Version 24.0 is the second major update to Bloons TD 6 of 2021. This update introduced the hero Sauda, the hero skin Sushi Bento for Benjamin, the map Balance, Golden Bloons, and Race Passes. It also introduced the secret sword on Ravine, allowing CHIMPS to become possible on this map without modifiers.
As players are having more fun going into freeplay, especially in co-op, we agree that the rounds up to 100 should have this additional xp value. — Update notes
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Experience reduction for continuing into freeplay has been reduced ― 90% → 70%
Some of the last few Bloons that cause you to lose in any game will now be displayed on the defeat screen. We’re hoping this will help new and experienced players both - helping underscore whether you are missing a certain damage type or deep damage ability, and whether you were close to beating it, or still hundreds of lives off! — Update notes
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Added an indicator to show the last few Bloons that caused a defeat.
We’ve watched too many players try the Juggernaut for the first time on this map with good placement but not see the value of object rebounds. — Update notes
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Monkey Meadow modified slightly to allow for Juggernaut bounces off new trees near the map entrance
This is in response to watching many new Twitch streamers wanting to choose the look of a later map in the list but having to go one by one, and we like the flexibility to choose within each difficulty much better. — Update notes
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Map unlocking system has been reworked. Instead of unlocking in the same order for all players when you beat a map from a lower difficulty, you will now gain the option to choose a map from the next higher difficulty to unlock.
As they do not spawn until after round 80 naturally, DDT and BAD Bloons will now spawn in sandbox with at least the minimum level of freeplay ramping they would normally have in regular game conditions.
The previous sharpshooter rework caused more trouble than intended in setups without much other cleanup by popping Black Bloons into large clusters of reds which then clogged up the pierce. We decided to keep the buffed attack speed value as well as adding back the stronger damage value. — Update notes
Rotating Glaives aren’t quite enough for higher tier rounds, and especially struggle against Fortified Super Ceramics so we have added a small bonus to combat these. — Update notes
Maelstrom upgrades are in a good spot overall, but specifically for the low cost of this tower with such a rapid cooldown it was able to hit too many targets under race conditions. This targeted nerf is to the value of it under those race conditions and should be negligible in other game areas. — Update notes
More tweaks with the intent of viable stepping stones toward The Bloon Solver. Due to quirks with game state interactions temporarily preventing more nuanced changes, we have decided to leave MOAB Glue’s slow amount on MOABs as it was previously, coming back to Relentless later. However xx4 Relentless Glue will still layer over the top of it. — Update notes
Similar to Tack Shooter Maelstrom upgrades, we have targeted a nerf to Ground Zero for race conditions by amounts which are not relevant outside of those conditions. Additionally Tsar Bomba has received a much smaller version of this nerf along with a reduced cooldown to increase its relevance. — Update notes
As an expensive high-layer T5 DPS tower lurking behind a mainly support path on path 3 Mortar it’s not easy to save for, so Blooncineration has had a fair price reduction. — Update notes
Base Dartling performance doesn’t quite offset the handholding necessary to use it well, so base price has been reduced to make those first couple upgrades come a little faster. Plasma Accelerator attack delay has been buffed so that now the beam ‘tic rate’ matches the attack speed at tier 3, overall giving it a 20% buff to all DPS which carries on up to the Tier 5. Finally Bloon Exclusion Zone’s price has as well been reduced slightly for edge case balance. — Update notes
While not considered an issue on the same level for Races, the Bloon Annihilation ability has preemptively had pierce reduced under the same reasoning as Ground Zero and Maelstrom, but by amounts that still likely won’t be noticeable even under most Race conditions - but we’re keeping an eye on it. Additionally the price of this upgrade has been reduced by a fair amount. — Update notes
Alchemist has been given a small push towards the current underused Brew crosspath. Previously this crosspath only applied a benefit to Brew & Stimulant but now along with a buff to that, Acidic Mixture Dip will also gain a slight benefit from the crosspath. — Update notes
Spiked Balls are used quite a lot, but we like their overall position right now so they have had only a slight bump up in price, along with a bigger decrease to the price of T4 Spiked Mines. In addition, Permaspike’s neglected crosspath has had a small pierce increase as currently their only real use is under custom challenge rules. — Update notes
To cut down a little on the RNG aspect of Obyn strategies, his abilities will now be able to target Bloons in the same fashion as Gwendolin’s Cocktail, and only place randomly while none are within radius (yay!). — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
3+
Brambles: will now target Bloons in radius unless there is none, instead of only randomly within range
10+
Wall of Trees: will now target Bloons in radius unless there is none, instead of only randomly within range
Upgrade description and localization fixes and tweaks - each update it’s important that we capture balance changes, as well as crosspath functions that players might otherwise miss (more info below)
Regrow Rate icon now correctly displays on Odysseys when rate has been modified
Many behind the scenes optimizations & removing of some unused art assets
Heroes no longer play level 20 audio when they hit level 20 if hero audio is disabled
Resolved some issues in sandbox freeplay with MOABs leaking incorrect amounts of lives
Due to past corruption issues, loading cloud data will no longer load challenge creation saves
Resolved a Crash/UI break caused by cycling through instamonkey pages too fast
Spike Factory pineapples skin description has been updated with more detail
Experience reduction for continuing into freeplay has been reduced ― 90% → 70% 