Halo 3 Skull Locations & Effects


Requirements:

You must start from the very beginning of the level; The skull will not spawn if you start from a rally point.
The difficulty must be on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.
You must have every level completed on a difficulty higher than Easy.
You must either wait for the "achievement unlocked" message to appear, or if none is provided (which is for most of them), you must complete the entire level.

Useful Information:

There are a total of 13 skulls.
There are two types of skulls: Gold & Silver

* Gold Skulls
o ...have a meta-game multiplier.
o ...have an achievement once picked up.
* Silver Skulls
o ...do not have a meta-game multiplier.
o ...do not have an achievement once picked up.
o ...are strictly for enjoyment and don't affect meta-gameplay.

More information can be found by reading Ske7ch's - Halo 3 How-to: Campaign Scoring 101


Skull Locations Archive
Thanks to everyone who has helped with this... especially Pyroman for the list of skulls!

IMPORTANT: 1.) You can get skulls on either normal, heroic or legendary.
2.) You must start from the very beginning of the level. The skull will not spawn if you start from a rally point.
3.) Once u pick it up, NOTHING HAPPENS! NO FLASH OR TEXT OK!, but what does happen, is it unlocks in ur skull database. To access ur skull database, before you start a campaign game and ur waiting in the lobby, press x to see the 'campaign options'

Here is a more in-depth description of what the skulls do: LINKY
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Blind. VIDEO LINK
HUD and first person arms and weapon are hidden.
Just like Halo2, no HUD at all.
Level:Sierra 117
Location:After fighting the first set of enemies, walk downstream while hugging the right wall and eventually you will come to the edge of the cliff. There will be a bit of land jutting out below you with the skull on it.
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Iron. VIDEO LINK
Co-op reverts to previous checkpoint on player death. Solo restarts mission.
Self-explanatory. You also lose 75 points when you die instead of 25.
Level: Sierra 117
Location: After Freeing Johnson and killing all the covenent that come in the phantoms, walk to the Pelican that comes to pick you up. Face the cargo bay but instead of hoping in, turn left and follow the path. Once you hit the wall jump up to your right, eventually reaching a walkway. Walk all the way to the end, take a left, then a right, then at the end of this little bit to the right is a dark corner. Turn your light on and you should see the skull. If you cant see it you're probably standing on it.
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Black Eye. VIDEO LINK
Bash your way to better health.
Every melee hit to anyone increases your health.
Level: Crow's Nest
Location: From the start without moving anything you can see a massive pipe above you. Walk up the stairs then up the next set, turn to your left and jump up on the shelf unit. From there jump to the red cross beam then up onto the pipe, from there just walk to the end and walk over the Black Eye skull to claim it. You don’t have to pick this one up it does it automatically.
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Grunt Birthday Party. VIDEO LINK
Grunts explode like pinatas if they are killed with a headshot.
When you headshot a grunt, they explode like a piñata with confetti.
Level: Crow's Nest
Location: Play through the level normally, The second time Cortana interrupts you saying *You Have been called upon to serve* you are in the right place, So walk to the end of this path but don’t jump off the end, Instead look down and you can see a green arrow, try land on that ledge then turn around to see the skull.
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Tough Luck. VIDEO LINK
Enemies always make every saving throw, always berserk, always dive, never flee...
Enemies never go out easy to the looks of it...
Level: Tsavo Highway
Location: After you have to deactivate a shield that's blocking the road, you will exit onto a bridge and a giant covenant ship flies overhead. You need to get out of your jeep if you are in one and go to the right side of the bridge, then go underneath and you will see bridge supports jutting out into the canyon. Jump onto the one farthest to the left and go to the edge and turn left and you'll see a small jut out of the cliff with the skull on it.
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Catch. VIDEO LINK
Enemies are grenade happy.
All enemies will have 2 grenades
Level: The Storm
Location: Near the beginning of The Storm you will get a message that says Destroy the Anti-Air Wraiths or something like that. There is an open area with a wraith in the middle and a wraith near the exit of this area. Do NOT destroy the wraith! (The skull will not appear)...RIGHT next to him is a like a structure that looks like a big water tank. Park a warthog next to it so you can get on top of it...And it's right there. Also, if this skull isn't there after having done all that, you may have to complete ALL of the maps on a lvl that is higher than EASY.
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Fog. VIDEO LINK
You do not have a motion sensor.
As it says, you will no longer have radar through campaign if you pick this up.
Level:Floodgate
Location:It's in the first area before you drop down and get a message from Cortana. There is a flood that jumps over your head, shoot it when its on the building and when it dies it should appear right next to you.
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Famine. VIDEO LINK
Weapons drop 50% less ammo.
Like it says, every weapon dropped will have half the ammo.
Level: The Ark
Location: Play through the level as normal and once you pass the exploded phantom hang a right after the drop, drive over to the rocky wall in front of the third pillar, Jump up the rock face and jump onto the structure using the right side, Walk to last pillar (closest to where you entered the area, and look at it you should see the skull, To get it you might need help from another player, or an easier way would be to use a deployable shield (VIDEO). Doing the grenade jump way is hard; you will probably miss this jump about 5 times but you will eventually get it.
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Cowbell. VIDEO LINK
Acceleration scale from explosions is increased.
Same effect as Sputnick in Halo2. Explosions will have ALOT more power.
Level: The Ark
Location: After fighting the scarab and getting a grav-lift item, proceed up the ramp. Meet with the arbiter and keep going inside. After a couple rooms you will come to a long hallway with a steep sloping floor downward, go past this and past the next group of enemies. In the next sloping hallway you will see some platforms about halfway down (four levels). From the door into this area, drop the grav-lift on the fourth dot from the door(right side). Then run, jump about five feet early and use the grav-lift to propel you up and forward towards the top level.
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Thunderstorm. VIDEO LINK
Major upgrade to all enemies.
All Enemies are at their highest rank.
Level : The Covenant
Location: After you shut down tower 1 and get access to the hornet, fly to tower 2 (the one the arbiter shut down). While walking up the stairs, go to the middle part that connects both and there should be a stair leading up to a platform where the skull is.
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I Would Have Been Your Daddy. VIDEO LINK
You'll hear things you never knew existed.
Just like in Halo2, this skull unlocks new dialogue throughout the entire game.
Level:The Covenant
Location:After defeating the Scarabs, and going inside, get to the location with all 7 Ring Holograms. You must jump through the rings in a specific order. That order is as follows (1 is at the entrance, 7 is at the end): 7 5 4 6 5 4 5 3 4
These rings also produce the notes:
E F# G F# A G F# E B C# D C# A C# B D E G A F# E G F# E F# D E
(1 is nearest door and 7 is nearest truth. You know you did it right when the rings flash in sequence towards the bridge.)
KILL THE PROPHET OF TRUTH, AND THE FLOOD BEFORE DOING THE RING JUMPS!
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Tilt. VIDEO LINK
Damage is modified.
What was once resistant is now immunity - Enemies have different body parts that may be resistance to certain bullet types.
Level:Cortana
Location:In the middle of the level you will come to a structure with many of the BIG flood guys. If you look above you, you will see ledges leading up the top of it. Might take you a little bit to get the jumping right but when you make it to the top, walk across the flood goo bridge thing and it will be up there with a few other bones.
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Mythic. VIDEO LINK
Double enemy health.
In Halo2, people thought it was a difficulty higher than Legendary when picked up. So now every enemy you face will have 2x health than before.
Level: Halo
Location: Follow the normal path till you reach a cave, then hug the right wall until it branches off into a small path, at the end of this path is some rubble and in front is the skull.
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