The Halo3 Skull Thread

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:38 pm

I know where it is, but I can't describe it.

Edit: Making a video.

Edit 2: Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__8aMQjMk5Q

killarzachary · Post by **killarzachary** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:31 am

Thanks, i'll try to get them all l8er today.

Jam_Cliche · Post by **Jam_Cliche** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:57 am

Found Confirmation: IWHBYD is located on "The Covenant", though, that isn't very reassuring. It's got such a massive playable area... though, I played through it earlier today with a friend for metagame points, so I'm going to flip through the film when I get the chance.

EDIT: Found the Tilt skull description on Bungie.

Enemy resistances are greatly increased. For example, the Brute power armor is normally pretty resistant to human weapons to begin with and fairly fragile against plasma shots. With Tilt turned on, the Brute armor is practically 100% resistant to any human projectiles and can only be taken down by plasma bursts.

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:41 am

Tural wrote:I know where it is, but I can't describe it.

Edit: Making a video.

Edit 2: Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__8aMQjMk5Q

Damn it, I thought it was on the hall right below that part. >_<

Skulls can be collected on any difficulty, right?

Ragdoll · Post by **Ragdoll** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:11 pm

they can be picked up on anything but easy.

kornkidcrazy · Post by **kornkidcrazy** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:12 pm

I know on normal, heroic, and legendary, not sure about easy.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:15 pm

Just something I noticed today while playing...Skulls don't activate when you pick them up in the game. So if you're playing Crow's Nest, and want to pick up Black Eye, then go get Grunt Birthday Party...you won't have to deal with the whole "shields not recharging unless you get a melee kill" thing.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:33 pm

What I dislike is once you turn them on, they stay on indefinatly until you turn it off...Not very kool when I start playing campaign again only to have no shield recharge when thousands of enemies are charging at me with flimsy limbs.

Also, if you havent heard or experienced for yourself (I found out through that latter), skulls can't be found if you don't start from the beginning. So any insertion points makes the skulls lolb& from being found.

Just want to clarify that you mean the beginning of the mission, not the first mission. ;p -GTAF

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:18 pm

Yes, you have to start from the beginning of the mission. You cannot start from "Rally point Alpha" (or whatever it says).

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:34 pm

So...

Anyone find IWHBYD yet? >_>

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:35 pm

V0Lt4Ge wrote:So...

Anyone find IWHBYD yet? >_>

Apparently no one has (I heard SKE7CH found it...some name like that, don't know if that's supposed to be someone important), or if they have, it has not become widely known/the method to get it is unknown.

Supermodder911 · Post by **Supermodder911** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:48 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:
V0Lt4Ge wrote:So...

Anyone find IWHBYD yet? >_>
Apparently no one has (I heard SKE7CH found it...some name like that, don't know if that's supposed to be someone important), or if they have, it has not become widely known/the method to get it is unknown.

From what I heard he is part of the Bungie team.
Mabe a way we can scan the map for it like spawns or scripts?

Ragdoll · Post by **Ragdoll** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:49 pm

Tomorrow me and three friends are searching for iwhbyd, we have already found numerous skulls without any guides. If we discover its location, I will post info asap.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:50 pm

Thing is, there's no scripts or strings that'd give it away as far as I know...nothing happens when you pick up a Skull, aside from it being added to your "inventory" of Skulls.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:50 pm

Supermodder911 wrote:From what I heard he is part of the Bungie team.
Mabe a way we can scan the map for it like spawns or scripts?

He is. Ske7ch is Brian Jarrard.
The skull is on the map "The Covenant." (File name: 100_citadel.map)

GametagAeonFlux wrote:Thing is, there's no scripts or strings that'd give it away as far as I know

"skull_daddy" =x

Dagger13 · Post by **Dagger13** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:02 pm

what is IWHBYD?

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:03 pm

Dagger13 wrote:what is IWHBYD?

I Would Have Been Your Daddy.

In Halo 2, it was a Skull that never had a set method to appear other than a patch/script created by Soldier of Lite. It was pretty damn difficult to get the effect to occur, because you had to be on Legendary, get the Skull to appear, then fight off hordes of Spec Ops Elites wielding tons of different weapons with only a Plasma Pistol to start with. It did (and supposedly still does) "unlock" extra dialog from the Marines. Not sure if other AI had extra lines, but the Marines definitely said different things.

Supermodder911 · Post by **Supermodder911** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:06 pm

Tural wrote:
Supermodder911 wrote:From what I heard he is part of the Bungie team.
Mabe a way we can scan the map for it like spawns or scripts?
He is. Ske7ch is Brian Jarrard.
The skull is on the map "The Covenant." (File name: 100_citadel.map)

GametagAeonFlux wrote:Thing is, there's no scripts or strings that'd give it away as far as I know
"skull_daddy" =x

Cool, Id look into it but i don't have my halo3 maps =(

Dagger13 · Post by **Dagger13** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:11 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:
Dagger13 wrote:what is IWHBYD?
I Would Have Been Your Daddy.

In Halo 2, it was a Skull that never had a set method to appear other than a patch/script created by Soldier of Lite. It was pretty damn difficult to get the effect to occur, because you had to be on Legendary, get the Skull to appear, then fight off hordes of Spec Ops Elites wielding tons of different weapons with only a Plasma Pistol to start with. It did (and supposedly still does) "unlock" extra dialog from the Marines. Not sure if other AI had extra lines, but the Marines definitely said different things.

o ok thx

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:55 am

the IWHBYD skull is rumored to be on "the covenet"