- Fos Tis Krisis
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- Intrepid Legendary Member
I hunt for the Prophet of Contentment, the San 'Shyumm that murdered my son, and stole his birthright, his Energy Sword. They call our species Heretics. They claim to all that our tongues sting, our words a vile poison that feeds on the unworthy. I have seen the true face of Heresy. The head of a gallant warrior lay on the ground. His neck scorched and blistered, scarred by his own blade. I shall retrieve the weapon, and drive it through that bastard's heart! Punishment for his sins is nigh.
By now we have all gotten used to 2 kinds of skulls, Gold, and Silver. Gold skulls make the game harder, and add a score bonus to the end of the game, and Silver skulls are just for fun.
I think if they make Reach VERY hard (I mean Harder than either CE or 2), they should implement Bronze Skulls. What Bronze Skulls would do, is make the game easier in some ways, but drastically reduce the score you earned through the level. Skulls like these appeared in Halo Wars, decreasing your overall score for the level if activated.
What this would accomplish is giving less than adequate players a chance to beat the game on Legendary, and earn the Achievements/Armor/whatever else for beating the whole game, but they would have a heavily reduced score at the end of the game.
As a result, I think the Campaign Scoring Metagame should ALWAYS be active. The total Campaign score you have earned should appear on your public Service Record for all to see, which will include the tally of your best scores on each level, not every point you have ever earned.
Another good means of implementing this would be to change the color of the "Campaign Progress" emblem on your Service Record. The highest difficulty you beat the game on will appear in either Gold (All Gold Skulls active), Silver (No skulls, or any amount of Gold and Silver Skulls active, without reaching all Gold), or Bronze (ANY Bronze skull was active, this will come up WHETHER OR NOT you activated any gold skulls).
This way, if you took the shameful way out, and activated a Bronze skull to beat the game, EVERYONE will know, and any players who beat the game either SLASO or CLASO will stand out.
What do you think?