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For the flight option of the same name, see Centered Path (flight path).
New central flight path for maximum map coverage.
~ In-game description

Centered Path is the second upgrade of Path 3 for the Monkey Ace in Bloons TD 6. It adds a new targeting option "Centered Path" that sends the Monkey Ace along a circular path around a point (located at the center of the map by default). It does not matter where the Monkey Ace landing pad is for a Monkey Ace set to Centered Path; by default, they will all loop around the same path, albeit different parts of the loop depending on timing at which the player changes the loop setting. Upon upgrading, the Monkey Ace automatically is set to Centered Path.

Starting from Version 27.0, the center of the Centered Path loop can be manually changed per Monkey Ace. This allows it to be locked into a loop anywhere on screen at the player's own will.

This upgrade costs $465 on Easy, $550 on Medium, $595 on Hard, and $660 on Impoppable. If this tower is nearby Level 6+ Rosalia's workshop, this upgrade costs $420 on Easy, $495 on Medium, $535 on Hard, and $595 on Impoppable.

Description[]

Overview[]

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The aircraft gains a full red coating throughout, only leaving out the blue rings on each side of the upper biplane wing. Crosspaths of Centered Path generally add a red coloring to the planes.

Centered Path gains a new Centered Path target priority. This new Centered Path flight path becomes a large circular path, centered around the center of the map by default, and the center of the flight path can be changed manually. The Centered Path flight path is slightly larger than Circle.

Targeting Priorities[]

Like all Monkey Aces, Centered Path uses flight patterns as its targeting priority settings. The upgrade Centered Path automatically unlocks the Centered Path targeting option.

  • Circle: Flight pattern becomes a circular path around the runway.
  • Figure Infinite: Flight pattern becomes the shape of the infinite symbol (∞). As the Monkey Ace flies, it will pass its runway during its flight, specifically at each half of the whole flight path.
  • Figure Eight: Flight pattern becomes the shape of the number 8. As the Monkey Ace flies, it will pass its runway during its flight, specifically at each half of the whole flight path.
  • Centered Path: Flight path becomes a large circular path, centered around the center of the map by default. The center of the flight path can be changed manually. Can be accessed by purchasing the Centered Path upgrade, and once upgraded the Ace defaults to this target priority.
  • Wingmonkey: Instead of a fixed flight path, the Monkey Ace will attempt to fly as close to the path as possible, similarly to an Aircraft Carrier Plane. Available only via the Wingmonkey MK.
  • Reverse Flight: Shown by an icon of a reverse aircraft, the Ace will reverse direction of flight. Unlike other target priorities such as Change Hands, there is a cooldown of 5 seconds before being able to reverse flight direction again. It can be coupled with all flight options except Wingmonkey.

Like most Monkey Aces, Centered Path shoots darts in a zone-like fashion while having Path-Based Mobility.

Full Popology[]

Statistics[]

Updated as of Version 43.3
Base stats
  • Landing Base has a rectangular footprint of 28x18. "Dummy range" of 22. Upon placement, spawn Monkey Ace as the main tower.
  • Monkey Ace moves in a fixed pathway around its base, flying above all obstacles. Creates Barrage projectile from center of Monkey Ace and targets the first bloon. Automatically generate Dart from the center of the Ace according to its attack cooldown value.
    • Circle: circular loop of 80 radius, center is the runway
    • Figure-Eight: figure-eight loop of (40, 40) radii, center is the runway
    • Figure-Infinite: figure-infinite loop of (40, 40) radii, center is the runway
    • Centered Path: circular loop of 90, center defaults in center of map or any user-set center
  • Dart:
    • Projectile, sharp type, spray of 8, 1.68s attack cooldown, moderate homing, 1 damage, 8 pierce. Total projectile distance of 300.
Crosspathing interactions

Same as x-x-1 except with the Centered Path flight option.

Monkey Knowledge interactions
  • AirforceUpgradesIcon Airforce Upgrades: All T3+ Monkey Aces get +1 pierce. (But can still take effect on Tier 2 and below)
    • Base pierce increased from 8 to 9.
  • EliteMilitaryTrainingIcon Elite Military Training: All Military Monkeys get a one-off +1000 XP and earn XP in-game 5% faster permanently.
  • AcceleratedAerodartsIcon Accelerated Aerodarts: Darts from Monkey Aces fly faster.
    • Darts fly 50% faster.
  • GunCoolantIcon Gun Coolant: Monkey Aces attack 10% faster.
  • WingmonkeyIcon Wingmonkey: Grants all Monkey Aces with a new target priority that allows it to fly around the screen like the planes from the Aircraft Carrier.
  • MilitaryConscriptionIcon Military Conscription: First military tower costs only ⅔ of the original cost.
    • Monkey Ace base cost from $680, $800, $865, and $960 → $455, $535, $580, and $645 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
  • AdvancedLogisticsIcon Advanced Logistics: All Military Monkeys base costs reduced by 5%.
    • Monkey Ace base cost from $680, $800, $865, and $960 → $645, $760, $820, and $910 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
      • If Military Conscription is also enabled, the final cost will be $420, $495, $535, and $595.
  • MonkeyEducationIcon Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
  • BetterSellDealsIcon Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more. Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
  • VeteranMonkeyTrainingIcon Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.

Attack Interactions[]

See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Military
Updated as of Version 42.0
Base attack(s)
  • Dart:
    • Sharp Type (pops Black, White, Purple) Sharp
    • Orbital Spray (8) Orbital Spray (8)
    • Straight Attack Straight Attack
    • Seeking Weak seeming
    • Path-Based Mobility (The location at where the projectiles will spawn depend on where the Monkey Ace was when the attack was made Path-Based Mobility
    • Flying Flying

Costs[]

Updated as of Version 44.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.
[Module | Data] Purchase Sell
Costs Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Easy Medium Hard Impoppable
Upgrade (X-X-2) $465 $550 $595 $660 -
Total (0-0-2) $1,570 $1,850 $2,000 $2,220 $1,099 $1,295 $1,400 $1,554
Crosspath (1-0-2) $2,120 $2,500 $2,700 $3,000 $1,484 $1,750 $1,890 $2,100
Crosspath (2-0-2) $2,670 $3,150 $3,400 $3,780 $1,869 $2,205 $2,380 $2,646
Crosspath (0-1-2) $1,740 $2,050 $2,215 $2,460 $1,218 $1,435 $1,551 $1,722
Crosspath (0-2-2) $2,035 $2,400 $2,595 $2,880 $1,425 $1,680 $1,817 $2,016

This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: MilitaryConscriptionIcon Military Conscription, AdvancedLogisticsIcon Advanced Logistics, BetterSellDealsIcon Better Sell Deals

Strategy[]

Summary[]

Centered Path adds an extra flight path that encourages free movement of Monkey Aces, letting them become less limited by placement of the Monkey Ace landing pads. Adequate timing of the Aces to align on the path smoothly might be necessary to optimize this upgrade, but purchasing this upgrade is very helpful on certain maps with good overall central circular track coverage.

The option to choose the center of the loop now makes it possible to make a creative method of Ace micro based on Centered Path repositioning. Repositioning the centerpoint can redirect the Ace to point towards a different direction.

Tips[]

  • Besides just being an extra flight option, this upgrade is substantially useful on maps such as Park Path or Pat's Pond, although it is exceptionally more useful on the former due to how much more map coverage is utilized. On Park Path, 0-3-2 Bomber Aces can benefit a lot from this upgrade.
  • Monkey Ace upgrades that benefit the most from this target priority are the Upper Path 3 upgrades (Neva-Miss Targeting, Spectre, and Flying Fortress) and Sky Shredder. While utilizing just the plain middle Centered Path is helpful, a majority of the Centered Path's power comes from extreme micromanagement of the Centered Path centerpoints.
  • In the absence of utilizing extreme Centered Path micro, Upper Path 2 benefits little from this target priority, because the Centered Path upgrade misses out on purchasing Rapid Fire.

Version History[]

Balance Changes[]

Gained a functional change in Version 27.0 to improve fixed mobility and likely to give more reason for this upgrade over just Sharper Darts. In fact, this has lead to higher-skilled Ace micro players to utilize Centered Path as a new form of Ace micromanagement.

23.0
  • BUFF Monkey Ace dart projectile size increased (2 → 3).
  • BUFF Monkey Ace attack cooldown reduced (2.1s → 1.68s).
27.0
Now allows you to find your center. Very zen.
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • BUFF Centered Path now allows players to set the path's center to be anywhere on the map, much like the Heli Pilot's Lock in Place targeting priority.
30.0
More of a straight quality of life, Ace has gained a new special toggle button to allow it to turn back and fly in reverse on any selected flight pattern. [...]
~ Ninja Kiwi, referring to Reverse Flight
  • BUFF Monkey Ace can now toggle flight direction for any pattern.
41.0
[...] Centered Path these days adds a lot more potential power to Ace than before and we are moving price down into it from Neva-Miss. [...]
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Centered Path price increased from $300 to $550

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]

Extra Notes (Version History)[]

  • Version 44.0 buffed Rosalia's Level 6+ discount from 5% to 10%, which changed the prices of Centered Path when buffed by her:
    • Easy: $445 → $420
    • Medium: $520 → $495
    • Hard: $565 → $535
    • Impoppable: $625 → $595

Gallery[]

Official artwork[]

Trivia[]

  • This upgrade is one of many upgrades spelled in American English. What makes this fact interesting is that Ninja Kiwi is a New Zealand company, despite primarily using British English, especially when "-re" words are normally spelled as "-re" in New Zealand instead of the American "-er" (e.g. "meter" for "metre", or in this case, "center" for "centre").
  • According to the upgrade filename, this upgrade was originally titled Flight Orders. Revealed in an NK blog post, the upgrade was planned to allow the player to create their own flight path. It was changed for being "confusing, visually unappealing and honestly a bit overpowered."
  • The Version 27.0 buff to Centered Path has eventually lead to players in Version 28.3 to do multiple 2MPC completions with Ace with this upgrade. 3-0-2 Fighter Plane came first, followed by 0-3-2 Bomber Ace, and lastly 2-0-2 Ace.
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