# Bloons TD 6 changelog > The Bloons are back and better than ever! - Vendor: Ninja Kiwi - Category: Games - Official site: https://ninjakiwi.com - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6) - Harvested from: Steam (app 960090) - Entries below: 25 of 26 (newest first; the rest are on https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. ## Releases ### Bloons TD 6 - Update 55.0 - Date: 2026-06-03 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/717906943451070805 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-717906943451070805 - **added** — New Hero He-Man with dual form transformation ability, transforming between Prince Adam and He-Man with distinct attacks and abilities at level 3 - **added** — New Hero Dan D'Monke with alternate identity The Masqued Macaque as the base hero for He-Man skin application - **added** — Level 7 ability allows teleporting another tower or, when transformed, leaping to a location with devastating stunning impact - **added** — Level 10 ability rallies nearby towers to shrug off negative effects and deal increased damage, and when transformed unleashes Berserk Warcry for hyper-speed dashing between Bloons - **added** — Hero mechanics including Net Trap, Magic Barrier, Taunt & Stomp, Quick Thinking clutch mechanic, and First Aid healing - **added** — Mana Shield generation from popping Bloons with damage scaling based on Bloon toughness and track position - **added** — New Power called Sword of Power that pulses to generate Mana Shield and deal damage while sending Bloons backwards, and increases attack speed for both He-Man and She-Ra - **added** — New beginner map Skull Tweak, a modern 3D interpretation of the classic Skull Peak from Bloons TD5 with dual paths for Bloons - **added** — New quest Another Path on the Park featuring a normal game on Park Path with an additional Bloon path - **added** — New quest Middle of the Wild West featuring Middle of the Road difficulty with reduced income - **added** — He-Man and Dan D'Monke bundle pack available exclusively for 2 weeks, after which Dan D'Monke becomes available for Monkey Money purchase - **changed** — Dan D'Monke will not be enabled in events or competitive modes until available for Monkey Money unlock Available now! Update Video. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Uweu4vFds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Uweu4vFds) ##### New Awesome - New Hero & Skin Introduction - As the final piece of our collaboration with Mattel, we are excited to welcome the newest Hero - He-Man, the most powerful man (err, Monkey) in the universe! - As all well-versed Masters of the Universe fans know, He-Man is the alter ego of the noble Adam, Prince of Eternia. While He-Man is the eponymous hero, Prince Adam plays a huge role in the classic and more recent cartoons, so we went above and beyond to create 2 heroes in one with distinct attacks and abilities and the ability to transform between them! - Prince Adam is always the deployed hero, who attacks quickly as a large melee style sword wielder and is immune to negative effects like Stuns from Bloons or Bosses. But you don’t have to wait long (or at all with the right Knowledge), as the real magic happens at level 3 when he unlocks his iconic Transformation ability, allowing him to hold aloft his magic sword and swap to his super-powered alter ego who trades the attack speed for sheer devastating damage, by the power of Grayskull! - Now as many of you know from community discussions on She-Ra and Skeletor, the Mattel items must be presented as in-app purchases (IAPs) to fulfill our license obligations and do justice to this awesome, long-standing He-Man universe. We feel this full hero does that justice, and brings fun and exciting new mechanics that we want to make sure can be fairly used in all of our events and competitive modes. After much discussion, we made the only logical and (in)sane conclusion - instead of doing 2 heroes in 1, let’s do 4 heroes in 1! - So we’re also introducing the noble Monkey of the Court, Dan D’Monke, and his secret identity, The Masqued Macaque! Technically identical for game balance but with entirely different 3d models, animations, descriptions, and voiceovers, Dan D’Monke fills the base Hero position on which the He-Man skin is applied, just as Adora and Obyn provide the base for She-Ra and Skeletor. - To support the release of the major motion picture release of He-Man, we are presenting the He-Man and Dan D’Monke bundle pack exclusively for 2 weeks only upon release of v55. After two weeks, Dan D’Monke will become available for Monkey Money purchase like any other Hero. Until Dan D’Monke is available for Monkey Money unlock, he will not be enabled in any events or competitive modes. - The Hero & Abilities - Level 3 Transformation - Activation will blast nearby Bloons with crackling lightning and leave a short lingering attack speed bonus while swapping him back and forth between a quick supportive base form and a solo wrecking ball with alternate attacks and abilities. - Level 7 Strategically allows another target tower to be teleported to another location. But when he’s transformed, he takes matters into his own hands and leaps across the battlefield to smash down at the target location himself in a devastating, stunning impact. - Level 10 Ability rallies nearby towers, inspires them to shrug off negative Bloon effects and deal increased damage for a short time (at the cost of a slower attack speed) and the cry even activates the effects of passive abilities in radius as if a life were just lost. While transformed however he unleashes a Berserk Warcry that sends him into a hyper-speed frenzy, dashing wildly between Bloons across a huge range, shredding them into confetti (that you definitely shouldn’t let your cats play with). - Hero Ultimate Survival Kit - While certain attacks and effects are limited to one form or the other, this hero is tough as nails built to survive the densest Bloon rushes. - Some of the mechanics that make this work are: the Net Trap catches and slows small groups of Bloons, the Magic Barrier where escaping Bloons cause a magical shield to burst out from the exit to reduce lives lost while shoving the Bloons back and stunning _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/717906943451070805]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update 54.0 - Date: 2026-04-09 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/526498885413110628 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-526498885413110628 Update Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItotzXvYK1E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItotzXvYK1E) ##### New Awesome **New Paragon, the Root of all Nature for our beloved Druid** - Bestows a suite of primordial blessings upon its most trusted BrObyn - Generates cash based on the size of Banana Farm empire at the end of each round, the end of each BAD Bloon and the end of each Boss Skull, NATUREPROVIDES! - Basic attack unleashes a jet of Electrified Thorns that ricochet between Bloons to tear powerful groups apart, and the longer it can keep attacking the faster its attack rate will scale - The track is reclaimed by a sentient forest that tears apart Bloons passively & with wrathful storm trees that grow around the track attacking nearby Bloons to deal damage and blow them back with Vinenados (yes Vinenados - next up, Vinenados on a Plane!). These trees also count as ‘Banana Farms’ for… Paragonical reasons - Primordial Wrath ability can be toggled on or off to enter a beautifully furious wrathful nature state, draining cash over time while providing a massive damage boost to the tower until disabled - but take note: no cash can be generated from towers during this time. **New Advanced Map, Mushroom Grotto** - A community competition winning map from [u/Oski_01](https://old.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1lnfjcm/map_submission_mushroom_grotto_more_info_in_the/), this map utilizes new lighting functionality from Frontier Legends to apply regions of spore filled darkness that towers are unable to see through, the Mushroom patches can be interacted with to illuminate more areas. **New Pro Powers** Tech Bot Prime, has a larger radius and Ambush Tech built in - Top path will boost the damage of abilities that it triggers, and trigger additional copies of the same ability, with a pinnacle upgrade that grants additional damage to all attacks from the linked tower for a few seconds after ability activation - Middle path can link up to multiple different Monkeys, trigger abilities in radius of the Techbot as well, and gains a massive radius with an option to toggle automatic activations off and instead trigger all linked towers and towers in radius at specific times with its own Activate All ability - Bottom path can set multiple Ambush points with mini ambush drones, causes linked abilities to cooldown faster, and can activate its own ability which triggers all abilities in Techbot radius regardless of their cooldown state with a 25% chance to reset their cooldown again Monkey Boost Pro places a Hype Boost Monkey, who activates a Monkey Boost ability - Top Path grants towers extra range, Camo Detection, Accuracy, All damage type popping & even allows towers to shoot through walls! - Middle path gains a much shorter cooldown, longer duration, and immunity to any stun or interruption mechanics as well as breaking them out of any of these mechanics - Bottom path can store up to 3 ability charges & instantly replenish these with Monkey Money, increases attack speed for all towers in radius at all times, and grants bonus damage to towers ##### Key New Feature - Social Seasons We are super excited to update Teams and provide a new reason to join them and play as Teams inside the new recurring Social Seasons event. Don’t let that Seasons word worry you - there are no Battle Passes and no new IAPs related to this - just fun Goals for you to achieve with your Team, and for the first time ever in BTD6, the entire community of Team players going after epic Goals! The Seasons umbrella merely provides a timeframe for your rewards to be active, until the next Season arrives with its own new Goals and rewards. Read on! **Social Seasons** - Each Social Season is a new Team-focused event where participating Team members complete individual goals to earn points and progress toward special new Team rewards. Social Seasons have 2 Phases over two weeks each, with 5 stages of rewards. Goals are balanced to require some daily effort fr _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/526498885413110628]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update 53.0! - Date: 2026-02-12 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/525367916192858219 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-525367916192858219 ##### New Awesome - New Hero Skin - Firecracker Gwen! - Celebrate anything and everything with Firecracker Gwen’s fireworks! - New Advanced Map - Party Parade! - Festivities are under fire! Bloons have been spotted at Party Parade, and it’s up to you to defend the great lane division from oncoming threats in both directions! Don't let the Bloons burst the fun - stay sharp, divide your forces, and let’s get this party popping! - New Quests - **ZOMG Rush:** Beat rounds 30-60 on Off the Coast with a ZOMG that spawns right away at the start, and respawns every time you pop it! - **Support Monkeys Only:** Beat Bazaar on Impoppable difficulty with Support Monkeys only - **Targeting Monkeys:** Clear the faster paced Rogue Roundset on Logs with limited towers but with a catch, for this quest All Monkeys shoot where you aim! - New Trophy Store Items - Game & UI: Firecracker Gwen avatar, Cupcake Heroes avatar, Silas profile banner - Limited Seasonal Item: Lunar New Year profile banner ##### Game Changes / Additions - Co-op end screens now have Add Friend buttons - Advanced tower performance: Towers Info panels now have an extra button listing a performance summary with more details for how many pops, how much damage, cash earnt, current value and lives earnt they have! - You asked (many times), and finally you receive! Powers that you own a copy of can now be used in Sandbox for free - Obtaining an Insta-Monkey for the first time will now display a ‘New’ banner on the rewards screen - no more guessing if you already had it in your collection! - Hero Pets can now be mixed and matched regardless of the associated Hero Skin, because Ocean Obyn loves that little fiery Balfrog - Optimizations made for load times & performance in Legends game modes - Boomerang Paragon new ability ‘Overcharge’. Upon activating immediately granting itself 10 stacks of ‘Overcharge’ which give increased attack speed for every stack, stacks will deplete over time one by one every few seconds. More detail in balance changes section later - Druid Jungle’s Bounty ability is no more, druid cash generation is now purely a passive end of round bonus. We are looking at possible changes for other abilitized cash generation and would like to hear more thoughts on this. **To be clear;** we are **not** simply looking to swap every cash generating ability to a passive, but there should be some choice in when you time an ability activation and we do not agree there was any reason to not spam these on cooldown which makes this a tedious clicking quota. Druid’s cash generation already has interesting interaction so for this case it felt more interesting to focus on that interaction instead, and the new ability gives careful timed activation that can assist in holding off on spending money on DPS towers for longer to effectively earn more cash which is more engaging of a choice to make. More detail in balance changes section later ##### Bug Fixes & General Changes - Resolved a number of minor localization & UI issues - Resolved a number of erratic menu screen transitions - [Map Editor] Crash closing tab when previewing Prop or Action Prop - Resolved an issue with Tower Unlock Packs displaying ‘purchased’ when they were not - Resolved an issue where T5 towers consumed to create paragons were contributing their cost value in addition to their T5 value to the resulting tower - Pro Powers should no longer count as a tower towards global tower limits in regards to preventing placement of future towers (Were already placable themselves past the limit) - Insta Monkey collection no longer list ‘out of 1664’ as there are still only 1600 instas - What Did it Cost should now work again - Budget Cash Drops should again work while in the main menu - The ‘Log In’ pop up should no longer be able to stack multiple times - Challenges that prevent use of certain upgrades should now correctly prevent use of instamonkey towers that are upgraded beyond those banned tiers - Fixed that o _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/525367916192858219]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update 52.0 - Date: 2025-12-04 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/536619939220423590 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-536619939220423590 Update Video: [https://youtu.be/gVaNbCIr2mY](https://youtu.be/gVaNbCIr2mY) ##### Key New Features - New Legends DLC - Frontier Legends YEEHAWW! Saddle up, partners! It is our incredible pleasure to introduce our second game-within-a-game Legends drop - Frontier Legends! This DLC is the longest and most robust long-form story game we’ve built at Ninja Kiwi, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the experience. If we were to describe it in BTD6 main game terms, it’s like an Odyssey Quest across 50+ maps in a huge 3D world, plus mini games, persistent currency and upgrades, and RPG-style Monkeys with prefix names that correspond to unique traits. We have gotten so much fan art over the years about the maps being connected, we decided to pay homage to that in a pretty huge semi-open world. We love discussing canon with the community and often intentionally dodging questions of exactly what is canon, and we felt ready to tell a story that adds lore and whimsy to the Blooniverse. Relative to Rogue Legends, the size of Frontier Legends DLC and the development effort behind it are both significantly larger and the slightly higher price of US$12.99 reflects that. Check out all of the awesomerness included in Frontier Legends! - Build your Sheriff by mixing and matching Hats, Torso Equipment, Weapons, and Consumables - and don’t forget to bring along your favourite pet companion! - Mosey on over to the Saloon to recruit hired monkeys with their own unique names and randomized traits - Sometimes a Legendary Recruit may show up, so keep an eye out for them! - Multiple Heroes, as you journey through the Frontier world, you can increase the normal hero limit by earning Deputy Stars. I wonder how high this can go? - Face 6 new specialized Bloons unique to Frontier Legends introduced throughout all new round sets - Dynamite Bloons: Careful of that blast radius - Glass Bloons: Some projectiles bounce right off - Diamond Bloons: So shiny those high damage attacks lose their luster - Aura Bloons: These farm so hard nearby Bloons are inspired - Retribution Bloons: Sometimes what you hit can hit you back - Ringleader Bloons: So influential they shield nearby Bloons from damage - Diamondback, the new and terrifying multi-segment Boss Bloon - This boss will be exclusive to Frontier at launch, but we will be adapting it for inclusion in the base game next year - We’re sure players will work out all there is to know but we will share that it is a conglomerate boss inspired by Bloons Super Monkey 2 - Core mechanics revolve around Pierce and deliberate attacks that cause the boss to debuff itself - A dozen unique Feats each with cool Cosmetic and other rewards - More new Feats will be tied to the Curse system that will be coming in a Frontier update next year - 3D menus that feature almost every tower in the game - Every pet in the game now has a walk cycle (or something equating a walk at least!) So get ready to mosey on in and wrangle up some Frontier Legends, because this is an entirely new way to play Bloons TD, and we hope you enjoy it! ##### New Awesome - New Paragon - Herald of Everfrost, the Ice Monkey! - The Herald of Everfrost unleashes a shattering Ice Lance Beam to freeze everything it hits for 10 seconds. As the beam rips through the Bloons, it leaves a wake of icy shards in every direction as it passes, tearing apart Bloons while Frozen Bloons slice each other with razor sharp icicles - Alternating with this is a thunderous Snowstorm Roar attack that passively freezes everything below a BAD, applying Permafrost, removing all Camo & Regrow, and inflicting a brutal debuff causing targets to take +10 damage from all attacks, with an additional +40 taken from any Cold-type damage attacks - When all else fails, the Ice Paragon calls upon the Eclipse of Fimbulwinter, giving Boss Bloons brain freeze! Or skull freeze anyway. This ability has very limited use, but freezes EVERYTHING. Break a Boss Skull during its freeze, and the boss w _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/536619939220423590]_ ### Bloons TD 6 51.0! - Date: 2025-10-15 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/533238430426988546 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-533238430426988546 Update Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9QMlaVJRc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9QMlaVJRc) ##### New Paragon - Bomb Shooter’s Ballistic Obliteration Missile Bunker is INCOMING, codename B.O.M.B. for short! - Anti-MOAB clustering stun bombs. MOABs? Gone. - Pop that BAD in only 3 shots? You got it! - Spammable Anti-Boss assassination missile? Consider it done. - All the small stuff? *ahem* weee-have backup for that - Ok, jokes aside we wanted to add something expensive but simple to understand into the primary category of Paragons, and the Bomb Shooter paragon feels like it accomplishes this with 1 attack, 1 active ability, and yes 1 passive ability. - Slow firing but heavy hitting main attack fires homing missiles that explode with force that stuns & pushes back Bloons and bursts into a cluster of powerful explosions, each of which will always burst into further clusters. The art for this oversized Monkey madness is incredible, and we hope you find it as hilarious as we do. - The Bomb Paragon’s ability fires an Indomitable Surface-to-Air Ballistic Missile (ISABM) which slowly travels through the air leaving a trail of explosions that would be pushing back any MOABs they pass over (If any MOABs were to somehow survive it passing over) until coming into contact with its designated target in one final powerful explosion. Also hey, leaking lives partially resets the cooldown, so go ahead and be a bit reckless! - Blitz Tactical Storm. Yea it’s Bombest Blitzier, just a wee bit stronger of a Bomb Blitz, nothing crazy here… Although, I guess we can mention early that Bomb Blitz itself has been balance changed so that it can now hit the leaking target that triggers it and can potentially prevent any life loss, and that of course carries up to this paragon version as well - this is exhilarating, get excited! ##### New Awesome - New Beginner Freeplay Challenge Map, Three Mines ‘Round! - One of the most popular freeplay maps of all time from Bloons TD5 is being re-imagined in BTD6 style! - This isn’t a revenge map, no if anything it’s a de-venge map. Ever wanted to get a Paragon in CHIMPS, but you just haven’t quite been able to save up the cash? Well spend enough spare time between Bloon pops mining for gold and you just might get the chance now, make sure to clear those obstacles out of the way! - New Quests - Skeletor Quest - Try out the new Skeletor Obyn Skin & Havoc Staff power - Ice To Meet You - Discover Silas’ strengths and abilities - New Achievements - No new achievements, but Black Bordering every map in the game should award you an overwhelming sense of great accomplishment - *Sense of accomplishment not guaranteed. Side effects may include carpal tunnel, loss of social life, and an unhealthy obsession with MOAB Glue - New Trophy Store Items - Monkeys: Ice Monkey Walrus pet (Honestly, you kinda need this) - Bloons: Mohawk Bloons decal (because this was clearly missing from your must have options) - Game & UI: Autumn Banner - New Limited Time trophy items (Note: Not available until the seasonal event begins!) - 2025 Halloween Avatar, 2025 Halloween Banner ##### Game Changes / Additions - Sandbox ‘Clear Pops’ button now also clears Cash Generation - Further changes to ‘ignore’ modded elements within save data instead of softlocking when returning to the base game after using certain mods **Skeletor Crossover** Have you had your daily dose of maniacal laughter? Do you long to insult your Monkeys when they let Bloons leak? Then this is the premium Hero Skin for you! Continuing our Masters of the Universe crossover, we're excited to introduce a realm-conquering new Skeletor skin for Obyn, available through the Skeletor Prestige Pack where available. This pack also includes every usurper’s favorite Skeletor Power, the Havoc Staff! The Havoc Staff stuns all Bloons on screen for up to 10s while ghostly hands produce cash by dragging Bloons away into oblivion. The team had huge fun working on Skele _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/533238430426988546]_ ### Bloons TD 6 50.0 Live Now! - Date: 2025-08-27 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/502834694432227335 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-502834694432227335 **Update: Bloons TD 6 v50.0 - Update Notes!** Available now! Update Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0zbMwVaNu0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0zbMwVaNu0) **New Hero, Silas the Ice Shaper** - Ever wonder what happens when you teach an Ice Monkey magic? Well, if you needed an excuse to use a lot more Ice Monkeys, Silas’ all-in-one frost enhancing package is just for you! Silas is a supportive crowd control hero with a heavy focus on supporting, and being supported by, other Ice Monkeys & slowing the progress of Bloons - At his base level, he both freezes nearby water & slows all Bloons in his large radius. His basic attack will slow Bloons by 50%, then freeze these slowed Bloons, and trigger an icy explosion when hitting any already Frozen targets - As Silas levels up he buffs Ice Monkeys to create orbiting Ice Fragments when they attack, creates Ice Walls on the track that freeze any Bloons to come into contact with them, reduces the cold resistance of White Bloons, gains increased experience with more Ice Monkeys placed, allows for an extra Tier 5 Ice Monkey to be placed and more! - Silas has 3 abilities - Lv3 Frostbite: For a short time upon activation attacks will detonate any freezes on the target, dealing increased damage the more freeze time was remaining - Lv7 Frozen Cascade: Creates a chain reaction of small icy explosions centered around the hero and up to 10 of the closest Ice Monkeys, freezing and dealing extra damage to any already Frozen targets - Lv10 Frozen Burial: Freezes all Bloons and deals extra damage to any already Frozen targets. Then fills the tracks with slowing Ice Walls - That’s all we have to share for now, we wish you many fun icecapades and a brrr-illiant time strategizing with the new **ICESHAPER** ##### New Powers & Powers Pro - **Powers Pro System:** - At long last they are here! One of our favorite elements from Bloons TD 5 finally had enough design and discussion to evolve to the right extent to merit inclusion in BTD6. - Pro Powers are a little more expensive than their basic counterparts, however, after being placed they can be further upgraded by picking one of three mini-paths for in-game cash. Pro Powers are completely separate entities from the standard versions and do not replace them - you can still collect and use your regular Powers. - As the new paths are a significant amount of work, we are not adding all Pro versions at the same time and are instead starting with two of the most used Powers. - **Super Monkey Beacon:** This Beacon comes with a full-game duration Super Monkey Storm ability, and can be used as many times as you desire for free on cooldown. - Top path stores multiple ability charges, secondary and tertiary triggers, and ability charges can be immediately restored for Monkey Money - On Middle path the ability deals less damage but has a much faster cooldown, gains a permanent Super Monkey turret, and grants a free Super Monkey after several rounds - Bottom path deals much more damage, stuns surviving MOABs, soaks through MOAB layers, and damage increases after every ability activation, so the more you use it in a game, the stronger it gets - **Banana Farmer Pro:** Baseline Farmer Pro has increased radius & collection speed - Top path gains full map range and much faster collection speed, while leaving banana peels on the track that trip up passing Bloons - Middle path can collect increased cash by spotting Camo Bananas, and targeting Farms to produce Regrow Bananas - Bottom path has stacking benefits from multiple Farmers, which increase the sell value of Banana Farms in radius, increase Bank income & automatically collect from Banks, & along with the Bank Deposits knowledge will automatically deposit a small amount of money into empty Banks - **That’s not all:** You now have access to a ‘new’ Power. From out of the frozen depths, the beloved Monkeysicle, with enough dedication, emerges! ##### New Awesome - New Intermediate Map, Lost Crevasse _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/502834694432227335]_ ### New Desperado Tower! - Date: 2025-06-18 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/502828352450592771 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-502828352450592771 **Update: Bloons TD 6 v49.0 - Update Notes!** Available now for most platforms please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up. Update Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbilbLrWpk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbilbLrWpk) ##### Key New Features - It’s **HIGHNOON** with the Desperado! - Pretty much everything we do in BTD6 is a labor of love, but the inspiration for Desperado is such an awesome combination of community requests for cowboy/gunslinger Monkeys, the team’s interest in fun additions to the Bloons world and lore, and the design opportunity to push strong mechanical variance on the 3 paths while keeping crosspathing tactically compelling. - With 3 potential automatically alternating weapons, the Desperado starts off with a fast pistol attack that can dispatch two back-to-back targets at a high range before reloading. While lacking in pierce, the base attack can very reliably hit straggler Bloons. The Desperado swaps between weapons as upgrade paths progress, prioritizing shorter-range weapons as Bloons come into close range. - Top path’s quickdraw fires faster the further Bloons are away, and then upgrades to a powerful revolver that fires a rapid burst of 6 shots before reload. Then they double it - ya got two hands don’t ya! Upon upgrading to The Blazing Sun, these revolvers fire so quickly that they are said to overheat in a blinding flame! - Bottom Path gains a short-range Blunderbuss that fires buckshot with such force that Bloons are thrown backwards, then adds buckshot to its buckshot with further shrapnel bursting out on contact! As a lone wolf who prefers to work on their own, this path has the grit to withstand almost anything, passively reducing the life damage taken from Bloon leaks while gaining buffs to itself and reclaiming cash from lost Bloons. Little is known of this lone specter of the wastelands but The Desert Phantom is said to be a near unassailable force, locking down swarms of MOABs with every trigger pull and cutting down countless Bloons in explosive chain reactions that leave no trace behind, not even their hats. - Middle path gains a slower firing Rifle with exceptionally high range and the skill to increase the chance of critical the further targets are away! Their hunter’s eye never loses sight while they signal bounties on Bloons, making those targets take extra damage from any Desperado and grant more cash when popped. The mythical Golden Justice is even more adept at critical damage and it is said that once locked on, Bloons cannot escape its sight no matter the number! - Desperado comes with 2 Middle Path abilities; - Take Aim - A Tier 3 ability granting any target tower Camo Detection, increased range & improved accuracy for a short time. At Tier 4 this is enhanced to also grant Purple, Black & White Bloon popping - Marked to Pop - After quickly marking extra targets, the Desperado will rapidly fire shots at any distance at as many marked targets as possible in the remaining time. Can also hit pre-marked Bloons! - Placement hotkey has no default, this can be manually bound in Hotkey settings - Desperado is unlocked for free after popping 3,500,000 Bloons, or by purchasing the premium Desperado pack that instantly unlocks all upgrades through tier 5 and grants use of an exclusive Avatar & Banner as well as the new Cowboy Hat Bloons trophy item. The Desperado IAP helps support future content updates and is a great way to share back some of your purchase with your favorite content creator via Creator Codes. ##### New Awesome - New Advanced Map, Sunset Gulch - A trainline north of the road is under Bloon attack! Rally the monkeys to defend this critical canyon crossing and the valley below - New Quests - Ezili Hero Trial - Discover Ezili’s strengths and abilities - Desperado Trial - Try out the new Desperado tower - One Hero Solution - _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/502828352450592771]_ ### Explosive Power Update - Date: 2025-04-02 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/502821376452722774 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-502821376452722774 Lay down a gauntlet of explosive spikes with the Spike Factory Paragon: Mega Massive Munitions Factory. Then relax on the new beginner map, Spa Pits. Just don't go digging around too much or the soothing hot water may burn you! New premium She-Ra skin for Adora along with new power, Sword of Protection. Rogue Legends gets a bunch of new Artifacts, a marshmallow shop, revamped CHIMPS mode with Curses, and more! Plus new quests, quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and balance changes. [Check the full patch notes and change log on Reddit.](https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1jpc827/bloons_td_6_v480_update_notes/) ### Bloons TD 6 v47.0 - Update Notes! - Date: 2025-02-04 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/515200571657948911 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-515200571657948911 **Update: Bloons TD 6 v47.0 - Update Notes!** Available now for most platforms please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up. ##### Key New Features - Legends - Legends heralds a new way of looking at designing and building updates for BTD6. The team has so many exciting ideas, many of which could be full standalone games, and Legends gives us a way to push forward with groundbreaking ideas while maintaining the continuity of BTD6 and its awesome community. - These DLC should be separate and unique enough not to feel required but to offer a very alternate way of playing. We will continue to focus on a huge variety of content that players get at no additional cost to the base game, but as these features get bigger and bigger, the team does need to keep new IAPs and DLCs coming into the game to support future development. ##### Rogue Legends! You’re gonna want to turn your sound on for this one! The first Legend available along with this update is a BTD rogue-lite adventure, featuring a randomly generated replayable single player campaign. - Build a party as you progress through the campaign; with a hero, up to 10 accompanying pre-crosspathed towers, and Artifacts to enhance their power - More than 10 unique hand-crafted tile based campaign maps to explore - Campaign maps featuring multiple paths to plan your own route through to the world, then take on a multi round Stage Boss - Featuring an all new, fast-paced Rogue Bloons roundset to learn and master (new hints included!) - Challenge tiles with alternate conditions featuring Boss Rush, Races, Endurance Races & Least Cash; these are optional to play & but grant scaling rewards based on performance to boost your team through their journey, also no lives will be lost from your first attempt on any of these tiles so feel free to trial them! - Merchants & Campfires to engage in trades and enhance your party - Collect from over 60 unique Artifacts as you progress through the campaign, boosting towers with incredible power ups & unique mechanics - Make impactful choices mid-game with temporary Boosts choices that last until the end of the current match including stat buffs, insta-monkeys & powers. Bad options? No problem - reroll them for in game cash - Defeat the Stage Boss to find Legendary boss-only artifacts & extract any artifact from the current game to earn a permanent copy that can be applied right from the start of a new Campaign - Stage Boss defeated & want to keep going? Continue through up to 5 stages of increasing difficulty, and unlock the endless CHIMPS campaign. - Obtain Rogue Legend cosmetics on purchase & earned through full campaign gameplay Check out our video rundown on Rogue Legends here: [https://youtu.be/NerXoyaPCgg](https://youtu.be/NerXoyaPCgg) **Legends - Community Questions** - We have seen quite a few common questions among the community so we’d like to try and answer as many of them as possible! - Why paid DLC? - We are dedicated to continuing to support and create free updates and content for the base game. Beyond that, for update ideas that deliver standalone content, require huge amounts of work, and would be creatively constrained by trying to fund them through Monkey Money, we need to rely on IAP and DLC paid models to fund the development. - Why does it cost more than the base game? - This may sound a bit more like a Quora answer, but here’s a quick history and market snapshot of paid games on mobile, and do keep in mind the game does cost more on PC and console. By 2018, once mobile gaming services were dominated by free-to-play games, the available price points for paid games became severely constricted, with Minecraft effectively setting the high water price at US$6.99. As BTD6 grew we actually increased the price from US$4.99 to US$6.99 in 2022 to better reflect what we see as the incredible gamepla _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/515200571657948911]_ ### Bloons TD 6 v46.0 - Update Notes! - Date: 2024-12-10 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/508440279880042383 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-508440279880042383 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: [youtu.be/N9MC7GZSan8](https://t.co/FnWy8W5NPx) ##### New Awesome - New Tack Shooter Paragon, the Crucible of Steel and Flame. Tacks, blades, fire - what more could there be? Well, plenty actually, as the Monkeys realized they can cram blades full of hot tacks! We could leave it at that, but for those who’d like a little more detail, read on! - Constantly attacking with a short range maelstrom of white hot blades that burst into a nova of tacks when they expire, this paragon creates quite a spectacle to behold. The tack monkey inside (!) is unable to see unrevealed Camo Bloons, however with its 2 abilities this isn’t enough to hold back its power. - Maelstrom ability: given that the main attack already is a permanent maelstrom, this ability gives the tower a massive temporary increase to projectile lifespan & pierce in order to greatly expand the coverage of that local maelstrom. While this is occurring, high pierce jets of blue flame will periodically blast around the tower to wipe out any smaller targets. This is a coverage & cleanup ability, so it has an extremely short cooldown but is not a single target damage dealer. - Meteor Impact: As the Maelstrom ability is more of a utility, a second ability is here to bring the damage! Meteor Impact calls down a blast that deals high damage to an unfair area, and any Bloons foolish enough to withstand the initial impact will be wiped out when this meteor breaks apart into a ring of 32 homing fireballs - New Revenge Map, Last Resort! - For those who thought Resort was too much of a chill vacation. Although honestly it really doesn’t look all that bad to me, maybe everything’s fine and it’s just a nice winter resort? - Battle Cat Crossover! - Heralding our new integration partnership with the Masters of the Universe brand from Mattel, Battle Cat is featured as the first of several drops planned through 2026. - Check out Battle Cat in his very own Quest and on most platforms as a highly effective, single-target, purchasable Power. - More details: Using the Powers tab, place the timid Cringer and he’ll stick around untransformed for the whole game, meekly swiping at a few Bloons. You’ll notice he comes with an activated ability, though. Activate this and he transforms into Battle Cat, tearing into Bloons, knocking them back, and applying a powerful damage over time that also nullifies Bloon immunities. This ability is so powerful, it can’t last forever, so after a few rounds Battle Cat must portal back home to Eternia. - On most platforms, Battle Cat Powers can be obtained via the Battle Cat Prestige Pack that comes with tier 5 Beast Handler Insta Monkeys, an exclusive Avatar, and an exclusive Banner and for repeat use the Battle Cat Booster Pack that also comes with a selection of Insta Monkeys. - New Quests - Alternate CHIMPoppable - CHIMPS Rules. Impoppable prices. Alternate Bloon Rounds. Is it even possible? - Adora Explorer! - Discover Adora’s strengths and abilities - By the Power of Battle Cat! - Test out the exclusive new Battle Cat Power - New Trophy Store Items - Monkeys: Druid Holiday projectiles, wildly festive and available anytime the Druids feel the spirit - New Limited Time trophy items (Note: Not available until the seasonal event begins!) - Christmas Snowmonkey avatar, Magical Christmas banner ##### Game Changes / Additions - 2024 Hero Packs including all heroes and skins up to 2024 from the game start. This includes a full pack of every hero & skin, which is substituted for a small completion pack for players who already own many of these. - Blastapopoulos added to Contested Territory ##### Bug Fixes & General Changes - Resolved a number of localization issues - Hero hotkey should function again without a delay when restarting a game - Failing _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/508440279880042383]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Version 45.0 Update Notes! - Date: 2024-10-09 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4701286274904243795 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-4701286274904243795 **Update: Bloons TD 6 v45.0 - Update Notes!** Available now for most platforms please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up. Update Video: [https://youtu.be/j3P5dBAHZyM](https://youtu.be/j3P5dBAHZyM) ##### Key New Features - New Boss Bloon Blastapopoulos, the Demon of the Core has returned! - While in play, towers suffer from reduced range & ability cooldown rate. - Blastapopoulos passively burns off damaging effects applied to them, and has the Purple Bloon type property. Damage type enhancements can get around this as normal, but this doesn’t change projectile temperature! - Overheating! Most projectile hits heat up Blastapopoulos, with anything weak to purple (fire, lasers & plasma) increasing heat even more, so use these damage types at your own risk or bring along some Ice attacks to cool things back down! Whenever maximum heat is reached Blastapopoulos vents the excess, briefly stunning towers & increasing ability cooldowns then superheating the area for a short time, causing all projectiles to burn up faster than normal. - Skulls when triggered will fill up a portion of Heat, and spew out a number of Fireballs & Pyroclastic Rocks. - These Fireballs will target your towers & create debuffing pools of magma around their targets while the Pyroclastic Rocks land around Blastapopoulos to form impenetrable barrier rings around the boss until they expire - You’ll need to carefully manage your heat to avoid dire consequences! ##### New Awesome - New Advanced Map, Ancient Portal - Both ancient and modern, the portal has clearly moved this map through time, so they can easily shift Bloons from one path to another. With all of that energy at play, there is clearly explosive potential. - New Quests - 5 Minutes of Frozen Over - a reversed race! With a limit of 5 minutes send as many rounds as you can in this marathon-not-a-sprint to score as much damage as possible - One Sided - Beat half of Infernal, with half of the play space. Oh it’s the wrong half! - Fast Tracked - A trial quest that’ll give you a taste of the new Fast Track IAP (More detail on that below!) - New Trophy Store Items - Heroes: Pat Fusty Pet Pig - Monkeys: Buccaneer Flavored Trades projectiles - Game & UI: Spooky Night banner - New Limited Time trophy items (Note: Not available until the seasonal event begins!) - Tricky Ghosts avatar, Bat BFBs Bloon skin - New CT Team Store items - Flying Props: Haunting Ghoul - Icons: Carved Pumpkin Icon - Frames: Spider's Web Frame ##### Game Changes / Additions - Co-op overhaul (Part 1) - We are currently going through a large overhaul of the co-op code, which will happen over multiple updates. This first phase is already showing us greatly improved average performance and cleaner game state handling. - Revamped in game store - We really felt it was time to make our store nicer and easier to engage with. Please browse at your leisure, with separate sections to more easily find what you’re looking for and improved display of visuals and descriptions. - Along with this we’ve added a couple brand new packs to check out - Fast Track Pack! A returning favorite from BTD5, with dynamic improvements! - When enabled, skip the first 25% of rounds for the current game. This scales to match how long the mode is, so for any 300 round custom challenge enjoyers out there you will now be able to skip the first 75! - Starting Cash is updated to reflect these skipped rounds - Starting Hero XP is updated to reflect these skipped rounds - Double Cash & Fast Track can now be enabled/disabled from the play screen - Available in most areas, however will still not show in Competitive Modes or CHIMPS - Challenge Editor will support a ‘Fast Track Disabled’ option at launch for any challenge creators who wish to enforce the starting rounds in their challenges - Pets Pack IAP - This pack includ _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4701286274904243795]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Version 44.0 Update Notes! - Date: 2024-08-01 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4346620828147327386 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-4346620828147327386 **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](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 _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4346620828147327386]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 43.0 - Date: 2024-05-29 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4161967807701315783 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-4161967807701315783 **Update: Bloons TD 6 v43.0 - Update Notes!** Available now for most platforms please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up. Update Video: [https://youtu.be/97SrSDiSNfk](https://youtu.be/97SrSDiSNfk) ##### Key New Features - New Event, Boss Rush! - We are so psyched to release this event! We have heard the many requests for more Team activities, and after testing some functionality in Quests, we are so happy to release a very different way to play as a Team. Thank you for your feedback and patience, and we truly hope you enjoy! - Band together with allies to defend against the powerful Boss Rush threatening your Team. With multiple Boss threats looming on the horizon, you and your Team must work together to defend nearby islands from a variety of invaders! - To assist in pushing back the threat players are outfitted with Relic Knowledge to leverage and a number of Revive Shields that will recover you from 0 lives! But be careful, Revives are limited and each time one is triggered the Boss will rush closer to the exit. - These Bosses cannot be destroyed alone, so when defending any island your goal is to deal as much damage as you possibly can before they make it past. When your Team reaches enough combined total damage the island is successfully defended and you can progress to the next island, with a new Boss to defend against! - Between islands some monkey types must stay behind to defend, but additional Relic Knowledge will be acquired to assist in the next challenge. - Defend 5 islands, each with a fast paced Boss challenge against different Bosses out of the initial 3 available: Bloonarius, Dreadbloon & Phayze. (Vortex & Lych to be coming at a later date!). - Immediately after defending an island, all Team members can claim the island rewards! - For launch we are releasing with a pure Team focus without competitive leaderboards. This allows us to review balance and get feedback from players before making changes in future updates. Boss Rush has evolved to be much bigger than the minigame-like concept it was initially planned to be and we look forward to seeing all of your Teams defend their islands together! - The Event Timer shows when the next Boss Rush will start - less than a day after launch. - New Code Redemption System - This new system will allow us to create gift packs that can be redeemed by anyone with the code for free in-game rewards, so keep an eye out for any codes we may share (or hide…) in future! - Due to privacy requirements, certain platforms won’t be able to enter the codes directly in the game. Instead, you will need to visit a Ninja Kiwi website where you can log in to your LiNK account and redeem the code. ##### New Awesome - New Hero Rosalia! (responds to Lia for short!) - Jetpack Monkey joins the team! Try out Rosalia right away in her new trial quest! Rosalia is built to be a strong ‘set and forget’ hero who also happens to work well with a techbot. The ability to swap weapon to handle her own weaknesses exists for people who wish to play her as their sole DPS, but the power of both her weapons is balanced to scale up together at a fair rate so there's no reason not to pick a preferred weapon forever, and build the rest of your towers to cover any weakness left. - Rosalia freely jumps around her large workshop area, attacking faster the more Bloons are nearby while swapping between a powerful single target laser & bouncing cluster grenades to deal with different threats! - Enhanced special attacks for the 10th shot fired on either weapon, showering Bloons in a fog of explosions, or Shocking and pushing them back with powerful Plasma blasts - Reduce all upgrade costs for Monkey Ace & Heli Pilot, plus one other friend! - Lv3 Scatter Missile ability, to clean up Bloons with a barrage of powerful stuns - Lv7 Hover ANYWHERE and gain the Flight Boost abil _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4161967807701315783]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 42.0 - Date: 2024-04-08 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4210376792239578637 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-4210376792239578637 ##### Update: Bloons TD 6 v42.0 - Update Notes! Update Video: [https://youtu.be/Kg5tHguhsGg](https://youtu.be/Kg5tHguhsGg) ##### Key New Features - Accolades and Player Revenue Share - We are so excited to bring the success of BTD6 back to players and share revenue with players who are helping in making the game more awesomer! - The system allows players to gift player creators with animating Accolades that will follow their map or challenge wherever they are seen in game. - The initial 12 Accolades express a variety of positive reactions to inspiring content, such as Smart, Tricky, Beautiful, Fun, Masterpiece, and more! - At launch and for the foreseeable future we’ll be sharing 35% of the Accolade purchase price with the player creator, which means 50% if they are also a content creator and you are using their Creator Code. This is an industry leading share amount, which we aim to maintain; after the platform fees, Ninja Kiwi and Nexus.gg have the smallest shares of these purchases, as they truly are meant for the player creators. - Revenue share is available on platforms with IAP systems. We’ve tried to make Accolades receivable wherever possible, but we must restrict this to players who register with Nexus according to their terms and to players on non-subscription platforms. We are looking for solutions for subscription players but this will take significant time. ##### New Awesome - New Hero Skin, the Gentlemonkey Gadgeteer Geraldo! Geraldo was a challenge to find the time for a skin with so much more custom art required compared to our normal hero roster but he’s finally, fancily here - New Map, Castle Revenge! Longstanding fans of BTD will notice something familiar here. We love bringing our classic content forward and not just because we are nostalgic saps but because they have great play value. This one hails from both BTD5 and BTD Battles, but with a dynamic flourish that we hope gears you up to earn all of the badges! - New Quests - Multi-stage story based Bloonarius quest - prepare to be slimed! - Royal Tank Academy trial: discover Captain Churchill’s strengths and abilities - One Stop Pop Shop trial: discover Geraldo’s strengths and abilities - Phayze One Experiment Quest: if you enjoyed the Party Bloon Quest we have another infinite scaling Quest Boss to challenge you. This version includes unique round mechanics tied to the Boss. - New Trophy Store Items - Heroes: Corvus Owl pet - darkly adorbs! - Monkeys: Engineer Palbot pet - mechanically adorbs! - Bloons: Nightcap Bloons decal - Game & UI: CatEzili avatar, Boss Phayze avatar, Super Chill Banner - New CT Team Store items - Base Props: Junk Tower - Big Map Editor Additions! - Implemented a Removable/Interactable state for props through the props UI; this can be done by linking together the new Interactable Area to different special props, available from the Areas Menu (at the bottom) and the new Interactable prop menu with the Hammer icon - Added new category for Interactable props (look for the Hammer icon tab); these add animating flavor when Interactable layers are removed, but they can also be used as props (but with only limited animation) - New items: Responding to the many requests for cityscape elements, we took existing assets from maps like high finance alongside some new stuff to make building the city of your dreams a possibility! The construction supervisor just radioed in saying there are over 60 new construction props with which to build, plus new Paths, Stamps, and Terrain to match! ##### Game Changes / Additions - Map search is now also available for co-op lobby map selection - Map ‘Gizmos’ are now influenced by Challenge Editor 'removable cost rate' - This includes items such as: Workshop Conveyor Belt / Track Extensions, Dark Dungeons Statue & the Polyphemus Eye mechanic. - While we like giving players lots to choose from as early as possible, we’ve seen feedback that the current hero unlock flow can feel overwhelmin _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4210376792239578637]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 41.0 - Date: 2024-02-29 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4134938332939133541 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-4134938332939133541 **[Bloons TD 6 v41.0 - Update Notes on Reddit (with bug fixes and balance changes)!](https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1akoc55/update_bloons_td_6_v410_update_notes/)** **[41.1 and 41.2 notes.](https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1ar3yav/update_bloons_td_6_v412_update_notes/)** Available for all platforms. These notes are a bit late, so hopefully you've been enjoying the update already! Update Video: [youtu.be/aMHaWUhZy-w](https://t.co/5z5xsffd2B) ##### New Awesome - New Paragon, the Nautic Siege Core! - Starting the new year with a Paragon was a push for the team, especially alongside the launch of BTD6+ on Vision Pro, but we’re really happy with how the versatility has turned out, as the Monkey Sub Paragon provides assistance in different ways depending on its current form. - Unsubmerged the Sub utilizes powerful missile attacks, launching powerful pre-emptive AoE missiles at every target to spawn, while unloading a barrage of airburst rockets at anything it, or any of your other towers, can see. Advanced Intel insanity is super fun. - While Submerged the sub attacks with a radiation aura that obliterates a huge number of smaller targets with ease, but the main uses in this form are the massive damage and pierce buffs to all Heroes & other Subs within radius. Really hoping to encourage some fun placement synergies here. - At all times Submerged or not, the Final Strike ability can be called on to unleash devastation. That really should be capital “D” Devastation. - New Map, Sulphur Springs - We’ve had fun roundabout maps in BTD5 and we harken to that around a different visual theme than usual and effort behind specific placement locations. - New Quests - Pat Fusty Hero Test - Psi Hero Test - MOAB Madness - still great and even better - New Trophy Store Items - Heroes: Benjamin pet - it’s a mouse of course! Yes, we couldn’t resist. - Bloons: MOAB Bee skin, because, well, bees - Game & UI: Dread Rising avatar (Dreadbloon), Year of the Wood Dragon profile banner - Limited Time only - Powers: Pontoon Chocolate Bar - Avatar: Flower Friends Corvus - New CT Team Store items - Base Props: Wizard Apprentice prop - Team Banners: Monkey Squad banner - Icons: Year of the Dragon icon, Cheeping Chick icon - Frames: Year of the Dragon frame, Bees N’ Flowers frame ##### Game Changes / Additions - Much requested, Apopalypse Mode now grants end of round cash. We’ve agreed that start strategies feel too limited, especially on harder maps, so this is intended to bring more variety back to the mode. - As always intended, Boss Challenge mode now allows for co-op, with separate score tracking for all player counts - Looking back and reviewing CHIMPS in the game in general over the past few years we feel that there are 2 main standout problems. The first is that CHIMPS is unapproachable for new players and a very difficult gameplay loop to initially get excited about and break into, and the second is that the majority of the people who are invested in this gameplay loop already don’t play it within the base game most of the time since the Challenge Editor makes it more approachable. Given this we have made the following changes: - CHIMPS mode now allows for a 'Retry Last Round' option, upon defeat allowing players to reload the previous round before the defeat occurred - This is essentially a ‘home + reload save’ rather than a ‘Continue’ and so choosing to retry at any point will invalidate the run for any Black Medal purposes, but still grants the Red Medal on completion. - It is important to us that CHIMPS remains a completely fair free to play pinnacle endgame experience, so this option will remain free to use just like in custom challenge creation - Maps Menu Search Functionality - Players can now search within the maps menu to more easily track down the ones they are looking for, map names are also localized to the current language the player has set - Along with this a number of QoL terms can be used for fi _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4134938332939133541]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 40.0 - Date: 2023-12-06 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3863588843588615609 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3863588843588615609 **Update: Bloons TD 6 v40.0 - Update Notes!** Available now for iOS, Android & Steam 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. ##### Key New Features - Events Menu Overhaul - Our events menu was getting longer and longer, and perhaps a little too reminiscent of our Flash gaming roots. We’ve moved everything over to a new and improved events menu with all active items visible at a glance and estimated countdowns for upcoming events. - Co-op daily challenges will now last multiple days up until the next challenge cycles around for more time to complete and less downtime between them. - Boss Challenge - With more Bosses came more downtime between each Boss appearance. To remedy that and to massively extend the ability to practice different strats and maps, we’re opening up a persistent Boss Challenge system! - Any Boss Bloons not currently in an active event can now be challenged at any time on a map of your choice, even tougher maps where we won’t generally run Events. - Boss Challenge can be accessed from the new Events menu, or via the Boss Menu. - Along with this, we’ve ensured that every map now has a designated Boss Spawn track so that there is no randomness to where they will come from. ##### New Awesome - New Hero: Corvus the Spirit Walker - After months of work developing the complicated balance and technical aspects of a Hero with so many combinable elements, we are so happy to confirm that Corvus will indeed be in Update 40! We’ve seen the community speculation about whether we’d get Corvus released this year, and while it wasn’t easy, not only did the team rally but we’ve had significant time to balance and bugfix. We hope you enjoy playing this very unique Hero! - Corvus fights alongside his lovable Spirit companion, which will attack Bloons anywhere on the map following his target priority. Corvus harvests Mana from Bloons and uses this to channel powerful energies through his Spirit companion to perform many powerful attacks from his spellbook (which we think isn’t in any way cursed or possibly sentient) - Corvus himself is able to debuff a single Bloon at a time with his Haunt, which removes regrow and purple properties and enables increased energy damage. When destroyed, Haunted targets are absorbed as Mana and then explode, dealing strong area damage. - Because much of Corvus’ power comes from Spells, proximity to Bloons for Haunting and Mana generation is essential, and we think it suits Corvus’ personality to be near the frontline, too. At Level 7, Corvus gains the ability to Spirit Walk mapwide, which allows repositioning if other Monkeys start pop stealing too much. - Corvus can be unlocked for 7000 Monkey Money. To date he is the most complicated and in-depth Hero in BTD6 and as noted has taken months of work and revision. Given this and the high level of strategic understanding involved in playing with him, we feel the higher price both reflects this additional development effort and will defer the unlock until players have additional experience to better understand how and when to use his powers. - This same price point reasoning also applies to Geraldo, and we plan to raise Geraldo up to this 7000 Monkey Money unlock as well. We don’t want to blindside anyone with this change, however, and won’t be changing the unlock price until Update 41. Anyone who doesn’t have Geraldo unlocked, you have the Holiday season to unlock him at the current rate. - We also want to note after the last few fairly complicated towers between Geraldo, Beast Handler, Magus & now Corvus we don’t intend to continue a trend of more and more complex designs. We aim to have a healthy mix of simple and complicated new content, and our next planned Hero (who will drop in midway through next year) will step back to a ‘less is more’ design aimed to be unique in its own way but simpler to pick _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3863588843588615609]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 39.0 - Date: 2023-10-10 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3713838445855944893 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3713838445855944893 Available now for most (Still processing on Epic, Netflix, Amazon and Arcade no ETA yet) 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/-1M6aUdjzso](https://youtu.be/-1M6aUdjzso) ##### Key New Features - Map Editor! - We are so excited to release the Map Editor, in planning for 2 years and in active development this whole year. Bloons has a long history of player created content and we are delighted to add Map creation and sharing to BTD6 in the most robust and in-game format ever available! We stretched to include as much capability as possible in this first release, and we already have a long wishlist for future updates, and we’ll temper that after seeing what incredible creations you come up with and the top features you’d like to see included in updates. Have fun and please share your creativity with your friends and the whole community! - Other player’s custom maps can be played right from level 20 when the Content Browser opens up - Find the Map Editor via the Edit Map button inside Play Social, or from the Create button in the Content Browser Maps tab - Don’t be surprised - there is an unlock gate for Map Editor. At player rank 50 Map Creation can be unlocked for 6000 Monkey Money (same ballpark as the top Hero skins and fully grindable), or directly via IAP (on platforms that have IAP), which we included in response to players looking for more ways to support the game and future updates. The rank unlock helps ensure that players have a reasonable understanding of the game and how map obstacles and difficulty work before they get to work creating their own. - Most importantly, Map Editor works on all platforms and devices. We’ve never been able to provide an editor this robust in-game and on all devices before, so we’re thrilled to offer this level of creative control on all devices including phones. - Please see more details about the Map Editor features and scope below! ##### New Awesome - New Hero Skin - Book Wyrm Etienne - Switching out drones for dragons seems like a pretty awesome thing to do. A favorite of the team, channeling many of our book-devouring nerdy pasts (and presents!), Book Wyrm celebrates the power of imagination that has led most of us to make and play games. - New (Revenge) Map - Dark Path - Continuing the BTD tradition of more challenging versions of favorite maps that started with Rink Revenge 10 years ago, Dark Path takes the pristine triple back park setting and flips both the Bloon path and the placeable areas on their heads. Revenge is most sweet when served dark! - New Quests! - Drone Flying 101 - discover Etienne’s strengths and weaknesses - Obyn’s Gardening School - discover Obyn’s strengths and weaknesses - Grow Less Than Galaxili! - least tiers challenge quest on Geared - New Monkey Knowledge - Paragon of Power, any paragon will gain a large boost to its attack speed so long as you have no T5s of the same tower type placed - New Trophy Store Items - Heroes: Admiral Brickell Aerial Deployment placement (70) - Monkeys: Dart Monkey Pumpkin Spiked Balls projectiles (50), Alchemist Slime Cube pet (120) - Co-op: Paragon emote (75) - Game & UI: Tropical Carnival - Classy Brass Mix jukebox track (70), Pumpkin Patch profile banner (300) - Competition Winning items - Reddit competition winner avatars (50 trophies each) in no particular order: - Pancake - I CANNOT SEE by [u/Xalsona](https://old.reddit.com/u/Xalsona) - What a suspicious looking monkey by atomic_pizza - Tea Time Sauda by [u/ReconScoutTeemo](https://old.reddit.com/u/ReconScoutTeemo) - The Admiral and the Doves by [u/Thinkin_G](https://old.reddit.com/u/Thinkin_G) - Down, Not Out by Loose Noose - New CT Team Store items - Base Props: Monkey Jack O Lantern - Team Banners: Contested Garden banner - Icons: Skull Candle icon - Frames: Spiked Coffin fram _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3713838445855944893]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 38.0 - Date: 2023-07-26 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3644025765835999722 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3644025765835999722 ##### Bloons TD 6 v38.0 - Update Notes! Rolling out 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. **Check out the** [more awesomer update video here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz4WKbBXP20) ##### Key New Features - New Boss Bloon, Phayze! - As existing Bosses continue to be tuned and refined, designing new Bosses becomes increasingly complex to find both visual and functional differences that truly mix up play styles, approach to eco, and Monkeys used. We knew camo would be a focus but the movement and entry migration proved to be essential as Phayze’s design took shape. We hope you enjoy the challenge! - Phayze has the Camo property and spawns with a Reality Shield that increases its movement speed while the Shield is active. Monkeys can destroy this shield to reduce Phayze’s movement speed back to normal again - Phayze triggers a Radar Jam every 24 seconds - this restores its Camo property if this has been lost & for 12 seconds grants Phayze immunity to any form of camo removal as well as disabling all shared Camo-granting buffs from towers - When Radar Jam occurs Phayze also pulls all Bloons forward to Phayze’s Location and grants them the Camo property - When each skull is reached, Phayze rebuilds the Reality Shield and warps forward, while opening a tear in the fabric of reality that allows for all Bloons to spawn further along the track. Note that the warp is proportional to track length, so shorter warps on short tracks and prepare for startling warps on longer tracks! - Skulls also trigger a stacking slow aura around Phayze, which reduces the attack speed of all Monkey Towers until the boss is defeated - Contested Territory Competitive Mode - We’ve heard the community feedback and have wanted ourselves to help Teams define themselves as Competitive or Casual, so we’ve developed a system that allows Teams to set their stance to attract players with the same mindset as well as sign up for each CT and lock those Team rosters in to acknowledge and help address some of the Team griefing that we’ve seen happening. - We’ve pushed the cadence for Contested Territory back one week to give time for Teams to review this new system and sign up for Competitive play. - Mayors can now set their team stance inside their Team settings. All existing Teams will default to Casual, so Mayors will need to set their stance to Competitive in order for the team to sign up for each CT’s competitive leaderboards. Team members can send canned chat requests to set stance to Competitive. - Teams that have been set to Competitive stance will appear in the Team search with a new shield icon indicating this Competitive stance and interest in recruiting competitive players. - We understand that some Teams have been playing competitively with dormant Mayors. If you are on a Team with a dormant Mayor and want to play competitively, you can consider leaving your Team and using the Team search to identify Teams with the Competitive shield icon. - Each CT event itself will now consist of two experiences: Competitive and Casual - CT events will start with a pre-register time period starting after the previous CT ends and lasting until 24 hours before the next event begins. For Competitive Stance Teams, once 5 players sign up for Competitive play from their team screen OR the Mayor or Assistant Mayor signs the team up, a team will be registered for Competitive Mode for that CT only. This sign up will need to be done for each individual CT. - Any teams that do not pre-register in time, or that are created after an event has already started will instead join the Casual event. - Rewards have similarly changed with Global rewards and badges of any kind only available for Competitive leaderboards. Casual Teams will not have global leaderboards or rewards; they will have local leaderboards and rewards but no badges _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3644025765835999722]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 37.0 - Date: 2023-06-07 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3689057232230169216 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3689057232230169216 ## ##### Bloons TD 6 v37.0 - Update Notes! Available now for iOS, Android and Steam. 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. **Check out the** [more awesomer update video here.](https://youtu.be/u8Tlduy5DDc) ##### Key New Features - New Paragon - The Magus Perfectus! (loves casting spells) Some of you know we teased this last year, but we needed more time to balance the art and design required to make this extra special, so we are very pleased to get this live! Wizard Monkey’s Paragon is designed to be a higher level strategic Paragon with powerful ability usage similar to the Doomship. - The core of the Magus is a toggle to and from a Draining Beam which deals very small single target damage but absorbs graveyard mana as it damages and destroys Bloons - While toggled off from the Drain Beam, Magus attacks with a powerful Arcane Spike that deals massive damage to MOABs and revives Bloons it slays, while a Dark Phoenix circles overhead attacking with Firebomb breath and a radial fireball attack - Phoenix Explosion Ability: can be cast to consume the Paragon’s entire graveyard to set all Bloons on screen on fire for 30 seconds and summon one Zombie ZOMG for every 9000 graveyard mana consumed - Arcane Metamorphosis Ability: can be used to consume all graveyard mana and transform the Magus briefly into an alternate form which decimates everything with a flame cascade attack; Metamorphosis lasts longer the more mana it consumes - Magus was designed for armchair play so it will fill and consume graveyard mana on its own, but our goal was to create more actively controlled Paragon for those who will enjoy microing between Beam on and off and choosing which awesome Ability to unleash and when ##### New Awesome - Happy Birthday BTD6 - On June 14th, BTD6 will celebrate 5 years of monkeytastic fun and strategy! We hope you’ll join us for the main menu changes, skinned Collection event, special Questing, and general celebration. Thank you for five amazing years and we’re looking forward to all the years ahead! - New Hero Skin - Jiangshi Sauda, a fun new cross-cultural look for Sauda brainstormed by the art team, mixing inspirations from a favorite show and Chinese folklore - New Map - Erosion - Community designed advanced map Erosion by “I am not an artist” ~ [u/TheWiseTroll](https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/suxvmx/btd6_map_concept_erosion/) - TheWiseTroll’s original concept proposed land and water but when thinking about map colors and the little stories we think of behind each map, the concept of the polar bear walking back with the shrinking ice was too compelling to do anything else - New Quests - Birthday Party - Pop the Party Bloon as many times as you can before it escapes - Blade Sauda Nowhere - Try out Sauda and learn some of her skills - Patch’s Cheap Chimps Challenge - Beat Logs with as little cash spent as you can - Striken Bad - Defeat the BAD on round 100 using First Strike. The spelling hurts us, too, you’re not the only one - but we had to do it! - Least Cash and Least Tier Boss Events - We’ve heard feedback about and have been wanting to shake up Boss rules, so here we go! - Applying new victory conditions to Boss Events completely changes the focus while still needing the damage output and type to handle each Boss - Time still matters, as the secondary time score will break any ties - New Trophy Store Items - Heroes: Geraldo Pack Mule pet, Quincy Spec Ops Drop In placement - Monkeys: Sweden Village Flag - Bloons: Party Hat Bloons - Game & UI: Vortex Avatar, Sunset Samba 64 Mix music track, Quincy Arrows banner - Nexus.gg Creator Supporter Avatar - show your support for Content Creators by using the Creator Support button on the Settings screen and purchasing any IAP - Limited Time only {trophy items if there’s a seasonal} - 5 Year Anniversary Avatar, 5 Year Ann _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3689057232230169216]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 36.0 - Date: 2023-04-04 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/6580362571642714138 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-6580362571642714138 ##### Bloons TD 6 v36.0 - Update Notes! The update button has been pressed! These updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up. Please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you right away. While you wait, you can check out the update video here: [update video here.](https://youtu.be/_Nq4f9n2vdU) https://youtu.be/_Nq4f9n2vdU]https://youtu.be/zWyCqR1juZA ##### Key New Features - New Tower - **The Beast Handler** - chomp, rawr, kakaw! - So much to say about this tower, but mainly we so hope you enjoy it! - The first never before seen tower to join the BTD universe since the Druid and Alchemist at launch almost 5 years ago. - This tower plays and gains power in a completely unique way, and there are intentional tradeoffs along the way - you need to choose the right time to Merge beasts or just like any other tower whether more separate and lower-power beasts are situationally better. - This is a Support class tower, so seeing how it works with your favorite builds is part of the fun. - BTW making cool-looking giant beasts pop Bloons has been pretty awesome, even though it took us twice as long as expected. Thanks for your patience!!! - Quests! Quests are self-contained challenges with their own special rules, difficulty, and unlock requirements. Patch joins the main menu and acts as the entry point for the Quest system. The intent along with fun gameplay is to sprinkle more story into the game, teaching certain strategies, introducing game modes, trying out items before unlocking them, as well as being a place for us to experiment with new mechanics. Did someone say special missions? No we didn’t say that for 36, but definitely downstream. - With the launch of the Quests system we have 3 beginner Quests aimed towards newer players. In future updates we will expand this with mid-rank, high rank, and expert level Quests that will introduce higher level ideas and challenges. - Beast Handler Quest - The Dartling Gunner unlocks via a basic pop target objective, but this was a simple system and had nothing to do with the tower itself. To unlock the Beast Handler with this update, rank 40+ players will take on a short adventure using the lower tiers of this tower. - Race Introduction - When Races unlock at rank 20, they can be quite an intimidating system to start learning. Now rank 20+ players will be able to access their first persistent race, available from the Quest menu. This is a short introduction aimed at new players, or players new to Races. More challenging Race Quests will be added in the future. - Quincy’s Trial - All players start the game with Quincy available, and now from the Quest menu or from Quincy's profile on the Hero menu players will be able to engage in a short mission showcasing his strengths ##### New Awesome - New Map - Polyphemus - No, Lotus Island was never going to be the only stop on that epic journey - Your next adventure is Polyphemus, whose one great eye closes over any towers in its site. Never fear, unlike Monkdyseus, your crew is not dead, just out of play until you can open the eye again. - Another one made with challenges in mind, and yes, we’ll look for other uses for this mechanic in the future. - New Achievements - a simple intro to quests with: Side Quest, World League Training - New Trophy Store Items - Monkeys: Tack Shooter Hedgehog pet - Bloons: Lobster BFB skin - Game & UI: Avatar73 - Necromancer, Avatar74 - Darts, Avatar75 - Gravelord Lych, Avatar76 - Sun Hat Adora - Competition Winning items - Banner29 - community banner by ratcrunch - Avatar of Darkness - Limited Time only - Alchemist Flower splash projectiles, Banner29 - Blossom Temple - New CT Team Store items - Base Props: Dino Spring Egg, Cake Baker Monkey - Icons: Overclocked Icon, Choc Bunny icon - Frames: Bloon From The Dead frame, Flower Burst frame ##### Game Changes / Additions - Reworked towers with secondary attack target op _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/6580362571642714138]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 35.0 - Date: 2023-02-22 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3632753361396573544 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3632753361396573544 https://youtu.be/zWyCqR1juZA]https://youtu.be/zWyCqR1juZA ##### New Awesome - New Hero Skin: Kaiju Pat - The Bloons are already frightened by Pat’s immense stature, so wait until they encounter his monstrous Kaiju form! Art team inspiration made this one come to life, and yes it does feel great in co-op games with Sentai Churchill. And in High Finance! Kaiju Pat plays even better with Big Monkey Towers, so if you don’t have that in your main menu Settings Extras, this is a great excuse to go get the Chunky Monkey Achievement. - 2 New Maps - Middle of the Road - is it wrong that we like the desert ghost town setting? Somewhere before the End of the Road, this beginner map takes the Bloons on a good long mosey around town. - Dark Dungeons - this community designed 200k Reddit competition winner certainly lives up to the challenge of making a hard map. Added to the Expert category, we changed the proportions for gameplay, riffed on the statue idea, and added traps as any dungeon needs but hopefully did justice to the inspired original submission by u/Lars_Overwick. - New Trophy Store Items - Heroes: Biker Bones Infernal Rift placement & upgrade animation - we had fun with this one! - Monkeys: Sniper Chameleon pet, no camouflaging that cuteness! - Game & UI: Banner 26 - Glue Storm banner, Avatar 69 Bloonarius, Avatar 70 Studious Patch, Avatar 71 Just A Little Monkey, Avatar 72 Happy Banana Farmer - Competition Winning items - Banner 27 - Wizard Lord Phoenix banner by u/Flipp_Flopps - Banner 28 - Farm Chicken banner by u/WhereThighs - New CT Team Store items - Base Props: Cosy Beanbag Monkey - Icons: Year of the Rabbit icon, Buzzy Bee icon - Frames: Year of the Rabbit frame, A Kiwi Summer frame ##### Game Changes / Additions - Round 100 & every 100 rounds Instamonkey rewards now reflect the game mode for Primary/Military/Magic only modes, granting an instamonkey for that same category. We’re still looking for more ways to focus instamonkey rewards, and we’re hoping this helps improve some collections - Boss Speed/Health edits have event modifier icons - From v35 onwards a pseudo-offline mode can now be selected to continue playing if you are unable to update to the latest game version - this has been a much requested feature so we’re pleased that it’s in! - Added ‘Damage Done To Bosses’ profile stat - Added Jukebox shuffle option to the in-game pause menu, also with jukebox enabled songs are now shuffled once on entering a map and stay in that new order until you exit and start a new game - another much requested feature and we love it, too, so keep up the feedback, it really does help! - Added a spicy new indicator to the main menu background for when a boss event is active - so spice - Added a Retry Last Round ‘continue’ option for CT & Boss for a MM cost with no bonus cash granted. - Improved co-op stability - this was on our list for later this year but we were able to dedicate time to it now and from our testing have improved the game experience in normal gameplay and Boss Events, so we look forward to feedback here. Note there is still a slowdown issue that can occur, so if your game does appear to be running slowly especially with fast forward on, try turning FF off and on again to see if it stabilizes at the correct speed. We know that sounds like an IT support joke, but don’t tell us you don’t do this regularly on your own device/rig. Anyway, hoping you’ll see co-op stability improvement, and we’ll keep working on more stability and to fix that slowdown! ##### Bug Fixes & General Changes - A number of localization fixes - A number of device/resolution specific UI fixes - Resolved a minor rounding error in freeplay HP formula - Resolved some crashes that could occur due to network issues - Resolved an issue where challenges using a specific hero could also force the skin - Advanced Search in Team Browser will now save when something is unchecked - A number of description updates for different Towers and Heroe _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3632753361396573544]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 34.0 - Date: 2022-12-07 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3606850755226212528 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3606850755226212528 ##### Bloons TD 6 v34.0 - Update Notes! Available now for iOS, Android and Steam. 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/xtwJ9rcP-9M](https://youtu.be/xtwJ9rcP-9M) ##### Key New Features - New Boss Bloon: Dreadbloon! - From the dark underground depths to the skies above, Dreadbloon brings its signature connection to the subterranean to combat even the toughest of Monkey defenses. Destroy Dreadbloon’s earthen armor only to find a lead interior with new special properties - complete immunity to different Monkey Tower categories each time the armor reforms. Even Paragons in those categories are rendered temporarily harmless. As if that’s not enough, Dreadbloon also spawns resilient Rock Bloons each time a skull is reached and until its stone armor is destroyed, and these Rock Bloons are so fearsome that any Monkey set to strong targeting will feel taunted to attack the Rock Bloon before anything else. Watch out for Dreadbloon in upcoming weekly Boss events and win those prestigious Dreadbloon badges! ##### New Awesome - New Beginner Map: One Two Tree! - A fun seasonal beginner map with an interesting twist! At certain rounds the trees are taken away to decorate Monkey homes leaving more space in which to build defenses. A bit like an automated Cornfield, but these plots also confer a handful of special properties to the Monkeys placed there. Pay attention to the colors and shapes on the billboard legend to help understand which Monkeys will benefit from each plot. This was a fun system to enable for use in maps, so we’ll plan to do more of this in the future and we also expect this will be heaps of fun for custom challenges - we look forward to seeing your ideas! - New Hero Skin: Sleigh Churchill skin - Inspired by the work done in Bloons Pop, Churchill’s combat ready sleigh was an easy pick for a seasonal hero skin. We had heaps of fun with this voiceover recording; Kevin Orlando did an amazing job as always, and we promise we only made a couple of sleigh homonym puns! - New Achievement: Invigoration - New Trophy Store Items - Game & UI: Avatar 66 - Avatar of Wrath, Avatar 68 - Absolute Zero - Competition Winning items - Banner 24 - Boomerang Glaives by u/ReconScoutTeemo - Banner 25 - Glyphs by u/PvtMagnuS - Limited Time only - Co-op - Fullscreen Sleighbells emote - Banana farm - Presents projectile swap - Ninja Monkey - Snowflake shuriken projectile swap - Dart Monkey - Snowballs projectile swap - Tack Shooter - Icicles and Snowflakes projectile swap - Avatar 65 - Christmas wreath avatar (Obyn Wolf) - Avatar 67 - Happy Holidays avatar (Etienne) - Banner 23 - Seasons Greetings - New CT Team Store items - Building Props: Christmas Tree prop - Team Banners: Team Banner 9 - Delicate Snowflake, Team Banner 10 - Roast Banana - Icons: Alien Icon, Crown Icon - Frames: Bloon Frame, Military Frame ##### What’s Not Here - Yet! - Context and Reality Check - 2022 was a big year for the BTD6 team and Ninja Kiwi overall. Getting out of lockdowns and back to work in person was a huge gift and we were excited to build big and exciting updates. Both Geraldo and Contested Territory pushed the game into new design and technical areas, but also required additional post-launch work. - From a team perspective, getting out of lockdowns and the return of travel also meant long overdue family reunions and we supported extended time off for those purposes without hesitation. In parallel, we also saw more sick leave this year as unsurprisingly cold and flu season hit us particularly hard in Auckland this year, causing significantly more time off for ill health during September and October. While we did plan more time and did one fewer update this year than last in order to make room for a huge end of year update, this important leave time did impact us more than _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3606850755226212528]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 33.1 - Date: 2022-10-20 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3423324562273254835 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3423324562273254835 ##### Bloons TD 6 v33.1 - Update Notes! For a full list of 33.0 Changes you can [find the update notes here.](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3298347770881535579) ##### Changes - Base game paragon count restriction increased to 4 in response to feedback that with a restriction having support for 4 player co-op to each push for a paragon is more fair - We have heard even more clearly from the community that this was a frustrating change, even for players who didn’t push for multiple paragons. We’re certainly not happy that our balance-focused decision has created such concern, and we certainly don’t want nerf-blaster toting giant head monkes showing up at our doors. - Superceding the 33.0 notes, we are planning for 34.0: - Continued review of the use of Paragons and discussion with community and creators around Paragon limits overall - Maintain a default of 4 Paragons in Boss Events and CT, but allow this to be edited per event, consistent with the Content Browser feature below - Provide the Content Browser feature previously discussed, to allow individual Paragons to be excluded and total Paragon limits to be edited for maximum challenge creation flexibility - Intro animation for CT will no longer play together with the "Daily Bonus" popup - Added Tile Recap title & pop-up to recap mode in Contested Territory ##### Fixes - Resolved an issue with Sentries not placing on Covered Gardens - Resolved visual issues related to disconnecting and rejoining a co-op game on Covered Garden - Resolved visual issues related to modified starting round on Covered Garden challenges - Resolved an issue with xx4 Buccaneers receiving a small income buff from the Navarch Paragon - Resolved an issue with x3x Bomber Ace bombs exploding instantly on Covered Garden with no fall animation - Resolved a crash loading a save using a Goliath Doomship set to wingmonkey - Resolved some cases in which CT Building 3D elements would carry over into other parts of the game or become duplicated visually - Resolved a crash that could occur when adding Geraldo to your Odyssey crew - Resolved a crash that could occur when entering and backing out of the CT menu too quickly - Resolved a crash that could occur on android devices that did not have google play installed ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 33.0 - Date: 2022-10-12 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3298347770881535579 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3298347770881535579 ##### New Awesome ##### New Paragon Tower - the Monkey Ace Goliath Doomship! - Endless jokes about big planes aside, we've been very excited to build and balance the first air Paragon! - While we resist thinking about Paragons as 5/5/5+ Monkey Towers, the Goliath Doomship did allow for a logical blending of all 3 paths, plus we included a powerful activated ability that adds further tactical control that plays out usefully across various map shapes - At $800k cash, you will have to make sure your eco game is strong, but Doomship's power is balanced to that lofty setup cost ##### New Halloween game icon - Your eyes are not failing, nor is your screen - our icon is simply celebrating the ghoulish colors of Halloween! ##### New Maps - Advanced Map - **Midnight Mansion** - Intermediate Community designed map - **Covered Garden** from u/SuperPsou ##### New Trophy Store Items - **Heroes**: Joan of Arc Adora - Dragon Pet - **Monkeys**: Monkey Ace - Dragonfly Pet - **Co-op**: Psigh emote - **Game & UI**: Banana Farmer - Banana Costume, Glue Trap - Honey Bee skin, Profile Banner - Patchwork, Profile Banner - Sun Rays, Profile Banner - Star Burst - Banner winner by DREAD_LEAD (Engineer Foam) - Banner winner by LordTeddington (Grand Master Ninja) ##### New Halloween Limited Time Items: - **MOAB Skins**: Spider DDT - **Avatars**: The Scream, Monkey Brains ##### New CT Team Store Items - **Building Props**: Fortified Castle - **Base Props**: Refracting Telescope, Pirate Crew - **Water Props**: Mini Pirate Boat - **Flying Props**: Moon Rabbit - **Team Banners**: Pet Frenzy banner, Contested Territory banner - **Icons**: Kung Fu Kiwi icon, All-Seeing Eyecon - **Frames**: Cognition frame, Ninja Scroll frame ##### Game Changes / Additions - **New Languages **- Polish and “Monkelish” are now supported - **Team Browser **- Added more intuitive UI to the "Advanced Search" panel - **Paragon tower placement restrictions**. - We’ve set a maximum of 3 per game in 33.0, as we now have a baseline of general purpose DPS paragons and want to move into more synergies and interesting mechanical interactions between them, which become more interesting when choices need to be made - We have heard the clear feedback from the community about this general restriction based on the preview notes and now plan to do the following in future major updates, or minor ones if feasible: - Increase the limit to 4, based on feedback about 4 player co-op in particular - Include a Content Browser editor function that allows players to set higher limits or unrestricted in player-created Content Browser games - **Contested Territory** - The number of steps required to use Relics felt like too many, so we’ve removed Relic Voting from the team store. Now, when viewing any tile players will be able to pop up a full list of their available relics to personally select from. - To improve active team coordination we have allowed Vice-Mayors to also set focus markers on the CT map. - The total number of focus markers each team can set in CT has been increased from 1 to 4, to allow for diverse preference and strategies. - Contested Territory matchmaking improved for better groupings based on activity & overall rank. - Added a Daily Reward to welcome back players entering the Contested Territory event. - The Main Menu CT Icon now shows a pip displaying available tickets. - Tidied the CT Info panel up for much clearer readability. - Added a spooky Seasonal Theme to CT screens, in preparation for Halloween! - Added Discord & Steam Rich Presence for Contested Territory. - Team Banners can now be set on personal profiles, as long as your team owns that banner. - Over 32.4 to 33.0 we made general constant improvements to the balance of Banner/Relic tile distribution over the CT map. ##### Bug Fixes & General Changes - Team Island should correctly reflect your Team Colour in CT - Resolved an issue where loading a save and restarting _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3298347770881535579]_ ### Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 32.1 - Date: 2022-08-11 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3363645527090080244 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/steam-3363645527090080244 ##### Bloons TD 6 v32.1... GO - Update Notes! A full list of 32.0 changes [can be found here.](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/3374903891712827795) ##### Fixes - Resolved a number of issues with Contested Territory ticket assignment and generation - Resolved an issue where Teams Roster page was not showing player point earnings - Resolved an issue where the Master Builder’s Sentry ability would not snap placement to your next tap on mobile - Resolved an error when attempting to re-capture a tile with no surrounding tiles in CT - Updated UI around member removal / promotions on team pages - Resolved a rare crash on rejecting a team invite - Resolved UI alignment issues on certain screen resolutions around CT - A number of optimizations & fixes made to team messages - Prevented some team browser errors from popping up multiple times in a row - Resolved an issue where Ice towers buffed by the Camo Flogged Relic would not freeze camo bloons - My Teams button should now read "Teams" if not in a team - Engineer's 032 Cleansing Foam slow no longer stacks on a single target - Resolved an issue where CT Teammate's score was not loaded correctly when restarting/checkpoint loading a point before their score was set - "Tile Degraded" should no longer show when a teammate sets a better score on a tile in CT - x5x Ultraboost ability limited to 3 uses per round - 150 Absolute Zero ability no longer applies an excessively strong permafrost effect - Resolved an issue where "Team mate set better score" would show in the background behind victory screen in CT - Resolved an issue with Boss checkpoint costs being pulled down causing T5 boss checkpoint to be free - Resolved art issues with the x3x Druid vine attack - Resolved an issue with selecting more than 4 relics in CT - Resolved a number of incorrect damage type issues - Resolved an issue preventing Quick Join teams from working correctly - Resolved a game crash that could occur when exiting from CT - Fixed a number of locs issues - Resolved an issue where full teams would still display at the top of the team browser list - Closed Teams are now called “invite only teams” - Resolved some pixel line errors that could occur on team emblems on certain resolutions - Resolved a number of leaderboard load issues - Resolved a number of issues with Team Browser filter search results - Resolved a number of edge cases crashes related to UI / HUD updates - Resolved a number of ‘missing background’ scenarios