Bloons TD 6 News

[h3]New Paragon Tower - the Monkey Ace Goliath Doomship![/h3]

• Endless jokes about big planes aside, we've been very excited to build and balance the first air Paragon!
  
• While we resist thinking about Paragons as 5/5/5+ Monkey Towers, the Goliath Doomship did allow for a logical blending of all 3 paths, plus we included a powerful activated ability that adds further tactical control that plays out usefully across various map shapes
  
• At $800k cash, you will have to make sure your eco game is strong, but Doomship's power is balanced to that lofty setup cost

[h3]New Halloween game icon[/h3]

• Your eyes are not failing, nor is your screen - our icon is simply celebrating the ghoulish colors of Halloween!

[h3]New Maps[/h3]

• Advanced Map - Midnight Mansion
• Intermediate Community designed map - Covered Garden from u/SuperPsou

[h3]New Trophy Store Items[/h3]

• Heroes: Joan of Arc Adora - Dragon Pet
  
• Monkeys: Monkey Ace - Dragonfly Pet
  
• Co-op: Psigh emote
  
• Game & UI: Banana Farmer - Banana Costume, Glue Trap - Honey Bee skin, Profile Banner - Patchwork, Profile Banner - Sun Rays, Profile Banner - Star Burst
  
  • Banner winner by DREAD_LEAD (Engineer Foam)
    
  • Banner winner by LordTeddington (Grand Master Ninja)

[h3]New Halloween Limited Time Items:[/h3]

• MOAB Skins: Spider DDT
  
• Avatars: The Scream, Monkey Brains

[h3]New CT Team Store Items[/h3]

• Building Props: Fortified Castle
  
• Base Props: Refracting Telescope, Pirate Crew
  
• Water Props: Mini Pirate Boat
  
• Flying Props: Moon Rabbit
  
• Team Banners: Pet Frenzy banner, Contested Territory banner
  
• Icons: Kung Fu Kiwi icon, All-Seeing Eyecon
  
• Frames: Cognition frame, Ninja Scroll frame

• New Languages - Polish and “Monkelish” are now supported
  
• Team Browser - Added more intuitive UI to the "Advanced Search" panel
  
• Paragon tower placement restrictions.
  
  • We’ve set a maximum of 3 per game in 33.0, as we now have a baseline of general purpose DPS paragons and want to move into more synergies and interesting mechanical interactions between them, which become more interesting when choices need to be made
    
  • We have heard the clear feedback from the community about this general restriction based on the preview notes and now plan to do the following in future major updates, or minor ones if feasible:
    
    • Increase the limit to 4, based on feedback about 4 player co-op in particular
      
    • Include a Content Browser editor function that allows players to set higher limits or unrestricted in player-created Content Browser games
• Contested Territory
  • The number of steps required to use Relics felt like too many, so we’ve removed Relic Voting from the team store. Now, when viewing any tile players will be able to pop up a full list of their available relics to personally select from.
    
  • To improve active team coordination we have allowed Vice-Mayors to also set focus markers on the CT map.
    
  • The total number of focus markers each team can set in CT has been increased from 1 to 4, to allow for diverse preference and strategies.
    
  • Contested Territory matchmaking improved for better groupings based on activity & overall rank.
    
  • Added a Daily Reward to welcome back players entering the Contested Territory event.
    
  • The Main Menu CT Icon now shows a pip displaying available tickets.
    
  • Tidied the CT Info panel up for much clearer readability.
    
  • Added a spooky Seasonal Theme to CT screens, in preparation for Halloween!
    
  • Added Discord & Steam Rich Presence for Contested Territory.
    
  • Team Banners can now be set on personal profiles, as long as your team owns that banner.
    
  • Over 32.4 to 33.0 we made general constant improvements to the balance of Banner/Relic tile distribution over the CT map.

• Team Island should correctly reflect your Team Colour in CT
  
• Resolved an issue where loading a save and restarting would not allow you to earn a Black Border from that run
  
• Resolved a number of background errors in CT
  
• Changed team permissions so that Mayors can only only transfer leadership to members who have already been promoted to Vice-Mayors
  
• Changing search filters in Team Browser will now trigger a search
  
• Resolved an issue where disabling friend requests would not save
  
• Resolved a number of map specific placement issues
  
• Loading a profile from the cloud will no longer keep boss event saves
  
• Resolved a crash on using boss checkpoints
  
• Resolved an issue preventing some challenge codes from being searched
  
• Resolved an issue where powers could be disabled in unranked co-op Bosses
  
• Paragon towers should be correctly sold when their supporting arctic wind platform is removed
  
• Resolved an issue with the CT event main menu banner appearing prior to level 30
  
• Improvements made to camera zoom in CT
  
• Large texture cleanup for all Paragon towers
  
• Resolved an issue with logging out of accounts on some devices
  
• General cleanup and optimizations of the Team Store
  
• A number of localization issues resolved
  
• Resolved an issue where players could add duplicate entries to their Friends List
  
• Resolved an issue with friends showing 'default' avatar for their highscores on maps
  
• Resolved a number of issues around joining and leaving Teams
  
• Resolved a number of cases in which the background for some menus would show entirely black
  
• Optimizations made to a number of large textures
  
• Team/Friends - Popup dialogs can no longer appear off screen
  
• Team Trophy balance now correctly updates visually upon purchase
  
• Resolved a minor graphical glitch on Frozen Over map when Cave Monkey is released
  
• Resolved an issue with heroes gaining more than one level at a time counting as tiers purchased with the least tiers ruleset
  
• Resolved an issue with Team Search not allowing Space entries
  
• Resolved low quality splash screen issues
  
• Heroes are now purchasable from the upgrades menu in-game
  
  Ice Monkey
  • 5xx Embrittlement no longer slows MOABs by too much with permafrost
    
  • 250 Absolute Zero no longer slows MOABs by too much with permafrost
  Glue Gunner
  • xx4 Relentless Glue no longer targets Bosses/BADs
    
  • 104 Glue Gunner should no longer sometimes apply green glue assets
  Monkey Sub
  • 3xx Submerge subs should now submerge correctly on Quarry
  Monkey Buccaneer
  • Buccaneer paragon should no longer mis-align its platforms if upgraded from the trade empire
  Super Monkey
  • 025 Legend of the Night now correctly gains crosspath pierce
  Pat Fusty
  • Highlighting on Snowman Pat Fusty no longer disappears at Lv3
    
  • Pat’s legs should no longer sometimes not sink into water when taking a dip
  Admiral Brickell
  • No longer clips into ship badly at Lv12
  Psi
  • Psi is now able to target Leads when the Alchemist Touch relic knowledge is equipped
  Geraldo
  • Description spelling errors resolved
    
  • When fitting multiple sentry items on top of a flagship platform, these will now correctly relocate when creating the Paragon
    
  • Rejuvenation Potion will no longer reset Paragon cooldowns
  Desktop Version
  • Added Linking Codes to Epic clients
    
  
  
  
  Balance Changes
  
  
  [h3]Freeplay[/h3]
  To encourage challenge diversity using the new extended list of preset rounds in freeplay, we have decided to make a tweak to freeplay income tax to drop it off slightly slower and allow a little more cash to be earned naturally in this range.
  
  
  • Round 101+ natural income generation increased from 2% -> 5%
    
  • Round 121+ natural income generation remains at 2%
    
  
  [h3]Dart Monkey[/h3]
  As Sharpshooter’s crit occurrence didn’t feel frequent enough the overall attack rate has been increased also just to lead better into the T5’s already high rate of fire. Along with this all Crossbow criticals have been standardized, overall with T5 criticals occurring more frequently in exchange for a slight reduction in base pierce to improve Sharp Shot crosspath value. Apex Plasma Master excels generally too much for the cheapest paragon & how easy it is to start scaling early degrees so is seeing a rate decrease.
  
  
  • xx4 Sharpshooter attack cooldown reduced from 0.75 > 0.6
    
  • xx5 Crossbow Master attack cooldown unchanged
    
  • xx4 Sharpshooter crit rate changed from 8-12 shots to every 10th
    
  • xx5 Crossbow Master crit rate changed from 4-8 shots to every 5th
    
  • xx5 Crossbow Master pierce reduced from 10 > 8
    
  • Apex Plasma Master attack cooldown increased from 0.3 > 0.35
    
  
  [h3]Tack Shooter[/h3]
  The Tack Zone’s all-purpose high single target & grouped DPS plus cleanup scales too well with so many options, as this is primarily intended to be the single-target damage path and that is the most fun way to use it we have traded off damage for a bonus to MOABs in order to nerf its unbuffed cleanup potential. Ring of Fire should pick up in that area for cleanup use & general destruction but it has more pierce than it really needs in most scenarios with other important stats sitting lower to compensate for high pierce, so we have shifted this high pierce more into requiring the pierce crosspath in exchange for more base power and an overall buff. Inferno Ring’s meteor will now also follow target priority since that sounds fun
  
  
  • xx5 Tack Zone damage reduced from 2 > 1
    
  • xx5 Tack Zone gains bonus damage to MOABs +1
    
  • 4xx Ring of Fire attack cooldown reduced 0.4725 > 0.315 (buff of +25 > 50%)
    
  • 4xx Ring of Fire pierce reduced from 60 > 40
    
  • 4xx Ring of Fire damage increased from 3 > 5
    
  • 5xx Inferno Ring damage increased from 4 > 8
    
  • 5xx Inferno Ring MOAB bonus reduced from 6 > 4
    
  • 5xx Inferno Ring attack speed unchanged
    
  • 5xx Inferno Ring Meteor now follows Target Priority
    
  
  [h3]Ice Monkey[/h3]
  Arctic Wind never really gets used for its actual basic intended purpose, which would be cool.
  
  
  • Arctic Wind aura slow amount increased from 40 > 60%
    
  
  [h3]Glue Gunner[/h3]
  We want to achieve an effect with Bloon Solver’s acid burning through the layers quickly but not instantly, though we haven’t so far achieved a good balance of this along with eliminating Super Ceramics in a timely manner, causing it to be far too impractical on any shorter map. To solve this while retaining the vision we have boosted the ceramic bonus up significantly along with preventing this bonus from overflowing into the children layers
  
  
  • 5xx Bloon Solver DoT's Ceramic bonus damage increased from 2 -> 8
    
  • 5xx Bloon Solver DoT’s increased Ceramic damage will not skip through extra children layers upon breaking the ceramic layer
    
  
  [h3]Sniper Monkey[/h3]
  After the lower tier nerfs Elite Sniper still remains just a bit too good even without considering its cash production.
  
  
  • x5x Elite Sniper price increased from $13,000 > 14,500
    
  
  [h3]Monkey Buccaneer[/h3]
  Monkey Pirates is great for the first couple MOABs but with the long ability cooldown it very quickly falls off after that point, we have pushed it and Pirate Lord’s base stats up to feel more competitive especially with possible Brickell synergy. Trade Empire farming power even with the water requirement feels like it takes off too easily, so the bonus cash it provides will now require T4 Favored Trades for the full benefit.
  
  
  • x4x Monkey Pirates Grapes damage increased 1 > 2
    
  • x4x Monkey Pirates Grapes ceramic bonus increased 1 > 2
    
  • x4x Monkey Pirates Cannonball explosion damage increased 2 > 3
    
  • x4x Monkey Pirates Cannonball explosion moab bonus increased 0 > 6
    
  • x4x Monkey Pirates price increased $4500 > 4900
    
  • x5x Pirate Lord Grapes damage increased 5 > 10
    
  • x5x Pirate Lord Grapes ceramic bonus increased 5 > 10
    
  • x5x Pirate Lord Grapes burn damage increased 1 -> 9
    
  • x5x Pirate Lord Cannonball explosion damage increased 2 -> 5
    
  • x5x Pirate Lord Cannonball explosion moab bonus increased 0 -> 10
    
  • x5x Pirate Lord Cannonball frags damage increased 1 -> 10
    
  • x5x Pirate Lord Cannonball frags moab bonus increased 0 -> 5
    
  • xx5 Trade Empire cash per round per merchant when applied to xx3 Merchantmen reduced $20 -> $15
    
  • xx5 Trade Empire cash per round per merchant when applied to xx4 Favored Trades remains at $20
    
  
  [h3]Monkey Ace[/h3]
  To help you work towards the new Ace Paragon we have reduced Spectre’s lategame ceramic weakness with improved targeting for the bomb projectiles & a large increase to their bonus ceramic damage to help out later on, to change focus on these projectiles we have also shifted damage around for the darts to deal single target with the bombs providing ceramic AoE cleanup. Flying Fortress’s value drops off by the lategame when you can realistically afford it, so following on with this dart single target focus change at T4 we have added a large MOAB damage bonus to Flying Fortress darts
  
  
  • xx4 Spectre darts & bombs now both have a weaker homing effect
    
  • xx4 Spectre dart damage increased from 2 > 3
    
  • xx4 Spectre bomb damage reduced from 3 > 2
    
  • xx4 Spectre bomb ceramic bonus increased from 2 > 4
    
  • xx5 Flying Fortress darts now deal bonus damage to MOABs +10
    
  
  [h3]Heli Pilot[/h3]
  Heli’s Razor Rotors don’t scale with higher tiers so improvements have been made specifically to that attack for Dartship & Apache Prime. Support Chinook use is too niche outside of farming for the high cost, so the upgrade cost along with that effective cash gain amount from ability usage has been lowered to retain the same farming while improving niche use. Downdraft has more general use throughout the game and scales better than the more expensive MOAB Shove upgrade though they do both see use, so the price of these upgrades has been swapped around. Faster Darts xx1 upgrade will now increase the attack distance of Heli Dart attacks in order to assist with cluttering issues where large numbers of Helis will push each other away from nearby targets
  
  
  • 4xx Apache Dartship rotors damage increased 2 > 4
    
  • 4xx Apache Dartship rotors pierce increased 10 -> 20
    
  • 5xx Apache Prime rotors damage increased 2 > 8
    
  • 5xx Apache Prime rotors pierce increased 10 -> 40
    
  • x4x Support Chinook price reduced 12,000 -> 10,500
    
  • x4x Support Chinook crate cash reduced $1800 -> 1650
    
  • x3x Downdraft price increased 3000 -> 3500
    
  • xx3 MOAB Shove price reduced 3500 -> 3000
    
  • xx1 Faster Darts also increases attack distance of dart attacks by +30%
    
  
  [h3]Mortar Monkey[/h3]
  It has been hard for The Bloon Solver & The Biggest One to exist so close in the same price range when they fill the same role but with The Biggest One being simply better and more versatile, so we have ramped The Biggest One to fill a better role but for a higher cost. Artillery Battery’s special stun bonus is completely ineffective against targets which are impossible to stun, so it is receiving a small damage bonus to these targets to compensate. Other similarly priced decamo options are able to decamo DDTs, so Signal Flare feels like a far lesser choice here having this basic decamo utility locked behind an MK
  
  
  • 4xx The Big One shockwave gains bonus to ceramic +1
    
  • 5xx The Biggest One price increased from $28,000 -> $36,000
    
  • 5xx The Biggest One can now stun MOAB Class Bloons at a reduced rate
    
  • MOAB 0.3s, BFB/DDT 0.2s, ZOMG 0.1s
    
  • x4x Artillery Battery deals bonus dmg to BADs & Bosses targets > 4
    
  • x5x Pop & Awe deals bonus dmg to BADs & Bosses targets > 10
    
  • x5x Pop & Awe grants all other x4x mortars bonus dmg to BADs & Bosses > 6
    
  • xx3 Signal Flare can now decamo DDTs
    
  • Paint Stripper MK now instead allows xx4 Shattering Shells to remove Fortification from DDT's
    
  • xx4 Shattering Shells DoT damage per tic increased 1 > 5
    
  • xx5 Blooncineration DoT damage per tic remains at 5
    
  
  [h3]Dartling Gunner[/h3]
  Rocket Storm being cheaper than its T3 when the T3 is more of a decent stepping stone into the good T4 didn’t quite sit right, so these prices have just been swapped. Buckshot pierce has been increased to help make its attacks cut through more for a chunkier hit. Focused Firing’s distance bonus on 203 due to how it is setup with projectile speed dropoff was a bit less than this written ‘25%’ realistically closer to 18.75%, so this number has been increased enough to give it roughly a true 30% increase in distance.
  
  
  • x3x Hydra Rockets price reduced from $5250 > 5100
    
  • x4x Rocket Storm price increased from $5100 > 5250
    
  • xx3 Buckshot dartling pierce increased 4 -> 6
    
  • xx5 Bloon Exclusion Zone pierce remains at 6
    
  • 203 Focused Firing distance bonus 25% > 40%
    
  
  [h3]Wizard Monkey[/h3]
  Wall of Fire’s exceptional T2 power needs to be moved around for improved crosspathing, along with a slight nerf to Phoenix as it is currently performing too well, both of these upgrades are shifting some of their power into Dragon’s Breath so it can stand out as more than just a buff to WoF & stepping stone to Phoenix. Shimmer is prone to missing a lot of camo Bloons due to the low attack rate, we do want it to be slower than other decamos to account for the larger radius and better T5 so we are making the radius benefit more noticeable and lowering price
  
  
  • 020 Wall of Fire pierce per tic reduced from 15 -> 10
    
  • 021 Wall of Fire pierce per tic reduced from 19 -> 15
    
  • 020 Wall of Fire damage Tic rate reduced 0.1 -> 0.15
    
  • 020 Wall of Fire wall spawn rate reduced 5.5 -> 6.5
    
  • 120 Wall of Fire duration increased 4.5 -> 5.5
    
  • 120 Wall of Fire no longer auto-targets but gains a target marker (like x3x Engineer)
    
  • 030 Dragon's Breath base damage increased 1 > 2
    
  • 030 Dragon's Breath WoF damage Tic rate remains 0.1
    
  • 030 Dragon's Breath WoF pierce per tic increased 15 -> 20
    
  • x4x Summon Phoenix price increased $4000 -> 4500
    
  • x4x Summon Phoenix pierce reduced 10 > 8
    
  • xx3 Shimmer radius increased 70 > 80
    
  • xx3 Shimmer price reduced $1700 > 1500
    
  
  [h3]Super Monkey[/h3]
  Ultravision is a lackluster crosspath with so many other ways to get camo detection cheaper &/or for more towers. The Anti-Bloon is expensive but as a quite underused tower feels it doesn’t live up to the super monkey name for that cost, for now the ability is seeing a cooldown decrease. We feel Legend of the Night’s base tower is more usable now after recent buffs, so without a total need to lean entirely on the passive ability for use we are increasing this cooldown to prevent some issues.
  
  
  • x5x The Anti Bloon ability cooldown reduced 45 -> 30s
    
  • xx2 Ultravision grants bonus damage to camo bloons +1
    
  • xx5 Legend of the Night cooldown increased 120 > 180s
    
  
  [h3]Ninja Monkey[/h3]
  Sticky Bomb feels like it is in a very strong point right now in a lot of situations, though flash bomb isn’t good enough without a great deal of support leading into it, this shift should open up for challenge viability especially in ABR.
  
  
  • xx3 Flash Bomb price reduced $2750 > 2250
    
  • xx4 Sticky Bomb price increased $4500 > 5000
    
  
  [h3]Alchemist[/h3]
  Transforming Tonic has always had a large struggle with pierce, rather than directly throwing onto the base pierce we have added crosspathing pierce & rate benefits for transformation enjoyers to now choose between. Acidic Mixture Dip stacking from multiple alchemists / stalling tactics too effectively lowered use of other lead counter options in a way we didn’t like, so the maximum stacks here without Permabrew has been reduced considerably.
  
  
  • 140 Transforming Tonic monster pierce increased 6 -> 9
    
  • 041 Transforming Tonic attack speed increased 0.03 -> 0.024s
    
  • 2xx Acidic Mixture Dip max number of stacks reduced 200 -> 40
    
  
  [h3]Druid[/h3]
  Top path Heart of Thunder doesn’t scale well with tiers for an upgrade with such niche use & generally feels lacking, so it is seeing general power improvements across the board to upgrades that incorporate this attack. Druid of the Jungle’s vines feel too strong already for this, but for quality of life the T4 Jungle’s Bounty Druid will now gain targeting options for the global vine attack
  
  
  • 2xx Heart of Thunder damage increased from 1 > 2
    
  • 4xx Ball Lightning (HoT) damage increased from 1 > 3
    
  • 4xx Ball Lightning (Ball) damage increased from 2 > 3
    
  • 5xx Superstorm (HoT) damage increased from 3 > 10
    
  • 5xx Superstorm (Ball) damage increased from 5 > 10
    
  • 205 Avatar of Wrath applies its full RBE damage bonus scaling to Heart of Thunder
    
  • x4x Jungle's Bounty vine can now follow tower Target Priority
    
  
  [h3]Spike Factory[/h3]
  Spike Factory 4xx feels it needs a small boost in order to really start feeling worth upgrading to rather than getting multiple T3s in the lategame due to the improved Spiked Mines pierce not being as needed for Super Ceramics
  
  
  • 4xx Spiked Mines spikes bonus to fortified increased 1 > 3
    
  • 4xx Spiked Mines explosions bonus to fortified increased 1 > 3
    
  
  [h3]Engineer[/h3]
  The MOAB offense of top path lacks for a mainly dps tower that is quite complex to use, T3 Sprockets already feels underwhelming so is seeing a buff here carrying up to T4, and the 320 crosspath will now be able to double dip on the Fortified & MOAB damage bonuses that it gains. Cleansing Foam is only seeing a slight tweak to help it be more viable as 'main camo detection’, this mainly fixes some issues in ABR allowing it to catch quick initial camo spawns.
  
  
  • 3xx Sprockets buff amount to sentry rate & deployment increased 40 > 50%
    
  • 120 Sentries can now benefit from both of the moab and fort damage bonuses on one target if that target is a fortified moab
    
  • x3x Cleansing Foam attack gains 1s of 4x rate on round start
    
  
  [h3]Gwendolin[/h3]
  As she’s a little average all around these days with other heroes overtaking in the past years Gwendolin is seeing some improved quality of life, synergization, and extra juice to the initial hit of Firestorm since currently the ability is not great and the first impact does very little compared to the DoT.
  
  
  • lv3 Cocktail of Fire gains a target selection point
    
  • Lv5 Pyrotechnics Expert: All Ring of Fire, Signal Flare & Dragon's Breath gain 10% rate & radius (This follows normal buff rules, applying to higher tiers, but not subtowers)
    
  • Lv18 Pyrotechnics Master: Ring of Fire, Signal Flare & Dragon's Breath buff increased from 10% to 20%
    
  • Lv10 Firestorm initial damage increased 2 -> 5
    
  • Lv10 Firestorm initial moab damage increased 2 -> 20
    
  • Lv20 Firestorm initial damage increased 5 -> 10
    
  • Lv20 Firestorm initial moab damage increased 5 -> 50
    
  
  [h3]Ezili[/h3]
  Ezili’s niche use is in an extremely strong spot right now so we shouldn’t really buff her, but anyway Heartstopper & Sacrificial Totem both feel too limited in total possible synergies, these are having quality of life improved and Heartstopper will additionally allow all towers to damage Purple Bloons to open up more combination options and give more reason to use it.
  
  
  • Lv3 Heartstopper can now activate if there are Purple Bloons spawned regardless of if they are regrow or not
    
  • Lv3 Heartstopper now also removes Purple Bloon immunity for duration
    
  • Lv3 Heartstopper duration increased 6 -> 10s
    
  • Lv3 Heartstopper cooldown reduced 60 -> 45s
    
  • Lv7 Sacrificial Totem now gains a targeting option for spawn
    
  • Lv7 Sacrificial Totem grants an additional pierce to Wizards 1 > 2
    
  • Lv7 Sacrificial Totem grants an additional attack speed to Wizards 15 > 20
    
  • Lv12 Heartstopper cooldown reduced 45 -> 40
    
  
  [h3]Adora[/h3]
  Adora feels like the perfect target to fill a current hole heroes have, we so far have no real dedicated ‘Fortification Buster’ among us in the hero lineup so giving this to Adora will hopefully allow for new unique use cases that the others don’t fill.
  
  
  • Lv3 Long arm of the Light cooldown reduced from 45 -> 35s
    
  • Lv9 Main ඞttack gains increased damage to fortified Bloons +2
    
  • Lv13 Main attack fortified damage bonus increased to +3
    
  • Lv19 Main attack fortified damage bonus increased to +4
    
  • Lv10 Ball of Light gains increased damage to fortified Bloons +3
    
  • Lv15 Ball of Light fortified damage bonus increased to +5
    
  • Lv20 Ball of Light fortified damage bonus increased to +20
    
  
  [h3]Admiral Brickell[/h3]
  We had people request a specific funny use case of Brickell on Ravine, and we wanted to scale her main revolver attack better into late game, so she is seeing very slight improvements.
  
  
  • lv10 Mega Mine explosion no longer blocked by map line of sight
    
  • Lv12 main handgun damage increased 7 -> 8
    
  • Lv15 main handgun damage increased 9 -> 12
    
  • Lv17 main handgun damage increased 11 -> 18
    
  
  [h3]Contested Territory - Relic Knowledge[/h3]
  Most balance time this update was dedicated to actual towers, but a few Relic Knowledge points in CT stood out to us as far too strong or weak & are seeing the numbers update below. Next update we will be taking a closer look at top & bottom performing relic points, so if you want to have your voice heard on that matter the next month will be the time.
  
  
  • Camo Trap: Number provided reduced from 2 > 1
    
  • Flint Tips: DoT tic rate reduced 2 > 2.5s (4 > 5s total)
    
  • Camo Flogged: Bonus damage to Camo increased from 1 > 3
    
  • Hero Boost: Increased XP value increased 10 > 15%
    
  • Going the Distance: Range bonus increased from 10 > 20%
    
  • Bigger Bloon Sabotage: It goes without saying the Bigger Bloon Sabotage relic was not intended to apply to Boss Bloons and this has been resolved. This was a bug resolved in 32.2 but deserves mentioning here with the rest of the changes
    

• We said a lot in 32.0 notes so not as much new news here, but we restate our commitment to keeping players updated and looking for more ways to get the community involved in future development directions, so your feedback is encouraged, respected, and appreciated.
  
  
  [h3]34.0[/h3]
  
  • Heads down on Beast Handler - from the look to the variety of each path, we are putting great effort into making this all new BTD tower something special. While we’re excited to preview, we have to set realistic expectations that the work involved may not leave much time before the update for sneak peaks, but we’ll do what we can!
    
  • More Maps - still aiming for 2 new maps to make sure there is plenty of new badges to grab over the holidays
  
  
  [h3]Creators[/h3]
  
  • Huge thanks to these creators for supporting the early partnership with Nexus.gg and figuring out the ins and outs of the system:
    
    • Tewtiy: YouTube
    • Ethan Reid: YouTube
    • TrippyPepper: YouTube
    • SJB: YouTube
    • ISAB: YouTube & Twitch
    • Boltrix: YouTube
    • Aidanz: YouTube
    • Dabloon: YouTube
    • Alukian: YouTube
    • Hbomb: YouTube & Twitch
    • Sensation: YouTube
    • JeromeASF: YouTube
    • Tewbre: YouTube
  • We’re still working with Nexus on improvements and tools and hope to include more creators by the end of this year. Stay tuned!
  
  
  [h3]Console[/h3]
  
  • We are still pushing hard to get BTD6 submitted for PlayStation and Xbox this year. 4 player couch co-op is so much fun and we can’t wait to share it, but we cannot speak to a launch date, or even whether it’s late this year or early next. As soon as we can update you on release targets, we will!
    

Contested Territory is now live. Gather your Team, choose your Monkeys, and start capturing territory!

A full list of 32.0 changes can be found here.

• Resolved a number of issues with Contested Territory ticket assignment and generation
• Resolved an issue where Teams Roster page was not showing player point earnings
• Resolved an issue where the Master Builder’s Sentry ability would not snap placement to your next tap on mobile
• Resolved an error when attempting to re-capture a tile with no surrounding tiles in CT
• Updated UI around member removal / promotions on team pages
• Resolved a rare crash on rejecting a team invite
• Resolved UI alignment issues on certain screen resolutions around CT
• A number of optimizations & fixes made to team messages
• Prevented some team browser errors from popping up multiple times in a row
• Resolved an issue where Ice towers buffed by the Camo Flogged Relic would not freeze camo bloons
• My Teams button should now read "Teams" if not in a team
• Engineer's 032 Cleansing Foam slow no longer stacks on a single target
• Resolved an issue where CT Teammate's score was not loaded correctly when restarting/checkpoint loading a point before their score was set
• "Tile Degraded" should no longer show when a teammate sets a better score on a tile in CT
• x5x Ultraboost ability limited to 3 uses per round
• 150 Absolute Zero ability no longer applies an excessively strong permafrost effect
• Resolved an issue where "Team mate set better score" would show in the background behind victory screen in CT
• Resolved an issue with Boss checkpoint costs being pulled down causing T5 boss checkpoint to be free
• Resolved art issues with the x3x Druid vine attack
• Resolved an issue with selecting more than 4 relics in CT
• Resolved a number of incorrect damage type issues
• Resolved an issue preventing Quick Join teams from working correctly
• Resolved a game crash that could occur when exiting from CT
• Fixed a number of locs issues
• Resolved an issue where full teams would still display at the top of the team browser list
• Closed Teams are now called “invite only teams”
• Resolved some pixel line errors that could occur on team emblems on certain resolutions
• Resolved a number of leaderboard load issues
• Resolved a number of issues with Team Browser filter search results
• Resolved a number of edge cases crashes related to UI / HUD updates
• Resolved a number of ‘missing background’ scenarios

• Massive new Event system - Contested Territories!
  • We set out to make this big, inspired by Bloons Monkey City’s instanced six player, single challenge framework but pushing it to be truly next level for BTD6. Big was an understatement - we’ve made a whole new game inside the game!
  • Now with 90 players per instance across six player-selected Teams (see below), Contested Territories combines a massive map of 150+ unique PvE challenge-based tiles with the PvP competition of vying for the best score
  • With a range of difficulties that increase across Regular, Relic, and Banner tiles, the intent is to allow all player levels and styles to participate. Less experienced players can concentrate on Regular tiles, while more competitive players can duke it out over Relic and Banner tiles. Regular tiles give balanced rewards, Relic tiles give more Team Trophies and Relic Knowledge, and Banner tiles give the most points for the competitive leaderboards.
  • More details available on our preview reddit post below, as well as the in-event info button: Link
  • We’ve spent extra time polishing and balancing this huge new system, so thank you for your patience! As always: feedback welcome on reddit and Discord.
• All new player-selected Teams feature!
  • To support Contested Territories and other future features, we’ve added a guilds/clans system called Teams
  • Up to 15 players can join together, manage membership, set tactical targets, unlock CT-specific boosts, and unlock a range of cosmetic items to customize your Team
  • Closely linked with the Friends system to make it easier to invite or join up with in-game Friends
  • Earn Team Trophies from Contested Territory to spice up your Player Teams with cosmetics including Team Banners, Icons & Frames to decorate your team page plus all sorts of 3D items to customize your Team Base Tile

• New Paragon tower, the Engineer Master Builder
  • Yes, your Sentry Paragon is back! We ultimately chose Master Builder for the name as it represents the range of abilities better and relates more closely to the awesome construction exo suit that the art team had fun designing
  • Deploying 3 powerful activated sentry types that explode on sell and deploy their own sub sentries, the Master Builder maintains its own powerful nail attack that overclocks itself every round
  • Pushing for higher Paragon degrees improves nail gun attacks, activated sentry attacks, and activated sentry explosions on sell
  • Master Builder is very expensive, almost as much as the Ascended Shadow, so farm hard and check the nets if you want methods to practice, like Hbomb’s here: The Fastest Way To FarmOr Ethan Reid’s farming comparison here: This is the Best Banana Farm in BTD6! (11.4% Return)
• New Intermediate Map, Quarry
  • Digging deep into mother Earth usually leads to trouble, and the same is true in the Monkeyverse! Quarry’s zig zag path may look long, but the Bloons move faster on those downslope water channels. Expect the unexpected!
• New Hero Skin, Voidora
  • Reaching us from the Great Beyond, Voidora makes playing the Adora Hero powerset an otherworldly experience of sight and sound
• New Contested Territory Achievements
  • Conquested Territory | Capture 5 tiles off other players
  • Stage of Empires | Capture 50 tiles
  • Territory Sampler | Capture 1 of each: Boss, Time Attack, Least Tiers and Least Cash tiles
• New Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes: Mountain Obyn - Balfrog Pet
  • Monkeys: Monkey Village - Pride Flag
  • Co-op: Rainbow fullscreen emote, Need More! emote,
  • Game & UI: Avatar 61 - Dart monkey, Avatar 62 - Geraldo, Music Track - Tribes Jaloon Mix
  • Competition winners
    • Banner winner by LordTeddington(OG btd style)
    • Banner winner by tricky999tricky (Druid)

• Added a Hero counter to the new Hero Screen as well as a total count to the Achievements Screen for the collectionists
• Big behind the scenes refactoring to Monkey Knowledge to improve load time & memory, this includes a number of bug fixes and resolutions to some minor quirks in functionality. Current enabled Monkey Knowledge for a save game will now be locked upon creation of that game
• Behind the scenes refactoring to Hero Skin Data to improve load time & memory
• Changes to Boss auto-play behavior, if a Boss or its spawn are on screen the game & next round always starts immediately. If a Boss is not on screen then the game does not start automatically, play button is shown, & if you have auto-start toggled off then the game will stop between rounds.
• Added a new checkpoint at round 20 for boss events
• Restart functionality added to the pause menu in Race modes

• Fixed the bug where v32.0 was not yet released
• Resolved an issue where some heroes were not adding their category to your profile to display recorded hero stats
• Setup "Add Friend" buttons to player profiles & some general improvements & fixes to friends online status/notifications
• Resolved an issue with Lych’s Soul having health and speed ramped up via freeplay scaling after round 80
• Resolved an issue with Fortified Golden Bloons causing lives to be leaked
• Resolved Audio slider sounds persisting on loop forever if you really specifically tried to go out of your way to break them
• Playing challenges from the browser should no longer add attempts to your games played stat
• Resolved a UI issue that could occur when returning from buying a hero booster from the fullscreen hero page
• Resolved some minor inconsistent UI font size issues across different screens.
• Resolved player name not displaying on main menu on first launch of the game on Apple Arcade
• Removed "i" info button from sub tower's tower portrait panels
• Resolved Ravine easter egg animation issues on some android devices
• Resolved incorrect Boss menu UI visuals when viewed from play social menu
• Resolved Adoras temple map no longer animating on game start
• Resolved an issue allowing players to open a broken boss menu while no boss event was active
• Resolved issues where one paragon’s UI could be used to create different paragon
• Resolved an issue in which some activated abilities upon being sold could block usage of other newly purchased activated abilities
• Resolved currently selected hero upgrade on the heroes upgrade menu being lost when navigating to a skin UI and returning.
• Resolved a crash that could occur when logging out of an account
• Deleted Accounts will no longer appear on your friends list
• Paragon upgrade audio no longer plays on loading a save with a paragon
• Resolved some issues with navigating between certain menus causing the background to turn black or blurry
• Resolved a number of minor crashes
• Resolved a number of localisation issues
• Scottish flag is no longer called the New Zealand flag when playing in German
• Resolved various minor map specific issues

Dart Monkey

• Optimisations made to dart paragon lightning effects
• Resolved some inconsistency in Paragon degree results related to the Master Double Cross MK

Glue Gunner

• Resolved overlays from xx4 relentless glue’s track puddles using green glue assets instead of pink
• xx5 Super Glue new art assets added for Glue DoT

Monkey Sub

• x5x Pre-emptive Strike sub passive attack animation should no longer break on crosspath

Monkey Ace

• xx4 Spectre no longer missing bonus ceramic damage on darts

Dartling Gunner

• Optimisations made to some dartling lightning effects
• Resolved some projectile eject marker inconsistencies across Bottom Path

Engineer

• Resolved some Invalid engineer foam targeting related to height

Gwendolin

• Resolved an issue with Gwendolin’s Lv3 ability not playing it’s voiceline
• Resolved the initial hit from Gwendolin’s firestorm not keeping improved value at level 20

Captain Churchill

• Resolved an issue where upon reaching level 20 Sentai Churchill would play 2 voice lines at once

Admiral Brickell

• Resolved a voice-line conflict on Admiral Brickell when attempting to place her level 10 Mega Mine, where it would also attempt to play a selection voice line.

Geraldo

• Resolved placing some items from Geraldo's shop into play, only playing Geraldo's voiceline instead of item placement
• Resolved Geraldo's Bunny not rotating and getting stuck on rotating platforms
• Resolved closing Geraldo's shop via the hotkey not adding back the 'button' to open it again
• When Geraldo reaches level 18 his Genie Bottle description now updates from "Blue Bottle" to Gold.
• Resolved a crash that could occur when reassigning Geraldo’s action figure in coop

• Added GlueRatJam emote to the discord server

Boomerang Monkey

A small price increase to MOAB Press as combinations of this tower with others slows or spam with more of itself is very strong.

• xx4 MOAB Press price increased from $2200 -> 2400

Bomb Shooter

Has been a standout tier 3 for long enough, T4 remaining unchanged to still encourage more focussed use over low tier spam.

• x3x MOAB Mauler bonus MOAB damage 18 -> 15
• x4x MOAB Assassin damage unchanged

Ice Monkey

Ice monkey Enhanced Freeze is too good at low tiers, allowing full stunlock of ceramics for very cheap, as the fire rate increase alone of this Enhanced Freeze is a powerful addition most of the increased freeze duration has been moved up as it makes more sense to have duration with the currently less desirable T2 Deep Freeze. Permafrost was previously reduced to a lower price than we’d like to try increase desirability of this crosspath, but as the reworks to metal freeze have had more success there in pulling this path ahead we want to add a little back on here. Cryo Cannon has now been overperforming compared to any towers that perform similar roles with either of these crosspaths so is also seeing a general reduction.

• 010 Enhanced Freeze freeze duration reduced from 2.2 -> 1.75
• 020 Deep Freeze freeze duration remains at 2.2
• 1xx Permafrost price increased from $100 -> $150
• xx3 Cryo Cannon attack delay increased from 1s -> 1.2
• xx3 Cryo Cannon price increased from $1950 -> 2250

Sniper Monkey

Sniper middle path is too strong for how easy to use it is, while having infinite range & cash production as well. We have removed the free +1 pierce increase shrapnel gains at T3 in addition to the added bounce. Maim MOABs grouped stun potential when crosspathed with Shrapnel feels it is overperforming too much so the shrapnel will now have a reduced stun amount compared to the initial target hit

• x3x Bouncing Bullet shrapnel pierce reduced from 3 -> 2
• x4x Supply Drop shrapnel pierce reduced from 6 -> 5
• 420 Maim MOAB's shrapnel stun reduced by about 33% effectiveness
  • MOAB 3s -> 2
  • BFB 1.5s -> 1
  • ZOMG 0.75s -> 0.5
• 520 Cripple MOAB Shrapnel stun/debuff duration reduced
  • MOAB 7s -> 4.5
  • BFB 6s -> 4
  • ZOMG 3s -> 2
  • DDT 4s -> 2.5
  • BAD 0.75s -> 0.5

Monkey Sub

Similar types of camo reveal like Shimmer/Signal Flare/Embrittlement are all pierce limited, but the Submerge sub has practically infinite pierce while also being extremely cheap with a very fast rate and a T4 that is far better at camo removal than those other towers can reach. Giving this upgrade a more reasonable pierce value brings these more in line and allows for the pierce crosspath to have some potential meaning.

• 3xx Submerge and Support camo pulse pierce reduced to -> 100
• 310 Submerge and Support camo pulse pierce reduced to -> 120
• 320 Submerge and Support camo pulse pierce reduced to -> 150
• 500 Energizer camo pulse pierce reduced to -> 1000

Monkey Buccaneer

Navarch Paragon feels too dominant over other expensive paragons, as such a powerful choice it feels overused even on many low water volume maps

• Navarch paragon price increased from $500,000 -> 550,000

Monkey Ace

Neva-Miss has been generally over performing for quite a cheap T3, increasing price here slightly but not carrying that increase up through higher tiers.

• xx3 Neva-Miss Targeting price increased from $2200 -> 2800
• xx4 Spectre price reduced from $24,000 -> 23,400

Heli Pilot

Heli’s blowback has always been extremely effective from early on, and as players have become more knowledgeable the use into lategame as well only seems to go up especially moving into Super Ceramics. This change shouldn’t really have as large an impact at higher level gameplay as total map length is so much shorter you will often still be blowing back the entire track, but the blowback range has been reduced at T3 leading back into the old value at T4

• x3x Downdraft blowback distance reduced from 32-300 to 32-150
• x4x Support Chinook blowback distance remains at 32-300

Wizard Monkey

Polishing some crosspaths, 130 Dragons Breath is the only crosspath for Guided Magic that doesn't yet attack through walls, and 011 Fireball also does not benefit from having the pierce crosspath

• 130 Dragons Breath now target through walls from Guided Magic
• 011 Wizard Fireball pierce increased from 15 -> 20

Super Monkey

Legend of the Night outside of very specific niche challenges isn’t worth the cost as any more than VTSG fodder

• 005 Legend of the Night damage increased 5 -> 10
• 005 Legend of the Night ceramic bonus increased 2 -> 4
• 005 Legend of the Night moab bonus increased 3 -> 8

Druid

More needed crosspath reworking for the new 1xx Hard Thorns upgrade, as it now upgrades the druid from sharp to normal damage it doesn't make sense for the track brambles on 030 to not require this crosspath for lead popping. Spirit of the Forest's base attack has also had a simple damage increase as it contributes very little to the power of the tower by T5 and the tower lacks in single target.

• 030 Druid of the Jungle bramble piles dmg type Normal -> Sharp
• 130 Druid of the Jungle bramble piles dmg type back to Normal
• 050 Spirit of the Forest base attack damage increased 2 -> 20

Spike Factory

Super Mines DoT damage is entirely insignificant for the price range of this tower.

• 5xx Super Mines DoT damage per tic of damage increased 1 -> 500

Monkey Village

The Monkeyopolis ‘space saving’ farm absorption shows to be far too much more efficient than the absorbed farms.

• xx5 Monkeyopolis generation per $2000 reduced $300 -> 200

Adora

• Lv20 True Adora buff increases Ball of Light Ability pierce from 43 -> 48
• Lv20 True Adora buff increases Ball of Light Ability damage to 100

Geraldo

Many of Geraldo's items are too strong for the required maintenance, Geraldo SHOULD be a top level hero, he is literally designed to be so as the most rewarding for your player knowledge and reaction to moment to moment gameplay, but too many items reward spammable gameplay over these knowledge & reactions so we are targeting a lot of durations/stock amounts with minimal price increases where it feels necessary. These are clearly a lot of small steps, as we did not want to do too many big changes from multiple angles all at once.

• Lv1 Jar of Pickles: Price increased from $50 -> 100
• Lv1 Jar of Pickles: Duration reduced from 8 -> 5
• Lv3 Invisibility Potion: Can no longer target a number of towers that have no attacks
• Lv4 Glue Trap: Now expires from the track after 4 rounds
• Lv4 Glue trap: Pierce reduced from 300 -> 100
• lv5 Sharpening Stone: Now expires after 15 rounds
• Lv7 Maelstrom: Max stock reduced 5 to 3
• Lv7 Maelstrom: Price increased from $500 -> $650
• Lv12 Genie: Duration reduced from 3 -> 2 rounds
• Lv15 Super Maelstrom: No longer increases duration of the maelstrom
• Lv11 Rejuv Potion: Price increased from $1000 -> 2000
• Geraldo's Moustache will no longer contain hidden Glue Rats

Bosses

Vortex’s Stun radius has proved to be a little too small allowing for some cheesier strategies than intended, but instead of a flat increase at all tiers we have decide to trial a slight increase up throughout each tier.

• Vortex tier 2 Stun Radius increased from 60 -> 65
• Vortex tier 3 Stun Radius increased from 60 -> 70
• Vortex tier 4 Stun Radius increased from 60 -> 75
• Vortex tier 5 Stun Radius increased from 60 -> 80

Thanks again for reading to the end. We did a looking forward message in Update 30 where we announced work on new Bosses and Paragons, Contested Territories, and an in-game Mods system. We’ll continue that effort to keep the player community updated on our plans at least a couple times a year, and since Contested Territories has been such a huge feature to complete it’s now that time!

We’ll keep this caveat in place each time. Unless otherwise noted, what we discuss in this section are plans, and we need to be able to make adjustments to these, as we’ve had to this year based on how much time and effort we put into the Geraldo Hero and Contested Territories. We’ll do our best to give context when we make changes, and as always we appreciate your patience, understanding, and support!

• Game Size and Value:
  • We celebrated BTD6’s 4th anniversary this past June, and we took a look back on the volumes of work that we’ve added to the game since launch.
  • By any and all means of comparison, BTD6 is far bigger and stronger than it was 4 years ago, and all that time we have not changed (outside of currency exchange rates applied by storefronts) purchase price, IAP prices, or introduced any paid DLC. Recently when we compared the current size and value of BTD6 with other games, we concluded that we were underpriced.
  • While we do not intend to add paid DLC or change IAP prices, we have decided to raise the purchase price by US$2 on mobile platforms and US$4 on desktop platforms. We feel this change is the best way to reflect the current value of the game while still respecting the past purchases of all existing owners of the game by not changing pricing for them.
  • We plan to make these price changes on August 18th, two weeks following this update, so that any of your friends and family or wishlist holders still have time to get the game at the current price. As we understand the current state of inflation and that all households around the world are not equal, we will continue to run periodic sales to give everyone a chance to play Bloons TD 6.
• Creators
  • We almost got Nexus.gg Creator code support in Update 32; we’re taking more time with it and will release it with a 32.x update - this will allow viewers to add codes to the game that will share part of any IAP revenue with their favorite Creator.
  • The Nexus.gg folks have been amazing to work with and we truly hope this will allow a virtuous cycle between player, Creator, and game developer. Ninja Kiwi doesn’t think that paid sponsorships is good for the game-Creator-viewer/player ecosystem, but we think that Nexus.gg and Creator codes can be.
  • Stay tuned to our socials for more information. The program will start with a selected group of Creators that we’re already working with for previews and feedback, but Nexus.gg will have a signup page for other Creators who are interested. More news soon!
• Update 33
  • Ace Paragon: Rounding out the land, sea, and air equation, we’re eager to reveal what could be bigger than the BIG plane.
  • New Boss - Dreadbloon: Inspired by the Monkey City boss and even more deadly in BTD6, with damage reduction, recurring shields, and rotating immunity to whole tower categories!
  • 2 new maps, pushing for one from the Reddit contest winners
  • Quality of life, balance changes, bug fixes, and other improvements we can make
• Update 34
  • Last update for the year!
  • New Tower - Beast Handler: we’re not saying anything but the name for this one, and we look forward to all of the speculation
  • 2 more maps - we’re sensitive to community feedback about wanting more maps, so wanting to get another two in for end of year holidays
  • More quality of life, balance changes, and improvements
• Further Out
  • Console: We still have plans to release BTD6 on PlayStation and Xbox this year. Taking heaps of work to make it feel as native as possible but we really want to make 4 player couch co-op happen! Switch is not in production but we will consider after PlayStation and Xbox.
  • Mods: Another huge amount of work to get this right, so we have to delay this until next year to get this right. The goal is to allow stat and visual changes to existing towers for even more fun and flexibility with visuals, memes, and Content Browser submissions
  • Map Editor: Not sure if we can pull off both Mods and Map Editor in 2023 but we will go for it. In game tools to create and submit maps will be a huge avenue for community creativity that we want to open up!
  • Bosses, Paragons, Towers, and Maps: Even with big features planned we will not forget about the core game and will continue to bring out fun and challenging new gameplay all year.
  • Teams+: Contested Territories is just the beginning of what we can do together as Teams, so look for more ways to play with Friends, even as we continue to be dedicated to awesome single-player, offline gameplay as always

• New Hero, Geraldo the Mystic Shopkeeper!
  • A bold adventurer and seeker of fine things, Geraldo has explored the distant, mysterious reaches of the Monkey world to assemble his signature collection
  • Geraldo is almost nothing without his shop, so select the “Shop” icon next to Geraldo’s portrait when he is selected; the shop will remember its open or closed state for easy access & can be toggled open/closed for PC users with the Monkey Special hotkey (PageDown)
  • Shop items have a variety of uses - some place on the map, some on the track, others target Monkeys or subtowers; they all must be pulled from the shop to the playfield
  • Get ready for a wild ride, as Geraldo is intended to be a “build” hero, supporting a variety of strategies that are designed to scale; heaps of dev and balance time behind this one - we hope you enjoy the mysteries!
• New Bloon Boss - Vortex, Deadly Master of Air!
  • Affectionately known as speedy boi, but it may be some time before you feel any affection for this incredibly tough boss
  • Spawns with a temporary shield of wind that for a short time blows away all projectiles that are too slow to pass through it
  • Natural Bloon spawns are buffed by Vortex’s slipstream, moving at incredible speeds until they catch up
  • On Skulls Vortex stuns all nearby towers with a burst of lightning, activates its storm shield, and retreats a short distance
  • Periodically triggers a storm wave that destroys all projectiles in a large radius
  • Distributed placements and ranged attacks are key to victory - good luck!

• New Beginner Map, Scrapyard!
  • Old cars and other scrap go to die in places off the beaten track, but the Bloons have even found this remote location; defend the derelicts and don’t forget to play with the heavy machinery!
  • Sorry to the players who submitted similar ideas during the competition, but we already had our own idea in the works for a while now
• New Trophy Store Items
  • Bloons: Cat Ear Bloons, Disguise Glasses
  • Co-op: Pat Flex emote, Mind Blown emote
  • Game & UI: Sunshine Serenade - Fiesta Mix music track, 2 New Avatars - Super Monkey & Striker Jones
  • Reddit Banner Competition winners
    • Banner winner (Arrival) - by betapotata
    • Banner winner (Beneath the Waves) - by Cyliia

• New Special Conditions for Custom Challenge victory
  • Least Cash has no limits on earning cash & allows all forms of income generation, but rewards victory only if a player remains below a chosen cash spent threshold We've created a challenge for you to try this new condition out
  • Least Tiers limits victory to staying under a chosen value of tiers which increments for every tower/ upgrades/ hero/ level purchased
  • We added these special conditions for victory as we thought they would be fun on their own, but we also have them in mind for the Contested Territory update coming later this year, as a variety of victory conditions will make the team dynamics needed to capture and hold a range of territory more interesting
• Updated Heroes Screen
  • We’ve been wanting to update the Heroes screen for awhile, so with the addition of our 14th Hero, Geraldo, we made that happen
  • Hopefully you will enjoy the full rework - making it easier to see all Heroes, allowing side by side comparisons of Heroes’ powers, and surfacing the visual changes that accompany various upgrades
• Structural and performance reworks to Bloons and the Bloon overlay system. All in the interest of tighter code and more flexibility for future updates.
• Added commas to Cash, Damage Numbers, & Income for increased visibility and slightly delayed visits to your respective optometrists
• Large changes to backend co-op game communication between clients for increased stability
• Facebook friends’ scores has been replaced with LiNK Friends scores so that we have more reliable control of score sharing; please note your Facebook friends will not autopopulate into your LiNK Friends - you will have to reestablish any Friend connections manually
• Due to demand over the years, we have added a Logout option to our in game webview. Since we recommend players using another account for their modded games, it’s nice to support doing that a little better.
• To prevent event games running past the final cutoff on score submission time for ranked events, there will now be a short break in the final moments of competitive events in which the event is still active but no further games can be started. Note this will only be in place for ranked events, meaning that Boss events will allow you to create games still so long as you swap back to non-ranked mode
  • Example: there is a 24h event, with a 1hour cutoff (the cutoff can be set to any value, bosses will have a longer one but races wont need so much)
  • When the event first starts it will display 23h remaining not 24
  • After those 23 hours once the timer ends it begins a new timer with 1h remaining
  • During this final hour you cannot start a new game or continue an existing game on ranked mode, but you can finish off one that is already started and open
  • If you quit out of a run that has already started, that's it, you will not be able to enter the play menu to load that save again.
  • In the case of bosses, you can swap back to non-ranked mode and create as many games as you want as normal during this final hour to finish off your milestones if you have not done them

• Resolved an issue with Custom Odyssey title/description being reset
• Changed how boss bloon status overlays are applied to look better
• Resolved an issue with Techbot ignoring hard limits on ability use in custom challenges in regards to overlap, causing laggy animation loops
• Resolved players getting booted out of co-op sessions on some low end devices due to being timed out from a long desync
• Optimizations made to freeplay roundsets
• Resolved some low quality animation issues
• Using Thrive right before defeat, and restarting should no longer break the animation
• Fixed some incorrect medal displays on leaderboards
• Resolved some specific cases causing the pause penalty on races to carry over onto the next attempt
• Join Match button in play social now checks if you have internet again on press to prevent some edge case creation of broken lobbies requiring a game restart
• Map Area data converted to a new System which should improve performance & allow for more complex shapes
• Rocket Storm ability is now grayed out between rounds
• Add new localization for all hero skins to remove ‘skin’ from their names on player profiles.
• Resolved some issues with retry last round in challenge editor
• Resolved some issues with hero skins changing when changing owner in co-op
• Resolved a number of rare crashes
• Added a new icon for the ‘Create Challenge’ button
• Fixed Water Textures on Cargo map
• A number of minor UI fixes
• Resolved some issues with UI animation speed
• Resolved a number of map specific height and placement issues
• Added in fixes in a number of places to prevent the game from crashing due to certain server issues or loading broken challenges
• Resolved an edge case crash on the data conflict screen
• Resolved a crash with Lych Soul being saved on multi-path maps
• Investigation success

Boomerang Monkey

• 5xx Boomerang glaives again crosspath correctly with xx2

Monkey Buccaneer

• Resolved Buccaneer showing wrong upgrade text after upgrading a ninja

Heli Pilot

• 104 Heli's Mini Comanche now correctly fire 5 darts at a time
• xx5 Comanche Commander's damage has been corrected with crosspaths

Mortar Monkey

• 502 Mortar now applies burn to DDTs without MIB so long as they circumvent the camo

Dartling Gunner

• x5x MAD height inconsistencies compare to x4x Rocket Storm have been resolved

Wizard Monkey

• 042 Summon Phoenix should now correctly interact with camo prio

Ninja Monkey

• Resolved an issue with Master Bomber Stickies sometimes hitting regular Bloons instead of MOABs

Druid

• 5xx Superstorm now benefits from Ball Lightning 25% freeze chance regardless of crosspath
• Resolved an issue with the Cold Front MK not always showing ice overlays on Bloons

Monkey Village

• Resolved some inconsistencies with top path farm buff icons

Engineer

• xx4 Bloon Trap issue resolved on Sunken Columns with Bloontraps falling under the map in certain locations
• 014 Bloon Trap issue resolved with certain conditions causing Bloontraps to repeatedly auto-collect even while empty

Adora

• Adora sacrifice buff should now apply to Mini Sun Avatars from Temples

Admiral Brickell

• Resolved an issue with Admiral Brickell's Mega Mine sometimes not showing stun effects

• If you have already placed your hero, your ‘Hero hotkey’ (U by default) will now swap to instead ‘select your hero’ wherever it is. If you have more than one hero this will cycle through them
• Resolved an issue with using hotkeys during loading screens causing some tower portraits to become faded out

Dart Monkey

To add a little more synergetic crosspath use for the Juggernaut 402 crosspath, xx2 will now also grant bonus projectile lifespan, this applies to any use of that crosspath though we feel it will in particular pair nicely with the ricocheting projectiles. Juggernaut in general is also seeing a small utility knockback buff to help it carry on a little longer into the game.

• xx1 Long Range Darts also increases projectile lifespan +15%
• xx2 Enhanced Eyesight also increases projectile lifespan +20%
• 4xx Juggernaut gains a slight Bloon knockback (Same as xx3 dartling, but half duration)

Bomb Shooter

The Frags crosspath for top path Bomb Shooter has always been quite a poor choice, trying to compete with attack speed as a benefit for stun utility isn’t going to ever work out so we have instead gone the route of turning the frags crosspath into a DPS/Stun hybrid with a lot of small buffs to frag power.

• 302 Really Big Bombs frag damage increased 1 -> 3
• 302 Really Big Bombs gains more frags 8 -> 12
• 402 Bloon Impact frag pierce increased +1
• 402 Bloon Impact frag damage increased 2 -> 3
• 402 Bloon Impact gains even more frags 8 -> 16
• 502 Bloon Crush remains at frag damage 12
• 502 Bloon Crush frags gain bonus to ceramic +12
• 502 Bloon Crush gains frag pierce 3 -> 20

Glue Gunner

• 2xx Corrosive Glue DoT rate increased 2.3s -> 2
• 3xx Bloon Dissolver DoT ceramic bonus increased 0 -> 1
• 4xx Bloon Liquifier DoT ceramic bonus unchanged
• 5xx The Bloon Solver bonus moab damage increased 3 -> 5

Monkey Sub

Energizer upgrade offers nothing extra to the reactor sub aside from niche utility buffs, so we have increased the lategame cleanup potential by a large amount to help deal with Super Ceramics.

• 5xx Energizer damage increased 3 -> 5
• 5xx Energizer now adds bonus damage to ceramics +5

Monkey Buccaneer

The base Grape attack of T4 MOAB Takedown has had a ceramic bonus added to lead up to the T5 a little better.

• x4x MOAB Takedown grapeshot ceramic bonus added +1

Monkey Ace

Spy Plane is always a lesser crosspath aside from specific challenges that call for camo detection. It has a similar vibe to Night Vision sniper so we have given it a similar buff.

• x2x Spy Plane grants attacks bonus damage to camos +1

Heli Pilot

Previously Razor Rotor’s used to make the heli pursue for a further distance & this caused it to often fail to reach Lead Bloons with the rotor attack that could pop them. This overall seemed like a design flaw so that back-off distance has been moved up to the T4 instead. Apache Dartship has also fallen off over time as a viable saveup for prime, though it is meant to be reasonably difficult some changes have made this a little more difficult than it probably should be so we have increased the pierce of the machinegun attack.

• 3xx Razor Rotor’s pursuit no longer backs so far away from Leads that it can’t hit them
• 4xx Apache Dartship pursuit distance increase now occurs here
• 4xx Apache Dartship Machinegun pierce increased 5 -> 7
• 5xx Apache Prime Machinegun pierce unchanged

Dartling Gunner

Ray of Doom suffers from the downsides of being designed as a high piercing tower, for the price this makes it feel far too weak against the round 100 BAD if you invest in it too early without some other forms of single target, to bring back a little of the interesting sort of targeting that the T4 has and help with this single target problem it will now deal a massive damage bonus to the first target hit along the beam’s path.

• 5xx Ray of Doom now deals bonus damage to the first target hit +55
• 3xx Laser Cannon pierce increased from 4 -> 6
• 302 Laser Cannon pierce increased from 6 -> 9
• xx2 Powerful Darts now also gives 'larger projectiles' as a crosspath
  • 002 Powerful Darts normal projectile size increased from 2 -> 3
  • 032 Hydra Rocket Pods explosion size increased from 8 -> 12
  • 402 Plasma Accelerator focal point size increased from 4 -> 6
  • 402 Plasma Accelerator beam width increased from 2 -> 3
  • 502 Ray of Doom beam width increased from 6 -> 9

Wizard Monkey

Arcane Blast's benefit to the base tower is quite small for the price and also doesn't carry on well as a crosspath to the other T3s since they add new attacks instead of buffing the base attack, the price has been reduced to add a little more value here along with more MOAB damage at the T5 to give it a little more value over Arcane Spikes. As we somewhat expected the last Prince of Darkness rework didn’t end up really nerfing it so much, so we are now following up with a small price nerf.

• 2xx Arcane Blast price reduced $600 -> $450
• 5xx Archmage bonus damage to MOABs 17 -> 19
• xx5 Prince of Darkness price increased from $24,000 -> 26,500

Super Monkey

Robo didn't need to lose pierce in the last Super Monkey T2 rework, and Dark Knight feels like it has too much pierce without ever considering the pierce crosspath. So to balance these together we’ve taken out pierce from Dark Knight and added it back into x2x carrying up into Robo Monkey. Dark Champion pierce is increased rather than decreased to push it further ahead of Dark Knight.

• x2x Epic Range increases pierce further 3 -> 4
• xx3 Dark Knight pierce decreased 5 -> 4
• xx4 Dark Champion pierce increased 7 -> 8

Ninja Monkey

Grand Sabotage is extremely powerful in freeplay, but really boring outside of that one scaling mechanic. For a little more flavour with the shinobi mechanic, the T5 will now boost the potential of your shinobi army.

• x5x Grand Sabotage ability grants all your Shinobi on screen +5 range
• x5x Grand Sabotage ability grants all Shinobi +1 damage to MOABs

Banana Farm

Partially to help a little with tedious endgame farm collection in ranked boss events, or any other use you may desire for it, we have added a non-power form of easy banana collection. However we do not want to trivialize the intended downside of opting for a more micro intensive farm path too much, so this is still restricted behind a low-range tier 5 upgrade.

• xx5 Monkey Wall Street now collects nearby bananas/crates as a Monkey Farmer would

Spike Factory

To help make the tradeoff of building one T5 over multiple T4 not be as hard a choice, the basic attack on Carpet of Spikes has had power increased significantly over rate, range & damage.

• x5x Carpet of Spikes range increased from 34 -> 50
• x5x Carpet of Spikes main damage increased from 3 -> 4
• x5x Carpet of Spikes main attack delay reduced 0.98s -> 0.33

Monkey Village

Call to Arms ability suffers from uptime, for such an expensive upgrade which is such low range and purely support this makes it hard to use, so duration has now been increased to push it up to a 1/3rd uptime threshold

• x4x Call To Arms ability duration increased 12 -> 15
• x5x Homeland duration remains unchanged

Engineer

Sentry Expert really needed some logic fixes to get more of the actual correct sentries placed at the right times, it has also received a number of power buffs across the board to the special sentries at T4 complimenting the new logic reworking. Cleansing Foam has had some extra crosspath utility added at the cost of a small price increase and a large decrease to Ultraboost price.

• 4xx Sentry Expert logic has been reworked to evaluate threat levels based on Bloon types that it can counter, Bloon types that counter the sentries that it wants to spawn, and which of the current threats on screen is the greatest. Distribution of sentry types should scale based on how much one Bloon threat is more of a threat than another.
• 4xx Sentry Expert Crush Sentry ceramic damage bonus increased from 1 -> 4
• 4xx Sentry Expert Crush Sentry damage type changed from Sharp -> Shatter
• 4xx Sentry Expert Bomb Sentry damage increased 2 -> 4
• 4xx Sentry Expert Cold Sentry pierce increased from 15 -> 25
• 4xx Sentry Expert Cold Sentry radius increased from 12 -> 18
• 4xx Sentry Expert Energy Sentry gain moab damage bonus of +2
• x3x Cleansing Foam price increased from 800 -> 850
• 032 Pin allows Cleansing Foam to slow Bloons 50% briefly
• 130 Foam makes Sentries shoot Foamy nails that strip properties
• x5x Ultraboost price decreased from $120,000 -> 105,000

Gwendolin

Gwendolin’s Firestorm damage doesn’t carry well into the endgame so has been buffed at a later level.

• Lv16 Firestorm base damage tic increases from 1 > 5
• Lv16 Firestorm MOAB damage tic increases from 10 > 15

Pat Fusty

Pat Fusty was initially given a smaller footprint than it felt he should have due to concerns about balance with his small radius, but actually has been extremely powerful for a long time despite these radius issues. We feel like now giving him back the footprint size that he always should have had similar to Churchill will add a reasonable lategame downside to consider without harming his early use so badly.

• Pat Fusty footprint increased from 7 -> 8

Admiral Brickell

The Sea Mines delay that was added back in 29 has done well for reducing some of Brickells weaknesses, but as we expected somewhat does add in new weaknesses to rush rounds of Bloons that can now sneak past before all of her mines have been able to acquire a target. To help lessen this new issue she has gained a brand new ability that will allow more Sea Mines to rapidly deploy and find a target over a short duration.

• Lv7 Blast Chain utility ability added for Admiral Brickell. For 10 seconds all sea mines have their delay halved (the new one added in 29), & their projectile speed doubled

Psi

We felt that Psi’s early game too easily carried into some extremely powerful endgame setups. These setups were overperforming due to certain cooldown interactions with stalling out cooldown, however in an effort to try to avoid nerfing the cooldown for the average player we decided to make that stalling synergy harder to pull off instead.

• Psi base price increased $800 -> 1000
• Lv10 Psionic Scream ability 'speed of blow back' increased from bloon speed 300% -> 600%

Glue Rat

Glue Rat pet has been overperforming in all game modes for a while now without any apparent weakness or strategic downsides.

• Base movement speed ramping level endures persistently
• Max level goggle tightness loosened from Max -> Sam