Bloons TD 6 News

• Co-op Boss Events!
  • Play with friends or open up a public match and find how much fun co-op bosses can be
  • Don’t be Player 3 - coordinate farming and placement to tip the fun:frustration ratio to the fun side (frunstration isn’t a word but should be)
• Ranked Boss leaderboards!
  • Not content with just co-op Bosses, we wanted to give extra challenge through ranked play
  • While not a race, Ranked Boss games time your play while the Boss is onscreen through the completion of the round on which the Tier 5 Boss is popped
  • Leaderboards are unique for 1p, 2p, 3p, and 4p so you can show up on multiple leaderboards but you will only receive rewards for your best normal and best elite placement
  • Note there are timer penalties for stalling, so don’t try a stalling strat. Careful with those Cripple Snipers; put them on First.
• New Boss added - Lych, the Gravelord
  • While some BTD fans want to see all of the known BMC bosses, we wanted to make it clear that we are committed to introducing new content and mechanics to keep the BTD universe dynamic and challenging
  • True to its name, Lych draws power from others, draining buffs from Monkey Towers and stealing any Monkey’s lifeforce when sold to heal itself (avoid buff Alchemists and other familiar activated boosts!)
  • When damaged to a Skull level on its health bar, the Lych is ethereally immobilized as it revives undead MOAB class Bloons, releases the stiletto-fast Lych-Soul, and steals lives as long as it remains ethereal
  • Revivified MOABs and the Lych-Soul must be destroyed before Lych will return to normal state
  • Due to their sheer awesomeness, Heroes are immune to the Lych’s buff drain effect
  • The Lych can revive all MOAB class Bloons besides BADs
• New Paragon - Ascended Shadow Ninja
  • To combat this new evil, the Ninja Paragon unleashes its triple mastery on Boss Bloons
  • Painfully expensive but deals incredible damage, especially at high Degree

• New Beginner Map - The Cabin, perfect for a dark, spooky night’s play
• New Hero Skin - Viking Sauda brings all the axetasticness
• New Achievement - Perfect Paragon
• New Boss Music track - Onslaught will play with Lych events but is not exclusive to Lych (not going to be a new music track per Boss, for game footprint issues)
• New Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes: Sentai Churchill Scifi Drone pet
  • Monkeys: Monkey Village Canada flag, Glue Gunner Rat pet, Buccaneer Narwhal pet, Bats Upgrade FX
  • Co-op: Pleeeease Monkey Emote, Panic Monkey Emote
  • Game & UI: Sun Temple Banner, Best Ben avatar, Action Psi avatar, Community Avatar Lead Zeppelin by waywardzuck
• Limited Time only
  • Hockey Mask limited Halloween avatar
  • Vampire Hunter Engineer projectiles swap
  • Jack-o-Lantern ZOMG
  • Vampire Cape Bloons
  • Haunted House music track
  • Ghosts’n’Candy Banner

• Added a ‘Review Map’ option to all game modes which will allow you to look over your towers after any victory or defeat, mainly to look at Monkey pop counts for bragging rights or to optimize strategies
• Load Checkpoint option has now also been added to the Pause Menu during Boss Events
• Rich presence messages updated for player created odysseys
• Rich presence added for bosses
• Highest round stats added to profiles for both CHIMPS and Deflation
• Added Refresh button to race leaderboard
• Races now have a pause delay which will incur a penalty for pausing too frequently; the idea of a race is a strategic sprint - one fast run with your best thinking in the moment

• Avatar 44 Description to include the correct name LV-223_Deacon.
• When players quit to menu (rather than crashing) they will now immediately be removed and have their resources distributed instead of waiting for a rejoin.
• Various fixes for co-op rejoining & host migration
• Co-op callouts should no longer display on the defeat screen
• Added a small double cash icon to the in-game cash display to show when it is active
• Should now be less content required to be downloaded between versions
• Collection event bonus is now shared from the Host in co-op
• Free Race attempts will now prevent a Race Pass from being used
• Custom user banners now show in more locations
• Some general UI & Localization fixes
• Towers should no longer be redistributed to removed co-op players when multiple players are removed from any co-op session
• Loading a boss save will now pause
• Optimized music tracks behind the scenes
• Game will now on launch check if a co-op lobby actually still exists before showing the rejoin message on main menu
• Resolved low-resolution Powers icon as challenge reward
• Round-send flag and comparison timer fixed in Race mode
• Resolved an issue that was being really mean
• Paragon cost on the upgrades screen will now update based on game difficulty
• Resolved a few issues with Boss Music Tracks playing/not playing at correct times
• Obsolete patch notes button removed from main menu
• Resolved an issue where Paragons were displaying as 6-0-0 upgrades on victory callouts
• In Challenge Editor Reloading Last Round then returning to menu immediately will no longer delete the save
• Insta Monkey Menu now loads correctly if viewed in game
• Boss event state is now saved immediately when Boss is defeated.
• Nonfunctional close button removed from
• Waiting for end of round* message box.
• Buff Icons now show on Monkey Farmers
• Resolved some final issues with the sword on Ravine so Setk can get his black border
• Hero Selection for Boss Events is now not displayed as an option if no selected hero is allowed under the challenge rules
• Muting players while they are emoting will no longer cause some emotes to loop
• Resolved an issue where creating a Paragon with a tower inside a Heli during redeployment or Door Gunnerisim would cause a crash
• Resolved a co-op softlock that could occur when playing with other players on a bad connection
• Removing camo from a Neon skin DDT when other players in the match have the shark skin will no longer change the DDT into a Shark skinned version
• Lotus flowers once again remember their ready state when loading a save
• Degree 1 paragons will now also deal double damage to Elite Bosses. Previously this bonus was not applying until at least Degree 2
• Co-op resync can no longer re-assign map areas to a disconnected+removed players
• Resolved some issues with not receiving mini race rewards
• Resolved an issue with profiles loading incorrectly in offline mode
• Resolved a softlock that could occur with 2 players attempting to rejoin into the same co-op lobby at the same time

• 502 Glaive Lord with Red Hot Rangs crosspath will now use the red-tipped glaives projectile for rotating glaives

• Mortar Monkey's new decamo AoE at xx2 should no longer apply to DDTs without Paint Stripper MK

• Named monkey stats will track cash generation on super monkeys now.

• x3x Unstable Concoction damage again increases for Fortified Bloon variants

• First child of Bloons popped by Spirit of the Forest should take damage again
• Reworked some functionality around chinooking a Spirit of the Forest

• x3x Monkey Bank resolved an issue where fractional cash amounts could sometimes round up instead of down

• Alright, Sentry Paragon is now a Champion.

• Resolved issues with Gwendolin Lv17 firestorm’s Heat it Up buff

• Strikers Parachute drop placement animation should no longer break if you sell Striker after using it, and place him again
• Resolved an issue that could cause Strike Jones’ attack animations to permanently break

• Resolved Benjamin’s Trojan displaying the wrong cash gain sometimes

• Resolved an issue that could cause Ezili’s attack animations to permanently break
• Resolved an issue where Ground Zero could cause Ezili’s MOAB Hex to not remove children

• Lv3 Rallying Roar buff will now pause between rounds

• Joan of Arc Adora’s ball of light should display correctly at all times

• Lv3 Navel Tactics buff will now pause between rounds

• Psi should now inherit Monkey Town buffs more consistently

• Added 2 extra cursor options which will increase size, note that these options will result in a less precise cursor under intensive situations.
• Holding a tower hotkey down once again allows you to place multiples
• Resolved some slow mouse scroll issues in Challenge Editor
• A bug; Due to some changes to the latest version of the engine, issues have risen with the first click returning the game to the foreground after being backgrounded. We have put our own temporary fix in place for now which may mostly resolve this for the time being but are also in talks with Unity about a true resolution.

• xx2 Enhanced Eyesight now grants Dart Monkey the new Camo Prioritization filter
• Dart Paragon has had a slight performance change to improve bit rate issues when streaming. This will not change power in any way

• x3x Bionic Boomerang MOAB damage bonus increased from 1 -> 2
• 052 Red Hot Rangs ability bonus damage increased from 8 -> 10
• xx5 MOAB Domination damage on MOAB throw per hit increased from 20 -> 25
• Boomerang Paragon burn DoT damage tic increased from 50 -> 100
• Boomerang Paragon Shred DoT damage tic increased from 250 -> 750
• Boomerang Paragon rotating glaive base damage increased from 20 to 42

• 000 Bomb Shooter base price decreased from $600 -> 525
• 030 MOAB Mauler price increased from $900 -> 1,100
• 002 Frag Bombs upgrade now grants ‘fraggy explosions’ which allows all explosions from the tower to pop Black Bloons

• 2xx Metal Freeze can now target camo
• 2xx Metal Freeze price increased from $300 -> 350
• 2xx name change from ‘Metal Freeze’ to 'Cold Snap'
• 4xx Embrittlement can now target and debuff MOABs but not slow them
• xx1 Larger Radius price increased from $100 -> 175
• xx2 Re-Freeze price increased from $200 -> 225
• xx3 Cryo Cannon price increased from $1750 -> 1950

• x2x Night Vision Goggles now grants Sniper Monkey the new Camo Prioritization filter
• x4x Supply Drop: Cash Generating abilities now have a 3 minute timeout
• Sniper x4x cooldown increased from 60s -> 90
• Sniper x4x cash produced increased from a range of $500-1000 to a flat $1200
• Sniper x5x cash produced increased from a range of $1500-3000 to a flat $3000
• 020 Shrapnel Shot, shrapnel on all crosspaths is now able to receive any external buffs
• 030 Bouncing Bullet is no longer able to receive external buffs to the number of bounces
• 004 Full Auto Rifle price reduced from 4750 -> 4250
• 004 Full Auto Rifle dmg type changed from Normal -> Sharp
• 005 Elite Defender dmg type changed from Normal -> Sharp

• xx1 Longer Range now also grants +1 pierce to most Buccaneer projectiles
• xx2 Crow’s Nest now grants Buccaneer the new Camo Prioritization filter
• xx4 Favoured Trades no longer stacks the sellback rate buff to other towers.

• 300 Fighter Plane Missiles pierce increased from 3 -> 4
• 400 Operation Dart Storm Missiles pierce remains 4
• 310 Fighter Plane Missiles pierce increased from 3 -> 6
• 310 Fighter Plane Missiles radius increased from 30 -> 34.5
• 410 Dart Storm Missiles pierce increased from 4 -> 6
• 510 Sky Shredder Missiles pierce increased from 5 -> 7
• 004 Spectre Dart damage to ceramics increased from 2 -> 4
• 004 Spectre Dart pierce reduced from 30 -> 15
• 004 Spectre Bomb damage to ceramics increased from 3 -> 5
• 004 Spectre Bomb pierce reduced from 60 -> 30
• 014 Spectre Bomb pierce reduced from 60 -> 45
• 014 Spectre Bomb radius increased from 20 -> 23

• Heli x4x Support Chinook: Cash Generating abilities now have a 3 minute timeout
• Heli x4x Support Chinook’s Supply Drop now drops life and cash crates together
• Heli x4x Support Chinook’s Supply Drop cooldown increased from 60s -> 90
• Heli x4x Support Chinook’s Supply Drop cash increased from $1000-2000 to $1800
• Heli x4x Support Chinook’s Supply Drop lives produced decreased from 50-75 to 10
• Heli x5x Special Poperations increases Supply Drop values to $4500 and 25 lives
• xx3 MOAB Shove gains a ‘mini heli missile' attack with pierce 10 damage 1
• xx4 Comanche Defense increases ‘mini heli missile’ pierce to 30
• xx4 Comanche Defense increases ‘mini heli missile’ damage to 3

• xx2 Burny Stuff DoT duration increased from 3s -> 3.75
• xx2 Burny Stuff DoT tic interval reduced from 1.5s -> 1.25
• xx5 Blooncineration DoT tic interval reduced from 1s -> 0.75
• MK: Extra Burny Stuff buff amount reduced 0.5s -> 0.25

• xx3 Buckshot attack cooldown reduced from 1.8s -> 1.5
• 5xx Ray of Doom damage increased from 5 -> 25
• 5xx Ray of Doom MOAB Damage bonus reduced from 20 -> 0
• 5xx Ray of Doom shock DoT damage increased from 15 -> 20

• x4x Summon Phoenix Ability cooldown reduced from 60 -> 45
• x5x Summon Phoenix Ability cooldown reduced from 50 -> 45
• x4x Summon Phoenix Ability damage increased from 4 -> 5
• x4x Summon Phoenix Ability pierce increased from 6 -> 10
• x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix Ability flaming ball travel range increased from 180 -> 250
• xx2 Monkey Sense now grants Wizard Monkey the new Camo Prioritization filter
• xx5 Necromancer ‘bonus grave’ after r81 reduced from 7 -> 13 to 7 -> 10

• 5xx Sun Temple Military sacrifice total projectile size increase formula has been reworked to give an overall reduction in size for the sake of visual clarity
• xx2 Ultravision now grants Super Monkey the new Camo Prioritization filter
• xx3 Dark Knight lead/ceramic slow amount decreased from 100% -> 90%
• xx4 Dark Champion lead/ceramic slow remains at 100%

• Ninja Monkey now gains the new Camo Prioritization filter
• xx5 Master Bomber Flash Bomb damage increased from 5 -> 10

• 2xx Acidic Mixture Dip will no longer pick Glue Gunners as valid buff targets

• 1xx Hard Thorns now allows Thorns to pop all Bloon Types
• 300 Druid of the Storm minimum blowback distance increased 33 -> 100
• 300 Druid of the Storm maximum blowback distance reduced 300 -> 200
• 3xx Druid of the Storm tornado radius increased from 13 -> 16
• 5xx Superstorm price reduced from $90,000 -> 80,000
• x3x Vine grab now drops spiky thorns to the track upon popping a target
  • Damage: 1
  • Pierce: 30
  • Pierce Refresh: 0.3
• x4x Jungle's Bounty can now grab 2 different Bloons at once
• x4x Jungle's Bounty ability cooldown reduced from 40 -> 60
• x4x Jungle's Bounty ability cash amount increased from 200 -> 240
• x4x Jungle's Bounty ability cash bonus per farm in radius increased from 100 -> 120
• x4x Jungle’s Bounty: Cash Generating abilities now have a 3 minute timeout preventing further use in any single round

• 032 Monkey Bank now autocollects at the end of the round it fills with no delay
• xx1 EZ Collect now also salvages Bananas for 50% if uncollected
• xx2 Banana Salvage, salvage value is now increased from 50% -> 85
• xx2 Banana Salvage, now also increases this farm’s sellback rate from 70% -> 80
• xx5 Monkey Wall Street now also generates 10 lives per round

• 105 Permaspike pierce increased from 80 -> 90
• 5xx Super Mines price reduced from $162,500 -> $150,000
• 5xx Super Mines 'Small Explosion' pierce increased 20 -> 30

• 5xx Primary Expertise cooldown buff for primaries increased from 10 -> 20%

• Lv3 Biohack no longer picks Paragons as valid targets

• Ezili DoT can no longer stack
• Ezili lv8 gains an on-hit moab damage bonus of 20
• Ezili lv8 dot damage per tic to moab class increased from 20 -> 30
• Ezili lv12 on-hit moab damage bonus increased from 20 -> 30
• Ezili lv15 DoT duration increased by 50%
• Ezili lv20 on-hit moab damage bonus increased from 30 -> 50

• New Boss Bloon Event! Face off against the mighty hulk known as Bloonarius the Inflator!
  • In Events intended to run each week, the Boss will appear on a different map to enhance the variety of tactical decisions around economy and placement. Bosses start appearing at Round 40 and the Tier 5 appears at round 120. Each Tier Boss must be defeated within 20 rounds of its appearance or it’s Game Over.
  • Defeat the Tier 5 Normal Boss to unlock the Elite Boss for a whole new level of challenge. We mean it - Elite is bonkers monkey tough. Beating Tier 5 Normal and Elite Bosses award new badges to show off on Player Profile screens. An Elite badge is a true accomplishment - wear them with pride!
  • Boss Events feature a checkpoint save system instead of normal continues, creating a save at the start of each new Boss Tier.
  • Because of downstream Co-op and competitive Leaderboard features we intend to add in future updates, Boss Events can only be played while online.
  • Difficulty Fair Warning - Bosses are designed to be crazy challenging! If you are new to BTD6, make sure you can win most hard modes and really know how to farm well and maximize tower damage before you take on a Boss. Expect defeat. Nay, revel in it - bathe in anguish then emerge smarter, more capable, and with improved tactics that help you get further each time. If you have built up a stockpile of Powers and Insta Monkeys, feel free to use them - they are not required but they are certainly fair game. And, yes, build those Paragons...
• New Paragon Tower Tier!
  • Paragon status granted to Dart Monkey and Boomerang Monkey, unleashing the might of the Apex Plasma Master and the Glaive Dominus!
  • Merge together all three Tier 5 upgrades of one Monkey Tower type to create an ultimate version that combines the powers of all 3 paths and deals incredible bonus damage to Boss Bloons.
  • Paragon Tier has a significant XP cost and can only be unlocked after unlocking the Tier 5 upgrade of all 3 paths.
  • In battle, Paragons gain strength by absorbing the power of all Monkey Towers of that type on the playfield - the greater the number and effectiveness of the Monkey Towers absorbed, the greater the Degree of Paragon you will create! Paragon Degrees start at 1 and reach a maximum Degree of 100.
  • Once created, Paragons cannot be buffed by other towers, nor can their transformation price be reduced.
• Co-op Rejoining! We’ve been working on this for some time, and we are delighted to announce support for crashed/disconnected games. Player towers & cash will no longer be immediately distributed when a player disconnects but give time for the disconnected player to rejoin. If remaining players know the disconnected player won’t return or do not want to wait, disconnected players can be removed within the co-op menu depending on player position. Please note that some games will not be recoverable if multiple players disconnect at the same time, but this feature should greatly improve general co-op experience when one player drops for any number of reasons and wants to get back in.
• Twitch Polls! Twitch Steamers and viewers take note, we now allow automated polling directly from the game to Twitch chat for viewers to vote on tower restrictions. We have more Twitch features planned for future updates, so if you have thoughts on fun streaming integration features for BTD6 please shout them out!
• Every Day is Event Day! With Boss Events added, we will bridge the gap between Odysseys ending and the next week’s Odyssey starting. Odysseys will begin the weekend as usual, then Races a day later, then Boss Events that are intended to run until the next Odyssey starts. This allows access to all 3 Events over the weekend when most players have the most time to play and also keeps something special running every day of the week, in addition to our normal Daily and Content Browser Challenges.
• Profile Banner Backgrounds! Customize the look of your Profile Screen background, and show off in leaderboards, co-op lobbies, and Content Browser entries! Look for these sweet profile backgrounds in the Trophy Store and don’t be surprised by the high trophy costs - you’ll know that players flairing these have earned the right to show off.

• New Intermediate map - Bloonarius Prime. Emphasis on the prime.
• New Achievements
  • What is this new Bloonery?
  • Who's the Boss?
  • I'm the Boss
  • Like a Boss
  • Apotheosis
• New Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes: Gwen Fireball placement animation
  • Monkeys: Butterflies Upgrade FX, Village Germany Flag, Village UK Flag,
  • Bloons: Neon DDT, Water Bloon Pop FX, Bucket Hat Bloons
  • Co-op: Next Round! Scary! emote, Fist Pump emote
  • Game & UI: Aerials Banner, Spirit Wolf Banner, Dart Storm Banner, Reactive Banner, Incoming Banner, Ezili Avatar, Spiked Ball Avatar
• Community Winner avatars
  • Avatar 44 SAS Monkey - by LV-223_Deacon
  • Avatar 45 Blueprint - by dungeon-raided
• Tweaks have been made to Freeplay Rounds 101-119 in order to balance out the length and difficulty in relation to the new Boss Events

• Custom Odyssey saves should now only show up under "My Saved Games", if the save has not been completed
• Odyssey UI now supports room for even more rules to be applied
• Added more of a visible difference between new/old Odyssey Browser challenges
• When share is still locked in Odyssey Browser added a pop-up like challenges to explain why
• Resolved a case where game close/crash on final round of Odyssey could cause players to have an unwinnable odyssey freeplay save
• Resolved some Odyssey specific save issues
• In Deflation, Hero 'cost to level up' should again update at the end of each round
• Resolved an issue where launching Steam via the BTD6 executable could fail to start Steam and also cause the game to not load
• Resolved some asset bundle caching issues on certain devices
• Fixed up some problems with restarting on Ravine causing problems with the sword, though it’s not perfect yet.
• Resolved some localization issues - thanks to the native speakers who report issues!
• Resolved some rare crashes

• xx5 MOAB Domination press attack should correctly explode even if it runs out of pierce

• 4xx Bloon Impact no longer applies a ‘stunned’ debuff to MOABs without stunning them

• 520 Cripple MOAB once again applies it’s stun asset and debuff correctly in all cases

• 301 Berserker Brew’s Faster Throwing crosspath once again increases the rate of the Brew attack

• 5xx Super Mines damage for the main spike hit corrected from 2 -> 10

• x3x MIB will now correctly allow supported towers with Ice attack to pop Rainbow Bloons into Frozen Zebras

• x4x Overclock significant framerate loss issue resolved when linked to a tech bot without any target set for the Overclock ability

• Lv10 Firestorm no longer damages the screen with an additional instance of Heat it Up

• Level 20 Ball of Light once again has sound when being cast

• Hotkeys menu on the in-game pause screen has been relocated into a PC-Only options sidebar next to the new twitch integration menu for affiliate streamers.
• As mentioned above, Twitch Polls integration has been added for Affiliate & Partner streamers.

• 5xx DoT no longer stacks
• 5xx DoT damage increased from 10 -> 100
• x3x Bionic Boomerang attack delay reduced from 0.28 -> 0.238

• x4x Snowstorm duration increased from 4s -> 6
• x5x Absolute Zero price reduced from $26,000 -> 20,000

• 230 Ballistic Missile now benefits from Advanced Intel's targeting in the same way as all other sub attacks to instead seek the radius from other towers on the map
• x4x First Strike ability secondary AoE pierce lowered -> 80

• xx2 Centered Path functions as normal until any path is set, but now allows players to set a center location similar to Heli Lock

• x4x Support Chinook’s Redeploy ability is now ability to move a tower back down over the top of its current location

• x4x Artillery Battery new ability 'Bombardment', for 8 seconds attack rate is increased by 4x & blast radius is increased by 15%, cooldown of 60 seconds
• xx3 Signal Flare triggers a larger secondary AoE on impact with no weakness which reveals all camo Bloons size 50 & pierce 80.

• x4x Phoenix now copies targeting of the Wizard

• x3x Robo Monkey is now able to deal critical damage on it’s hits
  • Criticals occur every 20 shots within the 15th-20th shot
  • Criticals deal a damage increase from 1 -> 10
• x3x Robo Monkey price increased from $7000 -> 8400
• x5x The Anti-Bloon criticals occur every 17 shots within the 13th-17th shot
• x5x The Anti-Bloon criticals deal a damage increase from 5 -> 50
• x4x Tech Terror Bloon Annihilation ability damage increased from 1000 -> 2500
• x4x Tech Terror Bloon Annihilation ability radius increased from 60 -> 70
• x5x Anti Bloon Bloon Annihilation ability damage increased from 3500 -> 5000
• x5x Anti Bloon Bloon Annihilation ability radius increased from 110 -> 120

• xx4 Sticky Bomb now follows the tower's target priority for Sticky Bombs
• xx5 Master Bomber now follows the tower's target priority for Sticky Bombs
• xx4 Sticky Bombs now deals an additional AoE when they explode for 100 damage, 10 pierce and 40 AoE
• xx5 Master Bomber inherits this new AoE and increases damage to 300

• x5x Bloons outside 100 Range take current 2 damage + 8 to Multi HP
• x5x Bloons within 100 Range will be hit for additional 1 damage +4 to Multi HP
• x5x Bloons within 50 Range will be hit for yet another 1 damage +4 to Multi HP
• 205 Avatar of Wrath now grants a slight portion of it’s RBE damage bonus to the Heart of Thunder lightning chains as well equal to 1 damage for every 6000 rbe on screen with a cap of +15 damage

• x3x Monkey Bank is no longer able to deposit cash from the Bank Deposits MK until the x4x IMF Loan and above

• x4x Spike Storm ability will no longer benefit from increases to rate of fire

• Lv7 Sacrifice’s buff of 10% attack speed and range is now a ‘minimum’ amount
• Lv7 Sacrifice’s buff value now increase by +1% for every $100 value of sacrifice made
• Lv7 Sacrifice’s buff caps at a maximum buff of +25%
• Lv20 now increases Sacrifice’s buff to +1% for every $50 value to a maximum of +50%
• Lv20 now increases Sacrifice’s buff duration from 10s -> 60
• Lv20 True Sun Transformation damage bonus increased 5 -> 8

• Placed Sea Mines now have a small delay, only setting off max 1 per 0.4sec

• Lv13’s damage +1 now instead grants +1 damage to Sauda’s Lv7 Bloon Weakness
• Lv17 "main attack damage +3" reduced from 3 to 1
• Lv17 now grants +1 damage to Sauda’s Lv7 Bloon Weakness
• Lv17 now grants +1 damage to Sauda’s Lv11 Afflicted Bloons Weakness

• BAD Bloons are no longer ignorant to the passage of time

• 555 Super Monkey base attack damage reduced from 75 -> 50
• 555 Super Monkey attack multiplier for sacrifice powers reduced from 3x -> 2x
• Freeplay formula for MOAB Health Increase from round 125+ reduced from 0.20 -> 0.15
• Freeplay formula for MOAB Health Increase from round 152+ reduced from 0.50 -> 0.35

• New Hero: Psi the Psionic Monkey, a youthful hero who uses their mental abilities over any distance to hold and unravel Bloons from the inside out
• New Expert Map: Sanctuary - where you can be mindful of the movement of things around you
• New Achievements
  • So Shiny!
  • Glittering Gold
  • Glorious Gold
  • Magical Gold
  • Hook, Line, and Sinker
  • Moving House
  • Social Butterfly
  • Achievement of Achievements
  • Team Player
  • Team Captain
  • Ultimate Team-up
• New Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes: Etienne Roomba pet, Ezili Glyph Materialization placement
  • Monkeys: Village Scotland Flag, Village NZ Flag, Village Banana Flag
  • Bloons: Beard Bloons decal, Old Timey MOAB-Class Bloons
  • Co-op: Activate! emote, Tumbleweed emote, Skull and Crossbones emote,
  • Game & UI: Music Track Tropical Carnival Octopus Mix, Avatar 42 - Corporate Patch
• Community Winner avatars
  • - Avatar 40 Harlegwen PFP by u/Qqertynn
  • - Avatar 41 Flash Bomb by u/_Concilliabule_
• Limited Time only
  • 4 cool items you can be the first to grab when it gets nearer to shooting off fireworks (135 total trophy cost if you want to start saving!)

• Play Social - The Co-Op main menu button has been updated to make room for more social features, including the Content Browser and visibility to weekly Co-Op challenges when those are running. We’re keen to keep adding more fun ways to play together and share creations, so watch for more here in future updates!
• Odyssey Creator & Browser! You’ve been able to make your own Challenges - now put them together in player-created Odysseys! Use all of the features you’d expect from Challenge creation but put them together with a theme, Odyssey difficulty (including Extreme!), and Crew restrictions and make the best Odysseys you can dream up for friends and community.
• Monkey Teams: Stick to the chosen team to earn extra rewards! To mix things up with an alternative to the Golden Bloon, Monkey teams will be assigned to a random map in each category similar to the Golden Bloon, however for this event players have the option of beating the map using only their hero along with 3 randomly selected towers. If the game is completed without breaking this team rule then a small monkey money bonus will be awarded. Monkey Teams and Golden Bloon will alternate for variety, and both can be running while Collection Events are on.

• Freeplay rounds from 121 to 140 have now been added in the default round set, so like the recent 101-120 additions, these will now be consistent rounds. Interesting, I wonder if Ninja Kiwi is up to something...
• Minor tweaks have been made to the previously added 101 - 120 fixed freeplay rounds.
• Player regions in Co-op are now labelled with their name

• Performance optimizations made to tower targeting
• Localization corrections made - native and fluent speakers please keep flagging non-English translations that are bugging you!
• Resolved an issue where towers would sometimes not have a complete range circle
• Default & Reset towers in Challenge Creation will now default to select hero
• Resolved an issue where the Hide Completed filter in the Challenge viewer would only be able to hide a maximum of 1024 challenges (so awesome that some of you were having this problem!)
• Hitting the send round button in races will no longer trigger a flag animation if all rounds have already been sent (if you liked just waving the flag, let us know if you want that or some other trophy store animations to play during races, especially if you’re making videos)
• Resolved some minor UI loading issues when changing menus
• Resolved a visual issue with Ravine’s Sword Easter Egg after restarting
• Resolved an issue with Lotus Island flowers not recharging correctly after use
• Quitting and loading a save on round 100 should now award Instamonkeys upon completion of the round
• Base Avatars no longer display as limited time under some odd circumstances
• Resolved a UI issue where Full Tower Unlock purchase would leave newly acquired upgrades as greyed out
• Resolved some issues with some hotkeys not working correctly after a game restart
• Resolved hero level 20 level up animation issue

• x3x Arctic Wind will no longer retain its frozen platforms after being transformed by an Alchemist as this could cause a crash upon ability expiration

• xx5 Super Glue can now re-target Bloons that is has already Glued after stun expires

• x4x Supply Drop sniper crate ability should no longer land inside high terrain

• 3xx Submerge and Support should no longer be possible to disconnect tower location from visible model

• 5xx Carrier Flagship has had a desync between the Flagship platforms when placed on moving platforms resolved
• xx5 Trade Empire should correctly buff the damage of other Merchantmen in CHIMPS

• 010 Exploding Pineapple should no longer display the wrong number on every 2nd Pineapple

• x04 Comanche Defense should now correctly be able to spawn Mini-Comanche if it is granted camo detection from an external source
• xx4 Comanche Defense should no longer be completely and utterly bonk on Workshop
• x5x Special Poperations will no longer crash the game if disabling MK after picking up a door gunner

• x3x Robo Monkey now remembers target priorities when loading saves

• 3xx Druid of the Storm blowback should correctly remove ongoing glue damage effects from Bloons when the slow is removed

• Lv5 debuff to Black Bloon immunity should no longer fail to work on Zebra Children from MOABs in rare cases

• Lv10 Ball of Light no longer breaks when she is placed above an Arctic Wind on water

• BTD6 is now available on Windows Store, full PC features have been enabled.
• Hotkeys are now available to view and edit from the pause menu in-game
• Improved Steam Rich Presence (moving onto Twitch features now - if you’re a Twitch streamer let us know what features and support you’d like to see, or anything that’s making it difficult or frustrating to stream BTD6)

• x5x Plasma Fan Club price reduced from $50,000 -> 45,000

• 000 Boomerang attack delay reduced from 1.42 -> 1.2
• 2xx Glaives no longer increases attack speed 15% -> 0%
• 5xx Glaive Lord price reduced from 35,000 -> 32400
• 5xx Glaive Lord no longer passively pops Lead without Red Hot Rangs
• xx5 MOAB Domination’s Explosion pierce increased from 20 -> 40

• xx5 Super Glue price reduced from $35,000 -> 28,000

• 5xx Cripple MOAB price reduced from $40,000 -> 34,000

• 030 Ballistic Missile missile attack delay reduced from 1.3 -> 1.105
• 032 Ballistic Missile missile rate buff reduced from 25% to 10%

• 4xx Operation: Dart Storm homing missile damage increased from 18 -> 24

• x5x Special Poperations, Marine ability cooldown reduced from 40s -> 25
• x5x Special Poperations, Marine unit pierce reduced from 30 -> 20

• x4x Rocket Storm cooldown increased from 30s -> 40

• 3xx Spiked Balls pierce reduced from 17 -> 14
• 4xx Spiked Mines price reduced from $11,000 -> 9,500

• xx4 Monkey City cash production bonus to towers in radius increased from 10% to 15%

• 4xx Laser Sentry gains pierce increased from 4 -> 8
• 401 Laser Sentry gains pierce increased from 5 -> 10
• 4xx Ball Sentry damage increased from 1 -> 2
• 4xx Ball Sentry attack cooldown increased from 1s -> 1.1
• 4xx Boom Sentry attack cooldown reduced from 1.3s -> 0.9
• 302 Sentries & Higher will now also be able to Pin Bloons they pop
• xx4 Bloon Trap redeployment cooldown reduced from 15s -> 12

• Lv17 Firestorm’s full-map Heat It Up now also benefits from this level’s buff to Heat It Up

• Lv10 UCAV Damage reduced from 3 -> 2
• Lv15 UCAV Damage reduced from 6 -> 4
• Lv17 UCAV Damage reduced from 9 -> 7
• Lv20 UCAV Damage reduced from 12 -> 10

• New beginner map Resort
• New ETn skin for Etienne
• New non-trophy Music Track Sails Again, playable anytime via the Jukebox. Spice Islands, Off the Coast & Lotus Island also now rock this awesome track by default.
• New Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes: Sauda Crane Pet, Pat Super Jump Placement
  • Monkeys: Banana Farm Chicken, Monkey Village Brazil Flag, Monkey Village USA Flag (whoever makes the most noise gets their flag next, and by noise we mean youtube and twitch views!)
  • Bloons: BTD4 Retro MOAB Skin, BTD4 Retro BFB Skin
  • Co-op: Player Numbers Emote, Trophy Winner Emote
  • Game & UI: Sharp Sauda Avatar, Portable Lava Lake
  • Game & UI: 2 Community designed Competition Avatars
    • u/ReconScoutTeemo Penguin Friend
    • u/Cyliia Gloo Gunner
  • Limited Time: It’s a surprise, but keep your eyes out for a new item that first weekend in May

• Mini-Races - for granular ad hoc competition and more rewards! Don’t worry - you don’t have to race twice! Instead, all Racers now submit their scores to 2 leaderboards. The Mini-Race leaderboard (look for the tab button on the leaderboard screen) will segment players into smaller groups of 100 on a first come first added basis when your first time is recorded.
  • We love the fierce competition at the very top of the full leaderboard, but for players unable to compete for those wickedly fast times, we wanted to offer the chance to shine on their own more granular leaderboards and enjoy the excitement of shaving just a fraction of time from your score to move up the standings.
  • Yes, there’s a little Contested Territory (Bloons Monkey City, and Adventure Time TD) thinking here but we wanted to greatly expand the range of competition within those pools so 100 players per Mini-Race made sense for that.
  • No, there are no badges for the Mini-Races, as it is incredibly important to us to not dilute the prestige of the main board rankings and badges.
• Veteran Levels have been added to the game! After reaching max level, players can now continue to earn additional Veteran Levels. Every one of these requires a substantial amount of experience, but that per level requirement stays flat.
  • We have been listening to the feedback on this topic - ranging from requests to increase the Player Level Max, adding stats that would track total xp, or create a paragon-style system.
  • We will raise the Player Level Max at some intentionally non-committal time in the future but only after we have further narrowed the delta between the available Monkey Knowledge Points including achievements and the total MK Points that can be spent.
  • Veteran Levels allow the awesome number of super dedicated players to keep earning XP and compete for bragging rights on an upcapped scale, but without unbalancing the Monkey Knowledge system.
  • And don’t worry about your Veteran Levels when we do raise the Player Level Max. At that time any Veteran Level player will start earning XP toward the new Player Max, and when that is hit, they will pick up their Veteran Level number and XP count right where they left off.

• Player avatars have been added to in-game leaderboards. Because of course you want to show off your cool avatars in as many places as possible. We’ll keep thinking about more ways to do so.
• New rewards screen popup for Races to explain the Mini-Races
• For more challenge consistency in high rounds, the standard roundset has been extended up to round 120. Now in game modes with standard roundsets the freeplay rounds from 101-120 will be predetermined. This is a big deal for us and we plan to do more custom rounds past 120, so we do want to hear feedback from the community here. BTD6 reddit is the best place for that - if you haven’t signed up, please do! https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/
• A large damage type and Bloon type rework has been made to optimize performance, and this will resolve a number of issues with incorrect damage types dealing damage where they should not.
• Players may now always attempt daily challenges & races even on maps that are currently locked for them. In the initial design we thought this was important to push players to unlock more maps than the first few, but as we have grown our map count it is now more important to give players a chance to sample maps they haven’t unlocked.
• Added deep link share buttons for co-op games and custom challenges, which can be used to launch the game directly into a co-op lobby, or custom challenge screen! To create one, simply select the clipboard and share that link with your friends, and they will tunnel right into your game.
  • One important note on Steam - due to issues that we haven’t yet been able to resolve with Unity, the deeplink will only launch the game on Steam if BTD6 is not open. If BTD6 is already open, please copy and paste the code as normal. We’ll keep working to make it smoother with each update, but for now if you play on Steam please pay attention to the two options on the link page - if your game is open, copy the code; if your game is not open, choose the Launch Game button.

• Various localization & UI text fixes
• Tower UI in co-op should now refresh when viewing a tower that is being upgraded by another player
• Strong target priority again picks Fortified Blimps over their standard variants
• Added a first-time trigger to explain recent changes to map unlocks
• Information on lobbies that cannot be made public has been moved from the corner of the screen to a popup over the public button
• Player XP bar now has comma separators
• Optimization to Bloon pop fx
• Resolved some issues with hero placement/upgrade effects
• Updated share icons within Challenge Editor
• Resolved a crash with entering Races or Daily Challenges too fast
• Drop & Lock placement mode now works with nudge state
• Resolved a UI issue with towers not correctly displaying locked upgrades
• Added [X] close button to race pass pop-up and hero bundle pop-ups in addition to them closing when tapping out of the menu
• Resolved a bug with Blowback which could cause a Golden Bloon to remain immune to damage forever
• Chutes co-op vertical split has been centered

• As a part of the damage & types rework above, basic Ice damage can no longer damage Golden Bloons without the correct upgrades / buffs
• 020 Deep Freeze and higher upgrades should correctly play sound again

• 4xx Aircraft Carrier planes should no longer play extra spawn sounds
• x4x MOAB Takedown ability ‘tiebreakers’ picking incorrect targets has been resolved

• 3xx Laser Cannon path once again has a sell animation

• x2x Wall of Fire visual issue resolved where tower attack animation would not be correct under some cases

• As a part of the damage types rework mentioned above, Acidic Mixture Dip will now correctly allow Ice attacks to damage Lead Bloons
• As a part of the damage types rework, Acidic Mixture Dip will now correctly allow sharp towers to damage Golden Bloons
• As a part of the damage types rework, Acidic Mixture Dip will no longer allow Explosive attacks to damage DDTs

• 101 and higher upgrades should correctly play sound again

• As a part of the damage & types rework, Lv5 will no longer allow energy attacks to damage DDTs

• Level 8 ‘camo’ unlock visual correctly displays at this level again, not level 9
• Level 10 UCAV no longer creates a secondary ice platform when etienne is placed on frozen water

• Sapper achievement description has been clarified; the important note here for players chasing that achievement is to not one shot or strip the fortified state, so unstable concoction, shattering shells, and insta kills like moab takedown in particular should be avoided

• Unity has updated to allow cursor size to match system size so it is now possible to scale this up on Steam! We do not have a solution (still working with Unity on this) to scale the desktop cursor in game, so it must be done with system settings. On Windows this can be found by searching in the Windows search function “Mouse pointer size”. Also note the cursor resolution might become crusty due to the image size being scaled up.

• 3xx Spike-o-pult XP unlock cost increased from 1900 -> 2100
• xx3 Crossbow XP unlock cost reduced from 2100 -> 1900

• 4xx Bloon Impact damage type Normal (All) changed to Explosive
• 5xx Bloon Crush remains Normal type
• x3x MOAB Mauler ceramic damage reduced from 3 -> 1
• x4x MOAB Assassin ceramic bonus unchanged

• 5xx Inferno Ring price reduced from 50,000 -> 45,500
• x4x Maelstrom ability pierce increased 100 -> 200
• xx5 Tack Zone price reduced from $24,000 -> 20,000
• xx5 Tack Zone damage type changed Normal -> Sharp

• x5x Absolute Zero ability cooldown reduced from 30s -> 20
• x5x Absolute Zero ability duration reduced from 15s -> 10

• 2xx Double Shot price increased from $500 -> 550
• 4xx Aircraft Carrier price reduced from $7500 -> 7200

• x4x Rocket Storm price increased from $4800 -> 5100
• xx3 Buckshot price reduced from $3800 -> 3400

• x2x Wall of Fire now targets ‘closest’ track position by default
• x2x Wall of Fire initial cooldown reduced from 5.5s -> 1
• x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix, Fireball damage increased from 9 -> 27
• x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix, Wall of Fire damage increased 1 -> 3
• x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix, Breath damage increased from 2 -> 6

• 010 Super Range now also increases Super Monkey pierce by 1
• 030 Robo Monkey pierce remains at 6

• x4x Bloon Sabotage price increased from $5000 -> 5200

• 3xx Druid of the Storm price reduced from $2000 -> 1850
• 4xx Ball Lightning price reduced from $5500 -> 5100

• 5xx Village influence radius increased from 48 -> 55

• xx5 XXL Trap price reduced from $60,000 -> 54,000

• Attack range reduced from 25 to 23
• Lv6 Attack range bonus reduced from 4 -> 3
• Lv15 Attack range bonus reduced from 4 -> 3

• Hypothermia now instead increases the duration of snowstorm by 1 second

• In addition to increasing the Cash Generation of towers that generate cash, Thrive will now also increase the amount of Cash gained from Bloon pops for its duration
• New visual fx have been added to Thrive to show that it is currently active

I look at the Steam charts to see what's hot on Valve's platform. And every day, I am once again surprised to see Bloons TD 6 hanging among Steam's most popular titles. The colourful tower defense game suddenly exploded in popularity late last year after a substantial sale and some big Twitch streams, and now another discount has brought the game to even greater heights.

Bloons TD 6 went 80% off over the past week (sorry, the sale just ended), which isn't even the biggest sale in the game's history. Nevertheless, it brought the game to a peak of 53,943 concurrent players yesterday, as SteamDB shows, up by over 10k from the previous peak in January, which happened after a 90% discount.

Tower defense is a venerable subgenre of strategy games, and the Bloons series has plenty of nostalgia built up from its days as a free Flash game, but it's still wild to see Bloons TD 6 in comparable standing to Steam games as massive as Destiny 2 and Civilization VI.

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