• Make sure you don't spring a leak in our new map, Sprinkler and try to keep your cool defending against your opponent's Bloon stream with a new set of balance changes.

• Monkey Ace
  - 2-x Sharper Darts: pierce increase +5 -> +4
  - 4-x Spectre: $17k -> $16k
  - x-4 Ground Zero: $16k -> $17k
  
• Ice Tower
  - x-3 Ice Shards: Projectiles can no longer receive pierce buffs from x-1 and x-4 village
  
• Dartling Gunner
  - 2-x Faster Barrel Spin: $1200 -> $1100
  - x-4 Bloon Area Denial System:
  - Main attack pierce 23 -> 40
  - Main attack explosion radius 50 -> 60
  
• Heli Pilot
  - 3-x Razor Rotors: $1600 -> $1500
  - 4-x Apache Dartship:
  - Apache main machine gun attack rate 0.16 -> 0.32
  - Apache main machine gun damage 1 -> 2
  
• Cobra Monkey
  - x-4 Misdirection: Initial cooldown 20s -> 15s
  
• Boomerang Thrower
  - 4-x Glaive Lord: $4500 -> $4000
  
• Tack Shooter
  - 3-x Tack Sprayer: $600 -> $500
  
• Super Monkey
  - Base: $2000 -> $1800
  
• Bloonchipper
  - 3-x Triple Layer Blades: Damage 2 -> 3

Happy gaming!

• New map: Off Piste

• Fixed issue preventing some players on Android from claiming leaderboard rewards

• Ice Tower
  - 4-x Viral Frost: $6k -> $7k
  
• Dartling Gunner
  - Base: $850 -> $750
  - x-1 Powerful Darts: $750 -> $850
  - x-2 Depleted Bloontonium: $1000 -> $800
  
• Ninja Monkey
  - 3-x Double Shot: $700 -> $650
  - x-4 Sabotage Supply Lines:
  - Bomb damage 3 -> 2
  - Pierce 60 -> 100
  
• COBRA
  - x-4 BFB Misdirection: Cooldown 90s -> 60s
  
• Super Monkey
  - Base: $2.5k -> $2k
  - 1-x Laser Blasts: $3k -> $2.5k
  - 2-x Plasma Blasts: $3k -> $2k
  - 3-x Sun God: $13.5k -> $15k
  - x-3 Robo Monkey: $9k -> $11k
  
• Banana Farm
  - x-4 BIA: $5.5k -> $5.7k
  
• Monkey Ace
  - 2-x Sharper Darts: Increases pierce by 3 -> 5
  - x-3 ODS: Pierce 15 -> 13
  
• Sniper Monkey
  - 3-x Deadly Precision: $2000 -> $1800
  - 4-x Cripple Moab:
  - $5.5k -> $5k
  - Damage 30 -> 45
  
• Bloonchipper
  - 3-x Dual Layer Blades: $750 -> $700
  - x-3 Triple Barrel: $1.8k -> $1.6k
  
• Bloons
  - Spaced BFB: eco penalty -$140 -> -$100
  - Spaced ZOMG: eco penalty -$-450 -> -$400

Happy gaming! :D

• New map: Celtic Knot. Bind the fate of your opponent on an all new map: Celtic Knot! Tight turns and interwoven paths mean you'll need a strategy as intricate as the map itself to come out on top.

Heli Pilot

• 2-x Pursuit: Price $300 -> $250
  
• No longer auto changes targeting on upgrade

Ice Tower

• x-3 Ice Shards: effect will now only be passed down to a maximum of 3 layers

Bloonchipper

• Base: Price $700 -> $600
  
• 1-x: Price $300 -> $250
  
• 2-x: Price $450 -> $400
  
• 4-x: Price $5000 -> $4000

Glue Gunner

• Base: Pierce 1 -> 2
  
• 2-x: Damage tick rate +15%

Monkey Apprentice
- 3-x:

• Whirlwind attack rate +10%
  
• Price $2000 -> $2100

Boomerang Thrower

• 2-x: Price $280 -> $250
  
• 3-x: Price $1300 -> $1250

Tack Shooter
- 3-x

• Attack speed +10%
  
• Price $500 -> $600

Powers

• Copy Eco: never decrease player's eco
  
• Cripple: Uses 2 -> 3
  
• Power Lock: Uses 2 -> 3
  
• Eco Choke: Uses 3 -> 4
  
• Lots of Glue: Uses 3 -> 2
  
• Damage Boost:
  
• Duration 15s -> 13s
  
• Cooldown 33s -> 30s

• Bomb Tower 4-x Bloon Impact: fixed an issue that allowed MOAB class bloons to be stunned permanently.

Happy gaming!

• New map: Dungeon

• You now have the option to reset the cooldown of powers and abilities, clear all towers and clear all bloons

Tack Shooter

• 4-x Ring of Fire: pierce 60 -> 80

Bomb Tower

• Base: projectile speed 445 -> 600
  
• 3-x Cluster Bombs: projectile speed 480 -> 600
  
• 4-x Bloon Impact: stun effect reapplied to already stunned bloons
  
• x-2 Missile Launcher: projectile speed 875 -> 1000
  
• x-3 MOAB Mauler: projectile speed 445 -> 600

Ninja Monkey

• x-4 Flash Bomb: Flash Bomb damage 2 -> 3

Monkey Apprentice

• Base: pierce 2 -> 3
  
• 1-x Intense Magic: pierce 5 -> 6
  
• x-4 Summon Phoenix: ability duration 20s -> 23s

Monkey Village

• x-3 MIB: $3500 -> $3000
  
• x-4 Call To Arms: $20.5k -> $21k

Spike Factory

• x-3 MOAB-SHREDR Spikes: $2700 -> $2400

Heli Pilot

• x-3 Downdraft: $1750 -> $1500

Monkey Engineer

• x-4 Overclock: $6000 - >$5200

Bloonchipper

• x-1 Long Range Suck: grants camo detection

Bloons

• Spaced ZOMG: eco penalty -$600 -> -$450
  
• Grouped ZOMG: eco penalty -$900 -> -$450

Happy gaming, Ninjas!

An ancient temple turns into a battleground as you take the fight to an all new map: In Ruins. Send your bloons through the crumbling walls and broken statues to try and overwhelm your opponent. We've also added another round of balance changes to shake up your strategies, a full list of which can be found here.

Time to get popping! ːbattlesgrinː

• New map: Give your opponent a case of swamp fever in an all new map: Marsh! The tight turns of this washed up wetland makes it perfect for shutting down rushes using Tack Shooters and Apprentices and some prime water placement areas means filling the bog with Buccaneers is sure to have the opposition floundering.
  
• New improvement: variable fast-forward speeds for replays. Tap to increase speed 1x->2x->5x->10x. Hold for 1s to reset to 1x. Speed limited to 2x and reset to 1x for the last 30s of a battle.
  
• New tower change: Boomerang Thrower switch hand. The Boomerang Thrower can now switch between throwing right and left handed, changing of the angle and direction of their throw
  
• There has also been a whole bunch of balance changes, a full list of which can be found here!

As always, please let us know your thoughts in the comments and happy gaming ːbattlesgrinː

• New Farmyard map.
  
• New Shipyard map (Club members only).
  
• Rich presence for Discord and Steam.
  
• More customization options for Tournaments, including Boosts Only, no 4th Towers and no Global Cooldown.

Super Monkey
- 0-0: $3000 -> $2500
- x-1 super range: $800 -> $700
- x-2 epic range: $1200 -> $1000
- 2-x plasma blasts: $4000 -> $3000

Monkey Buccaneer
- 4-x aircraft carrier strafe attack: 2x damage and half attack speed (darts that fly out in a circle unchanged)
- x-1 grape shot: $550 -> $600
- x-4 monkey pirates: $4500 -> $4800

Mortar
- x-2 burny stuff: $500 -> $550

Village
- x-3 MIB: $4000 -> $3500
- x-4 call to arms: $20000 -> $20500
- 4-x energy beacon: cooldown reduction 50% -> 30% and 2x damage

Sub
- 0-0: +1 pierce (giving 1-x sub +1 pierce too) and $350 -> $400

Engineer
- 0-0: $400 -> $450
- 2-x fast engineering: faster sentry production rate: 6->5
and $400 -> $350
- 4-x bloon trap: money bonus for manual collection 30% -> 10%
- 3-x cleansing foam: $650 -> $550

Bloonchipper
- 0-0: $750 -> $700
- 1-x suckier: $400 -> $300
- 3-x dual layer blades: $800 -> $750
- x-1 long range suck: $400 -> $300
- x-2 faster shred: $600 -> $450

Dartling Gun
- x-1 powerful darts: $600 -> $750

Damage Boost
- decrease attack speed boost 30% -> 20%

Lots of Glue
- 5->3 uses but is now corrosive glue.

Empowered MOABs
- 30% -> 35% (for both hp and speed)

Dual Eco Boost
- eco 5x -> 3x

Eco Boost
- 6x -> 5x

Improved Eco Boost
- 7x -> 6x

Super Eco Boost
- 8x -> 7x

Defense
- Increased eco cap: $3000 -> $4000

- The following projectiles no longer explode multiple times when a pierce buff is given to the tower: 4-x heli’s rockets, x-1 wizard’s fireballs, x-4 bomb’s assassin ability, 4-x ace’s bombs

• New map! Battle it out among the wreckage of an unfortunate Buccaneer in an all new map: Shipwreck. As you might expect, naval monkeys are the name of the game in this sea faring showdown but the decks and crow's nest still offer some handy land placement areas too. Can you find the best strategy to sink your opponent?
  
• MOAB Pit and higher arenas will no longer use the random fourth tower. This change is to help make the higher value arenas more competitive.
  
• To prevent replay sniping, we've made a change to live replays that now hides a player's tower and Power loadout until first use.

• Fixed crash when viewing replays.
  
• Fixed an issue where high level Warchest rewards did not fit in the reward popup.
  
• Challenge difficulty should now be clearer.
  
• Fixed issue where road spikes could be placed off the track in some maps.

As always, we welcome your feedback and happy gaming! :D

• New map: Glacier Melt
  
• New mode: Sandbox Mode! A new single player mode for testing strategies. Lives are unlimited, all towers and bloon sends are free and unlocked regardless of overall progress. Sandbox mode is available to club members in the Battle School menu.
  
• New Clan Warchest: Costs 4,000,000 keys to unlock and contains 300,000 medallions.

We've also included a whole bunch of Tower and Power balance changes, a full list of which can be found in the detailed patch notes here or in-game!

As always, let us know your feedback in the comments below and Happy Holidays! ːbattlescoolː