Hallow's End: Headless Horseman 2.0

[deepstrasz]

Please don't spam map tags. Use proper ones.

The map is very short and simplistic, using Warcraft III gameplay mechanics and abilities. Too few triggered things to count.

Simple.

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[The Nightmare Book]

Hey @Faqka!
I played your map, check this out. I didn't used hallow masks, rather decided to showcase what boss fight is.

 

[Faqka]

Hey @Faqka!
I played your map, check this out. I didn't used hallow masks, rather decided to showcase what boss fight is.

Hey! @The Nightmare Book Thank you for having played and showing the game, it is always useful to find errors or things to improve or simply have another player's perspective

 

[Blasterixx]

Cute and petite map where you have to take down a random horseman using five heroes. It was a pretty standard boss fight. The boss has this phase where he summons weak pumpkins and throws out some area-of-effect death coils now and then. Not too bad of a fight. There were also some mini-bosses on the map, and beating them seemed to give the heroes bonus spells. The thing is, some of those new spells use the same hotkeys as spells I already had. Like, the Paladin’s Holy Light and the bonus spell Storm Bolt both use the T key. Super confusing! After realizing that taking down the mini-bosses didn’t really help much, I just went straight for the main boss.

This map might work better as part of a custom campaign or something more elaborate, but as a stand-alone deal, it felt like just an average boss fight. The heroes didn’t have any items except for the ankhs, but honestly, I didn't need them because the boss fight was pretty easy.

At first, I played on normal difficulty, but then I tried it again on the hardest setting, and wow, that was much tougher! We even got a bonus boss this time. Funny enough, the first boss hit way harder than the second one, which made me lose most of my ankhs. Overall, it was a challenge and pretty fun, but I wish beating the mini-bosses dropped some cool items instead of bonus spells I didn’t really need.

Spoiler

And it’s kind of hilarious that you ended up being the bonus boss yourself; "whoever has this item must be the map creator"

 

[Faqka]

Cute and petite map where you have to take down a random horseman using five heroes. It was a pretty standard boss fight. The boss has this phase where he summons weak pumpkins and throws out some area-of-effect death coils now and then. Not too bad of a fight. There were also some mini-bosses on the map, and beating them seemed to give the heroes bonus spells. The thing is, some of those new spells use the same hotkeys as spells I already had. Like, the Paladin’s Holy Light and the bonus spell Storm Bolt both use the T key. Super confusing! After realizing that taking down the mini-bosses didn’t really help much, I just went straight for the main boss.

This map might work better as part of a custom campaign or something more elaborate, but as a stand-alone deal, it felt like just an average boss fight. The heroes didn’t have any items except for the ankhs, but honestly, I didn't need them because the boss fight was pretty easy.

At first, I played on normal difficulty, but then I tried it again on the hardest setting, and wow, that was much tougher! We even got a bonus boss this time. Funny enough, the first boss hit way harder than the second one, which made me lose most of my ankhs. Overall, it was a challenge and pretty fun, but I wish beating the mini-bosses dropped some cool items instead of bonus spells I didn’t really need.

Hey!
Thank you very much for your feedback. I will take your recommendations into account for a future map update and fix those small details of the hotkeys

 

[Faqka]

Hotfixes of Hallow's End 6/2/25​

1. New Features:

• Greater rewards have been added that can be obtained throughout the map that will be more useful for the confrontation against the Horseman (Added to the skills that could already be obtained). These will be the 4 Rings of the Headless Horseman himself ("Band of the Petrified Pumpkin", "Seal of Ghoulish Glee", "Wicked Witch's Signet", "The Horseman's Ring"), that they will have statistics according to their names.
• Now the Horseman will alternate between 2 Phases and their amount will depend on the chosen difficulty. Where he had a Hero executed, separating his spirit and creating a Deathlord to help him in combat.
• Greater atmosphere with different effects, decoration, loading screen, etc.

2. Headless Horseman

• "Insidious Cackle" damage increased from 125 to 150 on all difficulties.
• "Ember Curse" silence increased from 6 to 8 on all difficulties.
• Headless Horseman's armor increased from 8 to 9 on all difficulties.
• The boss has been resized to make it more visible.

3. Secret Boss

• "Cleansing Pain" damage increased from 650 to 750 on all difficulties.
• "Blood Price" damage increased from 275 to 325 on all difficulties.
• Base damage increased from 60 to 80 on all difficulties.
• The boss has been resized to make it more visible.
• The boss's reward is an "Item Spoiler" for the next map that will be released.

4. Kryptikk Soulslayer (Mini-boss)

• Now has the ability Witch Fire (Fires down streams of flame, lighting nearby enemies on fire) on all difficulties.

5. Clea Deathstrider (Mini-boss)

• "Hot Head" damage increased from 20 to 40 over time on all difficulties.

6. Venim Iceblade (Mini-boss)

• "Insidious Cackle" damage increased from 100 to 150 on all difficulties.

7. Bug Fixed:

• Fixed the bug with spells with their hotkeys.
• Fixed the lighting error in the Rider summoning that did not appear correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Adventure Guide" that lists the boss's abilities to not appear correctly or not match the chosen difficulty.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the Headless Horseman to be activated without first choosing a difficulty.

 

[Blasterixx]

Well, i did another quick test on the hardest difficulty, i like the items, i had a bit of a problem with the hotkeys since i was on custom and i had to reset some of them, all in all is a good update, still a fun quick map.
Here is me playing it:

 

[Faqka]

Thanks for your point of view! @Blasterixx
It's a shame that you have to play without literally seeing it