Halo 3 Skull Locations and Effects

[Mafus]

I'm having problems with the Catch Skull on The Storm. For some reason it never appears. I'm more than aware of the need to be on normal or higher difficulty and that I have to start from the mission. I have every other skull but this and IWHBYD. It just never appears at all. If i watch the replay in theater mode it's not there when I first open the doors to get outside and never appears, so it's nothing to do with the wraiths.
Could someone please make a video from the start of the level to collecting the skull so I can see if I'm doing anything differently that might trigger the skull not to spawn.

[That DAM n00b]

Originally Posted by Elixibren

Now, i'm not saying I have any proof or anything... but would the IWHBYD skull be anything related to the terminals? If you visit the final Terminal (At the Begining of the Level "Halo"), right after you view the terminal, to it's left there is another room with what looks like one of those things we had to jump into on the.. snow level in Halo1 to Overload.. something with our shields (I havn't played Halo 1 in forever :( )

Now, when you goto each of the terminals (3 in Ark, 3 in Covenant, 1 in Halo) in Easy through Heroic, they display one set of messages... in Legendary, they all display something different. I'm purely going off of hunch but maybe there is something you can do with the terminals that would make it do somethign in that room next to the Halo terminal that would help unlock it?

we got in there last night, there was nothing in there. though it was on normal skill so, try it on legendary to be sure.

[That DAM n00b]

Originally Posted by Mafus

I'm having problems with the Catch Skull on The Storm. For some reason it never appears. I'm more than aware of the need to be on normal or higher difficulty and that I have to start from the mission. I have every other skull but this and IWHBYD. It just never appears at all. If i watch the replay in theater mode it's not there when I first open the doors to get outside and never appears, so it's nothing to do with the wraiths.
Could someone please make a video from the start of the level to collecting the skull so I can see if I'm doing anything differently that might trigger the skull not to spawn.

there are already tons of tut vids out there a lot of them are congloms of all the skulls heres a single of the catch skull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmawJhMAWY

here's a montage of the gold skulls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WrXr4Aa3Bs

you can kill the SA wraith, but not the regular wraith, it de-spawns the skull, I am 100% sure of this, we did it on legendary as well.

[z77]

Originally Posted by Rasu17

well atleast we've narrowed our search down. Though some are saying that the skull is in 'A citadel' on the stage, the Covenant, while other info says that 'citadel' is the original name for 'The Covenant'. so...yea...

At this point, the search is narrowed down to "The Covenant", which in the map files is called "Citadel". Some people are drawing the conclusion that this means the skull is in the citadel, but this is not really a logical jump.

[Man Demon]

Is it possible that it is hidden in something like a trashcan. Like they did for Thunderstorm in Halo 2.

[z77]

Some unconfirmed evidence suggests it's "Activated" similar to the IWHBYD Skull in Halo 2. A Series of triggers or conditional events.

[That DAM n00b]

Z have you seen what seems like should be a door off to the right from the third generator, but instead is what looks like a glitch where the doorway captures images of everything that is happening on your screen?

[Man Demon]

Originally Posted by z77

Some unconfirmed evidence suggests it's "Activated" similar to the IWHBYD Skull in Halo 2. A Series of triggers or conditional events.

See it's things like that that make making movies hard, cause I got a villian I want to have the Ninja helmet. Not to mention unlocking armor for seperate people.

[z77]

Originally Posted by That DAM n00b

Z have you seen what seems like should be a door off to the right from the third generator, but instead is what looks like a glitch where the doorway captures images of everything that is happening on your screen?

To me this sounds like a clipping error... and probably nothing significant. It's where the engine does not know what to render (because there is nothing there), so it continuously renders whatever is next to it.

[InfiniZ]

If anyone wants to join me in searching for IWHBYD, send me a FR...

GT ---> InfiniZ

[Spuff]

Ok, just to let you guys know. The skull that doesn't do anything on Cortana, still doesn't do anything with every other skull activated. We just tried it.

[stewiegrif4]

Originally Posted by Spuff

Ok, just to let you guys know. The skull that doesn't do anything on Cortana, still doesn't do anything with every other skull activated. We just tried it.

Supposedly that is just another blind skull. Maybe do it on legendary? Or pick up all the skulls with all the skulls activated? I don't know, just tossing out ideas.

[Pyroman]

Alright thanks for the depressing info Spuff...Atleast we know though.

Oh yea and last night was EPIC fun. Hahahaha.

[Teh Bonerer]

am i the only one to notice that tilt makes the brutes pretty much invincible? atleast with the armor on, u cant kill them unless its smacked off then u can, tilt, u are a ****.

[Man Demon]

Originally Posted by Teh Bonerer

am i the only one to notice that tilt makes the brutes pretty much invincible? atleast with the armor on, u cant kill them unless its smacked off then u can, tilt, u are a ****.

Actually the effect makes them immune to human projectiles. It's on Bungie.net under Campaign Scoring.