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10/3/2007 11:23:48 PM
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Get the Most Out of Skulls
Ske7ch wrote up how-to score in Halo 3, now we've got a brief guide on what Skulls to use during Campaign.
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my favorite skull is catch because there are always grenades from the enemies that die before they throw their grenades
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I'm a fan of fog + thunderstorm + famine for the achievements. unfortunately i did em on my friends account for him. which leaves me achievement free. also, on flood levels i would replace fog with catch, because you dont find many flood who toss grenades anyways, and i like my radar when surrounded by lots of flood while i have limited ammo. i skipped the flood levels on my friends account though, because i just got used to the skull set and decided not to deal with flood. i did halo, but i didnt have catch on.
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Brett Favre
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thunderstorm on legendary! or heroic lol
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I tried playing heroic with single player with the Iron skull on, and that got nuts really fast on Tsavo Highway. So I changed it up and played with Tough Luck, Fog, and Famine on, and I quite enjoyed it.
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1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They should add an achievement for passing it on legendary with all the skulls activated.
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cool guide.
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IWHBYD skull.....most of us have it after seeing the posts on teh interwebz....but what exactly extra dialogue does it add....extra phrases from marines? funny stuff....video clips. I'm curious to know what may have passed me by several times and gone unnoticed. I usually play with Fog....cause It's an asset to know how to play without it. Famine.....few and far between do i remember running out of ammo anyway on anything other than the fuel rod and sniper rifles. Tough Luck.....add's more challenge and more points., Catch.....improve your skills for dodging grenades for XBL. (Though I would never play with this and Iron on) Thunderstorm.....especially fun cause the character you see most often using this is grunts...and it's more incentive to shoot them in the head and let Grunt Birthday Party do it's thing........cause confetti and children are what makes H3 great!!!! I would have been your daddy.......for extra dialogue...(could someone clear up exactly what they define as "dialogue") and obviously the most Cowbell you can have....I do wish it made the explosions MUCH bigger....like ridiculously....it's a change..but i barely notice. currently im at 750/1000 gamerscore...working on the metagames and legendary (two birds with one stone) I want that damn Samurai Sword.
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so; say i get all of those. then do co-op w/ friends (w/ all but the restarting skull on) w/ 4 ppl on normal....i should get enuff points; yesh?
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Heroic with Catch, Fog and Thunderstorm is our normal assembly for meta-achievement runs.
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Trying to get the achievements for scoring, I've been using just Fog and Tough Luck on Legendary. It makes it hard enough to be a real challenge without becoming completely frustrating, thereby maintaining the entertainment factor. Doesn't Tough Luck also make the enemies charge more often and never retreat? I've noticed that having Tough Luck will cause multiple simultaneous Grunt Kamikaze attacks. (See my file share for a screencap.) Oh, and Grunt Birthday Party. There is no reason to ever play without that skull activated. [Edited on 10.03.2007 4:27 PM PDT]
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I've got a tip for everyone. If you do use the gold skulls, I reccomend using the silvers as well... well only two your really need, the IWHBYD is optional. But I'd reccomend turning on cowbell and grunt birthday party. cowbell because it makes explosions bigger( this can be a bad thing, but if you know how to use it, it helps alot.) Grunt birthday party, aside from being festive and fun is also useful. Not only does it let you you know you've got awesome skill getting headshots(or are just plain lucky) it also creates a small explosion and anyone standing next to the little guy will be injured or killed. Well that's my two cents, or however much that's worth. -D96 [Edited on 10.03.2007 4:28 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TheBritish117 You can take your time with the levels aswell b/c the Iron Skull will give you an automatic 3x multiplier replacing the timer multiplier.[/quote] The skull multimpliers are added together as a subtotal and the multiplied to the time bonus. So if you had a score of 100 and had iron and catch, (3 + 1.5) x 100 = 350 If you had a score of 100 and had catch and a time bonus of 3, 1.5 x 100 x 3 = 450
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Thanks, i've been looking for a guide like this
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Nice!! I like catch mythic and IWHBYD
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I'm waiting a bit on doing the levels will all skulls on. I need a really good way to show it off when I do it or it isn't as fun for me. I'm still really hoping for some scoring leaderboards.
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I usually play the game on normal, unless in a co-op party. Doing solo on normal I will always have these skulls on: Fog, Catch and Thunderstorm. (I also keep Grunt Birthday Party, IWHBYD, and Cowbell on.) For Legendary and Heroic co-op parties, we have everything on except Iron.
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When ever I play by myself on any difficulty, I always put Tough Luck, Fog, Famine, Thunderstorm, and Mythic on for gold, also have the BGP silver on, and the IWHBYD skull on to see if it does anything. when playing coop my friends and I some times turn on some of the remaining 4 skulls on, some times we play with them all, we stay away from blind but some times it helps to have more fun with it....
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I know I don't get points for this skull (it's silver)... but I will NEVER play campaign again without having the 'Grunt Birthday Party' skull on. I played last night for 3 hours, and EVERY TIME I got a head shot on a grunt... I laughed.
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1. Tough Luck 2. Catch 3. Famine 4. Thunderstorm 5. Fog (depends on level and difficulty) (on heroic) [Edited on 10.03.2007 3:59 PM PDT]
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IWHBYD unlocks "secret" dialogue during the game. ;)
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I use [i]Tough Luck, Catch, Fog, Famine, Thuderstorm, and Mythic when I play Legendary Co-op![/i] That gives us a 10x multiplier while not making the game too hard.
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can we get a guide for the Silver Skulls next? i still don't know what IWHBYD does. PS: Grunt Birthday Party is my favorite skull.
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Let's see... Grunt Birthday party, but the happy kids keep me happy. And you always need more Cowbell. And IWHBYD, because there is no reason not to. On normal, I never have trouble with six: (In the order I'll add them) Fog, probably the easiest thing to give up. Thunderstorm because the enemies are worth more points in addition to the multiplier. Famine, because you never need all that ammo anyways. Catch, because everybody dropping grenades makes up for Faminious ammo. Mythic, because the grunts heads explode in confetti after one shot anyways. Tough Luck, just makes it more fun. Haven't done too much with Tilt yet. Black Eye and Iron I don't really want. Though when I run out of ammo I'm meleeing them anyways... 4 skulls on Normal is enough for both people in 2 person coop to get the achievement scores, as long as you aren't too slow. 5 or 6 is probably enough for 3 people.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DanLeeDR01 What do I need to do so meta game shows up in my menu?[/quote] It's an option in the campaign lobby. Pressing X should bring up a menu with all the skulls you've unlocked as well as the ability to turn on campaign scoring.
