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Subject: The Black Eye skull....

Semper Fi- Always Faithful: Honor and Justice. I will hunt down the Defiant and Dishonest. Brutally.

Ignorance CERTAINLY isnt bliss. I hope to fix this in the forums.

The Answers To ALL your complaints!!!!

Firefight is gonna be a MAJOR thing that my friends and I are gonna do for an extremely long time. I look foreward to it more and more everyday, in addition to the other great things about ODST. But there is one flaw in this diamond....the black eye skull appearing so early into the game.

REASONING: In all the first-person screenshots of firefight, Black Eye is almost always on, and it's one of those few skulls on, making me think it's one of the earliest ones activated. I think that skull would be perfect later in the game to add more challenge, but the skull itself takes from the gameplay of firefight.

The entire point of firefight is to stay together, and pick off enemies in the most efficient and tactical way possible. But punching them in the face, while being surrounded by more of them? And with a melee that is essentially cut in half?

And Don't only say 'It's to make the game more difficult' because I feel that saying that is obvious. The skulls are there to make it more difficult. All I'm saying is to put it among the end of the activated skulls.

However, if you can edit the order the skulls come in on, or if it's random, then my entire rant is pointless.

I understand that if it's already designed like this, then nothing can be done, and I won't curse Bungie or anyone out. I'll still pre-order the limited edition from Gamestop, regardless.


P.S, I'm kinda back from a VERY long absence from the forums...so if this post is a repeat, I apologize.


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  • 06.27.2009 2:27 PM PDT

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do you have to have skulls?

  • 06.27.2009 2:28 PM PDT

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I kid you not, I will play firefight very little, get the achievments and go, if this is so...

*I play stuff that's fun, not stupid...

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  • 06.27.2009 2:29 PM PDT

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ya that is one of the major things that i have been wondering about to so i know what you mean. it could make it a little to difficult at times.

  • 06.27.2009 2:33 PM PDT

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The only skull guaranteed to activate first is "Tough Luck". The others activate randomly.

  • 06.27.2009 2:41 PM PDT

"Anyone can give up it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's the true strength."

I'm sure the other skulls activate randomly but Tough Luck is always the first.

  • 06.27.2009 2:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.

Posted by: zash208
I kid you not, I will play firefight very little, get the achievments and go, if this is so...

*I play stuff that's fun, not stupid...


You play stuff that is fun but achievement whore games? K... logic? I can not find it.

  • 06.27.2009 2:57 PM PDT
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i thought this was going to be a problem, but i realize it's not that big of a problem.

it just affects health not your "stamina" (i think)

so instead of health packs you can punch grunts. meaning once you get black eye skull you'll have more health packs than normal,... (lol, living health packs)

  • 06.27.2009 3:36 PM PDT

Maybe the reason you the Black Eye skull on most of the screenshots is because those screenshots were taken during the same round.
Skulls don't change until the round/set is over.

  • 06.27.2009 4:00 PM PDT

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If you would like to know more about Mythic difficulty please go to this thread. Thank you.

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Posted by: DangerBeck
i thought this was going to be a problem, but i realize it's not that big of a problem.

it just affects health not your "stamina" (i think)

so instead of health packs you can punch grunts. meaning once you get black eye skull you'll have more health packs than normal,... (lol, living health packs)


Have you used the skull during Halo 3 at all? It affects your shield bar too, meaning it'll also affect you stamina. Black Eye will really encourage teamwork and long range fighting, a round with Black Eye active will be a tough one. Tough yet fun.

  • 06.27.2009 4:28 PM PDT

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i always hated the black eye skull. such a pain in the ass on harder difficulties. basically having to kill all but one enemy, then punch him to death is so annoying

  • 06.27.2009 4:31 PM PDT

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Posted by: Archangel990
Firefight is gonna be a MAJOR thing that my friends and I are gonna do for an extremely long time.

That's what everyone said about Horde.

  • 06.27.2009 4:55 PM PDT
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The skulls are all random so they will all be mixed up.

  • 06.27.2009 4:59 PM PDT