Halo and the Skulls

Games Other Halo
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Skulls have been around since Halo 2. We’ve seen them in Halo wars even. To unlock their mystical powers, you had to first find them.

In ODST and Reach they were automatically unlocked.

We definitely know that their will be skulls in Halo 4, only we don’t know how they will be unlocked, or discovered.

Maybe like ODST and Reach their will be silver and gold skulls automatically unlcoked. Leaving us to discover a 3rd tier of skulls.

Promethean crytsal skulls…

(I’m not suggesting that these hypothecial skulls will be crystal, it just sounds coolererer)

Promethan Knights (sentinels) hide bright glowing skull underneath their amour. The purpose of sentinels having skulls… I could theorise, but that’s not what this topic is about.

The skulls we’ve historically found in Halo games have been human skulls, or at least what’s looked like human skulls.

Given that theirs different tiers of skulls, silver gold, you could theorise that the sources of the skulls are differnt. Even though skulls themselves have no canon, and are part of a meta game, there’s no harm in giving it some fan-canon.

So lets say silver and gold skulls come from ancient sentinels that have dissintergrated thousands of years ago that’s why we were able to discover them on Earth and unlock their hidden powers.

With the DLC skulls in Halo 3, they didn’t unlock any hidden abilities, unless hypothetical-canon-wise, their powers haven’t been discovered or they’re a lower tier of skulls, and hold no useful power.

With Requiem being a whole new world, no doubt, there’ll be more to discover.

So, if there will be a new tier of skulls, what would you like them to do?

Would you like to see them have some canon?

Or are you perfectly happy with skulls just being part of the meta game?

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I like getting more special things so yesssssssssssssssssss

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> Skulls have been around since Halo 2. We’ve seen them in Halo wars even. To unlock their mystical powers, you had to first find them.
>
> In ODST and Reach they were automatically unlocked.
>
>
> We definitely know that their will be skulls in Halo 4, only we don’t know how they will be unlocked, or discovered.
>
> Maybe like ODST and Reach their will be silver and gold skulls automatically unlcoked. Leaving us to discover a 3rd tier of skulls.
>
> Promethean crytsal skulls…
>
> (I’m not suggesting that these hypothecial skulls will be crystal, it just sounds coolererer)
>
> Promethan Knights (sentinels) hide bright glowing skull underneath their amour. The purpose of sentinels having skulls… I could theorise, but that’s not what this topic is about.
>
> The skulls we’ve historically found in Halo games have been human skulls, or at least what’s looked like human skulls.
>
> Given that theirs different tiers of skulls, silver gold, you could theorise that the sources of the skulls are differnt. Even though skulls themselves have no canon, and are part of a meta game, there’s no harm in giving it some fan-canon.
>
> So lets say silver and gold skulls come from ancient sentinels that have dissintergrated thousands of years ago that’s why we were able to discover them on Earth and unlock their hidden powers.
>
> With the DLC skulls in Halo 3, they didn’t unlock any hidden abilities, unless hypothetical-canon-wise, their powers haven’t been discovered or they’re a lower tier of skulls, and hold no useful power.
>
> With Requiem being a whole new world, no doubt, there’ll be more to discover.
>
>
>
> So, if there will be a new tier of skulls, what would you like them to do?
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> Would you like to see them have some canon?
>
> Or are you perfectly happy with skulls just being part of the meta game?

I don’t think skulls are going to be secret in the game, i think it will be Reach style, where you have all of them straight away, the thing that sorta confirms this is the fact there is no achievements for finding any skulls.

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I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…

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I’d like to see some new ones that don’t auto unlock but that’s unlikely. But if they have new ones nothing beneficial like CEA had, although running around with an infinite rocket/sniper was fun.

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> I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…

Look at the achievement list, they are in the game.

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> > I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…
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> Look at the achievement list, they are in the game.

I’m talking more about finding hidden skulls. There is no achievements for finding all the skulls so I don’t think there are hidden skulls in the campaign.

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> > I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…
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> Look at the achievement list, they are in the game.

They did confirm skulls out a long time ago, but of course were being very vague. I think they now meant that “hidden skulls” are out, which is a bummer. I hate how they are most likely giving us the skulls to begin with.

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> > I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…
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> Look at the achievement list, they are in the game.

yeah but you dont have to find them, just like in reach

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Is it possible they haven’t revealed all the achievements?

Also, even if there isn’t an achievement for finding them, doesn’t mean it’s not possible to put them in the game to find.

Just like all the other easter eggs.

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> > > I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…
> >
> > Look at the achievement list, they are in the game.
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> I’m talking more about finding hidden skulls. There is no achievements for finding all the skulls so I don’t think there are hidden skulls in the campaign.

My bad thought you meant like completely out

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> > > I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…
> >
> > Look at the achievement list, they are in the game.
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> They did confirm skulls out a long time ago, but of course were being very vague. I think they now meant that “hidden skulls” are out, which is a bummer. <mark>I hate how they are most likely giving us the skulls to begin with.</mark>

Who knows - maybe the skull multipliers will be tied to finding the terminals. I kinda hope this is the case.

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> Is it possible they haven’t revealed all the achievements?
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> Also, even if there isn’t an achievement for finding them, doesn’t mean it’s not possible to put them in the game to find.
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> Just like all the other easter eggs.

no . they showed them all. The reason i am sure of this is because i added up all they were worth and the total was 1000 POINTS :frowning:

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I wouldn’t mind being able to use them for their effects from the beginning, but having to find them in game to get score multipliers. That would be a good compromise IMO.

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> I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…

It’s a flaming blue Promethean skull.

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Im sad, I loved finding all the skulls in H3, I really hope that there is something like them.

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New tier please.

I hate how skulls have become distorted. H2 had a balance of fun and difficulty (and most of those could benefit your allies as well) skulls.

H3 is where skulls became about difficulty. Only 4 fun skulls. Black Eye lost it’s overshield. AI affected by Catch lost the insane yet reserve (non-suicidal) grenade throwing rate. Tough Luck is freaking unpleasant since the enemies already have jerky animation. Yet the difficulty skulls still worked on Easy difficulty and I completed many projects with their help. Mythic allowed AI to survive longer without making them too powerful (Brute power armor was great keep in check).

Then Reach came and completely destroyed the fun. Grunt Birthday Party is just a graphical effect, Cowbell basically unchanged, and IWHBYD is 50% the fun. Thunderstorm makes Grunts even more unpleasant to fight, Tough Luck makes Grunts a lot more prone to kamikaze (effectively stealing kills from me), Catch makes every enemy annoying to fight (not to mention they blow themselves up and their grenade throwing speed is insane), and Black Eye just sucks now (very slow recharge). Lastly, Mythic makes them even more damage sponges. Forget about playing Reach on Easy. If Noble Team and Pelican dropships hasn’t killed all the enemies, the skulls will make them uninteresting.

Lastly, Anniversary. I like how 343 focused on new areas (strategic) and focused on fun, but it was overkill and convoluted. Grunt Funeral ended up as unintentionally OP, Bandanna was also OP. Black Eye received some great changes and Pinata was nice. But Foreign, Boom, Recession, and Malfunction were just stupid. Eye Patch was game breaking yet it could be interesting.

end rant

Now as I was saying, I would really love to see a new tier. Make these crystal skulls difficulty enhancers (but only affecting their AI, not their health!!). Crystal skulls should improve their intelligence and give them new capabilities, not give the AI omniscience or make them spam grenades. We need proper AI modifiers. It’s always been about giving the enemy an unfair advantage. What about making them intelligent? Improving their -Yoinked!- up pathfinding? Bad prioritization from Bungie!

Gold skulls should focus on the player (Black Eye, Envy, Fog), game options (i.e. adding in ‘second to last revert option’ that’s been missing for 4 Halo games), and gameplay (Famine, Cowbell).

Catch should be a silver skull as well as Tough Luck. Silver skulls should make the AI fun to fight.

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Wonder if the number of hidden terminals will make up for the non hidden skulls…

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> > I’m pretty sure it has been confirmed skulls are out. One of the reasons the oddball is now a Monitor - besides the fact it’s awesome. So yeah…
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> It’s a flaming blue Promethean skull.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcIrhq-w8Gk

Every time I watch that video I always think hes Bashing the guys head in with a Plasma grenade.

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Skulls will not be discovered, they will all be instantly unlocked, you can tell by looking at the achievements, there are no achievements related to finding skulls, but there are achievements related to finding terminals and easter eggs, it’s sorta confirmed.