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Fog is useless in the later levels. My radar gets painted red anyway.

  • 10.08.2007 6:44 PM PDT
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Most of the time i use the skulls: Iron, Catch, (sometimes) Famine, Cowbell and Grunt Birthday. But playing with iron can really be tough, sometimes i almost finished a level and get killed at the end, after 3 times i can get really irretated.

  • 10.09.2007 8:27 AM PDT

My perfect Heroic skull combo:

Grunt Birthday Party : It helps make headshots clear, with or without scoring.
Fog : Not having a radar won't kill you. Unless it's in multiplayer with cloaking...
Famine : I somehow find a way around losing ammo constantly.
Thunderstorm : It's not too hard, gives a multiplier, and the base points for kills are higher.
Tough Luck : I always get around the enemy diving. ALWAYS.
Catch : Grenades are cool.
IWHBYD : Why not?

If I'm feeling lucky, I'll either add Mythic or add Mythic and remove Famine.

The skull combination above has gotten me all of the meta-game score achievements.

Reason I left out the other 5:
Iron : I'm playing on solo. Not a good idea.
Black Eye : If I'm getting shot at and my shields go down by sniper, I'm screwed.
Tilt : I'm not spending my time looking for the (almost) only weapon to use against brutes.
Cowbell : Billions of plasma greandes coming at me + Billions of spike greandes
coming at me + big explosions = Dead Master Chief
Blind : I like to see what I'm doing, especially when not seeing doesn't give me more points.

[Edited on 10.13.2007 2:19 PM PDT]

  • 10.09.2007 4:20 PM PDT
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I like the skulls it adds challenge to the campaign, but sometimes not enough when I read thunderstorm it was supposed to promote everyone so i thought sweet no more grunts just gold brutes and cheiftens. But was disappointed I would like to see more of a challenge on the campaign in the future i have played halo since it came out the campaign was too easy. Hopefully when you update Halo 3 you will have more campaign content and more skulls to look for. Btw please inform the community to whither or not we are able to get more armor than what has currently been found.

  • 10.09.2007 5:26 PM PDT
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I used the iron and catch skulls on the storm and the 50 cal warthog was blown up too easily

  • 10.09.2007 5:44 PM PDT

What I'd really like to see is extra achievements added to give you points for beating the game with certain skulls on, and also for beating campaign by yourself.

Or at least show it on your service record so people can see how badass you are.

  • 10.09.2007 6:17 PM PDT
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Thanks a lot! I have been wondering what skulls I should use.

  • 10.09.2007 7:26 PM PDT
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i usualy turn on mythich thunderstorm and sometimes tilt for the extra challenge but my fav is turning on the silver skull grunt b day hearing shildren say YAY!!!! after getting a headshot on a grunt gives u a lil satisfaction and the confetti is just gr8 makes u wanna get a head shot and say crap now i have like 2 brutes to take down after that just had to get the headshot lol

  • 10.09.2007 8:26 PM PDT
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Hmmm cool. Will have to try the heroic recommendations lolz (got no chance on legendary I don't think atm) but anyhow good stuff....I personally have been throwing all the gold skulls on (except for the tilt skull) on "Easy" (Feel free to call me a noob *whimper*) but yeah....anyhow I don't know about the higher difficulties but for easy my fave skull is the black eye skull. Great combo with Famine coz you're saving ammo by meleeing which replenishes you're shield...but yeah I'm sure you all know that so yeah....peace...

  • 10.10.2007 2:12 AM PDT
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I Love playing with the Grunt Birthday Skull on. I laugh so hard when i here "BOOM Yay!" multiple times in a row.

  • 10.10.2007 10:03 AM PDT
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I was just wondering, who gets the skulls when you find them during co-op campaign?

  • 10.10.2007 10:05 AM PDT
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I went through Normal Mode Solo... With the 2-6 skull turned on and did completely fine on all the mission with points... Turn the last 3 silver skulls on for some extra fun! :) And grab those BR's and make every headshot count :)

  • 10.10.2007 7:56 PM PDT

Haven't cheated. Haven't been banned. There might be a connection there...

I got all of my Campaign scoring achievements using:
Catch
Mythic
Thunderstorm
Famine
~Normal Difficulty

  • 10.10.2007 11:12 PM PDT

Haven't cheated. Haven't been banned. There might be a connection there...

Posted by: grassynullsniper
I was just wondering, who gets the skulls when you find them during co-op campaign?
All players that are in the game that the skull is found.

  • 10.10.2007 11:14 PM PDT
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I like using a core set of skulls and then adding others to change it up.
Famine- makes every shot count
Catch- makes you quick on your feet
Mythic- come on you gotta give the bad guys a chance
Thunderstorm- also give the baddies a chance
Fog- make the feel much more real. it also makes you rely on you surround sound more
Those are the Gold
but if I want to kick it up even more I add some Silver
Cowbell- makes the Catch skull and the little Joe Montana grunts into a serious force to be reckoned with. Lots of grenades with lots of bang
Grunt B-day Party- makes you head shots apparent and also gives you a little bang for you buck
IWHBYD- just for the comic relief. You'll need it with all the these skulls on

Masterchief I hope you are wearing your game face

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  • 10.11.2007 9:36 AM PDT
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If you just want the achievements, play normal and put on iron, famine and fog.

For a killer challenge put on Mythic and Tilt and play legendary. Doesn't really matter what other skulls you put on cause you're going to die hundreds of times with just these two. I got to the latter part of Tsavo highway before I gave up, for now. Basically all you can do is zap with the plasma pistol and go for the headshot.

  • 10.11.2007 12:15 PM PDT
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I like to use catch, grunt birthday party, fog,IWHBYD but my favorite combo is cowbell, catch, fog, grunt birthday party. all the skulls are fun to use.

  • 10.11.2007 12:36 PM PDT
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I've been playing the campaign on Legendary with the Tough Luck, Catch, Famine, Tilt, Mythic, Thunderstorm, IWHBYD, Grunt Birthday Party, and Cowbell skulls turned on. The game has become incredibly difficult, with each multi-brute encounter playing out like a harder version of the second hangar bay in Halo 2.

For the barracks battle, I had to stockpile over a dozen plasma pistols and several battle rifles to take out everyone except the chieftain. After eliminating everyone else in the room, I just ran away from the chieftain into the next hallway. Fortunately, he didn't follow me down the shaft.

The Tsvao Highway encounter with the Wraith featured over 14 brutes! There was no way I would have gotten out of that encounter alive, as there wasn't enough ammo to go around. I was able to avoid the battle, however, by walking along the hill to the right of the buildings. I jacked a Wraith on the final two battles on the highway, which made completing the mission fairly easy.


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  • 10.11.2007 1:50 PM PDT

No matter what skulls you put on in missions 5 and 8 (Floodgate and Cortana),
turn on the Catch skull. The Flood can't throw grenades, so you get a free score
multiplier.

  • 10.13.2007 2:22 PM PDT
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My favorite combo on Normal is::
Tough Luck, Famine, Fog, Thunderstorm, Mythic on normal (add catch on Cortana and Halo just because I'm such a cheap bastard)
It feels kind of like playing somehting between Heroic and Legendary where grenade kills are almost impossible at long ranges and where you have half the ammo to kill opponents with twice the health.

  • 10.28.2007 2:49 PM PDT
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Would you guys recommend using cowbell? Is it worth having bigger explosions from your stuff versus getting bigger explosions near you? Because if I have catch on, do I want all those explosions near me? I can't imagine it being worth it, especially since I don't even get a multiplier from it.

  • 10.29.2007 9:53 PM PDT
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I use Tough Luck, Catch, Thunderstorm, Famine, Mythic, Fog, Grunt Birthday Party, Cowbell and IWHBYD just for the comic relief you need it with all these Skulls and on solo! Cowbell has to be my favorite though makes those Kamikaze grunts a little tougher...and more amusing.

~~All on Herioc


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  • 10.31.2007 10:51 AM PDT
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hmmmm. 9 skulls, 9 levels, I think they're all on the first level

  • 11.01.2007 4:52 AM PDT
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Anyone who can play solo on Legendary with Iron, Blind and Black Eye (also combined with other skulls) need not prove himself a man in any other way (unless they are a woman, that is). I play two player co-op, and even though I avoid Iron, Blind and Black Eye on Legendary, I still end up questioning whether those Brute heroes can be killed at all...

  • 11.02.2007 3:00 PM PDT

Greg K.

I almost always play with Mythic, Catch and Thunderstorm on. It's more fun to avoid all the flying grenades, plus almost every enemy you kill drops two grenades so I never run out.

the only problem is hunters can be a real PITA with Mythic turned on.

  • 11.05.2007 6:20 AM PDT