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Bloons TD 6 - Patch Notes! Version 17.1

Bug Fixes & General Changes
  • Resolved an issue preventing many specific achievements
  • Resolved a rare crash upgrading Wizard to x5x
  • Fixed temple texture in the background on the main menu
  • Fixed removable object textures on spillway
  • Fixed layering on Frozen Over from awarding correctly
  • Resolved a save data issue causing decreased performance and memory crashes
  • Resolved an issue where 500 Monkey Ace would target DDTs (But deal no damage)
  • Resolved an issue where 520 Monkey Ace could not damage DDTs
  • Wizard Lord’s minor Phoenix at x5x is now permanently permanent at all times
  • Supermonkey’s Darkshift now has audio
  • Monkey Ace darts will no longer hit Camo Bloons without 520
  • Effects will now render higher on Candy Falls
  • Improved jukebox performance & added some polish that didn’t make 17.0
  • Resolved an issue where 042 Buccaneer Bombs would not hit camo
  • Resolved an issue where recent 4xx Village buffs were lost at T5
  • Engineers chosen as Door Gunners will now drop Sentries directly under the heli
  • Adora can no longer target Door Gunners for sacrifice
  • Resolved an issue that could randomly cause multiple towers to sell at the same time
  • Sniper Monkeys will no longer shoot during transit on regular Redeploy
  • Resolved an issue preventing recently recovered Mana Shield from saving
  • Resolved a visual issue where Supermonkey xx5 Legend of the Knight’s Bloon Portal asset what not correctly clearing upon the tower being sold even though the effect ended
  • Resolved an issue attempting to redeploy a Dark Knight during Dark shift
  • Resolved an issue where Dark Knight’s placed on Arctic Wind platforms could teleport onto water, instantly causing them to sell themselves
  • Resolved a crash with Techbotting Dark Knight
  • Resolved a bug with turning off MK with an active door gunner
  • Resolved a bug with spawning marines during redeploy
  • Resolved a crash when collection events end while in a match
  • Resolved a crash when restarting and hitting back on android at the same time
  • Resolved an issue causing autostart to sometimes not work in co-op
  • Resolved a specific case crash during the tutorial
You can see the full changes for 17.0 here.

Bloons TD 6 - Patch Notes! Version 17.0

Awesome New Stuff
  • Jukebox added - You can now play your favorite tracks on any map
  • New Gwendolin Skin - Harlegwen
  • New Beginner Map: Candy Falls. I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true
  • Brand New Monkey Knowledge:
    • Ambush Tech - Allows Tech Bots to set a location for Bloons to enter before triggering their linked abilities
    • Door Gunner - Allows x5x Heli to pick up a T4 or below tower to attack from the Heli
    • Vine Rupture - Allows x5x Druid to detonate its vines setting off lots of small 150 damage explosions across the track which stun for 10 seconds
Key Features
  • Rules popup added to challenges to show more details on what rules are changing
  • Added a short pause before the victory screen pops up
  • Added a once per update Patch Notes popup
Some things we are aware of already
  • Jukebox currently has no skip option, but we plan to look into this
  • Co-op resyncing has been improved, it should run faster now but you may notice rounds ‘prematurely ending’ with Bloons on screen being removed if you are caught in a desync
  • Monkey Bank’s collection buttons moved
  • Removing obstacles on spillway currently shows some white squares
  • Some daily challenge rules display far too many decimal places
Bug Fixes & General Changes
  • Round hints can be dismissed again
  • Resolved some issues with the slider for path restrictions in the Challenge Editor
  • Resolved some translation issues
  • The ‘Continue’ popup will no longer close from mis-tapping inside the box
  • Resolved a crash that could occur when loading cloud data
  • Co-op stat “Bloons Popped” has been changed to “Pop Count”
  • Added some messaging and UI to indicate tower restrictions in challenges
  • Resolved some server sided issues that had started causing problems on all versions
  • Updated messages for incompatible lobby versions
  • Co-op resync should now be less obvious
  • Collection event should visually show correct values on the co-op menu now
  • ‘Small’ upgrade panels fixed, for towers with no upgrades
  • Resolved a rare crash when quitting from a game
  • Optimised light beam effects across many maps
  • Android Back Button should again work on the main menu
  • Reduced memory spike during co-op resync to lessen crashes when this occurs
  • Placing Insta Monkey towers should no longer leave gaps in the Powers menu UI
  • Removed Freeplay speed cap
  • The Greatest Challenge achievement no longer only records creations
  • Powers no longer count as towers for the tracking of some achievement purposes
  • Monkey Knowledge Mana Shield description updated
  • Monkey Knowledge Military Conscription reduced from 50% to 33%
  • Resolved a crash when removing obstacles and restarting
  • Resolved a rare issue with removable assets becoming stuck on screen after restarting
  • Added an arrow from Empowered Heroes to Weak Point which was not previously visible

Bomb Shooter
  • x2x Missile Launcher description updated to reflect previous changes
  • 025 Bomb Shooter now fires a Missile asset

Tack Shooter
  • 4xx Ring of Fire asset updated
  • 5xx Inferno Ring asset updated

Ice Monkey
  • x3x Ice Monkey resolved numerous specific crashes
  • x3x Ice Monkey resolved numerous inconsistencies with redeploy and selling

Glue Gunner
  • x5x Glue Storm description updated to reflect previous changes

Sniper Monkey
  • x5x Elite Targeting Priority should correctly prioritise again

Monkey Sub
  • 4xx Bloontonium Reactor buff icon issues resolved
  • x1x Barbed Darts description updated to reflect previous changes

Monkey Buccaneer
  • 5xx Flagship resolved an issue where towers fell through the platforms
  • 520 Flagship had a rare crash resolved when placing next to a 250 Village
  • x2x Hot Shot fire asset updated
  • 015 Trade Empire no longer loses the 005 damage buff

Mortar Monkey
  • xx2 Burny Stuff should no longer gain MIB buff icon from any distance
  • xx5 Blooncineration fire assets updated

Wizard Monkey
  • x2x Wall of Fire asset updated
  • x3x Dragon’s Breath fire asset updated
  • x4+x Phoenix fire asset updated
  • x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix should no longer count as 2 towers
  • xx5 Prince of Darkness no longer rotates

Super Monkey
  • 5xx After selling a Dark Temple the x55 supers should now be purchasable again

Druid
  • xx2 Heart of Vengeance druid description updated for clarification and also to reflect previous changes

Monkey Village
  • 000 Village fire asset updated
  • x2x Rader Scanner should no longer block the Energizer from applying buff icons
  • 5/x/x Slingshot now rotates correctly again

Engineer
  • 1xx Sentries no longer gain camo detection when a save is loaded
  • 1xx Sentry Placement will no longer ignore ‘smart placement’ if the Engineer cannot reach the track

Gwendolin
  • Cocktail of Fire asset updated
  • Firestorm asset updated
  • Heat it Up asset updated

Captain Churchill
  • Fixed projectile ejection point location

Benjamin
  • Now gives a Bank Hack buff icon to banks

Ezili
  • Now gives a Sacrificial Totem buff icon from her totem

Pat Fusty
  • Level 10 ability is no longer affected by Overclock

Adora
  • Joan of Arc Skin now lifts her sword more
  • Joan of Arc Skin now has fire trails from the main attack
Desktop Version
  • Added more visible resolution choices to the options
  • Some minor UI tweaks for powers/sandbox to fit better
  • Temple popup no longer stacks with hotkey presses
  • Chromebook specific UI changes made to allow window resizing as well as desktop style placement modes
Balance Changes

Boomerang Monkey
  • 3xx Glaive Bounce pattern improved
  • 5xx Glaive Lord main ricochet now leaves fragments in the first Bloon hit which slowly slash it apart dealing 150 damage over 15 seconds. This can stack multiple times
  • xx5 MOAB Domination applies a brief stun of 0.25s on the MOAB Glaive before knocking back

Tack Shooter
  • 5xx Inferno Ring Meteor attack now creates an explosion on impact with pierce 10, radius 18, 50 damage, this also applies a DoT of 50 damage per second for 4 seconds.

Ice Monkey
  • 1xx Permafrost can now apply to MOABs from any T5 Ice Monkey
  • 3xx Ice Shards range increased from 20 to 25
  • 4xx Embrittlement now gains camo detection
  • 4xx Embrittlement now also removes camo & regrow properties from anything hit
  • x5x Absolute Zero attack and ability freeze +2 additional layers
  • x5x Absolute Zero when ability is active all Ice Monkeys gain +50% attack speed

Glue Gunner
  • x4x Glue Strike’s ability now also causes glued Bloons to take +1 damage

Sniper Monkey
  • x2x Shrapnel Shot reworked to eject in a 45 deg arc instead of 360
  • x2x Shrapnel Shot now produces shrapnel once upon every attack
  • 3+20 Crosspathing now increases the damage of Shrapnel

Monkey Buccaneer
  • 210 Double Shot now fires twice as many Grapes
  • x4x Monkey Pirates now fires 3 cannonballs instead of 1

Monkey Ace
  • 3xx Fighter Plane missile rate reduced from 3 to 4 seconds
  • 3xx Fighter Plane missile pierce increased from 1 to 3
  • 3xx Fighter Plane missile damage reduced 25 -> 18
  • 4xx Fighter Plane missile rate reduced from 1.5 to 2 seconds
  • 4xx Fighter Plane missile pierce increased from 1 to 4
  • 5xx Fighter Plane missile rate reduced from 1.5 to 2 seconds
  • 5xx Fighter Plane missile pierce increased from 1 to 5

Heli Pilot
  • 000 Heli Pilot price increased from $1500 to $1600

Mortar Monkey
  • x3x Heavy Shells now deals additional damage to ‘Stunned’ Bloons +2
  • x5x Pop and Awe now deals additional damage to ‘Stunned’ Bloons +10

Super Monkey
  • xx3 Dark Knight gains the ‘Darkshift’ ability, allowing it to teleport anywhere within its radius
  • xx4 Dark Champion gains an upgraded ‘Darkshift’ ability, allowing it to teleport anywhere on the map

Alchemist
  • x3x Unstable Concoction’s %damage increase now scales until round 150

Banana Farm
  • xx4 Central Market’s 10% income buff to merchantmen now stacks up to 10 times

Monkey Village
  • When placing a village, towers that are in its radius will now highlight
  • 4xx Primary Mentoring now reduces ability cooldowns of primary monkeys in radius by 10%
  • 4xx Primary Mentoring now adds +5 range to primary towers in range.
  • xx4 Monkey City now increases all income generated from towers within radius by +10%

Obyn Greenfoot
  • Level 10 Wall of Trees hitbox increased so it can overlap at intersections

Bloons TD 6 - Patch Notes! Update 16.2

Awesome New Stuff
  • BTD 6 now available on Mac Steam!
Bug Fixes
  • Resolved some logging issues slowing down Android devices significantly
  • Resolved a co-op timeout crash
  • Resolved some rare crashes related to upgrading
  • Resolved a crash for low level players attempting to join co-op
  • Resolved a crash exiting race leaderboard before it finishing loading
  • Resolved a crash for android devices using the back button during co-op search too quickly after beginning the search

Bloons TD 6 - Patch Notes! Version 16.1

Bug Fixes & General Changes
  • MIB now displays the correct icon
  • Races will record leaderboard scores correctly
  • Benjamin will no longer rotate
  • Challenge Editor path restriction missing translations are in
  • Spillway’s center barrel correctly supports placement again
  • Event Monkey’s phone case wasn’t as cool as the original and has been replaced
  • Resolved restart issue with collection event bonus
Balance Changes
These were already included in v16 but initially missed in the patch notes.

Monkey Temple
  • Support $7501 Tier: End of round cash bonus reduced from $2000 to $1500
  • Support $25001 Tier: End of round cash bonus reduced from $7500 to $3000


Monkey Buccaneer
  • xx4 Favoured Trades attack rate for all attacks is doubled at this tier
  • xx5 Trade Empire increases the damage of all Merchantmen by +1
  • xx5 Trade Empire adds a Ceramic/MOAB damage bonus to Merchantmen +1


For a full list of 16.0 changes, you can view the patch notes here.

Bloons TD 6 - Patch Notes! Version 16.0

Awesome New Stuff
  • New Adora Skin
  • New Community Designed Map: Geared
    • A special thanks to u/Clawz114 for submitting their concept in the beginning and congratulations on getting your map concept into Bloons TD 6.
  • Path & Tier restrictions added to the Challenge Editor
New Non-Seasonal ‘Totem’ Collection Event Theme
  • ‘Featured Instas’ can now be applied to Collection Boxes to force specific results
  • Base ‘Collection Item’ amounts have been reduced globally
  • ‘Bonus Rewards’ will now apply to one random map from each difficulty increasing the number of Collection Items that map will award across all difficulties. Clearing a Bonus Rewards map will move the bonus onto a new map.
Other Key Notes
  • Fancy new icons added for all achievements
  • Apopalypse mode has been reworked to help speed up the early rounds (1-50), and make the the mid rounds (51-80) less dense.
  • MIB is displaying the wrong buff icon currently, we are working on a resolution but please refrain from reporting this.
  • The center barrel in Spillway currently does not support placement, this is not intended and a fix is coming! Bonus bragging rights for completing in CHIMPS without the barrel.
  • Events Monkey is trying out a new case for his phone.
  • Some words in the "path restrictions" challenge editor UI are not translated yet.
Bug Fixes & General Changes
  • Resolved an issue where some text fields would stop displaying after changing language
  • Resolved an issue that could cause ‘restarting’ on a CHIMPS savegame to not be valid for the Black Medal.
  • Improved performance of opening tower upgrade panels & purchasing upgrades
  • Big or Small Bloons should no longer return to normal size when blowing backwards
  • Resolved an issue where the ‘force update’ prompt would sometimes not have a button
  • Resolved an issue where Regrow Bloons would sometimes fail to regrow layers
  • Resolved the sandbox caps not always functioning as intended
  • Restarting in sandbox will no longer delete saves on that map
  • Resolved a game crash related to loading cloud data while playing a game
  • Resolved an issue with multiple blocking object heights in co-op causing a desync
  • Event Monkey's body should no longer clip through their bag strap while waving
  • Resolved a UI issue that would cut off some text when viewing upgrades on iPhone 6
  • Corrected the height of the Castle Wall vision blocker of Dark Castle for some towers
  • Resolved an issue where the ‘Logged in elsewhere’ conflict popup could stack up multiple times ontop of itself with no limit
  • Resolved a number of font & text issues that could occur when changing language multiple times
  • Decreased total file space used storing map audio for each map
  • Resolved an issue where no music would play during the tutorial

Dart Monkey
  • 201 Instamonkey now has the correct color border

Wizard Monkey
  • Removing objects from the map should no longer ‘sell’ the x4x Phoenix out of the air

Super Monkey
  • The motion blur of Super Monkey’s hand should not clip into its cape anymore

Banana Farm
  • x4x IMF Loan debt should now correctly transfer in co-op

Quincy
  • Quincy’s level 10 Storm of Arrows has been tweaked slightly

Striker Jones
  • Striker Jones’ profile now displays abilities on the correct levels

Ezili
  • No longer says ‘Level Up!’ when redeployed at level 20
Desktop Version
  • Cursor has been updated slightly for easier visibility
  • Resolved an issue preventing players with a corrupted “MapSaveData.bak” in their BTD6 folder from creating any saves until the file was manually deleted
  • Resolved an issue for players with a corrupted “CachedLanguagePref.txt” in their BTD6 folder crashing the game at launch until the file was manually deleted
  • Resolved some issues with compression that was blurring some portraits & icons
Balance Changes

Monkey Knowledge: Mana Shield
  • Now requires a delay of 1 round with no Bloons leaking before recharge will begin

Impoppable Difficulty
  • Now prevents all lives generation
  • Now blocks the use of Mana Shield
  • These changes are aimed towards re-balancing impoppable to more accurately fit its place between Alternate Bloon Rounds and CHIMPS while also increasing the player challenge.

Bomb Shooter
  • 4xx Bloon Impact range increased from 40 -> 43
  • x3x MOAB Mauler MOAB damage bonus increased 15 -> 18
  • xx5 Bomb Blitz base damage increased 1 -> 5

Monkey Ace
  • 5xx Sky Shredder ceramic damage bonus added +2

Druid
  • x4x Jungle’s Bounty base range increased from 35 -> 55
  • x4x Jungle’s Bounty ability range reduced to match base tower range
  • x4x Jungle’s Bounty cash gained per farm reduced from $150->$100
  • x5x Spirit of the Forest ceramic damage bonus increased from 4 to 8

Engineer
  • x4x Overclock can now be targeted by Techbot
  • x5x Ultraboost will no longer trigger while techbotted if no target was previously set

Gwendolin
  • Level 10 Firestorm ability now also applies Heat It Up to all towers when activated
  • Level 14 now also adds a Damage Over Time application to the Cocktail of Fire ability
    • This applies 50 damage over 10 seconds to any MOAB Class Bloons that are hit

Monkey Buccaneer
  • xx4 Favoured Trades attack rate for all attacks is doubled
  • xx5 Trade Empire increases the damage of all Merchantmen by +1
  • xx5 Trade Empire adds a Ceramic/MOAB damage bonus to Merchantmen +1

Striker Jones
  • Level 9 also increases Concussive Shell’s pierce increased from 48 -> 58
  • Level 9 also increases Concussive Shell’s damage from 2 -> 10
  • Level 9 also increases Concussive Shell’s Bloon stun duration from 1 -> 5
  • Level 9 also increases Concussive Shell’s MOAB stun duration from 1 -> 3

Pat Fusty
  • Level 7 now increases base attack damage from 3 to 4
  • Level 7 now increases base splash damage from 2 to 3
  • Level 14 Rallying Roar no longer provides a bonus to Ceramic & MOABs
  • Level 14 Rallying Roar damage bonus buff increased from 1 to 3
  • Level 16 Base Ceramic damage bonus increased from 2 to 7

Temple Support Sacrifice
  • $7501 Tier: End of round cash bonus reduced from $2000 to $1500
  • $25001 Tier: End of round cash bonus reduced from $7500 to $3000