# Bloons TD 6 Bloons TD 6 - Version 44.0 Update Notes! - Product: Bloons TD 6 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6) - Vendor: Ninja Kiwi - Date: 2024-08-01 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/4346620828147327386 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/2024-08-01-bloons-td-6-version-44.0-update-notes 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. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add new tower Mermonkey with three upgrade paths featuring tentacle creatures, freezing waves, and melody-based crowd control - **added** — Add new hero skin Dreamstate Psi - **added** — Add new intermediate map Luminous Cove - **added** — Add trial quests for Mermonkey and Dartling Gunner towers - **added** — Add new trophy store items including Safety Mole mortar pet, Clown Wigs Bloons, I'm The Problem emote, and Rosalia avatar - **added** — Add Adventure Whale water prop to CT team store - **added** — Add tower unlock system allowing access to new towers via pop count thresholds - **added** — Add map unlock system requiring unique map wins to unlock map categories - **changed** — Increase Alternate Bloon Rounds preset rounds from 100 to 140 - **changed** — Replace launch map unlock system with full category unlocks system - **changed** — Rework Dartling Gunner passive unlock giftbox into proper tower unlock system - **changed** — Remove default hotkey assignment for new towers going forward with option for manual assignment - **deprecated** — Mark trial quests for new monkey towers as optional tutorials that do not permanently unlock towers **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]_