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Flood combat form

Also called: Attacker form
GamesUndeadRunsA parasite2000 to 2009

The foot soldier of the Flood, the parasite revealed halfway through Halo: Combat Evolved. Combat forms are corpses, human or alien, driven by a creature lodged in the chest. Reviewers praised the shock of their sudden appearance, and the Flood is regularly listed among the great video game villains.123

Battle it
First appeared
2001
Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
Source work
Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
Bungie
Age rating
ESRB M
Made in
USA
What causes it
A parasite
A Flood infection form burrows into the chest of a living or freshly dead body, takes over the nervous system and mutates the host.
How you become one
An infection form enters a host of sufficient size; infection usually kills a living host before the body is put to use.
How it moves
Runs
Leaps much farther than the host could and rushes its target without regard for pain.
Intelligence
Some intelligence
Weak spots
  • destroying the infection form in the chest
  • dismembering the body so it cannot be reused

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2001

Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)

field notes

What the sources say

1

The host's head is pushed aside and can be shot off without effect123

2

Arm bones lengthen into whips or claws123

3

Keeps the host's knowledge and can use firearms and vehicles123

4

A 'dead' combat form can be reanimated by a new infection form123

5

Forerunners built the Halo rings to starve the Flood by killing all sentient life123

6

Bungie's Robert McLees based the look on infection and decay123

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (runs), not a measurement.

You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
Flood combat form about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Flood combat form - Halopedia
  2. Flood (Halo) - Wikipedia
  3. Halo: Combat Evolved - RAWG

Every fact on this page comes from these sources, written in our own words. Spotted a mistake? Tell us at [email protected].

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