Oh man. This is so well done! Never thought this many people would end up appreciating my video made from a cheap capture card so many years ago haha! Cheers, this was awesome!

White text on a blue background? Nostalgia is a helluva drug

Alt title: testing live flood infection under ONI supervision

Holy shit the flood is fucking creepy, I cant imagine fighting those things in real life, they destroy your body and you are still half concious feeling all the pain and trauma holy shit Halo universe is only worth it if you are a spartan

Ooh. Just realized the Brutes get their jaws unhinged all the way down to their stomach. Props to the animation team at Bungie that made these! Would’ve been pretty cool to see Jackal, Grunt, or Drone Flood forms as well.

I never realized that the marine snaps his own neck, nor that the brute jaw just splits

For a game that came out in 2007, 14 years later these animations still look incredible.

For anybody wondering about the neck snap for the marine: The neck is snapped either to make room for a infection form, or to kill a resisting host.

12 year old me: “wow this is terrifying” 22 year old me: “wow this is more terrifying than I remember”

2:22 You can still hear the elite struggling.

Halo 3 turned the flood into something truly fearful and if infinite turns to M again, I’d love to see it get this graphic again

I think the brute one is the most disturbing considering you can still hear the brute screaming as the flood splits his jaw in half and relocates his upper half like two feet away from his lower half of jaw.

Oh my god the split jaw on the infected brute is terrifying AF

I'm glad someone decided to go back and do this

Marines with a family and friends: *excruciatingly transform into a horrendous monster* 7k people: I N T E R E S T I N G

The flood is honestly just disgusting

I'm surprised none of the games ever tried to make a fire fight mode exclusively with Flood forms. Probably not as fun though haha

"As the infection form latched onto chips dubbo's nervous system it had discovered its fatal mistake. You see, the aussie's immune system was so full of Victoria's Best beer and golden gaytime icecream bars that it was toxic to the infection form. As it slowly withered and died, chips lit his cigarette. Another day in the outback he says"

In case no one noticed, in the first human infection animation, the infection form purposefully makes the marine violently slam his head on the ground as another method for snapping his neck, when looking at it from the back angle you can actually see the head twisting backwards. Also the process of infection is more painful and terrifying than people think because those tumors and claws don’t come from nothing, they come from the infection form breaking down the body and repurposing it’s parts, the tumors come from the flood supercells rapidly decomposing the body and using the matter to form the tumors and filling them up with even more flood supercells so it spreads more disease when they pop (the green mist) and the claw are the bones of the host being snapped and moved and are reconnected together using the cartilage as it bursts out of the arm, we don’t see it in game but flood combat forms are able to rapidly reconfigure, contort, and mutate their body to whatever is required (ex. They can almost instantaneously become a carrier form and create more infection forms, or shoot long ranged whips/tentacles out from their body) it happens in the books, all of that isn’t even the worst part, the most terrifying part about becoming infected is sometimes the host doesn’t die and in that scenario you will feel all the pain from having been torn apart and changed and all the pain from being attacked while the infection form mentally interrogates you for any useful information, an example of this is (SPOILER ALERT FOR “HALO COMBAT EVOLVED” AND THE “HALO: THE FLOOD” BOOK) Captain Keyes who was interrogated by the proto-gravemind sifting through his memories and “deleting” any memories it saw as not useful, the only thing keeping it from getting the information it wanted was captain Keyes who kept on feeding it mundane or “boring” memories like his name, rank, and serial number, different kinds of smells, tastes, and colors, or simply images that meant nothing like a ceiling fan (I’m not kidding). And then their was Jenkins who was infected by a old and weak infection form, he was able to occasionally regain control from it and every time he did he tried killing himself.

Today I learned that wearing a helmet can stop flood infections

The Halo show is all like “oh these normal humans who are twitchy, that’s just the first phase of the infection!” The first phase of the infection:

I’m just glad these things don’t exist.

Wait... I didn't know the Tank form could "vomit" infection forms....

Bruh Infinite is going to be insane if they just take all of the Flood ideas from previous games and make the animations and graphics modern...but who knows what else they'll do to make combat different

Marine snaps own neck and Brute having full jaw broken open. Brutal.

For the longest time I thought these things were just corrupted hunters

From the looks of it the brute have it the worst. It’s almost seems like the flood keeps them alive even after the transformation process. That’s purely torturous...

1:04 Marine: Sleeping* Never heard a corpse yelp before...

0:10 Flood : Step 1 : Apply polyp to head.

Okay, those old transitions took me back a decade or so.

4:59 me after eating at that sketchy Chinese buffet

5:39 when you're winning an argument and making solid points but you make a single minor spelling mistake

The fact that these things are really precursors that went insane is just well insane

To know that Jenkins was still alive and cognizant the whole time this happened to him. I think that is arguably the most terrifying and definitely worst way to "die" in the Halo universe. Like, I can't even think of a worse way to go. Jenkins was a major unsung hero in the end though, going out the way he did. He was a good man and one hell of a marine.

The brute animation can vary slightly depending on how long the infection form decides to take before entering and infecting the brute. In the event it decides to wait an extra second before infecting it you can see the brute attempt to grab and punch the infection form to kill it before it enters him

All these years I’ve never seen the tank forms spew out little ones. Good to know!

Halo 3 really shows to us how The Flood, especially the pure forms, are so capable of adap to mostly any situation in battle.

PS: You’re still alive and conscious after.

The human heads hanging off to the side with a screaming face always creeped me out. Such good designing

6:47 Hi cameraman!

1:35 i’ve never payed attention on that transformation while playing Halo ,that marine killing himself 😨 😥 excellent work Bungie 😉👏

The living Elite to Flood transformation has the smoothest transition between models. Brute was nice too. Thanks for sharing that, I have never seen elite transformation before in game.

It's even scarier when you consider that the infection forms are around a meter tall.

This is why you always bring a crowbar to wo- oh wrong game

I like how some of the marines ended with saying woah like nothing's wrong.

Why is nobody talking about how in the Brute Combat Form, its "feelers" come out of the poor brute's mouth...? Gives me the heebie-jeebies

Whenever I played Halo 3 and if I see anyone or anything get infected (whenever it's one of the Marines, elites, or the brutes) I make sure to kill them before the become infected... The fact that once the spore gets inside them gives me the urge to put them out of their misery before the infection spreads all over them... This really shows that the flood are truly a horrifying organism.

I used to always let the flood take over marines because I thought it was cool to watch them turn

Terrifying little tidbit: A lot of the infected, who turned while alive, are still "conscious". They are just controlled by the infection forms, and in extension, the flood. They feel everything, and can still think. It's a sort of mercy to take them out. Captain Keyes is probably the greatest example of retaining the most sense of "self" after infection. Everyone else is in that semi-conscious state of pain and confusion, or the even unluckier few that are completely conscious, such as the unnamed (maybe named?) marine who spoke to other UNSC to kill him.

Imagine if we had gotten a Halo 3 Anniversary. Could you imagine what they would have done to to make these even more terrifying?

God these animations are good, the way they make the pure flood shift from one form to another is so cool

I remember playing halo 3 with an old friend when it first came out. Lets just say, seeing the marine get infected in real time in front of my eyes after entering the building scared and disturbed me to no end. And recently replaying it on MCC , any dead ally that dies behind you, is another dagger to watch out for.

Thanks for this, i absolutely loved how the flood was worked on in halo 3, really cool to see pure forms transforming

Okay... Why did I even watch this? I mean, sure, the animations are interesting to see play out, but I also basically just gave myself a heavy dose of nightmare fuel... Yay, me.

3:51 Testicles

I loved the flood transformations in Halo 3 and still love them to this day. I can’t wait to see what Halo Infinite has in store for us in terms of flood

I still can’t believe this game came out when it did. My first even Xbox 360 game. I was in middle school and I’ll never forget playing the campaign and my favorite missions over and over again. Then I was introduced to online gaming with halo 3 at my cousins house and it made the game even more amazing. Was and will probably always be my #1 favorite game of all time.

I like how all of the transformations are absolutely horrific but the transition music is just cheery af

Man the brutes have it bad 😭 literally explodes into a combat form!

I don't care what anyone says, this game was way ahead of it's time.

When the flood doesn’t approve of your fashion 0:34

I bought Halo 3 the day it was launched and I never noticed all these little details. Incredible work on Bungies part.

love how being infected by the flood instantly changes the colour of your clothes

*[Flood Combat Forms - **0:06**]* *Humans* Alive - 0:15 / 0:20 Dead - 1:06 Alive ( Neck Snap ) - 1:38 / 1:40 / 1:42 *Elites* Alive - 2:17 / 2:20 Dead - 3:03 / 3:06 Brutes Alive 3:20 / 3:22 3:20 / 3:22 3:20 / 3:22 Alive 3:39 / 3:41 3:39 / 3:41 3:39 / 3:41 Dead 4:15 / 4:18 4:15 / 4:18 4:15 / 4:18 *[Flood Pure Forms - **4:28**]* Tank Form - 4:35 Ranged Form - 6:05 Stalker Form - 7:15

0:27 Aliens have face huggers. These have...Head humpers???

The fact the brutes lower jaw is all the way down where the infection form is at makes this cool looking, but also terrifying.

This is the last thing I expected to be remastered. But good job!

He just broke his own neck. Sksksks

6:15 *_Turtle mode_*

Never seen the tank form spawn infection forms in my playthroughs and I played the campaign a lot. Learned something new

Can we just appreciate how truly horrific the flood is? Can't wait to see them in high detail with infinite. Edit: I hate you 343

If in the Future we will ever get another Infected multiplayer game VS the flood, This is exactly how i want Infected death animations to be implemented, You good sir just set an outstanding example on how high quality infection death animations should be implemented. I love it... Good Job Man... Kudos !!!

After all the atrocities that happened at Reach and elsewhere, watching Elites and Brute get ducked by the flood is really entertaining.

When I was little, I remember how terrified of the flood I used to be back when I first played Halo CE og xbox. For some reason, I thought they were "potato people" and didn't understand what they were. By Halo 2, it occurred to me that they used the dead and were even scarier. Now an adult, I'm just scared something like this _could_ exist somewhere in our universe.

I love how the editing looks like it’s one of those old ones from like 2009

I remember seeing this happen for the first time in Halo 3, it was fucking crazy to see

3:19 I know I did not just see what I just saw

Thank the lord it’s not 2552

Oh, gods, why am I even watching this... and enjoying it in return?

Flood is fcking terrifying.

Lots of people even me never saw the elites get infected in game while alive due to the infection forms dying when they hit their shield

I love how the marine wears one like a hat for a brief moment

Bruh the fact they did the remaster is sick with the correct writing and stuff. Dopeee

1:55 Oh jesus, the parasite made HIM break his neck.

0:54 it turns out if you are infected by the flood your pants will change too

I swear to god, the scariest thing I've ever read is that adjunct scene from the definitive edition of Halo: The Flood that's told not only from the point of view of a random Marine, but also the infection form that's infecting him.

Bungie managed to create both the best sci-fi storyline and zombie species in existence... on the foundation of a first-person-shooter.

What makes this even more horrifying is that most victims are still alive after the transformation.

Imagine being that marine, having a flood spore crawl on your face and reach into your nervous system while being infected, the growing large appendages in half a second

No one: Flood infections: entering the private part of an elite

this game has so much details. That's why a love it

I love how this feels formatted like a video made 8 years ago

Never noticed how disgusting this was I just blasted them like normal enemies never really scared of them.

This was the first game I ever got on the Xbox 360 when I was younger, the first time I saw this happen it actually scarred me to the point where I needed to either save as many soldiers as I could or kill them so they wouldn't turn into that.

Halo, the best story action first person shooter ever. Also, one of the best low key horror games you never expected.

Never noticed how much the transformations shows off the precursor transformation ability. They could turn into anything.

I dont know if this is confirmed or not but I like how the pure form kinda feels like flood iterations of the races the flood couldnt turn The tanks are the most obvious with their similarity to hunters The ranged forms remind me a lot of grunts in how they cower when being shot at with high ordinance weaponry, and the turret always gives me halo 2 shade turret vibes. That could just be me, but those are almost exclusively grunt weapons in 2 and they like to pop up in weird places to catch you off guard just like the ranged form The stalkers feel like a mash up of drones and jackals. The silhouette is very reminiscent of the hunched over drone while the jumping and getting into inconspicuous locations to transform into a bigger threat is a lot like jackals in the lore. In gameplay jackal snipers are found on rooftops because they are great at climbing afterall

When playing Halo 3 I remember I would try and run ahead to kill all the flood before the marines got there so they would all survive. Most marines I ever had at once was 12-14 I believe.

I find it disturbing how it doesn’t matter you are dead, knocked out or alive, The flood auto fires your body back to life to transform it

Halo CE always gave the impression that this was supposed to be a much slower process. Never knew quite how to feel about it.