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Subject: Skull Guide, Profiles and Fun Things To Do With Them

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  • 07.01.2010 1:13 PM PDT

SLASO Subject:

For new guys here, SLASO means 'Single (player) Legendary All Skulls On'. It means you activate all the skulls in any order and once activated, start from Cairo and beat the game. I will add that all players should try SLASO at least once, just to know what it feels like to be instantly annihilated.

Before anyone pops off with 'oh yeah, I did that once, wasn't that hard' let me say that the guy who beat H3 Mythic (version of SLASO) could not finish H2 SLASO nor could anyone else in his community of awesome players. Nobody has ever proved (documented) beating H2 SLASO.

My opinion is that nobody will ever do it, and it may be as close to impossible as it gets. The negative skulls are overwhelming, even the fun skulls are a nightmare and each of the negative skulls lend to each other and are therefore more overwhelming as a group. A negative skull is one that makes it more difficult to survive.

Why it might never be done:

1. Blind; you will not have a reticule nor see how many nades you have and well, no HUD whatsoever.
2. Sputnik; less gravity may sound innocent but nades will come at you from all directions because of Catch and there will be no cover because all boxes are blown away. Imagine the Cairo hanger.
3. Black Eye; purely evil. With the Mythic skull on and in Legendary you must melee for survival because your shields will not regenerate without it.
4. Assassins; all enemy AI are cloaked (nuff said).
5. Mythic; even Grunts are tough to kill. The n00b combo is virtually useless in the Cairo hanger, not enough ammo can be hauled in and there's less ammo available.
5. Armory skull; AI always look in your direction so even cloaking will not help you.
6. Catch; Grunts and Brutes toss nades at you like rain and never stop.
7. Angry; all AI shoot at a faster pace.
8. Famine; you have less ammo in every weapon.
9. Ghost; if you do manage to get up to an Elite for a melee, when you whack 'em they will not get spun around, they will keep facing you and they all have swords.
10. Thunderstorm; not a terrible skull because Elites cannot shoot longer range because they're holding a sword but forget ever meleeing a Legendary, Mythic Elite who always knows where you are.

No, I don't think it will ever be done.

Imagine you are in the Cairo hanger. You enter and face a constant barrage of nades (Catch) and all box covers are blown away (Sputnik), you've got less ammo (Famine), enemies are firing at a faster pace (Angry), they're all perma-cloaked (Assassins), they always know where you are (Armory) and now you need to go down and melee for your health (Black Eye) and they are all beyond Legendary (Mythic).

If anyone does do it and proves it, it will go in the Guinnes Book (serious), that's how awesome it would be. One other H2 accomplishment is in there; Cody Miller beat all of H2, non-segmented, straight through, Legendary with no deaths. H2 SLASO is the only thing that could top that.

[Edited on 11.24.2010 9:48 PM PST]

  • 07.01.2010 1:39 PM PDT
Subject: Skull Guide

Never give up, never surrender!

Rather generous of you, thanks. I must use this soon.

  • 07.01.2010 3:53 PM PDT

Posted by: Spartan3PC
Rather generous of you, thanks. I must use this soon.
Thank you, I get a lot PM's and e-mails about tricks, glitches and skulls so I posted this for 3 reasons:

1 It helps me out to answer questions about skulls.
2 It helps others out (I enjoy that).
3 I love this forum, the people here mostly possess above average to high intelligence and are generally good folks and since Live went down I wanted to contribute something.

[Edited on 07.01.2010 10:22 PM PDT]

  • 07.01.2010 4:17 PM PDT
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I might have to do this too.

Thanks Grumpy!

  • 07.01.2010 9:25 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

SLASO makes me want to cry while screaming for momma. It is f***ing impossible.

  • 07.03.2010 4:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Super PolarBear
SLASO makes me want to cry while screaming for momma. It is f***ing impossible.
Yup, impossible. Black Eye (no shied regeneration unless you can find objects to break or you charge in and melee) is a killer for me along with Mythic (enemies are tougher), Famine (less ammo), Angry (enemies fire faster) and Armory (enemies know where you are). Plus Ghost means that if you try to melee they will not spin around after being hit so that you can hit them again. Also for melee because of Black Eye the Elites all pull out swords (Thunderstorm) and Ghost allows them to just stand there facing you and kill you with one hit.

Oh, I forgot, Iron screws you in coop so you are reverted to last checkpoint if one player dies.

Yeah, SLASO is impossible. Just getting to another checkpoint is an epic win in most areas.

Edit: The only other game that I know of that is impossible to beat is 'Metal Arms - Glitch in the System' on 'Nuts of Steel' difficulty. Most game makers allow the games to be at least beaten if you are good enough but not these two, imo.

[Edited on 07.03.2010 5:32 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2010 5:18 PM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

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  • 07.04.2010 3:15 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

Grunt Birthday Party is very amusing. These Skulls make the Campaign go beyond Legendary status of difficulty, holy blam sometimes I have 1 second to spawn before getting totally dominated.

I have been having fun though mixing the skulls up. Great topic.

  • 07.09.2010 5:02 PM PDT

Posted by: Super PolarBear
Grunt Birthday Party is very amusing. These Skulls make the Campaign go beyond Legendary status of difficulty, holy blam sometimes I have 1 second to spawn before getting totally dominated.

I have been having fun though mixing the skulls up. Great topic.
Thanks man.

I'd hoped they would sticky this one, I mean, skulls are part of the game but not everyone knows how much fun they can be.

For instance; get Sputnik, Grunt Birthday and Catch. Hilarious! Nades everywhere, headshot explosions and less gravity to boot. Fun stuff.

Or; get thunderstorm and go to a level with a lot of Elites (like Outskirts at the tunnel entrance). Piss the Elites off and they all pull swords, then stay just out of their reach and run around. They all line up single file and follow you like clowns, yakking and griping. If you go into the tunnel after gathering six or so (and kill the Marines in the Hog) you can gather more. Coop is fun that way because you have a cammeraman to see how funny it is.

Here's one more good one; get Sputnik, GBD and Catch again but this time get perma cammo and play Gravemind. Go to the last fight (the big one) and watch the action. If you have MC with perma cammo, you can stay inside and watch everything. Also, you want to be on Legendary with Mythic and Angry on so the fight lasts longer and they all shoot more rapidly. Quite a show, that one.

[Edited on 07.09.2010 5:33 PM PDT]

  • 07.09.2010 5:26 PM PDT

Being an Elite is its own reward.

This thread rocks. Can you use perma camo on any level? And how can you gurantee yourself a checkpoint in a good place before the skull?

  • 07.21.2010 12:43 PM PDT


Posted by: TerminAidor
This thread rocks. Can you use perma camo on any level? And how can you gurantee yourself a checkpoint in a good place before the skull?
Perma cammo only works for MC levels.

You can delay checkpoints (CP's) by jumpimg constantly or meleeing constantly. So when you start getting close to a CP but want to delay it until you get to a skull, start jumping or meleeing all the way to the skull, then when you stop the CP will appear. My Sputnik skull link is an example. Sometimes it's not practical (such as Mythic) so you just have to take the CP as it comes.

  • 07.21.2010 2:01 PM PDT

Being an Elite is its own reward.


Posted by: Grumpy1

Posted by: TerminAidor
This thread rocks. Can you use perma camo on any level? And how can you gurantee yourself a checkpoint in a good place before the skull?
Perma cammo only works for MC levels.

You can delay checkpoints (CP's) by jumpimg constantly or meleeing constantly. So when you start getting close to a CP but want to delay it until you get to a skull, start jumping or meleeing all the way to the skull, then when you stop the CP will appear. My Sputnik skull link is an example. Sometimes it's not practical (such as Mythic) so you just have to take the CP as it comes.


Alright thanks.

  • 07.21.2010 9:24 PM PDT
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This was very helpful. I didn't even know about the perma cammo until now. Hahaha yeah I know what a n**b right? lol

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  • 08.31.2010 1:28 AM PDT


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Posted by: Grumpy1
Also for melee because of Black Eye the Elites all pull out swords (Thunderstorm) and Ghost allows them to just stand there facing you and kill you with one hit.


you can ninja them

thats what i do when i`m against some elite with a sword

  • 08.31.2010 1:32 AM PDT

I <3 Halo 2 and Trombones ^.^

Hey grumpy1 how often do you still play halo 2 campaing?

  • 08.31.2010 5:33 PM PDT

Maybe once a week but only for an hour or two. I mostly just play Campaign legit with maybe a few skulls activated, just for the fun. Coop Heroic mostly because we always get a laugh or two from something a Grunt will do or say. Brutes can be funny too.

Heh, with Catch, GBD and Sputnik activated you're likely to see some pretty neat stuff (different every time).

  • 08.31.2010 5:45 PM PDT
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What does the Sputnik skull do?

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  • 09.01.2010 2:34 AM PDT


Posted by: Xraxe
What does the Sputnik skull do?

-X
Sorry about the late reply, internet was down for a bit.

Sputnik is the best skull of all. When activated there is less gravity so it means that when you toss a nade you go much higher and farther. It's the reason we can build a big pile of nades and launch all the way across maps.

Bungie gave us the ability to explore. Black Eye gives us overshields so huge nade piles don't kill us, Sputnik gives us less gravity and they allowed us to drop nades in a pile that can be set off with a fuse nade. Perfect!

  • 09.01.2010 5:05 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

So what is so good about skulls, they only add sillyness to the campign right?

  • 09.29.2010 8:41 PM PDT


Posted by: totallymassive
So what is so good about skulls, they only add sillyness to the campign right?

Well, it's only my opinion (and a few others) that the skulls are awesome in their own way. Paragraph 2 of my OP sets up hilarity but paragraph 3 sets up a great fight to watch or join if you leave out perma cammo.

Or play Legendary with Mythic on. Taint silly but it is brutal. Add Famine and Angry and you've got yourself a real fight.

The first thing I do when playing is turn Sputnik on. Nothing like flying across a map in a Hog after a 30 nade explosion.....priceless.

Or you can do something nobody else, anywhere or anytime has proven done; beat H2 with all skulls activated. It's been done (documented) in H3 but even those guys can't do it in H2. Anybody that beats H2 SLASO would become King.




  • 09.29.2010 10:00 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Sounds neat but still a bit silly... lol. I did them in H3 but I found them to be ok for a while but eventually they lost their luster (I think it might be a similar thing for H2 at least from my prespective).

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Posted by: Super PolarBear
SLASO makes me want to cry while screaming for momma. It is f***ing impossible.


I've had a curiosity for years that if you did it with a partner and finished it in a certain amount of time, you'd unlock an easter egg of some sort. But that'd be incredibly hard to pull off... double the enemies, Jackals that see you coming through the walls and kill you by taking your fingernail off, one of you dies and its back to the old checkpoint...or is it beginning of the map if that skull is on? Whatever, you know what I mean. Impossible. That's what makes Halo 2 the best game of all time: It's impossible to beat.

  • 10.03.2010 4:55 AM PDT

l;abhrfiodj!!

man I remember when the skulls were an achievement all to themselves. they were hidden hard to get and did really interesting things to the game. They were for the hardest of the hardcore gammers.
But then halo 3 came out and they could be found on any difficulty, and you only needed to find them once. I must admit that the window where you can choose to turn them on and off was cool, but really you should only have been able to get them on legendary.
Oh and in ODST they should have just been called options or game modifiers. There were no skulls in ODST to pick up... it was sad. Same with reach. Skulls are not skulls anymore.
Oh oh it would have been interesting if the halo 3 map skulls did things, but they didn't, and it would have been cool if you could get to them during normal game play, but no you had to be in forge...... -blam!-ing complete

  • 10.04.2010 2:52 AM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Impossible? I might need to attempt this skull (although I've never gotten skulls in H2...).
Posted by: WACCSMD

Posted by: Super PolarBear
SLASO makes me want to cry while screaming for momma. It is f***ing impossible.


I've had a curiosity for years that if you did it with a partner and finished it in a certain amount of time, you'd unlock an easter egg of some sort. But that'd be incredibly hard to pull off... double the enemies, Jackals that see you coming through the walls and kill you by taking your fingernail off, one of you dies and its back to the old checkpoint...or is it beginning of the map if that skull is on? Whatever, you know what I mean. Impossible. That's what makes Halo 2 the best game of all time: It's impossible to beat.

  • 11.07.2010 5:36 PM PDT