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Dude, chill. There is a reason no one has replied, cause the skull i s a stone bi**h to get. I will do my best to help you here. Keep in mind, it only spawns one time for every seven attempts to get it, so have alot of patience. If you can, go with Sputnik and Envy (GBParty can make it more dangerous if you also have Catch, because there are alot more explosions to duck out of the way of and trust me, if you die you are gonna be plenty pissed that you killed yourself from too many grendades going off), t so stick with Sputnik (in case you have to melee) and Envy (cause you will need to hide), they give you a fighting chance at the end. DO NOT GO WITH BLACK EYE OR YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME!
OK, here we go. Outskirts, on Legendary: you have to play all the way to the point that the sniper in the alley where Johnson gets picked up by the Pelican before you can take any shortcuts. Once you have played to this point, some people start grenade jumping to the skull spawn spot.. This is the way I get to the spot it spawns. Play past the buggers and the invisible Elites, take out the next three snipers (the two that spawn at the bus at the end of the next "alley" and the one that spawns on the walkway above. Next, slowly go down the walk and take out the sniper that spawns between the buildings to the left of where you took the one down on the walkway. IMMEDIATELY BACK UP AND GO BACK OUT TO THE COURTYARD AREA OUT OF REACH OF THE GRUNTS AND ELITES UPCOMING, you do not want them to spawn, or bother fighting them. Walk back to the spot where the sidewalk starts to drop down and stop. On your right is the area that the invisible sword Elite spawned. Move a large Covie crate on its side to just right of that spot. You want to jump up to the next spot above you. Do this and stop. There should be a post in front of you, a small crate in front/left of you. Face STRAIGHT FORWARD and look across to the next building. There is a balcony with a doorway. That is the room that the skull spawns in. To get there from here do the following. Turn 180 degrees around. There is a small awning on your right. Crouch jump to it and then turn 90 degrees to your left and jump to the next rooftop. Move straight ahead and jump to the next rooftop. Turn 90 degrees to your left and crouch jump up to the next roof. Go straight ahead and jump across the walkway where the sniper spawned earlier (not the last one, but one of the three in the "alley"). You will see in front of you a rooftop with some girders/beams running "across" it. Move very carefully at this point because the last sniper will spawn to your left on that far rooftop as soon as you move onto this next rooftop. I usually jump and then crouch and stay crouched till i land on this girdered rooftop as far to the right side of it as I can. Once I am not sniped in the brainpan, I move slowly to my left with my scope looking for the jackal sniper and take him out. Once he is gone you should be able to jump to the balcony I pointed out earlier, its just a jump across the gap to land on it. Move thru the doorway and if it spawned it will be on the floor. Do not bother with the sniper stuff, taking it will not help you in any way if you goal is to get the skull. If the skull did not spawn, quit and completely start the level over. If it did, things get interesting.
Once you grab the skull you will immediately get screwed, because you get teleported (minus anything but a plasma pistol, and NO grenades) down to the ground level and Silver Elites start to swarm you. One of the trickiest parts of this battle is that you cannot leave a certain area, if you do, you are teleported right back and there is usually an Elite waiting sword in hand to help you find heaven. You cannot go outside of the box formed by the middle buildings. Once you head down one of the alleys, you get teleported right back. There are a few weapons scattered around. Be careful what you pick up, I have noticed that the game tends to arm the Elites that spawn with the same weapons that I have. NEVER PICK UP THE BEAM RIFLE OR YOU ARE DEAD RIGHT QUICK. I find the PP and BR combo best, cause they dont noob combo me, but it is the only way I have gotten them down to the final one or two. It is also the best distance method of taking the SEVEN elites that will come looking for their skull, and trust me, they want it back, and they want it bad. The best way I have found to stay alive the longest and always die running and gunning is to go into the "right" side part of the map ( "right" being the small rooms and alley hidden on the right side of the area as you originally took down the alley jackal snipers to start this whole shindig off). This is the area that has the battle rifle ammo in it before the skull. If you use the crates and gas canisters to BLOCK OFF the entry on both ends the Elites cannot cross over them and you can pick them off a bit easier. The hallway closest to the bus is best blocked by putting TWO canisters into it the long ways so if you start getting grenade happy, or they do, you have a better chance of the canisters staying in a blocking position and saving your arse. The other area I block is the doorway just to the left (as you face out) of the area that the BR rounds were. Block it with something big right at the walkway/exit into the combat area. If you block it too far out, it will get moved. If you block it too far in, it gets in your way and a needler will take you out. You need to be able to move back and forth between the two small rooms there to get good noob shots on the Elites and avoid their fire. If by chance you get a safe opportunity to get your hands on a sword to keep in this area do so. If you run short of PP you may have to go medieval on their butts, and the sword with sputnik on is not bad at all. It does mean you have to be close, and close in this part of the battle is the LAST thing you want, but if you have no choice, you gotta do what you gotta do! If you manage to get this far, DO NOT DIE, I went three months between skull spawns, and IT PISSED ME OFF! I still have not gotten the darn thing, but I have found a way to get the marines to say most of their lines by just continually bumping into them and zooming in and out on their faces from like an inch away from them. But they only say some things with the skull active.
Good luck and GOOD HUNTING, you are gonna hate yourself if you try to get it and die, I regretted all the effort almost immediately! Fortunately I have a short memory, maybe it is time for me to try again??