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Wizard Monkey Vinyl + MOAB and Tack Shooter Pins!

29 Aug

A magic wielding Wizard Monkey vinyl, and cute little MOAB and Tack Shooter pins are now available through our partnership with Makeship.

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Bloons TD 6 - Version 44.0 Update Notes!

31 Jul

Update: Bloons TD 6 v44.0 - Update Notes!

Available now please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up.

Update Video: https://youtu.be/cb22AG0JIVw

Key New Features

New Tower, fresh out of ***MONKLANTIS***, the Mermonkey!
- Smash them with abyssal tentacly creatures, freeze and wash them away with enchanted waves, and lead them astray with mystical melodies! The Bloons will tremble at the might of the Sea, even on land!
- Players have been asking about new towers and the community has suggested the existence of a Mermonkey since BTD5, so yes we’ve done it! We are committed to adding new towers to the game when we see genuine spaces for unique tower design and gaps in existing tower synergies, especially in different game modes and Events. Mermonkey adds a valuable water tower outside of the Military category, and the designs relating to range from target, buffs, and ice synergy are intended to spark new placement strategies, fun combos, and interesting tier list discussions
- Mermonkey starts as a low range amphibious tower with a large vision increase when placed in water. They throw a single trident that pierces twice and can damage up to 3 Bloons each time it does, making it effective during earlier dense rounds where this can overlap. Crosspathing choices include Attack & Projectile Speed, AoE & Freezing, or Seeking & Vision
- Top path Mermonkey fights side by side with a mysterious sea creature that attacks in all directions, slows Bloons down with inky tridents, and enhances all towers within a radius with a percentage pierce increase
- Middle path attacks with freezing waves that grow larger and more powerful the further they travel, with the wave eventually crashing to form a unique T-shaped attack! They deal increased damage to any Frozen targets, and with the Ice Jet ability, fire a quick barrage of bouncing ice projectiles
- Bottom Path lures Bloons off track with an irresistible melody to dance around the Mermonkey for a short time while also detonating any damage-over-time effects on those Bloons to deal all the remaining DoT immediately
- Final note for PC players; We plan to continue working on new towers after Mermonkey, and as we grow closer to maxing out standard keyboard space for reasonable hotkeys we realize it’s not going to be viable to start shuffling these around every time to maintain anymore. So we have decided not to assign any default hotkey for new towers going forward, however we have added the space for a hotkey to be assigned manually within the hotkeys menu.

New Awesome

New Hero Skin, Dreamstate Psi
- Drift off into pleasant Bloon-popping dreams with the adorable new Dreamstate Psi skin. Cozy gameplay guaranteed!
New Intermediate Map, Luminous Cove
- A mysterious cove with deep connections to Mermonkey kind. Help defend this ancient refuge against a two-path Bloon assault to uncover the secrets of these mystical, melodious Monkeys.
New Trial Quests! Both of these quests will allow players use of the towers even before unlocking them
- Mermonkeys, Not Mere Monkeys - Learn about and trial the Mermonkey tower
- Super Dartling Bros - Learn about and trial the Dartling Gunner tower
New Trophy Store Items
- Monkeys: Safety Mole mortar pet, with a tip of the helmet to our new friends and colleagues from Legion TD 2
- Bloons: Clown Wigs Bloons
- Co-op: I’m The Problem text emote
- Game & UI: Rosalia avatar
New CT Team Store items
- Water Props: Adventure Whale

Game Changes / Additions

The Alternate Bloon Rounds round set has increased from 100 to 140 preset rounds, putting more All in Alternate
Tower Unlock System
- We recognize that we have been inconsistent with how “new” Monkey Towers become available and want to streamline this going forward. Dartling Gunner’s more passive unlock giftbox has been reworked into a proper Tower unlock system, where all “new” Towers can be accessed in each player’s preferred order via pop count thresholds.
- So that we can stop putting air quotes around “new”, we mean all Monkey Towers added after the Engineer: Dartling Gunner, Beast Handler, and Mermonkey…
- All unlocked towers through older methods will stay unlocked, so there is no need to worry about having to unlock towers again.
- Any Trial quests for Monkey Towers will now be optional tutorials and will allow you to play with the Tower before accessing it, but they will not permanently access the tower for you
- Each of the 3 new Monkey Towers also comes with their own optional IAP available for players who want to start using the new Towers straight away or who like custom items. Each IAP immediately accesses the Tower, unlocks all upgrades through tier 5, and also comes with valuable exclusive items: a tier 5 insta for each path (5xx, x5x, and xx5), a custom profile banner, and a custom avatar themed around the related Tower
Map Unlock System
- Our launch map unlock system became a constraint on design and players with requirements trickling down from the number of Beginner maps, so this system has been replaced with a much simpler ‘Full Category Unlocks’ system.
- Each category (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert) of maps will now require a total number of map wins from any other category in order to be permanently unlocked for all current and future maps within that category.
- Intermediate: Unlocked after 5 unique map wins
- Advanced: Unlocked after 12 unique map wins
- Expert: Unlocked after 20 unique map wins
Unfortunately, we were not able to implement Retry Last Round for Co-op CHIMPS for this update. We have been trying to get this in for 44 but have run into unexpected problems that cannot be resolved in time, so we hope to have this ready for update 45.

Mod Users

Many players forget to remove mods when swapping back to their main account or otherwise intentionally use mods on their main accounts. This often leaves behind invisible data traces that can build up and cause conflicts and/or even brick accounts.

Previously, we attempted to prevent this account damage by turning off account saving whenever mods were detected, but as the mods themselves disable this feature anyway we’ve changed this to a warning prompt with the options: Close Game, Continue (at your own risk), or Logout.
Please create an alternate account if you wish to try out any mods. If you come across this warning when you are not intending to use any, then immediately close the game and confirm that you have disabled them.

Bug Fixes & General Changes

Track arrows now get destroyed immediately when the round starts
Resolved a crash that could occur when loading into a co-op game
Cleaned up the hitbox size of the ‘Named Monkeys’ section of player profiles
Resolved a crash that could occur when attempting to load remote data
Resolved a number of aspect ratio related UI issues
Added a scrolling indicator to the Heroes menu
Team Banner sizes adjusted to remove stretching
Resolved a number of edge case crashes
Development fixes, just for us, nothing behind the curtain

Event changes

Improved visuals of Dreadbloon’s ‘dash’ in Boss Rush
Resolved an issue where immediately entering the Social menu after launching the game could fail to load the CT Event and Co-op Daily Challenge
Odysseys should no longer break when the same map is set multiple islands in a row
Time Attack tiles in CT no longer reward Monkey Money unless the tile is captured
Resolved a number of visual issues with Boss Shields/Damage states in Boss Rush
Resolved an issue where CT could display some relics as available for teams that don’t actually have access to them
Bosses should no longer display bugged visuals when spawning the same tier again after being destroyed
Resolved Boss Rush sometimes showing incorrect error messages when failing to load
Boss Events may now have different scoring types set for normal compared to elite
Teams menu should now only show a boss in the background if Boss Rush is active
Lych’s healing should no longer be able to overflow
Improved art in Dreadblon & Lych’s 3D boss menus
Improved water ripple visuals in the Teams menu

Map Specific changes

Fixed some incorrect blocking on Glacial Trail
Resolved an issue where Ravine's Sword could be refreshed
Castle Revenge default music track changed to 'Jazz Theme'
Sulfur Springs default music track changed to 'Tribes and Tribulations'
Changes made to tower height level on Flooded Valley after flooding the valley

Tower Specific Fixes

Tack Shooter

5xx meteor explosion no longer hits camo without detection

Ice Monkey

Bloons Frozen by Snowstorm or Absolute Zero should now function correctly when distracted or knocked back

Sniper Monkey

5xx Cripple Moab explosion no longer hits camo without detection

Monkey Sub

5xx Energizer should now correctly display a buff icon on x4x Beast Handlers

Monkey Buccaneer

5xx Carrier Flagship planes should no longer occasionally pause attacks for no reason
xx4 Favoured Trades now has a buff icon for its Sellback Rate discount

Heli Pilot

013 MOAB Shove should again correctly increase pushback amount

Druid

4xx Ball Lightning can no longer freeze White Bloons

Spike Factory

042 Spike Storm should now react to the current track on Workshop, rather than the one that was active when its last upgrade was purchased

Engineer

Placing a Master Builder turret at the very bottom of the screen should no longer crash

Hero Specific Fixes

Adora

Adora can no longer Blood Sacrifice an Arctic Wind that is supporting her on water

Sauda

Lv3 Leaping Sword should no longer fail to target when intended target is popped early

Geraldo

Changing ownership in co-op after a player has left the game should no longer prevent Geraldo from placing Rabbits
Resolved a number of issues with buffs not being correctly removed when upgrading Dart Monkeys with a Worn Hero’s Cape

Rosalia

Lv3 Scatter Missile should no longer target the workshop base if the intended target is completely destroyed at the same time as the ability is fired
Price buff icons should no longer disappear without enough cash to buy an upgrade
Lv7 Ace/Heli Flight Speed buff now correctly expires
Lv10 Kinetic Charge should no longer sometimes immediately explode when activated

Platform Specific fixes

[PC] The ‘Reset Cooldowns’ sandbox button should now correctly restore Geraldo’s item stock when activated from the hotkey
[MacOS] Fixes to a softlock that could occur for some on players launching the game
[Arcade] Resolved issues with displaying correct Game Center player name
[Netflix] Resolved a blank screen appearing before the Netflix splash screen on launch
[Netflix] Game title should no longer fail to localize when device language changes to a non-English supported language

Balance Changes

This update we have kept to a sweep of only simpler balance changes in order to focus more directly on the development of other big features including Mermonkey and content coming in future updates, and although simple we still have quite a lot to go through. We are slowly dialing back some of the more excessive power creep while keeping a mix of mostly positive feeling changes as well, in order to pull back the top end of power while raising up the lower end as well over time.

Tower Balance

Dart Monkey

Spike-o-pult’s piercing power in the extreme conditions is too cost effective compared to the Juggernaut so we’re tweaking these slightly to keep Juggernaut as a proper upgrade in Races. Crossbow Master is shuffling around to a higher damage point that should work more effectively with top path’s pierce

3xx Spike-o-pult pierce decreased from 22 > 18
4xx Juggernaut pierce increased from 50 > 60
xx5 Crossbow Master attack cooldown increased from 0.16 > 0.24
xx5 Crossbow Master damage increased from 6 > 8
xx5 Crossbow Master crit damage increased from 50 > 80
105 Crossbow Master pierce increased from 14 > 16
205 Crossbow Master pierce increased from 21 > 24

Boomerang Monkey

The MOAB Press top crosspath is the ‘better’ crosspath for most cases due to having more than double the pierce as well as a stronger knockback amount on a tower that most effectively uses high pierce, as this is one of the better support towers in the game we are reducing that superior crosspath without nerfing the lesser one to even this more.

104 MOAB Press crosspath pierce benefit reduced from 100 > 60
204 MOAB Press crosspath pierce benefit reduced from 220 > 120
Carries up to higher tiers

Bomb Shooter

Base bomb price is now also lowering to allow more starting combinations to utilize it, this reduced price is moving up only into MOAB Assassin. MOAB Eliminator has solidified itself quite a strong position so price is increasing here, however as it still appears lacking Bomb Blitz which still is swapping with that cheaper price point. For a crosspathing trial we’re removing the limits on Frags buffability & also giving more of a range boost to Extra Range.

Bomb Shooter price reduced from $525 > 375
1xx Bigger Bombs price reduced from $350 > 250
3xx Really Big Bombs pierce increased from 60 > 80
x4x MOAB Assassin price increased from $3100 > 3350
x5x MOAB Eliminator price increased from $25,500 > $28,000
xx1 Extra Range bonus range increased from 7 > 12
xx2 Frag Bombs damage is now uncapped
xx2 Frag Bombs pierce is now uncapped
xx5 Bomb Blitz price reduced from $28,000 > $25,500

Tack Shooter

For a tower that functions best close-up anyway increasing range has questionable viability, Tack Shooter’s middle crosspath has always struggled due to this so we’ve decided to try out a more considerable pierce increase.

x2x Super Range Tacks now increases pierce by 1 > 3
x3x Blade Shooter pierce unchanged
420 Ring of Fire pierce unchanged

Ice Monkey

Adding a lesser MOAB-Benefit to Icicles, leading into the stronger T5 Anti-MOAB capability

xx4 Icicles deals bonus damage to MOABs +8

Glue Gunner

Majority of Glue Gunner projectile eject points have been moved around to improve accuracy of their attacks. As the 20s active window for Glue Storm was a very important breakpoint for it to hit in the higher rounds; we've restored this duration but instead increased the ability cooldown by a larger amount as more gameplay strategy and synergies can be used to counter long durations. Small price increase for Relentless Glue as it’s just actually good now lol.

Glue Gunner projectile eject points moved for most upgrades
x5x Glue Storm ability duration increased from 15 > 20s
x5x Glue Storm ability cooldown increased from 30 > 40s
xx4 Relentless Glue price increased from $3400 > $4000

Sniper Monkey

Geraldo was the main power carry for Bouncing Bullet so performance has continued to drop with Geraldo synergies being less powerful now, but the save-up window from shrapnel into bouncing bullet has always been an annoying one so we’re happy to lower the price further to make this easier. Supply Drop’s crate value is staying matched to the total cost of the upgrade so it benefits from this small price buff as well.

x3x Bouncing Bullet price reduced from $2400 > $2100
x4x Supply Drop cash per crate reduced from $1200 > $1100

Monkey Sub

Given the long cooldown we want it to feel impactful in freeplay for longer, so all of the Nautic Siege Core’s ability boss damage is being converted to basic damage & bonuses to MOAB.

Sub Paragon ability explosion damage increased 50,000 > 60,000
Sub Paragon ability explosion boss damage reduced 10,000 > 0
Sub Paragon ability aftershock damage increased 10,000 > 15,000
Sub Paragon ability aftershock boss damage reduced 5000 > 0
Sub Paragon ability fallout damage to MOABs increased 60 > 90
Sub Paragon ability fallout boss damage reduced 30 > 0

Monkey Buccaneer

Aircraft Carrier has been performing well above its price point so this is being increased, though it is also worth noting due to a bug fix in Flagship’s AI also in this update we expect it may overall still be improved. Middle Buccaneer has had mixed feedback with much disappointment that the focus of its balance changes haven’t been improvements for the ability, given this path has again lost considerable power we want to look more on both of those aspects this time.

4xx Aircraft carrier price increased from $6900 > $8000
x3x Cannonship grape damage increased from 2 > 3
x3x Cannonship cannonball damage increased from 1 > 2
x4x Monkey Pirates grape damage increased from 3 > 5
x4x Monkey Pirates ability cooldown reduced from 50 > 45s
x5x Pirate Lord ability number of hooks increased from 3 > 6
x5x Pirate Lord ability hooks required for ZOMG increased from 2 > 3

Monkey Ace

Even with the higher cost Goliath Doomship continues to pull too far ahead of other paragons, given that this is mostly an ability based paragon we’ve decided to nerf this ability greatly but also somewhat counterbalance this change for standard freeplay by converting all of the boss bonus on the ability into basic damage similar to our changes for the Sub Paragon.

Carpet Bomb cooldown increased from 50 > 60s
Carpet Bomb regular damage increased from 20,000 > 30,000
Carpet Bomb bonus damage to bosses reduced from 20,000 > 0

Heli Pilot

Players have noticed the life crate has more collection radius than the cash crate, and that this causes problems for some strategies / challenges as you don’t always want to increase lives, so these radius have been matched. Special Poperations struggles to fit into competitive strategies due to it serving a different purpose than the T4, so the cooldown of the Support Chinook ability at T5 is now being greatly reduced in order to continue building on what is good about the T4 even for strategies that may not need the Marine specifically.

x4x Support Chinook lives crate collection radius from 100 > 50
x5x Special Poperations, Redeploy ability cooldown reduced from 45 > 15s

Mortar Monkey

We’ve been happily taking our time on this since it's about time Mortar gets some spotlight, but the middle path has been overperforming far too much for a while now so it is about time to start pushing it up to a more reasonable price range for the power it brings.

x4x Artillery Battery price increased from $5,900 > $6500
x5x Pop and Awe price increased from $32,000 > 38,000

Dartling Gunner

402’s pierce increase is extremely hard to justify over fire rate which increases single target & grouped damage at the same time, so we’re giving it more pierce than it knows what to do with. Faster Swivel while a nice quality of life doesn’t add any power so also ends up difficult to justify on its own, we don’t expect this will change that too much but even faster swiveling should be much nicer for when you do desperately need that accuracy.

402 Plasma Accelerator pierce increased from 75 > 150
xx1 Faster Swivel turn rate increased from 360 > 440

Super Monkey

Robo monkey still holds its own for too long, easily working into its also very powerful Tech Terror upgrade.

x3x Robo Monkey pierce reduced from 6 > 5
Carries up to higher tiers

Alchemist

Permabrew itself granting a range increase was annoying to prepare for and also somewhat hurt what was a very strong synergy for Chinook, so we’re taking away this bonus range but giving enough of a cash difference so that it can pair up with synergies like the Support Chinook more easily.

5xx Permanent Brew price reduced from $60000 > $48000
5xx Permanent Brew range reduced from 65 > 45

Druid

Druid of the Storm’s base pierce is being reduced to put it more in line with other group Bloon stalling supports, however at T5 MOAB-Class pierce penalties are being reduced and damage increased to reduce how much it slows down the game when purchased. Druid of the Jungle’s vine attack rate has always been possible to be influenced by buffs though the time taken to destroy any larger Bloons is simply longer than the base cooldown so this hasn’t been relevant to it, we’ve now given it a normal attack cooldown to the point where the 031 crosspath should make some difference when grabbing larger Bloons.

3xx Druid of the Storm pierce reduced from 30 > 24
5xx Superstorm ‘Super Storm’ BFB pierce penalty reduced from 19 > 14
5xx Superstorm ‘Super Storm’ ZOMG pierce penalty reduced from 49 > 44
5xx Superstorm ‘Super Storm’ damage increased from 12 > 120
x3x Druid of the Jungle vine attack now has a rate of 2.6s

Spike Factory

Spike Factory is currently overperforming on every path, and as it also happens to have one very dominant crosspath choice we’ve opted to nerf that crosspath as an overall nerf to every path. As Spike Storm stands out even moreso than the other paths it is the only one seeing an additional price increase ontop of this.

x2x Even Faster Production rate bonus reduced from 30% > 25%
x4x Spike Storm price increased from $5000 > $6000

Beast Handler

Now that the many T1-3 upgrade price changes are settling we’re looking at the next tier up. It does feel deserving of a fairly high level of power compared to other dps towers however the T-rex currently offers too much for the cost so its damage is decreasing. Condor’s value spiked quite high after being hit by buffs at the same time as big buffs to Golden Eagle so its price is being appropriately adjusted upwards, however the total pierce cost for grabbing DDTs is also being halved as previously the pierce penalty it had against DDTs was being shared with the ZOMG cost and was unintentionally nerfed along with that change.

x4x Tyrannosaurus Rex damage reduced from 30 > 26
x4x Tyrannosaurus Rex damage range reduced from 60 > 52
xx4 Giant Condor price increased from $7800 > $9000
xx4 Giant Condor Ceramic pierce penalty increased from 0 > 1
xx4 Giant Condor DDT pierce penalty reduced from 59 > 29

Hero Balance

Obyn Greenfoot

As Druid of the Storm’s own unbuffed power has jumped up so much now we don’t feel that Obyn needs to grant quite so high a buff to it anymore so this is being reduced.

Lv9 Tornado attack cooldown buff reduced from 30% > 25%

Captain Churchill

Churchill has propped another pillow ontop of their booster seat and is ready to do some serious damage. We felt the speed of the main cannon attack didn’t fit well for ‘a literal tank’, so main cannon damage is going up at all levels at the cost of attack speed. However even though the dps mostly averages out to something similar, this does make him more effective at utilizing his pierce and with the slower main attack the machine gun more properly performs its job of catching the faster Bloons in that downtime, so its damage is being buffed at all levels to be more helpful at this.

Lv1 Cannon damage increased from 1 > 3
Lv7 Cannon damage increased from 2 > 6
Lv12 Cannon damage increased from 3 > 9
Lv14 Cannon damage increased from 4 > 12
Lv15 Cannon fortified damage bonus increased from 1 > 3
Lv18 Cannon damage increased from 5 > 15
Lv1 Cannon attack delay increased from 0.7 > 1.8
Lv8 Cannon attack delay increased from 0.5 > 1.5
Lv16 Cannon attack delay increased from 0.3 > 0.9
Lv3 Armour Piercing Shells ability bonus to MOAB and Ceramic increased from 3 > 9
Lv13 Armour Piercing Shells bonus to MOAB and Ceramic increased from 7 > 21
Lv17 Armour Piercing Shells bonus to MOAB and Ceramic increased from 11 > 33
Lv13 Armour Piercing Shells flat bonus damage increased from 1 > 3
Lv17 Armour Piercing Shells flat bonus damage increased from 2 > 6
Lv7 machine-gun damage increased from 1 > 2
Lv12 machine-gun damage increased from 1 > 3
Lv14 machine-gun damage increased from 2 > 4
Lv18 machine-gun damage increased from 2 > 5

Adora

With hero power creeping up for a while now, Adora has been sitting ahead of most all other heroes due to her high level 20 potential so this max level power is being cut back

Lv20 Ball of Light duration reduced from 20 > 15s

Sauda

Yea we see what everybody has been doing… Sauda having such a huge MOAB-Class bonus right from lv3 was silly, and this has been lowered

Lv3 Leaping Sword bonus damage to MOAB reduced 80 > 60
Carries up through higher tiers

Psi

To give Psi’s Lv10 more breathing room we’ve moved some of the max blowback distance down into the minimum so it stays the same on average, but now with more time before the first Bloons start to get back to the track and reach your defense again.

Lv10 Psionic Scream knockback minimum increased from 50 > 100
Lv10 Psionic Scream knockback maximum decreased from 300 > 250

Geraldo

Geraldo has pushed the heroes up into a whole new level of power, and tales are being sung of his ability to dodge nerfs blindfolded, but we are cracking down on some of his interactions with a little bit of QoL consistency being added back in the case of creepy idol.

Lv1 Creepy Idol max stock increased from 2 > 4
Lv1 Creepy Idol rounds duration reduced from 4 > 2
Lv1 Creepy Idol rounds replenish interval reduced from 4 > 3
Lv3 Camo Potion Duration reduced from 10 > 5
Lv14 Camo Potion Duration reduced from 15 > 10
Lv4 Tube of Amaz-o-glue stock replenish interval increased from 3 > 4
Lv6 Worn Hero Cape price increased from $1500 > $1750
Lv13 Shooty Turret damage reduced from 6 > 5
Level 18 Genie Bottle bonus moab damage reduced from 5 > 0

Corvus

Corvus has taken some time off over the last update and his studies have now paid off! Corvus now has a greatly reduced time taken to reach max level, and his Spiritual Attunement buff has improved to grant much more power when he is not spending mana.

XP level up requirements lowered to match Ezili’s medium curve
Lv11 Spiritual Attunement maximum buff increased from 1.8x > 2.5x

Rosalia

We’re not jumping on any immediate changes that are too large for our latest hero, however we did want to include some quality of life tweaks & grenade damage to ceramics is increasing across the board as players noted few reasons to pick it over lasers, Aircraft efficiency’s benefit is increasing, and Scatter Missiles cooldown is being reduced so that it can meet some more common breakpoints.

Lv2 Grenade now deals bonus to Ceramic +1
Lv15 main grenade bonus to ceramic increased from 4 > 5
Lv15 grenade subclusters bonus to ceramic increased from 2 > 3
Lv3 Scatter Missile cooldown reduced from 60 > 45s
Lv16 Scatter Missile cooldown reduced from 45 > 30s
Lv6 Aircraft Efficiency price reduction increased from 5% > 10%
Lv10 Kinetic Charge deploy time reduced from 2 > 1s
Lv10 Kinetic Charge flight speed increased from 250 > 350

Event / Boss / Relic / Knowledge

Cross the Streams is a fun mechanic but largely forgotten about, so we want to see how it plays with more of a power bump.

Cross the Streams MK pierce increased from 5 > 8
Cross the Streams MK damage increased from 1 > 3

Easter Eggs

It’s important to us that map specific easter eggs aren’t an optimal primary dps carry, especially before they have become public knowledge as this would feel very unfair for events, since if the best way to win is built into the map that would likely become considered the ‘only’ real way to play that map. But now that these are relatively public knowledge and given the ‘entry cost’ is so high we have decided to improve upon these ones. If you didn’t know these existed, seek ye!

Dark Dungeons

Statue’s Ball

Price considerably reduced

Encrypted

Spooky aftermath

Quite a lot more powerful

Looking Backward

We often talk about what’s coming next, but we consistently look at what Ninja Kiwi has done in the past. There’s more backstory to Mermonkey than we could share in the topline notes, so for those of you who read to the end, this is for you.

The ‘Mermonkey’ name has been brought up over and over by different players over the years, and the community had already voted u/Cyliia’s Mermonkey banner into the game, so we knew there was energy around this idea!
Design-wise, we have no interest in adding a new tower that only borrows or reskins functionality. We always want to try big ideas and push the limits of our systems and strategies. That said, while Beast Handler had a complex design and we are happy with what we managed to ship with, it’s hard to ignore the challenging functionality and ‘out of place’ comments voiced by some players.
Mermonkey attempts to strike a balance between new and familiar. We’re sticking to our guns, avoiding that generic reskin feeling and having each path with strong potential to add interaction and strategic depth to the game in its own way, but we also feel that we have learned a lesson from our Beast Handler experiences and have created something new that fits well with existing gameplay and where we want it to go.
Given how many players have weighed in on how a Mermonkey could work, it was especially challenging to make a design live up to those ideas yet still feel special and surprising. We hope you find that Mermonkey freshens up gameplay in several fun ways, both by itself and in combos with other Monkeys!

Looking Forward

We’re well past the half-way mark for 2024 and feeling good about delivering the things we wanted to by this point, including getting an entire new Monkey Tower across the line on schedule and about our planning for the rest of the year. We continue to balance awesome new content alongside creativity systems that expand players’ ability to build their own gameplay, share it with the community, and share revenue through Accolades. Part of the good feels is that we’ve been able to do this work while keeping the team energy positive, being update-focused but avoiding crunch, and keeping the company stable when industry news is full of studio layoffs and closures. So please read these notes as a mid-year sincere thank you to all of our amazingly supportive players, community members, content creators, and player creators. We hope you love update 44 and are excited for what’s ahead.

Update 45
- Blastapopoulos returns! Expect this Boss to have abilities you might recall from Bloons Monkey City but with a massive set of BTD6 upgrades that will challenge tower selection and placement in entirely new ways. Goal is to have Blastie enabled for Boss Rush Events, too!
- Game Editor: we’ve been working on this since Update 42, and while it is a mountain of work, we are still pushing to have the first slice of tools releasing in 45.0. We’re starting with tools focused on classic arcade play, and we already have proof of concept versions of Bloons Super Monkey and Floaty Bloon working. Fundamental game object refactoring underpins this single player-character gameplay and opens up a crazy variety of player control, setting the stage for further expansion.
- Store Changes: we haven’t updated the Store since launch, and the longer list of items is getting confusing, especially for new players. We’ll categorize items, surface new offerings more prominently, and unwrap purchases with a bit more flair.
Update 46
- Tack Shooter Paragon! We’ve always known there’s a Monkey inside each one, and now we’ll all get to see what the Paragon-in-a-can can do!
- Legends - this is our answer to player questions and business questions around BTD7. We’re not ready to build BTD7 as we see incredible technical and creative potential inside BTD6 without disrupting our awesome community. With Legends, our plan is to build challenging new content that’s worthy of being in a new game and offer it inside BTD6 for a reasonable price. PC and console players will recognize that these are DLCs (downloadable content), which are standard ways to expand content on those platforms, so we are bringing this approach across to mobile as well. Overall we’ll continue to focus updates on a huge variety of content that players get at no additional cost, but we do need to keep IAPs and DLCs coming into the game to support all of our development. Hopefully tempting, this first Legends will be a BTD rogue-lite adventure.
PlayStation - you heard it here first: PlayStation is now live as a PS4 game (fully playable on PS5)! Huge screen BTD, streamlined controller mapping, new co-op screens, and 4 player couch coop is now ready for you. Grab some friends and play!
Console Overall
- PlayStation content is at parity with Xbox for cross-play, (update 32) but we already have an update well in motion! Our first console priority continues to be this content update - adding more recent maps, Heroes & skins, and other content that doesn’t require bespoke controller mapping.
- We can’t reasonably expect Switch to ship this year because of the delays on PlayStation but we will begin work on it following the console content update.
Next Year - stay tuned for the Update 46 notes when we’ll share some of our plans for 2025!

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Have you missed out on a Plushie or two? Now's your chance to get a Bloons TD 6 Plush from a previous campaign.

We've also got two updated Plushies. Second Edition versions of the classic Dart Monkey and the formidable yet friendly Jumbo MOAB.

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Druid, Fortified Camo Regrow Red Bloon, and Pat Jumbo Plush - Available Now!

28 May

Our latest collaboration with Makeship has arrived!

A Red Regrow Camo Fortified Bloon. Not particularly dangerous but at least it's got heart!

A happy Druid. So much potential, so much relax.

And a Pat Jumbo Plush. How else would we accurately depict the biggest monkey around?

These are only available for a limited time so order now to avoid disappointment!

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Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 43.0

28 May

Update: Bloons TD 6 v43.0 - Update Notes!

Available now for most platforms please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up.

Update Video: https://youtu.be/97SrSDiSNfk

Key New Features

New Event, Boss Rush!
- We are so psyched to release this event! We have heard the many requests for more Team activities, and after testing some functionality in Quests, we are so happy to release a very different way to play as a Team. Thank you for your feedback and patience, and we truly hope you enjoy!
- Band together with allies to defend against the powerful Boss Rush threatening your Team. With multiple Boss threats looming on the horizon, you and your Team must work together to defend nearby islands from a variety of invaders!
- To assist in pushing back the threat players are outfitted with Relic Knowledge to leverage and a number of Revive Shields that will recover you from 0 lives! But be careful, Revives are limited and each time one is triggered the Boss will rush closer to the exit.
- These Bosses cannot be destroyed alone, so when defending any island your goal is to deal as much damage as you possibly can before they make it past. When your Team reaches enough combined total damage the island is successfully defended and you can progress to the next island, with a new Boss to defend against!
- Between islands some monkey types must stay behind to defend, but additional Relic Knowledge will be acquired to assist in the next challenge.
- Defend 5 islands, each with a fast paced Boss challenge against different Bosses out of the initial 3 available: Bloonarius, Dreadbloon & Phayze. (Vortex & Lych to be coming at a later date!).
- Immediately after defending an island, all Team members can claim the island rewards!
- For launch we are releasing with a pure Team focus without competitive leaderboards. This allows us to review balance and get feedback from players before making changes in future updates. Boss Rush has evolved to be much bigger than the minigame-like concept it was initially planned to be and we look forward to seeing all of your Teams defend their islands together!
- The Event Timer shows when the next Boss Rush will start - less than a day after launch.
New Code Redemption System
- This new system will allow us to create gift packs that can be redeemed by anyone with the code for free in-game rewards, so keep an eye out for any codes we may share (or hide…) in future!
- Due to privacy requirements, certain platforms won’t be able to enter the codes directly in the game. Instead, you will need to visit a Ninja Kiwi website where you can log in to your LiNK account and redeem the code.

New Awesome

New Hero Rosalia! (responds to Lia for short!)
- Jetpack Monkey joins the team! Try out Rosalia right away in her new trial quest! Rosalia is built to be a strong ‘set and forget’ hero who also happens to work well with a techbot. The ability to swap weapon to handle her own weaknesses exists for people who wish to play her as their sole DPS, but the power of both her weapons is balanced to scale up together at a fair rate so there's no reason not to pick a preferred weapon forever, and build the rest of your towers to cover any weakness left.
- Rosalia freely jumps around her large workshop area, attacking faster the more Bloons are nearby while swapping between a powerful single target laser & bouncing cluster grenades to deal with different threats!
- Enhanced special attacks for the 10th shot fired on either weapon, showering Bloons in a fog of explosions, or Shocking and pushing them back with powerful Plasma blasts
- Reduce all upgrade costs for Monkey Ace & Heli Pilot, plus one other friend!
- Lv3 Scatter Missile ability, to clean up Bloons with a barrage of powerful stuns
- Lv7 Hover ANYWHERE and gain the Flight Boost ability to temporarily pursue Bloons everywhere around the track and temporarily boost the flight speed of Aces & Helis
- Lv10 Kinetic Charge ability, which sticks MOAB-class Bloons with a charge that explodes after a short duration and amplifies this explosion based on the amount of damage that hits the target before the charge explodes. Focus fire!
- You could try this code: ROSALIAROCKS
New Beginner Map Tinkerton
- Explore Rosalia’s workshop and help defend it against Bloon incursion! Who knew orange juice had so many uses?
New Quests
- Tinkerer’s Tutorial: discover Rosalia’s strengths and weaknesses
- A Strange Bloonomaly: Dr. Monkey wants your help investigating some unusual Bloons
New Trophy Store Items
- Heroes: Obyn Wolf Dance placement animation for Standard Obyn
- Monkeys: Boomer ‘Roo pet for the Boomerang Monkey
- Bloons: BAD Scarab skin
- Game & UI: Boomer and ‘Roo profile banner, Distinguished Gentlemonkey avatar
Limited Time Trophy Store Item
- Druid of the Rainbow avatar
New CT Team Store items
- Icons: Battle Monkey Icon
- Frames: Boss Rush Clouds Frame

Game Changes / Additions

Map Editor Beach items
- It may be getting colder in New Zealand, but we know it’s getting back to beach weather for most of you!
- Beach water path x1
- Areas x2
- Stamps x3
- Props x22
Map Editor ‘full path’ settings to modify how entire paths work
- Set paths to be alternating, sequential, or a specific pattern
Map Editor ‘path node’ settings to modify small sections within a path
- Invulnerable MOABs: MOABs will not be targetable until the next node
- Invulnerable Bloons: Bloons will not be targetable until the next node
- All Bloon Speed: Speed modified by a set multiplier until the next node
- Scale Bloon: Bloons will increase in visual size until the next node
- Scale MOAB: MOABs will increase in visual size until the next node
FPS is no longer capped by default, instead a 60 FPS limit can be enabled from the screen resolution menu

Bug Fixes & General Changes

Endurance Roundset used in the Phayze One quest has been extended from 100 to 205 rounds, and now has naturally spawning Camo Bloons added
David Vs Goliath achievement now works in Boss Challenge
Resolved a crash that could occur when logging out
Resolved a crash that could occur when exiting out of the received accolades menu too quickly after entering
Resolved a case in which ‘login required’ could incorrectly display on arcade builds
Unlocking a new hero should always select that new hero
Resolved some UI overlap issues within Map Editor
Resolved some minor visual issues with quests forcing hero level ups
Map Editor vfx should no longer sometimes become locked to the player’s selection and block interaction / clicking on other items
Resolved an issue that could sometimes fail to load the ‘My Teams’ button
Resolved an issue where tower outlines would incorrectly misalign from the tower
Improved resolution of the default App icon
Restarting a game in the Content Browser should no longer render that run invalid for the ‘first winner’ slot
The ‘messages’ page is now loaded by default when interacting with the My Team button
Income modifiers used in challenge rules should correctly apply to all sources of income

Event bug fixes

Team island props should once again animate when interacted with
Game should no longer crash when in the Odyssey scene as the event ends

Map Specific Fixes

Protect the Yacht quest map’s Boss Spawn Point art has been corrected
Protect the Yacht quest map should no longer use the #ouch odyssey statue

Tower Specific Fixes

Tack Shooter

5xx Inferno Ring’s fire aura is now visually disabled when VFX slider is set to 0%

Ice Monkey

x3x Arctic Wind ice aura is now visually disabled when VFX slider is set to 0%

Glue Gunner

x4x Glue Gunner can no longer debuff Dreadbloon in Primary Immune phase

Monkey Sub

x5x Pre-Emptive Strike now works on Castle’s Revenge
Resolved a crash that could occur when building a sub paragon as Vortex spawns.
3xx+ Monkey Sub aura no longer shrinks with the VFX slider, but is disabled at 0%

Monkey Buccaneer

4xx Aircraft Carrier planes now have camo restored when Polyphemus Eye is opened
xx4 Favored Trades no longer increases the sell value of towers in CHIMPS above $0

Heli Pilot

Swapping to Lock in Place while moving should no longer visually jam the rotation

Super Monkey

Resolved a hypersonic automatic blink teleport attacks issue that never happened in a live build but is kinda fun to talk about, and honestly less hype than i’m making it out to sound anyway.

Hero Specific Fixes

Gwendolin

Lv4 Gwendolin's Heat It Up buff no longer fails to apply if the attack runs out of pierce
Resolved a buggy visual that could occur when Heat It Up attacks too fast

Etienne

Etienne should no longer consume the ‘Box of Monkey’ Relic Knowledge

Geraldo

Resolved a rare crash that could occur when using hotkeys
Resolved an issue where Geraldo’s skin displayed the wrong portrait when viewing the full upgrades page

Corvus

Resolved a crash that could occur when sold at Lv2

Platform Specific fixes

[Vision Pro] Gentlemonkey Geraldo skin should now show on the Monkey Tray

Balance Changes
The combination of towers you are able to pass round 1 with can change quite a lot in any overall strategy, especially for more restrictive game modes, so for this update we have made an effort to open up new starter combinations with improvements to a number of initial placement towers.[/h1]

Tower Balance
Dart Monkey

While we have been working to increase this niche with many new maps, Juggernaut’s functions sub-optimally for the majority of current maps in the game as the knockback doesn’t scale well without good rebound opportunities; to help with this we’re increasing their knockback force slightly with even more emphasis on the less-favored crosspath. We are slightly reducing the cost of Super Monkey Fan Club to overall improve the value of taking multiple to maintain higher uptime

4xx Juggernaut Knockback duration increased 0.1s > 0.15
402 Juggernaut Knockback to heavy targets 1.5 > 2.25
402 Juggernaut Knockback to light targets 3 > 4.5
x4x Super Monkey Fan Club price reduced $8000 > 7500

Boomerang Monkey

Boomerang base price is being slightly reduced, already a decent start in many cases though this seemed enough to make slight game start changes and price it differently to other towers. The main attack for MOAB Domination has been scaled up as overall it is a good upgrade but the pierce on this main attack was previously unchanged from the T3. Glaive Lord’s main thrown attacks will now be able to bounce back again and hit the same target multiple times, this can be a very powerful effect so there is a cooldown on how frequently any single Bloon can be re-targeted.

Boomerang Monkey price reduced $325 > 315
xx5 Moab Domination Main projectile pierce increased 18 > 54
205 Moab Domination Main projectile pierce increased 27 > 81
5xx Glaive Lord main attack can bounce back to the same target: cooldown 0.6s

Bomb Shooter

Bloon Crush does its job locking down all movement in an area, but we feel it could see more damage to reduce the stall time without the balance really changing much. Bomb Blitz was recently refitted to a cheaper price range while proportionally keeping a similar power level for the cost, however seeing it now in this spot we feel keeping higher damage will give it the edge it needs to feel more impactful than spamming Recursives.

5xx Bloon Crush damage increased 12 > 24
502 Bloon Crush Frags damage increased 12 > 24
502 Bloon Crush Frags bonus damage to ceramic 12 > 0
xx5 Bomb Blitz damage increased 3 > 5

Tack Shooter

Tack is a very powerful base tower technically, but it is unable to achieve high uptime of that potential power in many early rounds, so some base cost is moving into the cheaper xx1 and xx2 upgrades to make it easier for other towers to start alongside the tack. Additionally, while we’ve held out on this change as there are strong use cases in prior upgrades, Blade Maelstrom lacks the single target punch to last late in Modern Bloons. While it is designed as a high pierce cleanup of low tier Bloons we want to try shifting some pierce to single target damage to feel good for longer.

Tack shooter price reduced $280 > 260
xx1 More Tacks price increased $100 > 110
xx2 Even More Tacks price increased $100 > 110
x4x Blade Maelstrom damage increased 1 > 2
x4x Blade Maelstrom pierce reduced from 200 > 100
x5x Super Maelstrom damage unchanged
x5x Super Maelstrom pierce reduced 500 > 300

Glue Gunner

Increased duration has limited use on upgrades that completely destroy targets anyway, so a better crosspath benefit is being added onto 401 glue puddles. Bloon Solver’s pierce is being reduced as it is over-overkill for how many Bloons you realistically see at once, but this reduction should not be noticed for most players. Glue Splatter stands out as weirdly expensive for T2, and is rarely even needed so we’re significantly cutting its price to bring it down to a more affordable range with less pierce, we hope this should make it more worth considering for splatter coverage over piercing. Now that Glue Storm is extremely good for damage type & debuff support we’re removing the bonus speed reduction that should otherwise require xx2 crosspath and lowering the duration of the Glue Storm. New Relentless Glue finally offers something quite powerful so cost is slightly increasing.

401 Stickier Glue allows track puddles to last +1 round
5xx The Bloon Solver pierce reduced 5 > 4
x2x Glue Splatter price reduced $1450 > 970
x2x Glue Splatter pierce buff reduced 3 > 2
x5x Glue Storm ability ‘storm’ duration reduced 20s > 15
x5x Glue Storm ability glue slow 75% > 50%
052 Glue Storm ability glue slow 90% > 75%
xx4 Relentless Glue price increased 3000 > 3400

Sniper Monkey

Lower tier Shrapnel crosspathing balance doesn’t feel great currently, so the damage crosspath benefits at T1 & T2 are improving. Even with the high damage per shot, Cripple MOAB still has low value outside of debuff capability, we feel that these shots pack enough of a punch now that they should do a little collateral damage - so lets do it! (we’ve also increased shrapnel pierce at this tier to not tip crosspath balance too far to one side).

120 Shrapnel Shot damage increased from 1 > 2
220 Shrapnel Shot damage increased from 2 > 3
320 Shrapnel Shot damage unchanged (4)
520 Cripple MOAB’s Shrapnel Shot pierce increased from 2 > 3
5xx Cripple MOAB now damages Bloons around the main target
- Radius 8
- Pierce 10
- Damage 28

Monkey Sub

Bloontonium Reactor’s unsubmerged damage is increasing to encourage unsubmerged possibilities. The bonus to Lead on Reactor currently doesn't apply to T5, so this bonus is being carried up and improved along with a small price reduction to Energizer as strategies using it have fallen somewhat in viability. Nautic Siege Core’s hero buff is being improved as currently this is an under-utilized part of the tower.

4xx Bloontonium Reactor dart & airburst damage 1 > 2
520 Energizer gains bonus damage to Lead +5 when submerged
502 Energizer price reduced $32,000 > 31,000
Paragon Hero attack cooldown increase reduced 1.5x > 1.3
Paragon Hero damage multiplier increased 4x > 5x

Monkey Buccaneer

While buccaneer is technically already a very good starter tower for maps that happen to have ideal spots allowing it to attack in both directions we feel this situation isn’t common enough that the tower should be priced around that expectation - this reduced cost is added back to top and bottom T3 upgrades as they do not need the buff. As the paragon has exceptionally powerful scaling mechanics as well as being a paragon that continues to produce cash the XP Unlock requirement is increasing, this increase will not affect players who have already unlocked it.

Buccaneer price reduced $500 > 400
300 Destroyer price increased 2950 > 3050
003 Merchantman price increased 2300 > 2400
Navarch unlock XP increased 500,000 > 750,000

Monkey Ace

Minor catchup changes to some parts have fallen out of line slightly due to balance changes for other parts of the Ace.

x1x Exploding Pineapple attack cooldown reduced 1.7s > 1.6s
xx5 Flying Fortress radial dart damage increased from 3 > 6

Ace - Goliath Doomship

A lot of stats shuffled around here; this should keep the power level roughly similar overall but with proportionally more of that power coming from the seeking attacks, and less from micro aiming the faster firing frontal gun.

Seeking Radials projectile count increased 4 > 8
Seeking Radials damage increased 200 > 300
Seeking Radials boss bonus increased 200 > 300
Non-seeking Radials projectile count reduced 16 > 12
Non-seeking Radials damage increased 200 > 300
Non-seeking Radials boss bonus increased 200 > 300
Frontal Gun damage reduced 300 > 150
Frontal Gun boss bonus reduced 300 > 150

Heli Pilot

Overall Comanche cleanup and stats shuffle; with the goal of improving baseline non-buffed performance and making it less demanding of Geraldo’s Pickle for high damage.

x5x Special Poperations Marine can now be sold in CHIMPS
xx4 Comanche Defense mini's attack rate 0.151848 > 0.228
xx5 Comanche Commander mini heli dart damage increased 2 > 3
xx4 Comanche Defense mini's missile damage 1 > 4
xx4 Comanche Defense mini's missile pierce 80 > 60
xx4 Comanche Defense mini's missile ceramic bonus increased 1 > 2
xx4 Comanche Defense mini's missile moab bonus removed 2 > 0
xx5 Comanche Commander mini's missile ceramic bonus increased 1 > 10
xx5 Comanche Commander mini's missile moab bonus removed 8 > 0

Mortar Monkey

Artillery Battery use has really exploded (!) and over the past few updates it has been sitting fairly steady in a great spot, the current power level feels good but we don’t want to create too big of a gap from the T3 yet so only a very slight cost increase. Blooncineration’s 025 crosspath currently works so much better with external buffs so we're tweaking the 205 crosspath to feel better in some situations.

x4x Artillery Battery price increased $5500 > 5900
105 Blooncineration walls of fire pierce increased 25 > 36
205 Blooncineration walls of fire damage increased 2 > 3

Wizard Monkey

Wizard has a weaker base tower so the base cost is going down in exchange for a small price increase to the cost to value ratio for the effective Arcane Mastery. As Fireball becomes very forgotten at higher tiers and is hard to even see at Dragon’s Breath, we’re improving the crosspath and adding even more projectiles at T3 for wider explosive coverage. As Shimmer is the slowest de-camo in the game it is important that it not miss when it does trigger, so pierce is greatly increased. Wizard Lord Phoenix’s Wall of Fire hasn’t had any meaningful upgrade progression, so its damage is being increased. Magus is one of the more in-depth Paragons to use effectively so having it as one of the cheapest to unlock didn't feel right, the unlock XP requirements for this and Ninja are being swapped around.

Wizard price reduced $375 > 325
3xx Arcane Mastery price increased $1300 > 1400
xx3 Shimmer pierce increased 200 > 500
210 Fireball crosspathed damage increased 1 > 2
x3x Dragon's Breath fireball projectile count increased 1 > 3
x3x Dragon's Breath fireball damage reduced 9 > 3
x3x Dragon's Breath pierce reduced 4 > 3
x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix wall of fire attack damage 3 > 5
x5x Dragon's Breath fireball damage reduced from 27 > 9
Wizard Paragon unlock cost increased from 500,000 > 1,000,000

Super Monkey

Super Monkey projectiles already travel most the map length so that total distance is being reduced and adding back via the range-focused middle crosspath. The recent Robo/Tech Terror nerfs had a larger impact on the Anti-Bloon, so it is seeing a larger compensatory price reduction. Legend of the Night’s special passive ability is being failsafe limited to 2 activations per round, per tower.

Supermonkey projectile speed reduced 280 > 200
x2x Epic Range projectile speed bonus 25% > 75% (remains 350)
x5x The Anti-Bloon upgrade cost reduced from $80,000 > 70,000
xx5 Legend of the Night ability max uses per round: 2

Ninja Monkey

While a great early game option, Ninja generally struggles with dominant crosspathing choices and also has relatively poor base tower value. Without going into every single change, T3s onward remain relatively unchanged with a lot of prices below T3 being moved around from less favorable crosspaths into better/higher tier upgrades. Ninja Paragon is very simple to use so unlock XP requirements for this and Wizard Paragon are swapping around so Ninja is the faster unlock. This increase will not affect players who have already unlocked it.

Ninja Monkey price reduced $500 > 400
Ninja Monkey attack cooldown reduced from 0.7 > 0.62
1xx Ninja Monkey attack cooldown reduced 38% > 30 (all attacks)
xx2 Caltrops attack cooldown reduced 4.4 > 3.9
xx4 Sticky Bomb attack cooldown reduced 5 > 4.5
1xx Ninja Discipline price increased $300 > 350
3xx Double Shot price increased $850 > 900
x1x Distraction price reduced $350 > 250
x2x Counter Espionage price reduced $500 > 400
x3x Shinobi Tactics price increased $900 > 1200
xx1 Seeking Shuriken price increased $250 > 300
xx2 Caltrops price increased $400 > 450
Ninja Paragon unlock cost reduced 1,000,000 > 500,000

Druid

Passive life generation is being removed in favor of the active ability being the only source of life generation, this allows druid-focus strategies to no longer ‘accidentally’ heal their Vengeance buffs away. Heart of Vengeance itself has been allowed to remain overpowered for a long time since life loss is not always an option in different challenges/modes, but with newer competitive modes being added over time that do allow for this mechanic to be, overindulged, shall we say, it feels due for substantial rebalance.

x4x Jungle's Bounty now generates 1 life per ability cast
x4x Jungle's Bounty no longer passively generates 1 life per round
x5x Spirit of the Forest no longer passively generates lives per round
xx2 Heart of Vengeance lost lives maximum rate bonus reduced 100% > 50

Banana Farm

Monkey Wall Street’s cost is being increased, but in return its special bonuses have been improved with more life generation and much more range for Banana collection.

xx5 Monkey Wall Street price increased $60,000 > 70,000
xx5 Monkey Wall Street range increased 60 > 75
xx5 Monkey Wall Street lives per round increased 10 > 15

Spike Factory

Spike Storm is now exceptionally strong so the ability cooldown is increasing a small amount along with the T5 cost. This comes along with a crosspath rebalance granting more 042 lifespan. Long Life Spikes can start creating a nice buildup of spikes in advance but most of the time feels fairly meh as a stepping stone into Deadly Spikes, a little price here is being shifted up to improve standalone upgrade value.

x4x Spike Storm cooldown increased 45s > 50
x4x Spike Storm ability spikes minimum duration reduced 10s > 9
x4x Spike Storm ability spikes maximum duration reduced 13s > 11
041 Spike Storm duration bonus for ability spikes increased 50% > 100%
x5x Spike Storm ability spikes duration remains at 18-22s
x5x Carpet of Spikes price increased $40,000 > 42,000
xx3 Long Life Spikes price reduced $1400 > 1300
xx4 Deadly Spikes price increased $3500 > 3600

Monkey Village

Primary Expertise’s own attack is unreliable due partly to low bounce distance, so this is being increased. Base level Monkeyopolis continues to over perform, so the baseline cash generation is reducing.

5xx Primary Expertise bounce distance increased 50 > 90
xx5 Monkeyopolis base cash amount reduced $1250 > 1000

Engineer

While better than many options, base Engineer still takes a lot of available starting cash so the cost is reduced slightly and being moved back up into Cleansing Foam & Bloontrap; also with a reduction to Double Gun’s price to reflect the lower value of the base tower. Sentry placements are slightly changing to improve their reliability, and will now spawn closer to the track depending on how much range the sentry has. Sentry Champion, while strong with them, is lacking without high buff support so we’re trying out an increase to the sentry damage on it.

Engineer price reduced $400 > 350
1xx Sentries now spawn within 20% of their range to the track
5xx Sentry Champagne damage increased from 2 > 3
x3x Cleansing Foam price increased $850 > 900
x4x Overclock foam pierce 10 > 15
xx3 Double Gun price reduced $500 > 450
xx4 Bloontrap price increased $3500 > 3600

Beast Handler

In going over our large list of price changes for Beast Handler’s lower tiers in 42 this change was received very positively, however we did not realize that in making this change we killed off all chance of dual-beast handlers being used as a round 1 starting option for under $650 in hard modes – So we gotta do that math all over again and convert it for difficulty, painful 😀 All T1 beast prices changed to allow 110 & 101 beast handler combos to be placed for under $650 in hard mode, all T2 & T3 prices shifted around to keep these same cost ratios.

1xx Piranha price reduced 170 > 160
2xx Barracutie price reduced 850 > 810
3xx Great White price reduced 2075 > 2010
x1x Microraptor price reduced 195 > 175
x2x Adasaurus price reduced 890 > 830
x3x Velociraptor price reduced 2170 > 2065
xx1 Gyrfalcon price reduced 210 > 190
xx2 Horned Owl price reduced 940 > 860
xx3 Golden Eagle price reduced 3150 > 2120

Orca is very strong currently but Great White doesn’t do so much outside of max merge MOAB Takedowns, so damage is increasing to improve these non-maxed situations.

3xx Great White damage increased from 8 > 12
3xx Great White damage range increased from 16 > 24

Similar to Sentries, Beast spawn placement will now scale closer to the track based on how much range the beast has.

1xx Piranha now spawn within 20% of their range to the track
x1x Microraptor now spawn within 30% of their range to the track

Golden Eagle has stood out more than Condor against MOABs which has felt very wrong, last update it was nerfed against MOABs and now we are playing with the pierce & penalties to improve Golden Eagle further against non-MOAB-Class targets and for Condor more help with lower MOABs.

xx3 Golden Eagle pierce increased from 15 > 30
xx3 Golden Eagle pierce range increased from 30 > 60
xx3 Golden Eagle MOAB pierce penalty increased from 44 > 1089
xx3 Golden Eagle attack cooldown range from 0.28679625 > 0.28
xx4 Condor Unchanged by any above changes
xx4 Giant Condor ceramic penalty reduced from 1 > 0
xx4 Giant Condor BFB penalty reduced from 44 > 29

We’re slightly reducing beast reposition cooldown as the tiny range leaves movement very tight, which is especially painful for Microraptor path given the low range.

Beast Handler move cooldown reduced from 3s > 2

Hero Balance

Quincy

Quincy’s Rapid Shot starts with an extremely short duration that slowly increases over levels, the difference between min and max is huge but it doesn’t feel too impactfully increased at any point through the leveling up process, so we are increasing the base duration and instead moving the buff up to max duration all into his Lv13 which currently doesn’t do much.

Quincy no longer gains 0.5s Rapid Shot duration per level
Lv3 Rapid Shot duration increased 3.5s > 8
Lv13 now also increases Rapid Shot duration 8.5s > 12

Gwendolin

Gwendolin’s Heat it Up was recently reworked to allow for much more frequent triggering from attacks, however the 4.5s internal cooldown still limits it from being scaled up far so that internal cooldown is now also being reduced. Additionally, Heat it Up’s bonus buff to damage against Lead targets has been improved slightly so we can get more out of that niche.

Lv4 Heat it Up minimum delay reduced from 4.5s > 1.5s
Lv17 Heat it Up buff to Lead type increased from +1 > 2

Obyn Greenfoot

Obyn isn’t necessarily the best support for every type of Druid to reach its highest DPS, but with his more easy reliable design it feels appropriate for him to solve Druid’s biggest weaknesses in a more laid back approach with:

Lv8 ‘Nature’s Wrath’ additionally grants camo detection to Druids in radius

Benjamin

Benjamin’s Cyber Security and Skimming levels have been swapped around so that the early game skimming cash snowball doesn’t come quite so soon, and Cyber Security can come in earlier where it will make a bigger impact proportionally to the lives being lost.

Swap the levels for Lv6 Cyber Security and Lv4 skimming

Admiral Brickell

We’ll probably regret this, but the nerf made people very sad, and that is not a life goal 😢

Lv18 Mega Mine cooldown 45s > 40

Etienne

Etienne's drones are prone to missing due to very low projectile speed, this speed is increasing a fair amount to help with this as drones already have an inability to directionally aim well.

Lv1 Faster projectile speed for all drones 150 > 250

Psi

Purple Popping is underwhelming with how late it comes online, so this is swapping around with level 11’s slightly faster pop speed.

Lv11 (Faster Popping) & Lv13 (Purple Popping) swapped

Geraldo

Geraldo has been far too powerful for a while and all-round nerfs are coming to many outstanding aspects, however in return a little quality of life is coming with some more forgiving stock capacities and much more flexible Fertilizer; with the % benefit being reduced in return for improved replenish rate, maximum stock and the ability to now work on all Banana Farm types.

Lv2 Action Figure price reduced $700 > 650
Lv6 Worn Cape restock rate reduced 5 > 7
Lv6 Worn Cape cape max stock increased 2 > 3
Lv7 Blade Trap max stock increased 3 > 4
Lv9 Fertilizer cash bonus reduced 25% > 20
Lv9 Fertilizer max stock increased 2 > 4
Lv9 Fertilizer rounds to replenish reduced 5 > 3
Lv9 Fertilizer will now work on all Banana Farms
Lv13 Shooty Turret v2 damage reduced 7 > 6
Lv8 Gerry’s Fire duration reduced 10r > 5
Lv16 Gerry’s Fire v2 duration remains 10r
Lv11 Jar of Pickles bonus to fortified removed 1 > 0
Lv16 Jar of Pickles bonus to fortified reduced 2 > 1

Corvus

As Corvus’s power is still considerably top-heavy the mid game performance is being improved with buffs to underused spells, but also top-end power of his 2 most powerful level 20 spells is being reduced to lessen the pressure to ‘need’ to get this far.

Lv1 Spear pierce increased from 3 > 4
Lv3 Soul harvest cooldown 35s > 40s
Lv5 Aggression initial mana cost 80 > 50
Lv7 Malevolence tick rate 0.5s > 0.3s
Lv14 Malevolence damage 3 > 5
Lv20 Might damage 400 > 300
Lv20 Overload damage 4000 > 3000

Relics

Minor tweaks to Heartless which feels it has no competitive edge over most other Relics & Monkey Boost which overperforms on all available tiles.

Heartless now ‘disables’ Regrow Bloons: Regrow rate increased 150% > 10,050%
Monkey Boost granted uses of the Monkey Boost power reduced 3 > 2

Some Relics required more functional changes. As more range is situational and sometimes detrimental Going the Distance has been merged with Durable Shots to also grant increased Lifespan, Durable Shots now instead increases the pierce of all towers. As ‘Popping White Bloons’ is also far too situational Deep Heat now also grants Frozen Bloon popping and improves the duration of Freezes.

Going the Distance now also provides Lifespan +30%
Durable Shots no longer grants increased lifespan
Durable Shots now grants towers increased pierce +25%
Deep Heat now also allows all attacks to pop 'Frozen'
Deep Heat now also grants Freezes longer duration +10%
Deep Heat now also allows Freezes to last extra layers +1

Boss Bloons

Bloonarius

This is really just for fun, bringing increased variety of Bleed Bloons from higher tier Bloonarius

Elite Tier 4: Bleed Bloons from 12 MOABs > 8 MOABs + 2 BFBs
Elite Tier 5: Bleed Bloons from 8 DDTs > 6 DDTs + 2 fort ZOMGs

Dreadbloon

Rock Bloons in the higher tiers of Normal Dreadbloon are very outscaled, and so their health values are being increased.

Normal Tier 4: Rock Bloon HP increased 5000 > 9000
Normal Tier 5: Rock Bloon HP increased 12000 > 22500

Phayze

In Elite mode Phayze’s speed bonus while shielded is being reduced by 5% across the board as it felt just a little too quick.

Elite Tier 1 shielded speed bonus reduced from 50% > 45%
Elite Tier 2 shielded speed bonus reduced from 55% > 50%
Elite Tier 3 shielded speed bonus reduced from 60% > 55%
Elite Tier 4 shielded speed bonus reduced from 65% > 60%
Elite Tier 5 shielded speed bonus reduced from 70% > 65%

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MrBeast Promo - On Now!

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Until June 10, all players that open Bloons TD 6 will receive a free pack containing 2000 MM, 3x Super Monkey Storms, 3x Monkey Boosts, 3x Cash Drops, and 3x Insta Monkeys: tier 4 Dart Monkeys of each path. You will also get an exclusive avatar for your profile!

Then try the new quest: Protect The Yacht. A challenge quest on a special map, where you need to protect the yacht.

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Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 42.0

7 Apr

Update: Bloons TD 6 v42.0 - Update Notes!

Update Video: https://youtu.be/Kg5tHguhsGg

Key New Features

Accolades and Player Revenue Share
- We are so excited to bring the success of BTD6 back to players and share revenue with players who are helping in making the game more awesomer!
- The system allows players to gift player creators with animating Accolades that will follow their map or challenge wherever they are seen in game.
- The initial 12 Accolades express a variety of positive reactions to inspiring content, such as Smart, Tricky, Beautiful, Fun, Masterpiece, and more!
- At launch and for the foreseeable future we’ll be sharing 35% of the Accolade purchase price with the player creator, which means 50% if they are also a content creator and you are using their Creator Code. This is an industry leading share amount, which we aim to maintain; after the platform fees, Ninja Kiwi and Nexus.gg have the smallest shares of these purchases, as they truly are meant for the player creators.
- Revenue share is available on platforms with IAP systems. We’ve tried to make Accolades receivable wherever possible, but we must restrict this to players who register with Nexus according to their terms and to players on non-subscription platforms. We are looking for solutions for subscription players but this will take significant time.

New Awesome

New Hero Skin, the Gentlemonkey Gadgeteer Geraldo! Geraldo was a challenge to find the time for a skin with so much more custom art required compared to our normal hero roster but he’s finally, fancily here
New Map, Castle Revenge! Longstanding fans of BTD will notice something familiar here. We love bringing our classic content forward and not just because we are nostalgic saps but because they have great play value. This one hails from both BTD5 and BTD Battles, but with a dynamic flourish that we hope gears you up to earn all of the badges!
New Quests
- Multi-stage story based Bloonarius quest - prepare to be slimed!
- Royal Tank Academy trial: discover Captain Churchill’s strengths and abilities
- One Stop Pop Shop trial: discover Geraldo’s strengths and abilities
- Phayze One Experiment Quest: if you enjoyed the Party Bloon Quest we have another infinite scaling Quest Boss to challenge you. This version includes unique round mechanics tied to the Boss.
New Trophy Store Items
- Heroes: Corvus Owl pet - darkly adorbs!
- Monkeys: Engineer Palbot pet - mechanically adorbs!
- Bloons: Nightcap Bloons decal
- Game & UI: CatEzili avatar, Boss Phayze avatar, Super Chill Banner
New CT Team Store items
- Base Props: Junk Tower
Big Map Editor Additions!
- Implemented a Removable/Interactable state for props through the props UI; this can be done by linking together the new Interactable Area to different special props, available from the Areas Menu (at the bottom) and the new Interactable prop menu with the Hammer icon
- Added new category for Interactable props (look for the Hammer icon tab); these add animating flavor when Interactable layers are removed, but they can also be used as props (but with only limited animation)
- New items: Responding to the many requests for cityscape elements, we took existing assets from maps like high finance alongside some new stuff to make building the city of your dreams a possibility! The construction supervisor just radioed in saying there are over 60 new construction props with which to build, plus new Paths, Stamps, and Terrain to match!

Game Changes / Additions

Map search is now also available for co-op lobby map selection
Map ‘Gizmos’ are now influenced by Challenge Editor 'removable cost rate'
- This includes items such as: Workshop Conveyor Belt / Track Extensions, Dark Dungeons Statue & the Polyphemus Eye mechanic.
While we like giving players lots to choose from as early as possible, we’ve seen feedback that the current hero unlock flow can feel overwhelming with all Monkey Money unlockable heroes becoming available immediately at account level 10. To address this, we are spacing this period out with a few different groupings of Hero unlocks and holding back some of the more complex Heroes until account level 35.
- Level 15 heroes: Churchill, Benjamin, Pat Fusty
- Level 25 heroes: Sauda, Ezili, Etienne, Adora
- Level 35 heroes: Psi, Brickell, Geraldo, Corvus
Added 'cash spent' to the Victory Screen summary
PC players request to have many niche things hotkeyed, but unfortunately these are often too niche for us to take up valuable real estate with limited keyboard space. To enable players to take this into their own hands we have added a new advanced section of default unbound hotkeys to cover more heavily situational use cases. None of these hotkeys will work by default, but if you find any to sound useful they can be manually bound in order to enable them. We are interested in hearing your feedback on more things that make sense to fit in this list.
Cycling upgrades menu in challenges now skips past towers that are banned (yay!)
Individual stages of Quests can now be replayed without resetting the entire Quest

Bug Fixes & General Changes

[Map Editor] Duplicate prop button no longer allows users to exceed the prop limit
[Map Editor] In progress maps at prop limit no longer allow +1 prop after loading saves
[Map Editor] Erasing stamps now correctly restores the ‘prop limit’ spent on them
[Map Editor] Resolved small graphical errors with asphalt path
Ranked boss and Battlemode boss challenge should now have the same starting cash
Resolved audio being triggered the background screens in some other places in the UI
Resolved an issue in co-op sometimes visually displaying other player towers as upgradable to you
Resolved some overlay display issues that occurs in some resolutions
Paragon cost slider no longer exceeds limits in least cash challenges
‘Retry Last Round’ should no longer be available on the first round of quests
When users ‘Confirm’ entry of a Creator Code, the game should now keep the dialog open until server communications have either confirmed or rejected the creator code
Resolved a number of softlocks that could occur
Resolved a number of UI issues
Swapped some frame based timings to real world timings so the game can run smoother on specific refresh rates that were not easily divisible by 20. Our lead coder assured me this sentence made sense.

Event bug fixes

Players should not be able to modify Odyssey crew after sharing to the Content Browser
Fixed inconsistency in the ‘Upgrade Restricted’ red stripe through tower upgrades

Map Specific Fixes

Resolved an issue where Blons could be played through co-op
Resolved a crash that could occur loading some saves on Glacial Trail
Lych should no longer drain the Frozen status on Glacial Trail - sheesh!

Tower Specific Fixes

Dart Monkey

4xx Juggernaut’s bonus damage to fortified targets now works across crosspaths

Ice Monkey

Resolved another arctic wind crash (polyphemus style)

Sniper Monkey

Resolved a case in which the Supply Drop ability could fail to trigger other Supply Drops

Monkey Sub

Resolved an issue where Retry Last Round removed the submerge option from Sub
Flanking Maneuvers MK now applies to the Sub Paragon
Submerge toggle now has cooldown art

Heli Pilot

MOAB Shove no longer ignores the children of the target it is shoving

Ninja Monkey

xx3 Flash Bomb should no longer fail to stun targets if damage is externally buffed

Druid

x5x Spirit of the Forest Track Vines now do not display over invincible/covered track sections (like Dark Castle trees, or on the new Castles Revenge map)

Hero Specific Fixes

Quincy

Resolved an issue with the Quincy Spec Ops Drop In placement animation

Geraldo

Resolved an issue where Geraldo’s subtowers would be immune to freeze on Glacial Trail after Geraldo is sold
Geraldo’s Lv16 Nail Mine should now save correctly
Geraldo should now restock inventory correctly when leveled immediately from 18 to 20

Corvus

Corvus - Optimisation Pass improving general performance

Platform Specific fixes

[Android] - Resolved a game freeze occurring on devices with a Exynos Chipset - this was affecting a number of players, so hope you are now back up and popping!
[PC] Alternate send round hotkey (Race Hotkey) now sends round in Sandbox
[PC] Mentioned in more detail above; new advanced hotkeys section
[Vision Pro] Resolved a number of various crash fixes around different parts of the game

Balance Changes

Tower Balance

Many towers in the game still have low tier Damage Over Time mechanics that have not been scaled at all or particularly well, so this update we went over some of these cases to bring forward more Damage Over Time use.

Dart Monkey

Players have found Spike-o-pult’s lower range to sometimes cause issues leading into Juggernaut due to very specific placement being required to aim the attack on this path and how that aiming changes along with increased range, while quite a niche problem we feel it’s fair enough to match the range across these upgrades to address this concern.

3xx Spike-o-pult range increased from 32 > 36.8
4xx Juggernaut range remains unchanged at 36.8

Bomb Shooter

In efforts to bring more player control the MOAB Assassin ability will now follow tower target priority to determine its targets, although note it will still never target non-moabs. As a mainly AoE path Fortification will always be a powerful weakness unless the bonus was to be far more than double effectiveness, we feel in hindsight it was never a good idea to try and counter that weakness on this path, instead we’re going to lean more into the raw cheap AoE damage output that this path specializes in and players can deal with fortification on their own with the leftover cash from this price reduction.

x4x MOAB Assassin ability follows target priority instead of Strong
xx5 Bomb Blitz price reduced from $35,000 > $28,000
xx5 Bomb Blitz attack cooldown reduced from 1.5s > 1
xx5 Bomb Blitz damage reduced from 6 > 3
xx5 Bomb Blitz no longer deals bonus damage to Fortified

Ice Monkey

Embrittlement is cheap and balanced by its limited range and rate making it difficult to apply to very many targets with reliable frequency, however Super Brittle is far more expensive but still faces these same struggles. Feels fair for the cost to increase its attack rate further.

5xx Super Brittle attack cooldown reduced from 2.16s > 1.8s

Sniper Monkey

Bouncing Bullets still feels decent enough at some points, however we feel it’s too difficult to save up into to justify the current power level. We’re shuffling prices to allow this upgrade to come online sooner while keeping the path at the same value for higher tiers as these still offer additional income support that they are balanced around. Additionally we think the T5 sniper changes for improving sniper farming QoL was a step in the right direction, however we want to take it further and work this way directly from the T4 Supply Drop.

x3x Bouncing Bullet price reduced from $2,800 > $2,400
x4x Supply Drop price increased from $7,200 > $7,600
x4x Supply Drop now triggers other supply drops when one is used

Monkey Sub

As currently nothing else ever happens with the main attack beyond T2 on the top path we want to give Energizer a little more power here to promote reason to un-submerge, although knowing how well this attack scales in terms of buffability we’re starting off with a careful amount to not take this too far.

5xx Energizer main dart attack damage increased from 1 > 5
502 Energizer airburst attack damage increased from 1 > 5

Monkey Buccaneer

General improvements made to higher tier DoT applications for Buccaneer. The pierce from bottom crosspath seems to be better after destroyer currently, so this also acts as some crosspath balancing for Flagship. Middle path buccaneer continues to attack with its initial 1 damage projectile that never gets upgraded but the Cannons are very much intended to be a ‘replacement’ upgrade to this main attack, so we are finally disabling that dart along with improving the damage of grapes for the T3 & T4 on this path so the lower tiers can save into Pirate Lord better.

420 Aircraft Carrier damage over time increased from 2 > 4
520 Carrier Flagship damage over time increased from 2 > 9
x3x Cannon Ship main dart attack disabled
x3x Cannon Ship Grape damage increased from 1 > 2
x4x Monkey Pirates Grape damage increased from 2 > 3
x4x Monkey Pirates damage over time increased from 2 > 4
024 Flavoured Trades damage over time increased from 2 > 4
025 Trade Empire damage over time increased from 2 > 9

Heli Pilot

The blowback rate of Special Poperations is being increased to reflect the previous changes upgrading downdraft to support chinook and bring up more lategame value in the support capabilities of this path. Comanche Commander’s value soared recently with buffs along with the recent Geraldo subtowers bugfix which solidified it as a strong lategame dps, and given the powerful synergies right now the current price feels far too low for what is now a solid pick for any map; we feel this may not be enough of a nerf but wish to hold off until v43 for further changes to be considered with this synergy.

x5x Special Poperations downdraft attack cooldown reduced from 0.15 > 0.075
xx5 Comanche Commander price increased from $32,000 > $35,000

Mortar Monkey

We’re feeling quite happy about the overall state of mortar compared to how it has fared in the past, however the Burny Stuff crosspath is still very hard to justify on middle mortar so along with other DoT attacks in this update we’re trying out a slight increase to damage over time across this path.

032 Heavy Shells burn damage over time increased from 1 > 2
042 Artillery Battery burn damage over time increased from 1 > 3
052 Pop & Awe burn damage over time increased from 1 > 5

Wizard Monkey

Wizard is feeling effective across the board with nice use cases across each path so there was hesitation about making changes. Nevertheless we felt there were important changes here with DoT in mind, so there’s now new scaling on the Dragon’s Breath attack improving damage over time on higher upgrades and a for-fun change to the projectile count assisting in spreading flames to many targets. We understand we are affecting current balance but it’s done in the name of fun and for Wizard fans.

x4x Dragon’s breath damage over time increased from 1 > 2
x4x Dragon’s breath attack now ‘fires’ (hehe) 2 projectiles
x4x Dragon’s breath attack pierce reduced from 4 > 3
x4x Summon Phoenix ability projectile speed increased from 350 > 450
x5x WLP’s Dragon’s Breath attack damage over time increased 1 > 10
x5x WLP’s Dragon’s Breath attack now fires 3 projectiles
x5x WLP’s Dragon’s Breath attack damage reduced from 6 > 2
x5x WLP’s Dragon’s Breath attack pierce reduced from 50 > 15

Super Monkey

We lowered the price of Tech Terrors to keep them ‘unchanged’ with Robo’s recent balancing, however in hindsight Robo is still too powerful and Tech Terrors themselves were already good enough that they really should’ve taken the hit along with Robo. Instead as they have risen in power even more, both of these upgrades are being properly nerfed now with a compensatory price buff to Anti-Bloon instead (hopefully not groundhogging to where Anti-Bloon becomes far too powerful and more changes are needed in v43)

x3x Robo Monkey price increased from $7,000 > $7,500
x4x Tech Terror no longer slightly increases attack speed
x4x Tech Terror price increased from $18,000 > $25,000
x5x Anti Bloon price reduced $90,000 > $80,000

Ninja Monkey

Bottom path Ninja never does anything with the main shuriken projectile past the xx1 upgrade leaving it inconsequential on higher tiers. Given that Flash Bombs can feel lacking without heavy support, we’re trying out a change that makes Flash Bomb Ninja scale better with attack speed and pierce as something of a combo-attacker. Overall, this feels pretty ‘right’ for ninjas and more importantly it’s cool and sometimes that’s what matters most.

xx3 Flash Bomb main Shuriken attack deals more to stunned Bloons +3
xx4 Sticky Bomb main Shuriken attack deals more to stickied targets +3
xx4 Sticky Bomb damage reduced from 500 > 450
xx5 Master Bomber main Shuriken attack deals more to stunned Bloons +9
xx5 Master Bomber main Shuriken attack deals more to stickied targets +9
Paragon main Shuriken attack deals more to stunned Bloons +15
Paragon main Shuriken attack deals more to stickied targets +15

Alchemist

As groups of Berserker Brew seem proportionally too good compared to upgrading to Stronger Stimulant in some cases, we are slightly shifting price down into T3, keeping the total price of Stronger Stimulant the same but adding up more if choosing to spam T3 Brews. Back to improving damage over time, Lead to Gold currently deals a large damage increase to Leads but only on the main impact of the attack. I’m sure you can see where we’re going with this.

3xx Berserker Brew price increased from $1,250 > $1,300
4xx Stronger Stimulant price reduced from $3,000 > $2,950
xx3 main attack damage over time now also deals bonus to Leads +9

Druid

Same as the sniper, group triggering these spam abilities that require no timing other than ‘as soon as possible once off cooldown’ feels like a good quality of life change for those wishing to play alternate farming methods.

x4x Jungle’s Bounty now triggers all available Jungle’s Bounty abilities when one is used

Banana Farm

Banana Central’s current level of buffability for a single tower makes it quite exceptional of a cash producer right now so it is increasing in cost. Players have made it clear that for Boss Events the current cooldown on IMF Loan regularly puts it into a position where timing is frustratingly tight in order to maximize profits when farming with banks, so we’ve agreed to loosen up on this cooldown to help with this issue. Finally, the Banana Salvage crosspath is also being increased in cost to reflect the current huge value granted to it with sellback metas where it is used.

5xx Banana Central price increased from $100,000 > $115,000
x4x IMF Loan cooldown reduced from 90 > 85s
xx2 Banana Salvage cost increased $200 > $400
xx3 Marketplace cost reduced from $2,900 > $2,700

Beast Handler

When first creating Beast Handler we balanced the T1-3 upgrade costs with a goal of creating a decision point between spending free playable space to save on cash or spending more cash to save on playable space. However in practice though some people have come on board with spending their playable space as a resource for more power; actual interest is much more divided between maximizing cost efficiency of these merges or simply using different towers. Given that spam of lower tier handlers already comes with the advantage of allowing them to be repositioned over a larger area, we’re changing our approach with a full cost rebalance across most T1-3 upgrades for exactly equal cost per point of merged beast power, instead leaving the nuance around understanding higher value merges & footprint advantage to depend more on discounts.

1xx Piranha price increased from $160 > $170
2xx Barracuda price reduced from $875 > $850
3xx Great White Shark price reduced from $2,950 > $2,075
x2x Adasaurus price reduced from $945 > $890
x3x Velociraptor price reduced from $2,600 > $2,170
xx1 Gyrfalcon price increased from $190 > $210
xx2 Horned Owl price reduced from $960 > $940
xx3 Golden Eagle moab penalty increased from 29 > 44
xx3 Golden Eagle damage reduced 2 > 1
xx3 Golden Eagle damage range reduced 4 > 2
xx4 Condor damage remains 2
xx4 Condor damage range remains 4

Hero Balance

Quincy

Quincy’s Storm of Arrows feels a little more like a downpour of wet pool noodles once Super Ceramics & especially their Fortified variants come around. However instead of making a drowning Quincy skin to pair with Lifegurd Brickell we are granting a large bonus to Ceramic Damage for the ability around the point you’ll need to deal with these.

Lv18 Storm of Arrows deals bonus damage to Ceramics +18
Lv20 Storm of Arrows deals bonus damage to Ceramics +24

Gwendolin

Looking back over her kit, we noticed that we’ve never improved the actual attack itself for Gwen’s Heat it Up. Allowing her to be juiced up with high attack speed in order to spam these supercharged bursts of damage sounds fun and cool, so while noting that this will also increase the uptime of her buff we’re removing the limiter on her Heat it Up rate and pumping up its damage tenfold.

Lv4 Heat it Up now has pierce of 100
Gwen’s attack rate levels (Lv12, 15, 18) no longer reduce Heat it Up frequency
Lv12 Heat it Up damage increased from 3 > 10
Lv15 Heat it Up damage increased from 3 > 20
Lv18 Heat it Up damage increased from 3 > 30

Obyn Greenfoot

Playing on ‘growth’ with his nature theme we’re allowing Obyn to sustain a long-lasting army of Brambles across multiple rounds, and we are doubling Obyn’s buff to Jungle Druid range to hopefully make it significant enough to enable druids much more power for a mid-late farming setup.

Lv3 Brambles cooldown reduced from 35 > 30
Lv3 Brambles round duration increased from 1 > 5
Lv5 Range buff for x3x druids increased from 20% > 40%

Benjamin

Benjamin’s value as a farming hero is majorly tied to how much more efficient he is at Lv1 than base farms and at a lower cost, whereas his higher levels of cash generation are quite inconsequential. Given this along with his early game snowball being a general balance concern, we're lowering the base cash generation to not be so overwhelming but also pumping up cash generation into his higher levels so he brings a lot more to the table later.

Lv1 cash generation reduced from $100 > $80
Lv2 cash generation reduced from $150 > $120
Lv8 cash generation remains unchanged at $250
Lv11 cash generation increased from $300 > $1,000
Lv15 cash generation increased from $500 > $2,500
Lv17 cash generation increased from $800 > $5,000

Ezili

Ezili has a good anti-camo build, however as her totem cant be used in CHIMPS and her main attack never upgrades to de-camo DDTs this means she is never able to de-camo DDTs when playing in CHIMPS even though her totem easily counters them in the base game. While we don’t have any concerns with some heroes being relegated more as ‘non-chimps’ heroes, we felt no reason not to solve this simple issue by allowing her main attack to upgrade to counter DDTs as well.

Lv16 Main attack can now de-camo DDTs

Corvus

Haste is a combo-only spell with little value on its own without buffing other spells - so we’re making it much cheaper to realistically combo more often without being such a large mana drain. Storm is a little too effective both at AoE cleanup and also single target, so the rate is being reduced slightly

Lv3 Haste cost reduced from 75 > 50
Lv8 Storm attack cooldown increased from 0.1 > 0.12

Higher levels of Corvus feel they have far too much mana which leads to difficult to maintain and less interesting spam of spells, so we’re lowering the range in which Spiritual Balance grants bonus mana recovery

Lv8 Corvus mana gain curve decay start point 40% > 25%
Lv8 Corvus mana gain curve decay end point 80% > 65%

The cycle of Recovery into Nourishment over and over to maximize XP earnings while never having corvus attack ruins the fun of actually playing this hero, so we’re ending this.

Recovery spell no longer applies cooldown reduction to Nourishment

We wanted to avoid passive stall mana gain with Corvus initially, however in order to grant a little bit more leeway for co-op splits or general bad placement, we are allowing Corvus to passively generate a little mana over time while Bloons are spawning but reducing the mana gain from popping Haunted Bloons

Lv1 Haunt mana gain per layer reduced from 8 > 5
Lv1 Corvus passively recovers 1mana /s so long as Bloons are spawning

Relic Knowledge Balance

We’ve included slight tweaks for a few relic knowledge. Many of these relics are having slight number increases as they seem to have low value across all tile types (relics with low usage only on some tile types have not received changes as they still have value in niche cases), Restoration maximum barrier size is being reduced slightly as it too effectively acts as a complete camo counter in many cases while also providing benefits against non-camo Bloons.

Hero Boost: Hero XP multiplier increased from 15% > 20%
Broken Heart: Bonus damage to Regrow increased from 1 > 2
Going the Distance: Range bonus increased from 20% > 30%
Fortifried: Bonus damage to fortified increased from 1 > 2
Restoration: Maximum barrier reduced from 200 > 150

We want to do more with relics in the future, though these can be trickier to do much balance with without adding additional functionality as most of them only modify a single variable, but feedback here is appreciated.

If you’ve made it this far we just wanted to mention that the issues mentioned at the top of the bug fixes allowing players to exceed the prop limit didn’t actually allow you to submit the map afterwards, so hope no one read through that then tried to submit some crazy map before updating!

Looking Forward

We’ve deepened team discussions about all of the topics raised in the Update 41 notes, and we’re so pleased to make player revenue sharing a reality this early in the year. As always, we’ll be looking for your feedback on the player creator system, and we’ll be thinking about improvements in platform coverage and any specific additions needed to better support the Game Editor and mods system later in the year. We continue to enjoy the experimental and story-related elements of the Quests system, and it’s generating more room for great ideas all across the team to quickly turn into live gameplay. We have one surprise that will happen before Update 43, so we’ll talk about that once live, and until then here is the latest news on key content that we’ve already mentioned.
- PlayStation: We were on track for early April launch but did have issues to fix from our submission, so we are back in the pipe and very close to launch. Stay tuned to Ninja Kiwi social feeds, where we’ll post the date as soon as that is locked in.
- Console Updates: We are shifting our priorities as stated in Update 41, as we have heard loud and clear from Xbox players that they are frustrated to be so far behind the other platforms. Once PlayStation is out, our next priority will be a content update for Xbox and PlayStation, focusing on maps, Heroes, and other content that can come forward without substantial input reworks (meaning substantially different UI and controls like Contested Territory, Corvus’ spellbook, and more complicated interactive maps like Polyphemus). We are going to try to bring as much forward as possible, but we will err on the side of leaving a few more complicated elements out of the update in favor of getting a huge chunk of content in the hands of very patient Console supporters. We are still keen to get Switch into development after this content update.
- Jetpack Hero is planned for Update 43 and Mermonkey Tower for Update 44. These are both in progress and looking to add super fun play mechanics - fitting well with the other Monkeys but also standing out as quite unique.
- Boss Rush Team Event is in development for Update 43 but there is a heap of backend to all multiplayer and Team related systems, so we will shift this back if needed.
- Game Editor: Not much to report on this other than we are further defining the core architecture of the system to be future proof, and we’ve had initial conversations with existing BTD6 modders and we’re further defining the scope of the initial launch this month, so stay tuned on this.
Enjoy the update and thanks as always for your reactions, thoughts, and feedback. We’re always looking to blend our instincts and ideas with the fantastic feedback we’ve come to expect (and massively respect) from our more awesomer community.

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Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 41.0

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Bloons TD 6 v41.0 - Update Notes on Reddit (with bug fixes and balance changes)!
41.1 and 41.2 notes.

Available for all platforms. These notes are a bit late, so hopefully you've been enjoying the update already!

Update Video: https://t.co/5z5xsffd2B

New Awesome

New Paragon, the Nautic Siege Core!
- Starting the new year with a Paragon was a push for the team, especially alongside the launch of BTD6+ on Vision Pro, but we’re really happy with how the versatility has turned out, as the Monkey Sub Paragon provides assistance in different ways depending on its current form.
- Unsubmerged the Sub utilizes powerful missile attacks, launching powerful pre-emptive AoE missiles at every target to spawn, while unloading a barrage of airburst rockets at anything it, or any of your other towers, can see. Advanced Intel insanity is super fun.
- While Submerged the sub attacks with a radiation aura that obliterates a huge number of smaller targets with ease, but the main uses in this form are the massive damage and pierce buffs to all Heroes & other Subs within radius. Really hoping to encourage some fun placement synergies here.
- At all times Submerged or not, the Final Strike ability can be called on to unleash devastation. That really should be capital “D” Devastation.
New Map, Sulphur Springs
- We’ve had fun roundabout maps in BTD5 and we harken to that around a different visual theme than usual and effort behind specific placement locations.
New Quests
- Pat Fusty Hero Test
- Psi Hero Test
- MOAB Madness - still great and even better
New Trophy Store Items
- Heroes: Benjamin pet - it’s a mouse of course! Yes, we couldn’t resist.
- Bloons: MOAB Bee skin, because, well, bees
- Game & UI: Dread Rising avatar (Dreadbloon), Year of the Wood Dragon profile banner
Limited Time only
- Powers: Pontoon Chocolate Bar
- Avatar: Flower Friends Corvus
New CT Team Store items
- Base Props: Wizard Apprentice prop
- Team Banners: Monkey Squad banner
- Icons: Year of the Dragon icon, Cheeping Chick icon
- Frames: Year of the Dragon frame, Bees N’ Flowers frame

Game Changes / Additions

Much requested, Apopalypse Mode now grants end of round cash. We’ve agreed that start strategies feel too limited, especially on harder maps, so this is intended to bring more variety back to the mode.
As always intended, Boss Challenge mode now allows for co-op, with separate score tracking for all player counts
Looking back and reviewing CHIMPS in the game in general over the past few years we feel that there are 2 main standout problems. The first is that CHIMPS is unapproachable for new players and a very difficult gameplay loop to initially get excited about and break into, and the second is that the majority of the people who are invested in this gameplay loop already don’t play it within the base game most of the time since the Challenge Editor makes it more approachable. Given this we have made the following changes:
- CHIMPS mode now allows for a 'Retry Last Round' option, upon defeat allowing players to reload the previous round before the defeat occurred
- This is essentially a ‘home + reload save’ rather than a ‘Continue’ and so choosing to retry at any point will invalidate the run for any Black Medal purposes, but still grants the Red Medal on completion.
- It is important to us that CHIMPS remains a completely fair free to play pinnacle endgame experience, so this option will remain free to use just like in custom challenge creation
Maps Menu Search Functionality
- Players can now search within the maps menu to more easily track down the ones they are looking for, map names are also localized to the current language the player has set
Along with this a number of QoL terms can be used for filtering this search
- Commands start with ‘/’, and return results both in English and the language currently set if different from English
- Searching by map name does not require a full exact match but commands do
- /Events shows all maps with any events (Teams, Golden Bloon, Collection)
- /ShowIncomplete or /NoMedals shows maps that are not Gold/Black Bordered
- /Show /AllMedals shows maps with all medals (Gold or Black Border)
- /Black, /Gold, /Silver, /Bronze shows maps with those borders
Map Editor
Candyfalls Pack containing extra special items, unlockable with Monkey Money or direct IAP
Various new free spring themed assets & additions
New asset tags for Candy (Biome), Spring (Biome), Easter (Seasonal)
Multi-stage quests now allow for any stage to be replayed without resetting the quest
Arabic Language
- By popular request and with any number of technical and display issues for right to left reading script, Arabic is finally in the game!

Looking Forward

So happy to be starting the year with a new Paragon, with our launch ready version of BTD6+ on Vision Pro, and with our PlayStation version ready to submit! January has been incredibly busy and tactical, but we did take important time out for planning the year ahead. We can’t talk about everything quite yet, as we need to make sure the full team has reviewed the calendar first but here are a few of the things that we’re super excited to bring to the game! Cheers to an awesome 2024 ahead, and thanks in advance for your feedback!
- Console: PlayStation is heading into submission very soon. We don’t have a release date to announce yet so keep an eye on our official socials for news. PlayStation will launch as a PS4 game so it will be playable on both PS4 and PS5. Switch development will start immediately and we’ll keep you updated on status and timeline. Once Switch is in submission we’ll dig into the content updates that we all want to see on all 3 console platforms.
- Player Creator Systems: As mentioned in December, we have been working on systems to help highlight the incredible content players are creating for Maps, Challenges, and Odysseys. We are framing this around Accolades - visual tags that other players can purchase as IAPs to express their praise for any given curation. There will be ~10 of these at launch, each of them expressing support for the visuals, hard work, intelligence, fun, and challenge of player creations. The IAP structure is central to the revenue share back to the player creators, as a portion of that IAP will be paid out via their Nexus.gg account. Along with the Accolades and rev share, we’ll also be featuring player creations in new ways to try to share the spotlight as broadly as possible amongst creations the community is enjoying. We’re intending this for update 42, so wish us luck as there is a lot of backend and UI to these systems!
- New Hero: We’re not ready to reveal the name just yet, but still in the first half of the year we’re planning a Jet Pack Hero. Think multiple mobility upgrades, switching between two weapon types, more bouncy projectiles because they are such fun, and cool build synergies with other flying Monkeys.
- New Monkey Tower: By northern hemisphere mid summer we’re hoping to add an all new Monkey Tower to the game! New Towers with all of their crosspaths and combinations with other Towers takes significant iteration, so we’ve been working with this concept for a non-military water unit for a long time. Every time we’d see fan art in this direction, we’d bite our tongues, but, yes, from the depths of Monklantis…
- Teams Event: Bosses are tough, and many players haven’t successfully taken them on or even tried. Teaming up is the classic way to take down bosses, but in co-op the extra hands are balanced by the split of XP. As a proper Teams event, we’re planning a Boss Rush event where aggregate play against the Boss is the way to succeed.
- Game Editor: Building from the framework of the Map Editor and working with existing modders of BTD6, we hope to deliver in the last quarter of the year a full functional Game Editor with the ability on all platforms to changes stats, damage types, and projectiles of Monkeys, have more choice with roundsets, and have sandbox tools that allow the creation of new game modes like progressive gun-game or rogue-like upgrade choices to allow for completely new game types. We’re hoping to have further mod support enabled for PC with Steam Workshop integration, and to keep building from there!
- More more!: Heaps more we want to do and have penciled in, so that’s where more planning is needed and we don’t want to share that whole list and disappoint ourselves and you. But rest assured we are working on Bosses and Paragons, new Quests with more experiments and lore, Hero Skins, new Maps, hoping to get the Bloonspedia in to help new players, and framing out periodic Legends content drops for players looking for even more challenge.
In addition to this being the first update of the year, this is technically our 40th update, since we started out with version 1 at launch! To celebrate this milestone, we have a few fun things planned for the community and wanted to let you all know to keep an eye out. Firstly, we will be planning to run a poll over the next few weeks to pick what tower plushie you would like to see from three options and there may be a chance for some giveaways over on our Twitter/X account but we will have more to share once the poll is up. Secondly, we will be doing a collection event with increased rewards which will be live with the update so get to collecting!
We hope some or most of that excites you about what adventures the Monkeys will get up to and we hope this update 41 starts your BTD year off well! Thanks so much for playing and we look forward to your feedback on our socials.

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Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 40.0

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Update: Bloons TD 6 v40.0 - Update Notes!

Available now for iOS, Android & Steam please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up.

Key New Features

Events Menu Overhaul
- Our events menu was getting longer and longer, and perhaps a little too reminiscent of our Flash gaming roots. We’ve moved everything over to a new and improved events menu with all active items visible at a glance and estimated countdowns for upcoming events.
- Co-op daily challenges will now last multiple days up until the next challenge cycles around for more time to complete and less downtime between them.
Boss Challenge
- With more Bosses came more downtime between each Boss appearance. To remedy that and to massively extend the ability to practice different strats and maps, we’re opening up a persistent Boss Challenge system!
- Any Boss Bloons not currently in an active event can now be challenged at any time on a map of your choice, even tougher maps where we won’t generally run Events.
- Boss Challenge can be accessed from the new Events menu, or via the Boss Menu.
- Along with this, we’ve ensured that every map now has a designated Boss Spawn track so that there is no randomness to where they will come from.

New Awesome

New Hero: Corvus the Spirit Walker
- After months of work developing the complicated balance and technical aspects of a Hero with so many combinable elements, we are so happy to confirm that Corvus will indeed be in Update 40! We’ve seen the community speculation about whether we’d get Corvus released this year, and while it wasn’t easy, not only did the team rally but we’ve had significant time to balance and bugfix. We hope you enjoy playing this very unique Hero!
- Corvus fights alongside his lovable Spirit companion, which will attack Bloons anywhere on the map following his target priority. Corvus harvests Mana from Bloons and uses this to channel powerful energies through his Spirit companion to perform many powerful attacks from his spellbook (which we think isn’t in any way cursed or possibly sentient)
- Corvus himself is able to debuff a single Bloon at a time with his Haunt, which removes regrow and purple properties and enables increased energy damage. When destroyed, Haunted targets are absorbed as Mana and then explode, dealing strong area damage.
- Because much of Corvus’ power comes from Spells, proximity to Bloons for Haunting and Mana generation is essential, and we think it suits Corvus’ personality to be near the frontline, too. At Level 7, Corvus gains the ability to Spirit Walk mapwide, which allows repositioning if other Monkeys start pop stealing too much.
- Corvus can be unlocked for 7000 Monkey Money. To date he is the most complicated and in-depth Hero in BTD6 and as noted has taken months of work and revision. Given this and the high level of strategic understanding involved in playing with him, we feel the higher price both reflects this additional development effort and will defer the unlock until players have additional experience to better understand how and when to use his powers.
- This same price point reasoning also applies to Geraldo, and we plan to raise Geraldo up to this 7000 Monkey Money unlock as well. We don’t want to blindside anyone with this change, however, and won’t be changing the unlock price until Update 41. Anyone who doesn’t have Geraldo unlocked, you have the Holiday season to unlock him at the current rate.
- We also want to note after the last few fairly complicated towers between Geraldo, Beast Handler, Magus & now Corvus we don’t intend to continue a trend of more and more complex designs. We aim to have a healthy mix of simple and complicated new content, and our next planned Hero (who will drop in midway through next year) will step back to a ‘less is more’ design aimed to be unique in its own way but simpler to pick up and with the lower 5000 Monkey Money unlock.
New Expert Map: Glacial Trail
- We hope you will find this map to be a unique play experience compared to other Expert maps, as Glacial Trail was designed with the goal of bringing in another fun single lane track to the Expert category.
- Glacial Trail features very limited space near to the track, so be very careful and prepare your Mortars and Helis! Warning: May be a little too cold for many Monkeys, so dress warmly!
New Quests
- We put a lot of work into Quests to give lots to play over the holidays, some instructional and some quite challenging. Please don’t expect this many new Quests every update - this is our Christmas gift!
- Striker Instruction: Discover Striker Jones’ strengths and abilities
- New Dart Just Dropped: Multi-stage tale of two Dartling Gunners
- A Guide to the Book of Spirits: Discover Corvus’ strengths and abilities
- Under a new ‘Experiments’ tab in the Quests section, we have some special feeling missions to play around with
  - Fast Upgrades: Very special quest returning from BTD5; survive 6 special action packed rounds on Dark Path with all towers upgrading once for free after each round!
  - Intense Bloon Rounds: 30 rounds of concentrated Bloon attack
New Achievements
- Also a good bunch of new Achievements to chase over the holidays!
- Heavy Investment: Invest EXACTLY $401,626 extra when creating any paragon (or more, that’s also fine)
- 25 to Life: Defeat 5 unique bosses at Tier 5 (in either Boss Events or Boss Challenge mode) - unlocks the hilarious 'Tiny Boss Bloons' Extras option, which can be toggled via the Main Menu Settings
- Community Connoisseur: Win 100 different community submissions
- Life Experience: Earn 5,368,709 experience for any tower
New Trophy Store Items
- Monkeys: Druid Capybara pet, awwwww!
- Bloons: Pirate Turtle ZOMG skin
- Game & UI: Pinata cash drop skin, Sushi Ben avatar, Mortar Shot avatar, Cyberdart Graffiti banner, Winter is Coming Tonk Mix track
New Team Store items
- Share a bit of Christmas cheer as your Team ruthlessly dominates all tiles!
- Flying Props: Christmas Cardinal flying prop
- Team Banners: Hero Christmas banner
- Icons: Holly Bell emblem
- Frames: Christmas Bow frame

Game Changes / Additions

Map Editor
- Over 80 more items available for use in the Map Editor, including a new Dark Terrain/Area (so you don’t have to spam quite so many shadows now) and an entire Winter collection featuring tons of new winter Terrain, Areas, Effects, Paths, Stamps, and Props available for everyone to use!
- New Xmas Pack containing 12 extra special seasonal items that can be unlocked with Monkey Money or via direct IAP
- Added New prop tags for Christmas & Interactable
- Sandbox sending Bloons and placing towers features can now be accessed during map editing
- Enabled more base game props for use in map editor
- Added a ‘Sharp Corners’ toggle for all Areas (so those nice circles you pull out will swap to a square if you wish)
- New tag for interactable props to distinguish them (e.g. Bat, Pigeons)
- Added desktop hotkey support for ‘Sell’ hotkey to delete selected props and CTRL+C to duplicate a selected prop
- Implemented a slider to raise/lower props. Fair warning, due to how 3D renders in the game this may not appear exactly how you would expect, but we believe people will find good uses for this.
Co-op hosts will now be able to invite friends directly from the co-op lobby. So much better, thanks for continuing to ask for this!
Pasting entire share code URLs into search fields should now smartly trim the URL and search only for the code
Game icon changing back to the OG Dart Monkey. Thank you for holding down most of 2023, Beast Handler icon!

Bug Fixes & General Changes

Hero quests are no longer accessible from the coop, bosses, races or CT menus
Resolved a number of cases in which the game would display black backgrounds
Resolved an issue that could prevent Bloons Leaked stat from recording
Resolved a crash that could occur on loading on networks with limited internet access
Resolved an issue where towers when obtaining new abilities would not consistently order them correctly in the UI
Polyphemus no longer spawns extra Pre-game Prep spikes

Event bug fixes

Phayze’s Camo Debuff Icon should no longer scale in size with effects setting scale
CT Resolved an issue with the El Dorado relic displaying incorrect reward bonuses

Map Editor fixes

Resolved a case in which Pat Fusty would not correctly submerge in custom map water terrain
Opening a map share code should correctly launch the game & navigate to the map
Dropdown menus in map editor should no longer display on top of 'pause' menu
Added more Helper Popups to Map Editor
Entering eraser mode will now un-hide stamps layer
All custom maps will now follow ‘Intermediate’ difficulty
Players can no longer still search up and find their own deleted maps for a short time after deleting them

Tower Specific Fixes

Monkey Buccaneer

Resolved a build order bug that could prevent flagship from applying it’s buff to waterbound Sun Temples

Engineer

Engineer 410 should no longer 'Pin' Bloons after loading a save

Beast Handler

Movement icons now match other Tower Special buttons

Hero Specific Fixes

Benjamin

Benjamin's voice lines for MOAB-Class Bloons being destroyed should play again

Pat Fusty

Resolved an issue with Pat Fusty's Level 10 grab targeting when it shouldn't be able to

Geraldo

Lv15 Sharpening Stone should no longer last forever after loading a save

Spirit Walker

Resolved

Platform Specific fixes

Android: Resolved an error occurring for players trying to log in with Google Play.

Balance Changes

Tower Balance

Dart Monkey

We bumped up the ceramic a lot along with the paragon rework to highlight Juggernaut path and keep something of a Dreadbloon niche due to the multiple tower category requirement, upon review of this in practice we want to start off bumping that amount up even more.

Paragon bonus damage to ceramic increased from 75 > 90

Bomb Shooter

Slight price reduction to Really Big Bombs, it is meant to be a stepping stone upgrade into Bloon Impact but neither of these upgrades are standout right now. A while ago Frag Bombs was reworked to give Bomb normal type damage however we were not happy with the results of that change in the end, we didn’t want to go back and remove that again without giving back something nice in return so it has taken a while but now we have decided to go ahead with changing that back along with swapping out Recursive fortified damage for raw damage which we hope also improves crosspathing as the damage crosspath isn’t such a large increase over the base damage anymore.

3xx Really Big Bombs price reduced from $1200 > $1100
xx2 Frag Bombs no longer changes damage type of explosions
5xx Bloon Crush remains damage type Normal
xx4 Recursive Cluster Fortified Damage reduced from 1 > 0
xx4 Recursive Cluster Damage increased from 1 > 2
xx5 Bomb Blitz damage increased from 5 > 6

Ice Monkey

We want to try out allowing the Ice Shards sub-projectile to benefit from all sources of damage buff, as currently this path gets nice support use sometimes but can’t do much on its own in the base game - along with this the T5 Ice Shards are also generally being improved. Arctic Wind it feels was heavily underrated before it’s large slow aura increase, with so many players now working out how good it is and how much better an upgrade it leads into than any similar options we feel this aura needs to be reduced again although it will remain the same at T5.

3xx Ice Shards shard damage is now uncapped allowing for buffs
5xx Super Brittle ice shards damage increased from 2 > 5
5xx Super Brittle number of ice shards increased from 3 > 6
x3x Arctic Wind slow zone reduced from 50% > 40%
x5x Absolute Zero slow zone unchanged
xx4 Icicles icicle projectile radius increased 4 > 5

Sniper Monkey

Full auto sniper's 024 crosspath sees a lot of fun/meme use, but not so much more than that. We’re hoping that applying the MOAB bonus that it gains to the shrapnel as well will help improve non-meme use here. (And looking over my notes, it seems this was meant to be included a while ago…But better late than never!)

024 Full Auto Rifle shrapnel gains bonus damage against MOABs 0 > 1

Monkey Buccaneer

Aircraft Carrier is just a little expensive for what it offers over staying at T3, and Flagship high-end strategic value recently became a little harder due to synergies being price nerfed, so we’re doing some small cost cutting between the two of these upgrades mainly to relieve that loss for the T5 slightly but also help T4.

4xx Aircraft Carrier price reduced from $7200 > $6900
5xx Carrier Flagship price reduced from $25,000 > $24,500

Monkey Ace

The homing for Neva-miss darts can cause darts to expire just before they are able to loop around and hit their target, which is unsatisfying to see – we like the pattern this attacks with though so allowing a little extra distance before expiration should mostly solve this.

xx3 Neva-miss projectile distance increased from 450 > 600

Mortar Monkey

We’re ecstatic for all the Mortar love after the recent rework, however the two bonuses we left unchanged with the rework in order to leave a buff are… Probably a biiit much now and this has been far too significant an improvement, easily slotting Pop and Awe into an extremely high tier position over the past update. We don’t want to take this away, but are nipping those bonuses back slightly so it doesn't feel broken for our entire holiday break.

x5x Pop and Awe BAD/Boss damage bonus reduced from 10 > 6
x5x Pop and Awe damage bonus to stunned reduced from 10 > 8

Super Monkey

We missed this for a while, but it seems that Robo for how cheap and versatile it currently is just stands out a little much across many stages of gameplay. Shifting up a little pierce to tech terror here to tone it down slightly for now.

030 Robo Monkey pierce reduced from 7 > 6
040 Tech Terror pierce remains 9

Ninja Monkey

For an early game Distraction improvement the consistency of blowbacks is being averaged out more with increased minimum distance but reduced maximum, in many cases there would not actually be 250 units of track length in front of defenses to be blown back across anyway so the overall average distance is slightly lower. More at the mid to endgame we are also weakening distraction distance against Ceramics specifically as by this point Ninja have stacked so much speed and projectiles the consistency doesn’t matter anymore. Finally, distraction values for secondary projectiles are being modified, as Distraction chance as it has existed was never balanced around more than the main attack

010 Distraction blowback range normalized (all attacks): 10-250 units > 100-150 units
010 Distraction distance applies to Ceramics at 0.5x
011 Distraction chance of caltrops reduced from 15% > 10%
013 Flash Bomb distraction chance of flash bomb increased from 15% > 30%

Alchemist

Currently 031 is the only crosspath that realistically does anything for Unstable Concoction.

130 Unstable Concoction crosspath increases concoction pierce 3 > 4

Druid

We enjoyed this change a lot, but it unfortunately seems that to a lot of players this added more frustration than intended. We will look for a better way of accomplishing what we wanted to do here, but until then it doesn't really feel worth keeping the automatic targeting swap when players who do want it could also just change targeting themselves before or after buying the upgrade, and those who don’t want it have no workaround.

x3x Druid of the Jungle no longer swaps to Strong target prio automatically

Banana Farm

The current power of xx5 Village combined with previous nerfs to Middle Farm have it currently feeling underappreciated for farm profits, some slight price adjustment.

x3x Monkey Bank cost reduced from 3800 > 3650
x4x IMF Loan cost reduced from $7500 > 7200

Spike Factory

Small spike pierce reduction for the Spiked Mines as it’s finally coming into a strong spot on its own. Similar to Mortar it’s great to see the fresh love for middle path Spike Factory, however as they are feeling exceptionally good now for the intended pure MOAB damage role we want to cut it back very slightly so it doesn’t stay quite so crazy over our holiday break.

4xx Spiked Mines spikes pierce reduced from 20 > 18
x3x MOAB Shredder bonus moab damage reduced from 9 > 8
x5x Carpet of Spikes main attack damage reduced from 4 > 3
x5x Carpet of Spikes all is how it should be

Beast Handler

We feel Beast Handler balance is setting down nicely overall but it feels like the reposition cooldown increasing was far more impactful and unfun than intended, we still feel the initial delay was silly but are cutting it down again a little. Orca's knockback has the same duration as the T3 so although it does gain a little increased knockback amount already it's very random in what it hits much more expensive than the T3 so this knockback duration is being increased a little for base & merge. Max merged Golden Eagle gaining the ability to grab MOABs made sense at the time although the the pierce and penalties as they were at the time that meant it jumped up from grabbing no MOABs to suddenly 3 MOABs at a time which seemed too far, so the pierce penalty on MOABs is being increased at the T3 so that this reduces from 3 to 2 MOABs at a time.

Beast Handler reposition cooldown reduced from 5 > 3s
4xx Orca knockback duration increased from 0.2 > 0.3
4xx Orca knockback merge bonus increased from 0.2 > 0.3
xx3 Golden Eඞgle MOAB pierce penalty increased from 14 > 29
xx4 Giant Condor MOAB pierce penalty unchanged

Hero Balance

Ezili

We like Ezili as she is and don’t want to mess with her too much, but currently her level 19 does effectively nothing so we thought it would be nice at this level to shift a little of that MOAB bonus damage on the main attack into raw damage instead.

Ezili Lv19 main attack DoT increased from 3 > 6
Ezili Lv19 main attack DoT MOAB bonus reduced from 28 > 25

Admiral Brickell

We still want a little more out of Brickell’s single target Revolver attack as it’s the least exciting per of her arsenal so are decreasing the attack cooldown, however her mega mine ability also performs exceptionally well throughout all moab rounds so we want to slightly increase its final cooldown instead

Admiral Brickell Lv2 Revolver cooldown reduced 0.7 > 0.65
Admiral Brickell Lv12 Revolver cooldown reduced 0.4 > 0.35
Admiral Brickell Lv18 Mega Mine cooldown 40s > 45s

Geraldo

Gerry’s Fire functions in a unique way where it can inherit some self-buffing bonuses of the towers that it’s applied to, although a lot of people have pointed out that since Ninja Monkey always has Camo this means it’s the only non-hero tower that gains a Camo Detection but can never pass it on to the Gerry’s Fire as this doesn’t come from an upgrade. We were hesitant to buff this interaction while Geraldo was much more powerful and his synergy with Ninja was already good, but he’s cooled off enough now that we’re happy to try this out. Additionally with Gerry’s Fire one of our programmers was having some fun with it, and we liked what we saw, so that will also be a thing now.

Gerry’s Fire now inherits innate camo detection (Including Ninja Monkey, Sauda, Psi)
Gerry’s Fire follows the actual heli/ace through the air rather than the landing pad

Looking Forward

2023 wraps up with a big update and a huge year for the BTD6 team! Six updates including some pretty epic content like Beast Handler, Wizard Paragon, Quests, Phayze Boss, Map Editor, and now the Corvus Hero. We’d like to thank this awesome community for the constant play, feedback, support, and suggestions for how to keep making BTD6 better, and we are ourselves full of ideas for next year and beyond. We remain incredibly motivated by the possibilities, and we’ll have more details to share about 2024 in the Update 41 Looking Forward notes, after we’ve had a chance as a team to refresh our brainstorming, reflect over the holiday, and set ambitious yet achievable plans for next year. Until then here are some updates that we can broadly share:
- Console News: PlayStation has taken significant additional work but is now amazingly close to submission for launch approval. That means it won’t be ready to launch by the end of the year, but we will release it as early next year as possible, playable on PS4 and PS5. Thank you to all of the support for the Xbox launch; between a solid release there and the many requests for Switch, we confirm that we will bring BTD6 to Switch next year. We can’t detail timing for that, as we have to balance Switch release with updating the Xbox and PlayStation versions to be more current, and we have technical planning to do before setting those priorities - both are super important to us!
- Player Content Creators: The Challenges and Odysseys that have been made over the years test our skills and push us in our own thinking about these modes. The maps made since the Map Editor launched last update have absolutely blown our minds. There is incredible talent in our community and we are so thankful for all of the players who share their creativity and time and impressive fence pointillism. But thanks isn’t really enough - to show and share the value of your creativity, we are moving forward with our great partners at Nexus.gg on the player revenue sharing that we have mentioned in the past. Our goal is to have this live in the front half of next year - for players who are signed up to the program, we will be sharing a portion of in-app-purchases made while playing your content, including a mechanism to split that revenue share if a map maker and a challenge maker are different players. In order to make this meaningful to all player creators, at the same time we will introduce “tipping” IAPs, basically a “small thank you” and a “big thank you,” as a way for players to share their thanks with the player creators for any reason. While some player content is challenging and gives a reason for players to spend Monkey Monkey IAP for Continues or Powers, many creations are beautiful, clever, funny, whimsical, and any number of awesome creative things, and we think there needs to be an IAP (and some tags that go with it) that celebrates all of those other creative impulses. We hope you agree with this approach, and we’ll share more details on this program next year
- Content: So much we want to do - continue to broaden and strengthen the range of content and challenge in all existing areas of the game, bring out a new Hero and a new Monkey Tower, add new content for Teams, and expand our player content creation to include modding starting late next year and continuing to expand from there. We continue to believe in expanding BTD6 to be bigger and better than ever as opposed to shifting the team to work on “BTD7” - we’re bringing all of the energy and creativity that we would have for a new game into BTD6 every day, so maybe the next time that “when’s the next BTD” question comes up in reddit or Discord, we can all feel like we’re already playing it.
From all of us at Ninja Kiwi, we hope you can sense the care and dedication and fun that we as a game team put into each update and each community interaction. We’re doing what we love, and that’s our holiday wish for all of you - to have lives as full of care and dedication and fun as possible, and that BTD6 and all of our games can be at least a small part of that. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for an amazing and awesomer 2024!

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22 Nov, 2023

The 2023 Steam Awards are here and we'd LOVE for you to nominate Bloons TD 6 for the Labor of Love category. Click above to nominate Bloons TD 6!

2023 has been huge for Bloons TD 6.

It began with the first update of the year, bringing a brand new, Bloon chomping tower to the game. The Beast Handler commands and controls powerful beasts that crush, scratch, carry, and chew up and spit out Bloons.

Players can unlock the Beast Handler with a special Quest. Quests are also new this year, and we've got 13 in the game, with another batch coming in update 40 and huge plans for where we can go with Quests.

Then, as if a new tower wasn't enough, map creation came to BTD6 with the Map Editor.

The Map Editor allows you to create custom maps with a huge selection of tools at your disposal. The creativity of the community, from day 1, literally (figuratively) blew our minds. It's astounding to think that this is just the beginning of the potential of the map editor. Check out the Trending and Most Liked maps in-game and keep an eye out for more showcases of awesome maps players have created.

We've had new Hero skins for Pat Fusty, Sauda, Etienne and Admiral Brickell. The Magus Perfectus, Wizard Paragon. New maps. Competitive and Casual modes for Contested Territories. New Boss rules (least tiers, least cash). A new boss, Phayze, the Reality Warper. Tonnes of new cosmetics. Plenty of balance changes, bug fixes and quality of life improvements... There's probably even more stuff I'm forgetting.

Thank you for loving this game as much as we do.

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