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@Genesis_Prime
10 ай бұрын
Unrelated but imagine a squad of Master Chief, Noble 6, Jerome and Rookie.
@theknave1915
10 ай бұрын
I also recall Goya was deeply affected by the Peninsular War, one of the darker parts of the Napoleonic Wars that devastated Spain in the early 1800's from which Spain never really recovered. Many Spaniards were traumatized by the brutality of the war, and Goya's paintings may also be a reflection of that. It seems a fitting parallel to where humanity is after the covenant war. Traumatized and desperate to rebuild something, even if it means taking serious unnecessary risk.
@neoluna1172
10 ай бұрын
while the ending was really cool, tbh I dont think its going to go anywhere super crazy, at most we will get a couple books about it where it gets resolved. As dumb as 343 is, they are still primarily a games studio, and they arent going to just sink/end the entire narrative of thier IP in such a way that doesnt allow them to make more games unless microsoft is planning to shutter halo as a whole, which is very unlinkley.
@Rea_Content
10 ай бұрын
Whoever did the gravemind voice did a fantastic job
@iforget_2780
10 ай бұрын
November halloween? makes sense
@sandvicheatfresh
10 ай бұрын
"sir a spartan has been infected" "glass the planet" "...Its the Master Chief" "...............Activate the rings"
@JongsungChoi
6 ай бұрын
get the yamato, we're sending doomslayer and guts to put an end to this.
@TALONYT_Editz_XYZ
6 ай бұрын
Sir, doomslayer has been infected too.@@JongsungChoi
@JongsungChoi
6 ай бұрын
@@TALONYT_Editz_XYZ Okay then get Guts, Skull knight, dante and vergil to clean up both messes
@TALONYT_Editz_XYZ
6 ай бұрын
@@JongsungChoi sir, how about we blow up the whole planet along with the solar system? because chief and doomslayer killed them all
@salazarcosplay
6 ай бұрын
Send Ellie from last of us she should be immune
@legendarymasterchief7620
10 ай бұрын
*FLOOD MENTIONED, NEURONS ACTIVATED*
@HiddenXperia
10 ай бұрын
literally me
@combatdummy__8081
10 ай бұрын
Same
@halomaster6121
10 ай бұрын
Relatable
@acrustykrab
10 ай бұрын
Monke afraid
@fearmydonut248
10 ай бұрын
NEURONS _REPURPOSED_
@hunterh1175
10 ай бұрын
I love that the ex-marine character fought the Flood with a Dead Space plasma cutter for a few minutes
@Franz0818
10 ай бұрын
Bro thinks he’s Isaac
@haramberoth117
9 ай бұрын
Bro thought he was at least.
@Razgriz_01
8 ай бұрын
First we had the Mona Lisa resembling the USG Ishimura. Now we have this. Really teasing that Dead-Space style Halo
@rzor1911
6 ай бұрын
imagine if Isaac were a spartan, he would be master chief 2.0 xd @@Franz0818
@FeedMeSalt
5 ай бұрын
Hell divers proved one of my two favorite ideas would work. I'm convinced both would be incredible franchises within halo. Idea one, ODST on the grounds meat grinder small squad mission based survival game. Basically exactly hell divers. My other idea was a small scale horror adventure/narrative driven regular marine centered story about the flood taking a ship. Basically dead space mixed with halo. I say my ideas, but I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking these would be incredible. Imagine struggling to survive for half a game. You struggle through basic infection forms and any turned humans are basically mini bosses. You are just a marine remember. Then, something triggers the AI on the ship to try and warn you of danger. Though it's slowly being corrupted it's able to update you. Something nearly 1200 pounds is moving on the outside of the ship, estimated speed... Over 75mph and closing. Then the warning breach alarms play, you get told you need to run. You need to blow up this ship, what's coming cannot exist. Cannot be allowed to exist. You get a short glimpse from the camera feed .. as Gen two armor comes TEARING through the ship. A twisted mutated machine of war.... A Spartan. . and it's coming.
@tsunderemerc2963
10 ай бұрын
I only wish the story was a bit longer, i feel like the actual Spartan part and their following infection was just a little rushed, though it does make it fairly realistic that infected Spartans need to be destroyed immediately as soon as it happened.
@rmal8845
10 ай бұрын
Agreed, and I feel the ending can make up for it in the future. Hopefully in a game
@adityagarg3931
10 ай бұрын
Anime pfp spotted, opinion rejected
@GinaRanChaosdiver
10 ай бұрын
@@adityagarg3931 a Master Chief PFP without being called Master Chief? opinion invalid.
@Mr.ManiacaI
10 ай бұрын
"Chief, you mind telling me what you're doing in that reply section of a KZitem comment?" "Sir.. picking fights with anime pfps."
Using Starfield's breathtaking vistas as a way to help depict locations in Halo stories is such a galaxy brain move
@Cavemanner
10 ай бұрын
The game takes its name from the concept, not the other way around 😂
@thesuperintendent4290
10 ай бұрын
@@CavemannerThere's even Reach in starfield.
@pixelsarea
10 ай бұрын
@@thesuperintendent4290many of the planets in halo are based on actual planets
@solinvictus4367
4 ай бұрын
Mass Effect would have been better. ME LE has much better visuals than Starfield :)
@maleradler0164
10 ай бұрын
Now we need a deadspace style horror game. Imagine being a unsc engineer trying to survive the flood
@AmphetamemeOverdose
10 ай бұрын
Have you heard of branching sickness? Its basically what you’re talking about. Its not quite in the manner of dead space, but last I heard they are genuinely building it as a survival horror Halo game
@maleradler0164
10 ай бұрын
@@AmphetamemeOverdose looked it up. Pretty interesting hope that this fan game will be great
@brawler5760
10 ай бұрын
You know that wouldn’t sell well if it doesn’t have Master Chief in the cover art. Same with a Sangheili-only game
@AmphetamemeOverdose
10 ай бұрын
@@brawler5760 its a fan game, dawg. Its being made for a niche audience to begin with
@brawler5760
10 ай бұрын
@@AmphetamemeOverdose I wasn’t talking about the game you mentioned, I was just talking in general. Spinoffs usually don’t sell very well
@MistahFox
10 ай бұрын
I'm so glad they clarified that everyone on the bridge knew exactly what the flood was. I always thought ONI completely covering them up after a flood infestation touched down on Earth was absurd.
@ddunfuh9239
9 ай бұрын
If i remember correctly the flood infestation on earth was covered up but the flood itself was revealed to the public
@danmullen6744
7 ай бұрын
@@ddunfuh9239 I wanna say in halo 4 there was an armour set with flavour text that said used by Spartans to survive in flood hot zones or something like that so if there was a spartan 4 armour designed for use in flood zones fair to say that oni wasn’t in full KGB no talk about flood compartmentalization and I wanna say there was also a lore drop back then that said essentially the same thing as this one since Africa the flood was a bit of an new version of the Kraken tale for the navy not known by everyone but a bit of a legend since the navy lead the charge on flood encounters I think it was the og lore drop for what “Corrupter” protocol was cause they had implied back then it had never happened but there was a contingency gotta hand it too 343 they know how to world build 1000%
@meurumtrain4747
6 ай бұрын
@@ddunfuh9239as it should be. The flood is an extinction level threat
@Commander_Appo
2 ай бұрын
Considering Saturn had a flood containment team on board, I would hope they knew what the flood was
@themadspartan
10 ай бұрын
Its pretty haunting to think that somewhere out there is a flood infected UNSC Condor harbouring flood spartan combat forms, this has to be building up to something big for the Halo Universe going forward. so damn cool to have new Flood lore again!
@travisvanalst4698
10 ай бұрын
Not in any game lol.
@Razgriz_01
8 ай бұрын
@@travisvanalst4698 Yeah, they'll probably be killed off in a novel or short-story.
@thekrazmaster1893
7 ай бұрын
@@Razgriz_01 Or off screen in a game.
@tavairushernandez4588
4 ай бұрын
Halo 7 77@@thekrazmaster1893
@dogalolo
10 ай бұрын
A fun note about that helmet detonation, that failsafe is referenced all the way back in Halo 5! It's the Gallows VISR. It almost makes sense that it wasn't enough, considering (we can assume) the only testing of the Gallows VISR was done in the combat sims that Halo 5's multiplayer takes place in.
@venom0825
10 ай бұрын
Feel like it's less to stop the flood from infecting the body and more to annihilate the Spartans brain and any sensitive information, training and experience they may have, so the flood isn't able to use it.
@enolastraight4829
10 ай бұрын
@@beastmode1915 Damn, didn't know that even in feral stage Flood is somewhat intelligent and is capable of dealing with Spartan armor
@nothanks9503
10 ай бұрын
@@beastmode1915I think it’s unrealistic they would leave it up to the Spartan to detonate their own suit it should be automated or triggered by ONI but then I guess we wouldn’t have this story
@nothanks9503
10 ай бұрын
@@enolastraight4829who says they were feral anyway though if there’s a gravemind in range we don’t know about they could just be pretending to be feral
@enolastraight4829
10 ай бұрын
@@nothanks9503 to be fair, considering the "ripples on the surface" (If I remember correctly) described in the story, there really could be a Gravemind or at least a proto-gravemind in the ship.
@philippedesjardins9484
10 ай бұрын
I particularly love the depiction of the rapid evolution of the Flood in this story. The speaking entity starts out stricly focused on consuming, but when it infects the Spartan something changes. Instead of using its talon, it shoots the former Spartan's weapon to incapacitate the next victim and consume them. When noticing the evacuation, it kills another victim on the way to the Condor, but instead of sticking around to consume them (which would be expected in the feral stage), it leaves them behind to focus on the important task at hand: reach the Condor to get out and avoid nuclear annihilation. I personally think that was the best part of the story, this horrifying realization that the Flood can evolve from the feral stage to something more in a manner of hours.
@surferdude5126
10 ай бұрын
Even scarier is It seems this whole ideal took less than an hour
@unboxing_legend7708
10 ай бұрын
i personally dont like it myself because the logic is out the window and it intentionally dodges the most obvious questions many people have about it. how did a very weak limited knowledge dormant flood infection on the planet even manage to win the fight so effortlessly? how did they easily outpower 1 spartan let alone 4 so easily when no other flood infections on other planets and rings had ever managed to before themselves despite being stronger and smarter? how was the spartan armour even weakened or cracked to even give the flood infection form the chance to take over the spartan. how do they even retain the knowledge and no how to infect a spartan, re use and weaponise the spartan when its the 1st ever time doing so, what flood forms even fought on the battlefield, how did each spartan get over run so easily, why didnt the spartans bother retreating when in danger? nothing obvious is explained because the intentionally hid that information. if its to make another short story on how it happened, im not going to be impressed because they couldve just easily explained it in detail within the 1st one and then just continued on with the story after what happened here.
@unboxing_legend7708
10 ай бұрын
@@surferdude5126 whats more scary is a primitive bare bones basic form of the flood that isnt that strong or as intelligent as the rest out there in which spartans have encountered and fought managed to beat not just 1 spartan but all 4 in 1 battle, killed an entire army despite being shot to high heaven by the ship and has managed to escape to the ship and likely is about to infect the whole condor ship as well solo. 1 or 4 infected spartans that are moreless taken over versus a whole condor ship isnt going to make it out alive. the flood on that planet literally went from nothing to one of if not THE biggest flood threat in the galaxy in just one fight and 1 short battle that seemed heavily 1 sided despite being easily overpowered in logical terms.
@horrorfan117
10 ай бұрын
On the brightside this incident was (seemingly) contained, and now the UNSC is aware that their current anti-flood infection counter measures are not enough. Hopefully this leads to tighter protocols, micro explosives throughout a Spartan's armor to annihilate all the biomass, and hopefully a countermeasure against the AI override when the flood is involved.
@hunterh1175
10 ай бұрын
If the Condor escape the incident is anything but contained… also I think the explosives in the head are not meant to destroy the biomass but only to annihilate the brain and the memories and training it contains. Though it seems even that didn’t quite work
@jetsflyingoffatrain4338
10 ай бұрын
@@hunterh1175we don't get anything that suggests we saw the Spartan's thoughts so I assume it worked?
@delawarevex4976
10 ай бұрын
@@hunterh1175 yeah...judging by the fact the spartan seems to panic when the gravemind speaks...im sure the spartans mind its very alive...and under eternal torture.
@samuelkorger3567
10 ай бұрын
@@delawarevex4976was it the spartan that the flood voice was talking to? I thought it was the ex marine guy that got infected
@R1PP3R_93
10 ай бұрын
@@delawarevex4976 this was one of the most horrific realizations I got from one of instalation 00's video where he basically theorises that when an individual's consciounsness gets assimilated by the flood , that individual will still be aware, same as this guy in this story, even after death, and as long as there«s a gravemind around it will always be in that state... eternal torture.
@Kwatcher100
10 ай бұрын
As I hear you tell this story, I am reminded of the words of an especially intelligent Brute: “I told you. NOT. To go. Inside…For good reason!”
@dreadknight8398
10 ай бұрын
The Fact that the last flood story was named “Mona Lisa” and now “Saturn Devouring his son” which both are from artworks Amazing
@acrustykrab
10 ай бұрын
Dude The Mona Lisa is the best flood story I wish we could get a movie of it. The artwork video is damn good
@dreadknight8398
10 ай бұрын
@@acrustykrabpray we could get more flood story near future😭👏🏽
@PelemusMcSoy
10 ай бұрын
God help us if any of Dali's paintings is the next Flood story name...
@walker7753
10 ай бұрын
@@PelemusMcSoyI'mma put $20 on the line cuz let's be honest, it's bound to happen
@Aether-Entropy
10 ай бұрын
Now if only 343 could get some of this fantastic lore in their games...
@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778
10 ай бұрын
its gonna be put in some book like most modern games do.
@scott-gaming.8834
10 ай бұрын
Turning into destiny
@travisvanalst4698
10 ай бұрын
Nah. 343s thing is to build worlds and stories they never finish to have them tie off the best parts in a book
@SageEnVT
10 ай бұрын
Keep that same attitude for how bungie did so much of their lore for the original halo games
@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778
10 ай бұрын
@@travisvanalst4698 sadly it’s spread to other franchises too. The cod reboots killed off the main villain of MW1 in a war zone cutscene that can never be played again. I am so sick of modern games just putting the story’s into books and cutscenes
@davischris
10 ай бұрын
"Then the Spartan fell" was such a chilling line absolutely loved this audio story and incredible video here, much love ma dood
@odstsoldier6252
9 ай бұрын
Was the ex marine augmented and later on became a Spartan to do this mission I don’t remember him saying it I just need clarification pls
@davischris
9 ай бұрын
@odstsoldier6252 a Spartan containment team get deployed later on in the story separate to the mining operation
@deathman9219
10 ай бұрын
I'm guessing the ship was likely a forerunner ship previously consumed by the flood during the Forerunner Flood War. From the description of the ship being "within the rock itself" I feel like the ship may have been in slipspace when the rings fired destroying the domain and disrupting slipspace travel throughout the Ecumene. Hope we'll eventually get additional context or further story around this ship.
@thoumodszo1348
10 ай бұрын
My biggest issue with the short story is that we didn’t get any details on how the Spartan got infected. I need to know how the parasite got through the energy shields, the titanium plates and the incredibly tough under-suit. It really feels like the Spartan got infected because the writer said so. Other than that I find this a pretty good short story.
@Diogenesiz
10 ай бұрын
chief almost got infected on the halo ce ring, so I imagine it must have happened much the same way
@ratoz8127
10 ай бұрын
They did specify how it happened, it was explained that the armor tried everything it can to stop the infection, it even blew up the inside of one of the spartans helmet in a desperate attempt to kill it, but failed.
@mattshelton7423
10 ай бұрын
@@Diogenesiz Yeah the little infection forms are really strong and can pierce the undersuit, after shields have been cracked by heavier units.
@MothFable
10 ай бұрын
@@mattshelton7423infection forms are stupid strong in terms of piercing capabilities.
@thorveim1174
10 ай бұрын
yeah as pointed its nt that hard for an infection form to pierce the undersuit and theya re small enough to go for joints between titanium plates (or likely just go for the unarmored neck, which is also easy access to the nervous system) The one effective defense is the shields, and in the novels chief got saved by them only because Cortana fired them up in time to fry the infection form, meaning the shields wont automatically activate... Its possible that either the shields got overwhelmed, or that the AI failed to do the same as cortana. makes me wonder though why not create a special mjolnir suit focusing on more complete armoring even at the cost of some mobility (think and anti-flood EoD equivalent) to equip spartans that have to deal with the risk of a flood outbreak with
@wet_weather_imp
10 ай бұрын
My only issue with the story was how quickly a Flood Containment specialised Spartan fell soooo quickly to the Flood.
@MS07B3-G0UF
10 ай бұрын
I can see where you’re coming from, but up until that point they probably only worked with simulations and theoretical scenarios. Let me tell you, simulations never truly prepare you for the real deal. Simulations can Instill over confidence, and being over confident is a form of complacency in itself. The flood even in its most basic forms are never a joke, and Spartans are definitely weaker than both the forerunners, and ancient human warriors that were much better equipped to deal with the flood, and they still got their asses handed to them. I know a lot of people are having issues with this story, and it for sure could’ve had more detail, but I love the direction. Flood Spartans would be a whole new level of fucked.
@sodium7127
7 ай бұрын
Bare in mind that Chief barely made it out of the Library alive. Truly scary stuff.
@lukerosales5879
4 ай бұрын
@sodium7127 and in the books, he was almost infected had Cortana not fried the Pod Infector.
@thatbr1t1shguy
10 ай бұрын
Chips dubbo vs an infected spartan. A worthy opponent for the flood hunter indeed.
@MeddlerPropagandist14
10 ай бұрын
Flood spartan would likely lose in seconds do to the raw power of chips
@thomasnolastname8734
7 ай бұрын
You fool Not even Chips Dubbo can harm Chips Dubbo
@HotForgeChaos
5 ай бұрын
Then it is an even fight
@millercobra675
10 ай бұрын
I'd like to imagine that the more that the flood goes into spartan armor; the more they know how to actually disable the protocols. As one has said "it is only a matter of time"
@FlavioSantos-uw1mr
10 ай бұрын
Let's not forget that the silver metallic architecture of the Forerunners is based on the architecture of the Precursors, so it's not strange that they simply confused the 2 factions, apart from the fact that it was "Trapped" inside the planetoid, it looks much more like the asteroid was formed around it.
@beastmode1915
10 ай бұрын
Or it had a malfunction and teleported inside the asteroid. The 2 theories I’ve seen is the one I thought up or we’ll list as a) it being frozen in space and time for God knows how long, had rock and ice (bc space is really cold) form around it and harden to the point that it becomes strong and tough to break through, or b) the aforementioned teleport malfunction, which could be possible for this type of ship. On the official Halo channel video where this sorta audiobook story is posted, I have a more in-depth description of my theory
@fossfox
10 ай бұрын
Much like the Flood hid in wait for 1000 years to catch ancient humanity off guard after they thought themselves safe, you caught us after we thought the spooky season was over with a big dose of Flood lore
@lupusnox959
10 ай бұрын
I see it mentioned a lot, but it was the suit that failed to save Chief, the mjolnier suit is capable of repelling a single infection form to some extent which makes it resistant, but not entirely. It was Cortanas intervention controlling the suit to give the chief enough time to kill the infection form while it was stunned . I think even dummy AIs would be mandatory to each individual spartan in a spartan kill team assigned to a theater that contained Flood elements to not repeat the same security threat.
@razor6827
10 ай бұрын
Would be cool if we could see all this cool stuff in a game, but I guess we won’t
@HiddenXperia
10 ай бұрын
Agreed, but I tried my best to visualise it all :)
@snowleopard8986
10 ай бұрын
@@HiddenXperiayou did a great job.
@halomaster6121
10 ай бұрын
Ya it would be nice too have the flood back in the mainline games
@swiftly-kun
10 ай бұрын
I believe their going to add the flood eventually but there are more important issues to discuss sadly
@Skiritai
10 ай бұрын
@@halomaster6121The Flood is a boring antagonist, no real goal other than complete assimilation. At least the Prometheans wanted to enact AI supremacy. The Covenant wanted a genocidal ascendancy into "godhood." The Banished want conflict. And the Endless probably want to come back to life.
@fw.Dallas
10 ай бұрын
Imagine being a genetically enhanced super soldier, the very best humanity has to offer, the UNSC's shield, and spear, and you don't die fighting off the enemy who wants the extermination of your people, you get devoured by an ancient parasite because a glory hungry officer sent you down to fight a near unstoppable foe. Not only did you lose, you become a puppet for the enemy which consumed you, and have been turned into a weapon against those you fought for.
@fw.Dallas
4 ай бұрын
@jonkoenig2478 Now you peg me
@Brucie_Boy
3 ай бұрын
@jonkoenig2478are you scared, Spartan?
@celestialspartan1176
10 ай бұрын
This audio story gave me so many chills when I first heard it. It really goes to show ya that nobody is safe from The Flood. Also, the moral of the story should be this. If you’re a UNSC officer facing the possibility of a Flood outbreak situation, LISTEN TO THE SMART AI AND FOLLOW PROTOCOL!!!!!
@CheckpointGuard
10 ай бұрын
A new flood lore video? This will bring us victory, EVERLASTING.
@Dang00TheAlien
10 ай бұрын
I wonder if LV-31 was a reference to LV-426 from the Alien series. Which funnily enough was also orbiting a gas giant.
@presidentfrog4683
10 ай бұрын
I started writing a DnD campaign based on the Forerunners about 2 years ago. The story goes that an ancient civilization created a super weapon to deal with an impossible threat. Basically the same as the Halo rings and the Flood. I thought it would be cool if instead of the Halo rings still existing, what if they didn't, and instead what if they found a temple that sunk beneath the Earth when the super weapon was activated. The super weapon's power was so great that it breaks off a piece of space time and that shard, including the temple, loges itself in the DnD world, deep underground. While exploring the temple, the adventurers can hear sounds in the distance of some flood forms that have crossed the time barrier, and wandered deeper into the temple, they might even fight a few if they can find them. From here the story can develop two ways. If its a short mission, meaning not the focus of the campaign, the adventurers will find a weakened Gravemind hiding in the Temple. From the Gravemind's perspective, it just arrived. The shard of time broke off when the weapon fired and this gravemind happened to be here. It was damaged by the weapon when the shard was created, which is why it is weakened, so now it waits to regain it's strength, thinking of what to do next now that it has been severed from it's flood network. If this is the main focus of the campaign, then the Gravemind already regained it's strength and went back to the past to reestablish itself. It is then the adventurers find the time barrier and cross it to explore the other side, unaware of the nightmare they have stumbled into. Thoughts?
@lv1543
6 ай бұрын
They are so screwed
@johndortheknight4802
5 ай бұрын
I really love the possibilities with a long form campaign imagine slowly exploring ancient architecture pot marked with plasma fire on exquisite art finding bodies that look far too fresh and far too rotted at the same time not knowing it’s a flood combat form about to rise again
@nixon5452
10 күн бұрын
sounds derivative
@emilianocastillejos1330
10 ай бұрын
Absolutely love your flood videos, hopefully they bring them more to the main story for the next Halo, its definitely my favorite scifi antagonist
@jinsai8064
10 ай бұрын
Honestly, I don't think the fireteam was a flood containment unit. That's probably why they fell so easily, I really can't imagine a true containment unit falling so fast. Especially considering how well they should know the dangers of the parasite
@Major_Zephyr
10 ай бұрын
I love the way it described the spartans from Julien's perspective, and Julien's perspective after he's been infected. He saw things in a new way, and just wanted to share his new outlook. So haunting.
@brianoconnor9105
10 ай бұрын
I’m not sure if it was intentional, but corporations involved in a horrific situation, by a planet named LV, has a lot of the alien franchise vibes, and Halo CE’s big influence was Alien. I really love this.
@urieldraconis857
10 ай бұрын
A lot of aliens influences from the look of the marines to the assault rifle, the pelican design, sarg Johnson all taken straight from aliens aka alien 2
@brianoconnor9105
10 ай бұрын
Oh yeah they openly admitted that a lot of inspiration was drawn from Aliens, I love it though, and I feel like this whole story is a callback in sense, going back to the roots.
@brianoconnor9105
10 ай бұрын
Even the marine in Truth and Reconciliation was a nod. The “WE’RE SCREWED, WE’RE SCREWED MAN!!” Was ripped from Aliens.
@Joynauti
10 ай бұрын
I think the point of the countermeasures was less of trying to render the Spartan body unusable and more of destroying the Spartan's brain as that's what the Flood would draw from to learn about vital ONI and or UNSC information. A Flood-infected Spartan isn't *really* that much of a threat. If anything, their strength would be more akin to that of a Flood-Infected Brute or Elite. It's just unfortunate that we'll probably never see this translated into actual gameplay. The Flood really just feels less like an actual threat now and just a puppet that 343 can wave around to appease the Lore-Junkies.
@vincentthought6130
10 ай бұрын
Your forgetting that if a spartan falls then the DNA of that spartan is now know to all flood forms. Meaning spartans are going to be easier to infect as the flood becomes more and more knowledge of spartan anatomy.
@Joynauti
10 ай бұрын
@@vincentthought6130 The Flood has converted countless amount of different species and an overwhelming amount of Humans. Spartan DNA in of itself isn’t radically different from Humans, as they’re humans in of themselves. Spartan have their equals in Elites- Who also use shield based armor. If the Flood- Even at feral stage is able to overwhelm warriors that are in even greater strength than humans, then I doubt there’s really a takeaway the Flood would get from infecting a Spartan body.
@ImHerbert-moon
10 ай бұрын
@@JoynautiSpartans have AIs in their armor. If they get infected, the location of Earth and other important Human places is in the hands of the Flood.
@Major_Zephyr
10 ай бұрын
I mean isn't all lore and story telling just a "puppet to wave around and appease lore-junkies"? Seems like an extremely pessimistic way to view fictional stories. There's also every possibility the Flood will return in a game. We know the Endless are connected to the Flood and Precursors, and the Flood will never truly be neutralized. It's not a matter of if the Flood will return, but when. 343 knows how popular they are, which is why we're getting this. They will always be the biggest threat in the Halo universe.
@Joynauti
10 ай бұрын
@@Major_Zephyr I envy your optimism. Really, I do. I’ve been wanting the Flood back in a true fashion ever since Halo 3. Awakening the Nightmare was a treat, but we really haven’t got any reason to believe 343 will be bringing them back in a gameplay sense anytime soon.
@PdxEmo03
10 ай бұрын
Perhaps that "Forunner" ship was just one of the countless flood-controlled Forunner ships that was in the Forunner Flood War?
@thelegendarysupersquid7556
10 ай бұрын
This was such a great Halloween treat. Also, loved the bit where Julian said that the cave wasn't a natural formation.
@nickcageisbestspider-man
10 ай бұрын
"After contracting a mystery illness"(shows flood spore), no way my man just implied that Goya was infected by the flood💀
@ZugaTurrelai
10 ай бұрын
I’m curious if the condor returned to the Saturn? As you said the condor could leave the system with its FTL but it also could have returned to the Saturn itself, and then we would have a Mona Lisa situation all over again with a corrupted spartan onboard.
@odinulveson9101
10 ай бұрын
Possibly.. though, might be drawing too much attention to Saturn and bit bigger risk of what flood there is to be wiped out by exterminatus the ship. Its a smarter move to get to a backwater world preferrably with sentient life and more of it with knowledge useful to the Flood
@noneed4sleep64
10 ай бұрын
I doubt it made it out, this is four years prior to halo infinite and we’ve heard nothing about it in the years after
@Azorees-oj5zr
10 ай бұрын
@@noneed4sleep64well it wouldn’t be the first time that the Flood retreated for years, they did that to ancient humanity and the Forerunners.
@CommissarChaotic
10 ай бұрын
@@noneed4sleep64 He's lurking and he's stalking when you least expect it
@Kwatcher100
10 ай бұрын
@@noneed4sleep64Unless the escaping Condor caused a new Flood outbreak which caught Cortana’s attention. Given her experience with the Gravemind as well as what she learned from the Domain, it’s likely that news of a major Flood outbreak would cause her to put many of her other plans on hold to reallocate resources to containing the outbreak, tracking the source of said outbreak, and scouring the galaxy to make sure no other outbreaks are occurring, possibly leaving her forces vulnerable to other forces, like the Banished.
@boinkohh8394
10 ай бұрын
So a captain's goal of greed and honor was what made this situation 100x's worse.....sounds about right
@beelzeboo
7 ай бұрын
Dude with your voice and editing skills I’d honestly watch the hell out of any content you put in this format. The segment of the Saturn painting was super interesting and historical.
@GetsNapped-vd9xb
10 ай бұрын
Lmao rewatching the flood ambush on Keyes and his squad, I realized that Keyes wasn’t aiming for anything, he literally was shooting at a ramp 😂
@bunnyninja4127
10 ай бұрын
Unless. The ramp was infected by the Flood lol
@even_steven777
10 ай бұрын
He wanted to ramp up his firepower since he doesn’t keep it loaded lol
@jamesmclemore9123
10 ай бұрын
I think that Saturn represents the crew of the ship, and perhaps the UNSC/ONI as a whole. They try to destroy or "devour" the Spartan, a creation, or in other words a "child", of the UNSC because they are a threat to the UNSC's power, and if they don't deal with it the flood could overthrow humanity. The Spartan II's in particular can be considered ONI's children since they were raised by the military. And going off of Halsey's perspective on her own work- that the Spartans represent the next phase of human evolution, then Spartans could be considered the children of humanity as a species.
@tevocity4673
10 ай бұрын
This story just solidifies the fact that we need a flood survival horror game. It gave off heavy dead space vibes that I think would translate into a game.
@EvilEnjar
10 ай бұрын
I think the Flood voice was at most a Proto-Gravemind, at least a minor keymind like a Juggernaut. Also, the “Arm. Blade. Weapon” feels like a reference to Halo 4 Flood Spartans from Infection
@cruznix745
10 ай бұрын
My guess was that they were in fact cutting through bio mass. Considering that none of these guys have disassembled a a forerunner ship they probably didn’t know what it was
@Ladner128
10 ай бұрын
Questions from the peanut gallery: So the bomb that Jorge detonated was actually just a slipspace drive right? so he didn't actually "die" persay- Just teleported into a random part of space, right? So that being said, the shop item of Jorge being infected could be canon by a speculation of technicality, right?
@nihilistpenguin7511
7 ай бұрын
Jorge was completely un-personed. He improperly mounted the drive so that it had no destination, teleporting him and the ship into slipspace but nowhere else. Slipspace is literally a total void where matter doesn’t really exist, so the atoms that made up Jorge and the ship were completely deleted from the entire universe.
@thomasdwalker9696
5 ай бұрын
The radiation would’ve taken care of that completely
@tiredsadboi8278
10 ай бұрын
Imagine playing through the largest halo campaign ever, then hearing "we have an incoming ship, the..Unsc Saturn?" "I thought that ship was lost on a mining mission." Then put of nowhere, you see it jump in, covered and coated in flood, a mirror to how the flood showed up in halo 2 in high charity, and the high charity ship slipspacing on earth in halo 3
@matthewtaylor2412
10 ай бұрын
God, it feels good to be back. The Flood have always been one of my favourite parts of the lore, the horror and elder itch vibe they bring is something that I love in fiction (for another example HiddenX, the Tyranids. HORRIFYING). This was always going to be an amazing story and video and I loved how you framed it and the voice acting. But my god…that ending. When I heard the voice of the flood say the word “ship” and then “CONDOR” I knew what was coming and had an immediate fear reaction. No one in the galaxy is ready for the horror that is coming…(and I cannot wait)
@BaggyFTJ
10 ай бұрын
The nice part is that is feels like a genuine Flood story, not the bastardised stuff we have in Infinite rn with the glowing boils but I doubt this'll be picked up again
@BigBladeFan
10 ай бұрын
I have a feeling that this is 343's way of bringing the flood back into the universe officially. I have a feeling the next game will have them come in and come in rapidly.
@Lorescribbler
10 ай бұрын
I thought this was a fanfiction the whole time to be honest. Wild to get a definitive answer of the first infected Spartan. I really do hope this gets used somewhere, I'd love to see the Flood again
@Yung_Slush
10 ай бұрын
We love new Flood lore, especially hearing CORRUPTOR. My god, the chills I would get if we heard that in a game🫣
@MEGAbrandon281
10 ай бұрын
Listening to this audiobook the other day Legitimately made me feel uncomfortable and freaked out. It was very well written. Even with the lack detail it allows the reader to fill generally scarred from either preconceived notions or the unknowns. Really hope we get more flood content in Infinite and future games
@reecedignan8365
10 ай бұрын
UNSC Command - “A Spartan has been infected, prepare a full strike team and nuclear weapons, this is a major threat” The Spartan II and III’s around when the call is made - “which Spartan is it, whats there number?” UNSC Com - “It’s a Spartan IV named…” Spartan II/III - “oh, I though you said it was a threat? Yeah the flood part is but the Spartan part not so much, just send a few of us older ones down we’ll see the situation cleaned up in seconds”
@asianswithbowlcuts991
10 ай бұрын
True lmfao
@samuelkorger3567
10 ай бұрын
Yeah wake me up when a Spartan II gets shreked
@azraelthefallenonyx7720
10 ай бұрын
man that audiobook was hardcore dark haha i think halo needs more
@WillowMaster
10 ай бұрын
Hey @HiddenXperia just got out of hospital after suffering my first epileptic seizure on Saturday. Your videos have been a surprising source of comfort during all of this
@RagNBoneMan67
10 ай бұрын
I would love to see one long video as a collaboration of the flood and how its changed throughout the years, essentially a compilation of all past videos, it would be difficult and require alot of time but i think the end result would definitely be worth it
@youngman850
10 ай бұрын
Didnt expect the real lore of the painting. I appreciated that. Adds more depth to the story.
@minesimusic1447
10 ай бұрын
Whenever you cover flood lore. You always know it out of the park with the level of respect and gravitas it deserves.
@CalCutieYT
10 ай бұрын
I love your lore videos. It genuinely makes me smile to see how happy you are covering Halo Lore. I can see the light in your eyes every time you cover anything. Keep up the good work!
@BrandonBreezeyVirgo
10 ай бұрын
Still wish we got a game that ties to the book Halo the flood or whatever it was called. Imagine even a game where we see alpha base and get to play as Jenkins. And imagine playing as him when he’s half human half infected right up to the explosion of the ring. That would be interesting or even Player 1 Jenkins player 2 Johnson.
@General_C
10 ай бұрын
Wasn't that book just a recap of Halo 1?
@BrandonBreezeyVirgo
10 ай бұрын
@@General_CNah goes into more depth and what happens at Alpha base and what we don’t see in the game.
@WitchHunterSiegfried
Ай бұрын
We see Alpha Base in the Halo Arcade game, and SPV3 (Halo 1 mod)
@PelemusMcSoy
10 ай бұрын
23:44 Imagine if the Halo universe had their own version of the Unitologists.
@t3arki113r
10 ай бұрын
Technically they did, but that was before new humanity. I wonder if there is a newer version of that cult
@soap9277
10 ай бұрын
I mean, the Covenant had a cult that was kinda similar
@braydeno4189
10 ай бұрын
All I want to know is what kinds of flood forms were trapped there that they managed to threaten a squad of hellbringers and cyclopes. Gaunts, maybe?
@delawarevex4976
10 ай бұрын
you mean forerunner-era floods?
@Heyyoguy123
10 ай бұрын
@@delawarevex4976Forerunner-era pure forms that were gradually formed from the spores that remained after the Halos firing. Makes sense why the team was overrun, these weren’t modern day Flood forms. The team was prepared for typical human and Covie combat forms, not Forerunner-era pure forms. In that case, they would’ve done fine like other Flood outbreaks. They severely underestimated their enemy
@YaBoySieg
10 ай бұрын
Any time something from Halo Wars 2 gets acknowledged by 343 it's a good day... seeing a flood infected cyclops would be terrifying
@NoMansLandTP
10 ай бұрын
Saturn Devorering His Son alldues to the UNSC Saturn, causing the death of its spartans, thus having to destroy them.
@PedestalPrime
10 ай бұрын
HiddenXperia never fails to Flood our insides with amazing content.
@HiddenXperia
10 ай бұрын
Ayyyy tha- wait PARDON
@observingeye9579
10 ай бұрын
🤨
@jmarq2283
10 ай бұрын
🤨
@_Eric._
10 ай бұрын
🤨
@omniscientbarebones
10 ай бұрын
mmmfffgghhhh
@marcosdelagarza4448
10 ай бұрын
I’ve loved this painting for some time. Really appreciate the explanation you gave, including its unique origin ❤
@askjeevescosby2928
2 ай бұрын
1:43 "yea I can only give you 15 shillings for that painting"
@lilithheller6877
10 ай бұрын
Your interpretation of the use of Goya's painting is an interesting one I hadn't considered- Spartans being the rising Greek Gods casting out the Titans. Initially, when I read the story, I had a much different interpretation. The UNSC Saturn was Cronus, its captain's hubris was beckoning a downfall, but instead, it had to nuke the asteroid, killing its own men, slaughtering its own kind... the UNSC Saturn, nuking its own men, the first infected Spartan, his son. The Commander being forced to immolate his own troops- deployed on his orders, knowing he would one day be seen as the deranged man devouring his own son. The Flood, here, are the threat, they're the 'rising' children, the ones who will one day upend the Humans just as Humans finally took the Mantle from the Forerunners, it's a story of Cycles, just as in the Greek mythos, Forerunners destroyed Precursors, Humanity weakened and eventually inherited the mantle from their former forerunner enemies... and eventually, just as Humanity had to cast down Forerunners and Covenant to rise, the Flood threatens them, and in doing so, literally represents the cyclical revenge of the Precursors.
@imperialguardproductions
10 ай бұрын
Saturn devouring his son is truly one of the most disturbing paintings ever. Great way to tie in to the flood lol.
@rasenshuriken7771
10 ай бұрын
More flood lore is always great
@almondmilkisthebest7849
10 ай бұрын
Hidden You portrayed that flood story so well and disturbing especially with the Saturn references and with the voices for the flood, it was very interesting! I swear you could read me a scary story and id be under my blanket.
@IVolutionI
10 ай бұрын
If we get short stories like this every season ill take it. Id like more but something is better than nothing.
@alexthach1951
10 ай бұрын
I personally think that Saturn is supposed to be the Flood since they were originally known as the Precursors. And this story of them consuming humans is likened to Saturn devouring his children, since the Precursors had originally intended for humans to take on their mantle of responsibility instead of the Forerunners.
@jimjam7928
10 ай бұрын
Would be great to see some of this in some sort of... oh I dunno, like some kind of interactive narrative or something. I wonder if 343 would be able to figure out how to do that. Like, take the multiplayer of Halo and attach like a STORY or something to it. I dunno, maybe I'm just a crazy guy with radical ideas. I dunno.
@DrAmethyst
10 ай бұрын
Seeing you so happy to be talking about Flood lore again and hearing how enthusiastically you read through the story is like a breath of fresh air for my Halo Lore loving brain. Here's to more great lore videos from you in the near future, I can't wait!
@BrandonBreezeyVirgo
10 ай бұрын
Imagine if they had the prototype suit ghost used in Halo Legends and used it against the Flood.
@andrewjones9690
7 ай бұрын
given that specific fireteams role as flood containment team, and how intelligent the flood is, it was only a matter of time.
@ibonk9673
10 ай бұрын
That was so sick the painting reference was so unreal. the story felt more legit
@ibonk9673
10 ай бұрын
Omg he liked my comment. Bro I’m recreating the halo reach boneyard invasion map with AI. Do you have any tips on how to forge a multi progressional zone/ctf game mode
@JRSmileyFace
10 ай бұрын
i mean. imagine a spartan II being infected. a spartan IV is just a glorified odst with augments and more knowledge
@inductivegrunt94
10 ай бұрын
A Flood video with a Flood infected Spartan! This is already absolutely terrifying, and I never would imagine this would actually happen.
@Deaman1331
10 ай бұрын
Me: Whew alroght time to pack up the spooky-- Xperia: WERE IT SO EASY
@guy3295
10 ай бұрын
Nice to see some new flood content
@soulclick452
10 ай бұрын
I remember a theory being made that it was actually his son and a friend who made the painings. In order for profit or something.
@ColoneloftheCorn
10 ай бұрын
I would love to see someone make a machinima based on this short story
@AnimeShinigami13
8 ай бұрын
Same tradition/style as the Mona Lisa story. I love it. As for the ship, the UNSC could have just made a mistake identifying it. I'm glad I found this regardless. My RL went insane, like crisis levels of insane, and I'm having trouble cleaning up my apartment so that inspectors can check for smoke damage. My allergies are making it worse. I'm literally waiting for the temperature to rise above freezing so i can turn off the heat and open the windows. Thank god I have my cat and youtube and thank god my mother was willing to bunny sit for me. Edit: and just so you know, the Mona Lisa is my FAVORITE flood story.
@iconicgame4166
10 ай бұрын
You always made videos feel like a debrief. Keep up the good work best ONI agent
@eveillanderson
5 ай бұрын
we also hear the Spartan consciousness force the hive to say the word 'abort' so: - Spartan Flood in space - Friendly Flood? major halo 2 vibe
@N7Alcatraz
10 ай бұрын
Imagine a future halo game where Chief teams up with Arbiter again, together you return to the ark, maybe exploring some of the same locations from Halo 3, operating the same terminals, trying to find Mendicant Bias to stop a resurgance of the flood once again. A man can dream...
@Skiritai
10 ай бұрын
Let the Flood stay gone.
@Teddy-rv8iw
10 ай бұрын
Weee. A cool story and I also found the painting of Saturn eating his children to be so eerie yet intoxicating and addicting to look at and ponder at. Always been one of my favorites.
@triggerman3737
10 ай бұрын
Yes my favorite halo lore KZitemr uploaded thanks for the great videos Xperia love all of it
@SoupRoutine
10 ай бұрын
I enjoy the format you did for this. Semi voiced with some appropriate sound effects, reminds me of a high quality audiobook.
@kingofmonsters9452
10 ай бұрын
Your story telling and the editing was super good !!! I love this video !!!
@fer1f1tz
10 ай бұрын
30:12 this just made my stomach drip. Realizing what’s happening
@Folcal115
10 ай бұрын
The thought of the Flood having slipspace capabilities is terrifying, like imagine instead of the Flood remaining in the milky way they leave the galaxy all together to infect the rest of the universe, leaving only one bastion of hope in the now infected universe. Could be a really cool way to build up the true potential of the Flood, and construct the end of the Halo universe. (imo)
@justanotherinternetuser7939
10 ай бұрын
I was listening to the audiobook and just kept thinking: he’s gonna make a video on this within the day
@brandono3139
10 ай бұрын
I can't wait for 343 to write about the condors off screen destruction in the next halo cookbook.
@t3arki113r
10 ай бұрын
“Luckily it was intercepted by a UNSC Colony defense and blown up due to no proper response.” the end
@loco4halo1
10 ай бұрын
Listened to the story this morning. Was awesome. I wish it was longer. I love the flood voice (grave mind/proto or what ever it is) I wonder if any of the Spartans got onto the condor. And would love to see it appear somewhere
@rmal8845
10 ай бұрын
I hope 343 can leverage the ending of this story towards a potential major event in a future game
@Kwatcher100
10 ай бұрын
Imagine the Created being forced to contend with a major Flood outbreak.
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