Author: Mittybaly, 30-04-2025 21:55 Like Great Map - The Devil Is In The Detail It's a great map and fun.
Author: Kalyan (বাংলাদেশ), 06-04-2025 08:51 Like Hi - The Devil Is In The Detail Bro
Author: Bounce (България), 03-04-2025 14:05 Devil is in the detail - The Devil Is In The Detail Map is so nice, definitely something more interesting than the standard ones in hota list, but after few tries when you get to know how to play the map it becomes super easy. Just rush to admirals hat and get TP from middle when pink is not around get bunch of stats and after 4 month you can clear every AI hero easily (apologise for spoiling). Some AIs in pink (the hardest one) literally donates you pdf as they have no army on them which should be fixed I think or AB the same way. Moreover, no real protection for factions in one game as green I litrally took all reds army and towns in the beginning of 3rd month, then you get army from confi towns and dominate everything. To sum up, to paly the map for only one or two times it is super fun and seemingly hard but ones you know what to look for it is super easy and everytimes the ai donates you free game winning artefacts. To sum up, map is cool but actually not so hard for impossible difficulty on impossible and for example a cold day in hell is 10x harder that this one. That is just my opinion. Go for it but no more that two three times :)
Author: Jethro (Rampart, Europe), 19-02-2025 16:57 New Eagle Eye strat. - The Devil Is In The Detail Hi all. With new patch there is an easy trick that you can use to win the game. Get Hero with Eagle Eye (preferably specialist). I've picked Malcolm as Rampart is awesome on this long map (early Dwarven Treasury gives infinite gold). Get Malcolm to say level 20,give him 7 upg Pegasi. Fight any Pink hero in the middle and retreat immediately. You will learn all the spells from the fight alone. Town Portal, Resurrection, Slow, Animate Death, Berserk, Clone, all of it. Once you got the spells and the money from Treasuries it is only a matter of time to win the game. I like to get Tower and Castle Players for Titans and Archangels. With Clone, Berserk, Resurrect and all other spells fights are easy. To the author - you might want to ban Eagle Eye now. Anyhow - great job on the map, it gave me a lot of fun!
Author: Jarin, 15-02-2025 18:25 where Factory town - The Devil Is In The Detail Hello I have open all 2 last version but canat see factorz town 3/9 o clock as you mention, where are these towns?
koget writes:
15-02-2025 21:52
Factory - The Devil Is In The Detail
Hi Jarin, please open "[HotA] The Devil Is In The Detail.h3m" from the pack after downloading on this site.
Jarin writes:
17-02-2025 02:23
which is hardest - The Devil Is In The Detail
I found it, which version is hardest? Diferrence between teo versions from 10.6.2024 is that one have gelu and dracon so it should be easier one?
koget writes:
17-02-2025 14:59
hardest - The Devil Is In The Detail
Hardest would be the latest in the pack just called “The Devil Is In The Detail”, incl. factory updates.
Author: Rezzq (Vaksdal), 05-01-2025 06:55 Clone - The Devil Is In The Detail Where do i get clone spell?
koget writes:
05-01-2025 16:17
Clone - The Devil Is In The Detail
3 o'clock seer hut :))
Author: Krumov (Sofia, Bulgaria), 27-12-2024 21:25 Like How to obtain Berserk - The Devil Is In The Detail Hi, I am a mediocre player - despite I play Heroes III for 25 years give or take. Please tell me how to obtain Berserk? Is it from a quest or somewhere specific place?
koget writes:
29-12-2024 16:05
Berserk - The Devil Is In The Detail
9 o'clock seer hut
Author: Matija (Zagreb, Croatia), 26-11-2024 18:33 The best - The Devil Is In The Detail One of the best maps out there!
Author: Boris, 14-11-2024 01:04 Difference between this and the one that comes with the game? - The Devil Is In The Detail Just curious if any or not? Like do they keep updating the map with each update of hota or not?
Thanks
koget writes:
16-11-2024 20:22
Updates - The Devil Is In The Detail
The version in HotA doesn't have factory towns at 3 / 9 oclock. There has been also some minor map changes to water paths and other minor changes.
Author: Freefiur (Helsingfors, Finland), 25-10-2024 23:22 68 days people! - The Devil Is In The Detail Hello. To cut it really short, I managed to beat and recruit Darkness (Hero specialty: Necromancy) at the town portal site in the middle of the map.
This occured on the seventh day of the second week of the second month.
After this, recruiting and even income wasn´t much of an issue any more.
Get the Orb, get Darkness to the Pentagram underground garrisons. He´ll have 20k+ skeletons after two succesful garrison battles. Yes, beating the undead in battle gives you MORE undead with necromancy. Didn´t know that...
Anyway, Darkness is unbeatable after this and voilá. Generally, I would recommend eradicating the south players first for a speed run.
Starting hero was Lord Haart of Whitestone.
I really need to stop playing this wonderful map now.
Author: koget, 20-10-2024 22:14 Maybe try again - The Devil Is In The Detail My friend, all magic (except DD and Fly) is available on the map. The quest is to get to the middle fast, or how you put it, there is a timer to do it early. You don't have to fight big opponents early game, but if you are a strong player, you might as well do that. This map has got a 100% win chance for good players. But it can feel challenging and overwhelming in the beginning, especially if you play it blindly.
Author: GIAKOUMARAS (HELLAS), 18-10-2024 12:59 other way - The Devil Is In The Detail I'm not a map designer and I greatly appreciate everyone who takes their time so that I can enjoy my favorite game, even for a few rounds. But we all want a nice adventure and strategic enjoyment among the many chalenges and difficult decisions. When you face an enemy with eg 100 dragons outside your castle in the morning, there is no enjoyment or strategy. There is a bad-minded fashion to make a map unbeatable and unbalanced. Excessive AI boost, removal of basic magic, etc. In my opinion, the greatest chess player of all time Alekhine used to say "I don't play with the criteria of winning, but to make a game worthy like a good painting ! " Meaning to win beautifully, original and impressive .
An easy map can be extremely challenging eg with a time or time limit, which will determine the type of medal. There are many ways to have challenges. There's no need to remove basic magic that is the great hota technique or hide items behind volcano smoke. A strong starting AI hero is often more than enough. How powerful? The designer needs to test his map a bit. Think of must TP early other way is very boring the nice islands.Thanks for your time.
Author: koget, 17-10-2024 16:01 Frustration - The Devil Is In The Detail I understand your frustration, but sadly it is impossible to make a G map designed to play vs AI without giving AI significant boosts. You can check any big, top rated map on this site and all of them will provide both resources and creature growths to AI. If you don't do it, the AI will not be able to ever leave their zone and you will just walk around the map uncontested and map will become boring after initial expansion. But as was discussed multiple times, always happy for feedback on suggestions on how to handle poor AI play differently.
Author: GIAKOUMARAS (HELLAS), 15-10-2024 14:11 Waste of time - The Devil Is In The Detail You are absolutely right. Very quickly I faced 2 powerful heroes of tan and pink. Tan was defeated after a 3 past round repeat, the Pink a bit easier. After that I read your comment and was troubled to see, that these two had much stronger heroes following already from the beginning. I thought the non-human heroes were overpowered. Let's go on a bit. On 2-4-6 I take blue's coastal castle empty, but with a lot of units in reserve. Good, I'm already very well. 28K per day, 8 cities, 5 heroes +- 20 lv (2 archers and 3 swords). I leave for the next blue castle and a blue hero appears with the same stats as my hero, but with about 30 week units. Before giving up, I take his castle with no losses and try to defend by buying about 15 weeks worth units from his castle, as much as I could. All this in just 8 weeks of play. It’s a pity for the nice designed map! And our waste of time !
Author: Hamza Hasan Ellahie, 22-08-2024 06:09 Such a Banger - The Devil Is In The Detail I like the one on the left with the island in the middle and the 19 connected platues.
Indeed the level is in detail :)
Author: koget, 13-08-2024 12:03 AI - The Devil Is In The Detail Hi Aistis
All AIs have boosts in creature growths and resources, otherwise they send weak armies and lose them, never conquering the map. Sadly heroes AI is really bad at G maps, hence need for boosts.
Author: Aistis (Belfast , United Kingdom), 12-08-2024 16:05 Weird AI - The Devil Is In The Detail Although I like this map it`s share size and magnitude is weird. It feels like it is made to play multiplayer or 3-4 people who would keep pushing and bashing both teal and pink at very beginning. What was weird that I was playing just few weeks and another computer player (blue) had 500 archmages 300 genies etc. I restarted map made reveal cheat and kept tracking AI. And how come that for example blue player at Turn 3 already gets like 200+ stone gargoyles while starts pretty much with nothing? Also other AI seems to be very weak and doing pretty much nothing , while Pink looks like scripted to push further towards player by coming month. The very idea of a map is good and I like it very much , but weird stacks of monsters in AI armies out of thin air and all based like vs 1 player makes it less enjoyable. I think gotta check and remake this version to be able to have allies lol ;)
GIAKOUMARAS (HELLAS) writes:
21-10-2024 12:32
To be or not to be BLIND ? - The Devil Is In The Detail
My friend, if you are not blind and read my comments carefully, you would realize that they refer to the general prevailing trends and not exclusively to your chart. Unless you think your map is the exclusive interest of players.
Since you are not blind but open-eyed as you bluntly stated, can you enlighten us what you achieved by testing the latest version of your map? With specific month per month data, please? OR Is your vision so strong that you see the game unfold without playing it?
You also asked for alternative suggestions in your previous answer, but you completely ignored them. In any case, if you think that they were useless for your talent, which is confirmed by the many likes : Please try to play Element Land, to see how easy it is to build an amazing challenge map, without imbalances and stupid boosts, which all they achieve is the frustration of wasting players' time !
wasilix writes:
21-10-2024 18:18
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Hey, Giakoumaras!
No need to be so butthurt and you'd do better for yourself if you've shown some respect to map maker. Author respectfully and very coherently replied to you WHY he did things he did. If you don't agree, it's up to you to prefer other things, but it's not up to you to dictate how others should view things.
Recalling your past statements, you are too reliant on control spells (both combat and map control) in your gameplay. Having access to them eliminates huge part of the challenge that you by your own statements crave for. AI is dumb and certain spells are overpowered, that's the truth known to any decent H3 player. Vast majority of great maps address at least one or another, some do both, and that's good. Not everyone has to make maps whichever way I prefer them to do either, they mostly do it to fit their own preference in gameplay.
While I can't speak of the last version specifically, this map was finished billions of times (ok, not literally) by many players. I didn't like this map as much as some people did, but even I finished it, had good time with it and found it to be of very high quality. Numerous people, judging simply by this thread, couldn't help themselves but speedrun it over and over again, and it's one of the most popular maps for HoTA for a reason. It's a testament for how well this map is done.
PS: that's honestly quite funny that you think that Element Land is a challenge map. It's a fun adventure map with a couple of maybe somewhat challenging fights depending on your pathing, which probably even can avoided altogether if played fast.
GIAKOUMARAS (HELLAS) writes:
22-10-2024 19:04
Mr. Expert - The Devil Is In The Detail
Mr. «Expert»
• I didn't allow you to write me, and especially not in an inappropriate way.
• If you were careful and well-intentioned, you would have noticed that my initial response was to my teammate, who first noticed that the map was unplayable. I simply confirmed it.
• The map maker, defending his work (legitimately), asked for suggestions on how the AI could stand otherwise.
• I responded both with a general review and with specific suggestions (as he asked for), even though I have never been a map maker.
• I received a response that completely ignored the suggestions, as well as an aggressive - insulting one, which resulted in me playing the map blindly and proposing to try the unplayable version again!
• I responded again politely to the insult, regarding who wants to ignore reality and asked for data that verifies his opinions. DATA. ‘Verba volant, scripta manent’.
• Then you voluntarily assumed the role of advocate, analyst and expert, indeed for a game version, that you admittedly did not play !!!
• You even mocked a lovable map Element Land for many players. A map that if the owner used the common trick of continuous versions, would have much more funs. That doesn’t mean that we are not grateful for many updated efforts for a better game.
• Who are you and pretending yourself as an expert? Unfortunately, H3 does not have an international rating, like ELO in chess. So everyone can projects and presents himself as an expert?! Of course, how can these self-proclaimed experts understand that the great challenge is the time to achieve the result, for a thousand reasons. That is why a lot of strategy games have always defined various levels of victory depending on the time!! Many slow historical victories ultimately turned out to be disasters. UNDERSTANDABLE or NOT???
• Finally, if you have a psychological need to show that you are good at something, please address to your relatives, friends and those who allow you to be a teacher and judge.
• As well do not allow you to write me again or use my name from now on. Keep your posts away from me, so that those who admire you, can read your subjective opinions.
wasilix writes:
22-10-2024 19:29
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I'm sorry, but I will still address you even if you don't want me to. We seem to have different views of politeness, as your comments towards the author didn't come across polite at all. Both you and your teammate were polite enough to complain about waste of time. A rather toxic way of saying that you didn't enjoy the map, in my view.
I admit, that I have been hostile towards you, but I'll reserve an apology for the time when you admit that you are wrong yourself.
Also I didn't mock Element Land. I said it's a fun adventure (which is a positive esteem). I played both versions, and enjoyed them. What I mocked is you calling it a challenge map, which it clearly is not.
I didn't really want to show anything about myself but to say that you are wrong in how you address the map maker, that's all. Map makers spent/spend good part of their life making maps for players like us and deserve better. Perhaps your comment about psychological need of showing that one is good at something could be applied to you too, because you insist on changing koget's mind on how he did his map even though he clearly stated why he did it this way. Why not just agree to disagree and move on?
Lastly, you called him out on progress and some such (in my view, in clearly aggressive and not polite manner, again), but if you glanced over the thread you'd find at least several comments of people finishing the map since it was last updated in February. There you have a reply to that question of yours.
All I wanted to say is address your criticism in a manner that doesn't involve name calling and shows basic courtesy towards map makers. Don't expect that your wishes will be taken onboard just because you think they are for the best. Everyone has their own preference when it comes to the gameplay, and you might be wrong.
GIAKOUMARAS (HELLAS) writes:
23-10-2024 06:44
PLATO - The Devil Is In The Detail
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
— Plato 427 b.c. – 348 b.c
Author: dogshit map reported (dogshit map), 01-08-2024 19:50 dogshit no factory reported this shit - The Devil Is In The Detail there ain't no factory in this shit clickbait reported dogshit
koget writes:
03-08-2024 13:47
factory - The Devil Is In The Detail
Hello kind sir,
Thank you for your comment and sorry to disappointment you.
Please read the description on this site, factory cannot be played from the beginning but has been added as an alternative strategy on the map.
Wish you a great day "dogshit map reported"!
Author: Izcode (Sverige), 14-07-2024 18:58 Like Great map - The Devil Is In The Detail Hard map, have to plan out quite a bit and retries to get it done but it feels like an achievement to manage to win this one!
I would say Fiery Riches are about the same diffculty.
Author: Ying, 09-06-2024 16:17 Access to old versions and the impossible version? - The Devil Is In The Detail Hi sorry I am new to this website. But it seems to me that currently there is only one version (expert difficulty) available? Is there any way I can download the impossible difficulty version, and/or the old versions?
Thank you!
koget writes:
10-06-2024 20:07
Old versions - The Devil Is In The Detail
Hi,
You can find latest version before Factory update and last version with Gelu/Dracon still available. (hota version)
koget writes:
10-06-2024 20:31
Update - The Devil Is In The Detail
I have also asked to include both in the map pack - it should be updated on the site soon.
Author: mee (UK), 07-05-2024 16:58 factory version is not auto updated to 1.7.1 - The Devil Is In The Detail also, looks like only the factories have spell research enabled
I just now reinstalled hota 1.7.1 latest version from https://h3hota.com/en/download#latest-version-hota-171 and chose the first mirror linking to the download at https://pixeldrain.com/u/FhsEkDR8 and checking the default map using mapeditor and Find, there were no factories on the map. I manually downloaded and installed the new version listed here (04/02/2024) to find only the factories have spell research enabled.
mee writes:
10-05-2024 16:16
factory update fangram quest - The Devil Is In The Detail
why increase the requirement from 125 to 333? Isn't that kind of ridiculous?
mee writes:
10-05-2024 16:21
beware of fangram quest change to this factory update map 1.7 - The Devil Is In The Detail
I spent 4 months getting the 125 with my whole strategy planned out to get to the seer hut with 125 and suddenly it's 333 now? I abandoned my game, deleted your map and reinstalled the old map with a more reasonable quest requirement. 333 takes way too long. I wonder if there's even much left to kill on the map to actually use the reward after so long. Seems like a bad change.
Koget writes:
11-05-2024 23:43
Fangarms - The Devil Is In The Detail
Hey,
Thanks for feedback. The fangarm quest end the map - there is no more challenge after a player gets it. The idea behind the quest is to allow a player to win from any position rather than to allow an easy win after accumulating a relatively low amount of fangarms, hence the change. FYI the fangarm quest didnt event exist in Hota version before 1.7, it was only available in the version from this site.
Author: Ivan (Bulgaria), 17-04-2024 20:28 Like Playing against time - The Devil Is In The Detail It can be done even under 100 days.
Example from HoTA 1.71 map, impossible difficulty
Author: Рашид, 31-03-2024 23:56 Like Можно пройти за 120 дней, как? - The Devil Is In The Detail В игре необходимо собрать плащ дипломата, раскачать супердипломата - он только в Хота 1.7 появляется. Потом набрать побольше пикси - неделя пикси в помощь!
+ еще одна хитрость: все вражеские города с производством фениксов и пикси берем "незаметно для компьютера или ИИ".
Т.е. подходим или с воды с шляпой адмирала - ИИ тогда не использщует потенциал набора войск или подходим с никаким войском(например 5 пикси по ячейкам по одному), но накаченный герой с вызовом элементалей - т.е. обманываем ИИ, комп тогда оставляет кучу потенциального прироста в замках! Таким способом я по 1000 пикси "нахаляву" получал!
После пробития гарнизонов антимагии игру можно закончить за менее чем за неделю - т.е. менее 120 дней всего в хота 1.7 это очень хороший результат!
Видео пробития гарнизона антимагии: youtu.be/OXZu96mb4xI?si=bWAAkAQMjJqVZauR
Author: C, 08-03-2024 22:21 Impossible - The Devil Is In The Detail Is it possible to win the map in case you do not manage to beat pink to the central island to claim TP spell? With 1.7 update skilled heroes do not appear in tavern unless no fresh heroes are available, so there is no chance to beat an unlucky pink or light blue hero and then rehire him. The only option seems to be to get a hero to the center manually, but the pink necromancers just keep circling around.
impy (Slovakia) writes:
23-03-2024 16:44
TP - The Devil Is In The Detail
Of course there is. Just optimize your journey to TP shrine which involves:
- having Admiral's Hat helps. So start a turn right next to a shore (without Pink heroes getting a chance to attack you) a travel deep inside the land in one turn
- pick the best (shortest) route. One is from the top, right below the Tower island town. This one has Cover of Darkness on your way, use it to your advantage. The other one is from the south, above a stronghold town.
- maximize your movement points. Visit stables, pick Logistics, Pathfinding skills, have Boots of Speed, Equestrian Gloves..
- If you are going to TP shrine later in the game, chances are all or most of passages have been cleared by pink already. You therefore don't need to bring any army, just one fast unit, and pray to get to the shrine really fast.
Author: Mario_J, 08-03-2024 00:56 Had a lot of fun with this map - The Devil Is In The Detail I've played it three times. I'm not a good player by any standards, reinstalled Heroes 3 this year, but I enjoyed it.
First I had the "great" idea to go to the underworld instead of trying to explore the surface sea with my two main heroes.. who promptly got hunted down by teal, and caused me to rage-quit.
Second was on easy, and that made getting the TP spell the hardest part - the necro heroes were always patrolling the main island. I got it only after conquering my neighbor.
Third one on normal I got the combo biggest necro army including phoenix on the hero with the dragon artifact set, and he was only in my quadrant.. Even when I got the easy necro towns he didn't TP to defend them. Luckily he didn't come for the finishing blow - he came one day away from my capital once but left again. He liked conquering island castles, and I could reconquer them with the admiral's hat. The other pink heroes were easy, and teal was conquering on the other side of the world - got both tower and rampart AI. I got really lucky with the main teal hero since he kept the orb of inhibition in backpack.. But I only beat the main pink after getting 4 surface sides and building the fangarm stack.
Author: Рашид, 03-03-2024 00:32 Like 1,7 версии за 144 дня прохождение - The Devil Is In The Detail Hota 1,7 нельзя уволить героя и тут же его поднять. Даже вообще потеря героя грозит полным его исчезновением! Это полностью меняет скорость прохождения! Поэтому сразу накачиваем героев и не теряем! Это очень важно! Десса, Оррин и Мельхиор(появился герой дипломат в 1,7!) - это мои основные! А так же мореплаватели желательно! Так же главное лазурных драконов 12шт взять в хижинах провидцев на островах. Дипломатом собрать плащ дипломата - чтобы пробивать гарнизон антимагии стрелками и сдаваться недорого. Потом гарнизоны антимагии добивать Оррином... Десса догоняет самых далеких героев - так на картинке он догоняет последнего...
Author: koget, 17-02-2024 17:55 Boars - The Devil Is In The Detail Hi Mario,
Boar/peasent quest has always been the same in each version. Each player has a "hidden" boar glen in their biom. There is a message with a tip on where to find it at some point. ("boar hunting").
Author: Mario_J, 17-02-2024 15:25 Error on the new version? - The Devil Is In The Detail I'm playing the newest version right now, I think there is a mistake with a quest near green gate to the underground river (SW) - it wants boars and peasants, but there is no boar glen in the SW or in the S starting area.. Does one need to get lucky with refugee camps for this one? (had boar glen in SE in the previous version)
Author: Koget, 15-02-2024 02:07 Fangarms - The Devil Is In The Detail If you play the original hota version (no orange desert), there is no hota quest. Otherwise it is just below mid on snow.
Author: Skrash (Espanya), 14-02-2024 14:59 Cannot find The Quest for The Horn of the Abyss - The Devil Is In The Detail I have a question, I am playing the map and for some reason the seer's hut with the Horn of the Abyss is not there. I have all the fangarm but cannot find the quest. I am playing Hota version, don't if it's the latest version but updated it like a month or two ago. Thought it was deleted with some kind of update but for what you mention here it's still there. Is it possible I have a version of the map where it is deleted? Or is it possible you moved it form middle in the snow on the south entrance?
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