Faster Darts (Heli Pilot)

"Faster Darts" redirects here. For the BSM upgrade, see Faster Darts (BSM).

Faster Darts is the first upgrade of Path 3 (second upgrade of Path 3 prior to Version 18.0) for the Heli Pilot in BTD6. It allows the Heli Pilot's darts to travel faster. This does not affect the projectile speed of its other projectile-based attacks.

It costs $210 on Easy, $250 on Medium, $270 on Hard, and $300 on Impoppable.

TipsEdit

• As of Version 18.0, Faster Darts is required for Faster Firing, which increases attack speed of all attacks by 25%.
• Faster Darts is somewhat useful for allowing more accurate shots when chasing bloons, but is usually not very useful on most other occasions.
• On a very few select challenges, starting from Version 13.0 with the release of Bloody Puddles, Faster Darts is a suitable solution for sniping out targets from far away.

Version HistoryEdit

18.0

Faster Darts upgrade swapped with Faster Firing

GalleryEdit

Old artwork before the upgrade swap in Version 18.0

Official BTD6 upgrade icon

0-1-2 Heli (before Version 18.0)

Faster Darts in upgrade menu as of Version 18.0

Faster Darts in upgrade menu before Version 18.0

New Faster Darts as shown in the in-game tower menu

Crosspathing in BTD6 (Top: Path 1, Bottom: Path 2)

Instamonkey icon for Faster Darts

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TriviaEdit

• It is one of the only upgrades in BTD6 that only increases projectile speed.
  • Faster Rangs used to feature only increased projectile speed, but this was changed in Version 7.0.
• Faster Darts is a common meme among the BTD6 community, mostly because of how underpowered it is.
• Faster Firing and Faster Darts are the only pair of tower upgrades in the main Bloons TD series to have swapped places (Faster Firing used to come first).
  • Bloons Adventure Time TD was technically the first, but it isn't part of the main Bloons TD series. Interestingly, this was for Marceline, who attacks most similarly to the Heli Pilot.