Board Thread:Game Suggestions/@comment-24471175-20170515202705

After having a chat with a Ninja Kiwi developer, their focuses are more on BTD6 rather than updating BTD5. However there are plenty of complaints on forums about certain specialty upgrades being very underpowered compared to others or being outright downgrades.

I've started modding the game and found I can make the desired changes on my own. So I started to wonder, what if I made a mod for the game that addresses players issues, then submit it to Ninja Kiwi so they could implement it as an update with minimal effort? (After playtesting of course)

Changes I'm working on:

-Heli Pilot's 2nd specialty upgrade now permanently gives Heli Pilot's camo detection. Enhanced IR Instruments makes the Heli Pilot remove camo from attacked bloons.

The +10% range thing is barely noticeable

-Heli Pilot's 4th specialty upgrade is now "Security Guards." Heli Pads spawn COBRA agents nearby every 10s. They act like Sentry Guns, firing at nearby bloons and disappear after 20s (No upgrades and sells for $0).

With Bigger Jets, Heli can already out fly an bloon, so its kinda obselete atm.

-Monkey Engineer's 4th specialty upgrade I have 3 possibilities created:

1. Super Sentrygun's firing rate is reduced to every 0.5s rather than 0.33s, but every 4th shot it will fire a Hydra Pod Rocket instead. Also Fast Engineerig will let you build more Super Sentryguns.

2. Instead of Super Sentries, The Monkey Engineer will replace his Nail Gun with a Saw Blade launcher. Saw Blades are electrostically charged and home-in on the nearest bloons. Behaves similar to Glaive Riccochet, but the popping power is the same as the Nail Gun (Pops up to 3 bloons, 8 with 9-Inch Nails upgrade)

3. Adds a Welding Torch to the Monkey Engineer's Arensal. Acts like a weaker verson of Dragon Breath

Currently, Regular Sentrys are 11% more effective than Super Sentrys with the Fast Engineering upgrade. An oversight I pointed out to the developer.

The image is just one of my experiments: A Heli Pilot that fires Bees

 