skull

The thunderstorm skull is simple to get. It is a gold skull. It gives all enemies a promotion to the next highest rank.

In order to get this skull, start from the beginning of the level "The Covenant" and fight through the level until you get to the air fight when you are in the Hornet. Fly to the tower that the Arbiter disabled, and land near the entrance. Go ahead and access the terminal that is inside and straight ahead if you feel like it; it's not necessary for retrieving the skull. When you emerge from the terminal area, in front of you should be a ramp extending toward the sea. Walk to the end of the ramp and there you have it, the thunderstorm skull!

Some thing frightening : let’s say an encounter includes 1 Brute chieftain, 1 Brute Captain Ultra, and 5 brute minors. All of them become a rank higher which is very scary (but it racks up a decent amount of points). If you don't mind getting a lot of points by killing 4 captians and fending off 6 minors, then this is the skull for you. This skull is very helpful to get achievments like Guerilla, Demon, Cavalier, Askar, Exterminator, Ranger, Vanguard, Orpheus, and Reclaimer.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Because of the scoring bonus and the fact that flood don't seem to rank up, it's good for "free" points on Floodgate, Cortana and Halo.

This is a pretty tricky skull to explain but I'll try my best. Okay the fog skull is on the level Floodgate. It takes away the whole radar so you don't know what's behind you. To me I think this is okay considering you can go on one path most of the game and not have anything pop up behind you. Anyways, onto finding the skull.

Step 1
Take out a battle rifle/carbine (just a long range type weapon or something that isn't automatic).

Step 2
Walk to where there are sand bags. They should be close to the AA gun. Look to the first building on you're right.

Step 3
Stop and look along the top edge of the building.

Step 4
Keep walking forward and a flood should appear on the top about to jump.

Step 5
Shoot it and the skull should fall down to the ground.

Remember to not shoot it too early or else the skull will stay up on the roof! Now you have another skull and 10g. If you need any help send a friend request to J Manizzy.
Oh yeah, if you want the skull and the 10g, pick up the skull after step 5. Happy Skull Hunting.

The Thunderstorm skull is found the the level, The Covenant . It turns all grunts into spec-op grunts (I forget if it increases the rank of brutes and jackals but I doubt it does).

EDITOR'S NOTE: It gives a promotion to any unit that has ranks and can receive one, including Brutes.

You better be good at getting headshots because these grunts just won't die! I have to put a whole assault rifle clip into them if I don't aim for the head! Anyways, onto how to get it.

Step 1
After you deactivate the 1st tower, get into a hornet.

Step 2
Fly over to the 2nd tower that the Arbiter and the elites deactivated.

Step 3
Land on the 2nd tower.

Step 4
Climb up to the top of the big ramp.

Step 5
Pick up the skull.

Now you have the Thunderstorm skull. Hope you enjoy wasting your ammo on one grunt and the 10g.

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The Cowbell skull makes all explosions bigger. It's the third silver skull.

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The Catch skull is on the level The Storm. The effect is it makes EVERYTHING get more grenades. When I mean everything, I mean everything. One day while I was playing I had a flood throw a sticky at me. A STICKY+FLOOD=ldjfhglisudgbslbv

ADMIN NOTE: I've never seen Flood throw grenades, even on Cortana on legendary with the Catch skull on, so I'm not actually sure this is possible.

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This skull is found on The Ark. The effect of this skull is it makes weapons that enemies drop, have half ammo. So for instance, say you pick up a beam rifle that you got from killing a jackal. It usually has close to 88 charge right? Well now if you're lucky it'll have 41 charge. Makes the search for weapons longer however it gives you a 2x multiplier on campaign scoring. Anyways, onto finding the skull.

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Tough Luck is a gold skull. It is the first skull on the third level, Tsavo Highway. As a gold skull, it offers an achievement and 150% bonus on campaign scoring. In return, enemies will have much better luck dodging your grenades, needles, vehicles and plasma bolts.

After emerging from the end of the first shielded tunnel and onto the Tsavo Highway, walk along the edge of the gorge to your left. Jumping carefully down onto the bridge support, walk around the edge of the supports to your left until you reach a stone ledge with this skull.

Enemies' improved ability to dodge seems to work best for them against long range fire from slow projectiles, like those from a needler. If you're used to delivering stickydooms at very close range, you shouldn't see an impact here. However, Brutes especially will dive quite a distance out of the way from needler rounds, making it difficult to get kills with the weapon unless you're up close and personal.

This is another skull that it seems you can use almost for free on Flood levels, as dodging doesn't seem to be very important to them, although assimilated human and elite combat forms will do it.

Grunt Birthday Party is a silver skull. It is the second skull on Crow's Bridge. After clearing the Barracks, you'll be sent out to meet the Arbiter. You'll drop down a short, narrow shaft at the end of a corridor and find yourself in a large tunnel with several pipes interconnecting from the left and right sides from which Drones will emerge-- they'll fly across from one pipe to the other in front of you.

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The Black Eye skull is a gold skull. It is the first skull on the second level, Crow's Nest, and is in the same room you start in after the cinematic, high above your head atop a large pipe.

Getting to it is relatively easy. Walk to the end of the room, up a short staircase, and turn around and look for a green shelf. Jump up on that, up onto a girder, and from there up onto the large pipe. Walk back the length of the room to the end of the pipe nearest the video screens and claim this skull.

Black Eye offers an achievement and 150% bonus on campaign scoring. In return, your shields will not recharge as usual; you need to melee attack enemies to recharge your shields.

Iron is Halo 3's second skull and the second skull on the first level, Sierra 117. It is the game's first gold skull.

As a gold skull, it gives you and your cooperative play teammates the Iron achievement if any player picks it up during the game. After picking it up, it can be activated in the campaign settings page of the pre-game lobby.

When activated, this skull will force all cooperative players to reload the previous checkpoint if any of the players die, and will force a solo player to repeat the entire level if he or she dies.

In return for this, it triples your score in campaign scoring.

Like its Halo 2 counterpart, when activated the Blind skull removes all interface elements from the screen. It is a silver skull, and provides no achievements or campaign scoring multipliers.

It is the first skull encountered in the game. It is out in the open, at the end of a rock outcropping overlooking the river to the far right of the pool where the Phantom drops off the first Grunt and Brute reinforcements during the first encounter of the first level, Sierra 117.

The Grunt's B-day skull is pretty easy to get. First you beat the game on any diffuculty level, but easy.Then go to the second level on normal or higher. Go through the level normally till you get to where the drones are passing back and forth throught the pipes(right before you jump down to meet the Arbitor).Stop right where you're supposed to jump down to the Arbitor and look down. Right below you , you will see a green arrow pointing backwards. Jump on the arrow and turn around. You will see a hidden room with the skull in the middle.

The skull's effect is when you hit a grunt with a headshot it will burst into confetti and children will scream YAY in excitement.
(Note: Since this skull is a silver one you will not unlock an achievement)

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