Update: Bloons TD 6 v45.0 - 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/j3P5dBAHZyM

• New Boss Bloon Blastapopoulos, the Demon of the Core has returned!
  • While in play, towers suffer from reduced range & ability cooldown rate.
  • Blastapopoulos passively burns off damaging effects applied to them, and has the Purple Bloon type property. Damage type enhancements can get around this as normal, but this doesn’t change projectile temperature!
  • Overheating! Most projectile hits heat up Blastapopoulos, with anything weak to purple (fire, lasers & plasma) increasing heat even more, so use these damage types at your own risk or bring along some Ice attacks to cool things back down! Whenever maximum heat is reached Blastapopoulos vents the excess, briefly stunning towers & increasing ability cooldowns then superheating the area for a short time, causing all projectiles to burn up faster than normal.
  • Skulls when triggered will fill up a portion of Heat, and spew out a number of Fireballs & Pyroclastic Rocks.
  • These Fireballs will target your towers & create debuffing pools of magma around their targets while the Pyroclastic Rocks land around Blastapopoulos to form impenetrable barrier rings around the boss until they expire
  • You’ll need to carefully manage your heat to avoid dire consequences!

• New Advanced Map, Ancient Portal
  • Both ancient and modern, the portal has clearly moved this map through time, so they can easily shift Bloons from one path to another. With all of that energy at play, there is clearly explosive potential.
• New Quests
  • 5 Minutes of Frozen Over - a reversed race! With a limit of 5 minutes send as many rounds as you can in this marathon-not-a-sprint to score as much damage as possible
  • One Sided - Beat half of Infernal, with half of the play space. Oh it’s the wrong half!
  • Fast Tracked - A trial quest that’ll give you a taste of the new Fast Track IAP (More detail on that below!)
• New Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes: Pat Fusty Pet Pig
  • Monkeys: Buccaneer Flavored Trades projectiles
  • Game & UI: Spooky Night banner
• New Limited Time trophy items (Note: Not available until the seasonal event begins!)
  • Tricky Ghosts avatar, Bat BFBs Bloon skin
• New CT Team Store items
  • Flying Props: Haunting Ghoul
  • Icons: Carved Pumpkin Icon
  • Frames: Spider's Web Frame

• Co-op overhaul (Part 1)
  • We are currently going through a large overhaul of the co-op code, which will happen over multiple updates. This first phase is already showing us greatly improved average performance and cleaner game state handling.
• Revamped in game store
  • We really felt it was time to make our store nicer and easier to engage with. Please browse at your leisure, with separate sections to more easily find what you’re looking for and improved display of visuals and descriptions.
  • Along with this we’ve added a couple brand new packs to check out
• Fast Track Pack! A returning favorite from BTD5, with dynamic improvements!
  • When enabled, skip the first 25% of rounds for the current game. This scales to match how long the mode is, so for any 300 round custom challenge enjoyers out there you will now be able to skip the first 75!
  • Starting Cash is updated to reflect these skipped rounds
  • Starting Hero XP is updated to reflect these skipped rounds
  • Double Cash & Fast Track can now be enabled/disabled from the play screen
  • Available in most areas, however will still not show in Competitive Modes or CHIMPS
  • Challenge Editor will support a ‘Fast Track Disabled’ option at launch for any challenge creators who wish to enforce the starting rounds in their challenges
• Pets Pack IAP
  • This pack includes all current Hero & Monkey pets up to update v45
  • Exclusive Pack of Pets avatar & Gang’s All Here banner
• Challenge Editor ‘modifiers’ have been redesigned
  • These now fit into a more understandable inclusions/exclusions list
  • Works similarly to how the tower exclusions/inclusions list currently does
• Map Editor support added for a maximum up to 8 track paths, this shouldn’t be too crazy[join.btd6.com] but we feel it still opens up significant room for new ideas.

• Refactored how all audio clips are played
• Heavy behind the scenes updates & refactoring, we can expect some odd niche problems due to this
• A number of localization fixes
• Holding down the Hero hotkey without enough cash to place that hero will now prime your hero ready for placement as soon as enough cash is available
• A full ability quickbar should now close properly on wide resolutions
• Holding down the ‘Select Hero’ hotkey should no longer rapidly refresh the Hero UI
• Sandbox no longer allow players to include crashy negative values or the brown note
• Resolved a long-standing bug where the Empowered Heroes knowledge applied to heroes again after being sold
• Fixed the moon
• [Achievement] ‘When the going gets tough’ should track correctly again
• The ‘Bats’ placement animation should display correctly again
• Resolved a number of menu UI softlocks & visual glitches
• The ‘Happy Holidays’ emote should now be grouped with other Text Emotes
• Resolved an issue where restarting may not correctly count towards tower unlocks

• Resolved some inconsistencies with rule displays
• ‘Boss Appears In’ counter should update correctly after continuing save games
• Resolved a crash when submitting Boss Event scores with a poor internet connection
• Scrolling while in the teams messages page no longer zooms the Boss Rush world UI
• Users noticed that now we have 24 towers in the game, Collection Events will show the same featured monkeys at the exact same hour mark every time that the cycle loops. To break this up, the featured order will now increment forward by 1 upon every loop.

Map Specific changes

• Resolved many cases of inconsistent alignment for text boxes attached to certain map Gizmos and Removables
• Pre-game prep spikes should now position correctly on Luminous Cove in Reverse
• Polyphemus eye mechanic should no longer sometime break with Retry Last Round
• The Flooded Valley removable no longer bricks itself after restarting
• Resolved a number of cases in which map-based Easter Eggs with weapons were not counting their damage to the end-game victory summary.
• On Castle's Revenge Bloonarius bleed bloons should no longer immediately exit
• Luminous Cove seaweed visual state is now co-op synced

Boomerang Monkey

• 5xx Glaive Lord should no longer apply DoT to DDTs without Lead power

Bomb Shooter

• xx4 Recursive Cluster, resolved some weird stat population issues across crosspaths, this may unintentionally cause balance to work as intended

Ice Monkey

• xx5 Icicle Impale should no longer fail to slow already Frozen targets

Glue Gunner

• 500 The Bloon Solver can now correctly take buffs without needing a crosspath first
• xx3 MOAB Glue can no longer slow Dreadbloon’s Rock Bloons

Sniper Monkey

• 240 Supply Drop’s projectile bounce distance should now correctly increase with crosspath, more on this later.

Monkey Sub

• Monkey sub should no longer display a paragon pip without all T5s unlocked

Monkey Buccaneer

• 5xx Carrier Flagship crosspaths have had a number of inconsistencies resolved in how stats add together

Heli Pilot

• x5x Special Poperations can no longer Door Gunner towers down on top of Helipads
• xx4 Comanche Defense resolved a crash which re-broke another crash
• Resolved the other crash again

Super Monkey

• 4xx Temple when sacrificing towers with platforms, should no longer sell the towers on those platforms instead of sacrificing them
• 052 Anti-Bloon’s left hand now correctly deals +1 damage to Camo. You’re welcome, lefties!

Alchemist

• x5x Total Transformation should no longer cause a crash when transforming a tower with its own platform

Mermonkey

• 120 should no longer have more range than 220
• 3xx Abyss Dweller pierce buff should now stack correctly with other pierce increases
• 5xx Lord of the Abyss resolved some inconsistencies applying buffs to supported towers
• 5xx Lord of the Abyss should no longer have a weaker slow against MOABs than the T4
• xx4 Symphonic Resonance totem can be redeployed, it’s neat so we’re not changing this
• xx4 Symphonic Resonance totem can no longer place out of range with Drop & Lock
• xx4 Symphonic Resonance totem should save location correctly on moving platforms
• xx5 The Final Harmonic totem spawn cooldown 6s > 12s (This was hard capped at a 12s minimum makes no difference)
• xx5 The Final Harmonic’s trance visual should now update to reflect attack rate changes

Obyn Greenfoot

• Lv11 Nature’s Clarity no longer increases lifespan by a factor of acquisition range

Captain Churchill

This balance change was added last update although the wrong variable was being applied, this has now been corrected.

• Lv13 armor piercing shells flat bonus damage increased from 1 > 3
• Lv17 armor piercing shells flat bonus damage increased from 2 > 6

Benjamin

• Benjamin’s cash counter now displays earnings from Skimming in Half Cash

Geraldo

• Gerry’s Fire should no longer be placable on xx4 Mermonkey Totems
• Geraldo’s Quincy Action Figure should no longer display Favoured Trades’ sell buff icon
• Rejuv Potion should no longer cause some abilities to double up in a single use

Rosalia

• Lv7 Flight Boost should no longer be drainable by Lych

Platform Specific fixes

• [Steam Versions] Hotkey changes
  • Monkey Bank 'Collect' money: linked to the 'Monkey Special 1' key
  • Monkey Bank 'Deposit' money: linked to the 'Monkey Special 2' key
  • New Advanced Hotkey: Ace Centered Path
  • New Advanced Hotkeys: Selected tower Active Ability 1, 2 & 3
• [Steam Versions] when using click and drop, moving cursor outside of window should no longer snap towers to the middle of the screen rather than deselecting it
• [MacOS] Resolved an issue that could cause loading to get stuck at step 5 of 9
• [MacOS] Added support for Retina resolutions
• [Mods] Resolved crash that could occur after removing some modded maps

Balance Changes

As nothing else did what we wanted, we’ve created a new damage for middle path Mermonkey! This has also been adopted for use with the 3xx Druid Tornado & may see more later

Dart Monkey

Juggernaut attacks too slow to fully utilize its knockback, so we’re doubling the knockback to regular Bloons with a smaller increase also to Ceramics. Bottom path is seeing quality of life changes aimed at improved crosspathing and projectile speed progression as this path focusses on projectile range and speed.

• 4xx Juggernaut Bloon light knockback amount increased 3 > 6
• 4xx Juggernaut Bloon heavy knockback amount increased 1.5 > 2
• xx1 Long Range Darts projectile lifespan multiplier increased 15% > 35%
• xx2 Enhanced Eyesight projectile lifespan multiplier reduced 35% > 25%
• xx2 Enhanced Eyesight projectile speed increased 330 > 350
• 103 Crossbow pierce increased 4 > 6
• 203 Crossbow pierce increased 6 > 9
• Pierce crosspathing carries up to Sharpshooter
• xx3 Crossbow acquisition range increased 56 > 60
• xx4 Sharpshooter acquisition range remains 60
• xx3 Crossbow projectile speed increased from 360 > 400
• xx4 Sharpshooter projectile speed increased from 400 > 450
• xx5 Crossbow Master projectile speed remains 450

Boomerang Monkey

With Glaive Lord being the big winner of recent balance, there is a price gap among towers that fill a similar gameplay role so instead of taking away too much power we’re pushing its price up slightly to fit into that gap. We were unhappy with the recent MOAB Press nerf, so this is being undone for further review. Boomerang paragon use has dropped in use recently so we are taking the opportunity to lower its price.

• 5xx Glaive Lord DoT duration reduced from 15s > 10s
• 5xx Glaive Lord price increased from $29,400 > $32,500
• 104 MOAB Press pierce increased from 260 > 300
• 204 MOAB Press pierce increased from 320 > 420
• Glaive Dominus price reduced from $275,000 > 250,000

Bomb Shooter

Compared among similarly priced hybrid AoE/supports, Really Big Bombs is a lacking stepping stone so we’re improving its damage and granting much more pushback. Even without the ability popping Black, Eliminator has been doing fine, so we are finishing off removing the Normal type on the main projectile.

• 3xx Really Big Bombs damage increased 3 > 4
• 3xx Really Big Bombs Bloon pushback increased 10 > 20
• 5xx Bloon Crush pushback amount to MOAB-Class Bloons unchanged
• x5x MOAB Eliminator base attack type Normal > Explosion
• 024 Recursive Cluster cluster projectile speed now scales with Missile Launcher

Ice Monkey

Embrittlement had too much going on at T4 without much reason to use T3, as Ice Shards alone is already similarly priced to other Camo removal options and with the Primary category lacking in Camo detection, we have split Embrittlement up and introduced Camo removal at T3 so we can leave Embrittlement to focus entirely on being a damage support upgrade. While we’re still considering future plans here, increasing layers frozen from 5 > 8 at least means that Absolute Zero’s freeze can now last through all standard Bloon layers from a single application. As similar choices are currently leveling out with higher power Cryo Cannon feels like it deserves to have some power brought back.

• 3xx Ice Shards now also removes Camo & Regrow properties from targets
• 050 Absolute Zero main attack layers frozen increased from 5 > 8
• xx3 Cryo Cannon price reduced from 2250 > 1950
• xx3 Cryo Cannon freeze duration 1.2s > 1.5s

Glue Gunner

Top path glue struggles with large numbers of targets until T5 where it suddenly has no trouble at all, to improve earlier tier cleanup we’re taking a small amount of power out of the T5 glue puddles but improving T4 puddles and increasing attack rate across lower tiers. As it only increases attack speed and Glue Splatter already hits the majority of targets with no trouble this leaves Glue Hose not feeling that compelling, as this path becomes the full map glue anyway we felt we could improve tower range along this path as well.

• 3xx Bloon Dissolver price reduced from $2,500 > $2,000
• 3xx Bloon Dissolver attack cooldown 1s > 0.5s
• 4xx Liquefier attack cooldown reduced from 0.75 > 0.5s
• 4xx Bloon Liquefier lingering puddles damage increased 2 > 4
• 5xx The Bloon Solver price increased from $22,000 > $22,500
• 5xx The Bloon Solver attack cooldown remains at 0.25s
• 5xx The Bloon Solver track puddles damage reduced 20 > 15
• x3x Glue Hose range increased from 46 > 58

Sniper Monkey

… and more on that now, the improved bounce distance crosspathing hasn’t ever been as useful as we hoped, so this benefit is being greatly improved.

• 240 bounce distance increased 50 > 80

Monkey Sub

We’re improving Reactor’s attack cooldown to improve general consistency. Ballistic Missile struggles greatly against standard Bloons since almost all of its power is in the Ceramic/Moab bonus, so we’re also balancing this consistency out with greater damage to standard targets while retaining the same total MOAB-Class power at the cost of pierce. Sub Paragon unsubmerged form is overperforming, so we’re reducing the boss power of the main attack while greatly improving the less desirable submerged power.

• 4xx Bloontonium Reactor attack cooldown reduced 0.3 > 0.28
• x3x Ballistic Missile damage increased from 1 > 3
• x3x Ballistic Missile bonus Ceramic/Moab damage reduced from 5 > 3
• x3x Ballistic Missile pierce reduced from 60 > 40
• Sub Paragon Main Dart bonus damage to boss reduced from 300 > 200
• Sub Paragon Airburst bonus damage to boss reduced from 180 > 100
• Sub Paragon Submerged radiation damage increased from 50 > 250
• Sub Paragon Submerged radiation bonus damage to boss reduced 500 > 250
• Sub Paragon Submerged radiation bonus damage to Ceramic 50 > 250
• Sub Paragon Submerged radiation attack cooldown reduced 0.425 > 0.28

Monkey Buccaneer

Aircraft Carrier is too high power for the price so we are reducing plane attack speed but have left 420 path radials unchanged as it has been the less powerful crosspath after T3 for a while. MOAB damage stat buff for middle path's canons as a low portion of the total damage is dealt by these since the frags fix. Due to loud Lead tinking screams, all Navarch damage is been set to Normal instead of flowing up from lower tiers.

• 4xx Aircraft Carrier forward darts attack cooldown 0.15s > 0.18s
• 4xx Aircraft Carrier radial darts attack cooldown 1s > 1.2s
• 410 Aircraft Carrier plane grapes attack cooldown remains 1s
• 5xx Carrier Flagship main attack pierce increased from 4 > 7
• 040 Monkey Pirates cannons bonus damage to MOABs 3 > 5
• 050 Pirate Lord cannons bonus damage to MOABs 5 > 10
• Paragon damage Type Sharp > Normal

Monkey Ace

Fighter Plane’s missiles often get stuck circling slower targets until they expire, since Ace can’t reasonably plan against this the missile turn acceleration has been tweaked to reduce chance of this happening. Tsar Bomba is a powerful ability that sees a decent lot of use for an ability heavy upgrade, but as it doesn’t really add to the tower outside of that ability we’ve decided to give the base bombs a boost so that well placed Bombing Runs can shred through Super Ceramics.

• 3xx Fighter Plane missile attack max turn rate increased 400 > 500
• 3xx Fighter Plane missile attack turn rate change reduced 160 > 150
• x5x Tsar Bomba bombing run damage increased from 10 > 15
• x5x Tsar Bomba bombing run deals bonus damage to Ceramic 8

Heli Pilot

Among technical players we’ve received feedback that the massive range of the Heli’s missiles causes problems with controlling what heli’s choose to attack & when so we’ve reduced the range of these missiles to a more reasonable number, this is still double the range of the Heli so the missiles will continue to fire first before other attacks but not quite from so far away. As MOAB Shove introduced a supportive mechanic at T3 but never expanded on this again we want to start playing around with this some more, it’s quite strong for a T3 so the slow amount was reduced but we’ve made the T4 now better than the T3 was before.

• 4xx missile attack range reduced from 173 > 84
• x3x Downdraft rate 0.225 > 0.2
• xx3 MOAB Shove MOAB pushback reduced -0.33 > -0.3
• xx3 MOAB Shove BFB pushback reduced 0 > 0.1
• xx4 Comanche Defense BFB pushback increased 0.1 > 0
• xx4 Comanche Defense ZOMG pushback increased 0.33 > 0.22

Mortar Monkey

General tweaks to top path upgrade flow, slightly moving up the costpoint but improving the power of this path. Middle Mortar is seeing improvements mainly for damage over time crosspathing, and we’ve also added Burny Stuff to the Pop & Awe ability with crosspathing. We had been happy with Shattering Shells for a while, but as the game has evolved outright removing Fortification isn’t as valuable anymore, so the price feels high for such a specific role compared to other supportive options.

• 3xx Shell Shock price reduced from $900 > 825
• 302 Shell Shock no longer reduces DoT duration 1.875 > 3.75
• 302 Shell Shock DoT tic duration remains at the higher rate
• 4xx The Big One price increased from $6500 > 7200
• 4xx The Big One shockwave bonus damage to ceramic 1 > 2
• 5xx The Biggest One center explosion bonus damage to Ceramic 20 > 30
• 5xx The Biggest One center explosion bonus damage to MOAB 20 > 30
• 502 The Biggest One DoT damage increased from 50 > 60
• 032 Heavy Shells burning damage per tick 2 > 3
• 042 Artillery Battery burning damage per tick 3 > 4
• 052 Pop and Awe burning damage per tick 5 > 18
• 052 Pop and Awe DoT duration increased from 3.75s > 7.5s
• 052 Pop And Awe ability now applies Burning Stuff of damage 36
• xx4 Shattering Shells price reduced from $10,500 > $9,500

Dartling Gunner

Since Plasma Accelerator is a heavily MOAB-Damage focussed upgrade so we want to introduce this niche somewhat better at the T3 with a little starting MOAB Damage, while only doing one change here already we also knocked a little price off from Ray of Doom

• 3xx Laser Cannon now deals bonus damage to MOABs +2
• 5xx Ray of Doom price reduced from 80,000 > 75,000

Super Monkey

It only scored 5/5 stars instead of a 6/5 in the Hall of Fame due to the high cost, so we’ve lowered that cost to see if this can be re-evaluated.

• xx5 Legend of the Night price reduced from $200,000 > $165,650

We haven’t looked much at Temples since the release of other paragons, as these have solidly carved out a place for themselves in Boss Events the original Temple has fallen behind, we wanted to try work on this again by improving upon the weaker temple sub-attacks, with this increased power we’ve also reduced the basic attack pierce gained on the main temple attack. We will be reviewing temple balance further soon so if, any of your feedback on this Rules, then we’ll take that under consideration for our next look.

• Magic Arcane Blast attack pierce increased 7 > 15
• v1 Magic Arcane Blast attack damage 20 > 40
• v2 Magic Arcane Blast attack damage 30 > 60
• v3 Magic Arcane Blast attack damage 35 > 70
• v1 Primary Golden Glaives attack damage 10 > 50
• v2 Primary Golden Glaives attack damage 20 > 100
• v3 Primary Golden Glaives attack damage 30 > 150
• v1 Primary Golden Blades attack pierce 10 > 100
• v2 Primary Golden Blades attack pierce 20 > 200
• v1 Primary Golden Blades attack damage 15 > 150
• v2 Primary Golden Blades attack damage 25 > 250
• $300 Primary pierce buffs reduced 5 > 2
• $10k Primary pierce buffs reduced 5 > 2
• $15k Primary pierce buffs reduced 5 > 3
• $25k Primary pierce buffs reduced 5 > 3
• $1k Military pierce buffs reduced 5 > 3
• $7.5k Military pierce buffs reduced 5 > 3
• $15k Military pierce buff reduced 5 > 4

Ninja Monkey

To allow Shinobi combos to scale more effectively with the Flash Bomb, the combo-attack pattern is being improved with more base Shuriken pierce & slightly larger bonuses to Stunned & Stickied targets – however the increased range at T4 is being removed. Ninja Paragon’s Camo bonus has been interesting, but we want to scale this up in many places to feel like a more significant overall boost when it comes into play. Additionally this Paragon hasn’t scaled the best at high degrees as Stickies attacking faster than their Fuse Time would make the attack weaker at single target, we are slowing the sticky attack but giving it back proportionally more damage to resolve this with an overall buff.

• xx3 Flash Bomb shuriken pierce increased 2 > 4
• xx3 Flash Bomb shuriken bonus to stunned 3 > 4
• xx4 Sticky Bomb shuriken bonus to stickied 3 > 4
• xx4 Sticky Bomb no longer increases range
• xx5 Master Bomber main shuriken bonus to stunned 9 > 19
• xx5 Master Bomber main shuriken bonus to stickied 9 > 19
• Paragon Main Attack bonus damage to Camo increased 6 > 16
• Paragon Flash Bomb explosion bonus damage to Camo increased 20 > 48
• Paragon Flash Bomb shuriken bonus damage to Camo increased 16 > 40
• Paragon Main Attack bonus damage to Stunned/Sticked increased 15 > 64
• Paragon Sticky Bomb attack cooldown increased from 5.5 > 6.5
• Paragon Sticky Bomb explosion damage increased from 3500 > 4200
• Paragon Sticky Bomb explosion bonus damage to Boss 1400 > 2100
• Paragon Sticky Bomb explosion bonus damage to Camo 700 > 2100

Alchemist

As a small tax to low tier Alchemists we are moving cost from Stronger Stimulant into Berserker Brew, this shouldn’t hurt much for general play and keeps un-discounted Stimulant the same. As this was an oversight Total Transformation is now being enabled to transform mermonkey.

• 3xx Berserker Brew price increased from $1,300 > $1,400
• 4xx Stronger Stimulant price reduced from $2,950 > $2,850
• x5x Alchemist can now transform Mermonkey

Druid

Now that Tornadoes are one of the more popular Bloon Stall choices we looked more into its upgrade progression, tornado projectile speed is being reduced as a benefit to Ball Lightning to prevent tornado outpacing the lightning ball so quickly, and to more suit it as a Cold/Magic themed upgrade plus differentiate from similar supports the weaknesses are changing. More directly to Ball Lightning we feel it needs a considerably higher freeze duration for the freeze to matter as it casts slowly. Our initial rework to Vine attack rate in v44 caused some issues at T4, to get around these issues T4 now improves the power of vines directly instead.

• 3xx Druid of the Storm tornado projectile speed reduced from 90 > 72
• 3xx Druid of the Storm tornado weakness changed from Lead > White, Purple
• 4xx Ball Lightning freeze duration increased from 1.5s > 4.5s
• 5xx Superstorm DDT pierce penalty reduced from 9 > 7
• x3x Druid of the Jungle track brambles refresh rate can now receive buffs
• x4x Jungle’s Bounty number of vines 2 > 1
• x4x Jungle’s Bounty has a cooldown rate of 2.6s
• x4x Jungle’s Bounty track brambles pierce refresh rate 0.3 > 0.2
• x4x Jungle’s Bounty track brambles clear targets hit rate 0.3 > 0.2
• x4x Jungle’s Bounty track brambles duration increased 4.5s > 9s

Mermonkey

We were cautious with initial low tier Mermonkey upgrades, but as nothing seriously unexpected came up we’ve reduced the base cost and improved the projectile lifespan which should help with issues on some higher tier upgrades.

• 000 Mermonkey price reduced from $600 > 475
• 000 Mermonkey projectile lifespan increased from 100 > 200

As the middle crosspath is currently less useful for higher tiers, we’ve upgraded Sharper Prongs to improve Tentacle pierce as well. As the main Trident’s damage falls behind and has caused annoying layer skipping for some more observant players the damage of this attack is increasing at T3 & T4. The % pierce buff is being improved at all levels since this has settled without causing too much of a stir, and finally Lord of The Abyss’s price is being greatly reduced as a heavily pierce built design it requires some single-target assistance to perform well.

• 310 Abyss Dweller, Sharper Prongs grants tentacles pierce +35%
• 3xx Abyss Dweller trident damage 2 > 4
• 4xx Abyssal Warrior trident damage 2 > 8
• 3xx Abyss Dweller pierce buff increased from 5% > 10%
• 4xx Abyssal Warrior pierce buff increased from 15% > 20%
• 5xx Lord of the Abyss pierce buff increased from 30% > 40%
• 5xx Lord of the Abyss price reduced from $29,000 > $23,000

While the Arctic Knight has been popular, Riptide Champion has major pierce issues and is seeing a price reduction as well as a pierce increase to make up for this. Arctic Knight itself is receiving the brand new damage type added this update; as it is gaining a weakness to White Bloons from this and wasn’t too wild before we are increasing the power as well & allowing the ability to carry over 1 round to prevent projectiles timing out immediately when cast at the end of a round. Popseidon had unintentionally more pierce on the central trident’s split projectiles, so this pierce is being spread out for a total increase. Finally popseidon released with a very wide projectile arc to prevent the seeking projectiles from clumping immediately, we like how this has worked out but feel that only the 052 crosspath needs to have this increased arc.

• x3x Riptide Champion price reduced from $2,800 > 2,300
• x3x Riptide Champion pierce increased from 8 > 12
• x4x Arctic Knight pierce increased from 14 > 15
• x4x Arctic Knight weakness changed from Purple > White, Purple
• x4x Arctic Knight ability weakness changed from Purple > White, Purple
• x4x Arctic Knight ability damage increased from 15 > 20
• x4x Arctic Knight ability projectiles last through 1 round end
• x5x Popseidon central trident pierce increased from 16 > 18
• x5x Popseidon side tridents pierce increased from 16 > 18
• x5x Popseidon central trident split pierce reduced from 24 > 18
• x5x Popseidon side tridents split pierce increased from 16 > 18
• x5x Popseidon projectile arc reduced from 60 to 45
• 052 Popseidon projectile arc remains at 60

Echosense Network hasn’t felt like it is doing all that it could, so we have increased the maximum number of stacks to raise the ceiling of use here as it is meant to be slow ramping with a high space & cost investment to build heavily into. Mermonkey’s trance was extremely powerful against MOABs but limited against regular Bloons, so we’ve shifted prices apart & improved T3 while raising the cost of T4 to a more appropriate level. Same as with Abyss Dweller the middle crosspath has shown to be less useful for higher tiers, so this also sees a pierce increase to the Trance attack.

• xx2 Echosense Network maximum stacks increased from 5 > 10x
• 013 Alluring Melody gains extra pierce from Sharper Prongs +1
• xx3 Alluring Melody price reduced from $2800 > 2000
• xx3 Alluring Melody base pierce increased from 2 > 3
• xx4 Symphonic Resonance pierce unchanged
• xx4 Symphonic Resonance price increased from $4600 > $7600

Spike Factory

Still very strong cleanup, Spiked Balls slowly approaches 10 pierce, while leaving Spiked Mines unchanged for more encouragement to upgrade past it. Permaspike is seeing a small crosspath fix, as the x2x rate change threw this balance out.

• 3xx Spiked Balls pierce reduced from 12 > 11
• 205 Permaspike pierce reduced from 90 > 85

Engineer

The Ultraboost ability is now starting on cooldown to put a limit on buy’n’resell issues, but this is to ease up on the use per round limit which was causing frustration. We felt the Master Builder's perma-buff-per-round wasn’t valuable enough to make use of building in advance, so we are reducing the base attack speed with increased power in return to more heavily improve the maximum scaled power from this.

• x5x Ultraboost ability now starts on cooldown
• x5x Ultraboost uses per round increased 3 > 10
• Paragon attack cooldown increase per round increased 0.1 > 0.3
• Paragon minimum attack cooldown increased 0.05 > 0.15
• Paragon nail gun attack cooldown increased from 0.3s > 1s
• Paragon nail gun attack damage increased from 100 > 300
• Paragon nail gun attack boss bonus increased from 100 > 500
• Paragon nail gun pin duration increased from 1 > 5
• Paragon Green Sentry now has a Lock in Place target option

Beast Handler

Base handler's beast range felt too high starting off when considering the tower is built around sharing range between multiple Handlers so this range is being reduced.

• 000 Beast Handler acquisition range reduced from 60 > 50

Top Handler is designed around huge inconsistent power, however Megalodon feels that it should be more reliable for the investment required so we are improving both thrash radius and reducing the cooldown. Fish RBE limit before being able to devour the target instantly is being increased to last further into freeplay.

• 5xx Megalodon thrash radius increased from 36 > 48
• 5xx Megalodon cooldown reduced from 1 > 0.8
• 3xx Max Pull RBE limit increased from 250,000 > 500,000

Bottoms will now move slower but speed up as more beasts are merged into them, likewise they will attack slower at first but faster through their merges. This should add more merge value to lower tier birds while overall nerfing to the base level for currently overpowered higher tiers.

• xx1 Gyrfalcon fly speed reduced from 110 > 80
• xx2 Horned Owl fly speed merge range increased from 0 > 40
• xx2 Horned Owl ceramic penalty reduced from 5 > 4
• xx2 Horned Owl attack cooldown increased from 0.7s > 1s
• xx2 Horned Owl attack cooldown merge range 0.28s > 0.4s
• xx3 Golden Eagle attack cooldown merge range 0.28s > 0.52s
• xx3 Golden Eagle attack cooldown increased from 0.6s > 1s
• xx5 Pouakai attack cooldown increased from 0.6s > 0.8s

Captain Churchill

Lower attack rate hurt Churchill's early game too much so these lower tier rates have been improved. His range upgrade increases were too small considering the large base range, so these have also been improved. While useful when it comes online, Churchill's Machine Gun never scaled the best so needs further improvements to scale up with higher levels. & finally since it's very hard to get to Lv20 at all, we’ve given a nice bump to base damage here as well.

• Lv1 Attack cooldown reduced from 1.8s > 1.5s
• Lv8 Attack cooldown reduced from 1.5 > 1.2s
• Lv1 Acquisition range increased from 63 > 65
• Lv4 Acquisition range increased from 66 > 75
• Lv5 machine-gun damage increased from 1 > 2
• Lv7 machine-gun damage increased from 2 > 4
• Lv12 machine-gun damage increased from 3 > 6
• Lv14 machine-gun damage increased from 4 > 8
• Lv18 machine-gun damage increased from 5 > 10
• Lv15 machine-gun bonus damage to Fortified increased from 1 > 2
• Lv18 machine-gun bonus damage to Fortified increased from 1 > 4
• Lv20 Cannon damage 15 > 20

Ezili

Though we feel she is quite powerful already later in the game, Ezili has quite a hard time in the early game, we’ve given more initial damage over time to allow her to clean up early Green Bloons with one attack

• Lv1 damage over time damage increased from 1 > 2
• Lv8 damage over time damage remains 2

Sauda

Sauda's early game feels exceptional and is seeing a pierce reduction, however as her Sword Charge struggles to break super ceramics as they first begin to appear we’re also filling a gap and allowing her to sweep the path twice from Lv14, Sword Charge damage is also being reduced at lv16 but this is only to keep the overall same power level now that it hits twice.

• Lv1 pierce reduced from 4 > 3
• Lv14 Sword Charge sweeps the path twice
• Lv16 Sword Charge damage reduced from 120 > 60
• Lv20 Sword Charge damage remains 220

Corvus

We’re happy with how Corvus fits into his new XP curve, although a few edges do need to be smoothed out. First, Corvus early game is kinda broken, for now we’re not touching the spirit itself but have reduced the damage of the Spear spell. Frostbound is currently much better than Repel, so we have doubled Repel’s knockback against non-moabs & increased its radius along with some small nerfs to Frostbound - note that while Frostbound’s freeze on MOABs is being reduced the duration is still longer than the re-application rate so this will rarely be noticed. For Dark Ritual QoL, it will no longer eat up pierce on purple Bloons unless it is able to damage them. Finally, Overload & Might are still somewhat tuned around the higher XP curve and need some nips to their power.

• Lv1 Spear spell damage reduced from 2 > 1
• Lv5 Frostbound spell cooldown increased 45s > 50s
• Lv5 Frostbound spell mana cost increased 170 > 190
• Lv9 Frostbound spell reduced freeze duration to MOAB-Class 50% > 75%
• Lv1 Repel knockback radius increased 8 > 10
• Lv1 Repel knockback amount increased 4 > 8
• Lv12 Repel knockback against MOAB-Class unchanged
• Lv10 Dart Ritual filters out Purple targets unless can damage
• Lv13 overload damage reduced 1500 > 1150
• Lv20 overload damage reduced 3000 > 2250
• Lv7 Ancestral might mana cost increased 440 > 550
• Lv13 Overload mana cost increased 520 > 620

Rosalia

As Rosalia can’t properly attack while moving the repositioning speed has been increased, and we’ve given her extra attack range. Her abilities have also been noted as difficult to effectively utilize, so we’ve eased up on Scatter Missiles and increased the maximum damage on Kinetic Charge to have a higher potential payoff. Her main attacks also feel they start to fall off too early, so higher levels for these have both been improved at their respective strengths.

• Lv1 Acquisition range increased 32 > 40
• Lv1 Repositioning speed increased 0.7 > 1.5
• Lv3 Scatter Missile initial target delay reduced 1s > 0.4s
• Lv10 Kinetic Charge pierce increased from 100 > 500
• Lv10 Kinetic Charge max additional damage 3000 > 4500
• Lv20 Kinetic Charge max additional damage 8000 > 12000
• Lv13 Cluster grenades pierce increased 5 > 8
• Lv15 Grenade ceramic damage increased 5 > 6
• Lv15 Grenade cluster ceram dmg increased 3 > 4
• Lv12 Laser bonus damage to MOAB-Class increased 5 > 10
• Lv15 Laser bonus damage to MOAB-Class increased 20 > 30
• Lv19 Laser bonus damage to MOAB-Class increased 30 > 45

Relic Knowledge

We didn’t expect the last Deep Heat change to be too crazy of a shakeup, but now that we have new variables opened up for it and have tested these working in the wild we’re going to start improving on these values

• Deep Heat freeze duration bonus increased from 10% > 30%
• Deep Heat extra layers frozen increased from 1 > 3

These Bloon properties aren’t prevalent enough to justify such small bonuses compared to Raw Damage or MOAB/Ceramic Damage.

• Fortified damage bonus to Fortified increased from 2 > 3
• Broken Heart damage bonus to regrow increased 2 > 5

We don’t feel Rounding-Up was bad but with Thrive basically always giving significantly more total cash we wanted to close the gap a bit more between these Relics so that the actual fully custom Relic could feel a bit better in comparison to the Power Charge relic.

• Rounding Up end-of-round cash bonus increased from $20 > 25

Boss Bloons

Previously we scaled Rock Bloon HP in Boss Rush faster than Dreadbloon in order to keep them relevant from start to finish within a rough 100 tier expectation. Players pushing beyond this expected range were finding obvious annoyance with this as the Rock Bloons would eventually outscale the Boss, so we’re reducing their scale to match in line with Dreadbloon but increasing the number of Rock Bloons that spawn.

• Dreadbloon’s Rock Bloon HP scaling reduced 1.07 > 1.055
• Dreadbloon Rock Bloons per spawn increased 3 > 6

Looking Forward

Going into the home stretch of the year with one massive update yet to come. With the Bloons Card Storm release coming next week, we’re feeling quite tactical, so let’s dig right into the details.

• Game Editor
  • We have delayed this to give us more time to iterate and polish. This has become a very robust technical feature, with an emphasis on technical, as we are allowing interaction with the game’s baseline behavior scripts. The technical functionality is complete, but we have not had time to build enough games internally nor share with any modders, so we did not feel comfortable releasing as part of 45. We will complete this work in the next weeks and then decide whether to release as a 45.x update or hold until update 46, so please stay tuned.
  • Game Editor remains a highly technical feature for its first release, so it may only appeal to players with a solid understanding of code, modding, and/or game scripting. We will be working to improve accessibility in future updates, especially as we build the tower editing features that we’re still keen to offer.
• Update 46
  • Tack Shooter Paragon still on track - this was already planned for 46 so no change there.
  • Legends is shaping up to be amazing and we’re eager to share more details (check back to the Update 44 Notes Looking Forward if you missed the explanation). We’ll plan on at least one dev diary during development to preview the art and gameplay of this super cool rogue-lite DLC.
  • Quests, a new “revenge” style map, and maybe some additional surprise content!
• PlayStation and Xbox Content Update
  • Adding 9 maps, 5 hero skins, and 50+ trophy store items to bring the console version further up to date.
  • Changes are made and we’re working through the submission process.

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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

• 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 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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.
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

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

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

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!

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!

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.

Click the image below to go to the Makeship site!


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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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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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

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.

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]

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.

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

• 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 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!

• 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

• [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.

• 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

• 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!

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)

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
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

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.

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 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

• 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.