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Halo 4’s Flood game type is more than a recreation of fan favourite Infection from Halo 3 and Reach, 343 has said.
“Our goal was to recreate it and push the mode to be new and different from previous versions,” explains the Halo Waypoint update. “As both War Games and Spartan Ops fit within the fiction of the UNSC Infinity, we wanted to use Halo fiction in this mode too, which led to us to create the Flood form in Multiplayer. Flood-converted humans are much faster and focus on melee attacks, so they were a natural fit for Infection’s successor.”
The game mode is a round-based, ten-player game which offers a true asymmetric experience with the addition of dynamic teams.
“This really changes things up as each game is different, especially in the incredibly intense and high-action final seconds,” explains Waypoint.
“At the beginning of each round, two players spawn as Flood forms and eight players spawn as Survivors. Survivors are standard Spartans equipped with shotguns and magnums, while Flood move very quickly and can only use a melee attack. When a Survivor gets killed by a Flood, the Survivor will convert and respawn as a Flood. The round ends if a Survivor makes it to 3:00 or if all players are converted to Flood.”
Flood features an exclusive set of medals that can only be earned by playing this particular game mode, and it also has its own set of custom game options.
Halo 4 will be released worldwide on November 6.
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