When Halo 2 came out, then followed by Halo 3, skulls were one of my favorite past times, to this day I havnt found all the skulls in halo2 which for the most part, is the reason i still play it, i dont cheat looking for them by looking it up on the interweb, (well except for the code in the IWHBYD skull). Trying to find the skulls gave me DAYS of entertainment by itself.
So instead of threatning with an empty threat like “this BETTER be in there”, i just wanted to know
Will we have to find the skulls?
Please say yes for me?
I really hope that we have to find them. Was one of the most fun things in Halo 2 and 3. They could have made us find them in Halo Reach to make the campaign more playable.
Also does anybody know how the skull effects will work in CEA when you press back to go to original graphics??
thats a good question…huh…well they may resort to the halo 2 grunt B-day graphics on that one you know? cause the covenant didnt change THAT much between halo 1 and halo 2
> I really hope that we have to find them. Was one of the most fun things in Halo 2 and 3. They could have made us find them in Halo Reach to make the campaign more playable.
>
> Also does anybody know how the skull effects will work in CEA when you press back to go to original graphics??
All the skull effects are probably just other in-game effects put into weird spots to make them look like original effects. At least that’s what the Grunt Funeral skull is, it’s only a plasma grenade explosion appearing below the Grunt body. In the classic mode the effects will look like they looked in the original game.
it should also be mentioned that there are limited amount of options they can do without messing too much with the code. Something that I thought when I started to think about what they can do with these limited options is enviromental effects. Think about it, they are only graphics based and wouldn’t it be cool if it rained on Silent Cartographer or there was no blizzard on Assault on the Control Room, maybe even day time on Truth and Reconciliation or no fog on 343 Guilty Spark. That would offer a new and interesting view on the old campaign levels.
That may not be happening, but it certainly sounds plausible, especially as the new graphics engine is completely separated from the main engine. Naturally these effects wouldn’t be present in classic mode.
Anyway, it’s hard to say what they are doing, only thing we know this far is that the game will have skulls.
it may rain ona mission, but to hae a day time truch and reconcilliation would ruin the whole level, thats a night op for a reason, you get to use the nightscoped sniperifle
Even though this game is a graphical overhaul in response to the 10 year anniversary, the skulls (and this game) will bring back alot of what us hardcore fans enjoy about Halo CE-Halo 2, and that’s the campaign, exploration, and glitches. This game is going to have all that, without all the annoying Death Barriers and Invisible Barriers to keep you within the confines of the map.
I, myself, joined up when Halo 2 was released, and because of that, I played through Halo CE’s campaign fully, only once on Heroic, and halfway through on Legendary (console). I did do it on Legendary on PC but it wasn’t as gratifying. This game is going to open me back up like H2 did and the skulls will definitely add to replay value.
exactly what im saying! i almost never play the campiagn on reach now cause theres nothing left to do, the skulls always gave you a challenge, now i only do it for challenges like “kill 150 grunts on heroic” OOOHHH IM SHAKING WITH ANTICIPATION!!
> exactly what im saying! i almost never play the campiagn on reach now cause theres nothing left to do, the skulls always gave you a challenge, now i only do it for challenges like “kill 150 grunts on heroic” OOOHHH IM SHAKING WITH ANTICIPATION!!
Well I’m doing a runthrough again to see if I can find anymore “out of map” areas. I personally found the one on Nightfall where you get past the ending event cutscene and fall off and practically just walk on air and can see through the map. I want to find more in my own spare time.
if you find 3 more friends, do the package on legendary, find this button in the beginning that spawns 4 banshees…you can go anywhere you want to and some of the scenery out there is pretty cool.
> if you find 3 more friends, do the package on legendary, find this button in the beginning that spawns 4 banshees…you can go anywhere you want to and some of the scenery out there is pretty cool.
You can spawn the banshees with just 2 people as have done many times and you can keep flying and its awesome.
> haha other way around man, phantom has the turret, only problem is that it passes through buildings and kills you in the process, got to be careful.
If you have a friend with you he can sit at front of pelican and hold X to enter gunner seat. You fly around whilst he shoots. He cant see much but its just awesome having control of the gun. Ill add video to my fileshare and render it and send you link
for me?