7:40 "maybe it's the extremely strong tungsten carbide.." or, hear me out, it's the fact that a 1000lb dude in power armor is swinging it. This dude puts out so much force on a swing he could probably cut you in half with a crowbar.
John-117 in the books can lift 9tons, without armor, though if I remember right that was an extreme maximum and I think his real average lift strength is somewhere around 3-4 tons which is still insane. Flood combat forms being zombies, no longer have the limitations imposed by self preservation mechanics. In the real world, your squishy human form is much stronger than you are. Your brain limits your output because on average if you used 100% of your output you'd snap your own bones and shred your own insides.
IllumiNoEye Gaming including one in the BACK end of a grenade launcher, which kinda has a great recoil (Brutes live on a 2G planet, so they need powerful explosives to hurl a grenade real far, so in 1G environment the power is a bit excessive). Well, they can shoot it without suffering from recoil, but for other species besides augmented Spartans or mechanical Prometheans this can be hard to shoot without injury.
1:48 "At long range, this makes the gun practically fucking useless..." Except in the first Halo game, which honestly, is the most realistic when it comes to shotguns that powerful, even if it seems OP.
Shows footage of the Mauler Me: Oh yeah of course! It's a handheld shotgun, of course it works on the Flood! HiddenXperia: The Fire Bomb Grenade. Me: Oh.
Forerunners: "We have developed these super lazer weapons and even we failed to contain the parasite" 1800 Humans : "it shoot a boolet dat shoots littiler boolets"
I found it strange how the “Gravity Hammer” wasn’t included in this video list along with the “Brutes weapon’s”, it just seems like a pretty good anti-personnel weapon and even seems really good at being used against the flood in close quarter combat.
@Epic but we use shotguns too? Sure they've got more range then a gravity hammer but if any flood forms approach you when you have a hammer they're as good as dead I'd say the energy sword is less reliable as it's single target
@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 yep, if you can't beat the flood at their weaknesses, overpower their strength. Wait... But seriously though, the world eater virus used in virus bomb exterminatus is absurdly op, like even Nurgle's deamons fear it and Nurgle himself can't control it, so there's no question that it would scour out all traces of a flood outbreak on a planet even if they have fully formed keyminds.
one thing: with UNSC explosive weapons (like with real military explosives) it isn't the heat that kills, it is the concussive blast itself. the biomass isn't being burned, it is being blown to unusable bits. (and real military explosives like grenades and rockets/missiles don't have a fireball when they go off, that is just added into games to make them look cooler) P.s i thought it necessary to add (though unrelated to your video) that real life shotguns have a much longer range that video game shotguns (though they need to be short range in video games in order to keep things balanced. love the vid, keep it up!
and then you have rising storm 2 where shotguns are basically sniper rifles headshotting things at 100+m, and im pretty sure that game doesnt do that thing some other games do where one pellet hitting does full damage as if all of em hit.
The og Doom shotgun was perfect. And I found it wierd VG explosions turn into fireballs. And my favourite flamethrower is one that spews oil and has a lighter underneath which ignites it unlike others which spew gas.
Is it just me who finds it weird that the only enemies we haven't seen Promethean weapons used against in game are the ones that they were designed to deal with. Also any idea why brute weapons such as the gravity hammer or brute shot sort of look like they're compensating for something?
Yeah it sucks, you have no idea how much I want to use a Binary Rifle against a Tank Form or something. For all the stick I'll give 343's handling of the Forerunners, I LOVE the way the Promethean weapons look and sound, editing their part of this video was so damn fun
@@HiddenXperia I hope that if/when the flood return in Infinite that, either through Cortana's orders or from breaking away from her for the fact that she's got the logic plague, we get to see Prometheans fighting flood on Installation 07 and possibly even working with Chief if the latter is true. Also it'll be good to actually have a sniper that works against the flood, it would make Linda useful if the Halo 5 team system comes back (which hopefully includes Arbiter and not just Blue Team, who are much better in the 1st 3 chapters of Silent Storm than the entirety of Halo 5, and also allowing you to move if you're down like in Fortnite so that Jackal Sniper that knocked you doesn't get an overkill on your entire AI team)
@@Jedi_Spartan I didn't really like the idea of being i n a squad of 4 Spartan's it didn't feel halo and what's even worse is how you can get revived AND THAT JUST SUCKS
@@silentshadow1429 yeah, I sort of feel that it should be a cross between Halo 3 where not all of them turn up in single player (eg: N'tho and Usze) and the revive system from Halo 5
I actually like using the carbine or battle rifle against the Flood. They're surprisingly good at picking off combat forms from range when aimed at the head/neck junction, which I guess kills the infection form within.
Soooo: the neeew "Halo Shotgun!!!!" Replacing the halos firing mechanism with a shotgun blast considering over 400 billion shotguns. Hell I would buy it with my life
200k is such an ICONIC number! You truly earned it Xperia, and these amazing Flood videos are truly a testament just to how awesome and well versed you are in the amazing Sci-Fi universe that is Halo!!!! I can't wait to see more! :)
The Gravity Hammer was also extremely effective against the Flood in Halo 3. It also had the benefit of smashing them to pieces so they couldn't be revived by infection forms.
The forerunners: hard light particle weapons designed specifically to disintegrate Flood Biomass. The Covenant: plasma hot enough to melt through anything, and blades formed of scorching energy that can slice atoms apart. The UNSC: what if gun shot big boolets filled with smaller boolets? This is why I adore humanity.
Nice video! But I had a few thoughts: 1. Shotgun pellet velocity is extremely low relative to other bullets, so its not really a plus for it. 2. For small scale explosives such as grenades and rockets, the heat probably would only contribute to surface burns, and is not the significant force that makes it dangerous. The concussive forces and shrapnel of the blast would do the most damage. 3. Hoped you would have gone into detail about the Halo 4 Boltshot, which would be a terrific sidearm for combating the flood due to its dual firing modes.
The fact that your content is exactly as good as it was at 10,000 subs just shows the insanely high amount of effort you’ve been putting into your videos since the beginning.
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6:38 that was burnt through unshielded armor in the first spartan vs covenant firefight. This was before the UNSC scientists reverse engineered the shields, and due to lack of shield, it cut through armor easily. Therefore the spartan had to stay in the station to guard the nuke because they couldn’t travel through a vacuum
The gravity hammer is actually pretty effective at destroying the flood imagine one spartan wielding a gravity hammer and a sanghelli dual wielding a plasma Rifle. The shockwawe from the gravity hammer would destroy any infectinforms nearby and destroy or stun any combat forms nearby as seen in halo wars 2 awekening the nightmare with the high charity cutscene wouldn’t that make the gravity gammer a effective counter to the flood infection form and combat form and maybe even pureforms?
As long as the person using the hammer has shields, yeah. Infection forms burst on contact, blast a ton of them away at once and have the other guy burn everything
@@descimator There shouldn't be a need for another guy really. That should be incorporated into the suit. Just like having the weapon be powered two ways. One by itself obviously and one by the suit. That way one would have a back up power source. By 2400 these suits should be insanely advanced with multiple "Iron Man" type weapons on them.
Shotguns are easily the most misunderstood small arm in terms of capability and effectiveness. Its super effective where it shouldnt be, and ineffective where it shouldnt as well.
The heat from a grenade explosion isn't what kills you. It's the fragmentation from the resulting pieces of metal flying spewing everywhere at well over the speed of sound caused by the shockwave's explosion. It works the same way as you described the shotgun blasts.
V-Rex your comment doesn’t make sense..., the temperature of a grenade(upon exploding) is futile in terms of it’s lethality; the fragmentations and shockwaves are what cause death in any personnel that encounter a grenade.
@V-Rex You do know that normal fragmentation grenades don't explode in a massive fireball in real life, right? Also what the other guy said, the temperature is irrelevant when it comes to what kills you.
i played a bunch of FPS games from 2001 before trying halo CE to have an idea of what it may be like when i actually played halo though, it was nothing like i had expected! halo ce was completely different from all the other fps games from 2001, all the other games were so slow and laggy (my pc is from 2001 too) and even when they didnt lag, the gameplay was not so smooth and felt kind of awkward but halo was totally different, it was too much fun, the player movements were also smooth as hell and i couldnt put it down at all, finished the whole campain in one go, it was a masterpiece one of my favourite things in halo was to jump towards a grunt and take it out with a melee attack, i call that the "predator dive" and its something that i have only been able to do in halo, i love this game
Uriel OR most UNSC weapons are more powerful than their modern day relatives to counter advances made in body armor, I would assume the same is true for recoil mitigation in weapons
Farg grenades thrown or from a launcher dont kill through heat but through shrapnel. You basically make the outside of the grenade into a lot of precut projectiles. Heat exposure is minimal.
The ce shotgun shouldn't be in matchmaking at least but I guess could be in campaign and as a shotgun variant in multiplayer like h5 variants like ce pistol and H2 BR and beam rifle.
We need an updated video with the new halo infinite weapons! Heatwave & Cinder immediately come to mind against the flood. Ravager would definitely be a viable crowd control weapon as well
The title is very misleading So many of these weapons were not made to counter flood it just happens that they were effective The shotgun was not made to counter the flood, I'm pretty sure the spartan laser wasn't either but I suppose it's a possibility, any form of explosive even though it may be useful it was not made to counter the flood again, energy sword was not made to counter the flood,plasma rifle almost surely was not made to counter flood but again it's possible like the spartan laser, Bruteshot was not made to counter flood, spiker another possibility but it wouldn't make much sense due to ineffectiveness to an already dead target, fire greanade was likely made to counter flood, essentially all forerunner/promethean weapons were made to counter flood.
I always assumed the reason the weapons you listed worked so well on the flood compared to say an assault rifle or BR (still effective just not as much) was because those weapons basically punched a tiny hole through a body that couldn't give a shit less. But the others like the shotgun, sword, laser, and plasma rilfe have either spread out shots that basically blow off entire sections of the body or burn it to hell with plasma/laser. They just got lucky those weapons worked. The forerunners though definitely designed them around destroying biological matter
@@HiddenXperia I thought only one gravemind can exist at a time. Since all flood, especially the gravemind, absorb all info and intelligence from their hosts and as a whole, is one big collective consciousness, there wouldn't need to be more than one gravemind.
gotta love how the promethean weapons were specifically designed to combat the flood, and yet we never get to use them to combat the flood in any of the Halo games the promethean weapons are in
@@coolfrymaster You're forgetting that (at least in Halo 5) when the shots bounce off a wall they home in on the nearest target. It doesn't seem that useful but I attribute that to game balancing
"Wouldn't surprise me if Spartans took swords on missions." Doubtful. Swordsmen were THE shit in Sangheili culture. In fact, an accomplished swordsman got prefered breeding rights due to the Elites wanting their genes spread as far as possible. I read these rights included even married females. If they view the ability to wield a sword that highly, I doubt they'd willingly part with the object in question.
The swordsman culture doesn't apply to the military for Sangheili. It's more of a social matter but in their military their use is far more lenient to the point you can find supply crates full of energy swords lying around. Also, the Sangheili have immense respect for the Spartans.
Yeah, I doubt it would be common. I could see possibly a very small number of Spartans like 117 who spent enough time around Sangheili and earned their respect maybe getting a chance to use a sword but I agree it would not be a common thing.
They also recovered data and materials from ship ruins to build the Hellcat class Mjolnir. As for your question, the Ecumene likely broke down and recycled any Ancient Human tech and evidence of their civilization having existed, the Forerunners were kinda pricks like that. They might have kept some ancient human weapons to disassemble and study, since that was the one area that the Ancient Humans were not inferior to the Forerunners in The Ur-Didact says in the books that Ancient Humanity, in collaboration with the San Shyuum, made weapons which the Forerunners, including his elite Promethean troopers, had no defense against, allowing them to partially-compensate for the ludicrous numerical advantage and tech superiority of the Forerunner forces. As for ships, considering the Didact's Star-Hopping plan targeted only the most-important human worlds and used Slipspace superiority to paralyse the Human military and keep them from interfering as the Ecumene decapitated the empire at Charum Hakkor, and the fact that during the siege, there were San Shyuum resupply Armadas being cut off from aiding the world, do that means that human and San Shyuum forces were still present, and it's not unlikely that some would try to flee from the Forerunners when they learned that Charum Hakkor was doomed, likely outside the Galaxy, and if so, the fleets left behind, dormant or caught in the range of the Halo Array, might still be around.
I’m still waiting on the UNSC making the spartan version of the energy sword I feel like by now there should be one. Hope I’m not alone on that one since we did already apply so of the covenant technology to shields and a few new weapons between halo 4 & 5
Hey man i love your content. Your lore vids are second to none. I honestly think that the saw would also be pretty effective, if no other reason then the pure amount of bullets that they put out.
@@rosegraham5283 been a while since I played but if i were to knock off the rust, I would do better with DMR than BR usually, hence why its my primary even in closer quarters maps, when I don't have it available I will do almost as well with the Magnum, I remember in H4 getting an extermination once in SWAT with the magnum, mostly luck with where I was and where they spawned, what the magnum lacks in reticle range, it makes up for in ROF, the AR is almost useless in my play style,
Its insanely useful for me when I'm in a PvP match. The reason being because I figured out how to make use of it at close range and I'm more of a sniper player than anything.
@@keulron2290 same, keep the reticle at head height wherever you are looking, and its one of the fastest killing mid-long range non-power weapons in the game, not far ahead of BR though, assuming not all rounds crit, but it can make a difference, If I am expecting close range and I dont have something like a shotgun available, SMG, as it is exceptionally good at the ranges the DMR stops being effective at,
The effectiveness of these weapons goes to show how unbelievably intelligent the Flood was. It's almost guaranteed to lose in a straight up fight, but it persisted anyway and was completely unstoppable regardless.
@William Isaacson its a high velocity laser round, you are aware the spartan laser shoots 3 shots consecutively to make it look like its one direct beam correct? The mac cannon is just a super amped high velocity version using the same energy.
I would think that humans would prioritize incendiary weapons over explosive based weapons as bits and pieces of flood infected flesh would be spread around with explosive weaponry.
Tungsten carbide is too brittle to be used for a sword blade... A blade needs to be flexible as to not explode when contact is made. A tungsten carbide blade would simply explode when contact is made with anything. So no, brute weapons would not be good for your reason. Nice vid though
Eggnog So you're going by "Eggnog" now nerd? Haha whats up douche bag, it's Tanner from Highschool. Remember me? Me and the guys used to give you a hard time in school. Sorry you were just an easy target lol. I can see not much has changed. Remember Sarah the girl you had a crush on? Yeah we're married now. I make over 200k a year and drive a mustang GT. I guess some things never change huh loser? Nice catching up lol. Pathetic..
Dr.Noodle So you're going by "Dr.Noodle" now nerd? Haha whats up douche bag, it's Tanner from Highschool. Remember me? Me and the guys used to give you a hard time in school. Sorry you were just an easy target lol. I can see not much has changed. Remember Cortanna the girl you had a crush on? Yeah we're married now. I make over 200k a year and drive a mustang GT. I guess some things never change huh loser? Nice catching up lol. Pathetic..
Xperia Congratulations on 200k I love all the flood and their ICONIC evolutions of their Intelligence I just don't understand why the UNSC forces got rid of the flamethrowers from halo 3 from being used in halo 4 and 5 but if they want a new weapon to defeat the same parasites I think that Humanity and Sangeili organizations forces should work together and create some weapon to neutralize flood infection, I hope you keep making these videos until the end of time and keep up the amazing work :)
It’s crazy to see how much you’ve grown. I subbed almost a year ago. I watch because you explain the lore and tbh I’m to lazy to read. I listen to you almost any time I’m mindlessly playing Xbox. Congrats man🎉
Ya, I'd stick to using long range weapons over swords and shotguns when possible, I mean, in reality you aren't normally rammed into a tiny corridor that runs ever onward, with only a few sightly wider sections in it here or there. And in reality, if there's flood in a building, we use explosives... on the building. No indestructible terrain to deal with out here IRL. I'd stick at range with a laser or beam weapon if possible that can be swept across areas, and also dispersed into a wide area lower power mode to scorch spores from an entire general area. And you generally described not what was best at fighting the flood, but at breaking combat forms or such. If you run up to a flood, and shoot it with a shotgun, the infector and main body might be decently torn apart, but you're also scattering tons of its biomass and bits around, without an excellent personal shield/atmospheric unit, you and everyone around you are getting infected in that blast of blood, guts, and spores. Even if you are shielded, this is a much more troublesome area to burn/clean now than just one directly put down body initially. There's a difference between fighting that one enemy in front of you, and fighting the flood as a whole, which is how you have to see the flood. IRL, various types of wide area radiation weapons like lasers, microwave guns, etc... would be used as a general perimeter defense all over to try and stop spores from getting around, you'd bombard the flood from a distance as much as possible, and for those that get closer having machineguns with exploding rounds, or anti aircraft trucks with airburst rounds to just blow apart any large waves of smaller targets at range or up close would be good. A lot more infantry would probably be used as mortar teams loading up white phosoporus or incidiary types of rounds to just create walls of fire that cover everything on the target, once again from a distance, and packing high temperature thermite or other munition charges into allied units so if they get "infected" they would auto burn away key components that normally require high precision/special materials to work. So something the flood even once organized can't readily fix without dedicated factory equipment or areas. If no allies in the area, blow all ammo as well, not just break the equipment on the infected unit. And information is key, swarms of small autonomous drones sending back video and other info on what's going on all around the flood area, and inside of it. A good first contact option on a planet would probably be orbital bombardment from a series of laser or plasma equipped satelites/ships to just scorch the entire infected core area away, even with local casualties. Then low powered cooking from those systems of nearby areas where humans might survive inside buildings but can't go out at least, while special military forces deploy and set up around them with the more dedicated sensors and weapons and cleaning systems to slowly scour inwards towards the previously destroyed core of the infection point. Also, in general you need all of the special counters for when the enemy has equipment, like tanks, aircraft, ships, guns, etc... Ideally if it starts on a planet that planet should have way more total firepower at its disposal so should easily overwhelm the local flood pretty quickly with simply massed assault from everything, and if the flood didn't arrive on a hostile ship or something with armaments, then if locally designed equipment is made right the flood would have a hard time using your own weapons against you within any smaller period of time, making the initial flood outbreak much easier to combat when they can't capture and use most of your own forces equipment. Though with good enough armor and vehicles and weapons and sensors, flood not yet armed with special weapons would have almost no chance to kill such armed forces. I mean think of a tank. Just a modern tank, imagine hitting that with wip arms of a flood. Any armored surface is just not going to give a shit when hit by fleshy bits. You'll just break the fleshy bits. Now given enough mass, it can just try to deform and break stuff with enough raw energy and speed. Sure the flood organism destroys itself but giant flood tentacles could hit a tank pretty hard. But again, any target that big is normally easily countered by long range artillery or such. And if you have energy shielding, great, plasma shielding that's semi uncontained, so anything that hits/breaks through the outer magnetic field then gets bathed in super heated plasma is also a great counter against physical attacks especially by flood. So some changes to shield designs in halo setting could really help counter flood, though how easy/energy efficient such changes might be... who knows. I for one like the idea of my plasma sheild being a form of superheated reactive armor that blows away and incinerates anything that tries to punch me. Side effects might include increased recoil from smaller hits knocking the wearer back as well though. Best of used on people wearing heavy exoskeletons that can take a hit or two anyway. Oh, and you'd also want some form of subterranean weapons. Like melta bombs stuck into little digging drones that can upon hitting a surface burrow down and then detonate turning the local ground into molten rock and stuff. Why? Because flood seem to enjoy getting everywhere to survive, and underground, in the porous dirt, seems like a place I'd expect a good number of spores and some infected organisms to try hiding when the artillery starts falling initially.
Be nice to see Sanghelie created energy shortswords designed exclusively for Spartans, that look like the ones shown on the old Heroic and Ledendary difficulty symbols but plasma based.
Obviously, this is obviously the most iconic video you’ve ever made, obviously, for obvious reasons. =P Also, congrats on the sub count. I’m glad to see your channel grow. You do make some -obviously- good content. o/
I feel like the needler would be good too. Though the crystals aren't burning, they explode after impact and the more crystals there are, the larger the exploding. Maybe not good against a large horde but a smaller one
The shotgun saw first use in the 1960's...oh no sir, not even close. Pump action shotguns saw first mass use in 1917 during WW1. The US military used a modified model 1897 Winchester shotgun to great effect. The weapon was so absolutely brutal that the Germans tried to have their use in the trenches banned...we told them to go pound sand. They also have enjoyed wide spread use in American civilian life and law enforcement applications. I myself own a Mossberg Persuader 12 ga. w/16' barrel (it's really short). It carries 5 shots in the tube and one in the chamber. They really are a blast to use pun definitely intended. Fun Fact: Video games have a terrible track record with how a shotgun works. They are very deadly inside 200 yards and that's just with buck shot. If you run slugs through them the range increases exponentially. Basically it's a 20mm shell that flies at 1,200 fps (feet per second) with 3,100 ft.lbs. of energy behind it. That means it would turn any Flood Variant into a fine pink mist at close range. ;)
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No problem, you post great videos and you're my favourite Halo youtuber
Halo Combat Evolved Shotgun: Most reliable Anti-Flood weapon since the Halo Array.
Lol
Yep it seems like it
True
I wish the shotgun stayed the way it was. They turned it into the human equivalent of the energy sword in Halo 2 onwards
@@robertnrobretual2749 yeah, it already had unrealistically bad range in CE. In later games, it's laughable how short its range is.
Another great weapon is to have Sgt. Johnson with you
Except when he teamkills you with a spartan laser (it happens a lot) other then that though hell yeah
+Coolfrymaster if you kill him on the final mission of h3 you can get an infinite charge spartan laser
@@rallyingox6514 wait, really? This MCC or 360?
And the arbiter
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I have reason to believe that once the halo array is fired a giant shotgun shoots everyone and everything.
That salty Peach 😂😂😂😭😭😭😭💀
Sound of it go like *BOOM* (everyone's head exploded in a milsecond, all at once)
Don't tell anyone, but it is actually an Halo CE Shotgun, and magnum ducktaped together, the pinnacle of forerunner weapon smithing.
That's a hella lot of gunpowder
I don’t want to like this, it had 117 likes
7:40
"maybe it's the extremely strong tungsten carbide.."
or, hear me out, it's the fact that a 1000lb dude in power armor is swinging it. This dude puts out so much force on a swing he could probably cut you in half with a crowbar.
Well, human combat forms are as strong as healthy brutes when it comes to hitting or lifting something, their flesh just isn't very tough.
Chief and Arbiter must have a delicate grip. That strength alone multiplied by the MJOLNIR armor could crush the pistol grip entirely.
@@metroidhunter965 Brutes are exactly fragile creatures. They’re weapons used by the brutes.
John-117 in the books can lift 9tons, without armor, though if I remember right that was an extreme maximum and I think his real average lift strength is somewhere around 3-4 tons which is still insane.
Flood combat forms being zombies, no longer have the limitations imposed by self preservation mechanics. In the real world, your squishy human form is much stronger than you are. Your brain limits your output because on average if you used 100% of your output you'd snap your own bones and shred your own insides.
@@morscovium8881 bro it’s Halo, not the smithing olympics
I never liked the removal of flamethrowers, they were an alien franchise call back
Yeah same, although I always preferred CE's way of doing it, having it be huge and lumbering in H3 wasn't really fun to use
@@JingleBaza Most of the weapons in Halo have unrealistically low range. Especially the shotgun and assault rifle.
Dont worry ,I created a functional flamethrower on halo 5 forge
HiddenXperia I’m surprised that the UNSC makes use of flamethrowers considering flamethrower use by militaries in real life is a war crime.
HEMA Memes True, but I think it's more for gameplay balancing purposes. I'm willing to think In lore, they're just as capable as in rl if not more.
Brute Weapon Philosophy - "It's also a knife"
It’s like the reverse of the rwby philosophy of “it’s also a gun”
Bayonet on EVERYTHING
IllumiNoEye Gaming including one in the BACK end of a grenade launcher, which kinda has a great recoil (Brutes live on a 2G planet, so they need powerful explosives to hurl a grenade real far, so in 1G environment the power is a bit excessive). Well, they can shoot it without suffering from recoil, but for other species besides augmented Spartans or mechanical Prometheans this can be hard to shoot without injury.
@Isaiah Ramos yes.
I like to use a brute shot to chop veggies. Its just super versatile in the kitchen in general.
1:48 "At long range, this makes the gun practically fucking useless..."
Except in the first Halo game, which honestly, is the most realistic when it comes to shotguns that powerful, even if it seems OP.
Agreed.
If a Shotgun and a sinper had a baby
@@aidanpolzin9243 Apex legends s0 to s2 peacekeeper
God the shotgun was so good
Yeah, shotgun spread is overblown by video games. xD
Shows footage of the Mauler
Me: Oh yeah of course! It's a handheld shotgun, of course it works on the Flood!
HiddenXperia: The Fire Bomb Grenade.
Me: Oh.
Same!
Forerunners: "We have developed these super lazer weapons and even we failed to contain the parasite"
1800 Humans : "it shoot a boolet dat shoots littiler boolets"
We olso haf thing that shoot hot fier and buern
An we haf thing that go boom boom
Brutes: BIG SMASHY MAKE TENTACLE MAN HURT
SG-1 flashbacks ensue
And napalm.
I found it strange how the “Gravity Hammer” wasn’t included in this video list along with the “Brutes weapon’s”, it just seems like a pretty good anti-personnel weapon and even seems really good at being used against the flood in close quarter combat.
@Epic fair enough.
@Epic but we use shotguns too? Sure they've got more range then a gravity hammer but if any flood forms approach you when you have a hammer they're as good as dead I'd say the energy sword is less reliable as it's single target
@Epic He did list the sword though.
@Epic Didn't ask.
Just saying if warhammer has taught me anything automatic explosive rounds are the best for killing anything.
Even better if armor piercing with a fuse so it can go through armor before going boom
Lasgun would be better, Bolter has tendency to spread the biomass in all directions..
If warhammer taught me anything, virus bomb op
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The emperor protects.
@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 yep, if you can't beat the flood at their weaknesses, overpower their strength. Wait...
But seriously though, the world eater virus used in virus bomb exterminatus is absurdly op, like even Nurgle's deamons fear it and Nurgle himself can't control it, so there's no question that it would scour out all traces of a flood outbreak on a planet even if they have fully formed keyminds.
one thing: with UNSC explosive weapons (like with real military explosives) it isn't the heat that kills, it is the concussive blast itself. the biomass isn't being burned, it is being blown to unusable bits. (and real military explosives like grenades and rockets/missiles don't have a fireball when they go off, that is just added into games to make them look cooler)
P.s i thought it necessary to add (though unrelated to your video) that real life shotguns have a much longer range that video game shotguns (though they need to be short range in video games in
order to keep things balanced.
love the vid, keep it up!
You are forgetting the wide use of termobaric explosives
And nukes
and then you have rising storm 2 where shotguns are basically sniper rifles headshotting things at 100+m, and im pretty sure that game doesnt do that thing some other games do where one pellet hitting does full damage as if all of em hit.
The og Doom shotgun was perfect. And I found it wierd VG explosions turn into fireballs. And my favourite flamethrower is one that spews oil and has a lighter underneath which ignites it unlike others which spew gas.
Or maybe it's both.
Is it just me who finds it weird that the only enemies we haven't seen Promethean weapons used against in game are the ones that they were designed to deal with. Also any idea why brute weapons such as the gravity hammer or brute shot sort of look like they're compensating for something?
Yeah it sucks, you have no idea how much I want to use a Binary Rifle against a Tank Form or something. For all the stick I'll give 343's handling of the Forerunners, I LOVE the way the Promethean weapons look and sound, editing their part of this video was so damn fun
@@HiddenXperia I hope that if/when the flood return in Infinite that, either through Cortana's orders or from breaking away from her for the fact that she's got the logic plague, we get to see Prometheans fighting flood on Installation 07 and possibly even working with Chief if the latter is true. Also it'll be good to actually have a sniper that works against the flood, it would make Linda useful if the Halo 5 team system comes back (which hopefully includes Arbiter and not just Blue Team, who are much better in the 1st 3 chapters of Silent Storm than the entirety of Halo 5, and also allowing you to move if you're down like in Fortnite so that Jackal Sniper that knocked you doesn't get an overkill on your entire AI team)
@@Jedi_Spartan I didn't really like the idea of being i n a squad of 4 Spartan's it didn't feel halo and what's even worse is how you can get revived AND THAT JUST SUCKS
@@silentshadow1429 yeah, I sort of feel that it should be a cross between Halo 3 where not all of them turn up in single player (eg: N'tho and Usze) and the revive system from Halo 5
What do you mean with your question about the brute weapons ?
I actually like using the carbine or battle rifle against the Flood. They're surprisingly good at picking off combat forms from range when aimed at the head/neck junction, which I guess kills the infection form within.
They should've strapped 400 billion shotguns to a sphere in space. Flood = rip
well, then what are the halo arrays?
With CE Warthogs underneath as armor.
Soooo: the neeew "Halo Shotgun!!!!" Replacing the halos firing mechanism with a shotgun blast considering over 400 billion shotguns. Hell I would buy it with my life
@@alchemist889 cause fuck Balance: the Maker of CoD probably
We could summon YAPYAP THE DESTROYER
TDJK Hazard our lord and saviour yapyap the destroyer
Yap yap ftw,
But on other things, that ass be calling timeout every 2 minutes during your average HW2 match when being used by an AI.
TDJK Hazard *grunt goblins are gonna blast you guys into teeny puddles!! HAHAHAHAHA!*
Well grunts are literally flood proof so why not
Yapyap would eat the flood like he did the covenant before he got glassed in balaho.
In mother Russia everyone would have equal biomass
lol
Yes, the starving weight of a pissed off former communist.
George Bush as US president showed equal amount of intellect for USA citizens - below average. And you can't even contain SJW outbreak. I
DeRanged Gaming why so mado
Ye bc everyone starved equally
200k is such an ICONIC number! You truly earned it Xperia, and these amazing Flood videos are truly a testament just to how awesome and well versed you are in the amazing Sci-Fi universe that is Halo!!!! I can't wait to see more! :)
Thanks man! More definitely on the way :D
@@HiddenXperia Anytime! And that's awesome! :)
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@@HiddenXperia nah they found out about you copying other peoples vids
@@9laxton450 do more good content. Especially halo content.
The Gravity Hammer was also extremely effective against the Flood in Halo 3. It also had the benefit of smashing them to pieces so they couldn't be revived by infection forms.
Spartan Leon from Halo Wars 2 uses an Energysword
I KNEW SOMEONE ELSE DID, I really should've remembered that tbh bc Leon was by far my favorite member of Omega, thanks dude!
I hope we see them in Halo Infinite ^^
Omega team is awesome
Leon - sword
Robert - banished plasma turret with ICONIC improved design
August - railgun
The forerunners: hard light particle weapons designed specifically to disintegrate Flood Biomass.
The Covenant: plasma hot enough to melt through anything, and blades formed of scorching energy that can slice atoms apart.
The UNSC: what if gun shot big boolets filled with smaller boolets?
This is why I adore humanity.
Nice video! But I had a few thoughts:
1. Shotgun pellet velocity is extremely low relative to other bullets, so its not really a plus for it.
2. For small scale explosives such as grenades and rockets, the heat probably would only contribute to surface burns, and is not the significant force that makes it dangerous. The concussive forces and shrapnel of the blast would do the most damage.
3. Hoped you would have gone into detail about the Halo 4 Boltshot, which would be a terrific sidearm for combating the flood due to its dual firing modes.
The fact that your content is exactly as good as it was at 10,000 subs just shows the insanely high amount of effort you’ve been putting into your videos since the beginning.
Do all these anti flood videos mean something?
🤔
I wish lol
Yes they show the best available counter-measure against the flood
Yep to help us to be SPARTAN.
@@HiddenXperia welcome to HiddenXperia's "things that new spartan IV recruits must know spartan manual"
Chapter 1 : introducion
Chapter2: forerunners
Chapter3: how forerunners look
Chapter4:who is rtas vadum
Chapter5:flood forms
Chapter 6 : what to do if you see the flood
chapter 7: what weapons use if you fight the flood
Etc...
Flood invasion of Earth soon?
Dude, your videos are addictive.
Thank you for getting me into Halo lore, you legend.
Is one of the weapons a free audible trial ? Once used it rots the flesh of the dead meat that the flood are !
Secondary ! The ICONIC’ness !
xMerciless I heard the only way to truly counter a Gravemind is to sign up for a free audible trial using audibletrial.com/HiddenXperia and redeem a free Halo audiobook that you can keep even if you cancel the trial before you’re charged
Idk, I just heard that somewhere
6:38 that was burnt through unshielded armor in the first spartan vs covenant firefight. This was before the UNSC scientists reverse engineered the shields, and due to lack of shield, it cut through armor easily. Therefore the spartan had to stay in the station to guard the nuke because they couldn’t travel through a vacuum
FINALLY SOME ONE WHO WATCHED THAT FILM
@@Jörmungandr645 i watched it too lol rip sam
The gravity hammer is actually pretty effective at destroying the flood imagine one spartan wielding a gravity hammer and a sanghelli dual wielding a plasma Rifle. The shockwawe from the gravity hammer would destroy any infectinforms nearby and destroy or stun any combat forms nearby as seen in halo wars 2 awekening the nightmare with the high charity cutscene wouldn’t that make the gravity gammer a effective counter to the flood infection form and combat form and maybe even pureforms?
As long as the person using the hammer has shields, yeah.
Infection forms burst on contact, blast a ton of them away at once and have the other guy burn everything
@@descimator
There shouldn't be a need for another guy really. That should be incorporated into the suit. Just like having the weapon be powered two ways. One by itself obviously and one by the suit. That way one would have a back up power source. By 2400 these suits should be insanely advanced with multiple "Iron Man" type weapons on them.
When content gets dry, HiddenXperia does not get desperate. He gets creative.
I can't remember, but Cortana said something like this.
As a shooting sports instructor, hearing the shotgun explanation is triggering.
Pun intended
Shotguns are easily the most misunderstood small arm in terms of capability and effectiveness. Its super effective where it shouldnt be, and ineffective where it shouldnt as well.
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Same fr I thought I'd b da only 1 ta b bothad by dat
Agreed.
Only misunderstood in gaming
The heat from a grenade explosion isn't what kills you. It's the fragmentation from the resulting pieces of metal flying spewing everywhere at well over the speed of sound caused by the shockwave's explosion. It works the same way as you described the shotgun blasts.
V-Rex your comment doesn’t make sense..., the temperature of a grenade(upon exploding) is futile in terms of it’s lethality; the fragmentations and shockwaves are what cause death in any personnel that encounter a grenade.
Thermobaric and HE grenades do generate a crapton of heat
@V-Rex You do know that normal fragmentation grenades don't explode in a massive fireball in real life, right? Also what the other guy said, the temperature is irrelevant when it comes to what kills you.
Anyone who says first still haven't realized something.
I was always first.
Shit your right
Lol true since graveminds/flood were the precoursers
Your right!
AlphaGaming01 PL I kno I am
Get out.
So what we need is the CE shotgun with some kind of incendiary shells
OOOH, MERCH! Time to spend all my money 😂
And uh, i mean, *cough* there's always the Scarab Rifle
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Uh, without context I don’t really want to, so yeah no.
The link it's shameless self-promoting; it redirects to their channel.
Yes
The Scarabs beam or the Scarab Gun found in New Mombasa?
i played a bunch of FPS games from 2001 before trying halo CE to have an idea of what it may be like
when i actually played halo though, it was nothing like i had expected!
halo ce was completely different from all the other fps games from 2001,
all the other games were so slow and laggy (my pc is from 2001 too) and even when they didnt lag, the gameplay was not so smooth and felt kind of awkward
but halo was totally different, it was too much fun, the player movements were also smooth as hell and i couldnt put it down at all, finished the whole campain in one go, it was a masterpiece
one of my favourite things in halo was to jump towards a grunt and take it out with a melee attack, i call that the "predator dive" and its something that i have only been able to do in halo, i love this game
The fact that the shotgun is 8 gauge helps too
That's huge, imagine that recoil thou.
Uriel OR most UNSC weapons are more powerful than their modern day relatives to counter advances made in body armor, I would assume the same is true for recoil mitigation in weapons
@@noneed4sleep64 in the lore im pretty sure spartan armor has recoil cancelling technology in the arms so it at least wouldn't be a problem for them
BigBillClinton yeah, but that won’t help regular marines, soldiers, or ODSTs
Farg grenades thrown or from a launcher dont kill through heat but through shrapnel. You basically make the outside of the grenade into a lot of precut projectiles. Heat exposure is minimal.
I love these flood videos! Keep em coming and I’ll keep watching!
Congrats on 200k! You deserved it with all the content and effort you’ve put into your videos, hoping for 300k!
"burn it , BURN IT ! OH GOD !"
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NO DONT BURN IT I DONT WANT TO HEAR THEIR SCREAMS WHEN THEY ARE ON FIRE!
@@LAV-III It's the flood they don't scream they aren't people
@@markusmitchell8585 unless if you burn them in halo 3 and actually hear them
These Flood videos are always great to listen to. Really informative and interesting. Great video, also congrats on 200k.
All they need to do is bring back that CE shotgun and we good.
And ce pistol... as default loadout for Spartans! :D
and the ce assault rifle.
Melissa Waterman
the ce shotgun only kills from that distance if the target is unshielded.
The ce shotgun shouldn't be in matchmaking at least but I guess could be in campaign and as a shotgun variant in multiplayer like h5 variants like ce pistol and H2 BR and beam rifle.
We need an updated video with the new halo infinite weapons! Heatwave & Cinder immediately come to mind against the flood. Ravager would definitely be a viable crowd control weapon as well
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The title is very misleading
So many of these weapons were not made to counter flood it just happens that they were effective
The shotgun was not made to counter the flood, I'm pretty sure the spartan laser wasn't either but I suppose it's a possibility, any form of explosive even though it may be useful it was not made to counter the flood again, energy sword was not made to counter the flood,plasma rifle almost surely was not made to counter flood but again it's possible like the spartan laser, Bruteshot was not made to counter flood, spiker another possibility but it wouldn't make much sense due to ineffectiveness to an already dead target, fire greanade was likely made to counter flood, essentially all forerunner/promethean weapons were made to counter flood.
Nope, the Spartan Laser was around before the UNSC discovered the Flood.
I always assumed the reason the weapons you listed worked so well on the flood compared to say an assault rifle or BR (still effective just not as much) was because those weapons basically punched a tiny hole through a body that couldn't give a shit less. But the others like the shotgun, sword, laser, and plasma rilfe have either spread out shots that basically blow off entire sections of the body or burn it to hell with plasma/laser. They just got lucky those weapons worked. The forerunners though definitely designed them around destroying biological matter
Coolfrymaster he said intentional or unintentional guns to fight the flood
If it's unintended then it isn't *designed* to fight the flood, now is it?
Can u do a video on how many gravemind can exist at once
I could, I could also answer it in a comment - ∞ :)
@@HiddenXperia either way is good
@@HiddenXperia plz make it ur next video
He already answered your question. The amount is infinite
@@HiddenXperia I thought only one gravemind can exist at a time. Since all flood, especially the gravemind, absorb all info and intelligence from their hosts and as a whole, is one big collective consciousness, there wouldn't need to be more than one gravemind.
gotta love how the promethean weapons were specifically designed to combat the flood, and yet we never get to use them to combat the flood in any of the Halo games the promethean weapons are in
Isn't is something that the shotgun is such a good weapon that such an advanced series as the Forerunners would make their own variant?
You mean the Scattershot?
DontMakeMeOofYou 0247 yes
Scattershot spread is so small though it seems like it would be bad against flood
@@coolfrymaster You're forgetting that (at least in Halo 5) when the shots bounce off a wall they home in on the nearest target. It doesn't seem that useful but I attribute that to game balancing
@@DontMakeMeOofYou huh that's pretty cool I never knew that doesnt seem to be terribly effective though
They have to use nukes to take out an infected Spartan? Did I hear that right?
"Wouldn't surprise me if Spartans took swords on missions."
Doubtful. Swordsmen were THE shit in Sangheili culture. In fact, an accomplished swordsman got prefered breeding rights due to the Elites wanting their genes spread as far as possible. I read these rights included even married females.
If they view the ability to wield a sword that highly, I doubt they'd willingly part with the object in question.
that's true, however if any non-sangheili were to earn the right to use one, it'd be a spartan
@@psysea8493 yeah especially after seeing what chief could do, the sangheili are defo most likely to trust a spartan over any other person or group
The swordsman culture doesn't apply to the military for Sangheili. It's more of a social matter but in their military their use is far more lenient to the point you can find supply crates full of energy swords lying around. Also, the Sangheili have immense respect for the Spartans.
Yeah, I doubt it would be common. I could see possibly a very small number of Spartans like 117 who spent enough time around Sangheili and earned their respect maybe getting a chance to use a sword but I agree it would not be a common thing.
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you forgot one very important "weapon", the halo rings
Price how are you
The halo was a organic killer, doesn't burn planets.
@@debbiebernhardt5406 it was still a weapon, used against the flood, but it was in a roundabout way
wish there was lore on infected spartans
I already know the forerunners wiped out ancient Humanity but what happened to all of their weapons and ships?
Well oni did find an ancient human ship so they are out there
They also recovered data and materials from ship ruins to build the Hellcat class Mjolnir.
As for your question, the Ecumene likely broke down and recycled any Ancient Human tech and evidence of their civilization having existed, the Forerunners were kinda pricks like that. They might have kept some ancient human weapons to disassemble and study, since that was the one area that the Ancient Humans were not inferior to the Forerunners in
The Ur-Didact says in the books that Ancient Humanity, in collaboration with the San Shyuum, made weapons which the Forerunners, including his elite Promethean troopers, had no defense against, allowing them to partially-compensate for the ludicrous numerical advantage and tech superiority of the Forerunner forces.
As for ships, considering the Didact's Star-Hopping plan targeted only the most-important human worlds and used Slipspace superiority to paralyse the Human military and keep them from interfering as the Ecumene decapitated the empire at Charum Hakkor, and the fact that during the siege, there were San Shyuum resupply Armadas being cut off from aiding the world, do that means that human and San Shyuum forces were still present, and it's not unlikely that some would try to flee from the Forerunners when they learned that Charum Hakkor was doomed, likely outside the Galaxy, and if so, the fleets left behind, dormant or caught in the range of the Halo Array, might still be around.
you see forerunner ships in halo wars 1
Bryan Galdamez nah bruh I was talking about ancient Humanity
Fuck that would be so cool if chief comes across an old ancient human weapon
It's all about that old halo experience I think your channel gives us a lot of that
I’m still waiting on the UNSC making the spartan version of the energy sword I feel like by now there should be one. Hope I’m not alone on that one since we did already apply so of the covenant technology to shields and a few new weapons between halo 4 & 5
There already good
Hey man i love your content. Your lore vids are second to none. I honestly think that the saw would also be pretty effective, if no other reason then the pure amount of bullets that they put out.
The End Game Spartan Laser would be pretty effective against Flood.
seeing elites have one in front with a sword and everyone ranged in back, then when one's exhausted, they switch with another. be pretty cool to see.
Pre-Patched Halo 4 DMR for being the most overpowered thing since the lovely smell of bacon frying on a pan. ;)
DMR is still powerful, depending on how good your aim it can be better than BR
@@TheMhalpern I was making a joke based on the controversies prior to the weapon tuning update back in 2013. I know the DMR is still useful. ;)
@@rosegraham5283 been a while since I played but if i were to knock off the rust, I would do better with DMR than BR usually, hence why its my primary even in closer quarters maps, when I don't have it available I will do almost as well with the Magnum, I remember in H4 getting an extermination once in SWAT with the magnum, mostly luck with where I was and where they spawned, what the magnum lacks in reticle range, it makes up for in ROF, the AR is almost useless in my play style,
Its insanely useful for me when I'm in a PvP match. The reason being because I figured out how to make use of it at close range and I'm more of a sniper player than anything.
@@keulron2290 same, keep the reticle at head height wherever you are looking, and its one of the fastest killing mid-long range non-power weapons in the game, not far ahead of BR though, assuming not all rounds crit, but it can make a difference, If I am expecting close range and I dont have something like a shotgun available, SMG, as it is exceptionally good at the ranges the DMR stops being effective at,
Admit it you forget the flame thrower is a thing until you see or hear about it
The effectiveness of these weapons goes to show how unbelievably intelligent the Flood was. It's almost guaranteed to lose in a straight up fight, but it persisted anyway and was completely unstoppable regardless.
One thing about explosive weapons. It's just so satisfying to watch it blow things to bits
Why aren’t unsc ships equipped with Spartan lasers.
@Melissa Waterman well if it's in the game then it's considered canon
I mean a mac cannon is basically a extremely beefed up spartan laser
I just remembered that condors have Spartan lasers on them
@William Isaacson yes really, but whatever. Its the same type of energy, but a mac canon is 10x stronger. Simplem
@William Isaacson its a high velocity laser round, you are aware the spartan laser shoots 3 shots consecutively to make it look like its one direct beam correct? The mac cannon is just a super amped high velocity version using the same energy.
Well earned. Thanks for enlightening me about one of my favorite video game universes and keeping my passion for this great game alive.
The Energy Sword was the most effective Weapon against the Flood in my opinion
Me first time I found the flame thrower in Halo 3: *THANK YOU SANTA*
No views and no likes? Have I finally become first? Also saw you on UberNick's stream today!
I tune in quite often, big fan of Nicky boi :)
@@HiddenXperia heard him say something about a collab. Is this true? I'm so hype!
Wronged
I would think that humans would prioritize incendiary weapons over explosive based weapons as bits and pieces of flood infected flesh would be spread around with explosive weaponry.
If The Flood Comes Back In Halo: infinite It Would Be Logical For the Covenant To Create Bruteshot Energy Swords.
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That would be interesting
This is actually my new favorite video by hiddenxperia. Very informative and interesting. Keep it up dude!
Tungsten carbide is too brittle to be used for a sword blade... A blade needs to be flexible as to not explode when contact is made. A tungsten carbide blade would simply explode when contact is made with anything. So no, brute weapons would not be good for your reason. Nice vid though
how to make a Flood Tank Form disappear:
Step 1: Grab a SPNKER
Step 2: Fire
Step 3: Profit
Food invasion of earth
COD FANS: screaming and all getting infected
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Kill it with fire! Also congratulations on getting to 200k! You definitely earned it, keep up the iconic work!
What do these anti flood videos mean ? Is Luke Preparing for an outbreak ???!
so original
Eggnog Funny thing is it is original :)
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Eggnog
So you're going by "Eggnog" now nerd? Haha whats up douche bag, it's Tanner from Highschool. Remember me? Me and the guys used to give you a hard time in school. Sorry you were just an easy target lol. I can see not much has changed. Remember Sarah the girl you had a crush on? Yeah we're married now. I make over 200k a year and drive a mustang GT. I guess some things never change huh loser? Nice catching up lol. Pathetic..
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In halo, the shotgun is your best friend against the flood if you don't have access to better weapons.
You can weaponize Through Fire and Flames by Dragonforce to fight the flood.
Xperia Congratulations on 200k I love all the flood and their ICONIC evolutions of their Intelligence I just don't understand why the UNSC forces got rid of the flamethrowers from halo 3 from being used in halo 4 and 5 but if they want a new weapon to defeat the same parasites I think that Humanity and Sangeili organizations forces should work together and create some weapon to neutralize flood infection, I hope you keep making these videos until the end of time and keep up the amazing work :)
The actual Halo's themselves?!
It’s crazy to see how much you’ve grown. I subbed almost a year ago. I watch because you explain the lore and tbh I’m to lazy to read. I listen to you almost any time I’m mindlessly playing Xbox. Congrats man🎉
Damn, never been first before
Nvm guess I'll go f*** myself 🤷♂️
And yet loads of others have said 1st as well
+@@WhatNightmar3 You go do that you fuckin loser
The needler would also be good because tracking automatic explosive shards of crystals have fun you could also beat the flood to death with the top
Your Iconic shirts look awesome and thanks for making these I really enjoy them...keep them up
Ya, I'd stick to using long range weapons over swords and shotguns when possible, I mean, in reality you aren't normally rammed into a tiny corridor that runs ever onward, with only a few sightly wider sections in it here or there. And in reality, if there's flood in a building, we use explosives... on the building. No indestructible terrain to deal with out here IRL. I'd stick at range with a laser or beam weapon if possible that can be swept across areas, and also dispersed into a wide area lower power mode to scorch spores from an entire general area.
And you generally described not what was best at fighting the flood, but at breaking combat forms or such. If you run up to a flood, and shoot it with a shotgun, the infector and main body might be decently torn apart, but you're also scattering tons of its biomass and bits around, without an excellent personal shield/atmospheric unit, you and everyone around you are getting infected in that blast of blood, guts, and spores. Even if you are shielded, this is a much more troublesome area to burn/clean now than just one directly put down body initially. There's a difference between fighting that one enemy in front of you, and fighting the flood as a whole, which is how you have to see the flood.
IRL, various types of wide area radiation weapons like lasers, microwave guns, etc... would be used as a general perimeter defense all over to try and stop spores from getting around, you'd bombard the flood from a distance as much as possible, and for those that get closer having machineguns with exploding rounds, or anti aircraft trucks with airburst rounds to just blow apart any large waves of smaller targets at range or up close would be good. A lot more infantry would probably be used as mortar teams loading up white phosoporus or incidiary types of rounds to just create walls of fire that cover everything on the target, once again from a distance, and packing high temperature thermite or other munition charges into allied units so if they get "infected" they would auto burn away key components that normally require high precision/special materials to work. So something the flood even once organized can't readily fix without dedicated factory equipment or areas. If no allies in the area, blow all ammo as well, not just break the equipment on the infected unit. And information is key, swarms of small autonomous drones sending back video and other info on what's going on all around the flood area, and inside of it. A good first contact option on a planet would probably be orbital bombardment from a series of laser or plasma equipped satelites/ships to just scorch the entire infected core area away, even with local casualties. Then low powered cooking from those systems of nearby areas where humans might survive inside buildings but can't go out at least, while special military forces deploy and set up around them with the more dedicated sensors and weapons and cleaning systems to slowly scour inwards towards the previously destroyed core of the infection point.
Also, in general you need all of the special counters for when the enemy has equipment, like tanks, aircraft, ships, guns, etc... Ideally if it starts on a planet that planet should have way more total firepower at its disposal so should easily overwhelm the local flood pretty quickly with simply massed assault from everything, and if the flood didn't arrive on a hostile ship or something with armaments, then if locally designed equipment is made right the flood would have a hard time using your own weapons against you within any smaller period of time, making the initial flood outbreak much easier to combat when they can't capture and use most of your own forces equipment. Though with good enough armor and vehicles and weapons and sensors, flood not yet armed with special weapons would have almost no chance to kill such armed forces. I mean think of a tank. Just a modern tank, imagine hitting that with wip arms of a flood. Any armored surface is just not going to give a shit when hit by fleshy bits. You'll just break the fleshy bits. Now given enough mass, it can just try to deform and break stuff with enough raw energy and speed. Sure the flood organism destroys itself but giant flood tentacles could hit a tank pretty hard. But again, any target that big is normally easily countered by long range artillery or such. And if you have energy shielding, great, plasma shielding that's semi uncontained, so anything that hits/breaks through the outer magnetic field then gets bathed in super heated plasma is also a great counter against physical attacks especially by flood. So some changes to shield designs in halo setting could really help counter flood, though how easy/energy efficient such changes might be... who knows. I for one like the idea of my plasma sheild being a form of superheated reactive armor that blows away and incinerates anything that tries to punch me. Side effects might include increased recoil from smaller hits knocking the wearer back as well though. Best of used on people wearing heavy exoskeletons that can take a hit or two anyway.
Oh, and you'd also want some form of subterranean weapons. Like melta bombs stuck into little digging drones that can upon hitting a surface burrow down and then detonate turning the local ground into molten rock and stuff. Why? Because flood seem to enjoy getting everywhere to survive, and underground, in the porous dirt, seems like a place I'd expect a good number of spores and some infected organisms to try hiding when the artillery starts falling initially.
that's great
Be nice to see Sanghelie created energy shortswords designed exclusively for Spartans, that look like the ones shown on the old Heroic and Ledendary difficulty symbols but plasma based.
would love to see how the Promethean weapons work against the flood in future games.
What I never understood was why wasn’t the spartan laser ever put on say a tank or a warthog
HiddenXperias thumbnails are always great
I would say they are some of the best on RUclips
And His videos are great too
Awesome video mate. Also, congrats on 200K subscribers. You earned it
The gravity Hammer would be useful since they can easily crush anything and the assault Rifle would also be good by mowing down Infection forms
Amazing Vid as usual
CONGRATS ON 200k
here's to 200k more! I'm glad i found this channel, really has only made my love for halo grow.
I love your videos man! It's great to see someone have so much fun with his interests! :)
This was a great video.
Now my shopping list for the apocalypse is all sorted.
Obviously, this is obviously the most iconic video you’ve ever made, obviously, for obvious reasons.
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Also, congrats on the sub count. I’m glad to see your channel grow. You do make some -obviously- good content.
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I feel like the needler would be good too. Though the crystals aren't burning, they explode after impact and the more crystals there are, the larger the exploding. Maybe not good against a large horde but a smaller one
The shotgun saw first use in the 1960's...oh no sir, not even close. Pump action shotguns saw first mass use in 1917 during WW1. The US military used a modified model 1897 Winchester shotgun to great effect. The weapon was so absolutely brutal that the Germans tried to have their use in the trenches banned...we told them to go pound sand. They also have enjoyed wide spread use in American civilian life and law enforcement applications. I myself own a Mossberg Persuader 12 ga. w/16' barrel (it's really short). It carries 5 shots in the tube and one in the chamber. They really are a blast to use pun definitely intended.
Fun Fact: Video games have a terrible track record with how a shotgun works. They are very deadly inside 200 yards and that's just with buck shot. If you run slugs through them the range increases exponentially. Basically it's a 20mm shell that flies at 1,200 fps (feet per second) with 3,100 ft.lbs. of energy behind it. That means it would turn any Flood Variant into a fine pink mist at close range. ;)
The sword has such a small profile when not activated that I can see Spartans carrying it ALONGSIDE their normal two weapon loadouts.