The Flood mods of Halo | Lets take a look at the best Flood campaign mods
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- The flood are villains for good reason.. We as humans in Halo have a lot to accomplish and consider, we think in abstract and juggle multiple trains of thought... But what if the flood weren't the villains? What if we had a halo game that, through its mechanics, pacing and framing of the action… allowed us to briefly immerse ourselves in the mindset of these parasites? Thats what these mods I played for combat evolved aimed to do.
The Flood Virulence: www.moddb.com/...
Forgotten Exile:
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Virulence got a new level called Vitriol where you take over the island with the map room
Tpd1864blake the one called Assault on the control room?
jim s yea idk why i thought assault on the control room. Its been a many since ive played.
has he played it yet?
Silent cartographer
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It sure doesn’t feel like pure mechanical instinct when they control a marine with a rocket launcher
That's some serious shit right there.
Gotta love it when they blow up the entire hallway and themselves
Lonely Potato you’re profile picture is my reaction every time I see it
One^
Satanical
Young LNG: "Oh hey what's this"
Leech: "Nom"
Young LNG: "I have made a terrible mistake."
Babushka nope, plenty of leeches in the US bite, especially in Maine
Late Night Gaming hah I remember back in 2008 I had one on my knee after swimming and I nearly fainted
@Babushka Theres also plenty here in CA
Babushka no there’s leaches
SIVA 4 WOT Blitz Hero I beg your pardon
Its kinda insane how smooth and slick the custom animations for these mods are. That elite getting overwhelmed in Virulence was butter.
Well the animation is lifted straight from Halo 3 like the mechanic of live infection itself, but it's still impressively well preserved.
*Hidden Xperia wants know your location*
*I C O N I C*
Lmfao
This post is absolutely 「I C O N I C」
Hidden Xperia>Late Night Gaming in every single way. Fuck this guy, lol.
*LNG throws a dolly into a bus*
Feral stage: *nom*
Gravemind stage: *Intellectual nom*
Key Mind stage: *OMEGA NOM*
Later 4 galaxies infected: GALACTIC NOM
@@kryptekfunnies7473 doctor nom*
"The Flood are simple parasites, they operate on pure mechanical instinct"
Gravemind and Coordinated Stage Flood: *Am I a joke to you*
there was no gravemind or coordinated stage in combat evolved lul
Yeah, how racist can you get! Yikes
@Shydun but he probably was existing at that point, he just wasn’t directly in the plot.
Mechanical instinct IS the main motive, but isn’t the only motivating factor behind why the Flood does what it does. Since a Gravemind’s personality can also be a motive if said Gravemind is a sadist and enjoys infecting new victims.
I was looking for this comment because while that was a really cool metaphor at the end of episode two it completely ignores the fact that the flood, even in its uncoordinated stages, are the remains of primordial beings that have a deep hatred for the Forerunners and un-assimilated life in general, in which case makes it perfectly logical for them to taunt and have disdain towards its enemies: Humans as the inheritors of the mantle, and Covenant as a force standing in the way of its goals. At the end of the day, the flood are a hivemind species driven by primordial hate. If the flood were truly mindless, yes, it would be disappointing, but seeing as they aren't and have clear goals and motivation, the taunts neither add nor take away from the experience for me.
Man, I used to be able to sleep at night, but then I heard LNG describe the Flood's horrific procedures on the battlefield in an ASMR voice, and now I'm never sleeping again.
I want Flood ASMR to be a thing.
hahaha I thought I was the only one to view his voice as ASMR. I mean, don't get me wrong I love Halo and everything, but I've been falling asleep to LNG's old videos for weeks now.
People knew what asmr was 3 years ago? Damn.
Hey man Flood_Dev here, thanks so much for doing a video man. Brought up some good stuff for me to mull over, definitely like your critique and its made me think for sure :) There's a new campaign out now which was a little pet project of mine for a while now telling the story of the flood on the silent cartographer island, not supposed to really be lore wise just telling a small story that the masterchief never saw. Hope you enjoy it
mrsubject1 happy to hear!!! What parts helped you out with my video?
@@LateNightHalo dude the way that you analyse the writing in release, recuperation, and infestation made me think a lot cause I personally believe the food would be apathetic so I'll be making a note of that and changing a few things. In regards to the changing of campaigns I think Revival could be a good name for recuperation but I do like the setting in time line and actions that it takes. I more think of each campaign like separate stories each showing their own themes and places instead of trying to be an overarching storyline. I guess now with the new campaign its no longer a three and mini but a four and mini campaign so it'd be tough to string it all together thematically. However, as I said I do really enjoy your analysis and it has given food for thought and ideas for rewritings :)
mrsubject1 happy to hear it man! Virulence was a thoroughly enjoyable experience!
I was surprised at how clever the combat loop turned out to be! There’s a genuine strategy to how you influence the spread and growth of the swarm.
Like I said, it played almost like a “first person RTS”
@@LateNightHalo Yeah man I'm so happy that infection was able to be added, really changed the whole dynamic of the experience and i love it. Before it was added it wasn't exactly distinct but now I find myself just playing through levels cause the different approaches you can take to the encounters. The spreading was something was really something i wanted to bring across the growth and spread like how the humans 'seem familiar' when they're first infected in release. Hope you like the new campaign and the new stuff I tried to incorporate into it :D
@@LateNightHalo Ok time to write this out again cause i stupidly delted it thinking I had dual posted. I don't think i mentioned this in the previous comment. The anger on Recuperation wasn't really supposed to come off as anger and was more to do with the masterchief, or how you masterfully analog 'the flesh', evading their grasp and diminishing their horde by a large amount after such ease in consuming all in the same way that staff sgt Mobuto's body was found 'so mangled that even the Flood
couldn’t make use of him.' It was more their collective consciousnesses dealing with the evasion and the overwhelming drive to build again rather than any actual hatred towards to covenant forces or even interest into their reason for being at the library just remarking 'they search for the stolen key too'. With all this said i still believe that it definitely could've been put across better to the player through the chapter titles :D
Oh, you beat Gravemind on Legendary? That's cute.
I watched this video while I ate pasta.
Read the comment section while drinking water, that's harder to do
(the point is that there's a shitton of funny comments, atleast from what i'm seeing)
Lol
I just did the same
Imagine eating egg lol. That would be nasty
Me too
I did the same but with rice
Maybe The Flood for some moments latch on to keys memories, hence calling them vermin emoting hate towards covenant.
This is a good theory. Upvote this so he can see
Or heck, maybe the Flood learned to regard types of life different from itself with contempt from all the Covenant minds it had absorbed. _"You are, all of you, vermin,"_ anyone?
@@JustAndre92 maybe. After watching this video again, and playing through the mod myself, Ive noticed what LNG said didnt make sense. The Flood didn't call them vermin. The mod said 'Make them scramble like vermin', rather then 'Make them scramble like the vermin they are'. Implying they wanted them to scatter as they are much easier to infect while split up or panicking. What do you guys think?
@@theabstractchicken3998 well that was just speculation 😅 I don't know what the mod developers intended.
I feel like a lot of people here don't really know the lore of Halo too well. what the maker of this video said at the start about the mod not fitting into the lore of Halo, it definitely does. when flood first start out they are basically just infecting people with the intent to gather more bio mass. Once they gather enough biomass they create a central intelligence called the Grave Mind which yeah, it holds the collective memory of every single being it has infected. Every single memory. Its not a theory or anything lol its already in game lore
Most terrifying enemy in Forgotten Exile in my Opinion were the Hazard Ops Elites, with their plasma throwers. They're an enemy I wouldn't mind actually appearing in the main series.
Imagine how good quarantine zone would have been with them in it
@@srikrishnasrivatsan199 Imagine Quarantine Zone with them and UNSC flamethrowers laying around. Makes me want to have Flame Troopers/Hellbringers appear in the main series.
@@kabob0077 Halo 2 was supposed to have a covenant flamethrower called the "Eviscerator" if I'm not wrong so we were this close
@@srikrishnasrivatsan199 Oh I know, it's just that I want my cut, under appreciated, and cool niche weapons damn it. I want plasmathrowers, flamethrowers, the Focus Rifle, the Plasma Launcher, and more.
@@srikrishnasrivatsan199 Hopefully 343 could attempt to either add all those to a new game or make the Plasmathrower and Flamethrower workable near the PC release.
*Flood army boarding the Pillar of Autumn* “Time for some payback”
*Pillar of Autumn explodes and destroys the ring*
that actually makes sense, because of the cutscene
On the 'the Flood trying to make the covies scared' thing, while basic flood organisms wouldn't really have that sort of goal in mind, the greater intelligence would understand the value of morale, and of course one must remember that the Flood were formed by the Precursors to spite another race, intentionally trying to bring them misery and suffering as vengeance.
Sure, but the Flood in _Halo 1_ were still in the "Feral" stage; even during the brief period when the Proto-Gravemind was active, the Flood didn't actually _have_ that greater intelligence yet. :P
Since when were the flood formed with malicious intent?
I thought they were a mistake? After the precursors decomposed themselves into dust and hopped onto some ship to travel the galaxy until a much later time. Then the humans found the containers and used the dust in experiments which created abnormal growths on their pets, then the pets began to cannibalise and it spread around to other forms.
Is that not how the flood was formed? They're like corrupted/tainted decomposed precursors, I thought?
@@JustAndre92 No but they were feeding on those who did, so they can get a good sense of what is effective against them in their own minds now.
@@Garthorium The last Precursor tells Ur Diadact about why the Flood were created, they were made with the intent to spite the Forerunners for their greed, punish the living for their betrayal. If the Forerunners didn't want Mankind to inherent the galaxy, then no one will.
@@Garthorium You're correct, but the reason the Flood are so destructive and horrific in the first place is that they're imbued with the hatred the Precursors grew to hold toward the creations that turned on them so barbarously. As the original Gravemind says in _Silentium:_
_“A few were spared. Some adopted new strategies for survival; they became dormant. Others became dust that could regenerate our past forms; time rendered this dust defective. It brought only disease and misery; but that was good, we saw the misery and found it good._
_"Our urge to create is immutable; we_ must _create. But the beings we create shall never again reach out in strength against us._
_"All that is created will_ suffer.
_"All will be born in suffering, endless greyness shall be their lot._
_"All creation will tailor to failure and pain, that_ never again _shall the offspring of the eternal Fount rise up against their creators._
_"Listen to the silence. Ten million years of deep silence. And now, whimpers and cries; not of birth._
_"That is what we bring: a great crushing weight to press down youth and hope._
_"No more_ will.
_"No more freedom._
_"Nothing new but agonizing death and never good shall come of it._
"We are the last of those who gave you breath and form, millions of years ago.
"We are the last of your kind defied and ruthlessly destroyed.
"We are the last Precursors.
"And now we are _legion."_
“Air gets T H I C C E R”????????
The air gets DUMMY THICC
Aquillifer OOOIIIOOO
Aquillifer the clap of its ass cheeks alerts the covenant
Spicy Air
Zesty ahh air
Seriously make a Halo flood horror game where you play as a marine or ODST it could be similar to left 4 dead.
People have been asking for this since the flood introduction in 2001
I honestly do not believe that project would go too well. If you were a Marine or a ODST you would have no chance of survival, and would completely break the fear or immersion of the flood. Remember, this is a parasite that could wipe out an entire Galaxy with a single spore, why couldn't it just kill a single Marine or ODST? Also the flood were never fun to fight against in Halo games. The best reincarnation of them were in Halo 3, and even I found them to be tedious. This is coming from somebody that has been playing all of the Halo games for years on the PC and the Xbox. I still play the Reach insider beta sometimes. Yes you can play the Reach beta on PC still. If you have downloaded a Steam Emulator such as Goldberg Emulator and put the offline.dll inside of it, the game won't have access to the servers, therefore won't lock you out. I am a huge fan of the series. I refuse to play the remastered versions of the games, since I deem them inferior to the original games. I just hope with the rerelease of Halo 2 on PC, they don't force Halo 2: Project Cartographer to shut down. I actually do hope that they take some of the source code for that and put it into H2A, on both console and PC. Halo 2: PC fixed many of the issues that the PC version of the game had, and it's the same version that's on the Xbox One. So not only would we benefit from the net code improvements, better optimization, FOV sliders, high resolution capabilities, and many other things. I hope 343i gives thanks to the community for fixing Halo 2, by contributing to the Halo 2: PC development. Lord knows that we need split screen or at the least co-op. Or the source code would be beautiful as well. Make it the Google Chromium to Chrome. One can be proprietary and "better" while one can be slightly inferior, but make it open source, free for you to distribute, modify, and the former is based off of the latter. Which being you will not get the anniversary graphics in H2:PC. I'm curious on how they will handle it, because Halo 2: Vista is abandon ware. I understand that the game engine for Halo 2 Vista is borderline garbage, but it would be amazing if they at the very least made it on par or better than the original Xbox version.
I'm a modder, and I am modding the CE campaign for you to play as a marine. As a huge fan of the OG Halo, I know what we want. The whole campaign, you take the shoes of a marine, no stronger than another, and in need of your other fellow marines and Chief in this journey...
@@SirinDunkelheit Oh, how is that project going? I would imagine that it wouldn't be too easy. Would the chief be immortal, or just like a companion in Fallout 4? Or maybe even the Project Lumia companions in SPv3? I also imagine that the worse parts of the game would be a complete bitch to play through. (flood missions.)
@@Tyler-uc4ye Yes it is a challenge. You see, you are just a marine. You fight the Covenant in PoA with other marines as you protect the crewman in their escape before finally going off yourself. Then you land on the ring with Sgt. Johnson, I am sure you remember the section in second level. You hold off until Chief arrives defend with him, and take off with the others in Foehammers pelican as Johnson volunteers to go with Chief. Then you have the operation on the Silent Cartographer. (Before Chief arrives, you know the dead bodies and stuff.) You survive and escape with a Banshee. Then you rejoin the UNSC and take your place in the Assault in the Control room. As you try to push, fail and retreat (second group of marines) you come across Chief and the first group. (Yes I fixed the problem of Johnson being there, removed him and swapped him.) Then Chief leaves to find Keyes after your group and him take over the Control Center. You are assigned to defend it from Covenant and you do that, until Flood suddenly pours out of nowhere and starts slaughtering both sides. (I'm being true to the story of game and the book, even fixing some plot holes while you hava this experience as a forgotten marine.) I wouldn't want to spoil the second half tho. But improvements over the almost perfect masterpiece CE is, the AI upgrades, variety (marines with Covenant guns throw plasmas, or marines hold more then just ARs like snipers or shotguns at the same time. Crewman are actually useful, act like weak snipers with the pistols. You have no HUD, and no shields. One flood spore is death and you are just a human in titanium armor. Shots crumble you and make you stumble, you have non-rechargeable shield system of your metal armor. Only refills when you take a medkit. No crosshair, and so on. Unfortunately because if my lack of first-person coding in CE and its overall difficulty of modding. My mod will be a third-person 'game'. I got inspired of my mod with the original Combat Evolved. The open world, third person, PC one that never came to be. Chief is not immortal, but obviously stronger than you. He literally becomes your only reason of survival many times. I hope I was able to explain.
here's what the thoughts of the fllod sound like:
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Mmmmm...Brains
No, they sound like Teletubbies slurping for custard
Cato Sicarius nightmare fuel
They sound like mr. Herbert when he sees children
oh, that's nasty
I’ve heard that the developer of the Forgotten Exile mod has laid his mod to rest
RIP
Well damn... that's disappointing, wonder why
Yes man, please :( he and his team need He and his team need more attention, that was the best campaign mod :'(
I hope someone else picks it up and updates it/ remasters it. It does deserve recognition.
Be more active on Discord and maybe you'll actually come across him in one of the Halo modding discord's you're in. Seriously, dude.
That would be awesome if there was a high Charity flood mod. Maybe you get to play as Covenant while the city is getting..Transformed, and you have to escape.
When halo 2 an comes to pc id love to make a level of the flood tearing through the streets of the Holy city
That would be amazing
@@mrsubject1 Halo 2 is already on PC, however I think MCC will have better moding tools instead of Halo 2 Vista.
@@kabob0077 that's what I was meaning the halo 2 hek is still very vista
@@mrsubject1 Ah, okay.
Hidden Xperia's Paradise! His Utopia! His Iconicness!
the guy hasn't been too receptive to me suggesting it lol
mrsubject1 what did he say?😂
@@kaiserkiefer1760 I tried the discord and well it was a discord, I think I contacted him a bit too early sent him a screenshot library when infestation was the only campaign and then was blocked lol
@@mrsubject1 I guess it's from his moderators? I usually contact him on Twitter.
@@rosegraham5283 tfw no twitter lol
Can’t believe someone made a mod that made me feel sad for the flood
I know right
0:18 Flood is apathetic teenager confirmed
You are Correct 🤣🤣🤣
@pyropulse Its a joke.
pyropulse Dude it was a goddamn joke
The ability to grow your army by converting your enemies is such a cool game-play mechanic.
Dude seriously the fix you suggested sounds AWSOME id love to play that i even think that would make a.great stand alone game
Just hit me: Those little spider bots should've been how the Crawlers function in Halo 4.
Aggressive robotic arachnids firing off boltshot rounds and swarming the player.
A small skittering machine to clear ventilation shafts fits the functional designs of Forerunners (propulsion through a fucntioning vent would be more difficult than just clinging to the walls) and aesthetically matches sentinels
I love how when the keyes gravemind gets destroyed with the ship, the flood don’t grieve or complain. They just go right back to rebuilding, it really makes me feel like they’re superior to conscious being because they don’t waste time on feelings.
Only Taras can make me feel sorry for the Flood and view Master Chief as a villain.
14:30 i think, since they consume a lot of UNSC and covenant forces, they'll adopt its memories just like their enemies strategies.
The spider sentinels would be cool in game and I would like this controlling a flood army idea
I always felt that "Covenant Dance" fits better to the Flood than to the Covenant itself
If you LOVED this take, you need to hunt down an older copy of "AvP2" and it's expansion "Primal hunt" made by Sierra.
It has a campaign for the ALIENS and PREDATORS. It's an ABSOLUTE blast.
Ngl I modded the shit out of avp2 when I finally got it running, one of my favourite games especially the early predator/alien missions and the alien hive mission
@@mrsubject1
What mods? Are there any HD mods out there?
I was REALLY sad that colonel marines didn't have the same feeling and polish this game had :(
@@1337GameDev oh yeah there are quite a few mods for the base game that make it look a lot better retexing weapons and skins but I mixed and matched mods and editing smaller things like the walkspeed of the marines and jump height of the predator too
@@1337GameDev I wish avp3 had longer campaigns so badly or like any editing kit for modding
To anyone unconvinced _vis a vis AVP2:_ The Alien campaign is you playing out the lifecycle of a xenomorph. As in, the _entire_ lifecycle; not only do you eventually run around picking off Marines or going toe-to-toe with Predators as a full-grown specimen like every other game with playable Aliens, but before that you hatch as a facehugger and hunt down a human host, and in between the two you even chew your way out of your host's body as a chestburster and stealth your way through your environment until you can find somewhere safe to hide out before undergoing your final metamorphosis. It really is a body horror fan's wet dream.
I would even like a game where you play as a cop from ODST and your in the place with all the drones coming after you in the dark.
Bro i'm working on one project just like what you want !
I take the spv3.2 tags and i modified a lot and i'm working on one odst campaign with a few aspects from the other Halo games and it will still have the aspects of the spv3 and i will release it on the next week on my channel if you want check it out ! It will be one spv3.2 mod so to play you need to have the spv3.2
Default Play can’t wait to see man
@@bryce5421 Very good my friend because I'm almost done with my project !
Sounds awesome
There even is an ODST campaign called RPSP, which isn't ODST-like at all (you have same amounts of health and shield like a spartan) but the campaign is still worth playing. There're also two ODST firefight maps called Descent (which plays just like Halo CE but has a lot more weapons and stuff and you have just a little less health) and a newer one called Firefight Sector 9 which requires Open Sauce (an extension that tweaks the game engine to allow more modding) but it gives possibly the best immersion of Halo 3 ODST in Halo CE (it even has VISR mode!). The Halo CE community is extremely dedicated.
The only issue I have is in relation to your comments about the character of the flood. The story has a really neat progression from the animal hunger of the initial stages to the labyrinthian malice of the Gravemind and finally back to the dumb animal. The flood are innocent, stupid animals at their weakest, but the Gravemind in Halos 2 and 3 is a very aware creature. It talks about faith in the Arbiter and CORRECTLY guesses at Chief's silent motive when he's trying to rescue Cortana. Its interactions with Chief allude to the deepest part of the Gravemind's character. If Halo's universe draws carefully from Christianity, then the mission title "Infinite Devil Machine" can't be ignored. The Gravemind's creepy hunger and looming dialog mimic Satan's temptations in the form of rhythms and alluring wit, but with the same derisive and accusing dialogue as someone who's trying to shake the heart of their victim. "We exist together now, two corpses in one grave" is clearly meant to hurt the Chief, who knows that he had a hand in burying Cortana. Like the real Satan, the Gravemind's attempts to cause emotional harm are a tactical endeavor to cause rash thinking and clumsy behavior. The wit of the flood is its most potent weapon, and as an allegory among the most important parts of the plot of Halo at large. The Gravemind's influence isn't just as a monster that infects the body, but as an evil that infects the mind of the characters and even the universe itself. The flood WANTS you to think that it's just a dumb animal, because Penitent Tangent can look after a dumb animal.
I think you may be confused. The lower level flood are like a dream come true to you since they just see you as food and don't necessarily feel or understand (I'm talking about the parasite btw not the infected creature itself) but, remember. The flood also gains intelligence. That said, with the Gravemind being that intelligence and sending in mindlessly but controlled troops to their objective you gotta think and use what the flood is best known for. Its aggressiveness and fears tactics drives itself to the heart of their enemies which may weaken them. You just gotta think about it man
Such a cool interesting take on CE! I love the fact they implemented new game mechanics to fit within the Flood theme. So well done!
LateNight, bro, I'm making a mod where you play as a legit marine in the OG campaign, following the official storyline while you take in the shoes of a marine, just surviving against Covenant with your fellow marines and the legendary Master Chief in his journey. And I am making sure I capture the feel of the OG flood in this mod, but even stronger. You don't try to save only your friends anymore, as much as yourself. I hope you can review it when I hopefully release it in one piece as it is my very first work on modding. I learn as I go. Good review and video as always, keep up the good work!
that sounds damn fun, so many possibilities and the absolute fear of being touched by even one of those skittering horrors. I'd love to keep up to date with it you on opencarnage?
Looking forward to seeing it!
@@mrsubject1 Oh hey! I don't know much about the modders side, I'm a newbie so I don't know what opencarnage is, I was thinking of opening a Discord for easier way to keep up with the progress.
@@SirinDunkelheit opencarnage is a forumn where lots of modders for halo hang out there's lot of resources and people that can help as well as links to discords and such. here's the link opencarnage.net/ be sure to keep us in the loop I'm sure loads of people would be interested too :D
@@mrsubject1 Thanks!
I adore the writing in your videos. You pour so much passion and immersive detail, you sell it far strongly than just exposing the mod! I just love the writing in your videos, and the way you describe your appreciation for the Flood parasite. Right on point. I strongly relate to those feelings.
Marlutte Yestrelt that’s the goal :) I want to make sure each upload matters
Honestly, the way you put it, a Flood mini series, canon or not would be amazing, it would show the true horror of the flood, cause you are the flood in the series..
This makes me want to redownload Halo CE again..for the 50th time, on my 7th computer.
You play as the Flood? This mod looks absolutely epic.
Also, I feel like The Flood is frightening, the same way that zombies are frightening to people, the idea of losing yourself and something else controlling your body.
I seen you somewhere before....but where?!??!
Articus Ramos general heed?
When I was younger when I played halo 3 when the gravemind spoke I noped out of there.
Canada Eh? Wasn’t the gravemind scene halo 2?
They are zombies so that would make sense
This is a relatively old video.. so I doubt you’ll see my comment~
But I’d just like to say, how pleasant it was to see someone obviously enjoy halo as much as I do. Love your passion, dude. You’ve earned my subscription 🖤
Nobody:
Not a soul:
LNG: "Everything will be referred as flesh now, thank you."
They probably started calling the Covenant vermin due to leeching off of Keys' memories. He left a sort of imprint, I guess
I really hope they make more flood content for MCC when mod support drops. I would like to see 3-team infection. Elites, humans, and flood. It could be treated more like invasion or firefight.
While I agree on the flood's distaste of Sentinels and how the episodes should be ordered, I heavily disagree that the flood are incapable of thought or emotion without the Gravemind. The flood are still the hate-impassioned war child of the Precursors, and they spread more out of hatred for everything in the universe than just a need for food.
The flood, even in the feral stage, have always been conscious and have always had opinions on their enemies. Taunting also isn't far fetched, as it's one of the Gravemind's favourite activities. I would argue that the taunting is not a result of the Gravemind, but rather the Gravemind's tendency to taunt is down to the nature of the flood. They don't necessarily just see targets as flesh, they see them as units of varying physical and emotional value. They flood naturally isolate and target Elites just as you did while playing, because they do communicate, they do make judgements, and they are conscious.
Revenge is the basis of how the flood operates, and they very clearly embrace that. The flood's natural drive to feed is only the method in which they exact their revenge. The individual units of the flood also gain information and strategies based on their hosts, meaning that some of the emotional information is also gathered and used. The difference is that the flood still CAN behave autonomously, by not allowing emotions to interfere with performance. They do not necessarily have individual concerns or consciousness, but they do have collective opinions at least, and they can form individual judgements.
These flood campaigns are awesome
Something like this was always on my mind when I played through Halo Wars, and I was so dissapointed that in the end, there was only a UNSC campaign. I REALLY enjoyed playing the Covenant in Firefight, and really wished that I could play the other factions like the Rebels. They had their own ranks, buildings and military structure that were all underutilized and underdeveloped.
This was legit the best flood play I’ve seen ever. Well done!!
I'm the parasite that chases you down the hall.
I'm the machine that kills you and never knows why.
Mr self destruct
D:
6:20 press F for the crushed combat form.
The scariest thing about the flood for me when I first played Halo as a kid was the fact that the covenant were so fearful of something that was unknown to you. Seeing them run out of a structure that you have just entered only to see dead covenant everywhere with blue and purple blood covering the floor was nightmare fuel for a curious mind and was the first time I think anyone felt sorry for the covenant. The atmosphere in that level was practically perfect.
I gotta make the point that the flood is essentially a hive mind, not mindless.
This is the Feral stage
I have two theories about why the writing was different in episode 2
- maybe, as the proto-gravemind evolves, the bit of the primordial that is in every gravemind comes into being and makes the proto gravemind/gravemind more sadistic, because we all know what he was like
- maybe its captain keye’s hatred of the covenant affecting the proto-gravemind’s manner towards the covenant
I'm actually so mad that I hadn't seen this video on the day it came out...On my birthday.
This is 100% a great late Bday present especially since the flood is one of my favourite thing about halo.
Well done video!
I still think this should be an *OFFICIAL* DLC, it's a great addition to the Halo lore to be up in close, lock and loaded as the Flood.
You earned a FIRM subscriber with this video. Idk who you are but I plan to follow you a lot more after this. Very well put together.
I don't know what I was expecting by clicking this video, but an amazing journey through a side of a beloved classic I never knew about, delivered with thoughtful analysis that reminds me of greats of Talking About The Video Games Real Good like Noah Caldwell-Gervais? That wasn't it. It was pleasantly, very surprised. I've seen a few videos of yours so far, and I'm sure as heck here to stay. Grew up with the original Halo trilogy, etc etc. Loving your videos.
When master chief sees a grunt: nothing personal runt
When the flood sees a grunt: swiggity swoogity I’m coming for that biomass booty
This went quick from a gameplay to a story
One idea I think would be a great idea for that second mod is the introduction of carrier forms. I think it could add an extra element to the gameplay by allowing you the ability to remove groups of enemies at a time by carefully escorting your big poppers into a group and letting them do their thing.
I would like to politely disagree with the statement that the flood shouldn't want to instill fear into it's enemies. Once they have a gravemind, that should be the goal- strategically speaking. Psychological warfare is part of why the flood was so effective against the covenant, they genuinely fear it. Freezing potential prey in fear allows for easier consumption and conversion for the flood to grow even more powerful and more fearsome. Keyes was part of a proto-gravemind, so it makes sense that during your least favorite level that the flood address the living in that manner. At least it makes sense in my mind
EDIT: Next time i should finish a video before commenting.
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1rjekffid first 777to I am the only way to get us to be able and not to be feared is that the only thing that I would have to do it is a rts that I can use force for my parents day to help out of quirky for the
They need to make a halo horror game like dead space were your trapped on a oni ship flood that was experimented on like they were doing on halo 5 but it got out of hand and you have to escape and destroy the ship
Sounds like the Mona Lisa story. Lol
Codename:END3R I would play a game about that
I think there was indeed a mod like this, but I can't remember. I do remember a similar mod where you're trapped in a place with no memory of how you got to the place. It's a firefight mod, called Firefight Amnesia. It was short but the enjoyment was totally worth.
We need an ODST 2 where you’re fighting the flood. I’d love a Reach feel to it where you know you’re going to lose the fight and your allies but there is still hope.
A new Late night gaming video 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Bro your passionate commentary/narrative made this so worth watching
Thanks for liking man, I was hoping you'd see this! I've been reading the books lately, (Ghosts of Onyx and Hunters in the Dark so far), unrelated to the flood but I find the whole universe so intriguing and fascinating
Although a fan made mod, this was a great addition to the story I got to experience thru you bro! I'll be keeping an eye on you😜 lol jkjk, but fr! I don't have a PC, feels like I'm missing out on the Halo ARMA mods af tho🤦♂️
Deep man
Bdude92 Ha! I was about to type that shit up! Cheers man! 🍸
What brings out the fear of the flood is your commentary. Really brings out the emotion in the video. The flood in my opinion are very cosmic horror based.
Nara Ousansamaki the flood aren’t cosmic horror. Cosmic horror is lovecraftian. Something impossible to comprehend or understand.
The flood are easy to understand. They’re parasites. That’s body horror, not cosmic horror ;P
@@LateNightHalo I was thinking more of the Helpless/hopeless side of cosmic horror. (I should have specified that part of it) More on the lines of putting the perspective of the flood being a parasite that could in short insight the feeling with the gravemind/hivemind mentality whilst also not having a motive to why they due what they do. Without the halo rings to subsequently quarantine the flood they in short become a unstoppable force which in turn leads to the hopelessness of never stopping it from spreading farther or at least delaying to process for X ammount of time. Its more of a imaginative aspect of putting something like the flood into different genres of horror to see how they would fit in to the scene. They way you commentated on your video gave me lovecraft vibes and put the emotion on the table the same way H.P does with his works.
@@LateNightHalo I think the inability to understand is what a lot of cosmic horror comes down to. But in stories like TSOI the deep ones weren't incomprehensible, although their deity was. They were just some aquatic humanoid beings that wanted to breed with humans to eventually fulfill some goal so which is a pretty common subtext especially considering the book was a representation on H.P's fears of immigration. One of my main loves for the flood has to be the eldritch lovecraft influences lol I can't deny that, the thought of sheer insignificance of humans beside them even in their feral stage and how without an entire heavily advanced elder race having to sacrifice themselves to stop them the galaxy would surely have been consumed are what give me those cold lovecraftian elements in the floods overall story and feel. Not to mention the pure eldritch delight of the new gravemind, an incomprehensibly smart pile of rotting fused corpses that in your first meeting ruins your hope of significance in the universe and an entire religion, referring to the lives as 'a doomed existence'. Truly spine shivering :D
You ever play Stubbs the Zombie: A rebel without a pulse?
Ironically enough it was made with the Halo engine!
Sounds like a fun time
Dude, I love your narration. Easily earned me as a subscriber. I loved the way you described your point of view on the gameplay and shared it with us all. Keep these kind of videos up, be it specifically Flood/Halo related, or just overall Lore, and you can expect me to stay a long time haha. Maybe make a playlist if you haven't. Would love to just binge watch your videos.
I think your scenario about revenge isnt realistic for the flood for the same reason you told us earlier, that the parasite doesnt have emotions, so why would it feel revenge. It would rather dont mind the setback and keep on going, relentless. Thats what makes it so scary for me. It wont stop, no matter how big the defeats are. It wont stop until the last infection-form has died.
Thorben J. i would think as the flood evolve they gain knowledge and information from hosts making them learn potential for emotion remember the gravemind in i think it was halo 3 had emotion with the slight time they had a proto-gravemind they cohldhave built enough knowledge to know what revenge or feelings/emotions were to a very little extent
Demon Sanctuary good point. If the Flood evolve a Key Mind they get even more intelligent then most other life-forms. I was too focused on the Halo CE flood in my argument.
Thorben J. yeah the halo ce are literally just parasites
my friend who made virulence actually just released an update for the mod yesterday adding an all new campaign!
Thought I'd find you here Macho, thanks for play testing lol
@@mrsubject1Anytime, thanks for the cheeky floodo named after me lol
@@wyatth874 hes a good flood boyo
@@mrsubject1 indeed
The same way someone would rate a fridge when hungry
Ohh man good saying
Late night game: *monologs about how terrifying flood*
Marine with a rocket launcher: imma bouta end this mans whole career
This vid was uploaded relatively quick compared to how fast you upload ( I'm not hating ). Does this mean faster uploads? And also did you stop the QNAs, they were entertaining to watch.
GalaxyZealot 46 the goal is to upload more frequently! I’d love ideas for scripted videos so I can stay motivated!
I’m working on a solution for the Q&As (I stopped them a while ago due to health issues)
More "Evolution of" videos would be great. More art-style videos, maybe ODST armour? More multiplayer map reviews/videos about how they made you feel.
I like to think that the flood keeps its victims alive, and feeds on their memories and training. Like how the terminal near Captain Keys' proto-gravemind shows the gravemind speaking to him, trying to coerce him into submission, every combat form experiences this, but from their infection form.
This mod makes you FEEL like a parasite
I've been missing your unique take on this kind of thing. I'm rewatching this 4 years later!
Need some help. I haven't played a Halo mod before besides SPV3 (that I can play on its own application). Can have a step by step guide on how I can play these levels? Particularly the second half of this video? Really keen, but I haven't done this before so I am not sure what to do. I have the maps on my computer but I don't know how to play them..
yeah you'll need to dl halo pc, its free now on tons of sites. Then you need to download opensauce so that the maps can be run on halo it's pretty simple to download and find if you search it up.Then download the maps from moddb and place the yelo files into your maps folder in the haloce directory then they should run i9f you type map_name (name of map) in console :D Hope you enjoy them
Awesome video... Absolutely amazing documentary and really great voiceover... Thanks a lot.. Got you a new sub...
Have you ever heard about halo in doom?
There are some amazing mods for the 26 year old FPS transforming it into halo...
And there is an awesome project to bring halo ce to android... If that's something your interested in for a video.. Would be amazing
@@AndroidFerret can't take credit for the awesome vid but I did make the second mod showcased
@@mrsubject1 Ok
.who made the vid?
@@AndroidFerret late night gaming
I do not like mods too much but you took this mod an read it like a book. You grab the audience an through them an a emotional an visual trance through nostalgia, just beautiful have to definitely check it out
They could make a Halo about the brutes and it could be similar to for honor
Now THIS is why we all want the ability to mod halo games. Imagine the things that could be done! Imagine what you could do with other halo games if you could mod them?
Stuff like this makes me excited for the future of halo.
Also, I agree with your thoughts on flood grenades, although since you can't throw a full infection form (or maybe you can) You won't get the full speed infection that you normally get, maybe it is half speed or something. Or maybe that is how you can create carrier forms, kill someone with that "grenade" and they turn into a carrier which needs to be escorted carefully to where it can infect the maximum number of enemies.
when your'e so early the video is still 360p
You know, that's one thing I thought the Halo games were missing. We got to play as the Masterchief and fight for the human race. We got to play as the Arbiter and fight for the Covenent, but we never got to play as an infection form and fight for the flood.
what do you think about assassinations in halo and should it be in halo infinite
I really want to play those MODS, but don't have any time for that...
But i am still Satisfied by watching your Video!
say, Halo mods are all from the PC Halo, and albeit an inferior version graphics wise, the Anniversary is based off of that. With MCC coming to PC, would it be possible to translate all these old mods to the Combat Evolved Anniversary, given the same hardware?
also those mini sentinels are very creative.
10:48 Getting that Jiralhanae Chieftain infected near the end of "The Covenant" is very satisfying, seeing the crosshair colour change from red to green.
Now create a similar mod for halo 2 the infection of high charity
Only when mcc for pc comes out ;)
This is amazing, I hope these mods will be possible in the Halo MCC when it hits PC!
What if we took Infestation
*And pushed it somewhere else!*
Love this i can't wait to get Halo CE on PC now i'd personally love to see a survival horror mod where your just a marine trying to survive the flood.
Dude you have no knowledge of halo lore...
It’s NOT BIG CHEESE...
It’s *_GRAVEMIND_*
Woooooooooooooooooosh
@M Σ G Λ What the goddamn hell. I think I'mma copypasta this comment to all the mis-wooooshers, but I'll be removing emojis because emoji causes cancer. Thanks!
He's eaten enough dairy workers that he's gained a appreciation for the subtle joys of tucking into a bit of Wensleydale
Yeah, Big Cheese was a Resident Evil 4 monster.
Ok, well I'm blown away. I didnt know you could download new campaigns. This is amazing, I'm going to look more into it.
u are a great talker for sure , if I played this mod , I wouldn't think of this much shit .
Spv3.2 and now this? Omg I never thought this was gonna happen when I started playing CE when I was like 10 back in the day
The forgotten exile was a thing way back in 2011.Its too bad it didn't the recognition it needed when it was released. That was the main reason why the main developer left, he felt as his work didn't pay off. The other members tried to keep it going but gave up soon after which sucks.
HiddenXperia where you at?
I love this channel, you put so much emotion and passion and explanation into your gaming
I try
*this mod is not a natural formation. Someone built it*
00:00 party horror
also btw I think big part of body horror at least in Dead Space for me is that they were humans. you half nailed it
The flood tfe project is dead :'( Lone Wolf don't want to work in it
Domi H. I understand if he felt worn out. What we did get is quite satisfying. I loved what I played
Dude you could voice audiobooks, your voice is so relaxing and expressive.