Halo2: Why are there no Brute combatforms?

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They're certainly intelligent enough

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Originalmente postado por Foxit Youkai:

Flood needs a central nervous system as spinal cord

Yaknow, if the yugganaonoonyo (grunts) are crustacean, they wouldn't have a spinal cord

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Originalmente postado por BBX:

Originalmente postado por Foxit Youkai:

Flood needs a central nervous system as spinal cord

Yaknow, if the yugganaonoonyo (grunts) are crustacean, they wouldn't have a spinal cord

thats a long name

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Originalmente postado por Punished Enclave:

Originalmente postado por BBX:

Yaknow, if the yugganaonoonyo (grunts) are crustacean, they wouldn't have a spinal cord

Yugganaonoonyo?
You mean unggoy and they aren’t crustaceans they are arthropods.

crustaceans are arthropods.

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Originalmente postado por JtDarth:

Originalmente postado por Rampant A.I.:

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.

No, the carrier forms are pretty ambiguous in the original, but look more human derived in 3 (take the silhouette and remove the hump, the body proportions match up with a human, but not so much with a grunt. This is actually true of the halo CE carrier form as well, but is more striking with the Halo 3 one). The anniversary editions with their differing art design that contradicts the original design, look like they are intended to be grunts, but again, that differs from the original design. 343 did a lot of retconning for no real reason in general. The 'spartan 2 combat forms' in halo 2a's multiplayer, for example, make no sense. Johnson was immune due to being a spartan-1 canonically, with lesser genetic and physical modification than that of a spartan-2. So it makes no sense for the spartan-2s to be actually vulnerable to flood mutation.
Back to the carrier forms:
The height is also a clue, being noticeably taller than the grunts, as well as having an unhunched stature in comparison. Keep in mind that every other converted flood we see stays of the same general height to it's origin. Of course, lore-wise the grunts are typically converted to carrier forms, but the in-game representations I'm pretty sure are supposed to be humans.

Maybe, honestly carrier forms can be any form that isn't quite cut for combat, I don't think it's particularly important that they're either grunt or human because either way, the end result is so horribly deformed that it's hard to tell and largely upto the imagination.

Moving onto the Spartans vulnerability to infection, while Johnson was immune to infection, doesn't mean the rest of the subjects of the Orion project were, hell, Johnson is pretty unique for not developing crippling illnesses afterwards aswell, making him quite the anomaly. Spartans while resistant to infection due to their altered nervous system are not immune, it just takes much longer to infect Spartans. And if we REALLY want to get into lore, those aren't even actually Spartan flood forms, h4 and h2a are just simulation mock-ups what the unsc thinks infected Spartans would look like.