User blog comment:IceFireWarden0/Speculations for Season 11/@comment-1886172-20130625033223/@comment-1886172-20130625175423

Being something of a writer and an active discussionist(?), it actually didn't take me very long to write that. Also, Master Chief is a Spartan II. Superior augmentations, superior training, superior mindset for fighting. Plus, he had experience fighting the flood so he knew how to combat them. Also, if no one cared about them, there wouldn't be a gamemode about them. It would be simple infection still. I realize there are some who dislike the flood, but more, myself included, who love them still and find them interesting. So people still care about the flood. And Rooster Teeth doesn't have to, I'm not sure if they do even. However, its one possibility they could go with the show thanks to the new game mode. And it seems like they're implying it. Also, Master Chief wiped out a portion of the Flood. If Installation 04 and 05 are anything to go by, along with the shield world, there are still plenty of Flood left in this galaxy, although due to a lack of biomass its likely those Flood are still pre-Gravemind level Flood, and thus more manageable for the reds and blues.

Recently with their enemies, I'm mainly pointing at you army of Tex, they've had to use unorthodox (at least in my opinion) methods to kill their enemies off, so it wouldn't surprise me if they did. However, I'm not sure what methods they could use to get rid of the Flood. The only way they could beat them without eradicating the Flood in that area would be to leave, depriving them of food. As they want this to be more Blood Gulch, I could possibly see Vic as being something of an antagonist this season, that is if it really is Blood Gulch like I hope. But this is a conversation about the potentiality of the Flood, so we'll leave that for another thread. And they probably would dumb the Flood down, even from pre-Gravemind standards, due to limitations of the gamemode and the animators working on RWBY. So no characters could get infected due to a lack of infection forms and the only characters not skilled enough to properly fight are Grif and Caboose. Caboose may be able to help with the tank, although its unlikely they'd allow him in it but Grif can't do a thing.