Versus Battle The Flood (Halo) VS Necromorphs (Dead Space)
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I’ve read a few of these threads on Reddit and I’ve never seen any good arguments for the Necromorphs, aside from explicit advantages given to them over the flood.
a single flood spore in atmosphere will infect an entire planet in a small period of time. It spread over a city, from a crashed ship, in hours. It’s incredibly virulent and resourceful.
Necromorphs take a much longer period of time to warp humanity in its area, making them more and more insane, killing each other and all that.
In terms of who’s moving quicker and growing faster, the Flood will always have that advantage.
And once the flood reaches a grave mind, I think it’s over for the Necromorphs. Those things are too intelligent and organized, on an organism that’s insanely hard to put down.
As for actual combat, Master Chief can canonically flip warthogs with one hand. Flood forms can send Chief through the air. Most Necromorphs are being bullied
a single flood spore in atmosphere will infect an entire planet in a small period of time. It spread over a city, from a crashed ship, in hours. It’s incredibly virulent and resourceful.
Necromorphs take a much longer period of time to warp humanity in its area, making them more and more insane, killing each other and all that.
In terms of who’s moving quicker and growing faster, the Flood will always have that advantage.
And once the flood reaches a grave mind, I think it’s over for the Necromorphs. Those things are too intelligent and organized, on an organism that’s insanely hard to put down.
As for actual combat, Master Chief can canonically flip warthogs with one hand. Flood forms can send Chief through the air. Most Necromorphs are being bullied
When the flood infect an entire planet, they become a key mind—something more intelligent than any AI in Halo.
Key minds are able to infect reality itself, as forerunners in the Forerunner book trilogy report the stars changing and feeling wrong, when looking into flood controlled space
Tbh if the brother moons or w/e they’re called, are made of flesh, they already lost
Key minds are able to infect reality itself, as forerunners in the Forerunner book trilogy report the stars changing and feeling wrong, when looking into flood controlled space
Tbh if the brother moons or w/e they’re called, are made of flesh, they already lost
Not sure, the floods 1st state is a feral state where they’re known for being uncoordinated, but they have enough instinct to mature the infection to a proto-gravemind state.
At this point, they can rebuild starships based on the memories of the infected individuals and coordinate.
I’d say if a marker could infect a flood form, it’ll be here in the first two stages. After this is a grave mind and grave minds are too intelligent to be controlled. They all have the same sentience, every gravemind is identical no matter when it’s formed. And that’s important because the flood is originally derived from a god-like race that could manipulate galaxies, the flood is a perversion of that form.
Can’t see markers having enough power to mess with a gravemind.
Though even if a marker can mess with a feral infection, it won’t last long. The flood releases spores which contaminates the atmosphere and slowly terraforms a planet. Even if the flood fights itself, it’ll eventually spread far enough over the planet for a gravemind to form.
At this point, they can rebuild starships based on the memories of the infected individuals and coordinate.
I’d say if a marker could infect a flood form, it’ll be here in the first two stages. After this is a grave mind and grave minds are too intelligent to be controlled. They all have the same sentience, every gravemind is identical no matter when it’s formed. And that’s important because the flood is originally derived from a god-like race that could manipulate galaxies, the flood is a perversion of that form.
Can’t see markers having enough power to mess with a gravemind.
Though even if a marker can mess with a feral infection, it won’t last long. The flood releases spores which contaminates the atmosphere and slowly terraforms a planet. Even if the flood fights itself, it’ll eventually spread far enough over the planet for a gravemind to form.
Don't know if madness is a direct control. They just killing each other and become more necromorphs. If they are inelligent enough they build new marker,stonger then the previous ones before (see Deadspace 2 where Isaac created a far larger Marker then the one on Aegis IV)
So they are clever enough to build new markers.
Thats the question. Is the markers madness manipulation strong enough to overcome the minds of the intelligent flood. In most cases madness manipulation is a too strong feat, like in case of Cthulhu or any lovecraftian being. And nothing other are the Necormorphs: lovecraftain aliens.
But can they destroy the markers? Or corrupt them? These things are nearly indestructible.
So they are clever enough to build new markers.
Thats the question. Is the markers madness manipulation strong enough to overcome the minds of the intelligent flood. In most cases madness manipulation is a too strong feat, like in case of Cthulhu or any lovecraftian being. And nothing other are the Necormorphs: lovecraftain aliens.
But can they destroy the markers? Or corrupt them? These things are nearly indestructible.
Melee attacks from the Human and Elite flood forms are strong enough to break through Spartan/Elite energy shields with a single hit and they have enough durability to casualltly withstand the vast majority of melee attacks, other than the ones from the energy sword.
How durable is Master Chief with his Mark-V armor + his energy shields? Military technology from Halo may be > the tech in Dead Space, although the stopping power of their small arms weaponery may be comparable to one another...
Edit: If this is an all-out war on a universal scale then this could actually be lopsided in the Flood's favour. They pretty much won against the Forerunners before Halo got activated didn't they?
How durable is Master Chief with his Mark-V armor + his energy shields? Military technology from Halo may be > the tech in Dead Space, although the stopping power of their small arms weaponery may be comparable to one another...
Edit: If this is an all-out war on a universal scale then this could actually be lopsided in the Flood's favour. They pretty much won against the Forerunners before Halo got activated didn't they?
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