Oh man. This is so well done! Never thought this many people would end up appreciating my video made from a cheap capture card so many years ago haha! Cheers, this was awesome!
Honestly I think it's even worse than that. I think the marine is trying to hold his head straight, and the infection form forces it to snap to overtake the host
Ooh. Just realized the Brutes get their jaws unhinged all the way down to their stomach. Props to the animation team at Bungie that made these! Would’ve been pretty cool to see Jackal, Grunt, or Drone Flood forms as well.
Actually I think the Drones out of all of those wouldn't be infected, the reason is because they don't have enough biomass to be used, but maybe they could be repurposed but it's said they can't be infected normally like the rest.
@@kamuiwarp1784 That and also don't the drone's body in general operate differently since they have exoskeletons and a different type of nervous system and lacking the needed biology for the flood? That and that they have a hive-mind system, which the Hunters/Mgalekgolo/Legolo also have, and also can't be infected.
Holy shit the flood is fucking creepy, I cant imagine fighting those things in real life, they destroy your body and you are still half concious feeling all the pain and trauma holy shit Halo universe is only worth it if you are a spartan
@@argo9721 yea true.....it can be worse......like the flood torturing captain key or the one that got Jenkins.......the one that infected Jenkins was fairly old so when that thing try to snap Jenkins arm the pain knock the infection form for a while giving Jenkins short time of control of his body......he later try to kill himself by jumping on the marine line of fire but he was captured.......
@@salad5067 Because if they had just recently died then technically there would still be components of their bodies that would still be living, like their brain still being active. Even if not for very long, that still would technically be enough for them to infect.
Halo 3 Flood is a joke they die so easily on legendary making all the missions against them a cakewalk. Halo 2 Flood can take a hit and use hit and run tactics on the player if they're human and rush if they're elites, not to mention how fast they and melee and run. Halo CE all act the same, just run at the player except that they're actually good at aiming and don't just stand around like 3's flood.
I’ve always imagined that if Bungie (or even 343, currently) had ever decided to just go all-out with the Flood, sparing nothing in regards to the horror and the gore (i.e. Actually showing the gory details of an Infection Form burrowing into its victim), then we’d get something very much akin to the experience of Necromorphs from Dead Space.
I think the brute one is the most disturbing considering you can still hear the brute screaming as the flood splits his jaw in half and relocates his upper half like two feet away from his lower half of jaw.
The sounds, holy fuck the sounds are nauseating. And the pure forms faces look nasty as hell with the dangling bio mass around it that and the pure forms tails are just gross. Props to Bungie for putting this much detail into the flood and really make them look the plague they are
In case no one noticed, in the first human infection animation, the infection form purposefully makes the marine violently slam his head on the ground as another method for snapping his neck, when looking at it from the back angle you can actually see the head twisting backwards. Also the process of infection is more painful and terrifying than people think because those tumors and claws don’t come from nothing, they come from the infection form breaking down the body and repurposing it’s parts, the tumors come from the flood supercells rapidly decomposing the body and using the matter to form the tumors and filling them up with even more flood supercells so it spreads more disease when they pop (the green mist) and the claw are the bones of the host being snapped and moved and are reconnected together using the cartilage as it bursts out of the arm, we don’t see it in game but flood combat forms are able to rapidly reconfigure, contort, and mutate their body to whatever is required (ex. They can almost instantaneously become a carrier form and create more infection forms, or shoot long ranged whips/tentacles out from their body) it happens in the books, all of that isn’t even the worst part, the most terrifying part about becoming infected is sometimes the host doesn’t die and in that scenario you will feel all the pain from having been torn apart and changed and all the pain from being attacked while the infection form mentally interrogates you for any useful information, an example of this is (SPOILER ALERT FOR “HALO COMBAT EVOLVED” AND THE “HALO: THE FLOOD” BOOK) Captain Keyes who was interrogated by the proto-gravemind sifting through his memories and “deleting” any memories it saw as not useful, the only thing keeping it from getting the information it wanted was captain Keyes who kept on feeding it mundane or “boring” memories like his name, rank, and serial number, different kinds of smells, tastes, and colors, or simply images that meant nothing like a ceiling fan (I’m not kidding). And then their was Jenkins who was infected by a old and weak infection form, he was able to occasionally regain control from it and every time he did he tried killing himself.
Jesus Christ the flood is brutal, kinda reminds me of how violent the Necromorphs in Dead Space infection and stuff happens... While in Halo the flood starts controlling the host when in contact, the Necros in Dead Space use the marker to wither away at their hosts mind then start changing stuff
"As the infection form latched onto chips dubbo's nervous system it had discovered its fatal mistake. You see, the aussie's immune system was so full of Victoria's Best beer and golden gaytime icecream bars that it was toxic to the infection form. As it slowly withered and died, chips lit his cigarette. Another day in the outback he says"
I just wanna say, Florida Man would do great if the flood ever attacked. His blood is made of Bud Lite and he married an alligator, so his body would be so toxic that the flood literally couldn't survive in it.
Stuff like this exists. That's exactly why things are even created in media. They are taken from truth and twisted with creativity. There are parasitic beings that straight up take over the host like the Flood. There are small ones that take over ants and wasps. It should be found easily on TH-cam.
Bruh Infinite is going to be insane if they just take all of the Flood ideas from previous games and make the animations and graphics modern...but who knows what else they'll do to make combat different
I'll probably have flood nightmares again...and I haven't had those in over a decade. Modern graphics but make the transformation more gory...we need 'M' rating again for Halo.
From the looks of it the brute have it the worst. It’s almost seems like the flood keeps them alive even after the transformation process. That’s purely torturous...
@@Cryogenius333 Your organs get liquidated and your nervous system gets destroyed. If the host takes too long to infect, the parasite makes them snap their own neck, completely nullifying the victim. Couple that with the fact that there's a giant hole in the chest. The only instance of someone being even semi conscious after the fact (I believe) was Jenkins, hallowed be his name, and that was because the infection form was centuries old and weakened. But with the way he went out, Jenkins was a damned hero that helped save thousands.
the flood always keeps the host it infects alive, only that it can no longer do anything because its body no longer belongs to it, it only has to suffer all the pain that the parasite causes
If what I read above is correct, the flood need their victim alive to most effectively use it. To that end the flood probably momentarily resuscitated the marine in order to hijack the nervous system. Or its a just a reflex caused by the hijacking itself. Or you could be right and he was just trying to play dead.
I imagine the vocal cords would still work on a freshly dead corps, so it’s probably just a natural reflex since the muscles in the body are probably rapidly contracting and releasing causing the corpse to make sound.
I believe the lore is that Hunters can't be infected because they don't have a centralized nervous system. They can still be used as biomass in the formation of a Gravemind, however.
The living Elite to Flood transformation has the smoothest transition between models. Brute was nice too. Thanks for sharing that, I have never seen elite transformation before in game.
The brute animation can vary slightly depending on how long the infection form decides to take before entering and infecting the brute. In the event it decides to wait an extra second before infecting it you can see the brute attempt to grab and punch the infection form to kill it before it enters him
To know that Jenkins was still alive and cognizant the whole time this happened to him. I think that is arguably the most terrifying and definitely worst way to "die" in the Halo universe. Like, I can't even think of a worse way to go. Jenkins was a major unsung hero in the end though, going out the way he did. He was a good man and one hell of a marine.
Absolutely the worst way, TBH I can't think of another sci-fi parasitic species that comes *close* to being as terrifying as the Flood. The Flood won't even let you die fast, they'll keep you alive and semi-conscious through-out the entire infection process.
It reminds me of dead space when you know about the guardian infection the person infected is still somewhat alive, but they’re pinned to the wall and suffering when you hear them scream and their actions are by the necromorphs part and if you think that’s bad there’s two of them in dead space 3 when they been infected for 200 years against the wall, suffering that long until Isaac finally kills them
I always thought it was the flood that forced him to do this so he would die and wouldn't be able to resist the attack, or like pull the pin of a grenade or something.
If I remember correctly a flood spore, unless its looking for specific information, generally kills its host. If the spore is damaged like in Pvt. Jenkins case, it may not kill the host entirely. But generally a combat form is devoid of any personality or awareness it once had. With Captain Keys for example, the flood needed his memories, so he was kept alive while a protogravemind probed his brain.
I still can’t believe this game came out when it did. My first even Xbox 360 game. I was in middle school and I’ll never forget playing the campaign and my favorite missions over and over again. Then I was introduced to online gaming with halo 3 at my cousins house and it made the game even more amazing. Was and will probably always be my #1 favorite game of all time.
Terrifying little tidbit: A lot of the infected, who turned while alive, are still "conscious". They are just controlled by the infection forms, and in extension, the flood. They feel everything, and can still think. It's a sort of mercy to take them out. Captain Keyes is probably the greatest example of retaining the most sense of "self" after infection. Everyone else is in that semi-conscious state of pain and confusion, or the even unluckier few that are completely conscious, such as the unnamed (maybe named?) marine who spoke to other UNSC to kill him.
Not only that, the Flood go out of their way to keep the victim conscious. The Flood could just as easily let the victim die and use the body like a normal Zombie, but the Flood chemically isolate the brain from the rest of the dying body to keep the brain alive. They do this so they can learn from the victim, however it also means that the victim knows everything about what is going on - from the endless agony, to merely watching as the parasites controls his body and forces him to attack his friends.
I loved the flood transformations in Halo 3 and still love them to this day. I can’t wait to see what Halo Infinite has in store for us in terms of flood
Okay... Why did I even watch this? I mean, sure, the animations are interesting to see play out, but I also basically just gave myself a heavy dose of nightmare fuel... Yay, me.
I remember playing halo 3 with an old friend when it first came out. Lets just say, seeing the marine get infected in real time in front of my eyes after entering the building scared and disturbed me to no end. And recently replaying it on MCC , any dead ally that dies behind you, is another dagger to watch out for.
Whenever I played Halo 3 and if I see anyone or anything get infected (whenever it's one of the Marines, elites, or the brutes) I make sure to kill them before the become infected... The fact that once the spore gets inside them gives me the urge to put them out of their misery before the infection spreads all over them... This really shows that the flood are truly a horrifying organism.
If in the Future we will ever get another Infected multiplayer game VS the flood, This is exactly how i want Infected death animations to be implemented, You good sir just set an outstanding example on how high quality infection death animations should be implemented. I love it... Good Job Man... Kudos !!!
I don’t know if this is lore accurate, but based on the screams it seems like even if you are dead, the flood just bring you back to life and possess your body. I find that fate far scarier than a normal infection, it’s like the flood won’t let you die
I swear to god, the scariest thing I've ever read is that adjunct scene from the definitive edition of Halo: The Flood that's told not only from the point of view of a random Marine, but also the infection form that's infecting him.
This was the first game I ever got on the Xbox 360 when I was younger, the first time I saw this happen it actually scarred me to the point where I needed to either save as many soldiers as I could or kill them so they wouldn't turn into that.
When I was little, I remember how terrified of the flood I used to be back when I first played Halo CE og xbox. For some reason, I thought they were "potato people" and didn't understand what they were. By Halo 2, it occurred to me that they used the dead and were even scarier. Now an adult, I'm just scared something like this _could_ exist somewhere in our universe.
Knowing how vast and expansive the universe is, it's highly probable that something like the flood exists out there. Hell, we have similar stuff on earth already, it's just that they infect insects not humans.
You wouldn't have been the only one to think they were "potato people" because I did too. I was young and didn't understand the concept of undead. They sure looked like it in Halo CE. It doesn't help that in the OG graphics, Captain Keyes even looks like a potato. Later on as an adult, I would refer to that version of Keyes as "Potato Keyes".
I dont know if this is confirmed or not but I like how the pure form kinda feels like flood iterations of the races the flood couldnt turn The tanks are the most obvious with their similarity to hunters The ranged forms remind me a lot of grunts in how they cower when being shot at with high ordinance weaponry, and the turret always gives me halo 2 shade turret vibes. That could just be me, but those are almost exclusively grunt weapons in 2 and they like to pop up in weird places to catch you off guard just like the ranged form The stalkers feel like a mash up of drones and jackals. The silhouette is very reminiscent of the hunched over drone while the jumping and getting into inconspicuous locations to transform into a bigger threat is a lot like jackals in the lore. In gameplay jackal snipers are found on rooftops because they are great at climbing afterall
The Flood from Halo 3 are still some of the most technically extraordinary NPCs I've ever seen in any videogame. Between this and how the Scarab works, Halo 3 is full of impressive technical feats.
Imagine being that marine, having a flood spore crawl on your face and reach into your nervous system while being infected, the growing large appendages in half a second
the flood always keeps the host it infects alive, only that it can no longer do anything because its body no longer belongs to it, it only has to suffer the damage caused by the parasite
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Oh man. This is so well done! Never thought this many people would end up appreciating my video made from a cheap capture card so many years ago haha! Cheers, this was awesome!
Do you Blame him I would have done the same thing rather die then be infected by that thing
Same
@@issacpack2295 lmao what?
@@BigtimeAVERAGEI think he meant to reply to the comment about the marine snapping his own neck
Honestly I think it's even worse than that. I think the marine is trying to hold his head straight, and the infection form forces it to snap to overtake the host
White text on a blue background?
Nostalgia is a helluva drug
_"Slam" by Pendulum starts playing_
@@lutherchuah1342 or 009 sound system dreamscape
@@tanklover385 yesssssassss
WELL, I'M NOT PARALYZED...
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Ooh. Just realized the Brutes get their jaws unhinged all the way down to their stomach. Props to the animation team at Bungie that made these! Would’ve been pretty cool to see Jackal, Grunt, or Drone Flood forms as well.
Actually I think the Drones out of all of those wouldn't be infected, the reason is because they don't have enough biomass to be used, but maybe they could be repurposed but it's said they can't be infected normally like the rest.
@@kamuiwarp1784 That and also don't the drone's body in general operate differently since they have exoskeletons and a different type of nervous system and lacking the needed biology for the flood? That and that they have a hive-mind system, which the Hunters/Mgalekgolo/Legolo also have, and also can't be infected.
It even more horrifying on the fact that the infection form supposedly burrows into a the Brutes mouth... scary stuff...
@@watyhu99 Correct me If I'm wrong but don't the Drones work like Bees? In terms of hive mind?
@@Pizzaman-ii9cd and splits their jaw down to the stomach too
Holy shit the flood is fucking creepy, I cant imagine fighting those things in real life, they destroy your body and you are still half concious feeling all the pain and trauma holy shit Halo universe is only worth it if you are a spartan
Watch hidden expira and u will feel even worse about the flood
Or maybe if you're like me. I'm a B1 Battle Droid. They can't infect me!
*universe
@@B1SeriesBattleDroid look out for logic plague unit, I have a feeling droids if your... intellect would be easy to corrupt
Unless you know what the ladies like
For a game that came out in 2007, 14 years later these animations still look incredible.
Yup
They are only mildly dated it's real impressive
What are you talking about they look choppy and all over the place
Lol no, this would be awful for 2021 standards
But given how old this game is, it's fine.
2007? Damn i feel old
Alt title: testing live flood infection under ONI supervision
On live subjects
ONI """supervision"""
*Mona Lisa intensifies*
@@Greensleeves94 I was gonna say, cause this has worked out so well before lol
Me: *Sees solders ready to burn and sterilize the test zone*
Also me: *Ready to head smash button for exterminatus*
I never realized that the marine snaps his own neck, nor that the brute jaw just splits
Brooo me too
That is disturbing, disgusting and scary as F
Why does everyone say this? It’s the infection form snapping his neck not him
@@argo9721 yea true.....it can be worse......like the flood torturing captain key or the one that got Jenkins.......the one that infected Jenkins was fairly old so when that thing try to snap Jenkins arm the pain knock the infection form for a while giving Jenkins short time of control of his body......he later try to kill himself by jumping on the marine line of fire but he was captured.......
@@argo9721 at 1:40 you can see the Marine grabbing his head and then twist it snapping his own neck
2:22 You can still hear the elite struggling.
D.A.M.N
*Now that's fucking dark*
Edgy
It's probably the transformation process expelling gasses or fluids through the airways and vocal cords.
Probably.
Hmmmm interesting
For anybody wondering about the neck snap for the marine: The neck is snapped either to make room for a infection form, or to kill a resisting host.
They have taken most of the nervous system at the point of the neck snap, im pretty sure.
It's to make way for the Flood's new "Head"
@@Xerrounautix then how come they infect the dead ones as well
@@salad5067 Because if they had just recently died then technically there would still be components of their bodies that would still be living, like their brain still being active. Even if not for very long, that still would technically be enough for them to infect.
That can't be true because they can infect a dead bodies as well as long as tge cells are still alive
I'm glad someone decided to go back and do this
Yes, bring back the nightmare fuel for us once more!
The marines are definitely not glad
Why?
@@narcleptik because they got infected
@@thevisitor8906 yes
12 year old me: “wow this is terrifying”
22 year old me: “wow this is more terrifying than I remember”
Halo 3 turned the flood into something truly fearful and if infinite turns to M again, I’d love to see it get this graphic again
Halo 3 Flood is a joke they die so easily on legendary making all the missions against them a cakewalk.
Halo 2 Flood can take a hit and use hit and run tactics on the player if they're human and rush if they're elites, not to mention how fast they and melee and run.
Halo CE all act the same, just run at the player except that they're actually good at aiming and don't just stand around like 3's flood.
I would love to see a flood horror game and have it really graphic
I’ve always imagined that if Bungie (or even 343, currently) had ever decided to just go all-out with the Flood, sparing nothing in regards to the horror and the gore (i.e. Actually showing the gory details of an Infection Form burrowing into its victim), then we’d get something very much akin to the experience of Necromorphs from Dead Space.
@@GreenEyedWolf404 that was what I was thinking of and the moulded from re7
Dude the audio team destroying a piano and taking its noise makes it sound like its gonna be a horror game.
Oh my god the split jaw on the infected brute is terrifying AF
Thats the spirit
That fact that it went for the croch
It’s gross
That makes want to say.... GURKEY!!!!!
I think the marine snapping his own neck is worse.
I think the brute one is the most disturbing considering you can still hear the brute screaming as the flood splits his jaw in half and relocates his upper half like two feet away from his lower half of jaw.
Brutes deserve it they torture they're captives a lot worse
Don't know man, that marine crushing his own neck it's kinda disturbing
They probably knew that they would be able to feel everything, so the marine attempted to kill him self rather than suffer through eternal pain
@@Inkognito-ts4to The humans did the exact same thing everyone else
Those brutes ripped humans to pieces alive so i don't really feel sorry for them stinky apes
Marines with a family and friends: *excruciatingly transform into a horrendous monster*
7k people: I N T E R E S T I N G
It's for science... They will understand
how do you know they had family and friends? did you ask them?
@@adolphinler6628 I mean, they must have, but I didn't know what else to say
If it gives you any comfort, they were brought into existence by grenade explosions :^)
Don't worry, their family and friends are *next.*
The flood is honestly just disgusting
The sounds, holy fuck the sounds are nauseating. And the pure forms faces look nasty as hell with the dangling bio mass around it that and the pure forms tails are just gross. Props to Bungie for putting this much detail into the flood and really make them look the plague they are
@@eggburger5978 just ew.
Compare this to the SC II zerg sounds .
I'm more disgured than scared of them.
And I'm pretty scared of them too.
To this day I can't decide between range and stalker for the most disgusting
I'm surprised none of the games ever tried to make a fire fight mode exclusively with Flood forms. Probably not as fun though haha
Infection maybe. But infection would have been more fun if you DID play as a flood form
It would have made more sense
@@Cryogenius333 halo 4
I remember some maps for Custom Edition that were pretty much just that, I recall them being quite enjoyable.
There was a mod that implemented it for halo 3 ODST
Was just thinking that
In case no one noticed, in the first human infection animation, the infection form purposefully makes the marine violently slam his head on the ground as another method for snapping his neck, when looking at it from the back angle you can actually see the head twisting backwards.
Also the process of infection is more painful and terrifying than people think because those tumors and claws don’t come from nothing, they come from the infection form breaking down the body and repurposing it’s parts, the tumors come from the flood supercells rapidly decomposing the body and using the matter to form the tumors and filling them up with even more flood supercells so it spreads more disease when they pop (the green mist) and the claw are the bones of the host being snapped and moved and are reconnected together using the cartilage as it bursts out of the arm, we don’t see it in game but flood combat forms are able to rapidly reconfigure, contort, and mutate their body to whatever is required (ex. They can almost instantaneously become a carrier form and create more infection forms, or shoot long ranged whips/tentacles out from their body) it happens in the books, all of that isn’t even the worst part, the most terrifying part about becoming infected is sometimes the host doesn’t die and in that scenario you will feel all the pain from having been torn apart and changed and all the pain from being attacked while the infection form mentally interrogates you for any useful information, an example of this is (SPOILER ALERT FOR “HALO COMBAT EVOLVED” AND THE “HALO: THE FLOOD” BOOK)
Captain Keyes who was interrogated by the proto-gravemind sifting through his memories and “deleting” any memories it saw as not useful, the only thing keeping it from getting the information it wanted was captain Keyes who kept on feeding it mundane or “boring” memories like his name, rank, and serial number, different kinds of smells, tastes, and colors, or simply images that meant nothing like a ceiling fan (I’m not kidding).
And then their was Jenkins who was infected by a old and weak infection form, he was able to occasionally regain control from it and every time he did he tried killing himself.
Man I remember Jenkins, wasn’t he Mercy killed? I don’t remember
@@odstman2984 he was mercy killed when one of the odsts destroyed the truth and reconciliation engine drives.
Jesus Christ the flood is brutal, kinda reminds me of how violent the Necromorphs in Dead Space infection and stuff happens... While in Halo the flood starts controlling the host when in contact, the Necros in Dead Space use the marker to wither away at their hosts mind then start changing stuff
@@Terraqueo22technically, necromorphs are somewhat self aware. Same thing with HL's headcrabs
Those are not Tumors, but THEY ARE PIECES OF FLESH
"As the infection form latched onto chips dubbo's nervous system it had discovered its fatal mistake. You see, the aussie's immune system was so full of Victoria's Best beer and golden gaytime icecream bars that it was toxic to the infection form. As it slowly withered and died, chips lit his cigarette. Another day in the outback he says"
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Gad job ya sunny jim
Chips Dubbo does it again
Your move, Johnson.
I just wanna say, Florida Man would do great if the flood ever attacked. His blood is made of Bud Lite and he married an alligator, so his body would be so toxic that the flood literally couldn't survive in it.
I’m just glad these things don’t exist.
For all we know they do, just haven't manifested yet.
@@zahkrosis666 you better not have jinxed it pal
@@rhuarimclean133 To be fair, humanity deserves it at this point.
@@zahkrosis666 Oh here comes the edgelord.
Stuff like this exists. That's exactly why things are even created in media. They are taken from truth and twisted with creativity. There are parasitic beings that straight up take over the host like the Flood. There are small ones that take over ants and wasps. It should be found easily on TH-cam.
Today I learned that wearing a helmet can stop flood infections
*marine with helmet has left the chat*
I learned to have napalm bombs on me just in case I'm screwed before I get infected.
Master Chief almost gets bodied by an infection form
In one of the books
@@VergilsLastName Halo: The Flood which is basically just Halo CE
@@VergilsLastName eh, I have mixed feelings on the books since most of it doesn't really click with how lore plays out in the game.
Bruh Infinite is going to be insane if they just take all of the Flood ideas from previous games and make the animations and graphics modern...but who knows what else they'll do to make combat different
Flood juggernaut from Halo 2!
I'll probably have flood nightmares again...and I haven't had those in over a decade. Modern graphics but make the transformation more gory...we need 'M' rating again for Halo.
@@Ratkill9000 I think Infinite is going to be M.
Im honestly excited for that. I'd love to see some Banished VS Flood battles, and every unit can be infected.
They're trying to integrate Halo Wars lore as well. So we have flood forms from that too, potentially.
Marine snaps own neck and Brute having full jaw broken open. Brutal.
Okay, those old transitions took me back a decade or so.
The fact that these things are really precursors that went insane is just well insane
That's insane
rookie i love you
Precursors didn't exist when Halo 3 was made. They're 343 studios' fanfiction.
@@MistaHowardWhat are you talking about? The forerunners totally aren’t human and the flood is just space dogfood, trust me
@@deanod9543 Oh my mistake. Your shining suit and fine words have convinced me. I will help 343-Microsoft-Goya any way I can.
The Halo show is all like “oh these normal humans who are twitchy, that’s just the first phase of the infection!”
The first phase of the infection:
The games and I.P. of Halo alike clearly needs to be given to someone both *competent* and who gives a damn.
From the looks of it the brute have it the worst. It’s almost seems like the flood keeps them alive even after the transformation process. That’s purely torturous...
Technically the flood keeps ALL of them alive. They are alive and semi aware throughout the whole process
@@Cryogenius333 that’s the worse thing about Parasitic organisms
@@Cryogenius333 that's false thay only keep some of them alive if they have certain information or the infection process goes wrong
@@Cryogenius333 Your organs get liquidated and your nervous system gets destroyed. If the host takes too long to infect, the parasite makes them snap their own neck, completely nullifying the victim. Couple that with the fact that there's a giant hole in the chest. The only instance of someone being even semi conscious after the fact (I believe) was Jenkins, hallowed be his name, and that was because the infection form was centuries old and weakened. But with the way he went out, Jenkins was a damned hero that helped save thousands.
the flood always keeps the host it infects alive, only that it can no longer do anything because its body no longer belongs to it, it only has to suffer all the pain that the parasite causes
1:04
Marine: Sleeping*
Never heard a corpse yelp before...
If what I read above is correct, the flood need their victim alive to most effectively use it.
To that end the flood probably momentarily resuscitated the marine in order to hijack the nervous system. Or its a just a reflex caused by the hijacking itself.
Or you could be right and he was just trying to play dead.
@@Cryogenius333 nah it’s definitely the former
I imagine the vocal cords would still work on a freshly dead corps, so it’s probably just a natural reflex since the muscles in the body are probably rapidly contracting and releasing causing the corpse to make sound.
@@TheMachine3165 I thought the same thing
Wait... I didn't know the Tank form could "vomit" infection forms....
Oh yeah, they do it rarely at times, but it is fun to watch.
@@bossshun9 the miracle of life
When I was a kid thought the Tank forms were cool until I saw that happen.
That's probably cause the flood ai seems to despise that form and usually insta switch to stalker or shooter.
@@hazydoom69I mean those shooters are a pain in the ass. And it only takes one strike from a energy sword to take down any flood form, even the tank.
4:59 me after eating at that sketchy Chinese buffet
For the longest time I thought these things were just corrupted hunters
I thought the Flood Tanks we’re infected Hunters
Each form is truly horrifying.
Me too, but the hunters are worst cause they are made of worms 😠
I dont think hunters can be infected since they just a bunch of worms in a suit
I believe the lore is that Hunters can't be infected because they don't have a centralized nervous system. They can still be used as biomass in the formation of a Gravemind, however.
The living Elite to Flood transformation has the smoothest transition between models. Brute was nice too.
Thanks for sharing that, I have never seen elite transformation before in game.
Then there's the dead marine transformation when all of a sudden his body is just contorted into being a combat form in 1 frame lol
I only ever saw elites being infected while dead, and something about it was very depressing.
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Flood :
Step 1 : Apply polyp to head.
The brute animation can vary slightly depending on how long the infection form decides to take before entering and infecting the brute. In the event it decides to wait an extra second before infecting it you can see the brute attempt to grab and punch the infection form to kill it before it enters him
To know that Jenkins was still alive and cognizant the whole time this happened to him. I think that is arguably the most terrifying and definitely worst way to "die" in the Halo universe. Like, I can't even think of a worse way to go.
Jenkins was a major unsung hero in the end though, going out the way he did. He was a good man and one hell of a marine.
Absolutely the worst way, TBH I can't think of another sci-fi parasitic species that comes *close* to being as terrifying as the Flood. The Flood won't even let you die fast, they'll keep you alive and semi-conscious through-out the entire infection process.
It reminds me of dead space when you know about the guardian infection the person infected is still somewhat alive, but they’re pinned to the wall and suffering when you hear them scream and their actions are by the necromorphs part
and if you think that’s bad there’s two of them in dead space 3 when they been infected for 200 years against the wall, suffering that long until Isaac finally kills them
All these years I’ve never seen the tank forms spew out little ones. Good to know!
They usually don't get the opportunity to on-screen. Leaves them too open to attack.
5:39 when you're winning an argument and making solid points but you make a single minor spelling mistake
1:35 i’ve never payed attention on that transformation while playing Halo ,that marine killing himself 😨 😥 excellent work Bungie 😉👏
Yeah that neck snap at 1:41 😂
Nice observation btw dude
Actually that poor marine is still alive due to the infection form
I don't blame him
no spore forces him to break his neck
I always thought it was the flood that forced him to do this so he would die and wouldn't be able to resist the attack, or like pull the pin of a grenade or something.
Halo 3 really shows to us how The Flood, especially the pure forms, are so capable of adap to mostly any situation in battle.
Hey you, stop having a similar name.ill fight u
The human heads hanging off to the side with a screaming face always creeped me out. Such good designing
I like how all of the transformations are absolutely horrific but the transition music is just cheery af
God these animations are good, the way they make the pure flood shift from one form to another is so cool
PS: You’re still alive and conscious after.
Notice how the neck gets snapped? Your body is the floods but your head and brain are fully aware and unable to do anything
If I remember correctly a flood spore, unless its looking for specific information, generally kills its host. If the spore is damaged like in Pvt. Jenkins case, it may not kill the host entirely. But generally a combat form is devoid of any personality or awareness it once had. With Captain Keys for example, the flood needed his memories, so he was kept alive while a protogravemind probed his brain.
99% of the time you die during the process except for the unique case of Jenkins
I’d flying around saving people with my spore powers
Not really, the flood destroys your spine, neck included, on porpuse while transforming
I like how some of the marines ended with saying woah like nothing's wrong.
6:47 Hi cameraman!
This is why you always bring a crowbar to wo- oh wrong game
Thanks for this, i absolutely loved how the flood was worked on in halo 3, really cool to see pure forms transforming
I still can’t believe this game came out when it did. My first even Xbox 360 game. I was in middle school and I’ll never forget playing the campaign and my favorite missions over and over again. Then I was introduced to online gaming with halo 3 at my cousins house and it made the game even more amazing. Was and will probably always be my #1 favorite game of all time.
I bought Halo 3 the day it was launched and I never noticed all these little details. Incredible work on Bungies part.
It's even scarier when you consider that the infection forms are around a meter tall.
Nope.
Terrifying little tidbit: A lot of the infected, who turned while alive, are still "conscious". They are just controlled by the infection forms, and in extension, the flood. They feel everything, and can still think.
It's a sort of mercy to take them out. Captain Keyes is probably the greatest example of retaining the most sense of "self" after infection. Everyone else is in that semi-conscious state of pain and confusion, or the even unluckier few that are completely conscious, such as the unnamed (maybe named?) marine who spoke to other UNSC to kill him.
Not only that, the Flood go out of their way to keep the victim conscious. The Flood could just as easily let the victim die and use the body like a normal Zombie, but the Flood chemically isolate the brain from the rest of the dying body to keep the brain alive. They do this so they can learn from the victim, however it also means that the victim knows everything about what is going on - from the endless agony, to merely watching as the parasites controls his body and forces him to attack his friends.
I loved the flood transformations in Halo 3 and still love them to this day. I can’t wait to see what Halo Infinite has in store for us in terms of flood
sadly theyre just mentioned in the game, there are no flood otherwise
Okay... Why did I even watch this? I mean, sure, the animations are interesting to see play out, but I also basically just gave myself a heavy dose of nightmare fuel... Yay, me.
I used to always let the flood take over marines because I thought it was cool to watch them turn
Why hello, Satan
calm down, satan
Honestly same. Either I couldn’t live with a single ally dying or I just let the flood on them lol
@@alexrobinson5058 it's either heaven or hell for ya squad 😅
I love the way they just spread tbh
love how being infected by the flood instantly changes the colour of your clothes
When the flood doesn’t approve of your fashion 0:34
Why is nobody talking about how in the Brute Combat Form, its "feelers" come out of the poor brute's mouth...?
Gives me the heebie-jeebies
Yeah I never noticed that before gross
I never noticed that. It’s jaw is ripped wide open 😱
I noticed.
I enjoyed taking their sheilds away just to watch them squirm & contort & scream.
*Fuck. The. Brutes.*
@@williamdunhan341 ok bruh it’s a game 😂 school shooter vibes
The SPARTAN combat form is worse.
I don't care what anyone says, this game was way ahead of it's time.
I remember playing halo 3 with an old friend when it first came out.
Lets just say, seeing the marine get infected in real time in front of my eyes after entering the building scared and disturbed me to no end.
And recently replaying it on MCC , any dead ally that dies behind you, is another dagger to watch out for.
Whenever I played Halo 3 and if I see anyone or anything get infected (whenever it's one of the Marines, elites, or the brutes) I make sure to kill them before the become infected... The fact that once the spore gets inside them gives me the urge to put them out of their misery before the infection spreads all over them... This really shows that the flood are truly a horrifying organism.
Dude. Playing through Floodgate is terrifying. You just want to put all the non infected out of their misery so they don’t have to endure the torture.
what? Only headcrabs need their host to be alive
I hope that in future Halo games we see the flood actually digging it's way into the chest cavity instead of just clipping through the body
Imagine if we had gotten a Halo 3 Anniversary. Could you imagine what they would have done to to make these even more terrifying?
I find it disturbing how it doesn’t matter you are dead, knocked out or alive, The flood auto fires your body back to life to transform it
Man the brutes have it bad 😭 literally explodes into a combat form!
And literally gets their mouths/jaws ripped open to make way for the Infection Form’s sensory appendages... 😖
@@GreenEyedWolf404 all while its still alive to then Let out a loud scream of agony
😵💥🐲
If in the Future we will ever get another Infected multiplayer game VS the flood, This is exactly how i want Infected death animations to be implemented, You good sir just set an outstanding example on how high quality infection death animations should be implemented.
I love it... Good Job Man... Kudos !!!
3:51 Testicles
You hungry?
@@emiliodelangel30 i am
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lol
I don’t know if this is lore accurate, but based on the screams it seems like even if you are dead, the flood just bring you back to life and possess your body. I find that fate far scarier than a normal infection, it’s like the flood won’t let you die
*[Flood Combat Forms - **0:06**]*
*Humans*
Alive - 0:15 / 0:20
Dead - 1:06
Alive ( Neck Snap ) - 1:38 / 1:40 / 1:42
*Elites*
Alive - 2:17 / 2:20
Dead - 3:03 / 3:06
Brutes
Alive
3:20 / 3:22
3:20 / 3:22
3:20 / 3:22
Alive
3:39 / 3:41
3:39 / 3:41
3:39 / 3:41
Dead
4:15 / 4:18
4:15 / 4:18
4:15 / 4:18
*[Flood Pure Forms - **4:28**]*
Tank Form - 4:35
Ranged Form - 6:05
Stalker Form - 7:15
This is the last thing I expected to be remastered. But good job!
After all the atrocities that happened at Reach and elsewhere, watching Elites and Brute get ducked by the flood is really entertaining.
The fact the brutes lower jaw is all the way down where the infection form is at makes this cool looking, but also terrifying.
0:27 Aliens have face huggers. These have...Head humpers???
LOL
I swear to god, the scariest thing I've ever read is that adjunct scene from the definitive edition of Halo: The Flood that's told not only from the point of view of a random Marine, but also the infection form that's infecting him.
I'm intrigued..
Now that i think about it… i’ve never seen a flood grunt
This was the first game I ever got on the Xbox 360 when I was younger, the first time I saw this happen it actually scarred me to the point where I needed to either save as many soldiers as I could or kill them so they wouldn't turn into that.
When I was little, I remember how terrified of the flood I used to be back when I first played Halo CE og xbox. For some reason, I thought they were "potato people" and didn't understand what they were. By Halo 2, it occurred to me that they used the dead and were even scarier. Now an adult, I'm just scared something like this _could_ exist somewhere in our universe.
Knowing how vast and expansive the universe is, it's highly probable that something like the flood exists out there. Hell, we have similar stuff on earth already, it's just that they infect insects not humans.
You wouldn't have been the only one to think they were "potato people" because I did too. I was young and didn't understand the concept of undead. They sure looked like it in Halo CE. It doesn't help that in the OG graphics, Captain Keyes even looks like a potato. Later on as an adult, I would refer to that version of Keyes as "Potato Keyes".
6:15 *_Turtle mode_*
I... I don't like turtles
Can we just appreciate how truly horrific the flood is? Can't wait to see them in high detail with infinite.
Edit: I hate you 343
The flood in infinite?
@@user-xb4cr1ym4f the prophets have betrayed us...
No! The great journey has begun and the flood not 343 will be the people's escort!
HAHAHAHAHA
no
He just broke his own neck. Sksksks
What does sksksksk mean
@@Nyslleo idk. Just something I type. When I cringe or something
@@hannahnekelly9236 ok
Trying to summon a cat
I dont know if this is confirmed or not but I like how the pure form kinda feels like flood iterations of the races the flood couldnt turn
The tanks are the most obvious with their similarity to hunters
The ranged forms remind me a lot of grunts in how they cower when being shot at with high ordinance weaponry, and the turret always gives me halo 2 shade turret vibes. That could just be me, but those are almost exclusively grunt weapons in 2 and they like to pop up in weird places to catch you off guard just like the ranged form
The stalkers feel like a mash up of drones and jackals. The silhouette is very reminiscent of the hunched over drone while the jumping and getting into inconspicuous locations to transform into a bigger threat is a lot like jackals in the lore. In gameplay jackal snipers are found on rooftops because they are great at climbing afterall
wdym jackals in the lore? they can transform?
nah I mean like the ability to jump up into inconspicuous places is a lot like jackals. the pure forms just do it to transform into turret mode
@@fe7general837 oh i see
I remember seeing this happen for the first time in Halo 3, it was fucking crazy to see
1:55 Oh jesus, the parasite made HIM break his neck.
No one:
Flood infections: entering the private part of an elite
Oh, gods, why am I even watching this... and enjoying it in return?
0:54 it turns out if you are infected by the flood your pants will change too
Halo, the best story action first person shooter ever. Also, one of the best low key horror games you never expected.
If this universe existed, just keep in mind that someone, somewhere in the darkest corner of the galaxy has a fetish with the flood.
I absoloutely love the intro, classic Halo YT from early 2010's.
3:19 I know I did not just see what I just saw
Behold penis spider
DHELITE8I Imagine the pain that brute went through
@@claytonrichard2192yeah, when going for it’s groin
Yeah right in the groin
The Flood from Halo 3 are still some of the most technically extraordinary NPCs I've ever seen in any videogame. Between this and how the Scarab works, Halo 3 is full of impressive technical feats.
Imagine being that marine, having a flood spore crawl on your face and reach into your nervous system while being infected, the growing large appendages in half a second
1:39 God the flood made him snap his own neck that is just disturbing.
What makes this even more horrifying is that most victims are still alive after the transformation.
the flood always keeps the host it infects alive, only that it can no longer do anything because its body no longer belongs to it, it only has to suffer the damage caused by the parasite
JESUS CHRIST! I played this as a child around 8 and I still never noticed this until now. God this is great detail!
Bungie managed to create both the best sci-fi storyline and zombie species in existence... on the foundation of a first-person-shooter.
2:32 im wondering why the random gravity hammer sound xD
Sound of the elite's energy shield breaking
@@TheNarrowgauger thats a different sound tho
@@calus_bath_water
Yes
Maybe a defense mechanism or self destruct sequence
I love how the marine wears one like a hat for a brief moment
Never seen the tank form spawn infection forms in my playthroughs and I played the campaign a lot. Learned something new
Lots of people even me never saw the elites get infected in game while alive due to the infection forms dying when they hit their shield
Juuusssttt a quick reminder that the host is alive during the whole transformation process!