Do skulls disable achievements?

[Spoopy]

I want to beat the campaign solo on legendary for the achievement "A Monument to All Your Sins".
To spice things up I'd like to use some non-scoring skulls like Grunt Birthday Party, etc.
Will some achievements become disabled if I use the non-scoring skulls, specifically?

[J.P.]

Nope.

[Spoopy]

That was quick, lol. Thanks J.P

[Francisè von Spitroast]

Originally posted by Spoopy:

That was quick, lol. Thanks J.P

They do if they have 0.00x multipliers, but the game will tell you immediately upon selection of the skull that you won't be able to earn achievements, so don't stress about accidentally picking one and then not knowing whether some achievements are disabled or not.

[Francisè von Spitroast]

Originally posted by J.P.:

Nope.

Why do people insist on spreading false information?

[Yakasuki]

Originally posted by Who Knows:

Originally posted by J.P.:

Nope.

Why do people insist on spreading false information?

Because its not false? The skulls do not effect acheivements.

[Francisè von Spitroast]

Originally posted by Yakasuki:

Originally posted by Who Knows:

Why do people insist on spreading false information?

Because its not false? The skulls do not effect acheivements.

Except they do, which I already explained. Go turn on bandana and tell me that ;)

[Yakasuki]

Originally posted by Who Knows:

Originally posted by Yakasuki:

Because its not false? The skulls do not effect acheivements.

Except they do, which I already explained. Go turn on bandana and tell me that ;)

I litterrally just checked. they do not state anywhere that they effect acheivements. I even selected them as well just to see if there was a prompt.

[Neo Te Aika]

Gold skulls will not affect achievements. Gold skulls are intended to make the game more challenging in various ways, and will only ever increase the score multiplier. There are achievements for completing some missions with gold skull active, including LASO, which is completing the campaigns with every gold skull activated.

Silver skulls can either change the multiplier, or affect nothing. The skulls that change multiplier *will* prevent achievement progress.

The "cheat-y" skulls, such as Bandana (infinite ammo) from Halo 1 and 2, Halo 2's Scarab Gun, Envy and Sputnik skulls, and generally most of the Anniversary skulls. Cowbell/Boom.

IWHBYD, Blind and Grunt Birthday Party/Grunt Funeral will still allow achievements to be unlocked.

Most if not all Bungie Era skulls (3, ODST, Reach) and Halo 4 skulls will not affect achievements, it's generally just the additions found in the Anniversary games.

[J.P.]

Since only Reach is out, there seems to be no skulls that would disable achievements.

[Yakasuki]

Originally posted by Who Knows:

Originally posted by Yakasuki:

Because its not false? The skulls do not effect acheivements.

Except they do, which I already explained. Go turn on bandana and tell me that ;)

My bad i thought we were talking only about reach here since the other games have not came out yet on PC.

[J.P.]

The LASO playlist of Reach enables all 13 skulls, and there are achievements for completing that.

[Francisè von Spitroast]

Originally posted by J.P.:

The LASO playlist of Reach enables all 13 skulls, and there are achievements for completing that.

That's because it's Reach and there are no skulls that deactivate achievements.
Stop talking about things you don't understand. You're clearly new to the games.

Originally posted by J.P.:

Since only Reach is out, there seems to be no skulls that would disable achievements.

Now this is a true statement.

Originally posted by Yakasuki:

Originally posted by Who Knows:

Except they do, which I already explained. Go turn on bandana and tell me that ;)

I litterrally just checked. they do not state anywhere that they effect acheivements. I even selected them as well just to see if there was a prompt.

In Halo Reach, yes.

[Interlude]

None of the skulls in reach disable achievements. Who Knows is a brainlet

[Francisè von Spitroast]

Originally posted by Epstein fled to Israel:

None of the skulls in reach disable achievements. Who Knows is a brainlet

I never said otherwise ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Thunder Lets You Know You Lived]

I looked at this to figure out if I could get That Just Happened with Bandanna on and since there is some disagreement here, I tested it and I was able to get Wraith Hunter with the Bandanna skull on. I guess I could have taken a vid of it but I didn't.