Halo 3 Planet

30 new achievements were added to Halo 3 today on Xbox.com including the 6 new Halo 3 skulls we mentioned in a recent post.

Among the achievements listed on Xbox.com are the Assembly Skull, Citadel Skull, Heretic Skull, Longshore Skull, Orbital Skull, and the Sandbox Skull. Each unlocked Skull achievement will tack on an extra 25 points to Gamer Score, and an extra achievement for finding all of the skulls will add another 25 points for a grand total of 175GS.

It’s still a mystery as to how these skulls will be implemented, but it would seem as if they might be integrated into a new series of maps dubbed “Mythic” based on achievement descriptions on Xbox.com. Bungie has remained silent in regards to these additional achievments so far.

Despite all this, the talk in the Halo Community has largely centered around two recent featured postings on Bungie.net, featuring the Super Intendent that we saw back during E3. In the most recent posting from tonight, folks were left baffled by a vague and interesting dialogue.

Here’s to hoping we find out more about all of this Tomorrow when TU2 goes live!

According to rumors started at PAX, the build shown to folks who attended contained several achievements that were not a part of the original Halo 3 release.

30 New Achievements to be exact.

Among the newly added achievements are Six New Skulls. That’s right. Six New Halo 3 Skulls. Whether or not they’ll be like traditional skulls is still up in the air (especially considering that these new skulls seem to be associated with multiplayer maps rather than single player maps) — and there are no details on whether or not they’ll be used in campaign mode to add special effects to ordinary gameplay.

Whatever the case may be, we’ve updated our Halo 3 Skulls page with the new skulls, and will be on the search for them as soon as they are made available. During our search for the IWHBYD Skull, we ended up with over 600 posts in a massive hunt for the location of the best-hidden item we’ve ever seen.

Will you be there when we search for these skulls?

1. Heretic Skull
2. Citadel Skull
3. Assembly Skull
4. Sandbox Skull
5. Orbital Skull
6. Longshore Skull

At least a few of our members predicted this would happen, but it wasn’t until today that we could confirm it (thanks for the heads up HaloHero). Bungie has started to give away sets of armor that are typically only usable by the Bungie Team. Starting today, they’ve given out two Recon Armor Sets.

Oh, folks are begging us for the Recon Armor perm, and we’re giving it out to a couple of community members today as a special treat:

ZB Shogun for suffering the most humiliating traffic accident ever:

Rubber Bullet

and…

Skyllus vBi for shooting himself in the head with his own Sniper Rifle.

Oh teh Noes

These videos have been floating around the internet for about a week, so you may have already seen these somewhat hilarious suicides. Bungie will continue to give out the Recon (and possible other armor permutations) to players who stick out in the future. They just ask that you don’t message them about it.

This seems like a really great way of promoting their video and screenshot feature in [tag]Halo[/tag] 3’s Theater mode. People are just dieing to get their hands on this armor.

Heh…heh…

We’re starting a list of IWHBYD Skull Effects on H3P, and we’re wondering what dialogue you’ve found to be entertaining.  Such dialogue includes marines shouting, “For Sparta!!!”, or Brutes retorting, “We don’t take Mastercard”.

There are probably quite a few that no one has even found yet…

What effects are your favorite!  If you share them here, we’ll probably even post it on our effects page.

That’s right folks!  The community members of [tag]Halo 3[/tag] Planet figured it out!  We have a full post on how to get the IWHBYD Skull, and the Hayabusa Helmet now!

Go get the IWHBYD Skull now!

Great Work Everyone!