I just find them really annoying to fight when you deal with them as the primary enemy. Quarantine Zone, High Charity are great missions due to this fact. Quarantine Zone just being ruined by that Gondola section. I would love to play a flood mission where we are actively being hunted by the flood while we investigate some disappearances or that an outpost or world went dark. I’d love to feel the horror of the flood that we collectively felt in 343 Guilty Spark.

[@serlistogiette4168]

That flood creature that grabs the one forerunner and opens it's one massive eye is nightmare fuel for me

[@ThommyofThenn]

9:58 imagine if we got to see these Flood transports. They could be akin to the sentinel enforcer and maybe have a shield generator that works sporadically due to age/damage. On Legendary the shield would always be on and at full charge of course

[@How_Many_Monkeys]

I don’t see any reason why the Infector form couldn’t take over and control a Scarab. So rather than a literal scarab-sized flood form, it would be a massively altered piece of Covenant tech. I can imagine plenty of different really cool ways the flood could alter that tech to be really unique. And also huge and terrifying lol

[@ratchetthemedic169]

This a good video information about some of the flood forms that do exist and will be encountered in the future of halo games or whenever we see the stages of development of the flood invasion or consuming the planet like levels like level 1 and 2 is can be controlled or pushback and levels 3 and 4 is the flood having half the planet under its control and finally maybe a level 5 which a high level threat and will see more deadly forms of some old forms and new forms that’s how I like to think it would work if the flood produce these new forms but hopefully more information about the flood comes out it’s a interesting but scary entity.

[@mousecyr01]

Hidden, last i checked a Keymind pre-retcon was an entire ecosytem consumed BUT its primary purpose was to increase the raw computational power of the gravemind itself. I dont think it was ever specified in the old lore that a keymind was a gravemind that outgrew its planet because as far as we know, in spite of the 7 (proto?)Graveminds that existed on Zeta during the forerunner flood war, there has only ever been one singular gravemind intelligence i.e. the primordial and then the subsequent gravemind post-entropy.

[@YaBoySieg]

Man, Halo Wars 2 really did go nuts with the new flood forms, shame 343 hates it

[@WhaIHuhWhatDoYouMean]

On the subject of the varied flood forms shown in Origins, I'm reminded of a halo comic I once read (cant remember what its called) that also showed a large variety of flood forms not seen in any other halo media. It also reminds me of some of the forms shown in the Mona Lisa movie. I personally believe that this extremely varied interpretation of the flood is actually the canon interpretation, but in the games, the devs are limited in the variety of flood forms they can put into the game. To put it another way, I think every flood form is actually completely unique, but this can't be captured in the games because of deadlines, limitations, and gameplay purposes. This IS captured in animated media because animators and illustrators have more freedom to branch out designs, without worries of tech limitations and gameplay balance. I also really like the kind of narrative this creates about the flood supercell itself, is each unique flood form a work of art by the supercell, designed with care and efficiency, or is each form a haphazard amalgam, not designed but rather twisted into a random shape?

[@spartan876_A28]

I always wanted to see a keymind! Giant flood planet with tentacles moving across the sky, yeah it would be amazing.

[@jakeetter2822]

The interesting thing about the Stealth form. It looked like it could pick up and use weapons. Imagine something outside the combat forms that could do that.

[@SonLukifer-uy1yz]

The security cyborg of the Mjolnir Recon in Marathon would be a good candidate for taking on the Flood

[@gufful3573]

Love the dead space refrence on the thumbnail 👌

[@jasonlaboy]

I bet you're having fun doing these remakes lol, good stuff

[@user-bs6mt9gs6c]

flood being the most deadliest and terrifying thing ever meanwhile Doomslayers laughing at everyone because theres nothing beating him

[@themrfives]

Okay so I know what the flying infection forms are. I remember reading something way back in the day about larval infection forms and after a bit searching I found it again. They don't have an actual name but are heavily implied to be an earlier stage of an infection form. You can see them in a tank in Halo 2 in one of the first arbiter levels. Halopedia calls them flood tadpoles. They do seem to be aquatic. But the flying part might be a sneaky reference to an instance where, according to halopedia, Vic DeLeon "broke" the forms making them float all around the room.

[@LOLOJOJObus]

Bro guys I just realized something and came up with a little theory, so you guys notice how the different species in halo represent different types of animal life? The brutes: primates , the elites: reptiles, the grunts: crustaceans, the drones: insects, the skimmers: cephalopods, the jackals: avians, and the hunters: invertebrate. I guess the flood count as fungi too. Also humans are also primates I think which is interesting too, my theory is that the primordial or the forerunners or maybe both sort of , planned this out and how each different thing would get a sentient species. I know about one species in the covenant fringe that’s like some kind of water one so maybe that falls into amphibian idk. What do you guys think of my mini theory?

[@LeonLian]

In a hand-to-hand confrontation, I'm 30% sure I could beat a flood spore...on a good day.

[@redquoter]

9:20 "Ooh, dibs." - HiddenXperia 👍

[@harrizar1772206]

I would like to see how a flood infested unsc ship would look like, we have seen the covenant version but we have never gotten to a point of having a flood infested unsc ship (that is fully converted and used for transporting more flood)

[@frostedfoxes7302]

Yeah the In Amber Clad is the closest example i can think of, and the exterior looks mostly the same as a normal UNSC ship, the pelicans that came from it were very clearly infected though. I always thought itd be cool to see what it was like in the streets of high charity when they flood crashed in the In Amber Clad

[@feralprocessor9853]

Right off the bat, some sick clips of flood infestation.

[@deadaspiration4496]

I remember the video of the Juggernaut from Halo 2 from the Vengeful Vadam Halo 2 Uncut mod for MCC. I lovee fighting the Juggernaut in his mod!

[@digunder14]

proposed head canon suggestion, classic keymind could be the name that the entity used to refer to itself, which happen to be a network of planet sized graveminds, basically can make it Keymind with a capital K

[@thetrueendtimes990]

The brother moon from dead space you put in the thumbnail made me think about how similar the flood is to the necromorphs and markers from dead space.

[@parkerstange851]

I would love to see a flood form that is just fucking massive. Something on the scale of the Tyranid Hierophant Biotitan from Warhammer 40k

[@thorshammer7883]

These capabilities and strengthening adaptive buffs is what makes the Flood far far superior in tactics, strageies, speed, strength, and knowledge then the Tyranids in Warhammer 40k could ever be even with the Moon Tyranid.

[@artornis606]

Im so glad you denotate the original keymind definition. Wish they would give it back

[@jacobkindsvatter4055]

Dude were from a different generation for sure, i will never forget in 2001 i was 6 years old and my parents (divorced/military dad) never let me play fps games so 2002 i was 7 and i first time played halo at my friends house and eventually found the flood in combat evolved and now im turning 30 and at my job i have apprentices that have no clue about any of it 343 screwed the pooch in more ways that we think

[@RikoLime]

Theres a huge hole in potentail that 343 could stll use with the Flood... It would be a tricky thing to build it into the plot to GET us to there, but they could easily track a campaign that had you go into highly flood-infected space, or sneak in, or be tracking a special package, person, etc, that the flood has taken. As the flood is secure in their ways (super confident), theyd be under no rush to get this package there, leaving the player more time to track and follow to catch up. We could easily have a campaign of flood worlds, as we experience horrors, possibly find super-remote trapped troops, ships, etc, that we attempt to save, then have them join us, and sadly, eventually lose. The major deal would be that this would be hard to make a solo-campaign off this. It would definitely work bettwe as an odst-style campaign -- where you have periods where you MAY be solo, but for the most part, it is a TEAM effort. 343 is all about the multiplayer now. Why not make a campaign that, originally, works best as a team? You can play it solo, but your teammates would be AI-driven (think gears of war style)

[@MCLegend13]

It’s a shame they changed the term for Keyminds the old version was so much cooler. The concept of something many many times larger and more intelligent than Graveminds is so intriguing.

[@CarlosCaceres-fh6ki]

Clicked faster than a single flood spore can destroy an entire planet

[@Hopewell51]

I want an entire Halo game where you fight the Flood.

[@thecrimsonelite5061]

I love the usage of The Brother-Moons as keymind images lol

[@usec-voice-1]

You had me with the brethren moon in the thumbnail

[@GodSlayer2918]

I'm a simple man. I see Flood, I watch and like.

[@DOOMSLAYER1993-4]

Hidden never fails to capture our interest

[@danielmatusevich1925]

I love your flood content I rewatch ever month 🎉🎉❤😂😂