Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary skulls: Difference between revisions

Unlike other games, skulls will spawn on any difficulty, instead of certain difficulties such as Normal or higher.

====Iron====

'''Level''': [[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|The Pillar of Autumn]].  

'''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.{{Ref/Reuse|bts}}

====Mythic====

'''Level''': [[Halo (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|Halo]]

'''Effect''': When activated, the health of Covenant infantry will be doubled.{{Ref/Reuse|haloeastereggs.net}}

====Foreign====

'''Level''': [[Truth and Reconciliation (level)|Truth and Reconciliation]]

'''Effect''': When activated, players will no longer be able to pick up [[Covenant]] weaponry.{{Ref/Reuse|haloeastereggs.net}}

====Famine====

'''Level''': [[The Silent Cartographer]]

'''Effect''': When activated, weapons dropped by the AI - ally or enemy - would have half the ammunition they normally would.<ref name="bts">[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/featured/video/bts-anniversary-campaign/8a902cd8-dc45-4a35-88ae-39ba04ba8a41 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''BTS: Anniversary Campaign'']</ref>

====Bandanna====

'''Level''': [[The Silent Cartographer]]

'''Effect''': When activated, players will have unlimited ammo and grenades, but will still have to reload.{{Ref/Reuse|panel}}

====Fog====

'''Level''': [[Assault on the Control Room]]

'''Effect''': When activated, the player's [[motion tracker]] will be disabled.{{Ref/Reuse|bts}}

====Malfunction====

'''Level''': [[Assault on the Control Room]]

'''Effect''': When activated, one random part of the [[Heads-up display]] will disappear after every respawn.{{Ref/Reuse|bts}} The effects of the skull are not cumulative; only one aspect of the HUD (reticule, ammo counter, shield indicator, health monitor, motion tracker) is inactive at any given time.

====Recession====

'''Level''': [[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]

'''Effect''': When activated, every shot the player fires would deplete two rounds instead of one. For plasma-based weapons, the depletion rate is doubled.{{Ref/Reuse|panel}}

====Black Eye====

'''Level''': [[The Library]]

'''Effect''': When activated, the only ways players are able to recharge their energy shields after taking damage are to either [[melee]] an enemy or use a medkit.{{Ref/Reuse|haloeastereggs.net}}

====Eye Patch====

'''Level''': [[The Library]]

'''Effect''': When activated, auto-aim will be disabled.<ref name="haloeastereggs.net">[http://www.haloeastereggs.net/egg/halo-anniversary-skulls '''Halo Easter Eggs.net:''' ''Halo Anniversary Skulls'']</ref>

====Grunt Funeral====

'''Level''': Exclusive preorder promotion.<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/news/headline/special-halo-combat-evolved-anniversary-pre-order-bonuses/111729 '''Halo Waypoint:''' ''Special Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Pre-order Bonuses'']</ref>

====Boom====

'''Level''': [[Halo (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|Halo]]

'''Effect''': When activated, all explosions' damage radius will increase two-fold.{{Ref/Reuse|panel}}

====Piñata====

'''Level''': [[Two Betrayals]]

'''Effect''': When activated, hostile infantry will drop a [[plasma grenade]] with each melee.{{Ref/Reuse|haloeastereggs.net}}

====Grunt Birthday Party====

'''Level''': [[The Maw]]

'''Effect''': When activated, Unggoy will explode in a shower of confetti with a headshot.{{Ref/Reuse|panel}}

===''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''-exclusive skulls===

==Trivia==

*When playing co-op in the original ''Anniversary'' whether or not the skulls appear depends on whether Player 1 has claimed them yet. If Player 1 has already collected a skull it will not appear, regardless of whether or not Player 2 has collected it. Thus when playing co-op it is important that a player who still needs to unlock skulls plays as Player 1, and a player who has already unlocked the skulls is Player 2. In ''The Master Chief Collection'' the skulls appear every time regardless of whether one or both players have already collected them.  

*Unlike in [[Bungie]] games, players can still revert to their last checkpoint when using the Iron skull.

*The Bandanna skull is a reference to the [[metalgear:|''Metal Gear'' franchise]], in which every game has an unlockable bandanna that grants the player infinite ammunition.

*Unlike previous iterations, the Grunt Birthday Party skull can be set off by headshots from non-precision weapons (i.e. Assault Rifle, Plasma Pistol, etc). It merely requires that the final fatal shot strike the Unggoy's head.

*According to one of the [[343 Sparkast]]s, there was a skull that was cut from the final game. Its effect was that weapon sound effects would be replaced with 343 employees saying the sound, such as "bang".