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Version 44.0 was released on August 1st 2024. It was the fourth major update of 2024. Several sub-updates were released in between.

This update adds the fifth added tower into BTD6 and fourth tower new to the BTD6 Generation, the Mermonkey, as well as the Intermediate Map Luminous Cove. Alongside the release of Mermonkey, the unlock system for Beast Handler was changed from requiring completion of Epic Beast Quest to just requiring 3M Pops, much like the Mermonkey (3M Pops) and Dartling (500K → 3M Pops), all able to begin unlocking at Level 30. Additionally, Psi is getting their third hero skin, Dreamstate Psi, who sleeps in pajamas and gradually increases dream power at higher levels. The map unlock system was reworked for all Intermediate and above maps, no longer requiring a specific number of maps of previous difficulty to unlock harder maps, but instead requiring a set number of unique map wins (Intermediate: 5, Advanced: 12, Expert: 20).

In terms of balance changes, Ninja Kiwi has focused on simple balance changes that focused on reducing power creep while also increasing basic power of weaker towers and upgrades. To equalise the top-end sides, Geraldo and Level 20 Adora were nerfed, Goliath Doomship's Carpet Bomb ability deals less total Boss damage at a higher cooldown, and Pop and Awe had its price raised significantly. A few notable reworks were also implemented in Version 44.0 including: Captain Churchill exchanging attack speed for greater raw damage, Crossbow Master exchanging attack speed for greater damage plus even more pierce with Path 1 crosspath, and Glue Storm's duration increased back to 20s in exchange for a longer ability cooldown.

Version 44.2[]

No update notes were officially released. Not available on iOS or Android.

Version 44.1[]

Version 44.1 patch notes. Note that all platforms are forced to update to Version 44.1 since 9th August 2024 at approximately 12pm NZST, including for Version 44.0.


Update: Bloons TD 6 v44.1 - Update Notes!

Update: Bloons TD 6 v44.1 - Update Notes!

Fixes
  • Geraldo’s Rejuv potion functions correctly again; Geraldo will remain out of events until all non-console platforms and players are updated to 44.1
  • Resolved an issue where some quests were tracking pops towards tower unlocks
  • Resolved an issue where some tier 2 Insta-Monkeys were appearing more frequently
  • Mortar Mole & Boomer Roo can no longer be used in custom maps without being owned
  • The Pink Bloons on r9 of Geraldo’s trial quest no longer have the Camo property
  • Towers unlocked via Pop Requirements should no longer show upgrade available icons before being unlocked
  • Towers unlocked via tower bundle IAP before level 30 should no longer display a ‘unlock at level 30’ banner on the towers menu.
  • Obyn’s abilities should no longer sometimes load in on the center of the map
  • Navarch of the Seas now displays the correct buff icon for sellback rates
  • x4x Jungle’s Bounty Druid has temporarily had the x3x attack rate change reverted
  • 2xx Advance Intel Sub no longer breaks after loading a save then upgrading
  • 4xx Aircraft Carrier Buccaneer planes can again attack while not facing south
  • xx4 Favored Trades Buccaneer buff icon should no longer visually display on Paragons
  • Resolved some mobilized platform shenanigans
Mermonkey fixes
  • On Erosion, Mermonkey that drop into water when the land supporting them is removed will now benefit from the Mermonkey water placement range buff
  • 4xx Abyssal Warrior no longer slows MOAB-Class Bloons more than regular Bloons
  • 5xx Lord of the Abyss can correctly slow MOAB Class Bloons
  • 5xx Lord of the Abyss ink platforms no longer prevent some water-based buffs applying
  • xx2 Echosense Network should no longer break when selling any of the first 5 placed
  • xx4 Symphonix Resonance totems will no longer be sacrificed to temples
  • xx5 The Final Harmonic weapon model glitch with crosspathing resolved
  • xx5 The Final Harmonic can now detonate damage over time effects from Dreadbloon
Mermonkey extra

While we’re not jumping into any full on balance changes, there’s a few corrections that we wanted to make for type-fixes and other intended play.

  • x3x Riptide Champion split projectiles can now also Freeze Bloons

Lifespan increase to Ice Jet Projectiles has been capped in order to allow this synergy with Obyn to remain somewhat more balanced

  • x4x Ice Jet projectile lifespan capped at 15s
  • x5x Ice Jet projectile lifespan capped at 20s

Damage type fixes - 320 required external Lead-popping which isn’t fun, and x4x was not benefiting from the upgrade’s Lead-popping

  • 3xx Abyss Dweller tentacle damage type Sharp > Shatter
  • x4x Arctic Knight ability ice balls damage type Shatter > Plasma

Since the slowing effect was balanced around a bug which is also being fixed in this patch, we’re giving back a little extra power compensation.

  • 4xx Abyssal Warrior MOAB slow increased from 10% > 28%
  • 5xx Lord of the Abyss tentacle rate 2s > 1.5s

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Full list of changes for update 44.0 can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1eh2iuo/update\_bloons\_td\_6\_v440\_update\_notes/

Fixes
  • NERF Geraldo’s Rejuv potion now (correctly) no longer restocks his entire shop. Geraldo will remain out of events until all non-console platforms and players are updated to 44.1.
  • NERF Resolved an issue where some quests were tracking pops towards tower unlocks
    • This mainly nerfs the use of MOAB Madness to gain about 1M pops per game.
  • Change Resolved an issue where some tier 2 Insta-Monkeys were appearing more frequently
  • NERF Mortar Mole & Boomer Roo can no longer be used in custom maps without being owned
  • BUFF The Pink Bloons on r9 of Geraldo’s trial quest no longer have the Camo property
  • Change Towers unlocked via Pop Requirements should no longer show upgrade available icons before being unlocked
  • Change Towers unlocked via tower bundle IAP before level 30 should no longer display a ‘unlock at level 30’ banner on the towers menu.
  • Change Obyn’s abilities should no longer sometimes load in on the center of the map
  • BUFF Navarch of the Seas now displays the correct buff icon for sellback rates, instead of the Elite Sniper buff
  • BUFF Jungle's Bounty's Druid of the Jungle vine grab minimum attack cooldown reduced back from 2.6s to 0.3s, but still requires an interconnected vine grab cooldown per vine grab. Also affects 0-5-x Spirit of the Forest (2.6s → 0.3s) and 1+-5-0 Spirit of the Forest (0.65s → 0.0625s).
  • BUFF Advanced Intel Sub no longer breaks after loading a save then upgrading
  • BUFF Aircraft Carrier Buccaneer planes can again attack while not facing south
  • Change Favored Trades buff icon should no longer visually display on Paragons
Resolved some mobilized platform shenanigans
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Towers with platforms can no longer randomly keep towers in mid-air, specifically for Lord of the Abyss.
    • Rohan Spibo from Ninja Kiwi is referring to platforms with Arctic Wind and now the Lord of the Abyss. Source.
Mermonkey fixes
  • BUFF On Erosion, Mermonkey that drop into water when the land supporting them is removed will now benefit from the Mermonkey water placement range buff
  • NERF Abyssal Warrior no longer slows MOAB-Class Bloons more than regular Bloons
  • BUFF Lord of the Abyss can correctly slow MOAB Class Bloons
  • BUFF Lord of the Abyss ink platforms no longer prevent some water-based buffs applying
  • BUFF Echosense Network should no longer break when selling any of the first 5 placed
  • Change Symphonic Resonance totems will no longer be sacrificed to temples
  • Change The Final Harmonic weapon model glitch with crosspathing resolved
  • BUFF The Final Harmonic can now detonate damage over time effects from Dreadbloon
Mermonkey extra
While we’re not jumping into any full on balance changes, there’s a few corrections that we wanted to make for type-fixes and other intended play.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Riptide Champion split projectiles can now also Freeze Bloons
Lifespan increase to Ice Jet Projectiles has been capped in order to allow this synergy with Obyn to remain somewhat more balanced
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Arctic Knight's Ice Jet projectile lifespan is now capped at 15s
  • NERF Popseidon's Ice Jet projectile lifespan is now capped at 20s
Damage type fixes - 320 required external Lead-popping which isn’t fun, and x4x was not benefiting from the upgrade’s Lead-popping
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Abyss Dweller tentacle damage type changed from Sharp to Shatter
  • Change Arctic Knight ability ice balls damage type changed from Shatter to Plasma. Also affects Popseidon
Since the slowing effect was balanced around a bug which is also being fixed in this patch, we’re giving back a little extra power compensation.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Abyssal Warrior MOAB-class slow increased from 10% to 28%
  • BUFF Lord of the Abyss tentacle cooldown decreased from 2s to 1.5s

Version 44.0[]

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

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

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

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

Key New Features
  • New Tower, fresh out of MONKLANTIS, the Mermonkey!
    • Smash them with abyssal tentacly creatures, freeze and wash them away with enchanted waves, and lead them astray with mystical melodies! The Bloons will tremble at the might of the Sea, even on land!
    • Players have been asking about new towers and the community has suggested the existence of a Mermonkey since BTD5, so yes we’ve done it! We are committed to adding new towers to the game when we see genuine spaces for unique tower design and gaps in existing tower synergies, especially in different game modes and Events. Mermonkey adds a valuable water tower outside of the Military category, and the designs relating to range from target, buffs, and ice synergy are intended to spark new placement strategies, fun combos, and interesting tier list discussions
    • Mermonkey starts as a low range amphibious tower with a large vision increase when placed in water. They throw a single trident that pierces twice and can damage up to 3 Bloons each time it does, making it effective during earlier dense rounds where this can overlap. Crosspathing choices include Attack & Projectile Speed, AoE & Freezing, or Seeking & Vision
    • Top path Mermonkey fights side by side with a mysterious sea creature that attacks in all directions, slows Bloons down with inky tridents, and enhances all towers within a radius with a percentage pierce increase
    • Middle path attacks with freezing waves that grow larger and more powerful the further they travel, with the wave eventually crashing to form a unique T-shaped attack! They deal increased damage to any Frozen targets, and with the Ice Jet ability, fire a quick barrage of bouncing ice projectiles
    • Bottom Path lures Bloons off track with an irresistible melody to dance around the Mermonkey for a short time while also detonating any damage-over-time effects on those Bloons to deal all the remaining DoT immediately
    • Final note for PC players; We plan to continue working on new towers after Mermonkey, and as we grow closer to maxing out standard keyboard space for reasonable hotkeys we realize it’s not going to be viable to start shuffling these around every time to maintain anymore. So we have decided not to assign any default hotkey for new towers going forward, however we have added the space for a hotkey to be assigned manually within the hotkeys menu.
New Awesome
  • New Hero Skin, Dreamstate Psi
    • Drift off into pleasant Bloon-popping dreams with the adorable new Dreamstate Psi skin. Cozy gameplay guaranteed!
  • New Intermediate Map, Luminous Cove
    • A mysterious cove with deep connections to Mermonkey kind. Help defend this ancient refuge against a two-path Bloon assault to uncover the secrets of these mystical, melodious Monkeys.
  • New Trial Quests! Both of these quests will allow players use of the towers even before unlocking them
    • Mermonkeys, Not Mere Monkeys - Learn about and trial the Mermonkey tower
    • Super Dartling Bros - Learn about and trial the Dartling Gunner tower
  • New Trophy Store Items
    • Monkeys: Safety Mole mortar pet, with a tip of the helmet to our new friends and colleagues from Legion TD 2
    • Bloons: Clown Wigs Bloons
    • Co-op: I’m The Problem text emote
    • Game & UI: Rosalia avatar
  • New CT Team Store items
    • Water Props: Adventure Whale
Game Changes / Additions
  • The Alternate Bloon Rounds round set has increased from 100 to 140 preset rounds, putting more All in Alternate
  • Tower Unlock System
    • We recognize that we have been inconsistent with how “new” Monkey Towers become available and want to streamline this going forward. Dartling Gunner’s more passive unlock giftbox has been reworked into a proper Tower unlock system, where all “new” Towers can be accessed in each player’s preferred order via pop count thresholds.
    • So that we can stop putting air quotes around “new”, we mean all Monkey Towers added after the Engineer: Dartling Gunner, Beast Handler, and Mermonkey…
    • All unlocked towers through older methods will stay unlocked, so there is no need to worry about having to unlock towers again.
    • Any Trial quests for Monkey Towers will now be optional tutorials and will allow you to play with the Tower before accessing it, but they will not permanently access the tower for you
    • Each of the 3 new Monkey Towers also comes with their own optional IAP available for players who want to start using the new Towers straight away or who like custom items. Each IAP immediately accesses the Tower, unlocks all upgrades through tier 5, and also comes with valuable exclusive items: a tier 5 insta for each path (5xx, x5x, and xx5), a custom profile banner, and a custom avatar themed around the related Tower
  • Map Unlock System
    • Our launch map unlock system became a constraint on design and players with requirements trickling down from the number of Beginner maps, so this system has been replaced with a much simpler ‘Full Category Unlocks’ system.
    • Each category (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert) of maps will now require a total number of map wins from any other category in order to be permanently unlocked for all current and future maps within that category.
    • Intermediate: Unlocked after 5 unique map wins
    • Advanced: Unlocked after 12 unique map wins
    • Expert: Unlocked after 20 unique map wins
  • Unfortunately, we were not able to implement Retry Last Round for Co-op CHIMPS for this update. We have been trying to get this in for 44 but have run into unexpected problems that cannot be resolved in time, so we hope to have this ready for update 45.
Mod Users

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

  • Previously, we attempted to prevent this account damage by turning off account saving whenever mods were detected, but as the mods themselves disable this feature anyway we’ve changed this to a warning prompt with the options: Close Game, Continue (at your own risk), or Logout.
  • Please create an alternate account if you wish to try out any mods. If you come across this warning when you are not intending to use any, then immediately close the game and confirm that you have disabled them.
Bug Fixes & General Changes
  • Track arrows now get destroyed immediately when the round starts
  • Resolved a crash that could occur when loading into a co-op game
  • Cleaned up the hitbox size of the ‘Named Monkeys’ section of player profiles
  • Resolved a crash that could occur when attempting to load remote data
  • Resolved a number of aspect ratio related UI issues
  • Added a scrolling indicator to the Heroes menu
  • Team Banner sizes adjusted to remove stretching
  • Resolved a number of edge case crashes
  • Development fixes, just for us, nothing behind the curtain
Event changes
  • Improved visuals of Dreadbloon’s ‘dash’ in Boss Rush
  • Resolved an issue where immediately entering the Social menu after launching the game could fail to load the CT Event and Co-op Daily Challenge
  • Odysseys should no longer break when the same map is set multiple islands in a row
  • Time Attack tiles in CT no longer reward Monkey Money unless the tile is captured
  • Resolved a number of visual issues with Boss Shields/Damage states in Boss Rush
  • Resolved an issue where CT could display some relics as available for teams that don’t actually have access to them
  • Bosses should no longer display bugged visuals when spawning the same tier again after being destroyed
  • Resolved Boss Rush sometimes showing incorrect error messages when failing to load
  • Boss Events may now have different scoring types set for normal compared to elite
  • Teams menu should now only show a boss in the background if Boss Rush is active
  • Lych’s healing should no longer be able to overflow
  • Improved art in Dreadblon & Lych’s 3D boss menus
  • Improved water ripple visuals in the Teams menu
Map Specific changes
  • Fixed some incorrect blocking on Glacial Trail
  • Resolved an issue where Ravine's Sword could be refreshed
  • Castle Revenge default music track changed to 'Jazz Theme'
  • Sulfur Springs default music track changed to 'Tribes and Tribulations'
  • Changes made to tower height level on Flooded Valley after flooding the valley
Tower Specific Fixes
Tack Shooter
  • 5xx meteor explosion no longer hits camo without detection
Ice Monkey
  • Bloons Frozen by Snowstorm or Absolute Zero should now function correctly when distracted or knocked back
Sniper Monkey
  • 5xx Cripple Moab explosion no longer hits camo without detection
Monkey Sub
  • 5xx Energizer should now correctly display a buff icon on x4x Beast Handlers
Monkey Buccaneer
  • 5xx Carrier Flagship planes should no longer occasionally pause attacks for no reason
  • xx4 Favoured Trades now has a buff icon for its Sellback Rate discount
Heli Pilot
  • 013 MOAB Shove should again correctly increase pushback amount
Druid
  • 4xx Ball Lightning can no longer freeze White Bloons
Spike Factory
  • 042 Spike Storm should now react to the current track on Workshop, rather than the one that was active when its last upgrade was purchased
Engineer
  • Placing a Master Builder turret at the very bottom of the screen should no longer crash
Hero Specific Fixes
Adora
  • Adora can no longer Blood Sacrifice an Arctic Wind that is supporting her on water
Sauda
  • Lv3 Leaping Sword should no longer fail to target when intended target is popped early
Geraldo
  • Changing ownership in co-op after a player has left the game should no longer prevent Geraldo from placing Rabbits
  • Resolved a number of issues with buffs not being correctly removed when upgrading Dart Monkeys with a Worn Hero’s Cape

Rosalia

  • Lv3 Scatter Missile should no longer target the workshop base if the intended target is completely destroyed at the same time as the ability is fired
  • Price buff icons should no longer disappear without enough cash to buy an upgrade
  • Lv7 Ace/Heli Flight Speed buff now correctly expires
  • Lv10 Kinetic Charge should no longer sometimes immediately explode when activated
Platform Specific fixes
  • [PC] The ‘Reset Cooldowns’ sandbox button should now correctly restore Geraldo’s item stock when activated from the hotkey
  • [MacOS] Fixes to a softlock that could occur for some on players launching the game
  • [Arcade] Resolved issues with displaying correct Game Center player name
  • [Netflix] Resolved a blank screen appearing before the Netflix splash screen on launch
  • [Netflix] Game title should no longer fail to localize when device language changes to a non-English supported language
Balance Changes

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

Tower Balance
Dart Monkey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • xx4 Icicles deals bonus damage to MOABs +8
Glue Gunner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Lv9 Tornado attack cooldown buff reduced from 30% > 25%
Captain Churchill

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

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

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

  • Lv20 Ball of Light duration reduced from 20 > 15s
Sauda

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

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

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

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

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

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

Corvus

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

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

Rosalia

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

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

Event / Boss / Relic / Knowledge

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

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

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

Dark Dungeons

Statue’s Ball

  • Price considerably reduced

Encrypted

Spooky aftermath

  • Quite a lot more powerful
Looking Backward

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

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

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

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

Preview notes on r/btd6

Bloons TD 6 v44.0 - Update Preview!
Bloons TD 6 v44.0 -  Update Preview! Upcoming v44.0

Preview of what is to come in the next update! There is no confirmed release date for this update but it will be coming very soon, please note that the final version may include further fixes / changes

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

Key New Features
  • New Tower, 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
New Awesome
  • New Hero Skin, Dreamstate Psi
    • Drift off into pleasant Bloon-popping dreams with the adorable new Dreamstate Psi skin. Cozy gameplay guaranteed!
  • New Intermediate Map, Luminous Cove
    • A mysterious cove with deep connections to Mermonkey kind. Help defend this ancient refuge against a two-path Bloon assault to uncover the secrets of these mystical, melodious Monkeys.
  • New Trial Quests! Both of these quests will allow players use of the towers even before unlocking them
    • Mermonkeys, Not Mere Monkeys - Learn about and trial the Mermonkey tower
    • Super Dartling Bros - Learn about and trial the Dartling Gunner tower
  • New Trophy Store Items
    • Monkeys: Safety Mole mortar pet, with a tip of the helmet to our new friends and colleagues from Legion TD 2
    • Bloons: Clown Wigs Bloons
    • Co-op: I’m The Problem text emote
    • Game & UI: Rosalia avatar
  • New CT Team Store items
    • Water Props: Adventure Whale
Game Changes / Additions
  • The Alternate Bloon Rounds round set has increased from 100 to 140 preset rounds, putting more All in Alternate
  • Tower Unlock System
    • We recognize that we have been inconsistent with how “new” Monkey Towers become available and want to streamline this going forward. Dartling Gunner’s more passive unlock giftbox has been reworked into a proper Tower unlock system, where all “new” Towers can be accessed in each player’s preferred order via pop count thresholds.
    • So that we can stop putting air quotes around “new”, we mean all Monkey Towers added after the Engineer: Dartling Gunner, Beast Handler, and Mermonkey…
    • All unlocked towers through older methods will stay unlocked, so there is no need to worry about having to unlock towers again.
    • Any Trial quests for Monkey Towers will now be optional tutorials and will allow you to play with the Tower before accessing it, but they will not permanently access the tower for you
    • Each of the 3 new Monkey Towers also comes with their own optional IAP available for players who want to start using the new Towers straight away or who like custom items. Each IAP immediately accesses the Tower, unlocks all upgrades through tier 5, and also comes with valuable exclusive items: a tier 5 insta for each path (5xx, x5x, and xx5), a custom profile banner, and a custom avatar themed around the related Tower
  • Map Unlock System
    • Our launch map unlock system became a constraint on design and players with requirements trickling down from the number of Beginner maps, so this system has been replaced with a much simpler ‘Full Category Unlocks’ system.
    • Each category (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert) of maps will now require a total number of map wins from any other category in order to be permanently unlocked for all current and future maps within that category.
    • Intermediate: Unlocked after 5 unique map wins
    • Advanced: Unlocked after 12 unique map wins
    • Expert: Unlocked after 20 unique map wins
  • Unfortunately, we were not able to implement Retry Last Round for Co-op CHIMPS for this update. We have been trying to get this in for 44 but have run into unexpected problems that cannot be resolved in time, so we hope to have this ready for update 45. 
Mod Users

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

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

Full list of Balance Changes & Bug Fixes will be included along with the final update notes when the update is released.

Key New Features
  • New Tower, fresh out of MONKLANTIS, the Mermonkey!
    • Smash them with abyssal tentacly creatures, freeze and wash them away with enchanted waves, and lead them astray with mystical melodies! The Bloons will tremble at the might of the Sea, even on land!
    • Players have been asking about new towers and the community has suggested the existence of a Mermonkey since BTD5, so yes we’ve done it! We are committed to adding new towers to the game when we see genuine spaces for unique tower design and gaps in existing tower synergies, especially in different game modes and Events. Mermonkey adds a valuable water tower outside of the Military category, and the designs relating to range from target, buffs, and ice synergy are intended to spark new placement strategies, fun combos, and interesting tier list discussions
    • Mermonkey starts as a low range amphibious tower with a large vision increase when placed in water. They throw a single trident that pierces twice and can damage up to 3 Bloons each time it does, making it effective during earlier dense rounds where this can overlap. Crosspathing choices include Attack & Projectile Speed, AoE & Freezing, or Seeking & Vision
    • Top path Mermonkey fights side by side with a mysterious sea creature that attacks in all directions, slows Bloons down with inky tridents, and enhances all towers within a radius with a percentage pierce increase
    • Middle path attacks with freezing waves that grow larger and more powerful the further they travel, with the wave eventually crashing to form a unique T-shaped attack! They deal increased damage to any Frozen targets, and with the Ice Jet ability, fire a quick barrage of bouncing ice projectiles
    • Bottom Path lures Bloons off track with an irresistible melody to dance around the Mermonkey for a short time while also detonating any damage-over-time effects on those Bloons to deal all the remaining DoT immediately
    • Final note for PC players; We plan to continue working on new towers after Mermonkey, and as we grow closer to maxing out standard keyboard space for reasonable hotkeys we realize it’s not going to be viable to start shuffling these around every time to maintain anymore. So we have decided not to assign any default hotkey for new towers going forward, however we have added the space for a hotkey to be assigned manually within the hotkeys menu.
New Awesome
  • New Hero Skin, Dreamstate Psi
    • Drift off into pleasant Bloon-popping dreams with the adorable new Dreamstate Psi skin. Cozy gameplay guaranteed!
  • New Intermediate Map, Luminous Cove
    • A mysterious cove with deep connections to Mermonkey kind. Help defend this ancient refuge against a two-path Bloon assault to uncover the secrets of these mystical, melodious Monkeys.
  • New Trial Quests! Both of these quests will allow players use of the towers even before unlocking them
    • Mermonkeys, Not Mere Monkeys - Learn about and trial the Mermonkey tower
    • Super Dartling Bros - Learn about and trial the Dartling Gunner tower
  • New Trophy Store Items
    • Monkeys: Safety Mole mortar pet, with a tip of the helmet to our new friends and colleagues from Legion TD 2
    • Bloons: Clown Wigs Bloons
    • Co-op: I’m The Problem text emote
    • Game & UI: Rosalia avatar
  • New CT Team Store items
    • Water Props: Adventure Whale
Game Changes / Additions

  • The Alternate Bloon Rounds round set has increased from 100 to 140 preset rounds, putting more All in Alternate
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • Change Alternate Bloons Rounds 101-140 are now preset rounds which are considerably harder than Normal Gameplay and randomized rounds in Apopalypse
    • Change Now some rounds without DDTs in Normal Gameplay spawn DDTs, and there are extra guaranteed BADs in Alternate Bloons Rounds
    • Change Round 106 in Alternate Bloons Rounds now spawns a BAD, which isn't allowed to spawn during randomized rounds before Round 110 in Apopalypse
    • Change Round 120 in Alternate Bloons Rounds now spawns a Fortified BAD, and Round 140 in Alternate Bloons Rounds now spawns Fortified BAD and BAD at the same time, after a while it spawns 3 Fortified BADs in a short duration, which is the fastest BAD spawn rate in the game up to Round 200. (since randomized rounds don't contain Fortified BADs prior to Round 200)

  • 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
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • Change Modified the Tower Unlock System for Dartling Gunner, Beast Handler, and Mermonkey
    • Change All towers in the "Unlock By Pops" category will be selectable
    • Change Beast Handler now requires 3,000,000 pops and Level 30 before unlocking instead of requiring Epic Beast Quest and Level 40
    • NERF Dartling Gunner now requires Level 30 and 3,000,000 pops to unlock instead of Level 20 and 500,000 pops
    • BUFF For each tower in the "Unlocks By Pops" category, added an optional in-app purchase for $7.99 USD that unlocks the tower and all its upgrades plus exclusive profile banner, avatar, and one of each T5 Insta of random crosspathing with that tower type.

  • 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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • Map Unlock System
    • Change Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert Maps now require unique map wins to unlock all maps of respective difficulty, instead of transferring the total number of unlockable maps from the previous difficulty.
      • Intermediate: Unlocked after 5 unique map wins
      • Advanced: Unlocked after 12 unique map wins
      • Expert: Unlocked after 20 unique map wins
  • Unfortunately, we were not able to implement Retry Last Round for Co-op CHIMPS for this update. We have been trying to get this in for 44 but have run into unexpected problems that cannot be resolved in time, so we hope to have this ready for update 45.
Mod Users

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

  • Previously, we attempted to prevent this account damage by turning off account saving whenever mods were detected, but as the mods themselves disable this feature anyway we’ve changed this to a warning prompt with the options: Close Game, Continue (at your own risk), or Logout.
  • Please create an alternate account if you wish to try out any mods. If you come across this warning when you are not intending to use any, then immediately close the game and confirm that you have disabled them.
Bug Fixes & General Changes
  • Track arrows now get destroyed immediately when the round starts
  • Resolved a crash that could occur when loading into a co-op game
  • Cleaned up the hitbox size of the ‘Named Monkeys’ section of player profiles
  • Resolved a crash that could occur when attempting to load remote data
  • Resolved a number of aspect ratio related UI issues
  • Added a scrolling indicator to the Heroes menu
  • Team Banner sizes adjusted to remove stretching
  • Resolved a number of edge case crashes
  • Development fixes, just for us, nothing behind the curtain
Event changes
  • BUFF 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
  • NERF 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
  • NERF Lych’s healing should no longer be able to overflow
  • Improved art in Dreadbloon & Lych’s 3D boss menus
  • Improved water ripple visuals in the Teams menu
Map Specific changes
  • Fixed some incorrect blocking on Glacial Trail
  • NERF Resolved an issue where Ravine's Sword could be refreshed
  • Change Castle Revenge default music track changed from 'Sunshine Serenade' to 'Jazz Theme'
  • Change Sulfur Springs default music track changed to 'Sunshine Seranade' to 'Tribes and Tribulations'
  • Changes made to tower height level on Flooded Valley after flooding the valley
Tower Specific Fixes
Tack Shooter
  • NERF Inferno Ring's meteor explosion no longer hits camo without detection
Ice Monkey
  • Change Bloons Frozen by Snowstorm or Absolute Zero abilities should now correctly get when distracted or blown back before the freeze duration ends
Sniper Monkey
  • NERF Cripple MOAB's explosion no longer hits camo without detection
Monkey Sub
  • BUFF Energizer should now correctly display a buff icon on x4x Beast Handlers
Monkey Buccaneer
  • BUFF Carrier Flagship planes should no longer occasionally pause attacks for no reason
  • BUFF Favoured Trades now has a buff icon for its Sellback Rate discount
Heli Pilot
  • BUFF 013 MOAB Shove should again correctly increase pushback amount
Druid
  • NERF Ball Lightning can no longer freeze White Bloons without support
Spike Factory
  • BUFF 042 Spike Storm should now react to the current track on Workshop, rather than the one that was active when its last upgrade was purchased
Engineer
  • Placing a Master Builder turret at the very bottom of the screen should no longer crash
Hero Specific Fixes

Adora

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

Sauda

  • BUFF 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

  • BUFF 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
  • BUFF Price buff icons should no longer disappear without enough cash to buy an upgrade
  • NERF Lv7 Ace/Heli Flight Speed buff now correctly expires
  • Change 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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
Tower Balance
Dart Monkey
Spike-o-pult’s piercing power in the extreme conditions is too cost effective compared to the Juggernaut so we’re tweaking these slightly to keep Juggernaut as a proper upgrade in Races. Crossbow Master is shuffling around to a higher damage point that should work more effectively with top path’s pierce
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Spike-o-pult pierce decreased from 22 to 18
  • BUFF Juggernaut pierce increased from 50 to 60. Does not affect Ultra-Juggernaut's mini-juggernauts (50).
  • BUFF Ultra-Juggernaut main juggernaut pierce increased from 200 to 210.
  • NERF Crossbow Master base attack cooldown increased from 0.16s to 0.24s
  • BUFF Crossbow Master damage increased from 6 to 8
  • BUFF Crossbow Master crit damage increased from 50 to 80
  • BUFF 1-0-5 Crossbow Master pierce increased from 14 to 16
  • BUFF 2-0-5 Crossbow Master pierce increased from 21 to 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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF 1-0-4 MOAB Press knockback kylie pierce bonus reduced from +100 to +60, total pierce reduced from 300 to 260. Also affects MOAB Domination (400 to 360).
  • NERF 2-0-4 MOAB Press knockback kylie pierce bonus reduced from +220 to +140, total pierce reduced from 420 to 340. Also affects MOAB Domination (520 to 440).
    • Note: For a strange reason, in-game code shows that the pierce of 2-0-4 is changed to 340, not 320. Ninja Kiwi specifically listed the balance change as +120, which would make 200 pierce become 320 if true. However, in-game code and in-game testing shows that the pierce actually is 340.
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Bomb Shooter price reduced from $525 to $375
  • BUFF Bigger Bombs price reduced from $350 to $250
  • BUFF Really Big Bombs pierce increased from 60 to 80. Also affects subsequent upgrades.
  • NERF MOAB Assassin cost increased from $3100 to $3350
  • NERF MOAB Eliminator cost increased from $25,500 to $28,000
  • BUFF Extra Range bonus range increased from +7 to +12, total range increased from 47 to 52.
  • BUFF Frag Bombs range increased from 49 to 54. Also affects subsequent upgrades.
  • BUFF Frag Bombs fragment damage is now uncapped, allowing for Frag Bombs fragments to benefit from external buffs
  • BUFF Frag Bombs fragment pierce is now uncapped, allowing for Frag Bombs fragments to benefit from external buffs
  • BUFF Bomb Blitz price reduced from $28,000 to $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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Super Range Tacks pierce bonus increased from +1 to +3. Does not affect Blade Shooter (8), 4-2-0 Ring of Fire (45), Inferno Ring’s flame ring (60) or meteor (2), but also affects 0-2-5 Tack Zone (8 → 10).
  • NERF Inferno Ring's meteor no longer detects camo without support
Ice Monkey
Adding a lesser MOAB-Benefit to Icicles, leading into the stronger T5 Anti-MOAB capability
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Icicles blast now deals +8 MOAB-class damage. Does not affect its icicles (2), nor Icicle Impale's blast (50).
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Glue Gunner projectile eject points moved for most upgrades, to reduce whiffing at point blank
  • BUFF Glue Storm ability duration increased from 15s to 20s
  • NERF Glue Storm ability cooldown increased from 30s to 40s
  • NERF [undocumented] Purchasing the Glue Storm upgrade now increases initial cooldown by an extra 10 seconds.
  • NERF Relentless Glue cost increased from $3400 to $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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Bouncing Bullet price reduced from $2400 to $2100
  • NERF Supply Drop cash per crate reduced from $1200 to $1100. Does not affect Elite Sniper ($3000).
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Nautic Siege Core's Final Strike ability explosion damage increased from 50,000 to 60,000
  • NERF Nautic Siege Core's Final Strike ability explosion bonus boss damage reduced from +10,000 to +0
  • BUFF Nautic Siege Core's Final Strike ability aftershock damage increased 10,000 to 15,000
  • NERF Nautic Siege Core's Final Strike ability aftershock bonus boss damage reduced from +5000 to +0
  • BUFF Nautic Siege Core's Final Strike ability fallout damage to MOAB-class increased +60 to +90
  • NERF Nautic Siege Core's Final Strike ability fallout bonus boss damage reduced from +30 to +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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Aircraft Carrier cost increased from $6900 to $8000
  • BUFF Carrier Flagship's aircraft algorithm improved to not spontaneously stop attacking
  • BUFF Cannon Ship grape damage increased from 2 to 3
  • BUFF Cannon Ship cannonball explosion damage increased from 1 to 2. Does not affect Monkey Pirates (3).
  • BUFF Monkey Pirates grape damage increased from 3 to 5. Does not affect Pirate Lord (8).
  • BUFF Monkey Pirates ability cooldown reduced from 50s to 45s
  • BUFF Pirate Lord ability number of hooks increased from 3 to 6
  • NERF Pirate Lord ability hooks required for ZOMG increased from 2 to 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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Goliath Doomship's Carpet Bomb cooldown increased from 50s to 60s
  • BUFF Goliath Doomship's Carpet Bomb regular damage increased from 20,000 to 30,000
  • NERF Goliath Doomship's Carpet Bomb bonus damage to bosses reduced from +20,000 to +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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Support Chinook lives crate collection radius reduced from 100 to 50
  • BUFF Special Poperations' Redeploy ability cooldown reduced from 45s to 15s
  • BUFF [undocumented] Special Poperations' Redeploy ability initial cooldown reduced from 15s to 0s
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Artillery Battery cost increased from $5,900 to $6,500
  • NERF Pop and Awe cost increased from $32,000 to $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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF 4-0-2 Plasma Accelerator pierce increased from 75 to 150. Also affects Ray of Doom (1025 → 1100).
  • BUFF Faster Swivel turn rate increased from 360 to 440. Also affects subsequent upgrades.
Super Monkey
Robo monkey still holds its own for too long, easily working into its also very powerful Tech Terror upgrade.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Robo Monkey base pierce decreased from 6 to 5
  • NERF Tech Terror base pierce decreased from 9 to 8
  • NERF The Anti-Bloon base pierce decreased from 14 to 13
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Permanent Brew price reduced from $60,000 to $48,000
  • NERF Permanent Brew range reduced from 65 to 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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Druid of the Storm tornado pierce reduced from 30 to 24. Does not affect Ball Lightning's tornado (60).
  • NERF [undocumented] Ball Lightning can no longer freeze White and Zebra Bloons without support. Now, it will filter out White and Zebra Bloons.
  • NERF [undocumented] Ball Lightning now can disintegrate when touching Lead Bloons.
  • BUFF Superstorm supertornado BFB pierce penalty reduced from +19 to +14
  • BUFF Superstorm supertornado ZOMG pierce penalty reduced from +49 to +44
  • BUFF Superstorm supertornado damage increased from 12 to 120
  • NERF Druid of the Jungle vine grab minimum attack cooldown increased from 0.25s to 2.6s, now activating the base cooldown of the vine grab as a secondary practical factor in determining the cooldown of the vine grab. Cooldown of the digestion formula still remains 1.4 + (√lifelost + 2 (if the bloon is lead) + 1)/4 seconds (e.g. Red: 1.9s, Zebra: 2.85s, normal Ceramic: 4.12s). Also affect 0-5-x Spirit of the Forest (vine grab min: 0.25s → 2.6s, bonus digestion: 0.3s) but affects Jungle's Bounty (vine grab min: 0.25s → 2.6s, bonus digestion: 1.4s).
  • NERF [undocumented] Jungle's Bounty vine grab now requires the "vine grab minimum attack cooldown" to pass before producing a second active vine grab; vine grab cooldowns are no longer independent per vine grab. Also affects Spirit of the Forest.
  • NERF [undocumented] 1-5-0 Spirit of the Forest vine grab minimum attack cooldown increased from 0.0625s to 0.65s. Does not affect other crosspaths of Spirit of the Forest except 2-5-0. Does not affect bonus digestion rate (0.3s).
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Even Faster Production attack cooldown multiplier reduced from 0.7x to 0.75x, attack cooldown increased from 0.98s to 1.05s.
  • NERF Carpet of Spikes base spikes attack cooldown increased from 0.49s to 0.525s
  • NERF 0-2-5 Perma-Spike cooldown increased from 3.3936s to 3.636s
  • NERF 5-2-0 Super Mines cooldown increased from 1.96s to 2.1s
  • NERF Spike Storm cost increased from $5000 to $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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Tyrannosaurus Rex bite min-power damage reduced from 30 to 26, damage scaling reduced from 60 to 52, and max-power damage reduced from 90 to 78
  • NERF Tyrannosaurus Rex bite bonus stunned damage reduced from a max of +28 to +25.
  • NERF Giant Condor cost increased from $7800 to $9000
  • NERF Giant Condor Ceramic pierce penalty increased from +0 to +1. Does not affect Pouakai (+0).
  • BUFF Giant Condor DDT pierce penalty reduced from +59 to +29. Also affects Pouakai.
Hero Balance
Obyn Greenfoot
As Druid of the Storm’s own unbuffed power has jumped up so much now we don’t feel that Obyn needs to grant quite so high a buff to it anymore so this is being reduced.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Level 9+ Obyn Greenfoot's Tornado Druid attack cooldown buff multiplier reduced from 0.70x to 0.75x
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Level 1-6 Captain Churchill's Cannon damage increased from 1 to 3
  • BUFF Level 7-11 Captain Churchill's Cannon damage increased from 2 to 6
  • BUFF Level 12-13 Captain Churchill's Cannon damage increased from 3 to 9
  • BUFF Level 14-17 Captain Churchill's Cannon damage increased from 4 to 12
  • BUFF Level 15+ Captain Churchill's Cannon fortified damage bonus increased from +1 to +3
  • BUFF Level 18+ Captain Churchill's Cannon damage increased from 5 to 15
  • NERF Level 1-7 Captain Churchill's Cannon attack delay increased from 0.7s to 1.8s
  • NERF Level 8-15 Captain Churchill's Cannon attack delay increased from 0.5s to 1.5s
  • NERF Level 16+ Captain Churchill's Cannon attack delay increased from 0.3s to 0.9s
  • BUFF Level 3-12 Armor Piercing Shells ability bonus to MOAB-class and Ceramic increased from +3 to +9
  • BUFF Level 13-16 Armor Piercing Shells bonus to MOAB-class and Ceramic increased from 7 to 21
  • BUFF Level 17+ Armor Piercing Shells bonus to MOAB-class and Ceramic increased from 11 to 33
  • BUFF Level 13-16 Armor Piercing Shells flat bonus damage increased from +1 to +3
  • BUFF Level 17+ Armor Piercing Shells flat bonus damage increased from +2 to +6
  • BUFF Level 7-11 Captain Churchill's machine-gun damage increased from 1 to 2
  • BUFF Level 12-13 Captain Churchill's machine-gun damage increased from 1 to 3
  • BUFF Level 14-17 Captain Churchill's machine-gun damage increased from 2 to 4
  • BUFF Level 18+ Captain Churchill's machine-gun damage increased from 2 to 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
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Level 20 Ball of Light duration reduced from 20s to 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
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Level 3+ Leaping Sword impact bonus damage to MOAB-class reduced from +80 to +60, Level 3-11 total damage to MOAB-class reduced from 100 to 80.
  • NERF Level 12-14 Leaping Sword impact total damage to MOAB-class reduced from 200 to 180
  • NERF Level 15-19 Leaping Sword impact total damage to MOAB-class reduced from 240 to 220
  • NERF Level 20 Leaping Sword impact total damage to MOAB-class reduced from 560 to 540
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Psionic Scream blowback minimum increased from 50 to 100
  • NERF Psionic Scream blowback maximum decreased from 300 to 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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Creepy Idol max stock increased from 2 to 4
  • NERF Creepy Idol rounds duration reduced from 4 to 2
  • BUFF Creepy Idol rounds replenish interval reduced from 4 to 3
  • NERF Level 3-13 See Invisibility Potion round duration reduced from 10 to 5
  • NERF Level 14+ See Invisibility Potion round duration reduced from 15 to 10
  • NERF Tube of Amaz-o-glue stock replenish interval increased from 3 to 4
  • NERF Worn Hero's Cape cost increased from $1500 to $1750
  • NERF Upgraded Shooty Turret damage reduced from 6 to 5
  • NERF Upgraded Genie Bottle no longer deals +5 MOAB-class damage
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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Corvus' leveling requirements decreased from Churchill (1.71x) to Ezili (1.425x)
  • BUFF Level 11+ Spiritual Attunement maximum buff increased from 1.8x to 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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Level 2-14 Rosalia's Grenade now deals +1 bonus damage to Ceramics
  • BUFF Level 15+ Rosalia's main grenade bonus damage to Ceramics increased from +4 to +5
  • BUFF Level 15+ Rosalia's grenade subclusters bonus damage to Ceramics increased from +2 to +3
  • BUFF Level 3-15 Scatter Missile cooldown reduced from 60s to 45s
  • BUFF Level 16+ Scatter Missile cooldown reduced from 45s to 30s
  • BUFF Level 6+ Aircraft Efficiency price reduction increased from 5% to 10%
  • BUFF Kinetic Charge deploy time reduced from 2s to 1s
  • BUFF Kinetic Charge flight speed increased from 250 to 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.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Cross the Streams MK pierce increased from 5 to 8
  • BUFF Cross the Streams MK damage increased from 1 to 3
Easter Eggs
It’s important to us that map specific easter eggs aren’t an optimal primary dps carry, especially before they have become public knowledge as this would feel very unfair for events, since if the best way to win is built into the map that would likely become considered the ‘only’ real way to play that map. But now that these are relatively public knowledge and given the ‘entry cost’ is so high we have decided to improve upon these ones. If you didn’t know these existed, seek ye!
~ Ninja Kiwi
Dark Dungeons - Statue’s Ball
Price considerably reduced
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Greatly decreased costs of the Statue's Ball
    • Level 1: $50k → $30k
    • Level 2: $100k → $50k
    • Level 3: $200k → $100k
Encrypted - Spooky aftermath
Quite a lot more powerful
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Greatly increased power of the Spooky Secret.
    • BUFF Spooky Secret aura pierce increased from 80 to 120
    • NERF Spooky Secret aura damage penetration is now single-layer
    • BUFF Spooky Secret aura attack cooldown decreased from 0.5s to 0.1s
    • BUFF Spooky Secret hook attack cooldown decreased from 3s to 1.7s
Looking Backward

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

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

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

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

Gallery[]

Mermonkey Upgrades[]

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Trivia[]

  • Version 44.0 is not the only update to have pre-release footage from Bloons YouTubers. Version 22.0, 32.0, 42.0, and 43.0 did too.
  • In Ninja Kiwi's Version 44.0 preview video, the base Bomb was shown to be $320 on Easy when showcasing the Luminous Cove map, meaning it was teased as being price reduced from $525 to $375 on Medium.
  • As revealed by some early access videos of Version 44.0, the following tower upgrades were revealed to have price changes:
    • Condor: $9720 on Hard
    • Bouncing Bullet: $2270 on Hard
    • Permanent Brew: $51840 on Hard
    • Relentless Glue: $4320 on Hard
  • In the Version 44.0 patch notes for Relentless Glue, there is a "lol" written at the end, mocking its high strength.
  • One of the artworks for Version 44.0 has a starfish and a sponge nearby each other, with colors and shapes closely matching Patrick Star and SpongeBob SquarePants, respectively. It is located on the right.

References[]

  1. "The Mermonkey icon" on r/btd6, also Rohan Spibo from NK replied "It's placeholder. The portrait art was not fully implemented yet as of this video"
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