Halo2: Why are there no Brute combatforms?

[Blind]

They're certainly intelligent enough

[Adonis]

Other than high charity, there really aren't any encounters between flood and brutes, at least not enough to warrant creating a whole new enemy for it.

[Falleax]

Halo 2 had a troubled development cycle so Bungie had no time. Much of what was supposed to be in Halo 2 ended up being realized in Halo 3. In fact, there was never intended to be a Halo 3, the story would have ended in 2 if Bungie had been able to do it.

[sunami88]

This must be from 3+ but I can't remember exactly when they start showing up.
https://www.halopedia.org/Flood_combat_form#Jiralhanae_form
https://www.halopedia.org/images/f/f2/BruteFloodCombatForm.png

[sunami88]

Originally posted by Punished Enclave:

Halo 3
Floodgate

Yup, that's exactly when!

LOL, thanks. Been a while.

[Psychedelic Adventurer]

Time. Simple as.

[The Rizzler]

combat forms?

[The Rizzler]

Originally posted by Punished Enclave:

Originally posted by quarters:

combat forms?

You know the flood infected bodies
Their offical name is combat form

that dumb

here's my take on it have the brutes have much thicker fur the hides so the flood can't as easily take over their bodies

Originally posted by Punished Enclave:

I mean anything can be a combat form
Intelligence isn’t a factor. Hopefully with mod tools someone will make them.

intelligence is a factor but in this case it's kind of moot I mean being a smart as a mouse counts as flood material

[Blind]

Originally posted by quarters:

Originally posted by Punished Enclave:

You know the flood infected bodies
Their offical name is combat form

that dumb

here's my take on it have the brutes have much thicker fur the hides so the flood can't as easily take over their bodies

Originally posted by Punished Enclave:

I mean anything can be a combat form
Intelligence isn’t a factor. Hopefully with mod tools someone will make them.

intelligence is a factor but in this case it's kind of moot I mean being a smart as a mouse counts as flood material

I only commented on intelligence 'cuz in Halo CE there didn't seem to be any Grunt/Jackal/Hunter flood

[Blind]

Hunters are cool - I kinda want a mini one to put with my Warhammer stuff

[The Rizzler]

Originally posted by Punished Enclave:

Originally posted by quarters:

that dumb

here's my take on it have the brutes have much thicker fur the hides so the flood can't as easily take over their bodies


intelligence is a factor but in this case it's kind of moot I mean being a smart as a mouse counts as flood material

No the name makes sense
The flood transformed its hosts into into something purely for combat

Like the infection forms meant for infection

Flood a designated by form because of flood super cell mutagenic properties

Yes brute hide can resist the flood even in halo 3 where they can be infected while alive they can put up a fight while being overwhelmed by infection forms

As for hosts, the flood only need something with a nervous system as halo wars shows wildlife can be infected. As in what they infect depends on what stage the infestation is at.

popcorn form kernel form combat form shooty form

biting zombie scraping zombie crawling zombie Rob Zombie


yes it makes sense still dumb

[Adonis]

Originally posted by BBX:

Originally posted by quarters:

that dumb

here's my take on it have the brutes have much thicker fur the hides so the flood can't as easily take over their bodies


intelligence is a factor but in this case it's kind of moot I mean being a smart as a mouse counts as flood material

I only commented on intelligence 'cuz in Halo CE there didn't seem to be any Grunt/Jackal/Hunter flood

The carrier forms are grunts, as for jackals and hunters, jackals are too flimsy for combat and hunters and hunters simply can't be turned into combat forms, so they're just used as biomass to build hives. Only exception being in HW where the hive has reached it's peak and jackels are made into combat forms anyway.

[o-o-o-Tekno-Musang-o-o-o]

Flood needs a central nervous system as spinal cord

[Exodus]

The obvious answer would be technical limitations.

Since the brutes can be turned into combat forms in H3

[The Rizzler]

That doesn't necessarily mean technicals limitations

[SoggyBobcat]

Grunt and Jackal combat forms were originally planned for H:CE, but were shelved for unknown reasons, probably time. There's concept art of a Grunt combat form on the Halo wiki. Note that there's been nothing saying the Grunts or Jackals *can't* be combat forms, the notion that they're unsuited is just a fan theory as to why they're not present in the games outside of Halo Wars.