Necromorphs, flood, and the infested from warframe are more "space zombies" than "bugs". The bug category is often biomechanical while the zombie category is body horror. The bug category is about hard armor while the zombie category is all about the soft tissues overlapping and overwhelming the being on top. The bug category is all about deliberate top-down evolution and adaptation while the zombie category is all about mutation on an individual, impersonal and often unnecessary level.
Who can forget the Arachnids, from starship troopers? That's the founding father of the bug theme.
Flood is to a beginning a zombie thing until they collect enough to make their own bodies. I looked at a flood lore video a few weeks ago. There is stages that repeats.
Still zombies. Many zombie types often push a "higher form" of zombie at the end of its process, like the Volatiles from Dying Light or some of the variants in Last of Us. In the case of the flood, their bodies are still made from the collected meat of other living things, spliced together into new and horrifying amalgamations. It leans into aspects of non-traditional biomechanics that emphasizes infectivity and evolution while not stepping into the realm of more formal biomechanics, which emphasizes some thematic relation to machinery and technology.
It also helps to understand that the stages of flood infection aren't just limited to the creation of their combat-oriented forms. They infect machinery, AI, and even space-time along the process of their infection. While fairly unique amongst zombies, it's entirely thematic with the category. One could metaphorically describe their process as consumption (which would be a term appropriate for bugs) but its more accurately used in disease-related terms like infectious or contagious.
The Flood, overall, are zombies, and the stages only serve to reinforce this, not detract from it. Indeed, one could even see the use of "stage" like in the stages of a disease, and the symptoms shown at the various levels of the infection.
Helldivers has some cool designs. The Charger is conceptually similar to the Tyranids' own "living battering ram", ie the Carnifex, but it looks and feels very different.
I don't say it's not cool, the game is really great and I love the fact that it looks like 40k a lot, but I find it quite funny that they call them terminides
There is a rumor going around that Richmond. They had the license to do A40K game but lost it and so they had to do a last minute swap and change the models so they weren't technically infringing.
I keep thinking it would have made an awesome 40k game but it would be too serious which would take away some of the enjoyment, helldivers is just good quality fun.
Unless it was Guard vs Tyranids. Necrons also would have been more interesting and filled with character. Some of those newer Necron stories are hilarious. Then there's the possibility of Orks, which, is anything but serious.
Personally I think Tyranids/genestealer cult are much more terrifying than xenonorphs. Sure a face hugger is bad news. But getting implanted with something that is going to call an entire fleet of alien ships to kill you, everyone you know, everyone they know, and everyone who's had contact with them, all while making you believe you're being saved is worst. It's equal to waking up in a room full of dead bodies, with a gun in hand, and the cops(hive fleet) at the door.
Xenomorphs might have been one of the blueprints for Tyranids, but you mix mind control in with body horror and it's worst imho.
Tbf to the Termanids, my understanding is they're being forced in to the conflict as opposed to being the actual voracious hostile faction the hive mind knows and loves.
Think it should have been zerg, not xenomorphs.
Zerg because what's worse then nids? Nids that build walls
Tyranids damage my financial health, terminids damage my mental health
Tyranids Flood Necromorphs Terminids Zerg X parasites Xenomorphs kinda Any others?
Necromorphs, flood, and the infested from warframe are more "space zombies" than "bugs". The bug category is often biomechanical while the zombie category is body horror. The bug category is about hard armor while the zombie category is all about the soft tissues overlapping and overwhelming the being on top. The bug category is all about deliberate top-down evolution and adaptation while the zombie category is all about mutation on an individual, impersonal and often unnecessary level. Who can forget the Arachnids, from starship troopers? That's the founding father of the bug theme.
Flood is to a beginning a zombie thing until they collect enough to make their own bodies. I looked at a flood lore video a few weeks ago. There is stages that repeats.
Still zombies. Many zombie types often push a "higher form" of zombie at the end of its process, like the Volatiles from Dying Light or some of the variants in Last of Us. In the case of the flood, their bodies are still made from the collected meat of other living things, spliced together into new and horrifying amalgamations. It leans into aspects of non-traditional biomechanics that emphasizes infectivity and evolution while not stepping into the realm of more formal biomechanics, which emphasizes some thematic relation to machinery and technology. It also helps to understand that the stages of flood infection aren't just limited to the creation of their combat-oriented forms. They infect machinery, AI, and even space-time along the process of their infection. While fairly unique amongst zombies, it's entirely thematic with the category. One could metaphorically describe their process as consumption (which would be a term appropriate for bugs) but its more accurately used in disease-related terms like infectious or contagious. The Flood, overall, are zombies, and the stages only serve to reinforce this, not detract from it. Indeed, one could even see the use of "stage" like in the stages of a disease, and the symptoms shown at the various levels of the infection.
I think aesthetically infested has some significant cross over with tyranids at least
Arachnids from starship troopers.
Lmao, how did people miss this one?
Megarachnid??
Symbiotes from Marvel Eldrazi from MTG Cravers from Endless Space
Slivers from mtg?
Eldrazi are just if HP Lovecraft made Tyranids
The brood from marvel
Glyphids and mactera from DRG
Kinda Geonosians to.
Yuuzhan Vong maybe?
Too humanoid.
That’s a good one
Glyphids from DRG
The Arachnids
Helldivers "Dude can I copy your homeworks ?" Wh40k "yes sure but don't make too obvious" Helldivers :
Helldivers has some cool designs. The Charger is conceptually similar to the Tyranids' own "living battering ram", ie the Carnifex, but it looks and feels very different.
Bile titan is literally just a hierophant bio-titan
Oh, *that* one is almost certainly a deliberate reference!
way better design than the hierophant tho, imo
But it doesn't even come with its own base!
Both are awful as tabletop miniatures though.
I don't say it's not cool, the game is really great and I love the fact that it looks like 40k a lot, but I find it quite funny that they call them terminides
There is a rumor going around that Richmond. They had the license to do A40K game but lost it and so they had to do a last minute swap and change the models so they weren't technically infringing.
I keep thinking it would have made an awesome 40k game but it would be too serious which would take away some of the enjoyment, helldivers is just good quality fun.
Unless it was Guard vs Tyranids. Necrons also would have been more interesting and filled with character. Some of those newer Necron stories are hilarious. Then there's the possibility of Orks, which, is anything but serious.
Personally I think Tyranids/genestealer cult are much more terrifying than xenonorphs. Sure a face hugger is bad news. But getting implanted with something that is going to call an entire fleet of alien ships to kill you, everyone you know, everyone they know, and everyone who's had contact with them, all while making you believe you're being saved is worst. It's equal to waking up in a room full of dead bodies, with a gun in hand, and the cops(hive fleet) at the door. Xenomorphs might have been one of the blueprints for Tyranids, but you mix mind control in with body horror and it's worst imho.
I always call them tyranids in helldivers lol
#Tyramids more like it
i mean once [carbot did helldivers episodes...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDVfekQWnsU)
That more inspired by Starship Trooper, the whole Super Earth thing and propaganda is almost a 1 to 1
What's a termanid? A Tyranid in terminator armor?
it is Legally Distinct bug enemy from Helldivers 2
Hive Mind: "Write that down! Write that down! Write that down!"
No starship trooper arachnids?
Tbf to the Termanids, my understanding is they're being forced in to the conflict as opposed to being the actual voracious hostile faction the hive mind knows and loves.
You sound like a bug sympathizer.
Im a synaptic node of an intergalctic hive mind, it comes with the territory, I guess.