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5/23/2014 9:44:33 PM
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Necromorphs need to infect a living body, Flood use all biomass and don't leave behind limbs that get shot off. The Flood toppled an ancient empire that spanned the galaxy and were extremely powerful. The Necromorphs got screwed over by an Engineer that used everyday tools to kill them.
Flood wins.
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[quote]Necromorphs need to infect a living body, Flood use all biomass and don't leave behind limbs that get shot off[/quote] So do the necromorphs. Whenever you hack off a necromorph's limbs, the hive mind decides said necromorph is useless now and abandons it. Then the mass it's made of is recycled into a new, bigger necromorph, like those big buff behemoth things. [quote]The Necromorphs got screwed over by an Engineer that used everyday tools to kill them.[/quote] Mainly because they needed him alive, and in the third game he knew how to fight them and had help.
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Where is that ever said? Anytime a big necromorph form exists it seemed to be from multiple host bodies being nearby when they were all infected. Like the beginning of Dead Space 2 with the first Tripod coming from the shuttle full of people..
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Edited by Lord Keksworth: 5/27/2014 10:17:39 PMOh shit wrong thing. Regarding the first bit, the Marker has made necromorphs out of severed heads and half-grown infants. If it felt like making a new necromorph out of an arm or leg hacked off of an old necromorph, it could. But it's much more efficient to take that mass and make a Tormentor or something out of it.
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Well first off, that wasn't what I was talking about. Second, in DS2 they were trying to kill him the whole time. You know, they say it right at the end, and it wasn't a surprise at all.
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Yeah, I realized that about half a second after I posted that and sighed in distaste. What I said before was incorrect. They needed him alive so he could remove the leader of the only organization in the Sprawl that could stop them. Once he did that, they didn't have any reason to keep him around.
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If that was the plan they wouldn't have been attacking him constantly and trying to tear him limb from limb.
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They didn't want to make it obvious? *Shrug* Point is, they did need him alive, and it'd make for a boring game if the necromorphs just ignored you.
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Flood win due to lack of plotholes then.
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You mean aside from how the flood mysteriously teleported to the Ark in Halo 3, and why Gravemind didn't just squash John and Thel after Thel killed Truth, or why he had to interrogate Cortana to find Earth's location after eating Regret who knew exactly where Earth was, and other innumerable plot holes Halo 2 and 3 had?
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Because Gravemind has an obvious flare for the dramatic, much like God in Revelations.
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[quote]Necromorphs need to infect a living body[/quote]That's not how it works. The Marker's signal alters dead tissue into necromorphs. Hence their name [i]Dead[/i]morphs.
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Still get infected, either through an Infector, or through a Marker.
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I don't quite understand, could you clarify?
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Infector goes someplace Marker can't signal to, Infector jabs spike through peoples' heads turning them into Necromorphs. Or the Marker drives someone bat-shit crazy and that person kills themselves & others and then they all turn into Necromorphs.
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Edited by Citrus raptor: 5/23/2014 10:45:03 PMThanks. Yes, that's how it infects/spreads, and it would--with that logic--be less efficient than Flood cause it can't [i]infect[/i] living tissue. Then we're on the same page. It's just your first sentence (the one I quoted) that confused me. There are still a bunch of other factors though.
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To be fair, the start of a Necromoprh outbreak has nothing to do with being "infected."
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Either an Infector infects & kills someone, or it infects an already dead body. Or the dead are infected through a Marker. Or the Marker drives someone bat-shit crazy and that person kills themselves & others and then they all turn into Necromorphs. Point is shit gets infected, and a dead body is needed.
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But there is no form of infection. It alters the shape and form of dead bodies. Hence the name Necromorph.
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Semantics. Alters/Repurposes/Deforms/Infects/Contorts/whatever.
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Doesn't change that the Flood would tear them multiple new assholes.
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Never said that they would. Just that his idea of how and what Necromorphs do is flawed.
