Can the flood infect dead?

Infection forms can be dispatched with a single shot from any weapon (heat is most effective), but can easily overwhelm in large numbers. Infection Forms can reanimate disabled Combat Forms and infect deceased bodies.

What can the flood infect Halo?

The Flood is depicted as a parasitic organism that infects any sentient life of sufficient size. The largest self-contained form that the Flood can produce itself without using other biomass is an "infection form".

Can the flood infect brutes?

Walkthrough. This glitch can be done by getting a Flood Infection Form onto a Brute Chieftain. These two do not normally exist in the same area. The only way to get them together is to kill all your allies outside the third tower in the level, while leaving some Flood Carrier Forms alive.

Why does the flood not infect grunts?

Those are the "tank" varient of a flood pure form. Hunters cannot be infected because they lack a central nervous system. Also, jackals and grunts do not have enough biomass to be converted into combat forms. They are either broken down and turned into infection forms, or combined into a carrier form.

Can a Spartan be infected by the flood?

Yes, they are human afterall, and the Flood can easily break through a Spartans Visor or Armour and infect them.

What it feels like to be infected by the Flood

Why is Johnson immune to the flood?

The Flood attempted to infect Johnson but he was able to shrug off the effects due to the complications of his Boren's Syndrome.

Can Master Chief be infected by the flood?

In Halo: The Flood, Master Chief almost becomes infected by an infection form when it penetrates into his chest and almost manages to reach his spine. In The Mona Lisa, a Marine was slashed by a Combat Form and was infected that way.

Why didn't the gravemind infect Master Chief?

The Gravemind has no real reason to kill the Chief, Humanity has no weapon that can destroy the Flood that is already so far spread as it is on Installation 05 and Humanity wants to stop the Halo's.

Is Chief immune to the flood?

Also the only reason Sergeant Johnson doesn't get infected is because he has Boron's Syndrome/Orion Augmentations which made his Nervous System so screwed up that the Flood couldn't get a match with his Nervous system rendering him immune to getting infected though he does have Flood DNA in him.

Is the flood dead Halo?

The Flood was contained, and unable to reproduce and grow due to lack of hosts, and eventually died out. The only surviving specimens were contained in state of the art, high-security Forerunner research facilities, such as the Halo Installations and the Threshold Gas Mine.

How did the flood survive Halo?

"Anything with sufficient biomass or cognitive capability to sustain them". So somehow, when the Halos activate, they target only large creatures, and creatures with sentience. The Flood are immune to the firings of the Halo. However, without food to sustain them, they went into deep hibernation.

Can the flood infect animals?

The Flood is a parasitic virulent life form, known for being a highly virulent and deadly race, which can quickly incapacitate and infect different life forms, but the infected subject must have sufficient body mass to sustain infection, and even animals can be infected.

Why did Cortana turn evil?

For those not in the know, Cortana is well past the age an AI should be, and she now suffers from Rampancy, which has essentially turned her evil. This new Cortana seems based on Dr. Halsey — just like the original — but it's the AI effectively in her infancy.

Who created the flood?

According to Halo lore, the Flood is a product of a war between the Forerunners and the Precursors. Some Precursors, who lost the war, were turned into regenerative dust that created horrific mutations. The remaining Precursors assimilated into this newfound corruption.

How was arbiter not infected?

Why was the Arbiter not infected through the inhalation of flood spores? It makes sense that J-117 was not infected, as he presumably has an air filtration system.

Can the flood infect machines?

While most commonly associated with AIs, this form of corruption is not limited to machine entities: given the right conditions, the Flood is capable of manipulating organic beings as well due to the Gravemind's immense intelligence as well as its powerful metaphysical abilities.

Can Flood infect plants Halo?

I know that the Flood can infect pretty much anything including plants etc. They can terraform places into blight-lands.

Is there only 1 Gravemind?

The Gravemind is a fictional, parasitic, hive mind intelligence in the Halo universe. While only one Gravemind is ever seen in the games, the title is given to the final stage of Flood evolution, in which the Flood becomes a superorganism.

Is the Gravemind a precursor?

The fact the Gravemind considered itself a Precursor implies that the Precursors created it for revenge against the Forerunners. If so, then they were entirely successful.

Can the Gravemind Teleport?

So when the Gravemind captured Penitent Tangent he learned about Halo and its weapons and how to teleport. And when he captured the prophet (forgot which one) he learned about the Covenant and High Charity. That's how the Gravemind can teleport and enter High Charity.

What color is the flood Halo?

In Halo: The Flood, Infection Forms are mistakenly referred to as being colored white, but are really a greenish color.

How did Johnson get off Halo?

He barely escapes being overwhelmed by the Flood's infection forms before reaching a lift out of the containment facility. From there Johnson escapes aboard a Pelican gunship with a handful of other survivors just prior to the ring's destruction.