• Ranked Mode - Season 2: Zee Jays Radical Season - A new season begins, can you reach Paragon tier?! 
• Tier 3 unlocks the Ranked Season 2 Cardback - and for those reaching Paragon tier you’ll unlock the Ranked Season 2 Avatar. 

• New Hero - Zee Jay
• Get ready for Zee Jay to tear up the arena with his totally Rad Bloons and mad skills.
• Zee Jay’s abilities focus on buffing both Bloons and Monkeys to create devastating combos of impenetrable defense and monster Bloon waves. He plays with a lot of flexibility, and can quite easily punish one-dimensional opponents, however he can take some time to build up power, so watch out for those early Bloon rushes!
• Zee Jay comes with his own special ability currency - Rad Tokens. Similar to Adora’s Orbs, Rad Tokens amplify ZJ’s abilities, and can be used for offense and defense. Once a token is spent though, it’s gone, so you’ll need to plan carefully when to spend them and have a plan to generate more. Rad tokens are earned by playing Bloon cards each turn and using ZJ’s Power cards.
• Passive Awesomeness - Passive:
  Your first Bloon summoned each turn gives you a Rad Token and gains +5 Health per Bloontonium you have (after the Bloon is summoned)
• Rad Enhancements - 3 Bloontonium:
  Remove a Rad Token. Target Monkey gains +20 Attack Power until the start of your next turn. 
• Rad Bloon Time - 10 Bloontonium:
  Remove all Rad Tokens and summon a Rad Bloon with Delay 2. It gains 70 Health per Rad Token removed (Rad Bloons allow Zee Jay’s Passive Awesomeness to trigger twice each turn)
• Like our other heroes, you’ll also get a super rad cardback for reaching Level 10 with Zee Jay!

• New Cards! for the 3.0 Card Collection This mini-set is focusing on a few alternative ways to generate Bloontonium as well as ways to spend it with two new cards that cost Bloontonium to use instead of Gold. We’ve also got support cards for Zee Jay and the very sticky Eternal. 

• Bloons
• Piñata Bloon
• Booster Bloon 
• The Eternal
• Extractor Bloon
• Zee Jay Special 
• Monkeys
• Bloontonium Miner 
• Leeching Shot Sniper
• Mine Supervisor 
• Bloontonium Saboteur
• Monkey Priestess
• Powers
• Overload
• Mass Detonation
• Red Bloon Apocalypse
• Desperate Defense
• Fast and Loose
• Stylish Finish

• New Store Items 
• Zee Jay Hero Bundle
  Unlocks Zee Jay, a 6 card pack, an extra deck slot, and an exclusive avatar and cardback

• Daily Challenge
• This new Daily Challenge will test your skills and your decks with a new twist every day! 
• How many times can you beat it? Once, twice, one hundred times? Try it and see… Every day the challenge is the same for everyone, so check our Discord or Reddit if you get stuck.

• New Feats!

• I Feel the Need for Speed - Win 100 games with Zee Jay
• You're in for a show! - Defeat Amelia in Amelia's Adventure Prologue
• Baby popper - Pop 250 Bloons
• Basic popper - Pop 500 Bloons
• Advanced popper - Pop 2000 Bloons
• Popstar - Pop 5000 Bloons
• Legendary popper - Pop 10000 Bloons
• Daily Challenger - Beat the Daily Challenge once
• A Week of Challenges - Claim the Daily Challenge reward 7 times
• Daily Challenge Centurion - Claim the Daily Challenge reward 100 times

• Paragon Tier - Winstreaks will no longer applyParagon Status is meant to be a more skill-based Tier, this section will no longer provide winstreak bonuses to rank up. We’re still evaluating showing a proper skill rank once you reach Paragon. 

• Tiers 3-5 - Points requirements increased slightlyPlayers were blasting through the higher tiers a little too quickly so we’ve increased the points requirements roughly 15%.

Bloons

• Bolstered Bloon: Shield 100 -> Shield 50.
• Bolstered Bloon: Gain +30 Health each time you play a Bloon -> Gain +25 Health each time you play a Bloon
  Bringing the starting shield down considerably for the Bolstered Bloon and also tweaking the health gain down slightly. It should still ramp well though.

• Discount Bloon: HP 100 -> 120
  Continuing to look at underutilized cards with promise, we’re buffing Discount Bloon’s health a little.

• Nested Blue: HP 60 -> 50
• Nested Green: HP 100 -> 80, Delay 1 -> 2
• Nested Yellow: HP 140 -> 120, Delay 1 -> 2, Cost 3 -> 4
  These came out a little hot last week and clearly needed a nerf. They should all still be strong cards but not quite so oppressive this way.

• Weakening Gas Bloon: Cost 7 -> 6
  Weakening Gas gets a cost buff to make it more appealing. Look out for them in the Season 2 Storm as well!

Monkeys

• Thunder Druid: On Play: Deal 100 damage to all enemy Bloons -> On Play: Deal 80 damage to all enemy Bloons
  Thunder Druid is working a little too well as AoE for the cost, so we’re bringing its damage down slightly.

Powers 

• Nature’s Clarity: Pick 4 -> 3.
• Nature's Clarity: Gain 20 Shield per Gold cost of picked card -> Gain 15 Shield per Gold cost of picked card
  Pick 4 was a little anomalous so bringing this in line with other heroes’ Pick cards. The shield was also too powerful, so we’ve weakened that slightly.

• Super Monkey Storm: Cost 8 -> 10Similar to Thunder Druid, SMS is just a little too efficient. However, SMS is meant to be a very strong board clear so instead of lowering its damage, we’re upping its cost.

• Added Hand Size UI - shows your current card count and the hand limit. 
• In-game UI layout adjustments - Also now shows your name, avatar, current gold and economy, and current rank if in ranked mode. 
• Game will now prompt you when you are down to your last 3 cards in a match.
• Added prompt if you try to play a Bloon on a full track.
• Added option to skip reward animations, so you can start playing with your new cards as soon as possible!
• Cards now have a “New” badge and glow when they are newly added to your collection.
• Added a + icon to ammo on Monkeys that have more than 4 ammo.
• Tutorial has been reworked to be shorter.
• Adora (and Zee Jay) added to Training.
• Targeting lines should now snap to valid targets.
• Paragon UI tweaked slightly.
• Timestamps added to messages in your inbox.
• Rate Game prompt added.
• Added a timer for the next daily reward.
• More game tips added.

• Fixed a softlock when the AI played Slowing Bloon at the end of its turn.
• Fixed an issue where Gwen would not animate correctly when using Flame Strike while cards are being placed.
• Heroes damaged by non-Bloon sources of damage will now animate correctly. 
• Fixed an issue where Bloon info for cards was sometimes showing after Bloons were popped.
• Search function now prioritizes card names before card descriptions.
• Fixed an issue with Feats sometimes not showing a pip on the main menu when they were completed. 
• Game no longer softlocks if the timer runs down to 0 while you are in the Pick phase of a Pick card. 
• Buying an IAP will now immediately update the Watch Ad button to Claim instead of on next reload.
• Resolved an issue where trying to craft a card and losing internet connection resulted in a softlock.
• On Damaged effects now correctly only trigger when the base Bloon itself is damaged, not when its shield takes damage.
• Shield Gas Bloon no longer triggers twice when it is popped.
• Fixed an issue where a player’s cards could get stuck on screen when their opponent quits a match.
• Burn, baby, burn feat no longer increments multiple times when Gwen’s abilities are used on Bloons that are already on fire.
• Fixed some issues with card text overflowing textfields in certain non-English languages.
• Fixed an issue where Druids would occasionally not idle correctly.
• Resolved a softlock that could occur when your opponent disconnected during the map veto phase.
• Plus button on cards now greys out correctly when you do not have any more copies to add to your deck.

• Fixed a crash that could occur on Android when using gestures in the Card Collection screen.
• Fixed a crash that could occur on Android when attempting to go to the Main Menu from the Title Screen with no active Internet Connection. 

See you all out there in the arena, hope you have a TOTALLYRADICAL time!

Update: Bloons Card Storm 2.0 - Update Notes

• Ranked Mode: Take your best decks into Ranked Matches and work your way up from Tiers 1 to 5 and then Paragon Rank!
  • Each Ranked season will last just over two months so you’ll have plenty of time to play make your way up to Paragon! We’ll take feedback on length and adjust if necessary for future seasons.
  • The current season is Temple of The Sun - a tribute to the High Priestess Adora.
  • All players start each Season at Tier 0 and will work up to Tier 5. Wins garner significant progress, and losses move your progress back a fraction. Once you have reached a Tier, your progress will never drop below that Tier during the Season.
  • You will receive mid-tier and milestone rewards for playing through Tiers 1 to Tier 5, and these are only awarded the first time you reach each threshold.
  • Paragon Rank - once you reach Paragon, you level up into Paragon Degrees, going from degree 1 to 100. Each win increases your degree, while each loss lowers it, but you will never leave Paragon rank. For Paragon ranks, the rewards are the prestige of seeing how high you can get each season and a profile badge that will show your accomplishment.
  • Win-streaks will boost your points, allowing you to rank up faster between Tiers or Paragon degrees.
  • There’s also an exclusive cardback for getting to Tier 3, and an avatar reward for the Ranked season.
• New Hero - Adora the High Priestess
  • Play as Adora and prepare your best deck for the ultimate <del>sacrifice</del> winning combo.
  • Adora’s hero powers are an exciting mix of damage and self-healing:
    • Minor Ability - 5 Bloontonium:Orbs of Light - Deal 30 Damage to a Random Bloon, 2 Times.
    • Passive - 8 Bloontonium:Sun Shield - When an enemy Bloon attacks, lose 3 Bloontonium and trigger Orbs of Light on that Bloon.
    • Major Ability - 15 Bloontonium:Ultimate Sacrifice - Sacrifice a friendly Monkey, trigger Orbs of Light and heal 150. Add an extra Orb of Light (Max 8).
  • Like our other heroes, get her exclusive cardback when you reach Level 10 with Adora!
• New Cards! 18 New Cards in total for the Card Collection

We’re introducing some new mechanics here, with multi-charge Monkeys and Powers added to the mix like Dart Monkey Twins and Spike Storm, plus On Play target cards like Slowing Bloon and MOAB Dominator. As well as that, we’ve got plenty of new ways to search through your deck for just the right card with cards such as Signal Bloon, In Our Darkest Hour and the cutest little detective in Monkey Town… Monkey Investigator!

• Bloons
  • Slowing Bloon
  • Signal Bloon
• Monkeys
  • Dart Monkey Twins
  • Quincy Action Figure
  • MOAB Dominator
  • Monkey Investigator
• Powers
  • Spike Storm
  • Divination
  • Ability Ban
  • Max Heal
  • Rare Power
  • Try this!
  • Energy Overload
  • Bloon Melter
  • Enhanced Reflexes
  • Bubble Time
  • In Our Darkest Hour
  • Bloon Reinforcements
• New Store Items
  • Adora Hero Bundle
    • Unlocks Adora, a 6 card pack, an extra deck slot, and an exclusive avatar and cardback
  • Happy Holidays Bundle
    • 25,000 Universal Tokens, 750MM, an exclusive cardback and holiday avatar
  • Card Packs
    • These card packs will be replacing the single random card purchase. You will be able to purchase them in sets of x3 cards for 200MM, x5 cards for 250MM, or x7 cards for 400MM. You have to save up more Monkey Money, but lots of us were missing the excitement of opening a pack, so we hope this change helps scratch that itch.
  • Crafting Tokens
    • All 3 rotating token sets now contain 600 Crafting Tokens for 50MM each
  • Info button added to Daily Items tab explaining pack contents and rarities
• New Arena! Game Night
  • This new (returning for Full Playable players) arena, inspired by tabletop and board games, gives your monkeys a buff to their damage rolls! Monkeys played in this arena will gain +5 Attack Power.
• Amelia&#39;s Adventure - Mirror Mode
  • Take on Amelia’s Adventure with Mirror Mode, where players will also get the effects from their selected Adventure Effect cards. For example, if you select the ‘Opponent starts with a Wizard Monkey in Play’ card, no problem, so do you!
  • Sometimes Amelia really had the deck stacked in her favor, so if she’s frustratingly difficult, flip Mirror Mode on and see if the game feels fairer.
  • You can turn Mirror Mode on and off at any stage of Amelia’s Adventure to manage your own difficulty preferences.
• New Feats!
  • Change of Pace - Add a card to one of your decks
  • Using My Own Tech - Win a game with a non-starter deck
  • Here Comes a New Challenger! - Win a game in Ranked mode
  • Welcome to the Badlands - Win 20 games on Badlands
  • It’s Game Night, gang! - Win 20 games on Game Night
  • Sacrifices Must be Made - Win 100 games with Adora

• Bouncing Bullet - Attack Power 65 -> 80
• Glaive Ricochet - Attack Power 30 -> 40

Some of our Ultra Rare monkeys aren’t quite strong enough so we’re bumping their damage up slightly.

• Storm of Arrows -> Damage 150 -> 120

Part of hero-specific card design is that they help to define the hero’s identity and are in general strong cards. SoA has been on the radar for a long time but we wanted to see how it performed in the wild with the full launch card set before making any changes. It’s still just a little too strong so we’re ramping its damage back.

• Rapid Shot - 3 x 30 Damage -> 4 x 40 Damage

*blush* Looks like something got past the balancing team’s bow! Rapid shot can hit more targets than SoA and that flexibility is expected to cost more, but the damage output was far too low here. Bumping it up and adding an extra hit to really help this card out.

• Quincy Flurry of Arrows - Bloontonium cost 9 -> 12

Quincy has been performing well ever since the First Look builds but now that we have four solid weeks’ worth of play data in, his major ability is just too game defining at such a cheap cost. Bumping this up to 12 and we’ll see how that affects the current meta before considering any other changes.

• Gwen Flame Strike - Bloontonium cost 20 -> 18, damage 200 -> 250

While Quincy has been dominating against all other heroes, Gwen’s winrate and matchups have been poor across the board. Her Flame Strike ability is very powerful but is hard to save up for and the payoff requires significant setup. We still like the setup/combo but are bringing the cost down slightly to make it slightly easier to get to as well as increasing the payoff.

• Search functionality for keywords, sort, and filter
• Cardback selection UI popup has been improved
• Scroll menus optimized for viewing
• Animation effects and tweaks for Bloons, Monkeys and Powers on the board
• You will now get a popup if you are changing devices, to avoid accounts being used on two different devices
• Bloon damage color modified to be more readable
• Card auto disenchant animation added when receiving cards beyond maximum amounts
• Confirmation pop-up added to in-game Quit button
• Card backs now show on player’s deck
• Added hover/tap pop-up over card type icons
• Improvements to some card text length
• Added “New Card!” notification in the Card Collection
• Added avatars next to player names in-game

• Stun effects are no longer cleared immediately at start of following turn (Dart Monkey into Stun Gas Bloon is now correctly stunned for a full turn)
• Bionic Boomer visual rarity now correctly shows as Uncommon, not Rare
• Rapid Shot can no longer hit a Bloon that has already reached 0 hit points
• Sun Temple was getting too powerful with Expert Negotiator - the Sun God is now appeased
• Favored Trade no longer displays gold gain animation when gaining 0 gold
• Hastening Bloon no longer animates when played on an empty board
• Shield Gas Bloon no longer shields itself when damaged
• Defenders and their Projectiles hit more visually accurately while defending
• Badlands Map - Now shows damage to Heroes in the history
• Fixed issue that would cause Gold Cost and Attack Power values to flicker when they are buffed
• Destroying a Toxic Bloon with a Hero ability no longer plays the removal effect on your Hero
• Daily Quests can no longer be infinitely refreshed
• Spaces no longer accepted in creator codes
• Bloon grouping animation now correctly plays when delay value is modified from Adventure effects
• Banana plantation animation now plays correctly when removed
• Draining Bloon now gives you Bloontonium after you play it (after it has drained your existing Bloontonium)
• Resolved Blade Maelstrom passive effect not resulting in Stun when hitting a Stun Gas Bloon
• Extra tutorial arrow during Dart Monkey targeting removed
• When creating a new deck and buying a hero, new hero will be selected

Platform Specific:

• Loss of Internet Connection Handling - General Polish for losing internet connections
• Android - Input UI for Logins, screen textures fix
• iOS - Login UI tweaks
• Steam - Language Settings update
• Steam - In-App Purchases now show correct localized title

We’re back with another update! This patch is slightly more substantial than the 1.1 patch as we’ve fixed a few larger bugs and also made two balance changes.

Thank you again to everyone that has supported the game and is enjoying playing it. We’re continuing to work extremely hard on improving the experience and adding new features. Stay tuned for more info in the future!

More Feats! We’ve added more steps into the Win Duels and Play Cards feat lines. This should give people more to play for as you wait for Ranked mode. Progress achieved towards these before this update will count so many of you will have these Feats ready to be claimed upon updating the game.

Note that while we have only changed 2 cards here, we are keeping a careful eye on balance overall and will make further changes as needed. This includes hero abilities and general hero winrates too!

Cost 5 -> 7
Ammo 2 -> 1

Jungle’s Bounty Druid is an excellent control card that lets a player stabilize after initial aggro or tempo bursts from your opponent. At 5 cost, it was simply too easy to get into play early and also to get multiple copies out. While good counterplay has already developed, it’s still just too easy to get out so we’re increasing the cost significantly.
While the chip damage from JBD is pretty minor compared to its healing effect, that extra 30 health on the turn it is played as well as continued 30 DPT was also helping this card to be a one-stop shop for anti-aggro. Reducing this ammo to 1 means it’ll have less impact the turn it is played.
We did consider reducing the healing effect, however we didn’t want to completely destroy the cards’ effectiveness in its role as an anti-aggro card. Instead, we’ve made it harder to get into play, giving aggressive players a bigger window to push through damage.


Health bonus +20 -> +10

Growth Gas Bloon’s intended purpose is as an anti-AoE and random damage card. This is why it has high health but a very long delay. Working as a stronger Bloon Embiggen in Quincy decks was not intended and meant that it needed to be changed. That combo will still work with GGB but it won’t be as easy to get quick lethals with it. We’re hoping this change will allow it to serve its intended purpose but we’ll continue to monitor its use, particularly in high skill games.

• Change round required to earn XP from 4 down to 2. We implemented this change earlier in the week as some people were winning very quickly and not receiving XP.
  
• Increase auto-disenchant values roughly 5x. As mentioned on Discord and Reddit previously, we also implemented this change server-side earlier in the week as the initial values were not correct. New Universal Token values per card: Common 50, Uncommon 150, Rare 250, Super Rare 600, Ultra Rare 2500.

• Fixed player data not correctly syncing everything across devices, this will ensure that your decks (and Adventure Progress) will sync on different devices
  
• Daily reward/ad watch should now rollover correctly each day
  
• Weekly Quest reset timer now shows days as well as hours and minutes
  
• Overall Wins should now show correctly
  
• Improvements to matchmaking should allow players to find matches more quickly
  
• Fixed monkeys with no ammo going into Ready Idle animation after they are Stunned
  
• Fixed a missing projectile effect on Gwen's Firestorm Power
  
• Fixed Jungle Druid's feet clipping into their platform
  
• Players should now not end up with more XP than needed for their current level
  
• Fixed Monkeys and Heroes getting stuck in "aiming" state when the round ends while aiming
  
• Deck Edit panel will now update immediately when new cards are crafted
  
• Fixed Weakening Gas Bloon giving negative attack values to defenders
  
• Fixed missing Floating Animation for Monkey and Bloon Cards played on your side of the board.
  
• Fixed save conflict popup layering issue

This has been an amazing launch week and to celebrate, we had our community-driven reward code earlier this week. If you missed it, make sure to join the BCS Reddit[ninja.kiwi] here to keep up to date with all things BCS!

That code is:
LAUNCHGOALS
(Valid until November 14th, 2024)
This will include:
1000 Universal Tokens
300 Monkey Money
Necromancer card
ZOMG card


However, it’d be pretty boooooring behaviour of us not to celebrate Halloween as well!

This spooky code is valid until November 4th, 2024, so get it now!
This will include:
1x Bedtime
1x Reinflated
500 Support Monkey Tokens
500 Basic Power Tokens
100 Monkey Money

We hope you have a great Halloween, filled with all the treats!

- The Ninja Kiwi Team