New Paragon Tower - the Monkey Ace Goliath Doomship!
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
New Halloween game icon
Your eyes are not failing, nor is your screen - our icon is simply celebrating the ghoulish colors of Halloween!
New Maps
Advanced Map - Midnight Mansion
Intermediate Community designed map - Covered Garden from u/SuperPsou
New Trophy Store Items
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)
New Halloween Limited Time Items:
MOAB Skins: Spider DDT
Avatars: The Scream, Monkey Brains
New CT Team Store Items
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
Game Changes / Additions
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.
Bug Fixes & General Changes
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
Freeplay
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%
Dart Monkey
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
Tack Shooter
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
Ice Monkey
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%
Glue Gunner
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 increased Ceramic damage will not skip through extra children layers upon breaking the ceramic layer
Sniper Monkey
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
Monkey Buccaneer
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.
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
Monkey Ace
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
Heli Pilot
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
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%
Mortar Monkey
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
xx5 Blooncineration DoT damage per tic remains at 5
Dartling Gunner
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%
Wizard Monkey
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)
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
Ninja Monkey
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
Alchemist
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.
2xx Acidic Mixture Dip max number of stacks reduced 200 -> 40
Druid
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
Spike Factory
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
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.
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
Gwendolin
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%
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
Adora
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
Admiral Brickell
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
Contested Territory - Relic Knowledge
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 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
Looking Forward
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.
34.0
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
Creators
Huge thanks to these creators for supporting the early partnership with Nexus.gg and figuring out the ins and outs of the system:
We’re still working with Nexus on improvements and tools and hope to include more creators by the end of this year. Stay tuned!
Console
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!
Contested Territory is now live. Gather your Team, choose your Monkeys, and start capturing territory!
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
Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 32.0
Key New Features
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 Awesome
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
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)
Big Changes / Additions
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
Bug Fixes & General Changes
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
Desktop Version
Added GlueRatJam emote to the discord server
Balance Changes
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
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
Looking Forward
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
Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 31.0
Bloons TD 6 v31.0 - Update Notes!
Key New Features
New Awesome
Big Changes / Additions
Bug Fixes & General Changes
Boomerang Monkey
Monkey Buccaneer
Heli Pilot
Mortar Monkey
Dartling Gunner
Wizard Monkey
Ninja Monkey
Druid
Monkey Village
Engineer
Adora
Admiral Brickell
Desktop Version
Balance Changes
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.
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.
Glue Gunner
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Gwendolin
Gwendolin’s Firestorm damage doesn’t carry well into the endgame so has been buffed at a later level.
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.
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.
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.
Glue Rat
Glue Rat pet has been overperforming in all game modes for a while now without any apparent weakness or strategic downsides.
Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 30.0
Bloons TD 6 v30.0 - Update Notes
Key New Features
New Awesome
Big Changes / Additions
Bug Fixes & General Changes
Bomb Shooter
Ice Monkey
Glue Gunner
Monkey Sub
Monkey Buccaneer
Wizard Monkey
Druid
Engineer
Gwendolin
Obyn Greenfoot
Benjamin
Desktop Version
Balance Changes
Dart Monkey
Juggernaut relying on ricochets felt too niche in the current game, sadly excelling in far too few situations, so instead the Ceramic damage strength has been increased leading a little better into the T5 and benefiting it in more general straight line situations. Crossbow Master is pretty much around the entry level T5 that we want, but a little too expensive for something that brings no extra utility.
Boomerang Monkey
To buff Glaive Lords middle crosspath as a choice & utilize more of an attack that is mostly rendered useless by this tier, the base damage of the thrown ricochet attack has been increased. Bionic Boomerang’s price has been lowered to make this upgrade slightly more approachable, but Turbo Charge’s price increased as we’re ok with the higher tiers on this path. Finally MOAB Dom’s price has been reduced a little, while this upgrade mostly fits as an early freeplay support/carry this price buff will make it more affordable before then and slightly benefit saveup for the paragon.
Bomb Shooter
Has strong meta usage, Mauler as a moab focus upgrade no longer needs the bonus to ceramic crutch
Tack Shooter
Ring of Fire doesn’t keep up well enough for where it is placed, so the attack speed increase from this upgrade has been bumped up from 15% to 25%. Inferno Ring itself feels ok but for the difficult saveup not so much, so as a bit of a buff we have added crosspathing to the Meteor attack.
Ice Monkey
Cryo Cannon has pulled far ahead of similar cheap Bloon control options, while leading into the also quite cheap Icicles which for most of the game offers more Bloon shredding support for cheaper than those other options.
Sniper Monkey
Elite Sniper bouncing bullet jump distance has been reduced so that it can't quite bridge small track splits so easily, however to change up use this lost distance has been added back to crosspathing. Elite Defender falls off a lot after midgame & really lacks any true cross pathing choice, so it has had some MOAB damage added to the base attack with the amount improved from crosspathing.
Monkey Sub
Previously the rate increase to Ballistic Missile from crosspath was reduced due to Airburst having enough value on it’s own. This reason still applies as Airburst provides a significant power boost just on it’s own, so all rate increase has been removed from Airburst and applied directly to the base Ballistic Missile to help crosspath diversity slightly.
Monkey Buccaneer
Some parts of the new Buccaneer paragon were balanced more around a Degree 100 level without properly scaling, so we have fixed up some of this to better fit scaling up to 100 reaching those values, and moved the ability for it and any possible future paragons to also scale in cooldown based on the Degree.
Monkey Ace
More of a straight quality of life, Ace has gained a new special toggle button to allow it to turn back and fly in reverse on any selected flight pattern. As Ground Zero stands out in power, & enough so to make the upgrade to Tsar Bomba questionable, some upgrade cost has been moved out of Tsar Bomba into Ground Zero to make Ground Zero more expensive while not changing Tsar much other than a slight overall cost buff. While Flying Fortress has started to see use in Boss events this feels like more of a cash dump than actual value in the tower. As Spectre value already drops off the later any game gets, the saveup into a ‘better version’ also drops off in value, and so the price should reflect that better.
Heli Pilot
Comanche Defense mostly suffered during downtime and so the base Heli at T4 has had some general improvements made to power, but the mini helis have also gained a pierce increase to provide the darts with some improved crowd control
Mortar Monkey
Mortar top path feels too weak for the lead up to the Tier 5, so it along with the T5 have had some general number increases. Additionally the 302 crosspath has failed to ever see a great deal of use compared to much faster firing, to make it easier to to use up power from the DoT this path will now burn through faster
Dartling Gunner
Dartling’s Ray of Doom is far too expensive for general use, so before looking at any further power related buffs we’re lowering the price. Middle Path rocket storm is too strong for something also so buffable so is getting some number changes. Additionally Rocket Storm has always fired through blockers as we didn’t want to cripple placement too much, at this point we feel like it should be strong enough of an upgrade to have to deal with the placement problems that come with blocking objects. Finally as the Laser Shock crosspath is not so favorable for Buckshot path dartlings, we have doubled down on the ‘Focus’ of Focussed Firing to also increase projectile travel distance.
Wizard Monkey
As base Wizard shines in no way & doesn’t lead into any immediately good cheap lower tiers aside from Wall of Fire, the base price is being slightly lowered at the cost of an increase to Wall of Fire. The role Arcane Spike filled at game launch has been replaced as better synergies were learned & added over time. As it's slightly too expensive at some early key points the price is being lowered to hopefully fit some use in at those points. Wizard Prince of Darkness is annoying to position correctly due to the sudden massive radius increase & it also needs a power nerf. So overall here we are moving all of the range increase down into a lower amount at the T3 so that range positioning is known before buying any necromancer upgrades, as well as moving some of the lifespan of the zombies themselves into the lesser used 1xx lifespan crosspath.
Super Monkey
We wanted some more meaning to middle path being a pierce choice aside from just being cheaper, so we’ve lowered Plasma Blast pierce but reduced its price. Sun Avatar and Robo Monkey have had small price decreases while Dark Knight has had a small increase to line the T3s a little closer up. Dark Champion has had a ceramic bonus added to deal with super ceramics as it is priced only for use in that lategame range, and Legend has had a price reduction to compensate for a rework to the passive ability preventing chained use in deep freeplay.
Druid
Druid base price has been reduced slightly to fit it in a little better as a starter choice.
Top path has had a number of buffs to help with both price and consistency in control over regular bloons through higher tiers. Superstorm has had a rather big price buff, however to prevent it locking up games in a boring stall state the blowback distance against ZOMGs has been halved.
Monkey Village
To improve the consistency of Primary Expertise as a long range cleanup the attack rate has been increased.
Engineer
To add a bit of quality of life solving problems with trap needing to fill once before moving to target location, Bloontraps placed off-track never being able to fill, and maybe even to just add some interesting micro, any Bloontraps will now become expired after a short delay when their Engineer has a new target set.
Quincy
This upgrade didn’t have enough impact so late in the game and upgrade tree.
Admiral Brickell
To help Brickell excel a little better at her thematic niche of water support, we have added a small permanent buff to all water in her radius to allow her to give them a bit of extra juice even during ability downtime. Additional minor buffs to her main slow-hard hitting revolver attack as she levels up.
Looking Forward
Thanks for reading to the end! Along the lines of the Preview Notes and in an effort to share more about what we’re working on next, for BTD6 we’ll plan on including in each major update a few notes about what we’re working on next. We don’t mean to overshadow discussion and feedback on the current update - it’s most important for us to hear what you like and don’t like about what we’ve just released. But we do want to bridge what we included in an update with what the community might have wanted in the update but didn’t get, as maybe what you’re missing is exactly what we’re working on next. In the cases where what you’re keen on is not planned in the next update either, that’s where we can have more good discussions on Reddit and Discord, so looking forward to hearing from you there!
Notes below are our planning, not our promises. Features can be derailed for many reasons, so we won’t be talking dates or commitments, just about what we’re working on, and we hope that is understood and still valuable.
Thanks for reading and we look forward to your feedback on Update 30 and our future plans.
Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 29.0
Bloons TD 6 v29.0 - Update Notes!
Key New Features
New Awesome
Big Changes / Additions
Bug Fixes & General Changes
Ice Monkey
Mortar Monkey
Wizard Monkey
Ninja Monkey
Druid
Monkey Village
Captain Churchill
Ezili
Pat Fusty
Desktop Version
Balance Changes
Boomerang Monkey
Just a cool/fun factor and “because it should” reasoning here honestly, not necessarily necessary but we think it fits.
Separately, we noticed the Glaive Dominus press knockback’s actual explosion was only dealing a fraction of the damage of any other part on this upgrade, this combined with it pushing targets out of the tower’s radius made it somewhat stally so we juiced up the power of this explosion significantly.
Glue Gunner
Since glue gunners can’t work together as we all want them to and we could not bite that off for this update, for now have decided to do more for the top and middle paths themselves.
Bloon Solver’s single target power feels like it ramps slowly on larger targets, and while it is mainly a grouped cleanup, we decided to give a nudge here with bonuses to large targets to help with higher round falloff.
Glue Strike doesn’t seem to hold up to any other option in a similar role, so we’ve doubled down on its support factor with a new role and are hoping for more synergy to emerge there.
Monkey Sub
The logic on a Lead crosspath not being required to give Lead popping to an attack based on something weak against Lead has never sat right, so we’re finally sorting that out and making sub a little angrier.
Increasing the strength of the basic Ballistic Missile attack on the Pre-Emptive Strike sub, so that it can bring a little more to the table after the initial single hit on each spawn.
Dartling Gunner
The MAD has come to stand out far too much in any Boss situation, often feeling like a crutch that must be used due to how perfectly it fits the Boss situation even though it wasn’t appreciated a great deal before that content was added. We’ve tried to pull it back in this situation with lowered damage per hit while making up for some of this lowered damage with increased pierce.
The bottom path Bloon Exclusion Zone on the Dartling has had a lot of talk about damage types, with points raised on the viability here due to the high price. It did recently get a strong buff from the T3 up, but in order to work more into other synergies we have decided to finally do a damage type change here as well, starting from early on in the path.
Wizard Monkey
As Wall of Fire still stands out too much for a Tier 2 upgrade, it is seeing a nerf with some power being shifted further up to the T3 instead. In contrast, Fireball continues to underwhelm, so is seeing an initial buff plus a larger buff at T3.
Druid
While having fun with the new Druid of the Vine changes, we want this new power to scale further with the T5. We are also starting to look at moving some cash farming potential with Jungle’s Bounty to favour Obyn as the ‘Druid Hero’ more than Benjamin who is meant to focus more on Banks - more on that further down in the Obyn section.
Spike Factory
While we feel speed interactions for Spike Storm was a necessary evil for performance related concerns, we did not want to kill off self synergy contained local to the tower, so we are trying out an exception to this rule for the 042 crosspath. Additionally, due to the large annoyance in using spike storm in bosses due to the persistent rounds a boss will last for, Spike Storm will now be allowed to carry over one round before being cleaned up.
Super Mines gets damage - to stand it out in Bosses more.
Engineer
Engineer’s bottom 2 paths have a heavier support focus, so to start them off a bit easier we have shifted some starting cost out and into the non-supportive path. For the sake of further improved crosspath potential, we have also re-envisioned the ‘Larger Service’ crosspath as giving smarter service as well in the form for targeting for Bloontrap & Cleansing Foam
Gwendolin
Similar to Wall of Fire, Gwendolin’s Cocktail gains too much strength in grouped situations too early on and so this power has been pushed to higher levels.
Obyn Greenfoot
As a ‘druid buffing’ hero, Obyn has in actuality been a bottom path druid buffing hero, so we’ve tweaked a couple extra levels to give more path specific bonuses to other druid paths that weren’t benefiting as much from his wizened presence, regardless of whether your Obyn says “Fries” or “Clive”. Also since we worked out how to do more advanced targeting for the engineer anyway, this has been applied to Wall of Trees too. We considered brambles as well but prefer the early game variety, didn’t want brambles and WoT to appear at the same spot, and didn’t want to overcomplicate with 2 targeted placements, and WoT is clearly the more important.
Psi
Psi’s Psionic Scream often didn’t feel as satisfying if a lot of the blown back targets rolled a minimum distance, so we have upped the minimum distance that it can blow back
Monkey Knowledge
Gorgon Storm clearly released overtuned for a single knowledge point due to the way it works with large numbers of projectiles applying consecutive stuns. It will still be extremely powerful even after this, but should be harder to achieve an actual permastall on MOABs most of the time.
Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 28.0
Bloons TD 6 v28.0 - Update Notes!
Key New Features
More New Awesomeness
Quality of Life & Other Additions
Bug Fixes & General Changes
Boomerang Monkey
Mortar Monkey
Super Monkey
Alchemist
Druid
Banana Farm
Engineer
Gwendolin
Striker Jones
Benjamin
Ezili
Pat Fusty
Adora
Admiral Brickell
Psi
Desktop Version
Balance Changes
Camo Prioritization
Instead of saying the same thing each time; many specific crosspaths that add a ‘camo specialty’ to a tower end up being viewed as rather inferior crosspaths due to camo being quite available to pick up through other methods. To give these upgrades more use even with other forms of camo reveal in play, we have added a brand new Camo Prioritization option that is added to the towers when taking this crosspath. When enabled this filter combines the selected target method with Camo Prioritization (e.g. Strong Camo would work through all Camos in strength order, then revert to normal Strong until any new Camos show up). Individual Monkeys are called out below.
Stall Farming
Farming methods involving stalling out games for theoretically infinite amounts of time have been around since previous games in the series, and we set out to stop a few of them with BTD6’s launch but still allowed some to linger on due to how difficult they were to perform. Nevertheless these time-consuming methods don’t fit the spirit of the game and while tedious to perform they have sparked certain mindsets that they need to be used when things get too hard. We have chosen to now add in a 3 minute timeout preventing further use of any Cash Generating abilities within any single round to end any remaining cash value in this ‘infinite stalling’ of any single round. This allows players to continue to use this strategy, but only to a specific, limited extent, so strategies can be planned around this; we hope players will agree this is a fair compromise.
Dart Monkey
Boomerang Monkey
While the higher tiers are quite good, Bionic Boomerang does not feel like a strong stepping ston, and 052 is still mostly considered an inferior crosspath due to base tower damage already being high, so Bionic’s ability increase to damage has been increased further. MOAB Domination’s MOAB damage has been increased to give it a little more power than just stalling & finally we’re tweaked up some of the numbers on Boomerang Paragon’s damage to even out some parts of it that were not contributing effectively
Bomb Shooter
While MOAB Maulers are a current popular meta the base bomb shooter is unaffordable early on for the little contribution it can make at early levels when not much pierce is really needed, so some cost has been moved out of the base upgrade and into the Mauler with an overall price increase to Mauler. We’ve acknowledged that Frag Bombs have felt like an inconsistent crosspath both in what they add to the tower and what they lose when upgraded further on their own path, so now in addition to frags popping Black Bloons xx2+ will allow all attacks from the tower to pop Black.
Ice Monkey
Embrittlement being a ‘camo reveal’ has not been viable due to the price, so T2 Metal Freeze has been granted camo detection to allow this tower to somewhat hold off camos while it saves up to become a reveal. Additionally Embrittlement will now be able to target and debuff MOAB Bloons for the smaller damage bonus without needing to be upgraded to T5. Additionally some smaller price nerfs have been made along the lower tiers of bottom path as each of these upgrades has been standing out a little much.
Sniper Monkey
No wrist enjoys spamming cash drops, so sniper’s random cash drop has been standardized around a higher amount with slower cooldown for an overall buff. As middle path sniper has been feeling to be in a good spot with alchemist buffs, but other uses of sniper shrapnel weak due to lack of alchemist buff, we have decided to swap alchemist buffability over from the number of bounces to the power of the shrapnel itself.
Monkey Buccaneer
Bottom crosspath feels behind compared to others here, so in addition to the new Camo Prioritization filter Longer Range on this path will now also grant bonus pierce. Favored Trades stacking was never intended to be a feature but we previously updated the description to support the stacking instead of changing functionality, so this has now been corrected.
Monkey Ace
Monkey Ace has had an overall rework to a lot of different upgrades in order to highlight the x1x Exploding Pineapples upgrade as a buff to all explosives, in addition to this Spectre has been reworked to have less base pierce but a higher damage bonus to Ceramic Bloons in order to make the new option of a pierce crosspath more viable while also allowing it to carry on better into the endgame against Super Ceramics.
Heli Pilot
For similar reasons to Sniper, Chinook is a pretty annoying tower to farm with, so its ability has been standardized into a single producing both a life & a cash crate on a longer cooldown; the cash production of this has gone up while the life generation has been reduced as the power stood out too much compared to any other life generation method. MOAB Shove has had a missile attack similar to xx4’s mini comanches added to provide this path something extra for when the mini comanche are not active.
Mortar Monkey
Bottom path Mortar burns have been reworked to burn faster and last longer at all upgrades; the Extra Burny Stuff MK has been tweaked in order to keep it’s benefit the same comparatively to the new & improved base values.
Dartling Gunner
Even though we like the theme of the slow hitting upgrade, Buckshot has struggled to live up to its potential, so attack speed has been further increased through all tiers. Ray of Doom’s damage bonuses have been shuffled around in order to not be so weak against Super Ceramics as by the time anyone reasonably affords this SCs are the only ones you’ll be seeing.
Wizard Monkey
Some general buffs have been made to Wizard’s abilities to give it a small boost. Prince of Darkness has been performing extremely well after all its buffs and this is nice after it underperformed for so long, but the round 81 change to counter reduced Bloon Children with bonus Graveyard per pop has made it sustain high levels of graveyard too easily, this bonus has been lowered a little.
Super Monkey
In an attempt to reduce visual clutter, we have reworked the formula for Temple projectile size scaling to come out overall being smaller by roughly 25%. Dark Knights have been feeling strong with their stalling power but we don’t want to hit this too hard just yet so have reduced the slow amount slightly and restored it at the T4.
Ninja Monkey
As ninja is the ‘Camo Specialist’ and has been since inception, it is the only tower that will unlock Camo Prioritization on the base tower. Master Bomber’s main flash bomb has also been buffed in damage slightly leading into the new Ninja Paragon.
Alchemist
Acidic Mixture Dip did nothing for Glue Gunners but alchemist would waste it on them
Druid
As an underused crosspath on this tower, Druid’s Hard Thorns will now allow them to counter all of its weaknesses instead of just frozen targets. Druid of the Storm has been reworked to more consistently blow targets back due to being stationary and slower firing compared to other upgrades that do a similar task. Jungle Druids have been reworked to have more offensive power at both T3 and the T4 while not being quite so good at farming
Banana Farm
Banana Farm’s xx2 upgrade is the inferior crosspath, so we’ve amped up the utility with the lazy aspect so that if it’s going to be inferior for production, it’s at least going to be extra lazy & less far behind. Additionally, as Monkey Wall Street is the least interesting T5 Banana Farm & doesn’t benefit from the Healthy Bananas MK it will now produce a base amount of lives each round
Spike Factory
Some minor changes to a few upgrades on Spike Factory evening out some aspects of it.
Monkey Village
Further enhancing the cooldown buff that is initially added by the T4
Benjamin
Biohack would attempt to buff/debuff Paragons but do nothing.
Ezili
Ezili’s main attack was causing large problems behind the scenes due to it applying a stacking dot, but as stacks do not play nicely with other root level mechanics we’ve streamlined her attack into a much simpler DoT with some additional stat changes.
Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 27.0
Bloons TD 6 v27.0 - Update Notes!
Key Features
More New Awesome
Bug Fixes & General Changes
Boomerang Monkey
Bomb Shooter
Sniper Monkey
Alchemist
Spike Factory
Monkey Village
Engineer
Gwendolin
Adora
Desktop Version
Balance Changes
Boomerang Monkey
Due to large memory leak issues with Glaive Lord’s stacking DoT which could not be resolved this upgrade has seen a rework to the DoT. Bionic Boomerang’s base attack rate has been improved to compensate for recent reworking of the 2xx Glaives Crosspath
Ice Monkey
Snowstorm’s duration has been improved to give it more bang for its buck as an alternate option to Ninja’s Bloon Sabotage, and Absolute Zero’s price has been reduced to bring it more within reach for a support upgrade.
Monkey Sub
Ballistic Missile’s 230 crosspath has been in a confusing spot for a while where it functioned different to Advanced Intel, so it has been converted to function with Advanced Intel in the same way that any other Sub upgrade would. Additionally First Strike's secondary explosion has had its target count reduced slightly.
Monkey Ace
Now allows you to find your center. Very zen.
Heli Pilot
As a small quality of life feature Chinook’s redeploy ability has been reworked to allow slight movements of towers in a single use, rather than having to move them away and then use another redeployment to move them back again.
Mortar Monkey
Mortar Monkey has been given a T4 ability, since it didn’t have one and also to make up for Bloon Impact no longer triggering ‘stun debuff’ on MOABs when it hasn’t actually been stunning them. Signal Flare has had its camo revealing aspect reworked to make it more generally useful.
Wizard Monkey
In order to allow for more strategic use of the birdy, Summoned Phoenix will now follow the set target priority.
Super Monkey
Robo Monkey has never filled the super effective role it held in BTD5, so Dr Monkey has installed updated HUD targeting systems that now deal occasional critical hits. Additionally as the abilities on this path didn’t match up to their history or other Monkey Tower options (like Ground Zero) so they have been improved significantly in damage and increased radius.
Ninja Monkey
To try and allow more strategic use Ninja’s Sticky Bombs will now use the targeting of the main tower instead of always Strong. Additionally as they weren’t feeling good enough in general Sticky Bombs will now deal a smaller amount of damage in an AoE to anything surrounding the main target.
Druid
To allow for more strategy in placement, Druid’s Spirit of the Forest track vines are now more dense & deadly the closer they are to the main tower. Also by popular demand Avatar of Wrath’s 205 crosspath will now benefit from improved Lightning damage proportional to the RBE of Bloons on screen similar to the main thorns.
Banana Farm
Given the relatively low value and use case of upgrading Banks further to IMF Loan, the overall incredible power of the Bank Deposits MK on Banks, and the fact that Banks are majorly considered to be the most powerful farm; we have decided to limit this incredibly powerful Knowledge point until the IMF Loan to both reign it in and give a little more back to that lacking T4 upgrade.
Spike Factory
Due to a number of performance concerns, the ability for the Spike Storm factory will no longer be able to benefit from a denser storm of spikes via stacking speed buffs on the base tower.
Adora
In order to just generally grant more value to this ability and develop strategy in what targets you want to pick to use it on and when, Adora's buff gained after sacrificing another tower will now scale based on the sacrifice's cost. Additionally as Sacrifice loses value when using it after Adora reaches the level 20 cap it now receives a large duration buff at that point.
Admiral Brickell
Due to much user concern with Brickell’s Sea Mines seriously overkilling weak targets and wasting themselves in this way, they now have a short delay between activations.
Sauda
While we feel Sauda’s power has been balanced fairly well, we have also felt that too much of this power is generally available while ignoring the synergies that she was intended to be built around.To correct this her damage will in total remain the same, but some key levels that increased damage will now instead buff her weakness bonuses. We would also like to make it clear that this has been in the works for some time and has nothing to do with the recent 1TC completion, so please don’t be mad at that person. This will mean fairly little to most players, who are not doing those sorts of challenges anyway.
Powers
As Timestop is not considered to be an actual application of ‘slowing’ it will now apply to all Bloon types including BAD. This is a unique case that isn’t going to be changed for any Monkey Towers, just the Timestop.
Temple & Freeplay balance
Temples feel like far too much of the bulk of total power in deeper Freeplay scenarios. While this is their role, ever since adding the hidden Vengeful version of the Temple the VTSG has pushed ahead so much that it nearly invalidates other freeplay tower options. While this change won’t completely alter that, we have scaled back temples compared to the new Paragons & expensive regular towers by reducing the damage bonus of 555 temple by 33%, and also roughly easing up on the freeplay health ramping of MOABs by a similar amount
Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 26.0
Bloons TD 6 v26.0 - Update Notes!
New Awesome
Key Features
Big Changes / Additions
Bug Fixes & General Changes
Ice Monkey
Glue Gunner
Sniper Monkey
Monkey Sub
Monkey Buccaneer
Monkey Ace
Heli Pilot
Super Monkey
Druid
Striker Jones
Adora
Desktop Version
Balance Changes
Dart Monkey
While overall good, the difficulty of using PMFC to its full potential doesn’t feel quite worth it so price has been cut to make it a little easier to reach.
Boomerang Monkey
To reduce some top crosspath dominance, have middle path stay the true speed crosspath and also provide a small buff to the base Boomerang, Glaive’s attack speed bonus has been moved down into the base Boomerang Tower. Glaive Lord’s innate lead popping has been removed to allow that meaning to remain in the crosspath along with price being reduced to compensate. MOAB Domination’s explosion has had pierce increased to improve consistency on children Bloons.
Glue Gunner
Super Glue currently fits a role of essentially a weaker Ice Impale that is also much more expensive (and, well, worse). For now the cost has been cut substantially to keep their function and value balanced.
Sniper Monkey
Cripple MOAB’s price currently limits it mainly to freeplay and so has been reduced.
Monkey Sub
As Airburst Darts alone already gives a huge benefit to the tower regardless of not applying any crosspath buff, some of the attack speed benefit this upgrade gave to 032 Ballistic Missile has instead been moved into the base 030 Missile.
Monkey Ace
As Dart Storm currently feels like a lossy stepping stone the damage has been increased.
Heli Pilot
We’ve noted that Special Poperations has save-up issues, and then once owned has uptime and single target issues. With the 30 second duration, it now has potentially no downtime and instead allowing careful (or techbot) management to give a short burst of increased single target.
Dartling Gunner
Rocket Storm is currently too powerful as just a ‘spam whenever it’s ready’ without much thinking really required, its cooldown is being lowered so that it remains quite powerful but may require more timing.
Spike Factory
Pierce amounts for Spiked Balls and Mines fits their use cases too awkwardly due to super ceramics. Considering the power of Spiked Balls, their pierce has been reduced slightly to add value to the pierce focussed higher tier in addition to a price cut for Spiked Mines.
Monkey Village
As currently it doesn’t feel as valuable to use the City buff versus other cash producing towers, the buff Monkey City applies to other cash producing towers in radius has been increased.
Engineer
It has been clear that Sentry Expert needs changes, with Cryo sentries the only ones that really seemed valuable and purposeful, so all of the others have been improved to fit their role. Additionally higher tier sentries will now be able to benefit from the xx2 Pin crosspath, so enjoy some laser pins. Bloon Trap redeployment rate has also been buffed a fair amount.
Gwendolin
As the Firestorm ability itself drops off later anyway, Gwen’s level 17 buff to Heat it Up will now apply to the version granted to all towers by Firestorm as well.
Etienne
We have to admit there were some mistakes not trusting ourselves as much as we should have due to lackluster initial reception of Etienne (except for you die hard Etienne fans, who we greatly appreciate). He was quickly buffed in the very next update before giving users time to settle and find out just how to use a hero who played so differently and after the resurgence in play with the ETn skin. While we still feel that those changes rather nicely sorted out quality of life issues and we took more time to avoid ping ponging him around, he clearly reigns far too supreme and needs some nerf stick. Rather than removing any of those usability changes we have decided to trim down the power of his very dominant UCAV ability.
