Bloons TD 6 — Bloons TD 6 - Update 53.0! release notes

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 one guy’s really specific crash

Event changes

Resolved some buggy interactions with Beast Handler
Resolved a number of missing animations for items placed in CT team island
[Boss Rush] Updated some missing seasonal visuals
[Boss Rush] Resolved an issue where Blastapopoulos could double Fireball Spawn
Correct a number of cases of incorrect localization
Fixed a number of cases where things that should have progressed certain goals were not doing so correctly
Resolved and Error popup that could appear clicking Share Button

Map Specific changes

[Tricky Tracks] Reduced hitbox size for lights interactables
[Tricky Tracks] Adjustments made to fix overlapping farm placement
[One Two Tree] Should no longer prevent Chinook from redeploying towers from one category specific tile to another specific tile for that same category

Marketing Changes

Following mobile marketing tests last year, we are starting a broad paid marketing push for Bloons TD 6, starting with mobile platforms and expanding to PC later
For marketing to be effective, we enable basic player behavior data to be shared with the advertisers so that we know what type of ads are most effective
Players on iOS may now see the App Tracking Transparency system message, especially new players. This is Apple’s high standard opt-in for data authorization, so completely up to each player and will not effect game performance or features.
For perfect clarity, this has nothing to do with ads being shown inside BTD6. We do not show ads and we have no plans to show ads in BTD6. This is only so that players who see an ad and download the game can share data that will help us improve our marketing efforts - making the BTD6 community bigger and better. Thank you!

Legends changes

A pass has been made over the mode for improved UI polish
Implemented small dialogue pop ups over monkey villagers and other NPCs
Improved Bloon circling around map tiles to be different depending on tile size
Added a warning prompt when attempting to retreat a tower with 0 stamina
Bananite count-up animation is now faster the more Bananite was earned
Rocko now has the Sticky Bomb trait wherever they appear in the campaign
Improved visual feedback for Lives & Stamina both in game and overworld
Added a 3D Overworld Diamondback model for associated tiles
Current Bananite balance is now displayed in the Fishing UI
Players can no longer fast travel to their current location
Resolved a rare issue when fishing up a Bloon Chipper if the player was outside or had an open window they could be sucked through it into a pocket dimension and forced to compete against other players at yahtzee where the champion would be selected to challenge the evil power and if successful be the only one permitted to claim the crown and return back to their original reality
Improved UI layering to resolve some cases of clipping
Players should now properly be able to resume Frontier progress after immediately after completing the Trial & purchasing the DLC pack at the end, without being kicked out of Frontier mode and having to load back in
Resolved some cases on awkward map geometry in a number of locations
Resolved a number of cases where multiple different cutscene type events could trigger at the same time
Resolved an issue where some tiles could become uninteractable after a loss
Frontier profile stats should no longer include a bunch of Rogue related stats
Frontier save data has been optimized to reduce space
Resolved a number of cases of incorrect camera transitions / skipping
Sheriff should no longer retain his clothing in the UI at the start of a new campaign after deleting an old one
Resolved an issue where dismissing heroes in a certain order allowed purchasing the same Hero multiple times (Could not be used in the same posse anyway)
Fishing rods can no longer be cast multiple times at once to trigger many fishing minigames simultaneously
Boss Bloons should now correctly animate when found in the Overworld
Glass Bloons should no longer be immune to projectiles that spawn inside of the reflection radius (Including things like explosions and 3xx Beast Handler fish)
Glass Bloon immunities list has been corrected
Resolved an issue where some tiles would vibrate slightly when held
Quick Restart hotkey disabled as it is not supported & was breaking games
Chest lids are now attached to the bottom of the chest with hinges
Beast Handler should now correctly be stunned by Retribution Bloons
Resolved issues where Beast Handler could break attacking Frontier Bloons
Feeble trait damage reduction corrected 50 > 40
Phantom trait stamina cost reduction corrected 20% > 25%.
Rebound trait correct to bounce up to 1 > 2 times
Undertaker trait corrected Zombie lifespan 3s > 18s
Zombie Traits should no longer be overridden by the Wader Outfit
Resolved an issue where the currently selected base base hero’s description could apply over the top of different heroes selected within frontier
Resolved an issue where maps were not properly randomizing
Sheriff should no longer appear as an insta-type reward. Wait, what’s that? Oh, it probably wasn’t actually happening anyway but I already wrote this so just pretend
Resolved some Artifact generated projectiles not correctly scaling with the visibility slider
Corrected some tiles appearing rotated backwards in maps
Resolved some crashes that could occur related to rebounding artifacts
x3x Druid Vines can no longer crit with artifacts as they destroy all targets
Legends Trials should now play their associated music instead of the main menu theme
Resolved some cases in which Rich Presence could not differentiate legends

Tower & Hero Fixes

Dart Monkey 4xx Crosspathed Juggernauts should no longer bounce off map borders
Ice Monkey 4xx Embrittlement shaved off a single vertice error from its left eyebrow
Ice Monkey x5x Absolute Zero’s freeze should no longer prevent Ice Monkeys attacking the target
Mortar Monkey 032 Mortar should now be able to apply Burny Stuff to Black Bloons
Captain Churchill Lv17 Bonus damage to Fortified should no longer break at this level
Ezili's Lv3 Heartstopper Ability now grants Purple popping power for Blastapopoulos (Fortunately doesn’t even have to convert Purple Bloons into MOABs to achieve this!)
Ezili's Lv3 Heartstopper Ability should not lag as much with high Bloon Counts
Psi Lv4 Should no longer hit Lead/Purple until Psi is able to pop those types
Silas Lv13 no longer allows T5 Ice Monkeys to be placed when prohibited by challenge rules

Platform Specific fixes

Resolved an issue which could prevent the FPS cap from applying in all cases
Resolved a crash that could occur after updating linked email address
Resolved a crash upon finishing the Frontier Legend preview quest

Balance Changes

We have seen an increase in feedback related to power creep impacting enjoyment and we do want to go into this year similar to how we finished last year with more thought on targeted nerfs and fewer buff changes mostly focussing on the quality of life angle or big things that have been on the backlog for a while rather than injecting raw improved stats, this said there are still a number of your highly requested buff changes in this list.

Dart Monkey

Juggernaut knockback is excessive against regular light Bloon targets and will be reduced.

4xx Juggernaut light knockback multi reduced 6 > 4
402 Juggernaut light knockback multi reduced 9 > 6

Boomerang Monkey

Bionic Boomerang is getting a rebalance improving baseline power outside of ability activation while maintaining roughly the same power when ability is activated. MOAB Press continues to act as a very powerful scaling MOAB Stall option, slightly increased cost will add up more when building these in groups.

x3x Bionic Boomerang bonus damage to MOAB-Class 2 > 1
x3x Bionic Boomerang attack cooldown reduced 0.238s > 0.15
x4x Turbo Charge ability rate boost reduced from 7x > 5x
x5x Perma Charge attack cooldown 0.034s > 0.03s
xx4 MOAB Press price increased from $2400 > $2700

Boomerang Paragon is being rebalanced around a higher price point, and as a part of this change is gaining its own ability Overcharge. Upon activation this immediately grants itself multiple stacks of Overcharge buff which each increase the tower’s attack speed but these stacks rapidly deplete over time one by one until expired.

Paragon cost increased $250,000 > 375k
Paragon attack damage increased 20 > 25
Overcharge number of stacks applied: 10
Overcharge attack cooldown per stack: -10%
Overcharge duration per stack: 3s
Overcharge cooldown: 45s

Bomb Shooter

Previously increasing the Bomb Blitz cooldown once the passive became much more powerful felt like a mistake, instead we want to bring that back and push the price up to something more fitting again instead.

Bomb Blitz price increased $23000 > $30000
Bomb Blitz Bomb storm cooldown reduced 75s > 60s

Similar to previous changes for abilities on paragons, as Bomb Paragon’s main attack is quite slow we have decided to tilt its power more directly to MOABs than just bosses. So its damage & MOAB Damage bonuses are being scaled up so that outside of the ability it should hit for much chunkier explosions whenever it attacks.

Paragon main explosion damage increased 210 > 250
Paragon main explosion bonus MOAB damage increased 2100 > 2500
Paragon main explosion bonus Boss damage increased 0 > 2500
Paragon cluster explosion bonus MOAB damage increased 300 > 1000
Paragon cluster explosion bonus Boss damage increased 900 > 1000
Paragon secondary cluster explosion bonus MOAB damage increased 150 > 500
Paragon secondary cluster explosion bonus Boss damage increased 450 > 500
Paragon Ability cooldown reduction per leak increased 5s > 10s

Tack Shooter

We feel the Tack Paragon needs a nudge to help it compete against other paragons as this price range proves to be quite easy to skip over.

Paragon Ability Meteor damage increased 50,000 > 60,000
Paragon Ability Fireballs damage increased 700 > 900

Ice Monkey

Ice Monkey T5’s are very strong right now, Embrittlement in particular stands out as a problem with its high damage so this is being reduced, however the range of its shards is being increased to retain the higher cool factor of buying this upgrade. Absolute Zero is also seeing a price increase as another very powerful Ice right now. We’re also increasing the soluopopatsalB counter potential here on middle and bottom paths. Ice Monkey’s paragon has caused a big stir with the powerful mechanics it brings to the table; uptime of its passive debuffs is being lowered as currently it maxes uptime too easily without degree investment and Embrittlement debuffs will no longer be stackable - only the highest tier Embrittlement debuff will take priority. Finally players responded with a lot of love for what Ice Paragon brings but also big annoyances with timing; for QoL we have changed the skull freeze from a debuff that has to be applied to a boss to be a simple active duration, this means is instead timing 1 exact frame for the debuff to be applied the effect will just be active for a duration and should work so long as a boss skull is triggered any time within that active duration.

5xx Embrittlement shard damage reduced 10 > 5
5xx Embrittlement shard projectile range increased 20 > 40
x5x Absolute Zero price increased $19k > $21k
x4x Snowestorm ability heat reduction 500 > 1000
x5x Absolute Zero ability heat reduction 1500 > 3000
xx5 Icicle Impale icicle heat reduction 6 > 10
Paragon attack interval increased 4 > 5
Paragon attack cooldown increased 3s > 4s
Paragon beam pierce set to 500
Paragon Bloon damage debuff reduced 10 > 8
Paragon’s bonus damage for ice attacks no longer applies to Shatter damage type
Paragon’s Eclipse of Fimbulwinter skull freeze is now an active duration not a debuff

Desperado

Bottom path’s Avenger was severely underappreciated when it was last buffed, with that buff bringing in so much attention it is time to step back that power. At the same time bottom path Desperado’s low shotgun range is being scaled up to increase their useful placement, and as a fittingness and fun bonus Nomads will also be allowed to group up in range of other Nomads with no penalty. The Desert Phantom also gains more single target buckshot power as this big weakness holds it back considerably.

x3x Deadeye fort bonus reduced 12 > 10
xx1 Wanderers no longer remove Wander stacks from other Wanderers
xx3 Enforcer shotgun range increased 28 > 36
xx4 Avenger price increased $6500 > $9500
xx4 Avenger moab knockback reduced 2 > 1.5
xx5 The Desert Phantom buckshot MOAB bonus increased 20 > 40

Sniper Monkey

For Deadly Precision a price decrease allows for more early to mid flexibility, and granting it a huge Ceramic bonus allows it to pop Super Ceramics now in 1 hit instead of 2 for possible lategame use cases without spiking its MOAB power too much as Maim MOAB doesn’t really want to destroy MOABs quickly.

3xx Deadly Precision Ceramic bonus damage increased 15 > 50
3xx Deadly Precision price reduced $2500 > $2200
4xx Maim MOAB price increased $6000 > $6300

Monkey Sub

Monkey Sub kept leaving bags of poop on our doorstep and will be gaining improved reliability for its de-camo pulse, with Reactor already doing very good at this and buildup growing more reliable from the change it gets a tiny price raise.

3xx Submerge and Support de-camo pulse cooldown reduced 1.5s > 1.35s
4xx Bloontonium Reactor price increased $2300 > $2400

Monkey Buccaneer

Destroyer’s price is going up very slightly as it’s performing well, but we’re mostly happy with it. Aircraft Carrier’s lifespan is being tweaked slightly to properly tie in the xx1 crosspath as a projectile distance buff for all projectiles rather than just the small selection it currently buffs.

3xx Destroyer price increased $3050 > $3350
4xx Aircraft Carrier base projectile lifespan increased 0.6s > 0.7s
4xx Aircraft Carrier plane missiles lifespan reduced 24 > 16.8
401 Aircraft Carrier plane projectiles scale with the Long Range upgrade

Monkey Ace

The suggestion sounded cool? & Pineapple crosspath has always been really boring so some coo