Update history:Bloons TD Battles 2/Version 4.3.1

Version 4.3.1

Steam	4 November 2024

◄◄ 4.3

4.4 ►►

Version 4.3.1 is a minor update to Bloons TD Battles 2 version 4.3. It introduced a few cosmetic items, balance changes, and bug fixes. It later received an over-the-air update that introduced several balance changes.

Additions

Item	Category
Winter Wonder	Avatar Icon
Winter Wonder (Animated)	Avatar Icon
Sweater Bloons	Bloon Decal
Snow Is Falling	Match Up Animation
Snow Fall	Placement Animation
Family Time	Profile Banner
Family Feud	Taunt
Snowball Fight!	Text Emote
Northern Lights Tower Boost	Tower Boost FX
Snow Trails	Trail Effect
Holiday Sweater	Weapon Skin
Matching Sweaters	Weapon Skin
Winter Magic	Weapon Skin

Changes

• "Fixed issue where it was possible to claim rewards from Battle Ready Quests multiple times"
• "Fixed Monkey Money icon displaying incorrectly in Battle Ready Quests screen"
• "Fixed Gwendolin's fuel tank not appearing on her lobby model"
• "Fixed animation issues with a few of Fusty the Snowman's cosmetics"
• "Fixed incorrect share button showing up in the private match lobby (Arcade only)"
• "Fixed hero cosmetics getting mixed up when moving directly from one hero screen to another"
• "Fixed issue equipping randomised cosmetics to heroes"
• "Fixed beating Gwen in the tutorial match not giving trophies"
• "Fixed Highwayman Jericho appearing at lower resolution than other heroes in the Heroes screen"
• "Fixed event banners not appearing in the safe areas on phones"
• "Fixed crash when exiting Heroes Screen before cards are displayed"
• "Fixed Mortar Monkey's Pop and Awe ability not stunning bloons near Agent Jericho's decoy"

Hero Challenge

• "Fixed Gwen sending bloons before the start timer reaches zero in Hero Challenge"
• "Fixed Monkey Ace's flight path remaining on screen after restarting Hero Challenge"
• "Fixed clan banners appearing in Hero Challenge games"
• "Fixed Star Captain Jericho's ship remaining on screen after restarting Hero Challenge"
• "Fixed Etienne's bloon spy queue breaking if you restart Hero Challenge"
• "Fixed issue where leaking the final BAD in 30 round Hero Challenge games resulted in a victory"
• "Fixed monkey name labels remaining on-screen after restarting hero challenge"

OTA update 1

Dart Monkey

“

The Dart Monkey buffs in the previous had a bigger impact on the very early game than we anticipated, so we are reducing the pierce slightly and increasing the cost to slow down its usage early on, while still keeping the buffs to higher tiers. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Crossbow	Upgrade cost increased ― $450 → $600
X-X-3 Crossbow X-X-4 Sharp Shooter	Pierce reduced ― 8 → 7
X-X-5 Crossbow Master	Pierce reduced ― 14 → 13

Tack Shooter

“

The top path tack shooter is highly effective at defending everything below MOAB class. We are nerfing its cost slightly to make such a strong defence a bit more of an investment. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Hot Shots	Upgrade cost increased ― $600 → $700
4-X-X Ring of Fire	Upgrade cost increased ― $3,300 → $3,500

Sniper Monkey

“

The sniper has remained reasonably popular despite its nerf, although nothing close to the level of its glory days. While forcing a choice between high damage and cash generation paths was the point of the nerfs, it did leave Bouncing Bullet, a pure damage upgrade on the cash generation path, in a bit of a sad state. Without the extra shrapnel, we can afford to make the pierce much better without compromising the identity of the middle path. We also felt we could restore the bouncing shrapnel on the x5x since, as a tier 5 upgrade, it is automatically gated to the late game and can't be bought more than once. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Bouncing Bullet and further upgrades	Bullet: number of bounces increased ― 3 → 5
X-5-X Elite Sniper	Bullet: now emits shrapnel on every bounce

Druid

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm and further upgrades	Now removes glue from Bloons hit by tornadoes (bug fix)

Banana Farm

“

EZ Collect has never been a very valuable upgrade, particularly for desktop players or those using Banana Farmers where the collection radius isn't important. Quality Soil means that a 3/4/502 farm now has similar efficiency to a 3/4/520 farm. The former is cheaper and generates less cash, while the latter is more expensive and generates more. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-X Increased Production and further upgrades X-1-X Long Life Bananas X-2-X Valuable Bananas	Banana collection radius increased by 50% (equal to radius with EZ Collect previously)
X-3-X Monkey Bank and further upgrades	Now has the visual effect when full without the 0-3-1 crosspath
X-X-1 Quality Soil	Replaced EZ Collect with Quality Soil
X-X-2 Banana Salvage	Upgrade cost increased ― $200 → $300 Note: Cost actually increased to $240 in practice, due to Quality Soil's discount
X-X-3 Marketplace	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,800 → $3,500  Actual upgrade cost is the same due to Quality Soil's discount, actual overall cost increased by $40 due to Banana Salvage's cost nerf
X-X-4 Central Market	Upgrade cost increased ― $13,000 → $16,250  Actual upgrade cost is the same due to Quality Soil's discount, actual overall cost increased by $40 due to Banana Salvage's cost nerf
X-X-5 Monkey Wall Street	Upgrade cost increased ― $46,000 → $57,500  Actual upgrade cost is the same due to Quality Soil's discount, actual overall cost increased by $40 due to Banana Salvage's cost nerf

Gwendolin

“

Scientist Gwendolin is getting significant changes to give her her own identity separate from Gwendolin. Since Scientist Gwendolin no longer specialises in dealing damage to lead and frozen, we decided to give these buffs to Gwendolin. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
All	Main attack: now deals +1 damage to Lead and frozen
3+	Cocktail of Fire: now deals +1 damage to Lead and frozen
4+	Heat it up: now grants towers +1 damage to Lead and frozen
10+	Firestorm initial blast: now deals +1 damage to Lead and frozen

Scientist Gwendolin

“

We wanted to make Scientist Gwen a more unique hero and give her different uses and strategies from regular Gwendolin. Playing into her chemist theme, we decided to give her strong synergies with monkeys that use chemicals in their attacks, specifically the Alchemist and the Glue Gunner. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
All	Main attack: now deals +1 damage to glued or acid instead of Lead or frozen
3+	Chemical Cocktail: duration reduced ― 8s → 6s  Chemical Cocktail: damage interval increased ― 0.18s → 0.24s  Chemical Cocktail: damage per tick increased ― 1 → 2  Chemical Cocktail: no longer deals +1 damage to Lead or frozen  Chemical Cocktail: now removes acid and glue and deals damage equivalent to 4 seconds of DOT
4+	Heat it up: now grants towers +2 damage to glued and acid instead of Lead and frozen
5+	"Pyrotechnics Expert" replaced with "Chemical Expert", affects Glue Gunners with Glue Splatter and Alchemists with Unstable Concoction instead of Tack Shooters with Ring of Fire, Mortar Monkeys with Signal Flare, and Wizard Monkeys with Dragon's Breath
10+	Science Storm: duration reduced by 0.5s  Science Storm: no longer deals +1 damage to Lead or frozen  Science Storm: now removes acid and glue and deals damage equivalent to 4 seconds of DOT
18+	Now further buffs Chemical Expert instead of Pyrotechnics Expert
20	Science Storm: initial damage reduced ― 10 → 8  Science Storm: initial damage to MOAB-Class reduced ― +40 → +20  Science Storm: now increases damage from burning off glue and acid to 12 seconds of DOT

Ezili

“

Microing Ezili in order to hit a single bloon with multiple MOAB Hexes at once is possible, but a bloon could only be affected by one hex at a time so the others were wasted. We are changing MOAB Hex to be stackable, as it feels like this is a dramatic and exciting play and the high skill level required to pull it off should prevent it from becoming too widespread. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
10+	MOAB Hex: effects can now stack on the same Bloon

Etienne

“

We are reducing Etienne’s very powerful UCAV ability’s duration to bring it more in line with what other heroes can do at that level. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
10+	UCAV: duration reduced by 6s

Bot Factory

“

Bloon Bot Factory was intended to create an interesting challenge by denying access to half the player's defences at any one time. Unfortunately, most players simply skip the map or use a loadout that can ignore its effect like Mortar and Heli Pilot. We are increasing the amount of time both platforms are up to make the map less punishing and hopefully increase its play rate. — Update notes

”

•  Both platforms now stay up until round 5 instead of round 1
•  Instead of alternating every two rounds, the top platform will drop for two rounds, then both will be up for four rounds, then the bottom platform will drop for two rounds, and so on

Bloon sends

“

The tight BFB rush is one of the most dangerous in the game, so we are increasing its cost to make sending it a bigger investment. — Update notes

”

•  Tight BFB: cost increased ― $7,000 → $10,000

Rounds

“

Ramping in sudden death and beyond is slow and many games that reach this stage feature defences that can easily defend the strongest rushes, meaning they usually end in a draw on round 50. We are significantly increasing the ramping for rounds 41-50 to make rushes harder to defend and make the ending of these games more exciting, and only increasing it slightly for rounds 51+ so that Bananza games are still able to go late. — Update notes

”

•  Bloon HP ramping from rounds 41–50 increased ― +40% HP per round → +80% HP per round
•  Bloon HP ramping from rounds 51–100 increased ― +40% HP per round → +60% HP per round

External links

• Official update notes on Reddit
• Official OTA update notes on Reddit