Halo 3

[Dogg Thang]

I was killed a couple of times by my own men in vehicles. Usually just run over in the middle of a fight. On the highway, I jumped out of a Warthog, jumped to the back of one of those enemy vehicles (is it a Phantom?), dropped a grenade and as soon as I turned back towards my Warthog I found it was already hurtling towards me at high speed. I was crushed between the Phantom and the Warthog. Then the grenade blew for that final insult.

In general, I found the allies to be idiots. I remember one whole fight

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against one of the Spider Tanks

where a guy robbed a Ghost and then just sat in it. Didn't go anywhere. He survived the whole battle and was still there.

That said, what the AI isn't in general is predictable and that's what I'm finding playing through some of the levels again. For example, in the opening level at the bridge

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there's a hammer guy at the end of the bridge. I spent ages trying to survive him the first play through. So I was prepared for him the second time around and had saved some long range weapons for him.

But when I went to get him, he was gone. I had no idea where he was. A couple of grunts took me by surprise from the bottom section of the bridge so I went down to take care of them and suddenly I was face to face with the hammer guy. At some point in the fight, he had made his way over. Needless to say, he killed me.

I was also gutted we never got to meet gravemind. I kind of thought it was pointless having a major enemy and not fighting him. Instead we got a crappy C3PO soundalike ball. Not the fierce ending I was expecting.

[MJ]

These players with fast increasing skill points are all of a lower overall rank than me though, I don`t know if that makes any difference.

It's like Halo 2, if lower ranks beat higher ranks they go up quicker.

[Yoshimax]

The catch skull location is a startlingly poor piece of game design. It's ridiculously frustrating to do on single player.

It's possible you're supposed to do it multiplayer ???? Just a thought.

The relative shortness of SP becomes clear when you start really pushing at levels with skulls on aiming for the meta-score achievements whilst hunting down the skulls you need.

Magic.

[prinnysquad]

For those without live, or with a rickety connection, it's no consolation that Bungie turn an activity which seems to be a single player venture into a multiplayer thing. You can do it on singleplayer so I don't suppose for one second that you're supposed to do it on multiplayer. IMO, It's just gash how youre supposed to do it under such stringent circumstances using grenades. When i did it, it was entirely down to luck. I feel that party tricks such as grenade jumps should be old hat in fps now.

[Spatial]

It's possible you're supposed to do it multiplayer ???? Just a thought.

I wouldn't have said so. It's a ball-ache but totally doable on your own. Admittedly doable through gritted teeth and lots of swearing because of that bastard Wraith.

In fact I got 90&#37; of the tricky placed skulls on me todd in SP and didn't really feel there was one that was totally impossible for me to get without help.

Then again the beauty is that if you're stuck / lazy you can get a mate in to help.

It's just gash how youre supposed to do it under such stringent circumstances using grenades.

I'm no fan of grenade jumps as I just end up dying 99% of the time I try it. There's an `easier` (in the loosest sense of the word) way of

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using the Ghosts or Warthogs to push a large square crate across the map, up against the ramp at the front of the tower. Of course the Wraith showering big blue death on you from above still doesn't make it perfect but I found it worked a treat in the end.

[Jebus]

I've got every gold skull and all but one white skull in single player...didn't have a problem with a single one of them

Only slightly difficult one was the one where you have to grenade launch yourself to get up high enough, took about 6 goes...nothing major though.

Finding them on the other hand seem near enough impossible to me without being told.

[Destrukticor]

i found all the gold ones without a guide, but i like to do a level then go back and explore it.
The catch one was a ballache though even with the crate as the wraiths make that one hard.
The one where you have to get up there with a grenade jump was really hard (mainly cos i couldn't grenade jump)

[Dogg Thang]

Well I'd like to think I'd be good at this as I got all the Saturn Exhumed Team Dolls with no guide. But having ones that vanish (that catch ones) and moving ones (in I think the next level) mean I never would have found these in a million years without a guide.

In fact, I'd call almost anyone who said they got that moving one

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in the hand of the flood

a dirty rotten liar except for the fact that someone must have found it for the info to get out.

[MJ]

I found some of the skulls without a guide but either way I got them all solo.

[Freddo]

rocket jumps are way easier than grenade jumps btw....

[Malc]

I found the catch skull annoying and had alot of deaths aswell...

Can someone please tell me if I complete the game on legendary, playing it co-op, will I still get the legendary campaign complete achievement?

cheers!

[Paulos G]

Can someone please tell me if I complete the game on legendary, playing it co-op, will I still get the legendary campaign complete achievement?

You will indeed!

[Malc]

You will indeed!

Why thankyou for the sharp reply!

[Brats]

For those without live, or with a rickety connection, it's no consolation that Bungie turn an activity which seems to be a single player venture into a multiplayer thing. You can do it on singleplayer so I don't suppose for one second that you're supposed to do it on multiplayer. IMO, It's just gash how youre supposed to do it under such stringent circumstances using grenades. When i did it, it was entirely down to luck. I feel that party tricks such as grenade jumps should be old hat in fps now.

But the skulls are utterly aimed at the sort of person who grenades jumps out of bed in the morning. If they were easy, it would be pointless.

Took me ages to get the Famine one, but once I did, Woohoo!

[prinnysquad]

Pfft. Who said easy? They could have made them challenging but not grenade-based. Like the one on the ceiling in Cortana. I thought the skulls were to add a bit of exploration to an otherwise relentless shooter. The last level skull is hardly a grenade-whore's dream.

You can do the famine one

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by driving a chopper up there, parking it on the slope, jumping on top and then on the beam. No need for grenades.