Halo 2
Skull Location FAQ
by FrostyWolf1 and anonymous
Halo 2 Xbox
Skull FAQ
FrostyWolf1 and anonymous
Ok first off, don't accuse ppl of stealing if you don't know whats going on.
This post, in its whole, was created by me, with a few corrections and
additions form some forums. The orginal was created posted at the bungie
forums, and since then the topic has grown to almost 1000 posts.
Also, why would you get a PM and not me, when its my post?
1) In the large room after the armory, you need to use a duck-jump to get onto
a light fixture on the right wall (right of the room when u enter) and then
jump from there onto the higher area. There is a series of diagonal beams.
Walk up one near to the end of it and use it to duck-jump onto one of the
rails. You can fall between the rails, so be careful. Once on the rail, walk
down it until you can jump onto the highest platform. Then bash the trashcan.
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: Cairo Station
Word: thunderstorm
Effect: All Grunts and Elites have Grey Armor
Status: Confirmed
2) At the beginning of Outskirts jump on top of the light on top of the door
with a crouch jump, then jump to the left platform. Turn to your left and go
down the long dark corridor and pick up the skull; it will say blind and your
screen will flash black for a while. In this mode you can not see your weapon,
body, shields, ammo, or radar.
Difficulty: Any
Level: Outskirts
Word: Blind
Effect: No HUD or weapons on screen
Status: Confirmed
3) Right after u get out of the sewers(Tunnel), there is a big area and 2
ghosts, kill every thing first, then go to the middle of it where u see a arc
that leads up onto a building, throw a nade down and jump by it to get enough
height to start climbing it. when you get to the top take a left and hug the
wall around the structure and the skull will be there, it says "catch"
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: Metropolis
Word: Catch
Effect: ??????
Status: Confirmed
4) I can add my confirmation to the list of those that have found the grunt
birthday skull. Here are the instructions on finding it. First it can only be
found on Legendary, my guess is that those of you who have been having trouble
finding it, you are merely on the wrong difficulty setting, not looking in the
wrong place. As for where its at, in the Arbiter level, the very first time
you get a banshee, fly down, below you is a large beamlike structure (not to
be confused with the one directly below you that turns and goes vertical)
running from the arm of the station you just came out of to one exactly like
it on the side opposite. Below this structure are 3 cylinders hanging down,
with cylinders of light shooting out of the bottom that look like they are
what keeps the station floating. If my explanation is too vague, they are the
absolute lowest parts of the station. Now go to the middle engine and land on
the top part of it. This and the other engines connect to the large structure
mentioned earlier. The tops of the engines come up to meet the structure at an
angle, where this angle is under the connecting structure and coming up to
meet it, there is a place to walk (like being under a bridge). Under one side
you will see the six grunts with the skull in the middle.
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: The Arbiter
Word: Grunt Birthday Party
Effect: When you have gotten the grunt b-day party skull, bad guys will
explode only when killed by a head shot. Even after their dead, if you shoot
their head, they will explode. this is awesome....just shoot a grunt in the
face and the dudes around him will die or get damaged.
Status: Confirmed
5) After getting off the long elevator ride, you will come to a room where
convent and flood are fighting below you, and you have to break the glass to
get to where they are fighting. If you crouch/grenade jump up on the opposite
side of where you came down, the skull should be up there.
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: Oracle
Word: Famine
Effect: Set weapon pick-ups have only half full ammo. This only seems to be
with Human weapons that I have seen so far, which are pre-positioned on the
map. May also be with Covanant Set weapons.
Status: Confirmed
6) I found another one in the ruins on Delta Halo. Current mission op: Push
through Covenant-held ruins. When you first come out of the big building and
see the turret and 5/6 shield up on the wall there is a wall over to the left
hand side with the two grunt turrets on it, the big block and door are at the
far end of that wall... In the room that the block is *ahem* blocking there
are two dead grunts and two plasma swords... There's a door being blocked by a
rock. Jump on the rock. Then jump on the ledge that's located above the
blocked doorway. Turn left and jump up on another ledge. Grenade jump up to
where you'll find Two Red Elites - That become cloaked, surrounding a skull.
Pick it up, and it reads Envy. For the ENVY skull, you must play it on
Legendary, it makes it so the when you press the white button, you cloak. This
cloaking only lasts a few seconds (just like the Arbiter's armor) and can be
used on any level and any difficulty after you get it.
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: Delta Halo
Word: Envy
Effect: Cloak instead of Flashlight, 5 second cloak with 10 second recharge
Status: Confirmed
7) Ok on Regret, just after you get off the gondola, and go in the structure,
there is a big block of stone, jump on that an you can get on a ledge that
leads out to the covie turrets, facing back towards the structure, jump up
another level around the right side of the structure, It is pretty straight
lined from here. You should find the Skull on a ledge when you make it around.
I just got the Skull in Regret, this time in legendary mode. Instead of
the "Blind" mode, I got "Assassins". No visible change to the HUD, BUT all
enemies become invisible. ALL ENEMIES, including drones and Jackals.
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: Regret
Word: Assassins
Effect: All enemies in game are permanently cloaked, AI cannot see them and so
are no help at all.
Status: Confirmed
8) From the start of the level, look to your left for an elite. To the left of
the elite there is a tunnel. Head into the tunnel and go straight until you
reach a cliff. Now turn left and follow the cliff till you reach a rock wall.
To the right of the wall and the cliff is a narrow passage, skull is at the
end of that passage.
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: Quarantine Zone
Word: Sputnik
Effect: Appears to increase projectile explosive damage of tanks and rocket
launcher, but not grenades
Status: Confirmed
9) So far, this only works on Legendary. Fight all the way through the
Covenant city until you reach the outdoors. As soon as you are outside, stick
to the right-hand side and walk along the wall. You should see a Covenant wall
thingy with a red rail on it. Jump up to it (crouch jump helps) and at the end
there is the Anger skull in a small grav-lift.
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: Gravemind
Word: Anger
Effect: ???????
Status: Confirmed
10) On the final grav-lift on "high Charity", look up. A skull will pass you
by. Hold X as it passes you to receive the status (the Skull isn't there on
Easy, but Legendary).
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: High Charity
Word: Iron
Effect: ?????
Status: not confirmed
11) SGT Johnson will pilot the scarab and shoot at a building I am calling the
Control Tower. If you take a banshee to the tower you will notice that, aside
from where spires jut out of it, it has a round slope all the way around. If
you take the banshee right up to the slope and as high as you can go, you can
almost get over it. Here you must jump out of your banshee to land on the less
steep part of the slope. If you turn your banshee to the side or all the way
around, it may make it easier to land on the less steep part. Also, try to
have your banshee land on a platform below, so you can use it to get back.
Once you are on the slope, climb the rest of the way up it. If you are on the
right of the door, then you have to jump onto the ledge next to the main part
of the building, and then walk up a steep part in the direction of the door.
Walk up that, then around and down on the other side. On this side (left of
the door from scarab's perspective) you can walk onto the hills and grass. You
will notice several angled spires, some of which connect to the building. You
must climb the one that is directly opposite the door you would use to enter
the tower. It's steep but you can walk up it. I suggest jumping while walking
to speed up the process. At the top is a skull which gives you the "black eye"
effect - you only recover shields by meleeing enemies. This is only found on
legendary. Reverse the process to get back to your banshee (hopefully) or just
jump off a cliff and the effect will stay with you.
Difficulty: Legendary
Level: Great Journey
Word: Black Eye
Effect: Shield won't regen, when you melee someone you get energy power back,
so if you melee someone you get a little bit of shield. So you can get a bit
at a time all the way to overshield!
Status: Confirmed
FAKE:
Pwned
2nd Outskirts one
2nd Quarantine Zone
This is the "fixed" list, there where some mistakes, do to my lack of sleep.
No guild will be made till all skulls are found/confirmed and we know what
they do.
and are just wanting more and well here it is. so enjoy my fello halo fanatics and let the hunt continue
