SKULL BREAKER | THE BEAST FROM BEYOND

A sub-series to my ALL YOU NEED guides all about the infamous Ghost N' Skull easter eggs. Hopefully this is the most comprehensive guide on the internet on how to complete the Skull Breaker easter egg on The Beast from Beyond! :)

Introduction

Here's the next iteration in my Ghost N' Skulls guides. Hopefully it's informative enough that you'll be able to complete it with ease and get that Perkaholic!

As with the other Ghost N' Skulls easter eggs, you'll need to collect a total of 6 skull tokens to power the machine. This guide is split into each individual skull, however, you will still need to do them in order.

Code Input Fix for PC

If you're playing Keyboard and Mouse, The 6th Skull Token will be slightly confusing since you need to put in a code to the machine to get it to power on.

If you're playing on controller, this isn't an issue, since the D-Pad is what's used during the step, however, if you've tried out of the box to do this step on Keyboard and Mouse using the Arrow Keys, you'll be quite confused since it doesn't work.

To simply fix this, go into your Key Binds and you're going to want to add "Left Arrow Key" to the "Use Souvenir" action and you'll want to add "Right Arrow Key" to the "Use Kung-Fu Ability" action.

This will make it to where you can use the arrow keys during the 6th Skull Token step during this easter egg.

Skull One - Blowing Open the Box

The first two Skull Tokens for Skull Breaker so happen to also be the first two steps of the Main Easter Egg, so if you've done the Main Easter Egg for Beast, these two first steps will be a breeze.

Start by finding a box in one of three locations and hitting it directly with an explosive.

• In the Cargo Bay above the stairs
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• In the Ops Center above Bombstoppers
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• In the Water Treatment area (same place you get Neil's Head) above the door.
  

After hitting it with an explosive, it will open, revealing the first skull. Shoot it to collect it.

Skull Two - Small Red X's

Now head into the Cargo Bay and on each side of the room, there will be small red Xs on the ground. Everyone in your game will need to stand on one to start the next phase.

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Once everyone is standing on an X, the X will turn into a green circle and zombies will begin spawning in. Everyone in your game will need to defend their circle. If anyone steps outside of their circle, it will fail the step and you'll need to go to the next round to retry.

As you're standing in the circles, in the center of the cargo room, a skull will begin rising.

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Once the skull has completely risen up, it will teleport to a random part of the room and you'll need to quickly make your way to it and jump through it to obtain it and spawn the Entangler in the center of the room.

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Pick up the Entangler and we can move on to the next step.

Skull Three - Odd Man Out

This step is pretty simple to understand. You're going to need to find 4 symbols (which have a total of 8 spawn locations) and using the graphic below, 3 of the 4 symbols will match with one group, and one symbol will belong to the other group.

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The goal is to find this "Odd Man Out" symbol and you want ADS (Aim Down Sights) at that specific symbol. If chosen correctly, the symbol will disappear and you'll hear the completion sound.

If you happen to choose the wrong symbol, you'll hear a loud buzzer signaling that you failed the step and you'll have to wait till the next round to attempt the step again.

• In Spawn to the left of the N3IL console
  
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• In the breakroom. Coming from spawn towards power, turn left as soon as you enter the breakroom and its in the barrier
  
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• In the cargo room on the back of some crates directly across from the stairs that lead to the portal
  
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• Directly across from Tuff Nuff on the wall where you jump down
  
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• In the Med Bay under the surgical table with the cryptid laying on top
  
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• In the Arcade in the Ticket Booth
  
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• Outside the Theater on Main Street to the left of the Mystery Wheel on the Garage Down
  
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• In the barrier to the right of Racin' Stripes
  
  

Skull Four - Pacman

Once you've finished the last skull token, a little red X will spawn in the room to the left of the N3IL console on the raised walkway.

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Start by standing on the X and after about a second or two, a skull will appear in front of you. This skull will be either Pinkish/Purple or Green. This color dictates which path you need to take after collecting the skull. (In my game, I got green, so you'll see me follow the green path).

After collecting the skull, you'll see a bunch of little icons appear and you want to follow the icons that match the color of your skull. You have to hit every symbol and you have to be fairly quick.

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Taking too long to hit a symbol or skipping over one will cause the step to fail and you'll have to wait till the next round before you can attempt again.

At the end of the path, you'll see another skull that you can collect and collecting it will complete the step and get you the fourth skull token!

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For reference, here's a video of my attempt completing this step.

Skull Five - 8 Queens Puzzle

After completing the Pacman step, if you go to the breakroom (the white room found to the right of the N3IL Console), on the table you'll notice a chessboard with a single Queen on it.

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When looking at this chessboard, you'll want to orientate yourself correctly, so that you're looking at it from the correct angle when you go to solve this step. The correct angle is to look at the chessboard from the perspective of the chair on the left closest to the exit that leads towards the cargo bay.

You'll want to note down the row and column that the starting queen is in and save that for later. Now we need to pick up 7 additional queen pieces, which can be found in a total of 12 different spawn locations:

• In the breakroom on the counter right next to the chessboard
  
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• In the break room, closest to the exit that leads to spawn, wedged between the blue couch and the wall
  
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• From spawn, going towards the water area, at the bottom of the first set of stairs on the left in the corner
  
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• In spawn, up the ladder opposite of Up N' Atoms
  
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• Cargo Room at the bottom of the stairs (where you grab the PaP Bridge piece) on the grate at the edge of the area
  
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• From the Cargo room, To the right of the door that leads to the exterior
  
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• On the raised platform before you go through the door next to Bang Bangs, right before the drop down that leads to the Cargo Room
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• In one of the corners of the Big Column in the center of the Ops Center
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• To the left of bombstoppers in a corner
  
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• To the left of the consoles used during the Venom X quest
  
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• In the Med Bay under the surgical table with the cryptid on top
  
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• In the Med Bay in the Forcefield room (will have to use an entangler and a helmet to hit the TV to unlock the room). On a scale
  
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Once you've found the other 7 queens, you'll want to return to the Chessboard. Now you can place the other queens on the board. But we have to place the queens in a certain order. If you've never played chess before, this may not make too much sense, but you want to place the queens on the board such that they aren't threatened by another queen on the board. It's a fairly famous puzzle called 8 queens.

However, you'll need not worry since I've created a tool[zombieslayamr-iw.github.io] that will solve this problem for you. You just need to select where your starting queen is on the board (Make sure you're orientated correctly like mentioned early). Then hit Solve! and it will highlight where on the board you need to place the queens.

https://zombieslayamr-iw.github.io/

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NOTE: This website was really just hacked together quickly by me since the previous tool made to solve this was taken down. So it is not mobile friendly and doesn't work very well if you resize your browser screen smaller than 1080p

In additional to my tool (in the event that my site goes down, or if you're having too many issues using my site) there's another option told to me by u/smgaming16 on Reddit that there a set of 8 images you can use to find a solution to your puzzle in game.

The images (and this discovery) was originally found by u/notChowser on reddit and here's the link to his Imgur images of the possible solutions that you can use. Of course just make sure that you find a solution that matches your starting queen position

https://imgur.com/a/YvCbYJB

Skull Six - Inputting the Code

To get the final skull to power the machine, you'll need to find 3 scraps of paper that have a code written down on them.

From the three pieces, there is a beginning, middle and end piece. You'll know which pieces are the beginning and end pieces because those pieces will have a flat edge on either the right or left side. The middle piece, however, will uneven on both sides.

Below are the locations of the pieces of scrap:

• In the breakroom on the bar near the spawn door
  
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• In the Med Bay under the green computer screens
  
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• In the Med Bay in the forcefield locked area to the right of one of the Floppy Disk locations for the main quest.
  
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• On a red tool bench to the left of the Exit portal in the PaP room
  
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• When walking into the bathroom in the Theater, second sink on the Left.
  
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• On the Concessions counter in the Arcade
  
  

The goal here is to piece all the scraps together to make a code. I find it best to draw these scraps, with their code in a notebook and piece them together. Then you want to input the code into the machine by ADS'ing at the machine and using the arrow keys to input the code (Look at "Code Input Fix for PC if you're doing this with Keyboard and mouse).

In the event the code doesn't work, try flipping the code upside down and usually that will fix it. Below is a quick graphic explaining piecing the code together

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You'll know you've completed the step correctly when the 6th skull appears on the machine and you can enter Skull Breaker!

Playing Skull Breaker

Skull Breaker is actually one of the easier Ghost 'N Skull games, especially after coming off of Skull Hop (in my opinion probably the hardest).

Just like the others, you have to clear 3 frames of skulls. The skulls will shoot lasers at you while you're trying to clear the frames. You can go down during the game as well and you'll just be picked right back up.

The catch to Skull Breaker is that there are 2 types of items floating around that you can entangle. There are colored cubes, and colored nukes.

What you want to do is use the colored cubes to create a line of skulls that all link together. To get this to happen, you need to hit skulls with the same color and they will link together. Then when you shoot a nuke (of the same color) at the linked skulls, they will all disappear

NOTE: While doing this, make a link of 10 or more skulls (easily done during the first frame) and break them all at once to get the achievement "Super Duper Combo"

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If you manage to accidentally hit a skull with the wrong colored nuke, the skull (and all the ones linked to it) will turn red and fly off and you'll need to hit it with a red nuke before it reaches the portal on the other end of the room.

Each skull that escapes is a strike and three strikes during one frame will kick you out of the game. Your strikes are reset each frame, however.

Here's my gameplay footage of Skull Breaker!

Rewards

Like Always, you'll earn a permanent Perkaholic in game after successfully completing the Skullbreaker Game.

However, you'll also earn an achievement for completing the game, and if you made a combo of 10 or more skulls, you'll also earn another achievement for doing so.


Cracking Skulls
In Beast From Beyond, complete Skullbreaker
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Super Duper Combo
When Playing Skullbreaker, build a combo of size 10 or larger.

Conclusion and Links to Other Guides

Thank you for reading the guide and supporting all my other guides! I'm always happy to see other people enjoying the guides and love seeing that they're actually helping people complete the maps and easter eggs!

If you managed to complete the Ghost 'N Skulls easter egg using my guide, feel free to leave a rating as well as possibly favorite it so you can always easily access it!

Anyways, I hope you are doing well :)

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[Alluma]

BTW quick note: There can't be any "right" inputs into the machine for the 6th skull. Only up, down and right. That should be how you know whether to rotate the code as you should never have any left arrow inputs to activate the machine.

[Alluma]

Amazing guide, as always! Just wanted to say the "On the raised platform before you go through the door next to Bang Bangs, right before the drop down that leads to the Cargo Room" part for finding the queen pieces wasn't exactly where you initially pointed out. It's slightly to the right of your cross-hairs closer to the edge. Also I don't know if it's true or luck or what but I had the same code to enter into the machine so it might be the same every game. Thanks again!

[ZombieSlaya Mr.]

appreciate it!!!

[asa]

Thank you so much for this new Guide! Best IW Guide GUY on this Planet :)