Bloons TD 6 — Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 37.0 release notes

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.

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
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 Anniversary Banner
New CT Team Store items
Base Props: Treasure Chest
Icons: Overclock icon, Archmage Staff icon
Frames: Bloon From The Dead frame, Mage Hat frame
New Slider
Everybody loves sliders, right?
After lots of discussion on the team and a fair few player requests, we’ve added a ‘Projectile and Effects Scaling’ accessibility option to main menu Settings
This is primarily for accessibility to minimize the size and brightness of projectiles and effects, especially when the screen is crowded with Monkeys and Bloons
This is not directly a performance improvement feature, so please do not expect the game to run noticeably better - just noticeably cleaner
We tried not to remove key game state indicators but this is ultimately in player control - if you adjust the slider and effects and projectiles make it harder to play the game, please reset the slider until the game is working the way you want
It’s also really fun for silly screengrabs, so please post your favorites!

News - Anniversary Giveaways!

We would also like to formally announce that we will be doing a week of giveaways on our Twitter starting next Monday NZT to celebrate the BTD6 5 year anniversary! 5 winners will be picked randomly each day for 5 days to win an awesome prize from our merch store. This will be exclusive to Twitter so make sure to follow us here to be involved!

Game Changes / Additions

New Party Time game theme event!
Refactored how leaderboard scores are stored so that we could add Least Cash/Tiers ranking options for Boss Events
Bosses on spawn will now clear the map of all existing projectiles
Highest Round profile stat renamed to Highest Round (All Time) & added in the new profile stat Highest Round (Current Version).
The 4 different Highest Round profile stats are now grouped together near the top of the profile stats page
Freeplay budget scaling reduced slightly (same speed/hp, but number of Bloons added per round will increase at a slower rate)
Added a new Roundset with Income curve to be used by our events team; this customized income curve allows us more flexibility to make this roundset than would otherwise have been possible with existing roundset tools
Translated game into Thai

Quest Changes

Added a ‘Play Again’ button to the victory screen for quests
Added a ‘Disable Dialogue’ checkmark for some quests after beating them
Game hints are now hidden during Quests
Story Quests now sort to the top of the quest list & completed Story Quests sort to the bottom

Bug Fixes & General Changes

A large number of localization fixes - thanks for the player feedback on your pet peeves!
Resolved a number of general crashes
Number of additions/changes to improve existing quests, highlight scores to beat & increase our possibilities for quest creation
Resolved an issue with abilities highlighted in quests remaining highlighted after restarting
Holding down on a tower should correctly hide the UI again
Quests no longer play placement effects for any pre-placed towers
Resolved an issue that could prevent Total Damage from counting correctly to profile
Resolved an issue where total insta monkeys profile stat would decrease if the instas were used
Resolved certain very specific freeplay seeds causing crashes on certain rounds
Bloons Leaked summary no longer gets cleared in co-op after reviewing map
Stairs in the top corners on Resort are now placement blockers
Resolved a crash that could occur when waiting on the events screen as events end
Resolved a crash that could occur when the Hero Booster popup was canceling via any map mechanics forcing the player to deselect the hero
Fixed some towers not targeting the test bloon when set to target type Strong
Fixed position of the full patch notes link on update popups on some resolutions
Midnight Mansion plays a fishie animation in the bloon exit on loading in
Resolved an issue where placed items on the map lose their cosmetic skins after a resync occurs during a co-op game.
Obtaining towers from redistribution on co-op that are still locked for you will now show messaging in the unlocks screen as to why you are not earning XP for it
Pressing back from the avatar/banner selection will now just back out of that selection
Changed Pop Count on summary screen to Damage Count and added actual Pop Count
Hero portraits no longer linger too long on the screen after exiting the upgrades menu in game
Paragon art state changes moved from 22/42/62/82 to 20/40/60/80
Resolved map-based buffs not inheriting to subtowers correctly
Resolved an issue where an external proxy could sometimes cause the game to hang on loading forever
Co-op red areas fade in more slowly when you cross the boundary
Resolved online/Invisible profile setting displaying text incorrectly
Audio polish when opening reward chests in the collection event
Updated wording on logout screen to address some confusion
Added a background to the rewards UI
Added confirmation pop-up for In App Purchases added from outside the game
Monklish font has been regenerated to include the Māori macrons

Tower Specific Fixes

Ice Monkey

Resolved a number of cases of the xx2 Refreeze crosspath not re-freezing bloons when dealing certain numbers of damage.

Monkey Buccaneer

xx5 Trade Empire should no longer buff too many merchants in co-op
Resolved tower moving from flagship to navarch displaying vfx at the wrong scale
Resolved "Paragon available" pip displaying for Buccaneer with only Flagship and Pirate Lord unlocked
Resolved an issue where Navarch’s attack rate buff would not apply to Doomship in some cases depending on build order

Monkey Ace

xx2 Centered Path ace no longer displays it’s placement target on screen initially when loading a save
Upgrading to 002 Ace no longer refreshes the cooldown on the special toggle
Resolved an issue with Monkey Ace jumping offscreen after a Retry Last Round

Banana Farm

5xx Banana Central no longer buffs other Banana Centrals in co-op

Engineer

1xx Engineers can now place their sentries correctly on One Two Tree
Overclocking a 5xx Engineer’s sentry just as it starts exploding no longer crashes the game
Engineer Paragon no longer crashes if created while a Bloontrap is being deployed
Engineer Paragon no longer crashes when selling the main tower while it has a sentry moving through the air that has not landed yet
Engineer Paragon should no longer throw sentries into the middle of the map due to techbots
Resolved an issue where the Paragon’s permanent speed boost per round would not load until the end of the first round played after loading a save

Beast Handler

3xx Great White projectiles can no longer hit bloons far out of range
3xx Great White rare crash that could occur at end of rounds has been resolved
3xx Great White’s slow applied to grabbed target now expires correctly
310 Beast Handler now has eyebrows, just like that one map suggestion
Corrected the splash asset for crosspathed 4xx & 5xx Beasts
Merging an Orca into a Megalodon while it's taking out a bad should no longer cause a 2nd Megalodon to briefly appear
x1x Microraptor no longer fails to attack in some cases when being moved to different heights
x4x Tyrannosaurus Rex ability now scales with Challenge Editor ability cooldown slider
Beast Handler's bird targeting no longer breaks when set to strong if bloons are leaving radius
Resolved a crash that could occur when moving a beast to the screen boundary

Hero Specific Fixes

Obyn Greenfoot

Resolved an issue where Obyn’s Wall of Trees when placed on an intersection looping back around on itself would not be able to hit the children of any targets that passed over it

Psi

Resolved a crash that could occur when attacking glued Bloons

Geraldo

Resolved an issue where selling Geraldo, and then re-buying him would show the description of the last-viewed store item from before selling him

Platform Specific fixes

PC: Beast Handler’s hotkey in the hotkeys menu has been moved up near the rest of the support towers
PC: Added a ‘ Monkey Special 2’ hotkey (for towers like Beast Handler, Necromancers & Ace Paragon). By default the Special 1 & Special 2 hotkeys have been assigned to PageUp & PageDown and ordered so that PageUp triggers the upper specialty, and PageDown triggers the lower one
Arcade: Resolved a strange one pixel wide black line that can appear above some text characters on the arcade font
Chromebook: Game no longer crashes if attempting to login via webview
Chromebook: Resolved an issue with bluetooth mice being unable to scroll

Balance Changes

Boomerang Monkey

This part has to be included along with the Lych Soul rework with Paragons which is finally making it in this update after necessary delays. As Boomerang Paragon’s knockback hits so many times so quickly, we need to make it more reasonable when applied to targets that aren’t immediately destroyed.

Boomerang Paragon knockback amount reduced 3 > 1

Bomb Shooter

MOAB Assassin fills a useful role of a pure long cooldown ‘single target assassination’ in the game, but when compared to something like First Strike it feels a little lacking that it is unable to carry damage through MOAB Layers

x4x MOAB Assassin ability passes through MOAB layers
x4x MOAB Assassin ability explosion centers around the impact target

Tack Shooter

Blade Shooter has always struggled to find much value without MK or as a step to Maelstrom, so to give it build value on its own we feel like this should be a part of the base value on the upgrade.

x3x Blade Shooter pierce increased from 6 > 8

Ice Monkey

Lowest tiers of ice monkey are far too effective for their cost against ceramics, with this scaling well all the way to round 100, we feel like ice duration against ceramics needs to be reduced to counter this but for now this reduction will only apply until T3.

000 Ice Monkey freeze duration reduced by 50% on ceramics
All T3 Ice Monkeys increase freeze duration on ceramics from 50 > 100%
203 Icicles crosspath now gains camo prio

Glue Gunner

The Bloon Solver’s rework has been very popular, however, we’d like to have a better lead up into the new mechanics by introducing this earlier at the tier 4 now.

4xx Bloon Dissolver now creates puddles on track leading up to Bloon Solver, puddles deal 1 damage, all other stats and crosspath benefits are the same.

Sniper Monkey

This will allow Cripple MOAB to take out regular MOAB layers in one shot until round 100; for such a slow attacking single target tower we feel this will help top path flex, even if mostly for show.

5xx Cripple MOAB damage increased from 80 > 280

Monkey Buccaneer

Reworking Grape Shot crosspathing as it gains far too much crosspath value by T2 but then is lacking in purpose at higher tiers, double shot will only work as one extra grape however Destroyer will now apply its full attack rate buff to the grapes and Flagship will equip aspects of Grape Shot on the mini planes.

210 Grape Shot total projectiles reduced from 10 -> 6
310 Destroyer also reduced from 10 > 6 grapes
310 Destroyer now increases grape attack rate twice as much, matching increase to the regular attack
410 Aircraft Carrier planes radial attack now fires an arc of grapes instead of darts
410 Aircraft Carrier planes radial Emission Angle 360 > 90
410 Aircraft Carrier planes radial projectile count 8 > 6
410 Aircraft Carrier plane grape projectile speed 100 > 200
420 Aircraft Carrier planes radial projectile art: dart > hot grape
420 Aircraft Carrier planes radial damage type Sharp > Fire
400 Aircraft Carrier plane radials damage 1 > 2
4xx Aircraft Carrier missiles now follow tower target priority

Monkey Ace

Spectre is shifting a little of the ceramic bonus around into basic all damage at the cost of reduced pierce, which should make up for lack of single target damage while also making the pierce crosspath more necessary when being used for cleanup focus.

xx4 Spectre Dart damage increased 3 > 4
xx4 Spectre Dart ceramic bonus reduced 2 > 1
xx4 Spectre Dart pierce reduced 15 > 10
xx4 Spectre Bomb damage increased 2 > 3
xx4 Spectre Bomb ceramic bonus reduced 4 > 3
xx4 Spectre Bomb pierce reduced 30 > 20

Heli Pilot

Even with the map-range advantage, rotors are weak compared to any other constant AoE circle like this. Chinook feels like it’s near a place we are happy with now, however we want another tiny nudge on cost while keeping cash generation value the same. Pushing some higher values on the last Comanche Commander changes as the missile attack is effectively such a small portion of the tower’s total damage late game.

302 Razor Rotors will now benefit from the faster firing crosspath
3xx Razor Rotors cooldown rate 0.75 > 0.5
x4x Support Chinook price reduced from $10500 > 9500
x4x Support Chinook supply crate cash generated reduced $1650 > 1,550
x4x Support Chinook max uses per round reduced from 3 > 2
xx4 & xx5 Comanche mini's follow the target priority set on their main Heli
xx5 Comanche Commander missile damage 7 > 15
xx5 Comanche Commander missile moab bonus 5 > 8
xx5 Comanche Commander mini's missile dmg 5 > 15
xx5 Comanche Commander mini's missile moab bonus 5 > 8

Mortar Monkey

As the Rapid Reload crosspath has actually fallen behind in value compared to Burny Stuff for top path Mortars we want to try a slight stun duration increase as this buffs the base path with a larger benefit to Rapid Reload mortars as a stalling option. Mortar consistency is lacking at x3x making it tough to spend on even though x4x is fairly good, so some of the T4 rate is shifting down to help out with this. As the camo property has grown quite weak and currently Signal Flare is considered the best decamo tool, we want to push back slightly on its cost and by reducing the blast radius of the decamo area while emphasizing crosspathing for effectiveness there.

4xx The Big One stun duration non-MOABs increased from 0.5s > 0.75
5xx The Biggest One stun duration MOAB increased from 0.3s > 0.5
5xx The Biggest One stun duration BFB increased from 0.2s > 0.3
5xx The Biggest One stun duration DDT increased from 0.2s > 0.3
x3x Heavy Shells attack delay reduced from 1.08 > 0.81
x4x Artillery Battery attack rate buff reduced from ¼ to ⅓ (remains the same rate: 0.27)
xx3 Signal flare cost increased $700 > 800
xx4 Shattering Shells price reduced from $11,000 > 10900
xx3 Signal Flare decamo radius reduced from 50 > 43
103 Signal Flare decamo pierce increased by 5 > 10
xx4 Shattering Shells burn DoT deals moab bonus +5

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