All of the Mythic Map Pack Skulls have been found in Halo 3!

This morning, we completed the search for Halo 3 Skulls by finding the Longshore Skull, Citadel Skull, and Heretic Skull in the new Mythic Maps.

The Mythic Maps will be released on September 22nd with the release of Halo 3: ODST. If you want to find the skulls yourself, do not click on the links above.

We’ll have more updates soon with additional information from ODST!

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

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…

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.

Go get the IWHBYD Skull now!

Great Work Everyone!

Forwards shared a really nice easter egg with us today. Turns out, the Siege of Madrigal song from Myth made it into [tag]Halo 3[/tag], in a similar fashion to how it was hidden in Halo 1.

On the level, “The Covenant”, near the end of the level (right after defeating the two scarabs, but before going inside) you can get to the top left of the Citadel, and if you stand still and listen closely, you can hear the song. Defeating the Scarabs may not be required, but will make it a lot easier to hear. You may need to enable the energy bridge, and wait for the main game music to stop before being able to clearly hear it.

Great easter egg! Very nice find Forwards!

We managed to grab a few copies of the game early on, and have been spending a lot of our time finding various Halo 3 Easter Eggs, as well as the skulls (which play into the meta games of Halo 3’s campaign). Using skulls will now multiply your score in the meta games, making it easier (although we use this term very loosely) to achieve specific score achievements.