Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary skulls
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Skulls are game modifiers featured in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary with the appearance of a human skull. Like in Halo 3, they must be hunted down within the campaign levels to gain access to them. The skulls can only be seen and unlocked when using the game's anniversary graphics layer, and do not appear in classic viewmode[1]—though unlike prior games will appear on any difficulty setting. All of the skulls bar one must be unlocked by finding them throughout the game's campaign, hidden in unique locations; upon it's release in 2014 all skulls are unlocked for use by default in Halo: The Master Chief Collection (MCC). When acquired, the skull simply disappears from the map, rather than being a melee weapon as in Halo 3. Skulls in Halo Anniversary do not have score multipliers, as the game does not have any form of campaign scoring.
In the original Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, once collected, the skulls disappear permanently. In MCC, the skulls reappear every time a mission is replayed. Updates released as part of the MCC Insider Program added new skulls not implemented in the original Xbox 360 version of the game. Skulls in The Master Chief Collection provide multipliers for scoring, the full details of which can be found here.
List of skulls[edit]
List of gold skulls[edit]
Iron[edit]
Level: The Pillar of Autumn.
Location: This skull is located in the very beginning of the level, at the back of the Cryo deck. If facing away from the observation platform (where Sam is killed), it is on the left side of the room, behind a stack of crates that are behind the targeting lights.
Effect: When activated, this skull will restart the level if the player is killed, or reload the last checkpoint if multiple players are killed playing co-operatively.[2]
Iron skull location video here
Mythic[edit]
Level: Halo
Location: After defeating the first Covenant wave, walk directly towards the waterfall from the escape pod. It is behind the large boulder on the right in the water.
Effect: When activated, the health of Covenant infantry will be doubled.[3]
Mythic skull location video here
Foreign[edit]
Level: Truth and Reconciliation
Location: At the bottom floor of the Hangar, in the hallway where the Hunters ambush the Marines.
Effect: When activated, players will no longer be able to pick up Covenant weaponry.[3]
Foreign skull location video here
Famine[edit]
Level: The Silent Cartographer
Location: When you land on the beach, go backwards rather than towards the Covenant. The skull is situated on top of a hill with a winding path up the back of it (the hill which the Pelican crashes next to). The skull is right on the corner inbetween three bushes.
Effect: When activated, weapons dropped by the AI—ally or enemy—would have half the ammunition they normally would.[2]
Famine skull location video here
Bandanna[edit]
Level: The Silent Cartographer
Location: At the end of the tunnel, on the ceiling in the security console chamber. A grenade or rocket jump is usually necessary. An alternative method is for the first player to crouch on the window strip in the tunnel below the skull, then having a second player kill himself and subsequently respawn on top of the first player. The skull would then be instantly acquired.
Effect: When activated, players will have unlimited ammo and grenades, but will still have to reload.[1]
Bandanna skull location video here
Fog[edit]
Level: