[p]⏪ Play 5 classic maps in reverse mode for a unique twist.[/p]
[p]🏟️ Reverse maps appear in the same arenas and game modes as their regular versions.[/p]
[p]🗺️ The maps with reverse versions are:[/p]
[p]🌳 Glade[/p]
[p]🏖️ Offtide[/p]
[p]🌴 Oasis[/p]
[p]🏢 COBRA Command[/p]
[p] 📐Inflection[/p]
[p][/p]
Balance Changes
[p]Bloon Sends[/p]
[p]🎈 Tight Ceramics total time to send 1s -> 1.2s[/p]
[p]💭 Even after the nerfs in the last balance patch, Tight Ceramics are still proving to be one of the most dangerous rushes in the game. We’re spacing them out a little more in order to make it easier for defenses to handle them. [/p]
[p]💭 Cluster Bombs is already a potent weapon against grouped bloons, especially when map blockers allow multiple explosions to hit the same bloon. We don’t feel like it needs any extra power so we are reducing the extra pierce gained from crosspathing.[/p]
[p]Ice Monkey[/p]
[p]💰x4x Snowstorm: $3500 -> $4000[/p]
[p]💭 Snowstorm is still an extremely effective stalling tactic, even with last update’s nerfs. We are increasing its price further in order to make it less efficient to micro.[/p]
[p]Sniper Monkey[/p]
[p]🎯x3x Bouncing Bullet: $2250 -> $2600[/p]
[p]💭This was buffed in a previous update, but it has been performing better than we thought it would. So this should bring its performance to where we want it.[/p]
[p]Heli Pilot[/p]
[p]💰xx3 Moab shove $3700 -> $4000[/p]
[p]🚁xx5 Comanche Commander: Mini comanches attack speed 0.15s -> 0.13s[/p]
[p]🚁xx5 Comanche Commander $35000 -> $34700[/p]
[p]💭The Heli Pilot’s bottom path tier 5s often feel weaker than those of other towers so we are giving it a small buff to help it out. In addition, we are nerfing MOAB Shove slightly because its stall was too cost effective**.**[/p]
[p]Mortar Monkey[/p]
[p]💥4xx The Big One: Pierce 80 -> 100,[/p]
[p]💥4xx The Big One: Stun pierce 85 -> 100, shockwave pierce 85 -> 100[/p]
[p]💭The Big One was feeling overshadowed by Artillery Battery in situations with large amounts of bloons. These pierce buffs should help it shine in these situations.[/p]
[p]💭Like the Grandmaster Ninja, the Master Bomber is also now a little underpowered. This buff should help it feel more consistent like it used to.[/p]
[p]🔥Flame trails now affect buccaneer 4xx fighter planes[/p]
[p]💭Biker Bones is very strong with late game strategies. This nerf to his earlier game will make him weaker early game to balance out his late game strength. Additionally we are introducing a new synergy with the buccaneer to vary his playstyles.[/p]
[p]Pat Fusty[/p]
[p]🫸Level 5: Slap triggers every 5 -> 3 attacks[/p]
[p]🫸Level 5: Slap knockback lasts for 1s -> 0.5s[/p]
[p]🫸Level 5: Slap 0d -> 2d[/p]
[p]💭We are making this change to make Pat’s slaps more consistent, without reducing his DPS.[/p]
[p]Fusty the Snowman[/p]
[p]🫷Level 5: Slap triggers every 5 -> 3 attacks[/p]
[p]🫷Level 5: Slap knockback lasts for 1s -> 0.5s[/p]
[p]🫷Level 5: Slap makes frozen bloons spawn 6 -> 3 shards on impact[/p]
[p]💭We are changing this for the same reason as Pat’s, but the dps on Fusty the Snowman is already good so reducing amount ice shards will keep the dps as it was before.[/p]
[p]DJ Ben Jammin’[/p]
[p]💻Level 1: Child towers no longer count for DJ Ben’s money generation.[/p]
[p]💻Level 4: pierce bonus to towers in range +1 -> +0[/p]
[p]💻Level 5: Side Hustle buff 6% -> 3%[/p]
[p]💻Level 9: Side Hustle buff 9% -> 6%[/p]
[p]💻Level 11: pierce bonus remains +1[/p]
[p]💻Level 14: Encore ability cooldown reduction 15% -> 10%[/p]
[p]💭DJ Ben has been performing quite strongly in the current meta, so we’re making some adjustments to bring him more in line with other options.[/p]
[p]Etienne[/p]
[p]🛜Level 1: Pierce +1[/p]
[p]💭 This is to balance out the pierce he is losing from his old Level 4 upgrade[/p]
[p]🛜Level 4: Divide and conquer gives + 20 move speed and +10% attack speed[/p]
[p]🛜Level 4: Zone defence gives + 1 dmg[/p]
[p]🛜Level 4: First gives + 1 pierce[/p]
[p]🛜Level 9: First now gives +2 pierce[/p]
[p]💭 We thought it would be fun to add to Etienne's playstyle by incorporating his targeting options into his damage output.[/p]
[p]Beetienne[/p]
[p]🐝Level 3: Defend the hive: Now increases attack speed of swarms by 1.33x instead of 2x.[/p]
[p]💭Defend the hive was a little overpowered. This should bring it back in line.[/p]
[p][/p]
Bug Fixes
[p]🏹Fixed Quincy's camo bow weapon skin breaking his outline[/p]
[p]⚡Fixed Ball lightning druid projectile not detecting camo properly[/p]
[p]⏩Fixed boost cosmetics getting reset when you change loadouts in sandbox[/p]
[p]🐝 Fixed being able to stack multiple beehives on a single rock on Pirate Cove.[/p]
[p]🔀 Adapt your defences to a path that changes every round.[/p]
[p]🏆 Magma Mixup will appear in ranked and clan games in White Wasteland and higher.[/p]
Balance Changes
[p]Bloon Sends[/p]
[p]🎈 Tight Lead bloons: Send time 1.2s -> 1.5s[/p]
[p]🎈 Tight Ceramic bloons: Send time 0.8s -> 1s[/p]
[p]🎈 Grouped White bloons: Cost $65 -> $75[/p]
[p]🎈 Grouped Black bloons: Quantity 4 -> 5[/p]
[p]🎈 Grouped Black bloons: Cost $75 -> $85[/p]
[p]🎈 Tight MOABs: Cost $4000 -> $4500[/p]
[p]🎈 Grouped DDTs: Cost $6000 -> $6250[/p]
[p]🎈 Phayze Multiplier: 1.75x -> 1.6x[/p]
[p]💭 Black Bloons were feeling underpowered as a rush and were getting overshadowed by white bloons. This buff should make them a more threatening rush. [/p]
[p]💭 Tight leads and ceramics are one of the strongest rushes. This nerf should bring them more in line with other rushes.[/p]
[p]💭 The Phayze modifier does not have as big an effect as other modifiers. We’re reducing the price to match its effectiveness. [/p]
[p]💭 Spike-o-pult feels underwhelming compared to the other paths so we decided to increase the pierce in its earlier paths to make it a viable option.[/p]
[p]Tack Shooter[/p]
[p]💰 x4x Blade Maelstrom: $3000 -> $3550[/p]
[p]💭 Tack is a very popular tower and is used in a lot of strategies, in particular the Blade Maelstrom upgrade. We’ve decided to increase the price to make microing just a little bit less efficient.[/p]
[p]Ice Monkey[/p]
[p]🤽 Can place Ice Monkeys on water[/p]
[p]💰 3xx Ice Shards: $1800 -> $2000[/p]
[p]💰 x4x Snowstorm: $3000 -> $3500[/p]
[p]💭 Ice Shards is very strong despite recent nerfs and Snowstorm has become very powerful now that people are understanding how to use the attack speed buff more effectively. Some small nerfs to these two upgrades should hopefully pull them back in line. [/p]
[p]💭 We found Dartling’s early game is a little bit too strong currently. This little nerf should slow its early game down but keep it very viable. The later upgrades were performing very well against tight rushes for very little investment. These changes will make these upgrades less efficient[/p]
[p]Wizard Monkey[/p]
[p]💰 xx4 Necromancer: Cost $2600 -> $2800[/p]
[p]💰 xx5 Prince of Darkness: Cost $24000 -> $28000[/p]
[p]💭 The recent bug fixes to Necromancer and Prince of Darkness have made it a bit more efficient than it needs to be so we are increasing the costs to reflect its new effectiveness.[/p]
[p]💭 Flash Bomb synergizes well with damage buffs and Ice Shards, making it a powerful early-game upgrade.[/p]
[p]💭 Shinobi’s buffs are too strong right now and the overall strategy becomes extremely powerful after round 20.[/p]
[p]💭 Increasing Bloon Sabotage cost and reducing its duration will require greater investment to maintain its effects during sustained rushes.[/p]
[p]Druid[/p]
[p]😡 xx5 Avatar of wrath buff max attack dmg increase 24 > 30[/p]
[p]💭 Druid has fallen down the ranks of player pick rate. We are increasing the maximum damage of Avatar of Wrath to make it more viable.[/p]
[p]Monkey Village[/p]
[p]📉 xx1 Monkey Business: Discount 10% -> 5%[/p]
[p]🌐 x5x Homeland Defense: now has a global cooldown[/p]
[p]💭 Monkey Business was giving too much value when buying multiple village farms. Homeland Defence is very powerful in the late game when microed. This will stop it being microed but still keep the ability impactful. [/p]
[p]Banana Farm[/p]
[p]🏦 x4x IMF loan: Maximum capacity $20000 -> $18000 [/p]
[p]🏦 The loan gives you $20000 -> $15000 money and debt[/p]
[p]💭 The IMF Loan was proving to be a bit too good of a deal so we have reduced the amount it lends and also decreased the capacity of the bank.[/p]
[p]💭 Cyber Quincy has had a very high pick rate compared to the other heroes, these nerfs should bring him back in line with the others[/p]
[p]Scientist Gwendolin[/p]
[p]🔥 Level 4 Heat It Up: Bonus damage to bloons with glue or acid: 2 -> 1 [/p]
[p]💭 With how easy it is to apply glue or acid to any bloon, Heat it up was providing too much damage in all situations.[/p]
[p]Biker Bones[/p]
[p]💣 Level 5 : Makes black bloons 50% vulnerable to explosions again [/p]
[p]💣 Level 19: Makes black bloons fully vulnerable to explosions again[/p]
[p]💭 With the synergy between Biker and ace struggling against early game black bloons we thought that adding the vulnerability would be a good addition to help against early game rushes[/p]
[p]Benjamin[/p]
[p]💰 Base cost $900 -> $950[/p]
[p]💸 Skimming works for every bloon -> every 2nd bloon[/p]
[p]💭 Benjamin has been steam-rolling other heroes in the player pick rate and has been a bit too effective. These changes should reel him in and make him a bit easier to handle[/p]
[p]DJ Ben Jammin’[/p]
[p]🎶 Level 4 : Towers in his range get an additional +1 pierce and +5 Range. [/p]
[p]🎶 Level 11: Additional Pierce increased to +2 and range increased to +10[/p]
[p]💭 DJ Ben Jammin’ has had quite a low pick rate and his synergies haven’t been feeling great so these buffs should allow for him to get back up the ranks[/p]
[p]Sentai Churchill[/p]
[p]🏹 Level 2: Pierce 7 -> 6[/p]
[p]💭 Sentai Churchill outclasses regular Churchill on almost every round. This should even out the two heroes.[/p]
Bug Fixes
[p]💛 Fixed Rubber to Gold not giving cash when the bloon was destroyed by an Engineer trap.[/p]
[p]👩🚒 Fixed Gwen giving +2 damage to other monkeys from Heat it Up at level 17 instead of +1.[/p]
[p]👁️ Fixed Phayze status not transferring correctly when the bloon is sent to the other side using Highwayman Jericho’s Misdirection.[/p]
[p]🤖 Fixed incorrect Turkish translation for Cyber Quincy Level 15.[/p]
[p]🎓 Fixed Battle button in the leaderboard screen not working before the tutorial is completed.[/p]
[p align="start"][p align="start"]Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and happy gaming! :D
[p]👁 Phayze bloons spawn with reality altering shields that protect them from damage. [/p]
[p]1️⃣ The shield has health equal to 1% of the bloons total health (minimum 1).[/p]
[p]⛔ Damage to the shield does NOT transfer to the bloon if the shield is destroyed. (E.g. Hitting a red phayze bloon with a 20 damage sniper shot will destroy the shield and leave the red bloon unharmed)[/p]
[p]🏃♂️ When the shield is destroyed, the bloon glitches forward 10% of the total track length. It is completely invulnerable while glitching. [/p]
[p]🎈 Once a shield is destroyed and the bloon glitches forward, it becomes a normal bloon. It can never regain the phayze shield.[/p]
[p]🔓 Phayze bloons unlock for sending at round 15. Adding phayze applies a 1.75x multiplier to the cost of the send.[/p]
[p]🌎 Phayze bloons appear in the natural rounds starting at round 21.[/p]
[p]🤵 Opponents in Hero Challenge will now send phayze bloons as part of their rushes.[/p]
[p][/p]
General Changes
[p]Bling Season Length[/p]
[p]📅 To avoid scheduling conflicts, Bling Seasons will now be 5 weeks long instead of 4.[/p]
[p]📅 This begins with Season 36, which will run from the 12th September to the 17th October.[/p]
[p]🏆 Arena leagues will remain 1 week long.[/p]
[p][/p]
Balance Changes
[p]Tack Shooter[/p]
[p]💰 5xx Inferno Ring: $45,500 -> $35,500[/p]
[p]💭 While the Tack Shooter is a popular and powerful early game tower, it’s top path tier 5 felt like it was lagging behind the other upgrades in terms of efficiency. We are reducing its cost to bring it in line with the other tier 5s.[/p]
[p]💭 The changes we made in 4.8 to the Monkey Ace turned out to be too drastic, causing its playrate to plummet. We are lowering its base cost again and transferring that money to the bomber ace upgrade instead. Additionally, we are increasing the power of the Sky Shredder upgrade as this has long been the least popular of the Ace’s tier 5s.[/p]
[p]Dartling gunner [/p]
[p]💫 xx4 Bloon Area Denial System: knockback now affects MOABs & BFBs[/p]
[p]💫 xx5 Bloon Exclusion Zone: knockback now affects DDTs and ZOMGs[/p]
[p]💥 xx5 Bloon Exclusion Zone: projectiles can pop all bloon types.[/p]
[p]💭 The Dartling’s bottom path struggles to keep pace with the more powerful bloons in the later game. We are adding a knockback effect to its tier 4 and 5 to help it deal with these later rounds. In addition, we are allowing the bottom path tier 5 to hit lead so that it can be used to tackle DDTs.[/p]
[p]Benjamin[/p]
[p]🏦 Level 5: Bank hack 12% -> 10%[/p]
[p]🏦 Level 9: Bank hack 18% -> 15%[/p]
[p]💭 Benjamin’s bank hack was granting too much extra value to Banana Farms so we are lowering its effectiveness a small amount.[/p]
[p]DJ Ben Jammin’[/p]
[p]👀 Level 1: Range 25 -> 35[/p]
[p]💭 DJ Ben was proving too tricky to utilise which is hurting his playability. We are increasing his range to make it easier to gather monkeys around him to fuel his money making abilities.[/p]
[p]Star Captain Jericho[/p]
[p]🚀 Level 20: Smuggler’s Run ship capacity $25,000 -> $27,000[/p]
[p]💭We are increasing the capacity of Star Captain’s ship to allow it to fit a single phayze BAD at level 20.[/p]
[p]Fateweaver Adora[/p]
[p]🔪 Level 3: Sharp Sting of Fate Pierce (7 x main weapon pierce x number of projectiles) -> (8 x main weapon pierce x number of projectiles)[/p]
[p]💭Sharp Sting of Fate felt underwhelming to use so we are increasing its pierce to make it more impactful.[/p]
[p][/p]
Bug Fixes
[p]🎈 Fixed bloon sends getting stuck in the queue when using the Destroy All Bloons button in the Bloon Lab[/p]
[p]🧣 Fixed the 203 Ninja Monkey not wearing a bandana[/p]
[p]📛 Fixed Discord name displaying over Clan name in the profile screen on Tablet[/p]
[p align="start"][p align="start"]Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and happy gaming! :D
[p]🎊 Join in the celebration with a fun and colorful new map![/p]
[p]🎶 Battle bloons to a funky and nostalgic music track exclusive to this map.[/p]
[p]🏆 Street Party will appear in ranked and clan games in White Wasteland and higher.[/p]
[p]New Hero Challenge Opponent: Agent Jericho[/p]
[p]🤵 You thought Striker Jones was tough? Get ready for Agent Jericho![/p]
[p]📡 The most dangerous Hero Challenge opponent yet, Agent Jericho will use all his high tech abilities against you. [/p]
[p]😈 Agent Jericho is ruthless and doesn’t play by the rules. Don’t be shocked if he cheats to win![/p]
[p]Friends List[/p]
[p]👥 View your Discord and Steam friends from inside the game (Desktop only for Steam).[/p]
[p]🤝 Invite Steam and Discord friends to private battles.[/p]
[p]📋 Manage your Discord friends list from inside the game.[/p]
[p]👋 View previous opponents and add them as Discord friends after your game.[/p]
[p][/p]
Balance Changes
[p]Bloon Boost[/p]
[p]⏩Bloon Boost: Speed +40% -> +33%[/p]
[p]💭We made Bloon Boosts more powerful few updates ago to ensure that games stayed fast paced and aggressive despite some towers getting sizable buffs. We knew this would be an impactful change and we wanted to give it a lot of time to settle before we altered it further. We feel enough time has passed now and have decided that the new Bloon Boost makes some early rushes a little too hard to defend so we are dialing it back a bit.[/p]
[p]Bloon Sends[/p]
[p]💰 Tight Ceramics: $2800 -> $3200[/p]
[p]💭 Tight ceramics were a dangerous rush which offered a little too much value for their cost. We are increasing their price to reflect how potent this bloon send is.[/p]
[p]Monkey Buccaneer[/p]
[p]🏴☠️ x4x Monkey Pirates and x5x Pirate Lord abilities now give cash when they destroy a MOAB class bloon ($400 for a MOAB, $800 for a BFB, and $1200 for a ZOMG or DDT).[/p]
[p]🚢 xx3 Merchantman: End of round bonus: $300 -> $350[/p]
[p]💭The Buccaneer’s popularity has fallen as of late so we are bringing over a popular change from BTD6 to increase its utility.[/p]
[p]Monkey Ace[/p]
[p]💰 000 Monkey Ace: $700 -> $850[/p]
[p]💰 x3x Bomber Ace: $900 -> $1000[/p]
[p]💭 The Monkey Ace has been a strong tower in all stages of the game. We are increasing the cost of its early upgrades to make it a more difficult tower to start with.[/p]
[p]Dartling gunner [/p]
[p]💰 000 Dartling Gunner: $800 -> $700[/p]
[p]💭Dartling is hindered by a expensive early game. Decreasing its base cost will make it viable in more strategies.[/p]
[p]Super Monkey[/p]
[p]🌞 3xx Sun Avatar: $11,500 -> $13,000[/p]
[p]🌞 4xx Sun Temple / 5xx True Sun God: Maximum sacrifice value $15,000 -> $20,000[/p]
[p]💭 We are increasing the maximum value of sacrificed towers to make it more of a decision whether to fully commit to a maxed out Sun Temple or get a less powerful temple quicker.[/p]
[p]Druid[/p]
[p]⚡ 4xx Ball Lightning: Ball of lightning now home in on bloons[/p]
[p]💚 x2x Heart of Oak: Attacks now have a 33% chance to remove fortified from non-MOAB bloons.[/p]
[p]💭 Druid has felt a bit weaker than we wanted. With the ball of light now homing to the bloons, it should be easier to use its full power. We are also increasing the utility of Heart of Oak as it has felt a little lacking.[/p]
[p]Banana Farm[/p]
[p]🍌 xx1 Quality Soil: Discount 20% -> 15%[/p]
[p]💭The introduction of the Quality Soil upgrade was another impactful change we wanted to allow plenty of room to settle before tweaking it. We feel this change will slow down farms in the early game, but keep their late game impact.[/p]
[p]Monkey Village[/p]
[p]💰 xx5 Monkeyopolis: Base price $15,000 -> $20,000[/p]
[p]💭 The Monkeyopolis upgrade was proving to be a bit too efficient seeing as it improves bloon income as well as generating cash itself. We are increasing its cost to reflect its powerful money making ability.[/p]
[p]💭 We want Sentry Expert to have a big impact the moment you purchase it so feel it's important to keep the bonus sentries it spawns. 6 bonus sentries were proving to be too much extra damage however so we are dialing it back to 4 to make it a more measured response to a rush.[/p]
[p]🏹 Level 14: Cyber Storm remains at 25 damage per 0.05s[/p]
[p]💭 Cyber quincy has very quickly become the most popular hero. This decrease in his initial damage should bring it back in line with the other heroes.[/p]
[p]Gwendolin[/p]
[p]👩🚒 Level 5: Pyrotechnic Expert gives +10% -> +15% attack speed and blast radius to Ring of Fire Tack Shooters, Signal Flare Mortars, and Dragon’s Breath Wizards.[/p]
[p]👩🚒 Level 18: Pyrotechnic Master gives +20% -> +30% attack speed and blast radius to Ring of Fire Tack Shooters, Signal Flare Mortars, and Dragon’s Breath Wizards.[/p]
[p]💭 Gwen’s synergies with other fire towers were not proving as impactful as we would like so we are improving its potency.[/p]
[p]Ocean Obyn[/p]
[p]🦞 Level 3: Living Coral pierce starts at 20->30, gains 10->15 pierce per 10 seconds, and caps at 100->150.[/p]
[p]🦞 Level 7: Living Coral pierce starts at 40->60, gains 20->30 pierce per 10 seconds, and caps at 200->300.[/p]
[p]🦞 Level 16: Living Coral pierce starts at 200->300, gains 100->150 pierce per 10 seconds, and caps at 800->1200.[/p]
[p]💭 Ocean Obyn has not had any changes in quite a long time so he was due for a shake up. Increasing the pierce of his Living Coral ability will hopefully give him a new lease on life.[/p]
[p]💭Smudge Catt Ezili is another hero who has been proving less popular of late. We are increasing the duration of her Scratching Post to help her stand out amongst the crowd.[/p]
[p]Agent Jericho[/p]
[p]🦆 Level 10: MOAB Decoy is now affected by the late game speed ramping that applies to real MOABs.[/p]
[p]💭MOAB Decoy was proving to be too decisive in late game battles. Allowing it to be affected by speed ramping means it spends less overall time on screen and thus reduces the amount of time it can serve as a distraction.[/p]
[p][/p]
Bug Fixes
[p]🤖 Fixed Opponent Hero sometimes being unable to fire abilities on Bloon Bot Factory in the Bloon Lab.[/p]
[p]🧪 Fixed Bloon Boost not working in Bloon Lab.[/p]
[p]🦆 Known Issue: Agent Jericho will not send Bloon Decoys when facing him in Hero Challenge. This will be fixed very soon in an update.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and happy gaming! :D[/p]
Battles 2 Update 4.7 Out Now - Update Notes!
New Features
New Map: Splashdown - 🏊♂️ Dive into an all new, water focussed map. - 🏆 Splashdown will appear in ranked and clan games in White Wasteland and higher.
Advanced Bloon Lab Features - 👩🔬A new Advanced tab has been added to the Scientist Gwen’s Bloon lab for more niche and complex controls. - 🚦 The Round Stall Amount slider simulates how far the opponent’s natural bloons travel along the track before being popped so you can test strategies in stalling and anti-stalling scenarios. - 🤵The Opponent Hero panel allows you to simulate an opponent using Agent Jericho, Highwayman Jericho, and Star Captain Jericho. The opponent hero’s passive abilities (such as bloon adjustment) will be applied to your rounds and you can activate their abilities against yourself (where relevant). - 📽 The Rush Recording panel allows you to record your bloon sends and play them back against yourself, allowing repeated testing against the same rush or more complex rush layering. - 🚫In addition to the Advanced Tab controls, there is now an option in the Control tab to disable all monkeys when you fall below zero lives in order to see the exact state of your defence at the moment it failed.
New Text Emote Slots - 💬 We are increasing the number of Text Emote slots from 4 to 8. - 🆕 All players will also receive 4 new text emotes for free: “Yes”!, “Awesome!”, “Oh No!”, and “Ahh!”
General Changes
Bloon Lab Speed Control - ⏩ The speed control in Scientist Gwen’s Bloon Lab has been moved off the central column and onto the main panel alongside the controls for removing monkeys, resetting cooldowns, etc. - 🚀 This is to prevent it conflicting with the UI from Star Captain Jericho’s Smuggler’s Run ability.
Tech Bot and New Abilities - 🤖 Abilities unlocked on a tower after it has been linked to a Tech Bot will not auto activate by default. - 🤵 This is to stop situations like Agent Jericho firing his MOAB Decoy the moment he hits level 10 because he was linked to a Tech Bot for Seize Assets.
Balance Changes
Boomerang Monkey - 👀 x4x Boomerang Monkey now gains camo detection during its Turbocharge ability. - 💭 While Boomerang Monkey is intended to primarily be an early game tower, it has felt a bit underpowered in the late game, particularly the x4x and x5x. We are adding this change from Battles 1 to give it a little boost.
Monkey Sub - 💥 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts damage (after split) 3 -> 2 - 💥 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts MOAB damage (after split) 0 -> 1 - 💰 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts: $2800 -> $3200. - 💭 The xx4 Sub is very strong at all points in the game. We are moving some of its damage to be MOAB exclusive and increasing its cost slightly to hinder its ability to defend by itself.
Dartling Gunner - 💥 x5x M.A.D. Rocket MOAB damage: 500 -> 450. - 💥 x5x M.A.D. Rocket Storm MOAB Damage: 12 -> 60. - 💭 This change from BTD6 should help the M.A.D. ability feel more impactful.
Banana Farm - 🍌 240 IMF Loan crosspath: End of round bonus $550 -> $700 - 🍌 250 Monkey-Nomics: End of round bonus $550 -> $1000. - 💭 We are buffing the monkey bank top crosspath to make it a more tempting option when compared to the bottom crosspath and Quality Soil.
Beetienne - 🐝 Level 3: Defend The Hive damage boost +2 -> +0 (bug fix) - 🐝 Level 17: Defend The Hive damage boost +3 -> +2 - 💭 Beetienne was mistakenly giving a damage buff in addition to the speed buff while Defend the Hive was active. This has now been removed which significantly lowers his ability to solo rushes using his ability.
Striker Jones - 💣 Level 4: 10% attack speed boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Striker Jones as well. - 💣 Level 7: 25% blast radius increase for Mortar Monkeys now applies to Striker Jones as well. - 💣 Level 8: +15 range and +40% pierce boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Striker Jones as well. - ⏳ Level 10: Striker Jones now gains 4x attack speed, 200 range, and +10 MOAB damage for 7 seconds as part of his Artillery Command ability. This is in addition to firing all Bomb and Mortar abilities for free. - 💣 Level 18: 15% attack speed boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Striker Jones as well. - 💣 Level 20: 2x damage and pierce for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys during Artillery Command now applies to Striker Jones as well. Ability duration 10s -> 7s. - 💭 While heroes who have clear synergies with specific towers are generally a good thing, Striker Jones in particular has been over reliant on Bomb and Mortar which has made him an unpopular hero. We have changed several of his upgrades so that they no longer do nothing if Bomb/Mortar are not present and added a secondary effect to his Artillery Command so that, while he’s still better with his favourite towers, he is capable of functioning without them.
Biker Bones - 🎯 Level 3: Concussive Blast now targets the strongest bloon on screen, not the densest cluster. The ability icon and projectile graphics have also been updated to be more relevant. - 🚁 Level 4: 10% attack speed boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Heli Pilots, Monkey Aces, and Biker Bones himself instead. - 📈 Level 5: The reduction to black bloons explosive resistance is replaced by a +10% range and pierce increase to Biker Bones. - 🔥 Level 7: The blast radius upgrade for Mortar Monkeys has been replaced by a flame trail weapon on all Monkey Aces and Heli Pilots. These monkeys will leave a trail of damaging fire wherever they move. - 🚁 Level 10: Double damage for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Heli Pilots, Monkey Aces, and Biker Bones himself instead. The ability icon has also been updated to be more relevant. - 🚁 Level 18: 15% attack speed boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Heli Pilots, Monkey Aces, and Biker Bones himself. - 📈 Level 19: The removal of black bloon explosive immunity is replaced by a 10% range and pierce increase to all towers within Biker Bones’ range (excluding himself). - 🚁 Level 20: Triple damage for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Heli Pilots, Monkey Aces, and Biker Bones himself instead. - 💭 Similar to Striker Jones, Biker Bones relied too heavily on Bomb and Mortar to be useful and Striker was the better choice if you wanted to use those towers. With that in mind, we are reworking Bones so he leans much harder into the “Biker” part and synergises with vehicle towers, specifically Heli Pilot and Monkey Ace. As these towers do not specialise in explosive damage, there was no need for Biker to bypass explosive immunities so those upgrades have been replaced. In addition, Concussive Blast now targets the strongest bloon again. We were hoping the dense targeting would differentiate Biker from Striker but in practice it made the ability much less reliable and therefore worse.
Bug Fixes
🔊 Fixed in game audio not lowering while watching a video from the news panel.
🤖 Fixed Tech Bot link lines not disappearing when restarting a Bloon Lab game.
❌ Fixed red X not ending the Tech Bot’s targeting mode when pressed.
🥚 Fixed Humpty Monkey animated avatar not having any eyebrows.
⚠ Fixed occasional error popup in the pre-game agent shop.
🐵 Fixed monkey names not refreshing properly when restarting Bloon Lab games.
👹 Fixed being able to use hotkeys to upgrade towers while they are transformed by the Alchemist.
🤖 Fixed Tech Bot targeting line not updating when the linked tower is moved.
UPDATE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/PVhMtM-W884
Let us know your thoughts in the comments and happy gaming! :D
Battles 2 Update 4.6 Out Now - Update Notes!
New Features
Titles - 🎭 Express yourself with unique tag lines on your profile. - 🔓 Gain new titles by unlocking heroes, bling season rewards, and more.
Tech Bot - 🤖 Easily keep on top of your activated abilities with the handy Tech Bot. - ⏳ Link a Tech Bot to a tower with one or more activated abilities and the Tech Bot will continually fire them as soon as they finish cooldown. - 🎛 Towers with more than one ability can choose which abilities the Tech Bot will activate. - 🆓 Claim 10 free Tech Bots in the shop to get started!
New Clan Cosmetics - 🛒 New unlockable items have been added to the Gold and Ruby Clan Stores. - 🧚♀️ Decorate your islands with awesome Radioactive and Fairy themed items.
General Changes
Copy User ID - 📄 User IDs can now be copied to the clipboard from the settings screen.
Balance Changes
Bloon Sends - 🎈 Tight ceramics unlock round 28 -> 24 - 🎈 Tight leads spacing 0.0125s -> 0.02s - 💭 We are slightly increasing the spacing between the bloons in the Tight Lead send to take a little bit of the sting out of a very oppressive rush. We are also bringing the unlock round forwards for Tight Ceramics as they struggle to be relevant later in the game alongside MOAB class rushes.
Maps - 🏢 Up on the Roof will no longer appear in Hall of Masters games. - 💭 As a longer map that favours stalling, Up On The Roof can lead to very long games in Hall of Masters. We are removing it from the HOM ranked pool to keep these games shorter and more exciting.
Dart Monkey - 💰 Base cost: $150 -> $200 - 💰 x3x Triple Shot: $400 -> $350 - 💰 xx4 Sharp Shooter: $2000 -> $2300 - 💰 xx5 Crossbow Master: $25000 -> $27000 - 💥 xx5 Crossbow Master: Crit damage 100 -> 75 - 💭 The changes in 4.5 to make hoardes of Dart Monkeys less effective did not have the desired result so we are moving some of the cost of the triple darts upgrade into the base cost and weakening the powerful crossbow upgrades.
Ice Monkey - 🥶 x2x Deep Freeze soaks through 3 -> 2 layers - 🌨 x4x Snowstorm: Other Ice Monkeys get +100% -> +50% attack speed during ability (x5x Absolute Zero ability still gives +100%) - 🧊 xx4 Icicles: $2400 -> $2900 - 💭 We are reducing the power of Ice Monkey’s Deep Freeze and Snowstorm upgrades to make it easier to rush in the early and mid game and increasing the cost of the xx4 Icicles upgrade since this offers too much value for its cost.
Glue Gunner - 💰 2xx Corrosive Glue: $300 -> $500 - ⏳ x4x Glue Strike: cooldown 30s -> 40s - ⏳ x5x Glue Storm: cooldown 30s -> 40s - ⏳ x5x Glue Storm: duration 20s -> 15s - 💰 x5x Glue Storm: $14k -> $18k - 💰 xx4 Relentless Glue: $2200 -> $3000 - 💦 xx4 Relentless Glue: splat pierce 6 -> 4 - 💦 024 Relentless Glue crosspath: splat pierce +3 -> +1 (6 total pierce on a 024) - 💭 These changes reduce the effectiveness of using Glue Gunner as a starting tower and indirectly reduce the effectiveness of dissolver and glue hose which were extremely efficient. We are also changing the cooldown and duration of the Glue Storm ability so that it can’t be kept permanently active without microing.
Monkey Sub - 🐟 3xx Submerge rate 1.5 -> 1.2 - 💭 We are making the Monkey Sub’s decamo effect more reliable to better cope with the new speed of boosted camo purples.
Heli Pilot - 💰 x4x Support Chinook: $7500 -> $8500 - 🌬 xx3 MOAB Shove: Shove distance increased (MOAB 1.33->1.44, BFB 1.0 -> 1.11, ZOMG 0.5 -> 0.67) - 💭 MOAB Shove needed a small buff to prevent it being overwhelmed by the newly boosted MOAB speeds while the Support Chinook was due a price increase as it is currently the one of the best alternative income sources in the game.
Wizard Monkey - 👻 xx5 Prince of Darkness now consumes 55 souls per zombie MOAB rather than 200. - 💭 This is a bug fix rather than a deliberate balance change but the significant effect it will have on the Prince of Darkness makes it worth calling out here. Previously the POD was using large numbers of bloon souls to create very high pierce zombie MOABs which would cause the graveyard to drain very quickly. POD now uses fewer souls to create much lower pierce MOABs so that it can create more of them over a longer period.
Ninja Monkey - 💥 502 grandmaster ninja caltrop damage 25 -> 75 - 💰 xx4 sticky bomb $4900 -> $4600 - 💭 We are increasing the caltrop damage of the 502 Ninja to make it a more effective option for early fortified BAD defence. The Sticky Bomb is being made cheaper to allow it to be used in the early MOAB rounds as it's currently more expensive than the other options.
Druid - 💰 4xx ball lightning $4300 -> $4000 - 💰 x4x jungles bounty $4200 -> $4000 - 🌵 x5x spirit of the forest brambles within 50 range of the druid deal 20 moab damage -> 25 moab damage - 🌵 x5x spirit of the forest brambles within 50 range of the druid deal 20 ceramic damage -> 30 ceramic damage - 💰 xx5 avatar of wrath $45000 -> $52000 - 💭 These changes aim to spread the power of the Druid around a little rather than having the Avatar of Wrath as the one, standout upgrade.
Spike Factory - 💰 x4x Spike Storm: $5200 -> $6200 - 💭 This price increase makes microing the Spike Storm ability more expensive while still keeping the overall power of the tower intact.
Quincy - 🎯 Level 1: Pierce 4 -> 5 - 🏹 Level 3: Rapid shot ability duration 2s + 0.5s per level -> 3s + 0.5s per level - 🏹 Level 10: Storm of arrows deals x1 -> x2 damage to ceramic bloons - 💭 Quincy has been struggling to maintain his identity as an early game hero so we are increasing his effectiveness in that niche. His Storm of Arrows ability is not as good at cleaning up MOAB insides or handling tight ceramics as it should be so we are adding extra damage to make it better in those situations.
Cyber Quincy - 🎯 Level 1: Pierce 4 -> 5 - 👀 Level 3: +200 range during Cyber Shot ability, +200 retargeting range for ricochets. - 🏹 Level 10: Cyberstorm now deals 25 damage per 0.05s (100% hit chance) for 1s. - 💥 Level 18: cyberstorm damage 35-> 40 - 💥 Level 20: Cyberstorm moab damage x2 -> x3 - 💭 We are changing up Cyber Quincy’s abilities somewhat to help distinguish him from Quincy. Cyberstorm’s shorter but more consistent damage output should make it effective at dealing with tight MOAB class rushes and the functionally infinite range of his Cyber Shot ability works well with Cyber Quincy’s innate ability to shoot through walls.
DJ Ben Jammin’ - ⭐ Difficulty Rating 4 -> 5 - 🐵 Level 1: DJ Ben now displays a buff icon to show how many other towers are in his range. - 🎈 Level 10: Beatdown can no longer be fired if there are no bloons on screen. - 💭 These are just minor quality of life changes to DJ. The change to Beatdown is to prevent Tech Bot from automatically firing the ability when there are no bloons to be affected by it.
Fusty the Snowman - 🌨 Level 8: x3x arctic wind Ice Monkey slows moabs to 40% -> 66% of their speed during Chilling Cheer. - ⚪ All ice monkeys are able to pop white bloons at level 5 -> level 9 - 💭 Fusty’s ability to remove Ice Monkey’s weakness to white bloons was making part of his Chilling Cheer ability redundant before it had a chance to be relevant and was contributing to making Ice strategies too hard to rush. We are moving the global buff to higher in his upgrades so that the effect requires his ability to be active in the earlier game.
Bonnie - 🧨 Level 3: Mass Detonation blast 3 -> 2 damage (carries over to later levels, but level 19 remains the same) - 🧨 Level 3: Mass Detonation shards 8 -> 6 damage (carries over to later levels, but level 19 remains the same) - 💭 Bonnie’s Mass Detonation was providing a bit too much defensive capabilities for a money making hero.
Bug Fixes
💵 Fixed cash sometimes displaying incorrectly on the pregame screen
🧊 Fixed the xx3 Ice Monkey not being able to pop bloons with splash damage if the first bloon hit was immune to freezing.
📶 Fixed the game sometimes downloading unnecessary during launch.
🚛Fixed Ice Monkey’s Arctic Wind visual effect showing incorrectly when placed in the water on the right hand side of Neo Highway.
📐 Fixed towers with abilities that target within their range not being able to target areas within the extra range created by buffs.
🧮 Renamed “Pop Counters” to “Monkey Counters” in Bloon Lab for clarity.
💦 Fixed the Mortar’s Water Bombs trail effect causing the visual for Pop and Awe to last longer than the ability.
UPDATE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/F-VQkvXjjW4
Let us know your feedback in the comments below and happy gaming! :D
Battles 2 Update 4.5 Out Now - New Map & Balance Changes!
New Features
New Map: Neo Highway - 🏆 u/G00dbot’s winning entry to the community map competition. - 🛣 Placeable space is at a premium as you battle the bloons in a high speed chase down a highway. - 🚘 Bloons are slower when moving the same direction as the cars and faster when moving the opposite direction. - 🏍 The biker monkey can be convinced to move away and make room for another car to place monkeys on. - 🔓 Try this awesome new map in ranked and clan games in Lead Dungeon and above, plus all Casual and Event games.
General Changes
🛒 We have improved the UI in the shop to call out free content and sales more clearly.
🎲 It is now possible to reroll random loadouts in Hero Challenge.
DLC will now be downloaded without prompting on Desktop devices
Balance Changes
Bloon Sends - 🎈 Bloon boost speed modifier: +25% → +40% - 💭 A lot of heroes and towers have more powerful synergies now than they used to. In order to keep games aggressive and the bloons dangerous, we are increasing the potency of bloon boosts.
Dart Monkey - 💰 2xx Razor Sharp Shots: $150 → $250 - 💰 4xx Juggernaut: $1,800 → $1,700 - 💰 x3x Triple Shot: $300 → $400 - 💭 We are increasing the cost of the Triple Darts upgrade and moving some of the top path’s cost into the lower upgrades to make dart monkey hoards more expensive.
Glue Gunner - ⏩ 5xx Bloon Solver: Attack cooldown 0.25 → 0.4 - 💭 We are slightly nerfing the Bloon Solver’s attack speed to reduce the number of times it’s able to reapply its glue after Scientist Gwen has burned it off.
Banana Farm - 🍌 030 Monkey Bank: End of Round Income: $550 → $450 - 🍌 130 Monkey Bank end of round income: $450 → $500 - 🍌 230 Monkey Bank end of round income: $500 → $550 - ⏳ x5x Monkey Nomics: Ability initial cooldown 25s → 30s - 💭 The Monkey Bank benefited a little too much from the introduction of Quality Soil. These changes are intended to keep the strength of the Monkey Bank when combined with the top path while nerfing the bottom crosspath.
Scientist Gwendolin - 💥 Level 3: Chemical Cocktail damage 2→3 - ⏱ Level 3: Chemical Cocktail damage rate: 0.24s → 0.36s - 💭 By increasing the damage and reducing the attack rate of Scientist Gwedolin’s cocktail, we can reduce the amount of damage it does when combined with Glue Gunner without nerfing the attack as a whole.
Benjamin - 🍌 Level 1: Benjamin gets buffed by the 5xx Banana Central as if he was a Banana Research Facility - 💻 Level 3: Biohack affects +2 monkeys (6 total) and they do an extra +1 damage (2 total). (applies to all future levels). - 🏪 Level 5: Bank Hack now applies to Marketplace as well. - ⏩ Level 6: Replace Cyber Security with Boost Hack. Bloon Boost and Tower boosts have 20% lower cooldown. - ⏩ Level 14: Boost Hack gives 1 additional boost of each type. - 💭 Poor Benjamin has had some of his uniqueness stolen by Bonnie and Beetienne in recent updates leaving him without a solid niche. To help find him a new one, we are strengthening his synergy with Banana Farms and replacing his life gain upgrade with a brand new effect: Boost Hack.
DJ Ben Jammin’ - 🎵 All upgrades have been reflavoured to be DJ themed, not hacking themed. - 🔭 Level 1: Range +5 - 💸 Level 1: Generates $75 → $50 per round, +$10 per monkey in range, up to 10 monkeys. - 💸 Level 2: Generates $112 → $75 per round, +$15 per monkey in range. - 🗣 Level 3: For each different type of monkey in range of DJ Ben, Good Vibes gives the 3 furthest away monkeys of that type +2 damage for 6 seconds, then require a 2s cooldown. Excludes Monkey Village and Banana Farm. - 🤑 Level 5: Bank Hack replaced with Side Hustle: All cash generated by monkeys other than Farm and Village increased by 6%. - 💸 Level 5: Generates $187 → $125 per round, +$25 per monkey in range. - ⏳ Level 6: Cyber Security replaced with Encore: All activated abilities have 5% lower cooldown. - 💸 Level 8: Generates $300 → $200 per round, +$40 per monkey in range. - 🤑 Level 9: All cash generated by monkeys other than Farm and Village increased by 9% - 💸 Level 11: Generates $600 → $400 per round, +$80 per monkey in range. - 🗣 Level 13: Good Vibes now gives +3 damage and lasts for 8 seconds. The number of monkeys affected does not change. - ⏳ Level 14: All activated abilities have 15% lower cooldown. - 💸 Level 15: Generates $1500 → $1000 per round, +$200 per monkey in range. - 💸 Level 17: Generates $3000 → $2000 per round, +$400 per monkey in range. - 🗣 Level 19: Good Vibes affects the 4 furthest away monkeys of each type in range of DJ Ben. - 💭 DJ Ben has been given even more changes to distinguish him from the other heroes, including Ben. Every DJ needs a crowd so DJ Ben’s income is now based on the number of monkeys you can fit into his radius. He’s weaker than regular Ben by himself, but stronger if you can max out his crowd. We’ve also swapped his synergy with Farms for a synergy with alternative income monkeys like Sniper, Heli Pilot, and Engineer.
Bug Fixes
😾 Fixed Smudge Catt Ezili having the incorrect hero type (changed Supporter to Defender)
🐶 Fixed Obyn’s wolf animating incorrectly in the Druid’s Best Friend animation.
🌞 Fixed Sun God Adora’s range being decreased by sacrificing other monkeys rather than increased.
🏴☠️ Fixed Buccaneer not firing both cannons when placed too close to land.
😴 Fixed 3xx Monkey Sub sleeping on the job (visual issue only).
🌊 Fixed 3xx Monkey Sub not visually submerging when the upgrade is first bought.
⚡ Fixed 3xx Druid animating incorrectly when firing lightning.
📄 Fixed copying and pasting not working on some devices (desktop only)
🔤 Fixed German text not fitting in some buttons.
🎁 Fixed unread gift popup auto closing before it can be claimed.
Fixed Beetienne permanently decamoing bloons that get popped in his radius.
Fixed golden bananas sparkling in areas they shouldn’t during Double Golden Banana events
Fixed Activated Ability list scrolling while dragging out Farmers, Bloon Bots, and Beehives.
Fixed issue where it was possible to equip weapon skins to the wrong hero.
Fixed Beetienne not playing his Defend the Hive animation if he is making honey.
Fixed Beetienne not reverting to Making Honey if he was in that mode when Defend the Hive was activated.
Fixed Pat Fusty’s Rallying Roar not applying bonus damage at level 14. this has been added to the 4.5 patch notes because itll be in an immediate ota
Let us know your feedback in the comments below and happy gaming! :D
Battles 2 Update 4.4 is live now - Beetienne Hero, Sandbox mode, & more!
New Features
New Hero: Beetienne - 🐝 A busy little bee who uses a swarm of honeybees to sting the bloons. - 🍯 Starting at level 2, Beetienne gains the “Making Honey” targeting option. While Making Honey, Beetienne stops attacking and generates lives every 3 seconds. - 💓 These extra lives can take you above the starting value of 150. Given enough time, Beetienne can generate thousands of extra lives, allowing you to leak even MOAB class bloons without losing. - 💢 Beetienne’s level 3 ability, Defend the Hive, summons extra swarms and makes all of them more aggressive. He stops making honey and attacks while it’s active so it’s great for emergency defence. - 🐝 His level 10 ability, Auxiliary Hives, allows you to spend some of those extra lives to place additional, permanent hive towers, each with their own bee swarm.
Scientist Gwen’s Bloon Lab - 👩🔬 This single player sandbox mode is the perfect place to experiment with new strategies and combinations. - 🎛 Change your cash, income, and loadout at will from inside the game. - 🧪 Jump to any round and send any Bloon Send against yourself to test your defences. - 🧰 Make use of a host of other tools and stats to analyze your strategy. - 👑 Scientist Gwen’s Bloon Lab is available exclusively to Club Members.
“Loses To” popout - ℹ You can now tap on your opponent’s life total to see a popout showing which bloons will do enough damage to defeat them. - ❤ You can also tap on your own life total to see which bloons you can afford to leak without losing. - 🎈 The popout will show single, weakest bloon currently available to send that will defeat them in a single hit, plus how many of the next weakest bloon it will take to defeat them.] - 🌈 E.g. An opponent with 100 lives will show as losing to 1 Ceramic Bloon (104 lives) or 3 Rainbow Bloons (141 lives). - ⚠ This warning only takes into account the amount of lives a bloon will cost if it leaks. It doesn’t account for the player’s ability to pop those bloons before they leak.
General Changes
New Daily Offer Items
🛒 The following seasons and showcases have been added to the Daily Offer in the shop: - 📅 Season 19-23 - 👁 Fateweaver Adora - Eye of Misfortune - 👶 Quincy - Son of Quincy - 🏈 Sporting Heroes - 🌞 Adora - Summer Sun - 🏎 Etienne - Drone Racing
New “Solo Play” Screen - 🏕 Hero Challenge has moved into the new “Solo Play” screen alongside Scientist Gwen’s Bloon Lab
Balance Changes
Bloon Sends - 📉 Tight Leads: Income 22 → 7 - 💰 Tight Ceramics: $3400 → $2800 - 💭 The very fast send speed of Tight Leads made them a powerful source of income which wasn’t their intended use. We are significantly reducing their income gain to reinforce the fact that they are intended to be used as an offensive rush. Tight Ceramic Bloons have been left behind by other tower and bloon send buffs so we are reducing their cost to make them a more efficient send.
Ports - 📦 The blue crate has been removed, making this area placeable immediately. - 🏗 Cost to remove crates $500 → $300 - 💭 Ports is a difficult map with a fairly low play rate. We are removing the blue crate to allow a larger variety of starting towers and reducing the cost of removing the other crates.
Ice Monkey - ⏳ x4x Snowstorm: ability freeze and buff duration 6s → 8s - ⏳ x5x Absolute Zero: ability freeze and buff duration 10s → 12s - 💰 xx3 Cryo Canno: $1750 → $1300 - 💥 xx4 Icicles: +3 → +6 MOAB damage - 💥 xx5 Icicle Impale: Icicles do 50 → 70 MOAB damage. - 💭 We’re giving Ice Monkey some extra MOAB damage and buffing its higher tier abilities to make it more useful in the late game.
Dartling Gunner - 💰 x3x Hydra Rocket Pods: $5600 → $5100 - 💰 x4x Rocket Storm: $5100 → $5500 - 💥 x4x Rocket Storm: Ability Damage for Rockets 4 → 5 - ⏳ x4x Rocket Storm: Duration 8s → 10s - 💭 We are buffing the Rocket Storm ability to make it more capable of handling mid game rushes like tight leads and MOABs.
Spike Factory - 💰 xx3 Long Life Spikes: $750 → $1200 - 💭 Spike Factory is getting a lot of use right now in several different popular strategies. Similar to how we buffed the Spiked Mines upgrade in 4.3, we are nerfing the bottom path to encourage different uses of the tower.
Engineer Monkey - 🤖 4xx Sentry Expert: Immediately spawns 6 sentries when the upgrade is first purchased. - 💭 The Engineer has been languishing at the bottom of the “most used towers” list for a while. This change makes the sentry expert more useful immediately since it no longer needs to wait to generate its special sentry towers, and also opens up some interesting micro opportunities.
Pat Fusty - 🏫 Level 1: Pat is considered a primary monkey by the Monkey Village, allowing him to receive buffs from Primary Training, Mentoring, and Expertise. Since Pat cannot benefit from free low tier upgrades, he levels up 40% and 80% faster when in range of the 4xx and 5xx Village respectively. - 📣 Level 3: Rallying Roar gives primary monkeys in range (including himself) +20% attack speed in addition to giving everything +1 damage. - 🤗 Level 10: Monkeys in range of pat get +3 damage while he’s squeezing a MOAB. - 🤗 Level 20: Monkeys in range of pat get +9 damage while he’s squeezing a MOAB. - 💭 Pat Fusty has been lacking synergy with any other towers for a while now and his popularity has suffered a lot because of it. Pat Fusty is a simple fellow so we thought synergy with Primary Monkeys was a good fit and gave him a weaker but more versatile version of Fusty the Snowman’s speed boost. We also made Pat an honorary Primary Monkey so that he can benefit from the Village’s top path upgrades, creating a new use for some fairly niche upgrades.
Fusty the Snowman - ⛄ Level 5: All Ice Monkeys can pop/freeze white bloons. - 🧊 Level 5: Fusty’s backhand creates 6 ice shards each time it hits a frozen bloon. - 🤗 Level 10: Bloons within 50 range of Fusty are slowed to 40% speed while he’s squeezing a MOAB. - 🤗 Level 20: Bloons are slowed to 20% speed while he’s squeezing a MOAB. - 💭 Despite having a much clearer strategy, Fusty the Snowman also suffers from very low play rates. Letting him remove the Ice Monkey’s main weakness makes the pairing much stronger in the early game.
Highwayman Jericho - ⌛ Level 3: Stand and Deliver initial cooldown 45s → 35s - 💭 A small buff to the initial cooldown of Highwayman Jericho’s ability allows him to start stealing from the opponent quicker and brings him more in line with the power level of the other Jericho variants.
Bug Fixes
🏦 Fixed x5x Monkeynomics being unable to activate while in debt.
😎 Fixed Adora’s sunglasses clipping with her arms during her Sunburnt defeat animation.
🔢 Fixed RBE Popped stat in Hero Challenge not counting pops correctly.
🎬 Fixed towers with custom sell animations not animating correctly if sold while transformed.
⌨ Fixed hotkeys that use modifiers (ctrl, alt, etc) still activating when the modifier isn’t pressed (Desktop only)
💀 Fixed Necromancer bloons appearing on the Minecart only track on Bloonstone Quarry
❤ Fixed reactions to clan chat messages being added twice.
🖼 Fixed Highwayman Jericho appearing in much lower resolution than the other heroes on the hero screen.
🔊 Fixed heroes saying multiple voice lines simultaneously when unlocked.
🗝 Fixed issue where players could occasionally get stuck in expired Arena Leagues.
🍌 Fixed Banana Farm’s bottom path prices not displaying correctly in the monkeys screen.
🏙 Fixed Bloons taking too long to appear onscreen after they spawn on Up On The Roof.
👩🔬 Fixed Scientist Gwen appearing to cause the 2xx Village’s Jungle Drums buff to apply twice.
💬 Fixed tooltips not appearing when viewing accolades in some places.
📷 Fixed incorrect images on some hero summaries.
🤵 Fixed Agent Jericho’s decoy interfering with Ice Monkey’s Snowstorm and Absolute Zero abilities.
UPDATE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/vT2fDRc4sC0
Happy gaming! :)
Update 4.3 Out Now - Update Notes!
New Features
New Map: Up on the Roof - 💣You might need to engage in some property damage to make room for your Buccaneers and Subs. - 🔓 Try this awesome new map in all ranked games, plus casual, event and clan games.
Hero Challenge - 👤 An exciting single player challenge mode now available on all platforms. - 🏹 Challenge Quincy, Gwen, Striker Jones, and T.D. in practice games to hone your skills. - 🎈 You can send bloons to build your income but they won’t damage your opponent. - ⏲ Survive the final round to win the challenge!
New Hero Screen - ♾ We have redesigned the hero screen to better support the growing roster of heroes in Battles 2. - 📋 Each hero now has a summary page showcasing their most important upgrades. - 📑 We have added the ability to sort and filter heroes by different criteria, making it even easier to find the one you’re looking for. - 📛 All heroes now have a role which shows what kind of playstyle they are best suited to. - 💥 Defenders focus on popping bloons by dealing damage. - 💫 Controllers specialise in hindering the bloons with debuffs and status effects. - 💞 Supporters buff your other monkeys, making them more powerful. - 💸 Money Makers do just that, make money! They can supplement your income. - 🦹♂️ Saboteurs interfere with your opponent in some way, such as by stealing their cash.
General Changes
🎴 The Daily Jackpop has been moved to the store and combined with the daily freebie. The rewards from the non-jackpop cards have been increased to reflect the merge.
⏸ The pause screen in Hero Challenge now has a resume button instead of a restart button for clarity. Restart has been moved to the central column.
Balance Changes
Dart Monkey - 🏹 xx3 Crossbow pierce: 6 -> 8 - 🏀 xx4 Sharp Shooter: Bolts now ricochet once after the first hit. - 💥 xx5 Crossbow Master: Crit damage 50 -> 100 - 💭 The crossbow is the least used of the Dart Monkey’s upgrade paths. The Juggernaut and Super Monkey Fan Club both have their niche with high pierce group popping and concentrated single target damage respectively. We are buffing the Crossbow Monkey to give it a place somewhere between the two with solid pierce and damage and some slight seeking to ensure it makes the most out of its pierce.
Monkey Sub - 💥 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts: 2 damage -> 3 damage - 💭 The bottom path sub is often neglected for the top path Reactor and the middle path First Strike upgrades. While this damage buff may look minor, it stacks quickly due to the high attack speed of the bottom path sub and the xx5 Sub Commander’s ability to double the damage of other subs. We hope this will make the bottom path sub a more appealing choice for DPS on maps where space isn’t an issue while preserving the middle path’s identity as elite MOAB stopping power.
Monkey Buccaneer - 💰 3xx Destroyer: $2700 -> $2200 - ⏳ 140 Faster Shooting: Ability Cooldown 30s -> 20s. - 💥 xx2 Crows Nest: All attacks deal +2 damage to camo bloons, including attacks from the 4xx and 5xx planes. - 🚢 xx5 Trade Empire: Merchantmen ships generate +5% -> +10% income per round. Capped at 20 -> 10 Merchantmen. - 💭 The top path buccaneer does not currently see a lot of use, either as a crosspath or as a main upgrade, so we want to add some buffs to make it a more appealing option. The xx5 Trade Empire’s limit of 20 Merchantmen came from BTD6 and is very difficult to reach in the smaller maps of Battles 2. We are therefore increasing the buff while lowering the cap to make it easier to get the full value of the upgrade in a smaller space.
Mortar Monkey - 🎯 000 Mortar now includes Increased Accuracy from 001 as standard (spread 18 -> 8). - 🎯 xx1 Increased Accuracy replaced with Dynamic Targeting, which costs $400 and allows the Mortar to aim itself at the strongest bloon on screen or the area with the most densely packed bloons. - 💰 xx2 Burny Stuff $700 -> $500 - 💭 The randomness of the Mortar has never been popular and the xx1 upgrade has often felt like a tax to remove RNG than an upgrade in its own right. The new Dynamic Targeting upgrade will hopefully give interesting crosspath options to the other upgrades, allowing the Mortar to easily focus fire on strong MOABs or maximise the impact of stunning by automatically aiming for the densest cluster of bloons. Manual targeting will likely still remain the most consistent option for effects like Signal Flare and Burny Stuff that just want to hit every bloon once.
Ninja Monkey - 💰 x5x Grand Saboteur: $25,000 -> $20,000 - 🌸 x5x Grand Saboteur: All x3x and above Ninja Monkeys in range, including the Grand Saboteur itself, gain +10 range and +2 MOAB damage. - 💭 The Grand Saboteur is the weakest of the Ninja Monkey’s tier 5 upgrades. We are bringing over a popular balance change from BTD6 in order to improve its usage, although we are limiting it to only Ninjas in the Grand Saboteur’s range rather than a map wide buff to limit its interaction with other, more powerful combos.
Spike Factory - 💰 5xx Super Mines: $110,000 -> $90,000 - 💣 5xx Super Mines: Explosion Pierce 60 -> 80 - 💭 Super Mines is by far the least used of Spike Factory’s tier 5 upgrades, overshadowed by Carpet of Spikes and Permaspike. We are making it more affordable while also buffing its pierce to make it more capable of dealing with its main weakness of tight ZOMGs.
Biker Bones - 💣 Level 3: Concussive shot radius 27 -> 40 - 💣 Level 3: Concussive shot pierce 48 -> 72 - 🎯 Level 3: Concussive shot now aims at densest area, not strongest bloon. - 💭 The dense bloon targeting we added for Mortar in this update felt like it would be a good fit for Biker Bones as well, allowing him to affect more bloons with the stun and fire effects of his ability and further distinguish him from Striker Jones.
Etienne - ⌛ Level 3: Drone Swarm Ability cooldown 45s -> 60s - ⌛ Level 16: Drone Swarm Ability cooldown 40s -> 45s - 💭 Etienne’s ability is extremely effective at clearing up early game rushes. We are increasing the cooldown to ensure that Etienne players cannot rely on it entirely and still need to spend on their early game defence.
Bug Fixes
🦹♀️ Fixed issue where Adora could appear visually as Dark Adora. Dark Adora does not feature in Battles 2.
👨🌾 Fixed issue where collectables picked up by the Banana Farmer would leave their visual on screen.
🦸♂️ Fixed issue where selling a x4x or x5x Dart Monkey while the SMFC/PMFC ability was active would cause the affected monkeys to visually revert to Dart Monkeys while still attacking like Supermonkeys. The ability now persists both visually and mechanically after the sale.
⛔ Fixed issue that would occasionally cause the game to think that the user account was already online and prevent it signing in.
🛳 Fixed issue where monkeys could not be placed on the 5xx Buccaneer’s platform if there was another monkey behind it.
🌞 Fixed issue where monkeys could be placed on the same space if a 5xx Buccaneer was sacrificed to a Sun Temple.
🌩 Fixed issue where the Plasma Bloon Boost was using the wrong fullscreen effect.
🎰 Fixed issue where save slots could not be deleted (Arcade only)
💬 Fixed incorrect Chinese translation for “Nexus Creator Code”.
📌 Fixed xx3 Spike Factory spikes clipping into the floor of some maps.
🖋 Fixed very long usernames displaying incorrectly in game.
🛤 Fixed issue where placing the Sniper at a particular point on Bloonstone Quarry broke its field of view.
💫 Fixed issue where MOABs would move sideways if they are hit with a knockback effect the moment they are spawned.
❄ Fixed issue where Level 6 Etienne was allowing Ice Monkey to always freeze the zebra children of rainbows, rather than only 25% of the time.
🦇 Fixed the xx4 Dark Knight’s visual aura not matching the range of its teleport ability.
🎬 Fixed some Monkey Subs not playing their firing animation.
🛒 Fixed Bonnie’s Minecarts sometimes drawing over the top of 3D objects when they should be behind them.
🖌 Fixed the Sniper Monkey’s paintball trail cosmetic not appearing on 250 Snipers.
🍌 Fixed the Banana Farm’s Banana Split weapon skin not appearing on 310 Banana Farms.
🐭 Fixed mouse wheel not controlling zoom on clan islands (desktop only)
🔭 Fixed animated banners appearing too zoomed in when viewed on the profile screen.
💥 Fixed Mortar Monkey targeting itself instead of the beginning of the map when first placed.
👀 Fixed Alchemist’s eyelids not lining up with its eyes on the main menu.
🔀 Fixed incorrect flow when viewing player profiles through clan leaderboards.
🔘 Fixed mini league leaderboard sometimes not animating like a button.
🥈 Fixed Silver Darts Dart Monkey weapon skin not applying to crossbow bolts and spiked balls.
📌 Fixed x42 Spike Factory firing too many spikes from its ability if activated at the very start of a round.
⚙ Fixed missing visual details on x3x Tack Shooter
Update Video: https://youtu.be/ypynJXuNnaI
Happy gaming! :D
Update 4.2.1 is rolling out now - Patch Notes!
New Features
OTA Updates - 📡 We’ve added support for OTA (Over The Air) updates to allow us to make balance changes and fix some issues without requiring a full game update.
Balance Changes
Arena League Trophies - 🏆 The penalty for losing a game in the Hall of Masters has been increased from -2 trophies to -3 trophies. - 🏆 The penalty for losing a game in ZOMG Superdome has been increased from -2 trophies to -3 trophies. - 📅 This will take effect on Friday 20th September with the start of new the Arena League. - 💭 The feedback from the Arena Leagues survey showed that many players wanted Hall of Masters to be a more exclusive arena with a much higher skill threshold. We are increasing the trophy penalty in ZOMG and HoM so that a 50% win rate (excluding streak bonuses) would be the minimum to avoid auto demotion. We want to avoid increasing the penalty to 4 or more trophies as it would significantly reduce the number of players in the Hall of Masters and make it much harder to find a match. We’re monitoring the other arenas and may make further adjustments in the future.
Bug Fixes
🛑 Fixed issue where players would get shown the fast track popup without a 10 win streak.
🧊 Fixed 205 Ice Monkey not freezing ZOMGs.
🏟 Fixed issue where some newly promoted Yellow Stadium players would not be put into a league after their first match.
💸 Fixed Bonnie’s minecarts not being sellable in round 50 sudden death.
👷♂️ Improved stability to reduce crashes.
✨ Fixed club sparkle effect not displaying correctly in the Events screen.
📈 Fixed bloon pops in event games not contributing to the stats displayed in the profile.
🎖 Fixed Striker Jones level 20 accolade not displaying in game when unlocked.
✌Fixed issue where it was possible to select 2 towers at once.
🚀 Fixed cannons not displaying correctly in Precious Space when reconnecting after a desync.
⛏ Fixed incorrect upgrade cost for Bonnie’s minecarts being displayed briefly after an upgrade.
🐌 Fixed slow initial load times on some devices.
🐟 Fixed Monkey Sub’s fish darts and Dart Monkey’s silver darts weapon skins not displaying correctly.
😵 Fixed jittering text in clan chat.
🦆 Fixed Agent Jericho’s decoys being the wrong size.
💫 Fixed Agent Jericho’s decoys spinning around when they spawn.
🧨 Fixed fuse not always displaying in Bonnie’s Ready to Blow animation
🔊 Fixed missing sound effects in a few of Bonnie’s animations.
🕹 Fixed missing sprites on save slots (Apple Arcade only).
