Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends
  - Spaced Rainbows $80 -> $85
  
• Dartling Gunner
  - Base price: $750 -> $800
  - x4x Rocket Storm: removed pierce boost to rockets and their explosions (+2 pierce -> +0 pierce)
  - xx4 Bloon Area Denial System: $12k -> $14.5k
  
• Mortar Monkey
  - Mortar Monkeys can be set to “Follow Mouse” and “Follow Touch” on desktop and mobile respectively. This targeting mode causes the mortar to always aim at the cursor on desktop or the last place the player touched on mobile.
  
• Engineer
  - xx4 Bloon Trap: Manual targeting of the trap is now unlocked with the x1x Larger Service Area upgrade.
  
• Pat Fusty
  - Level 5: Pushback from Slap attack reduced by 33%
  
• Fusty the Snowman
  - Level 5: Pushback from Slap attack reduced by 33%
  - Level 8: Chilling Cheer: when ability is active, x3x Ice Monkey slows moab class by its usual amount rather than a reduced amount.
  - Level 10 ability: Radial burst radius increased 30->50
  - Level 10 ability: Radial burst freeze duration increased 2s -> 4s (1s -> 2s for MOAB class)
  - Level 20 ability: Radial burst radius increased 70 -> 90,
  - Level 20 ability: Radial burst damage increased 30 -> 50 and additional damage to MOAB class increased +30 -> +50
  - Level 20 ability: Radial burst freeze duration increased 3s ->10s (1.5s -> 5s for MOAB class)
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Pat Fusty’s slam attack not creating an area of effect if it destroyed the targeted bloon.
  
• Fixed non-water towers placed on water via other means (e.g. Ice Monkey) getting the 5xx Buccaneer’s Flagship buff.
  
• Fixed Sentai Churchill’s unlock scene showing when unlocking Captain Churchill
  
• Fixed Right Shift key not working as a modifier on keybinds on Mac (Desktop only)
  
• Fixed spotlights on ZOMG Superdome showing two beams each.
  
• Fixed Fusty the Snowman allowing Ice Monkeys to slow BADs.
  
• Fixed xx2 Spike Factory set to Smart Targeting not spawning spikes if there are no bloons nearby.
  
• Fixed shift key not working for text input on Mac (Desktop only)
  
• Fixed hotkeys being reset to default if they are assigned to the letter A on Mac (Desktop only)
  
• Fixed being able to bind one hotkey to two different actions (Desktop only)
  
• Fixed “Top Bloons” overlapping border in profile screen.
  
• Fixed players who reach the Hall of Masters but do not play any games not getting a badge.
  
• Fixed a rare bug where rapid input could result in placing two heroes.
  
• Fixed Engineer’s Overclock ability duration not adjusting if the tower is upgraded while being buffed.
  
• Fixed Alt key not being bindable on Windows (Desktop only)
  
• Fixed x3x Shinobi Ninjas not stacking buffs correctly.
  
• Fixed Pat Fusty’s slam attack occasionally landing on himself instead of the bloons.
  
• Fixed the Halloween sky still showing in Lead Dungeon.
  
• Fixed Ice Monkeys buffed by Fusty the Snowman’s Chilling Cheer ability not freezing white or zebra bloons spawned from rainbows.
  
• Fixed children of MOAB class bloons not being consumed by Obyn’s Wall of Trees/Ocean Obyn’s Kraken if the MOAB was already in contact with the trees/kraken.
  
• Fixed shards/frags from Ice Monkeys and Bomb Shooters getting pierce buffs when they shouldn’t have.
  
• Fixed x3x Banana Farm not automatically collecting its money when sold.
  
• Fixed Ezili’s acid splash visual being smaller than Smudge Catt Ezili’s when they should be the same.
  

New Features

• New Hero: Pat Fusty
  - Unlock Fusty the Snowman with Pat Fusty Points
  
• New Season Rewards System
  - The Bling screen is being replaced by a new Season screen.
  - Rather than purchasing Bling items for Monkey Money, they are now earned by completing Quests.
  - Complete Quests to earn Golden Bananas and progress along the reward track, unlocking items as you go.
  - The reward track will contain all of the current season’s bling items and two new hero showcases.
  - There are a limited number of quests available to complete each day. VIPs can complete unlimited quests and earn double the number of Golden Bananas.
  - Visit the Season screen to view your current quests and your progress along the reward track.
  - Your bling collection can is now accessed via the icon on the right of the main screen or via your profile.
  
• Season 9
  - The first season to use the new reward system. All season items can be unlocked through gameplay by completing quests.
  - 12 new cosmetics including Football BFB, Angelic Bloon Boost, and Hieroglyphics avatar
  - King Fusty Showcase: Pat Fusty stomps through the city with 6 new cosmetic items.
  - Snow Sculptures Showcase: Fusty the Snowman shows off his artistic talents with 6 new cosmetic items.
  
• VIP Private Matches
  - VIPs can now create private matches using rules from special events.
  - Currently, this includes Random Quad, Play with Fire, and Speed Battles with more events due to be added in the future.
  - VIPs who create private matches with special rules can invite non-VIPs to play in them.
  

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends
  - Grouped reds $15 -> $20
  - Spaced blues income 1.3 -> 1
  - Grouped blues income 1.3 -> 1.1
  - Spaced greens $14 -> $18
  - Spaced yellows income 1.7 -> 1.5
  - Grouped pinks: $65->$60
  - Grouped whites: income 2.5 -> 2.6
  - Grouped Blacks: $80 -> $75
  - We have nerfed some of the early bloon sends that stood out as being extremely efficient, to encourage more usage of the others and to lower how much income you can build up in the early game, especially with farm strategies. We have also slightly buffed the later bloon income sends to compensate and to provide a minor buff to bloon income strategies.
  
• Dart Monkey
  - xx2 Enhanced Eyesight grants Dart Monkey the new camo prioritization option
  
• Tack Shooter
  - 4xx Ring of Fire: $3500 -> $3300
  - 5xx Inferno Ring base damage increased 4 > 8
  - 5xx Inferno Ring bonus MOAB damage reduced 6 > 4
  
• Ice Monkey
  - xx3 Cryo Cannon: attack cooldown increased 1 -> 1.15
  - xx5 Icicle Impale: $30k -> $32k
  - 2xx Cold Snap grants Ice Monkey the new camo prioritization option
  
• Glue Gunner
  - 5xx Bloon Solver DoT's now does 6 bonus damage to ceramic bloons
  - 5xx Bloon Solver DoT’s increased Ceramic damage will not skip through extra children layers upon breaking the ceramic layer
  - xx4 Relentless Glue grants Glue Gunner the new camo prioritization option
  
• Sniper Monkey
  - x1x Night Vision Goggles grants Sniper Monkey the new Camo Prioritization option
  
• Monkey Buccaneer
  - xx2 Crow’s Nest grants Monkey Buccaneer the new Camo Prioritization option
  
• Monkey Ace
  - x2x Spy Plane grants Monkey Ace the new camo prioritization option
  
• Heli Pilot
  - 4xx Apache Dartship rotors damage increased 2 -> 4
  - 4xx Apache Dartship rotors pierce increased 13 -> 20
  - 5xx Apache Prime rotors damage increased 2 -> 8
  - 5xx Apache Prime rotors pierce increased 13 -> 40
  - xx1 Faster Darts also increases attack distance of dart attacks by +30%
  - x2x IFR grants Heli Pilot the new camo prioritization option
  
• Mortar Monkey
  - xx4 Shattering Shells: $11k -> $10k
  - xx4 Shattering Shells damage over time increased 1 -> 5 damage per tick
  - xx5 Blooncineration: wall of fire damage increased 3 -> 4
  - xx5 Blooncineration: wall of fire pierce increased 20 -> 40
  - x4x Artillery Battery: $5.5k -> $6.5k
  
• Wizard Monkey
  - x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix: $54k -> $50k
  - xx2 Monkey Sense grants Wizard Monkey the new Camo Prioritization option.
  
• Super Monkey
  - xx2 Ultravision grants Super Monkey the new Camo Prioritization option
  
• Ninja Monkey
  - Ninja Monkey gains the new Camo Prioritization option
  
• Alchemist
  - xx3 Lead to Gold: Damage to leads/DDTs increased +9 -> +18
  
• Druid
  - 5xx Superstorm: blowback pierce reduced 200 -> 150 (can now blowback 3 ZOMGs rather than 4)
  - 5xx Superstorm grants Druid the new camo prioritization option
  
• Banana Farm
  - x4x IMF Loan: bank capacity $15k -> $20k
  - x5x Monkey-Nomics: bank capacity $15k -> $30k
  
• Quincy
  - Level 3 Rapid Shot duration increased by 1s
  - Level 5 grants Quincy the new camo prioritization option
  
• Cyber Quincy
  - Level 3 Cyber Shot duration increased by 2s
  - Level 5 grants Cyber Quincy the new camo prioritization option
  
• Biker Bones
  - Level 10 ability duration reduced 8s -> 7s
  
• Ezili
  - Level 10 ability cooldown increased 60 -> 75
  - XP required per level increased by 6.9%
  
• Smudge Catt
  - XP required per level increased by 6.9%
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when upgrading the Sun Temple
  
• Fixed Sun Temple sacrificing towers when being upgraded from 400 to 410.
  
• Fixed manual track placement attacks (brambles, bloon trap, etc) not being able to be placed under blockers. These can be placed under blockers when the tower places them randomly so the manual targeting should be able to as well.
  
• Fixed MOAB class bloons turning the wrong way when rounding corners on Bloontonium Mines
  
• Fixed incorrect maths that meant Benjamin’s bank hack upgrade was not buffing banks enough
  
• Fixed track placeables not being able to be placed on walls in castle ruins
  
• Fixed lingering tower range circles when using hotkeys to close the tower menu (Desktop only)
  
• Fixed some MOAB status effects hiding others when multiple are applied at the same time
  
• Fixed buff icon on xx3/4 buccaneers not showing how many stacks of the xx5 buccaneer’s buff they are being affected by.
  
• Fixed text alignment issues
  
• Fixed issue where the game needed to download DLC every time it opened.
  
• Fixed Engineer’s Overclock ability being difficult to target.
  
• Fixed crash when using onscreen keyboard (iOS only)
  
• Fixed bloons not playing the correct SFX if hit by a projectile while frozen and affected by another status.
  
• Fixed issue where heroes appeared in a pool of water on the main menu.
  
• Fixed targeting reticle appearing when it shouldn’t during certain interactions with Obyn
  
• Fixed Heli Pilot not being able to hit bloons underneath it when in pursuit mode.
  
• Fixed scroll wheel being extremely slow to scroll menus (Desktop Only)
  

Balance Changes

• Hero XP
  - The in-game XP required for Quincy, Cyber Quincy, Gwen, Science Gwen, Churchill and Sentai Churchill to reach each level has been reverted to the amounts used before 1.6.
  - The intent of the v1.6 hero XP change was to limit the power of the stronger heroes in the early/mid game, requiring you to spend more money if you wish to obtain powerful abilities such as Obyn’s Wall of Trees on the same rounds as before. However this change has also affected the lesser used heroes, which was not necessary, and so we have reverted the change for those heroes in hopes that this will encourage more usage of them.
  
• Engineer Monkey
  - xx4/xx5 Bloon Trap can no longer be affected by attack speed buffs such as Overclock
  - x4x Overlock buff to Banana Farm changed from x1.67 to x1.5
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed regen rainbow bloons crashing the game if allowed to regenerate indefinitely. Regen bloons will now stop regening while there is an exceptionally high number of bloons on screen.
  
• Fixed Buccaneer being unable to attack frozen MOABs with its ability
  
• Fixed longer upgrade descriptions overflowing from the text box.
  
• Fixed Sun Avatar drawing sacrifices from the Sun Temples range instead of the Sun Avatar’s range
  
• Fixed some players getting the previous season’s badge if they ended the season on 20 trophies
  
• Fixed some bloons appearing as magenta squares and being untargetable.
  
• Fixed BFB Colosseum not having animated water.
  
• Fixed incorrect text in Obyn’s brambles description
  
• Fixed UI overlapping incorrectly during some transitions
  
• Fixed lag during the tutorial
  
• Fixed daily freebie chest sometimes appearing in chest queue
  
• Fixed event rewards sometimes not being given if the event ended while a game was in progress.
  
• Fixed games sometimes restarting after a resync before both sides had properly synced.
  
• Fixed ads sometimes not giving rewards after watching them
  

New Features

• New Map: Building Site
  - New dynamic map for all game modes. Appears in White Wasteland and above in ranked games.
  - Paths change every round for a new layer of strategy.
  
• Bling season 8
  - New ranked season with 12 new bling items including Plushie ZOMG, Foam Party emote and Lucky Tower Boost.
  

General Changes

• Removal of Hall of Masters placement matches
  - Players who reach 100 Trophies will see their place on the Hall of Masters leaderboard after their first game played in the Hall of Masters.
  - They will no longer need to play 3 games before being given a score on the leaderboard.
  
• MOAB Skin Damage States
  - We received feedback that it was difficult to tell how damaged a MOAB class bloon was when it had a custom skin equipped.
  - We have reworked several MOAB skins so that their damage states more closely resemble the base MOAB damage states.
  
• Pregame ad offers
  - Players will now sometimes be offered the chance to watch an ad before a game to enable a one-time boost on that game’s rewards. Players on desktop can use reward tokens to enable these boosts.
  - Players will now sometimes be offered the chance to watch an ad before a game to temporarily unlock all heroes and alts for that game only, allowing them to try out heroes they have not purchased. Players on desktop can use reward tokens to do this.
  
• New Starter Pack IAP
  - Players can now purchase a special, one-time bundle of Monkey Money, Battles Points and 7 days VIP along with an exclusive Dart Monkey placement animation.
  - This bundle is time limited and will no longer be available once it expires.
  - This bundle is designed to help new players get started in Battles 2 but it will also be available to experienced players.
  

Balance Changes

Hero XP


• The in-game XP required for heroes to reach each level has been increased in early levels and decreased in later ones. This means that it will take longer for heroes to reach level 10 and unlock their ability, but the time it takes to reach level 20 will remain approximately the same.
  
• This is to allow a bigger window for sending rushes like BFBs before the hero abilities become available to counter them.
  

  Bloon Sends

  
  
• Spaced pinks: eco reduced 1.8 -> 1.5
  
• Spaced whites: eco reduced 1.8 -> 1.5
  
• Spaced blacks: eco reduced 2 -> 1.6
  
• Spaced purples: eco reduced 4 -> 3.5
  
• These bloon sends were giving farm income too much of an advantage over bloon income. Farm users can use spare cash on farms and so could afford to use these slow, but incredibly efficient, sends. Eco users do not have the cash to put into farms so they have to resort to the faster, but less efficient, grouped bloon sends.
  
• Spaced and Grouped BFB: $2.2k -> $2.1k
  
• Tight ZOMGs: delay between bloons increased 0.2 -> 0.3
  
• Tight ZOMGs: $10k -> $12k
  

  Towers

  
  
• Dart Monkey
  - 2xx Sharp Shots: $200 -> $250
  - 2xx Sharp Shots: Pierce increased +2 -> +3
  - 2xx Sharp Shots: Crossbow Pierce increased to xx5 +7 -> +8
  - xx3 Crossbow: Pierce increased 5 -> 6
  
• Boomerang Monkey
  - x3x Bionic Boomerang: $1450 -> $1300
  - x4x Turbo Charge: $4200 -> $4350
  
• Glue Gunner
  - 4xx Bloon Liquefier: attack cooldown reduced 0.9 -> 0.65 (5xx remains unchanged)
  
• Monkey Sub
  - x3x Ballistic Missile: $1400 -> $1600
  - x3x Ballistic Missile pierce reduced 75 -> 50
  - x4x First Strike Capability damage decreased 8k -> 7k
  
• Mortar Monkey
  - 4xx The Big One: $8k -> $7.5k
  - 5xx The Biggest One: stun length increased 0.2 -> 0.25
  
• Dartling Gunner
  - x5x M.A.D: $60k -> $68k
  - xx2 Powerful Darts: $700 -> $800
  
• Wizard Monkey
  - x4x Summon Phoenix: phoenix damage increased 5 -> 6
  
• Super Monkey
  - xx5 Legend of the Night: damage increased 5 -> 10
  - xx5 Legend of the Night: now does 4 additional damage to ceramic bloons.
  - xx5 Legend of the Night: bonus moab damage increased 5 -> 8
  - 4xx Sun Temple: damage increased 5 -> 6
  - 4xx Sun Temple: pierce increased 20 -> 30
  - 5xx True Sun God: damage increased 15 -> 20
  
• Druid
  - 2xx Heart of Thunder: $850 -> $1k
  - 050 Spirit of the Forest base thorn attack damage increased 1 -> 20
  
• Banana Farm
  - 5xx Banana Central: $60k -> $64k
  
• Obyn Greenfoot
  - Level 3 Brambles duration reduced 120s -> 95s,
  - Level 3 Brambles pierce reduced 50 ->40.
  - Level 7 Brambles pierce reduced 100 -> 80
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed first tutorial progressing incorrectly after Quincy is placed.
  
• Fixed notification icon not dismissing on bling screen
  
• Fixed buy button being unresponsive when attempting to buy hero showcases with insufficient monkey money
  
• Fixed currency amounts on hero showcases showing as red even with enough monkey money and hero points.
  
• Fixed hero showcases incorrectly showing as owned when more than one were in the store at once.
  
• Fixed Hall of Masters leaderboard sometimes displaying names in an incorrect font.
  
• Fixed sfx not playing when interacting with the level 7 entry on Ezili & Smudge Catt’s card in the hero screen.
  
• Fixed graphical glitch when transitioning between main menu screens.
  
• Various text fixes.
  
• Fixed being able to place Obyn’s brambles and trees inside 3D blockers.
  
• Fixed graphical glitch when placing the Heli Pilot using hotkeys (Desktop only)
  
• Fixed graphical glitch caused by game desyncing while using the Chinook.
  
• Fixed some buttons displaying text that is too large
  
• Fixed xx3 and xx4 Monkey Village having the same name in Brazilian Portuguese.
  
• Sync issues with bloon trap
  
• Engineer sentries no longer buffed by Primary Training
  
• Brambles, Trees and Totems are no longer placeable in blockers.
  

General Changes

• Daily freebie now shows what reward it will give before being claimed.
  
• Related to the above change, the randomization algorithm has been updated. This may lead to past Daily Rewards showing as different to what was actually claimed.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed matches that have not finished when the season ends counting towards the leaderboard. Matches will only count if they have reached a conclusion before the season ends.
  
• Fixed display issue of medals covering player names.
  
• Fixed Ezili and Smudge Catt’s Sacrificial Totem/Scratching post using incorrect name and image.
  
• Fixed issue where towers would charge twice for an upgrade if upgraded too quickly. (Thanks Alukian for helping us find this!)
  
• Fixed medals overlapping VIP badge on Hall of Masters leaderboard.
  
• Fixed Smudge Catt’s curse animation not looping.
  
• Fixed tutorial not resetting correctly if player loses to Gwen.
  
• Fixed damage over time effects (burny stuff, ezili’s curse, etc) not reapplying correctly.
  
• Fixed Hero Rewards list not scrolling all the way to the bottom.
  
• Fixed Ezili’s curse visual effects clipping with some MOAB skins.
  
• Fixed round 1 not starting correctly if experiencing extremely low frame rate.
  
• Fixed Ezili’s totem drawing under the floor of some maps.
  
• Fixed heroes not shouting warnings for some MOAB types.
  
• Fixed Engineer’s pins being removed from bloons when they are affected by a bloon boost.
  
• Fixed avatars displaying in low resolution on some devices.
  
• Fixed Ezili’s portraits not matching her upgrade level.
  
• Fixed tower portraits drawing too large on the in game hud.
  
• Fixed display issues in Hall of Masters leaderboard.
  
• Fixed Churchill’s cannon losing all pierce when hitting a purple bloon.
  
• Fixed 3D projectiles sometimes turning invisible after a disconnect.
  

New Features

• New Hero: Ezili
  - Unlock Smudge Catt Ezili with Ezili Hero Points
  
• New Map: Oasis
  - Feel the heat on this sundrenched new map for all arenas and game modes.
  
• Season 7
  - New ranked season with 12 new bling items including Football MOAB, Bloon Sirens decal and Start Blasting emote.
  

General Changes

• Tower Unlock Changes
  - The Tower XP system has been through a number of changes since Battles 2’s launch while we tried to find a good balance of unlocking new upgrades through play while always having access to a variety of strategies. Ultimately, this hasn’t worked as well as we’d have liked and so we have decided to overhaul how towers and upgrades are unlocked.
  - Purchasing a tower will now unlock all upgrades up to tier 4 immediately. The Monkey Money cost of all towers has been increased to reflect this increased value.
  - Once the tower is unlocked, all 3 Tier 5 upgrades can be purchased at a flat rate of 1500 Monkey Money per tower.
  - Tower XP is now only used for purchasing Mastery cosmetics.
  - Any players who have already purchased a tower before this update will immediately unlock all upgrades up to tier 4 for that tower for free.
  - Any players who have already purchased one or more tier 5 upgrades for a tower before this update will immediately unlock the remaining tier 5 upgrades for that tower for free.
  - There will be an IAP option for players who wish to bypass the Monkey Money cost and unlock the tower and all of its upgrades immediately.
  
• Alt Unlock changes
  - We intended for Hero Alts to be a satisfying final step on the hero rewards track but as strategies have emerged that rely on the gameplay differences these alts have over the main heroes it has become clear that the process of unlocking them is too long.
  - All Hero alts will be available alongside the main heroes in the hero screen and will no longer be connected to the hero rewards system.
  - Alt Heroes will cost Monkey Money and Hero Points from their main hero. Hero Points can be gained by playing with the main hero or found in chests, event rewards or the daily reward.
  
• Tier Restrictions Removed
  - All upgrade tiers can now be used in any arena.
  - This restriction is no longer necessary now that upgrades do not need to be earned.
  
• New Event UI
  - The events system UI has been redesigned to accommodate future event types and allow clearer signposting for new players.
  
• New Daily Freebie
  - Visit the store every 24 hours to receive a small amount of Monkey Money, Battle Points, Tower XP or Hero Points. There is also a Battle Chest that can be claimed every 4 hours by watching an ad (or using a reward token on desktop).
  
• Added score value to Hall of Masters Leaderboard
  - Players in the Hall of Masters can now see their score on the leaderboard.
  - The post game screen will show how much the Hall of Masters score increased or decreased as a result of that game.
  - Note: this is not the same as the ELO value used for matchmaking but it is derived from skill and used for placement on the leaderboard.
  

Balance Changes

• Dart Monkey
  - xx5 Crossbow Master damage increased 9 -> 11
  - x4x Super Monkey Fan Club: Dart Monkeys placed after the ability has been activated will be instantly transformed if the ability has not reached its 10 monkey limit.
  
• Bomb Shooter
  - xx5 Bloon Crush stun duration reduced 2s -> 1.75s
  - xx3 Cluster Bomb pierce of clusters reduced 10 -> 8
  
• Tack Shooter
  - x4x Blade Maelstrom blades can no longer pass over blockers.
  - x5x Super Maelstrom blades can no longer pass over blockers.
  
• Glue Gunner
  - 3xx Bloon Dissolver: $2500 -> $2300
  - xx4 Relentless Glue upgrade now grants camo detection.
  
• Monkey Sub
  - 3xx Submerge and Support: $500 -> $750
  - 4xx Bloontonium Reactor: $2800 -> $2600
  - x3x Ballistic Missile pierce reduced 100 -> 75
  - xx1 Twin Guns increases Ballistic Missile attack rate by 10% rather than 12.5% and the bonus damage for ceramic and above has been reduced 6 -> 5.
  
• Monkey Ace
  - xx4 Spectre attack cooldown reduced 0.06 -> 0.05
  - xx5 Flying Fortress: $85k -> $80k
  - xx5 Flying Fortress attack cooldown reduced 0.04 -> 0.03
  
• Heli Pilot
  - 3xx Razor Rotors pierce increased 10 -> 13
  
• Mortar Monkey
  - 5xx The Biggest One now stuns all MOAB class bloons except BAD for 0.2s
  - x4x Artillery Battery deals +4 bonus damage to BADs
  - x5x Pop and Awe deals +10 bonus damage to BADs
  - x5x Pop and Awe grants all other x4x Mortars +6 bonus damage to BADs
  
• Wizard Monkey
  - 5xx Archmage damage to MOAB class bloons increased 30 -> 35
  
• Super Monkey
  - 3xx Sun Avatar: $17k -> $16k
  
• Druid
  - x3x Druid of the Jungle vine attack now deals 1 + 13% of the bloons HP per 0.2s. This is so that vines take longer to pop ceramic bloons without affecting their ability to pop regular bloons.
  - xx3 Druid or Wrath: $600 -> $750
  
• Banana Farm
  - 5xx Banana Central buff to farm production reduced +25% to +20%
  
• Monkey Engineer
  - x3x Cleansing Foam pierce increased 15 -> 20
  - xx1 buff to cleansing foam pierce increased +5 -> +10
  
• Quincy
  - Base cost reduced $500 -> $450
  - Level 10 Storm of Arrows hit chance increased 5% to 7.5%
  - Level 18 Storm of Arrows hit chance reduced 75% to 10% (this was meant to be 7.5% but had an incorrect value)
  - Level 20 Storm of Arrows hit chance increased 10% to 15%.
  
• Cyber Quincy
  - Base cost reduced $500 -> $450
  - Level 10 Cyber Storm hit chance increased 5% to 7.5%
  - Level 18 Cyber Storm hit chance reduced 75% to 10% (this was meant to be 7.5% but had an incorrect value)
  - Level 20 Cyber Storm hit chance increased 10% to 15%.
  
• Gwendolin
  - Firestorm ability now gives all monkeys +1 damage in addition to the Heat It Up buff.
  
• Science Gwen
  - Sciencestorm ability now gives all monkeys +1 damage in addition to the Heat It Up buff.
  
• Obyn Greenfoot
  - Level 4 Natures ward totem slow effect reduced 30% to 25% and range reduced 32 -> 28
  - Level 8 Natures ward totem slow effect reduced 40% to 35%
  - Level 15 Natures ward totem slow effect reduced 60% to 50% and range reduced 40 -> 34
  - Level 10 Wall of Trees RBE capacity reduced 2.5k to 2k (level 20 remains the same)
  
• Ocean Obyn
  - Level 10 Kraken RBE capacity reduced 1.25k to 1k (level 20 remains the same).
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed x4x Ninja Monkey’s Sabotage ability not slowing newly spawned bloons.
  
• Fixed xx4 Necromancer’s reanimated Bloons having 1 less pierce than they should.
  
• Fixed Obyn and Ocean Obyn’s totem having targeting options.
  
• Fixed placement animation previews not displaying on some devices.
  
• Fixed not having to hold CTRL when creating a keybind that uses CTRL (Desktop Only).
  
• Fixed incorrect description on 1xx Boomerang.
  
• Fixed xx3 Kylie Boomerang animation being cut short when its attack speed is upgraded.
  
• Fixed some keys not being bindable (Desktop Only).
  
• Fixed potential inconsistencies when Hall of Masters matches end right as the season ends.
  
• Fixed Cyber Quincy’s Cyber Storm animation lasting too long.
  
• Fixed looping sfx when placing tower (Desktop only).
  
• Fixed xx5 Engineer’s Trap not giving cash if a disconnect happens while it is ready to be collected.
  
• Fixed xx3 Engineer’s pinned bloons becoming permanently pinned after a disconnect.
  
• Fixed Ocean Obyn’s tentacles being too big.
  
• Fixed misleading error message when trying to log into an account that has been deleted.
  
• Fixed Boomerang Monkey switching hands not being synced over the network (visuals only).
  

General Changes

• Added connection quality indicator to in game HUD.
  

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends
  - Grouped Leads: Eco 4 -> 4.5
  
• Bomb Shooter
  - xx3 Cluster Bombs: $800 -> $900
  - x3x MOAB Mauler: Bonus ceramic damage reduced from 1 -> 0
  
• Banana Farm
  - xx3 Marketplace: $2900 -> $3000
  - xx4 Central Market: $12,500 -> $13,000
  - xx5 Monkey Wall Street: $42,500 -> $43,500
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed hotkeys not being saved when set to their default value (Desktop only).
  
• Fixed some hotkeys retaining their previous function in addition to their new function when customized (Desktop only).
  
• Fixed an issue where using hotkeys could cause towers to appear in the centre of the map. (Desktop only)
  
• Fixed bling season items showing incorrect timer.
  
• Fixed opponent health bar sometimes not updating correctly during games with high latency.
  
• Fixed in-game rules button not being spaced correctly.
  
• Fixed event banners disappearing if scrolled too far.
  
• Improved visuals on Stick Arms bloon decal.
  
• Fixed frozen regrow bloons not being prevented from regrowing.
  
• Fixed costs changing for all towers rather than just the one being placed when placing in the radius of a 001 Monkey Village.
  
• Fixed visual issue on Speed Battles prize track.
  
• Fixed games not reconnecting correctly after a disconnect.
  
• Fixed banana farm constantly appearing to need collected on the opponent's screen.
  
• Fixed “New Player” button on the login screen not redirecting to the sign up page.
  
• Fixed icicles from the xx4 Ice Monkey appearing to remain on bloons after they have expired.
  
• Fixed Sonar emote not fitting in the speech bubble.
  
• Improved input delay when placing and upgrading towers quickly.
  
• Fixed 4xx Buccaneer planes not launching when next to a Monkey Village.
  

New Features

• New Event: Speed Battles
  - A new limited time event that really turns up the pressure!
  - All bloon sends unlock 1 round earlier
  - All bloons move faster
  - Income from eco is given more often.
  
• New Event: Play with Fire
  - A new limited time event that will seriously challenge your strategy.
  - All bloon sends (both yours and your opponents) are sent to BOTH players.
  - Using a bloon boost will affect your sent bloons on both sides.
  - All bloon sends are worth 2x eco (including negative eco)
  
• Bling Season 6
  - 12 awesome new cosmetic items to collect!
  
• Changes to Ranked Seasons
  - As mentioned in the 1.3.3 patch notes, ranked seasons are changing with the start of Season 6
  - There will now be a break between seasons. During this time ranked play will be disabled but casual, events and private games will still be available.
  - A special preseason event will run during this time with rewards of Battle Points and Monkey Money.
  - When Season 6 starts, your trophies will be reset to zero and you will be given a starting bonus equal to 75% of the trophies you had at the end of Season 5.
  - More context for these changes can be found here - https://www.reddit.com/r/battles2/comments/v97rqu/upcoming_changes_and_going_goward/
  

General Changes

• New Hall of Masters Medals
  - 2 New Hall of Masters medals have been added.
  - There are now medals for finishing in the Top 50 and the Top 25.
  
• In-game Rules Display
  - You can now view the rules for Event and Casual mode during the game.
  
• Graveyard Counter
  - You can now view the number of bloons the Wizard’s Necromancer and Prince of Darkness upgrades have in their graveyards for creating zombie bloons.
  
• You can now remap hotkeys in the settings menu (Steam only)
  

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends
  - Grouped zebras eco changed from 2.5 -> 3.5
  - Spaced leads eco changed from 4 -> 3
  - Spaced rainbows eco changed from 3 -> 4
  - Grouped rainbows eco changed from 5 -> 6
  - Tight ceramics unlock round changed from 30 -> 28
  
• Dart Monkey
  - x4x Super Monkey Fan Club: Range of monkeys affected by the ability increased from 40 -> 50
  
• Boomerang Monkey
  - xx5 MOAB Domination: special kylie MOAB damage increased from 20 -> 30
  
• Ice Monkey
  - x3x Arctic Wind: increase the amount bloons are slowed from 50% -> 60%
  - x5x Absolute Zero: Increase the amount bloons are slowed from 70% -> 80%
  - 5xx Super Brittle: $32k -> $34k
  
• Glue Gunner
  - 3xx Bloon Dissolver: +1 damage to MOAB class
  - xx3 Moab Glue: $3.4k -> $3.2k
  - x5x Glue Storm: $15k -> $14k
  
• Monkey Ace
  - x2x Spy Plane: grants +1 damage bonus damage to camo bloons from all weapons
  - 4xx Operation Dart Storm: +1 pierce to darts
  - xx5 Flying Fortress: dart damage increased from 2 -> 4 and bomb damage increased from 3 -> 5
  
• Mortar Monkey
  - Base: $750 -> $700
  - Footprint size decreased from 11 -> 8
  - 1xx Bigger Blast: $500 -> $350
  - 3xx Shell Shock: $900 -> $850
  - 5xx The Biggest One: damage to MOAB class increased from 50 -> 60
  
• Dartling Gunner
  - The Dartling Gunner has been a prolific tower in the Battles 2 meta for a long time. We increased its pierce in one of the earliest updates to make it a viable starter but this resulted in it being the most dominant tower in the meta and it has had several nerfs to try and bring it back to the power level we intended. This update reduces the price and base pierce back to its original values with the intention that Dartling can be used as a starter but will not be able to hold off early waves as effectively without upgrades or help. We have increased the pierce of xx2 Powerful Darts to allow it to keep its potency in the mid game.
  - Base: $900 -> $750
  - Base: pierce reduced from 3 -> 2
  - xx2 Powerful Darts: pierce increased from +3 -> +4
  
• Wizard Monkey
  - 3xx Arcane Mastery: $1.3k -> $1.2k
  - 3xx Arcane Mastery damage type changed from energy -> plasma (now able to pop leads)
  - 4xx Arcane Spike: $10k -> $9k and +4 damage to leads/DDTs
  - 5xx Archmage: +8 damage to leads/DDTs
  - xx3 Shimmer: $1.7k -> $1.5k
  
• Super Monkey
  - 3xx Sun Avatar: pierce increased from 6 -> 7
  
• Ninja Monkey
  - x4x Bloon Sabotage: slow effect no longer soaks through MOAB class bloons (still soaks through regular bloons however)
  - x4x Bloon Sabotage: if a ninja is sold while its ability is active, bloons already on screen will now continue to be slowed for the remainder of the ability duration. Newly spawned bloons will not be slowed.
  - xx5 Master Bomber: sticky bomb splash damage reduced from 300 -> 200
  
• Village
  - xx5 Monkeyopolis no longer requires nearby Banana Farms to purchase.
  - xx5 Monkeyopolis base price is now $15k + $5k per farm absorbed
  - xx5 Monkeyopolis produce increased to $2400 per round (4x $600 crates) + additional crates to the value of the total value of farms absorbed divided by 2000.
  
• Quincy
  - Level 10: Storm of Arrows cooldown reduced from 70s -> 60s
  - Level 18: Storm of Arrows cooldown reduced from 55s -> 50s
  
• Cyber Quincy
  - Level 3: Increase the amount of pierce Cyber Shot gives arrows from +13 -> +15
  - Level 15: Increase the amount of pierce Cyber Shot gives arrows from +19 -> +30
  - Level 10: Cyber Storm cooldown reduced from 70s -> 60s
  - Level 18: Cyber Storm cooldown reduced from 55s -> 50s
  
• Benjamin
  - Level 10: Syphon Funding can now only affect a maximum of 10 ZOMGs per ability (no restriction on BFB and below)
  
• DJ Ben Jammin’
  - Level 10: the number of BFBs that Beatdown can downgrade is now capped at 2, however it can still downgrade up to 10 bloons in total (eg if there are 10 BFBs and 10 MOABs on screen, it will downgrade 2 BFBs and 8 MOABs).
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues using multitouch for placing towers and sending bloons simultaneously (Mobile only).
  
• Fixed trophies rounding incorrectly at the start of a new season.
  
• Fixed players sometimes not displaying on Hall of Masters leaderboard after completing placement matches.
  
• Fixed crash when moving towers using Heli Pilot’s redeploy ability.
  
• Fixed bloon sends not sending if hotkey was being held down when bloonset unlocks (Desktop only).
  
• Fixed Dartling Gunner Plasma Accelerator and Ray of Doom visuals remaining when the Dartling is moved using the Heli Pilot’s Redeploy ability.
  
• Fixed Engineer’s Bloon Trap not redeploying when its targeting is changed.
  
• Fixed bloons showing Benjamin’s Syphon Funding ability visual when they were not affected by the ability.
  
• Fixed Banks flashing when they generate cash.
  
• Fixed multiple private games sometimes displaying for the same host.
  
• Fixed 050 Mortar firing visuals not matching the model.
  
• Fixed Engineer being unable to hit bloons if placed too close to the track.
  
• Fixed planes flying around on icebergs when a 050 Ice Monkey is placed next to a 400 Monkey Buccaneer.
  
• Fixed Alchemist’s Rubber to Gold attack not targeting correct bloon.
  
• Fixed various localisation issues.
  
• Various networking improvements.
  
• Fixed bloon sends continuing after button released if a desync happens while sending bloons.
  
• Fixed multiple displays causing Event menu to temporarily disappear (Desktop only).
  

New Features

• Changes to Ranked Seasons
  

General Changes

• Improved messaging when unable to find a match
  

Bug Fixes

• Various networking and sync improvements
  
• Fixed range circles not displaying when placing multiple towers
  
• Fixed some abilities becoming permanently disabled by Benjamin’s Biohack.
  
• Fixed crash related to rendering towers in-game.
  
• Fixed missing visuals on regrow bloons while affected by the Village’s Regrow blocker
  
• Fixed Alchemist missing bloons with Rubber To Gold potion
  
• Fixed crash when moving towers using Heli Pilot’s Redeploy ability
  

Bug Fixes

• Improved input delay on manually targeted towers
  
• Fixed crash relating to upgrading a tower
  
• Fixed Bomb Shooter’s cluster bombs not exploding
  
• Fixed Wizard Monkey’s zombie MOABs and BFBs incorrect scale
  
• Fixed issues creating private matches
  
• Fixed tiny heroes in the lobby
  
• Fixed manually targeted towers having incorrect targets after being moved using the Heli Pilot’s redeploy ability.
  
• Fixed 4xx Alchemist’s smoke effects displaying incorrectly
  
• Fixed Dartling Gunner’s targeting reticle disappearing after the target had been selected
  
• Fixed 420 Alchemist sometimes not having a backpack
  
• Fixed crash when finishing an Event match just as the event ended
  
• Fixed Mortar Monkey’s targeting reticle resetting when it is upgraded
  
• Fixed frozen camo bloons not creating icicle spikes when hit by the 204 Ice Monkey
  
• Fixed 400 Plasma Accelerator Dartling Gunner not being blocked by purple bloons
  
• Fixed Monkey Village Homeland Defense ability showing the incorrect buff icon on affected towers.
  
• Fixed 300 Dart Monkey’s Spike-o-pult constantly missing bloons due to incorrect aiming.
  
• Fixed some buffs and track items appearing twice after a resync
  
• Fixed Snipers set to Elite targeting automatically changing back to First on upgrade.