The New Infection for Halo 4

[Absolute Dog]

ValentineF and I were having a discussion in a forum one day and he had what I though was a great Infection idea that got lost in countless new threads. This is a new twist on the original thread since he appears to be offline for quite some time. Here it is.

 

The original idea was to have a "Flood Infection". It fits into the actual infection concept of previous Halo campaigns and has more of a zombie feel to it. The Spartan would be the uninfected and the Flood the obvious infected. The Flood players at the start would have a randomly selected body type selected by the system and move to infect the Spartans. As they become infected they would themselves receive a randomly selected infected type and so on. The infected types would be limited to keep lag down. To prevent camping the entire map would swarm with parasites, the small spider like creatures, that would leave a moving player alone and attack when a player does not move or stays in a very confined area for more than say...5 seconds. The player could fight them off or run away eluding the "lock" of the parasite if he created a big enough gap between he and them. This would force movement and bring a new dynamic to the game type. There would also be maps designed specifically for infection that may even have changing environments ie. passageways, openings and ladder and ramps would randomly move making popular fighting areas move across the map. Finally, give forge the full range necessary to create new maps to be made available to the community.

 

Please add ideas or criticize as you see fit. If you really like someones idea, quote it and I will update it into the thread if it is popular.

[Mr Muffins 7]

i dont like any of these ideas, like fire fight how it is, make little changes to that dont change the idea completely i am against floodfight

[Absolute Dog]

i dont like any of these ideas, like fire fight how it is, make little changes to that dont change the idea completely i am against floodfight

????? Think you are in the wrong topic or need to reread it. Believe you wanted the "Flood in Firefight" OP in Halo CEA forum.

[MrSlAyEr13579]

I like it. Hopefully someone will take it into consideration.

[MASTER RECON118]

I would like to see a map that is like half destroyed and plants and stuff growing trough the walls and it's it would be like a kinda dark on the map. I would love to see that

[John o'cotton 117]

I like the idea of flood as infection, but what if you start out as a spider parasite and infect people by implanting yourself in their throat, and the person you nust infected starts out as a spider too.Another idea is there are dead bodies lying around that you can reanimate.

[Kurt S-501]

i like the idea. maybe not the infector forms crawling around but the rest is great!

[John o'cotton 117]

I just got a brainstorm you ready for this awesome idea ok then....

 

..FLOOD ON A PLANE!

[Absolute Dog]

I just got a brainstorm you ready for this awesome idea ok then....

 

..FLOOD ON A PLANE!

Kinda like "Snakes On A plane"! lol Thanks for the laugh.

[Spectral Jester]

Kinda like "Snakes On A plane"! lol Thanks for the laugh.

 

snakes on a plane still makes me jump, probably the only film that does.

 

sorry for going off topic, back on track - flood in a confined space would be a nightmare!!

[Absolute Dog]

snakes on a plane still makes me jump, probably the only film that does.

 

sorry for going off topic, back on track - flood in a confined space would be a nightmare!!

Yeah they would, so would Flood Infectiom om a small map!

[XO Jaime OX]

the idea overall is great, i would love to see flood in infection games, but only if you could chose to be a flood or an infected spartan like always. if there were all types of flood in the infection, it would be really easy to kill a non-infected because you have the crawlers that could shoot you down from anywhere, or tbe the big guy and smash the other team. there should only be elite/human/brute flood in custom games, and all flood types in firefight

[AvengingCrusade]

I like it. I actually thought of a version of this too. I think it would be awesome to be killing actual zombies instead of green spartans with energy swords

[Substandard IQ]

Cool idea but keep the the AI out of it, just make it flood combat forms that the players use to try and infect the spartans

[AvengingCrusade]

I would love to be a combat form or a hunter form. It would be awesome to see 343's take on the idea. I feel like it would be Left 4 Dead-esk, but I still think it would be awesome

[JACOB HODGE]

i love every bit to this idea! it would make infection amazing! you would have a new experience every time!

[FIREN4]

Maybe they could be seperate playlists. "Infection" would be the flood. And "Classic Infection" would be the one we all know and love.

[FIREN4]

They could also have a new Firefight playlist like Gears of War 3's Horde Mode. Killing humans with Grunts and Drones. Eventually Unlocking Brutes and Elites of all kind. Finally Mules and Hunters, etc. Wouldn't that be awesome?

[FIREN4]

I like the idea of flood as infection, but what if you start out as a spider parasite and infect people by implanting yourself in their throat, and the person you nust infected starts out as a spider too.Another idea is there are dead bodies lying around that you can reanimate.

 

I like that "reanimate idea." Could be like reviving in GoW:3 and COD. And you'd have like 10 seconds to get to your partner and reanimate them. It'd be sick.

[Tesseract]

It's an okay idea. I wouldn't mind either way.

[jaymore012]

ALOT of people were begging to have this in Reach...

[AvengingCrusade]

It would make it so much more fun, a little less irritating

[Absolute Dog]

Hopefully, if it is not too late, there can be a push to get this in Halo4. It just seems natural to have the Flood for infection. The timing may have been missed if they are not present in the next installment of the series, but playing Elites as the Infected is not a very novel idea!

[AvengingCrusade]

I like it, I think they could put it in 4. Tons of games put previous characters and bring back old spots from previous games. If the flood wont be in the campaign then they could have a spot in multiplayer. I think it would be a nice fit.

[Absolute Dog]

Hopefully someone in the big office will take note and consider it.