Bloons TD 6 News

• New Collection Event! Thought you were going to spend every game tapping on eggs? Try this instead!
  
• New skin:
  
  • Ocean Guardian Skin - We came from the Oceans, and we shall return to the Oceans.
• New map:
  
  • Spring Spring! A map so good we named it twice.

• Insta-Monkeys will now pop-up showing their correct portrait when received
  
• We have reverted our Unity version until issues repeatedly causing texture issues to occur on Android are resolved. This should not cause any overall issues
  
• Fixed a memory leak/crash when loading the events panel while not connected to the internet
  
• ! Users receiving ‘broken’ insta-monkeys should no longer have a notification on their powers menu permanently stuck
  
• Save Conflict screen should no longer occasionally display a very large number in seconds
  
• Random insta-monkeys can now be awarded as in-game rewards
  
• Double Cash mode has been moved to an “extras” menu within the options page
  

Glue Gunner

• x5x Glue Gunner should no longer apply glue to MOABs without the 2xx upgrade
  

Sniper Monkey

• xx5 Elite Defender works again
  

Monkey Sub

• 4+xx buffs now apply correctly to other towers
  

Heli Pilot

• x5x Special Poperations now spawns the marine in the correct location again
  

Mortar Monkey

• 5xx The Biggest One can now deal damage to non-camo DDTs
  
• xx5 Blooncineration will now display correctly on any map with terrain height
  

Ninja Monkey

• xx2 Caltrops will no longer count to other towers’ damage counts when the main ninja is sold
  

Alchemist

• Alchemist Dips and Brews now add a visual indicator to towers buffed
  
• Alchemist buffs should no longer miss their target and buff another tower nearby
  
• x5x Total Transformation should no longer cause crashes when used in a number of situations
  

Striker Jones

• Added a special art asset for Striker’s level 10 ability
  

Captain Churchill

• Fixed an issue where reaching level 20 did not buff Churchill’s level 10 ability
  

Benjamin

• Bank Hack should now work correctly for newly placed banks
  

Pat Fusty

• Pat Fusty’s level 3 ability no longer gives the level 14 bonus at level 3
  
• Resolved an issue with Pat sometimes not animating briefly after performing a slap
  
• Pat can no longer grab BADs as additional targets when grabbing another MOAB nearby
  

• Custom hotkeys should no longer distinguish between left or right for SHIFT/CTRL, both left and right for these will be treated as the same key. Please note that if you previously used a custom hotkey setup with SHIFT or CTRL, you may need to re-bind these hotkeys again for them to work.
  
• Having your device power off while the game is open should no longer break the game
  
• Resolved an issue with loading the game which would prevent players from progressing past the start menu
  
• Hovering over upgrades in-game should now bring up info for that upgrade
  
• We have reverted our engine version until some performance issues within Unity are resolved. This should not cause any overall problems with the game.
  

Glue Gunner

• xx5 Super Glue pierce increased +5
  
• xx5 Super Glue once again stuns MOABs and DDTs completely
  
• xx5 Super Glue slow against BFBs increased from 90% -> 95%
  

Monkey Ace

• x3x Bomber Ace bomb damage reduced from 4 ->3
  
• x3x Bomber Ace cooldown increased from 1.5s -> 1.7s
  
• 130 Bomber Ace will now benefit from the 40% rate increase crosspath, lowering rate from 1.7s -> 1.02s
  
• x4x Ground Zero, no one really noticed that this gained +8 damage for 10 seconds after ability use. So, Bombs dropped by this tower now deal 10 damage permanently
  

Mortar Monkey

• xx4 Shattering Shells price increased from $10,000 -> $11,000
  

Wizard Monkey

• x3x Dragon’s Breath now applies a burn Damage Over Time equal to Mortar’s Burny Stuff to any Bloon it touches.
  

Super Monkey

• 1xx Laser Blasts price reduced from $2700 -> 2500
  
• 2xx Plasma Blasts pierce increase reduced from 2 -> 1
  
• 2xx Plasma Blasts price reduced from $5000 -> $4500
  
• 3xx Sun Avatar price increased from $21,000 -> $22,000
  
• x2x Epic Range now gives attacks pierce +1
  
• x2x Epic Range now gives attacks projectile speed +25%
  
• x3x Robo Monkey pierce increased from 5 -> 6
  
• xx3 Dark Knight pierce increased from 2 -> 3
  

Druid

• 5xx Superstorm, Super Storm damage increased 5 -> 12
  
• 5xx Superstorm, Ball Lightning damage increased 2 -> 5
  
• 5xx Superstorm, Lightning damage increased 1 -> 3
  

Spike Factory

• 5xx Super Mines base spike damage increased from 1 -> 10
  

Quincy

• Price reduced from $700 -> $540
  

Captain Churchill

• Just like Quincy, Captain Churchill’s level 3 Armour Piercing Shells ability has had its duration reduced from 10 to 8 seconds, however, this duration is increased by 0.5 seconds for every level Churchill has.
  
• Captain Churchill’s level 10 MOAB Barrage Ability cooldown reduced from 90s -> 60
  
• Captain Churchill’s level 20 MOAB Barrage Ability cooldown reduced from 60s -> 30
  

Challenge Editor:
Ceramic Health can now be increased to 2000%

Key Features & additions

• New Hero!
  
  • Pat Fusty is a GIANT Monkey with powerful abilities.
    
• New advanced map
  
  • Pat’s Pond: I like that boulder, that is a nice boulder.
    
• Biker Bones rides again! Time for some monkey vengeance!
  
• Community Challenge Editor:
  
  • Can now be accessed from the Events Monkey, allowing the creation of custom challenges which can be shared with a code to friends or submitted for Ninja Kiwi review and possible inclusion in future standard or advanced Daily Challenges. Or you can just roll a random challenge to have fun with.*Submitted challenges must be able to be completed without powers or continues.
    

Bug Fixes & General Changes

• Some general minor difficulty increases for freeplay
  
• New Sandbox Icons for all MOAB-Class Bloons
  
• Sandbox now has 2 new testing tools ‘Reset Cooldowns’ and ‘Reset Damage Counters’
  
• Daily Challenges can now be given a Spawn Seed for Freeplay & Apopalypse, meaning challenges can be set in Apopalypse & rounds above 100 while also allowing all players to see the same spawns and share working strategies in these cases.
  
• Muddy Puddles lane rotation has been changed. Instead of looping back to lane 1 after round 4, the Bloons will now reverse back down 3, then 2 and repeat the cycle from lane 1 again.
  
• The Damage Counter on towers has had its maximum value increased considerably and should no longer go into negative values
  
• Fixed some issues causing save files with lots of towers to crash
  
• Track projectiles should no longer clip through the bridge on Dark Castle
  
• Fixed an issue with bloon groupings which was causing round 101+ ‘Freeplay Purple’ groups to spawn in a single cluster with no spacing.
  
• Fixed an issue with some abilities receiving incorrect buffs from external sources
  
• Powers should no longer be able to bypass daily challenge limits
  

Glue Gunner

• x25 Super Glue should correctly stun all regular Bloons
  

Sniper Monkey

• 4xx Maim MOAB will no longer apply stun visuals to BADs
  
• 4xx Maim MOAB correctly applies stun art
  
• x3x Bouncing Bullet should no longer get stuck on the track between jumps
  

Monkey Sub

• 23x Ballistic Missile should now correctly have unrestricted range
  
• x4x First Strike should no longer crash the game when destroying a BAD
  
• 5xx Energizer Sub should correctly apply bonus XP to heroes
  
• xx5 Sub Commander description translation has been fixed
  
• xx4 Subs will now rock in the water correctly. Rock on my navy friends, rock on.
  

Monkey Ace

• x5x Tsar Bomba correctly applies stun art
  

Heli Pilot

• x4x Support Chinook should no longer revert placement settings after being canceled
  

Mortar Monkey

• 5xx The Big One has new explosion art
  
• xx5 Blooncineration should be able to apply burn to DDTs
  

Super Monkey

• 4xx Sun Temple should no longer lock your hero if the hero is too close and de-spawns
  

Ninja Monkey

• xx5 Master Bomber correctly applies stun art
  

Alchemist

• 5xx Permabrew should correctly apply when reloading save again
  
• 5xx Permabrew should no longer break in some cases after being sold
  
• x3x and xx4 Attacks can now be thrown over obstacles
  

Monkey Village

• x5x Homeland Defense description has been upgraded to reflect the new duration
  

Benjamin

• Trojan art now sits correctly on MOABs
  
• Now allows 2xx Monkey Subs to attack in his range
  

Ezili

• Ezili’s level 4 splash AoE should no longer center around her if she completely destroyed the target in one hit
  

Obyn Greenfoot

• Totem’s no longer allow 2xx subs to see Camo Bloons
  

Desktop Version

• Resolved an issue sometimes causing the abilities list to not show on the side
  
• Resolved a gameplay simulation crash that could occur, causing lots of strange bugs to persist until restarting
  
• Perfect Week Achievement should now unlock correctly
  
• Heli Pilot patrol points should be saved correctly
  
• The resolution should no longer be allowed to shrink so small that it prevents gameplay.
  
• The Heroes section from the main menu should now allow hover functionality
  
• Pressing the changelog button will no longer cause the game to softlock
  
• Fixed some issues that could occur when a hotkey was set on its own, with the same key being used with a SHIFT activation
  
• Re-worked ‘multi-placement’. Holding a tower hotkey will now allow you to place that tower repeatedly while the key is being held without the SHIFT key
  
• Multi-placement will no longer allow various daily challenge limits to be ignored
  
• Typing into boxes (Mainly in sandbox) will no longer trigger any hotkeys assigned to the keys being typed
  
• SHIFT + Space can no longer be used to continue sending rounds during Race Events after failing
  
• Hotkeys should NOT be defaulted when swapping between mobile & desktop versions UNLESS the mobile version is older than 8.1. But we are aware of some reports here, so If any issues with this continue to persist in 9.0 please contact our support team https://support.ninjakiwi.com/hc/en-us

Balance Changes

Boomerang Monkey

• x5x Perma Charge ability cooldown reduced from 45s to 40
  

Tack Shooter

• x4x Maelstrom projectiles are no longer deleted at the end of the round in Race events
  

Monkey Sub

• x5x Pre-emptive Strike price reduced from $40,000 to 35,000
  

Monkey Buccaneer

• 4xx & 5xx Aircraft Buccaneer will now retain the 3xx rate boost to their basic attack
  

Monkey Ace

• xx3 Neva-Miss Darts should no longer perform considerably worse with the Accelerated Aerodarts knowledge active
  

Heli Pilot

• 4xx Apache Dartship price increased from $19,500 to 19,600
  

Mortar Monkey

• 5xx The Biggest One deals 3x damage to any Ceramic or higher, that’s a little spooky.
  
• 5xx The Biggest One price increased from $24,000 to $28,000
  
• 2x5 Blooncineration’s Wall of Fire will now benefit from the Radius, Pierce and Damage buffs that the top crosspath offers.
  

Super Monkey

• x4x Tech Terror ability radius increased from 40 to 60
  
• x5x The Anti Bloon ability radius increased from 90 to 100
  
• xx5 Legend of the Night pierce increased from 9 to 21
  
• xx5 Legend of the Night damage increased by 1
  

Ninja Monkey

• 5xx Grandmaster Ninja pierce has been increased from 4 to 6
  

Druid

• xx2 Heart of Vengeance 10% of the maximum possible 100% attack rate boost from lives lost is now permanently applied upon upgrading. This 10% bonus will always apply to any druid with this upgrade, even in Impoppable & CHIMPS modes
  

Benjamin

• Benjamin’s abilities are no longer cleared whenever a round ends
  
• Fixed a bug where towers ‘deactivated’ by Benjamin’s Biohack could have their abilities activated, but not spawn any projectiles, wasting the ability.
  

Ezili

• Ezili’s level 10 MOAB Hex ability can jump to the next-strongest target if its main target is destroyed before the duration expires, there is no limit to the number of jumps but the duration will not be refreshed.
  

• New Map KartsNDarts
  Stop the bloons speeding around this new fast-paced intermediate track
  
• Reverse mode has been more reversed
  The spawning order of each round has been reversed. E.g Round 13 will spawn 23x Green Bloons then 50x Blue instead of the usual 50x Blue then 23x Green.
  
• 3D MOABs have arrived for natural spawns & Prince of Darkness
  3D MOABS!
  
• New Churchill Sentai skin added
  It’s Morphing Time!
  
• Additional Insta Monkeys will now be awarded for every 100 rounds completed in freeplay
  

Bug Fixes & General Changes

• In-game patch notes menu should no longer be buggy
  
• Game layout fixed for iPhone XS
  
• Races should no longer crash in relation to the use/selling of Bomber Aces, or any other towers suffering from this same issue.
  
• Layering issue when holding daily challenge icons for descriptions resolved
  
• Some large issues with game time & speed have been resolved in many places
  
• Heroes with special skins now use the correct voices in the main menu
  
• Knockback effects on Bloons will no longer “cut them in half”
  
• Spice Islands perma holidays fixed
  
• Peninsula no longer allows water towers to be placed on land
  
• Peninsula no longer stops some towers from functioning (Spirit of the Forest/ Bomber)
  
• Fixed an issue with Ice and Glue monkey targeting that caused them to sometimes not target MOABs
  
• Ice Monkey:
  Ice Monkey x3x Arctic Wind should now freeze the water on Logs
  Ice Monkey x4+x descriptions updated
  
• Glue Gunner:
  Glue Gunners should now work correctly on Chutes
  
• Monkey Sub:
  Monkey Sub’s Advanced Intel should no longer fail to correctly home on the first shot fired each round
  Monkey Sub x4x First Strike Capability will no longer lock up the game when hitting black bloons
  
• Heli Pilot:
  Heli Pilot’s xx5 Mini-Comanche will now correctly deduct from alchemist brew charges
  
• Mortar Monkey:
  Mortar Monkey 4xx should now correctly damage DDTs when given detection
  Mortar Monkey xx4 now counts damage dealt from fortifications being stripped
  Mortar Monkey xx5 burn duration fixed, it will now deal 1 extra tic of damage over time
  Mortar Monkey Descriptions updated
  
• Wizard Monkey:
  Resolved an issue causing Wizard’s Wall of Fire to deal damage much faster than intended
  
• Super Monkey:
• Super Monkeys now correctly sacrifice Arctic Wind monkeys when upgraded to temples, instead of selling them
  
• Ninja Monkey:
  Ninja xx4 Sticky Bomb should no longer be removed by glue gunners in any case
  
• Alchemist:
  Alchemist 2xx now correctly allows Ice Monkeys to pop lead
  Alchemist xx5 Bloon Master Alchemist can no longer cause the round to prematurely end
  
• Monkey Village:
  Monkey Village xx5 Monkeyopolis will no longer cause sacrificed farms to deduct from total in Daily Challenges
  
• Banana Farms:
  Resolved an issue with Banana Farms not always generating the correct cash amount in races
  
• Ezili:
  Ezili’s descriptions updated
  Ezili can no longer strip properties from Purple Bloons
  Ezili’s MOAB hex will no longer fail to destroy MOABs with the Big Bloon Sabotage knowledge enabled
  Ezili’s level up curve has been fixed, she will now advance slightly slower
  Ezili’s damage counter should now actually count her damage dealt correctly with MOAB Hex
  Ezili’s Sacrificial Totem will no longer crash the game when trying to view the upgrades panel
  
• HeartstopperAbility Ability, HeartstopperAbility Ability Description
  

• Double Cash can be correctly purchased
  
• Comanche should no longer cause dialogs to appear randomly
  
• Language translation issues have been resolved, steam now has access to all languages
  
• Trading cards are now available
  
• All achievements should correctly count progress and complete
  
• Mortar will now allow you to pick a new target location with the ‘TAB’ hotkey
  
• The ‘ESC’ hotkey will no longer exit back to the main menu from a ‘Defeat’ screen
  
• ‘Click and Hold’ details options in the UI have been changed to appear on ‘Hover’
  
• Hotkeys can now be remapped to your liking
  
• Some changes to default hotkeys;
  - Number keys by default now activate abilities
  - <>? Keys now all upgrade your hero when it is selected
  - Bloon spawns in sandbox now use SHIFT + Number
  - CTRL + ~ (Tilde) key now spawns the Ghost bloon in sandbox
  - Powers outside of sandbox now use CTRL + Number
  - You can now send the next round in Races with SHIFT + Space
  
  

• Dart Monkey
  xx5 Crossbow Master critical shot appearance increased about 10->8
  
• Boomerang Monkey
  x3x Bionic Boomerang damage to moabs +1
  
• Bomb Shooter
  4xx Bloon Impact will now refresh stun duration when hitting stunned Bloons
  
• Tack Shooter
  xxx Tack Shooter base attack rate increased 1.6s->1.4s
  5xx Inferno Ring additional attack: Launches a homing meteor at 'strong', cooldown 7s, damage 700, speed 100, pierce 1, infinite range. (Definitely check this out! It makes short work of round 98)
  
• Glue Gunner
  5xx The Bloon Solver damage per tick to ceramic and MOAB class increased 2->3
  x5x Glue Storm bloons caught in the storm now take additional damage while glued +1
  xx5 Super Glue price reduced from $40k->35k
  xx5 Super Glue slow percentage on moabs reduced from 100% to 90%
  xx5 Super Glue deals damage to moabs upon impact 0->50
  
• Wizard Monkey
  x2x Wall of Fire price reduced $1300->$900
  x3x Dragon's Breath Wall of Fire fire rate increase 5.5s -> 4.5s
  x4x Summon Phoenix damage increased 1->2
  
• Ninja Monkey
  xx4 Sticky Bomb detonation timer reduced 4s->3s
  xx5 Master Bomber sticky bomb now stuns moabs for 1s on impact (before detonation)
  xx5 Master Bomber flash bomb now stuns moab class for 25% of the duration
  xx5 Master Bomber flash bomb damage increased from 1->5
  
• Alchemist
  5xx Permabrew Acidic Mixture Dip duration increased 10 shots -> infinite
  x5x Total Transformation - cooldown reduced 60s->40s
  
• Sniper Monkey
  5xx Cripple MOAB price reduced $50k->40k
  
• Monkey Sub
  x3x Ballistic Missile fire rate increased 2s -> 1.5s
  x5x Preemptive Strike’s ballistic missile rate increased 2s -> 0.5s
  xx5 Sub Commander now also buffs itself
  xx5 Sub Commander now has double the attack rate
  
• Monkey Ace
  xx3 Neva-Miss Targeting projectile lifespan +50%
  xx3 Neva-Miss Targeting projectile speed +50%
  xx3 Neva-Miss Targeting increased homing tightness to accommodate new speed
  5xx Sky Shredder - damage from radial darts increased 2->3
  xx4 Spectre price increased $18k->$24k
  xx4 Spectre dart damage increased 1->2
  xx4 Spectre bomb damage increased 2->3
  xx5 Flying Fortress dart damage increased 2->4
  xx5 Flying Fortress bomb damage increased 3->5
  
• Heli Pilot
  4xx Apache Dartship price increased $16,400->19,500
  4xx Apache Dartship rocket damage increased 1->2
  4xx Apache Dartship machine gun fire rate increased by 25%
  5xx Apache Prime machine gun damage increased 3->5
  5xx Apache Prime moab rocket damage increased from 11->16
  
• Mortar Monkey
  1xx Bigger Blast radius has been increased slightly
  4xx The Big One cost reduced $10k->8k
  4xx The Big One blast radius increased
  5xx The Biggest One cost reduced $30k->$24k
  5xx The Biggest One blast radius increased by a big amount
  x3x Heavy Shells now deals extra damage to MOAB class bloons +1
  xx5 Blooncineration can now damage all Bloon types
  xx5 Blooncineration price reduced $55k->$50k
  xx5 Blooncineration now creates a wall of fire at impact location similar to x2x Wizard
  
• Spike Factory
  3xx Spiked Balls damage to ceramics increased 3->4
  4xx Spiked Mines damage increased 4->5
  x3x MOAB SHREDR damage to moabs increased 4->5
  x5x Carpet of Spikes damage to moabs increased 5->6
  1x5 Perma-Spike Bigger Stacks pierce buff increased from +10->20
  
• Monkey Village
  5xx Primary Expertise primary towers pierce bonus increased 2->4
  5xx Primary Expertise Ballista attack increased to 200 damage to moabs AND ceramics
  x4x Call to Arms price reduce from $24k -> $20k
  x5x Homeland Defense duration increased 15s -> 20s
  x5x Homeland Defense buff power increased from +50%->100%
  
• Obyn Greenfoot
  Obyn base damage increased 1->2
  Level 2, magic monkey pierce increase from 1->2
  Level 9, damage buff increased from 1->2
  Level 14, damage buff increased from 1->2
  Level 19, damage buff increased from 1->2
  
• Captain Churchill XP requirements have been reduced by 10%
  
• Any x4x or x5x towers with Cash Generating abilities will now start with their ability on maximum cooldown when purchased