I'm running a game with the flood set to Inactive, and I was assuming that it means "there are no flood planets". And then one of my sloops ran headlong into a planet full of flood and died. Is this a bug, or does "flood inactive" not mean what I think it does?
What does "Flood inactive" actually mean?
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Posted 31 January 2015 - 08:24 PM
I'm running a game with the flood set to Inactive, and I was assuming that it means "there are no flood planets". And then one of my sloops ran headlong into a planet full of flood and died. Is this a bug, or does "flood inactive" not mean what I think it does?
It means the flood don't ever attack.
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Posted 31 January 2015 - 10:54 PM
it means that the flood are not going to move out and spread, however if you click keep playing after you defeat the enemy you can try to take the planet
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Posted 31 January 2015 - 11:19 PM
It means the flood don't ever attack.
Not sure how this deserves a like, but I'll take it.
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Posted 31 January 2015 - 11:42 PM
Not sure how this deserves a like, but I'll take it.
Probably because you answered the question correctly and maturely. In other words, did what the community is supposed to.
@OP:
Flood inactive means just that, they're inactive and won't attack you. But if you seek them out........
We need the flood world to exist, regardless of whether or not they're active, because that's just how Sins works.
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 12:22 AM
it means that the flood are not going to move out and spread, however if you click keep playing after you defeat the enemy you can try to take the planet
"try" i love how people think the flood are so hard in the public version. it is pretty easy to take them down if you do it right. then again... i learned the hard way....oscar...im looking at you
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 12:44 AM
"try" i love how people think the flood are so hard in the public version. it is pretty easy to take them down if you do it right. then again... i learned the hard way....oscar...im looking at you
i learned the hard way that the flood can take over Capital ships and therefore only attack when i have over 60 stalwarts...
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 03:31 AM
If you want to see scary when it comes to the flood, ask Sloose and Cole about their "contingency plan" whenever they're about to lose in a game
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 05:41 AM
If you want to see scary when it comes to the flood, ask Sloose and Cole about their "contingency plan" whenever they're about to lose in a game
That still works?
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 06:04 AM
Does what work? I'm really curious now. Can someone care to explain this "contingency plan" ?
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 07:22 AM
Does what work? I'm really curious now. Can someone care to explain this "contingency plan" ?
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 08:33 AM
Probably because you answered the question correctly and maturely. In other words, did what the community is supposed to.
@OP:
Flood inactive means just that, they're inactive and won't attack you. But if you seek them out........
We need the flood world to exist, regardless of whether or not they're active, because that's just how Sins works.
Oh, ok.
Now I kinda feel silly for building anchor stations, minefields, and ODPs on every planet bordering the flood world.
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 09:11 AM
Does what work? I'm really curious now. Can someone care to explain this "contingency plan" ?
The bug was called Spring Contingency, a play on the UNSC's Winter Contingency. What would happen is if you bombard and kill the Flood Home-world before you clear out its defending Guardians, the Guardians would re-colonize the Flood Home-world. The problem being is that their colonize ability is special because it spawns an active Flood fleet as well as colonize the planet. The spawned Flood fleet behaves like it would if the Flood was active and begins to attack other players.
This video is a perfect example of the bug.
The bug was patched in the latest release.
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Posted 01 February 2015 - 10:26 PM
The bug was patched in the latest release.
Or was it?
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 01:05 AM
Hahahah I couldn't stop laughing!
Geezus thats a lot of flood, your reactions were priceless 
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Very happy its been patch. I almost considered doing that once.
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 06:18 AM
Hahahah I couldn't stop laughing!
Geezus thats a lot of flood, your reactions were priceless
That was an accidental Spring Contingency. Intentional ones are much more amusing.
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Posted 04 February 2015 - 12:09 AM
So no matter how many ships I feed to the Flood planet they will never leave their home gravity well?
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Posted 04 February 2015 - 09:19 AM
If you have flood inactive, then yes.
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