I'm still wondering, what the hell happened to the head of the elites? (I just don't get it lol)

Just figured it out a few months ago. They like shrink and fall apart and stuff, and they just hang limply from the neck. And... yeah...

The combat form doesn't need the head anymore, so the infection form pushes up out of its chest to poke its feelers/sensors out. The head just kinda atrophies and rots and stuff and ends up hanging there.

You kinda made it sound like an elite's head is originally in its chest XD.

Well your neck attaches to your chest and.... I dunno. Stuff gets moved around when you've got a spider monster crawling through your guts. o.o

The Halo 1 varients with armoured shoved on that Koo and I designed will be used. (First and third pictures, one's on the left). Along with the normal Flood (unarmoured) originally used.



The one on the far left isn't BeachParty's. It's a combination of the original model with Halo 2 elite armour mashed on designed by Koo and I.



BeachParty's ripped Halo 2 biped is here on the left, it has been rigged like an elite. We won't be using this biped in the final version, we will be using a version of the one on the left in the first picture with some texture edits to make the armour seem more like the Halo 2 biped's armour.



Again, we'll be using the biped on the left with possibly some texture edits.



BP didn't make the flood carrier biodriver. I got the model, Koo rigged it and got it in-game. Right now the only thing we're using that BP made is the HUD and if we continue using the player biped (Halo 2 ripped one).

And we could possibly be using a new infection form model that Koo designed.

I was planning on making a full post detailing our plans for the next month or so, but I decided to jump ahead and nip this on the bud so people don't get the wrong idea about who designed what. I appreciate what BP did for the mod, but I cannot allow the notion to be spread that he designed things that he did not.

A post will be made later discussing our plans for the mod within the next month.

Fix the antennae on the H3 Elite Flood. It looks like someone put pipe-cleaner for antennae. >_<

4 out of 9 non-sucky Flood does not equal 5%

o.O

Thanks for answering LW and for the quick update.

I don't think we should be extremely picky about flood sucking and whatnot.

There's very few types and no fully custom flood have been made.
I'm well satisfied with the one's people have put their hard work into so far.

Unlike the master chief models which has like 30+ different MC and more than enough elites to choose from.
Edited by darknesssamurai on Jul 12, 2011 at 08:31 PM

I'm pretty sure all that needs to be done is in the bitmap he forgot to change it from compressed with color key transparency to compressed with explicit alpha. Once he does that he just needs to recompile in tool and it'll be goodio. Nothing to get your panties in a bunch over :p

of course I could be wrong...
Edited by Delicon20 on Jul 13, 2011 at 05:42 PM

Hello again everybody, it's been quite a while since our last 'official' update but now that school is over (for now) work on the mod will hopefully be going ahead full steam and will be on the way to be getting finished soon.

In our last update, I showed you some of our new changes and new things that are being implemented into the mod. Sadly, this post wont contain any new pictures or videos. It's more of an informative post.

You see, in about a month's time we'll be releasing a walkthrough/trailer of the mod in action showcasing some of the new changes and additions we've made. While I can't give a specific date, as I said it will be roughly in a month. The video itself will be run-through of StKft with perhaps some clips from other levels too.

Until then, I'll be more active on Halomaps and Moddb and will be answering any question you have pertaining to the mod to the best of my ability. Whether these questions are "What new units are in the mod?" or quite simply "When is the release date?" I'll be attempting to answer them all without hopefully giving away too much information.




One picture? Oh go on then....



WIP and subject to change.

Im fair sure that the post above you literally answers that...

God it really does frustrates me with some of the idiocy show here. :/

fixed'

As sierra said the post above you does indeed show that there will be.

The new bsps we're trying to do will be for the first level (343 GS) and the second level (Library). Rest of the levels probably won't get any other sort of changes added.

It is technically possible to simply replace a wall on the existing BSP with this beter-looking one. Oh wait, walls are BSP, right?

A BSP is more of a collective area. For example, the level b40 is made up of 9 bsps, not including recurring ones. But yes, it is technically possible to replace an existing wall in a bsp with another.

Sup guys. Wish there is a way to subscribe to a thread without posting in it.
-Zekilk

This is the only thread on this website that actually gets better as it goes on. Too bad Lone is too busy in his Panzy Panzer tanks to work.

hey is it possible that you can
make grunt and jackal flood??
Edited by phatjuice on Jul 21, 2011 at 03:06 PM

I considered making grunt and jackal flood a long time ago. After looking over the Halo wiki, the wiki basically came to the conclusion that the Flood only use Grunts and Jackals as building blocks for Flood Biomass and Carrier forms. So I decided this would be perhaps the best option to take.

So, long story short, yes we could add them, but we won't be.

^ and the history textbooks in our schools could be part of a massive conspiracy.

I for one don't worry about it.

Let's try and keep the off-topic posts to a minimum please :). If you really want to bump this thread, then ask questions about the mod, and I will answer.

Hey Lone, what will the Sentinel Marauders be like? Will they be any different form regular sentinels, or will they change the gameplay encounters?

Also, maybe(maybe) you could add infected hunters or a cluster of infected jackals?

The Marauders are extremely fast and I can tell you even though they have less health than normal sentinels, I find them harder to kill. And yes, they will definitely change gameplay encounters.

As for infected hunters and infected jackals, I'm afraid not. As was being discussed earlier, infected jackals don't fit canon, and infected hunters don't either due to them being made up of several different organisms (worms). That isn't to say the Flood won't have something similar to an infected hunter if all goes to plan.

Well, from what I can remember it's kinda like a cross between Halo3 and Halo 1 infection forms. Although I could be wrong, been a while since I played Halo3...

Edit: Kinda surprised no one's asked the painfully obvious question that was hinted in my original post about the update next month...
Edited by Lone Warrior on Jul 25, 2011 at 09:32 AM

^ yeah yeah, tank form can't wait.

Actually speaking of which, does it just melee or also have a gun? Is it a regular projectile or does it shoot out infection forms?

I love how the infection forms are so good against hunters, it really gives the game that rock-paper-scissors balance.

Nothing about a tank form in there. Hint: I bolded the question for you.

Yea, but just a group of infected jackals merged together. You know, joined together. That would be cool.

Anywaydid you ever hear of the drinol that was going to be in Halo2, but wasn't? Could sum1 add that? That wud be cool. Imagine infected.

Anyway, I hope you get this Flood Mod done. It sounds unique.

Oh, i know this one.

NEVAR!!!

Seriously, the only deadline is "before the end of the world"!
We all know that's not going to happen for several million years >_>

Also i feel like working on something secretly that i won't tell lone about.
Edited by Koo294 on Jul 26, 2011 at 08:46 AM

This is the original post about the update next month:





As Koo hinted in his post, hopefully before 21st December 2012. When the world supposedly ends.



The Drinol was supposed to be in Halo 1 as far as I recall, maybe you mean the Juggernaut?

The Jackal idea aint bad, I suppose we might be able to work something out of it.

With the Jackal idea, maybe if you created a kind of biomass ball, basically just a big ball of flood goo that's basically comprised of bodies, it has a main fire that launches a large ball of flood goop at an enemy, it explodes on contact with any surface.
Secondary fire basically creates eggs that, after a while or when shot, release 5-6 infection forms.
It doesn't exactly move, as it falls out of the sky as support for a large scale flood invasion.

"and with uroboros...i have that right..."

Well I had the idea of adding in flood infection pods, much like the secondary fire idea you had. You place them in the level, and if you attack, or the enemies do, they explode much like the carrier. Would make for some interesting traps.

As for the rest of the mod, just finished getting some stuff ready for the trailer/walkthrough. Gonna be a few things shown in the upcoming vid that we haven't shown off yet, at all.