Why can't the flood 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.
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Are the grunts immune to the Flood?

Looking back, I realise that the Grunts and the Jackals are the only two species that don't get infected by Flood, and are instead just outright killed ingame.
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Has any Spartan been infected by the Flood?

Yes, they are human afterall, and the Flood can easily break through a Spartans Visor or Armour and infect them. Allthough in irony, Johnson, which has no armour, is inmune to the Flood infection.
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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.
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What is the biggest threat in Halo?

The Flood presents the most variable faction in the trilogy, as it can infect and mutate Humans and Covenant species, such as Sangheili and Jiralhanae, into Combat Forms. They are widely considered to be the greatest threat to the whole existence of life, or more accurately, biodiversity, in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Are the Grunts immune to the Flood?



Are Flood in Halo infinite?

While the terrifying parasite didn't directly appear in the Halo Infinite campaign, players did notice that in the game's second level, Foundation, a Forerunner cylix labelled with a Flood Infection Form symbol could be found in a secret room (thanks, HiddenXperia).
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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.
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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.
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Can Halo Spartans reproduce?

seeing as the Spartan II's were children when abducted, they would have had to grow, which means that cells had to divide, meaning the traits were genetic. During reproduction, you give half of the child's genetic structure, and Spartan II's would have abnormal genetics, resulting in three possible outcomes.
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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".
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Can the flood infect Lekgolo?

As Vessel Of War pointed out, yes, they can't be infected, but they can be used as raw biomass for things like environmental transformation or building materials for Pure Forms, albeit it takes A LOT of Lekgolo for these purposes due to their poor overall suitable bio-organic contents.
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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.
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Is Sergeant Johnson immune to the flood?

After a harrowing escape, Johnson accompanied the new and growing crew as the ship moved through Slipspace. Unknown to him, Dr. Halsey and John-117 were reviewing his medical files. They matched Johnson's survival against the Flood to his Boren's Syndrome.
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Who created the flood Halo?

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.
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Why did the arbiter never affected by the flood?

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.
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Can the flood infect jackals?

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.
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How did gravemind get on High Charity?

Though he promises an alliance, Gravemind has ulterior motives. His Flood infest the human ship In Amber Clad and makes a slipspace jump into High Charity itself, in an effort to use the station to escape the confines of Halo.
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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.
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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.
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Why was Master Chief in cryo sleep during reach?

Why was Master Chief in cryosleep during the events of Halo: Reach and at the beginning of Halo: CE? Chief was in cryo at the start of CE because it's standard procedure for non-essential personnel to go into cryo on long trips. Saves on power and resources.
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What is worse than the Flood in Halo?

So There is only one way in truth that the Harbinger, endless, ext., Yatta, Yatta… can be worse than the flood… That is if it becomes it. During halo 2 the Gravemind says “Now I shall talk, and you shall listen”. In the audio logs in infinite that same line is repeated to a marine by the harbinger.
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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.
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What is the strongest Flood Halo?

Halo: Every Form Of Flood, Ranked From Weakest To Strongest
  • The Spartan Form is by far the most dangerous infected lifeform seen in Infection multiplayer. ...
  • Seen in Halo Wars, the Bomber form is an aerial unit that drops Flood blisters which erupt to spew Pod Infectors.
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