Bloons TD 6 — Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 38.0 release notes

Bloons TD 6 v38.0 - Update Notes!

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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.
Daily login reward remains regardless of Casual or Competitive modes
Ticket system remains unchanged for both Casual and Competitive - individual tickets are awarded daily, with unused Team tickets available to the rest of the Team on a periodic basis
Players who join a Competitive team after an event has already started will not be allowed to participate in CT until the next event starts. Players can freely join teams participating in Casual CT and immediately begin participating.

New Awesome

New Hero Skin: Lifeguard Brickell
While already a true master of water defense, this update Brickell is diving in head first to take charge of Monkey water safety over the summer. There will be no running in the Water Park on her watch, especially from the Bloons, as her safety buoys pack a punch!
New Intermediate Map: Water Park
Sometimes Bloons want to cool off a bit too, whether it be on the waterslide or floating down the lazy river. But this is a Monkey Water Park so we can’t simply let them play around on their own!
New Quests
Trial By Fire - discover Gwendolin’s strengths and abilities
Brickell Bootcamp - discover Brickell’s strengths and abilities
Scoop’s Tall Tale - Scoop tells a tale about three brave monkeys, and this challenging 3 part adventure comes with some goodies for those persistent enough to make it through
New Trophy Store Items
Monkeys: Bomb Shooter Tortoise pet, because - of course!
Bloons: Bloon Sunglasses decal and Boat MOAB skin to help celebrate summer
Co-op: Tower Categories co-op emotes
Game & UI: Jukebox track Fiesta Flamenco [Helium Heights Mix], Lawn Sprinkler Camo Trap, Sunset Strip profile banner, Beast Friends Forever avatar, Greenfoot Fields Avatar
New CT Team Store items
Water Props: Banana Pool Float
Team Banners: Power Play banner
Icons: Many Hands icon
Frames: Gold Star Frame

Game Changes / Additions

Added Bronze & Silver map borders for completing all Easy/Medium medals, making for an easier entry barrier to get into map border collecting and add a more scaled progression to this reward system.
Assigned more icons within the custom challenge creation UI making it easier to distinguish different game modifiers quickly
Similar to cash earnings, ‘Regrown’ Bloons will now no longer count towards increasing a tower’s damage stat when they are popped repeatedly.
Categorized and sorted Quests to organize Patch’s quest menu
Added further support to grant our events more flexibility in Boss starting and finishing rounds
Team search filter added to search for Competitive Teams

Bug Fixes & General Changes

Resolved a number of localization issues
Resolved some issues with font size showing too small in some areas in certain languages
‘Bought’ and ‘Purchased’ text in the trophy store has been replaced to read ‘Owned’
Resolved an issue causing different player callouts to appear in co-op
Top section of the Play Social menu now reads ‘Social’ instead of ‘Co-op’
Resolved an issue preventing the Polyphemus Eye from being re-opened after restarting a Chimps/Impoppable game
Resolved a number of cases with projectile trails not scaling correctly with the projectile size slider
Cleaned up some small excess pixels that were visible on friend portraits
Party Quest BAD should no longer change to match the icon for whatever skin is equipped
Resolved some issues with how ‘Wind’ knockback effects were applying to Bloons outside of the map / Blown back out of the entrance
Resolved a softlock that could occur when attempting to purchase IAP while offline
Loading a quest save no longer allows unsellable towers to be sold
Resolved Camo Trap Incorrect Animation State on Map Restart
Resolved a case in which Update Notes button would not be displayed in the options menu
Resolved an issue where Quests would not save player progress if the player wins and chooses ‘Play Again’
Account webview should now allow for text to be copied to clipboard
Resolved an issue where partying ninjas did not have hands - while perhaps a definition of ninjaness, was a bit creepy
Resolved an issue where loading quest saves could reset tower target locations
Resolved an issue with 1000’s separator not being consistent across every language
Resolved a bug where some profiles were showing shared profile stats of ‘8/7’
Added Retry last round to some quests
Pre-game prep spikes now use trophy store road spike cosmetics

Event fixes & changes

Behind the scenes maintenance on Boss leaderboard score processing
Added an event icon to display if a Paragon Limit is being applied to events
Resolved an issue with Bloonarius spawning too many bloons when health drops too far below 0 in a single frame
Resolved an issue with Defeat UI being closed when Bosses leak in co-op
Dealing damage to Dreadbloons armor now counts correctly towards tower damage
Resolved an issue where some 1 shot effects could destroy the Lych Soul

Tower Specific Fixes

Dart Monkey

‘4 and 4’ Monkey Knowledge should now apply to the Dart Monkey Paragon

Glue Gunner

Fixed a bug with 420 glue gunner not spawning puddles from the splat

Sniper Monkey

5xx Cripple MOAB can no longer debuff Dreadbloon during Military Immune Phase

Monkey Sub

5xx Energizer should now correctly show it’s buff icon on Heroes below level 3

Heli Pilot

Door gunner can no longer collect towers from the Polyphemus Eye as it closes

Dartling Gunner

2xx Dartling lock target no longer layers underneath Boss Bloons

Wizard Monkey

Wizard’s Phoenix should no longer show as overclock/door gunner targets
Resolved an issue creating a permanent magus flamethrower attack

Super Monkey

4xx Sun Temple should no longer sometimes disable the main beam attack after absorbing another mini sun avatar

Alchemist

Resolved an issue with transformed towers from Total Transformation showing broken UI if still selected when the effect expires

Druid

Upgrading a crosspathed Druid to x3x changes target prio to strong
x3x Druid can no longer grab frozen bloons without popping them
030 Druid vines now have green thorns until crosspathed to 130

Monkey Village

xx5 Monkeyopolis now gives the correct cash amount in Half Cash mode
xx5 Monkeyopolis resolved an issue with wrong purchase cost being shown until reselecting the tower

Engineer

Resolved a crash that could occur when trapping a fortified blimp with a 025 trap after upgrading the parent XXXL trap into a paragon
Engineer Paragon sentries are now correctly destroyed if their platform is removed
Engineer Paragon sentries no longer position incorrectly when placed as the round ends
Engineer Paragon no longer defaults to throwing out a Green Sentry after loading a save

Beast Handler

Beast Handler merge hitbox size increased
Resolved an issue with Beast Handler not showing path restriction UI in Challenge and Odyssey Editor

Pat Fusty

Placing towers in Pat’s radius will now show a grayed out Rallying Roar buff icon

Admiral Brickell

Resolved an issue with Brickell’s Mega Mine not switching cosmetic assets

Geraldo

Geraldo’s restock rates are no longer 1 round longer if used from full stock
Geraldo Rabbits placed on ice platforms no longer prevent them from merging
Geraldo’s rabbit should no longer despawn when attacking in vicinity of an ice platform
Geraldo’s Rabbits should no longer become extinct due to climate change on Erosion
Paragon Totems can no longer be overclocked
Geraldo’s action figure should no longer inherit the wrong sell value when reassigned in co op

Platform Specific fixes

Arcade & Netflix friends names now have a dynamic font resolving display issues

Balance Changes

Dart Monkey

Spike-o-pult not re-hitting targets after a rebound in the same way as Juggernaut isn’t as fun so we’re allowing this functionality to occur earlier now. Given the shift to more use in Boomerang Paragon with recent buffs making it more desirable we are again swapping the prices on these 2 paragons around.

3xx Spike-o-pult now allows re-hitting targets after bounces
Paragon price reduced $350,000 > 325,000

Boomerang Monkey

Long Range Rangs is increasing its benefit to be more meaningful of a crosspath choice for the range rather than purely the Red Hot Rangs. Permacharge as a very good T5 doesn’t feel like it needs to have a cooldown buff over the T3 given how small this benefit is. As mentioned above on the Dart Monkey, these Paragons are having their prices swapped around and Boomerang Paragon’s Orbit attack is having the fortification bonus damage removed as this number was so small it added no value to the tower anyway.

xx1 Long Range Rangs range bonus increased 15% > 33%
501 Glaive Lord radius increase from LRR increased 15% > 33%
050 Perma-Charge ability cooldown 40s -> 45s
Paragon orbit no longer deals +2 damage to fortified
Boomerang Paragon cost increased from $325,000 > 350,000

Bomb Shooter

We wanted to add something unique to Bloon Impact while also improving Really Big Bombs very slightly as a stepping stone into it, so now both of these upgrades will become capable of pushing back Bloons that they hit – even if they are stunned or frozen! This allows Bloon Impact to now catch groups of Bloons in a stun net and slowly push them back the way they came while keeping them stunned. Recursive Cluster is also having the pierce of the recursions increased a little again; while we felt it needed a nerf earlier, the amount cut from it last time was too high.

3xx Really Big Bombs now pushes back Bloons by 10 units
4xx Bloon Impact stun duration increased from 1 > 1.4
4xx Bloon Impact now also pushes Bloons back on every hit in addition to the Stun
5xx Bloon Crush pushes back MOAB class by half this amount
xx4 Recursive Cluster cluster pierce multiplier increased *3 > *4

Tack Shooter

Tack Zone has so much base pierce the increase from 025 is rendered irrelevant no matter how large the upgrade bonus, so to fix this we must make the base pierce value low enough to actually struggle sometimes & we will give back extra attack rate to the base upgrade to compensate for this. Ring of Fire also generally has too high a pierce amount for how effective it is at utilizing its full pierce value. Maelstrom crosspathing? Why not, feels that this could be cool to try out, and more consistency on bottom crosspath may be able to make it the preferred ability crosspath while top path which already improves the base tower more will give back the massive pierce amount for times where the greater punch per use is required.

xx5 Tack Zone rate increase from previous tier 25% > 35%
xx5 Tack Zone pierce reduced from 4 > 2
400 Ring of Fire pierce reduced from 40 > 30
410 Ring of Fire pierce reduced from 50 > 30
420 Ring of Fire pierce reduced from 60 > 45
040 Blade Maelstrom pierce reduced from 200 > 120
140 Blade Maelstrom pierce reduced from 200 > 160
240 Blade Maelstrom pierce remains at 200
041 Blade Maelstrom changes rotation direction to counter-clockwise
041 Blade Maelstrom duration increased from 3s > 3.5s
042 Blade Maelstrom duration increased from 3s > 4s
Super Maelstrom pierce reduced from 500 > 300
150 Blade Maelstrom pierce reduced from 500 > 400
250 Blade Maelstrom pierce remains at 500
051 Blade Maelstrom duration increased from 9s > 10.5s
052 Blade Maelstrom duration increased from 9s > 12s

Ice Monkey

Plenty of attention has been drawn to the high power of Ice, so we’re continuing to work on slowly dialing this back in fair ways.

030 Arctic Wind pierce 100 -> 40
050 Absolute Zero pierce remains 100
003 Cryo Cannon has 20% shorter freeze lifespan from 1.5s > 1.2

Glue Gunner

This is not intended to be a significant nerf to the tower’s base game performance so we plan to keep an eye on the change; however the recent top path Glue Gunner changes where duplicating every high level glued Bloon into magnitudes more puddles due to the recurring children multiplication of pre-r80 Bloons. This caused performance issues and effectively broke the game in certain situations so we have limited these puddles to spawn from the first child of glued targets to keep the lategame performance unchanged but hopefully solve the root of this issue in the early game where the main attack is mostly enough to easily deal with all cleanup anyway. Also adding a little extra bonus for Relentless glue, allowing the stun splats to work on smaller MOABs & DDTs.

4xx & 5xx Glue Gunners will only drop puddles from the first child in the split
4xx & 5xx Glue puddles no longer hit Camo Bloons innately
xx4 Relentless Glue stun on pop now stuns DDTs & Blue MOABs for 0.25s

Sniper Monkey

Sniper farming gets a bit, er, very tedious in lategame when you reach large numbers of x4xs.

x5x Elite Sniper Elite Supply Drop will now also trigger all other Supply Drop Abilities
x5x Elite Sniper’s Elite Supply Drop no longer shares button space in the ability quickbar with other Supply Drop abilities.

Monkey Buccaneer

Small tweaks to Buccaneer’s Long Range upgrade to improve its additional pierce benefit for a number of attacks.

101 Long Range more pierce to Main projectile +1 > +2
031 Cannonship cannonball pierce 28 -> 35
031 Cannonball frags pierce 1 -> 2

Monkey Ace

As the price of Ground Zero has been considerably increased in the base game since then, the nerf to 1000 pierce set for races a long time ago now feels restrictive for the price.

040 Ground Zero ability pierce increased from 1000 > 2000

Heli Pilot

Given Downdraft has competed as one of the most debated best towers in the game basically for its entire life for both early and late game we are reducing some of the extreme effectiveness against late game Super Ceramics by reworking it to have an overall increased effect of blowing back multiple smaller children at a time but now requiring 2 pierce to blow back ceramics. At the same time, the T4 Support Chinook is also having a large increase to make it now a more powerful real end-game choice for a lategame version of Downdraft that can quickly deal with large groups of Super Ceramics.

x3x Downdraft rate 0.15 > 0.225
x3x Downdraft pierce 1 > 2
x3x Downdraft ceramic pierce penalty 0 > 1
x4x Support Chinook downdraft pierce 1 > 4
x4x Support Chinook downdraft rate remains 0.15
x4x Support Chinook downdraft no longer increases blowback distance

Dartling Gunner

We weren’t quite ever able to take Laser Shock in the direction we initially hoped to, and due to this the 203 crosspath has fallen behind in value and overall use, so we are improving some crosspath values here to fix up damage with bottom path Buckshocks

203 Buckshot shock bonus damage increased from 1 > 2
204 BADs shock bonus damage i