Update history:Bloons TD 6/Version 38.0: Difference between revisions

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| steam date = {{timestamp|26 July 2023 02:08:16 UTC}}<ref>[https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/11771507/ SteamDB]</ref>

=== Cosmetics ===

 

==== [[Trophy Store]] ====

=== [[Team Flair]] ===

{{BTD6 team store item list by introduced|38.0}}

 

 

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== Towers ==

=== [[Dart Monkey (BTD6)|Dart Monkey]] ===

| quote = 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.

| tiers 1 = 3XX

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Spike-o-pult now allows re-hitting targets after bounces}}

| quote 1 = 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.

=== [[Boomerang Monkey (BTD6)|Boomerang Monkey]]===

| quote = 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.

| tiers 1 = 001,XX2,XX3,XX4,XX5,101,201,301,401,501,011,021,031,041,051

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Range increased|49.45|57.19}}

| quote 1 = 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.

| changes 2 = *{{buff|Long Range Rangs range bonus increased|15%|33%}}

| quote 2 = 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

| tiers 3 = 501

| changes 3 = *{{buff|Orbitals: radius increase from Long Range Rangs increased|15%|33%}}

| tiers 3 = x5x

| changes 3 = *{{nerf|Perma-Charge ability cooldown|40s|45s|note=Initial cooldown reduction when bought also reduced from 10s to 15s}}

| paragon changes = *{{nerf|Paragon orbit no longer deals +2 damage to fortified}}

| quote 1 tiers = 001,XX2,XX3,XX4,XX5,101,201,301,401,501,011,021,031,041,051

| quote 2 tiers = x5x

=== [[Bomb Shooter (BTD6)|Bomb Shooter]] ===

| quote = 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.

| tiers 1 = 3XX,4XX,5XX

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Explosions now pushes back Bloons by 10 units}}

| quote 1 = 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.

| tiers 2 = 4XX

| quote 2 = 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.

| tiers 3 = 5XX

| tiers 4 = XX4,XX5

| quote 1 tiers = 3xx,4xx,5xx

| quote 2 tiers = xx4,xx5

=== [[Tack Shooter (BTD6)|Tack Shooter]] ===

| quote = 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.

| tiers 1 = XX5

| quote 1 = 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.

| tiers 2 = 40X,50X

| quote 2 = Ring of Fire also generally has too high a pierce amount for how effective it is at utilizing its full pierce value.

| tiers 3 = 410,510

| quote 3 = 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.

| tiers 4 = 420,520

| tiers 5 = 040,041,042

| changes 5 = *{{nerf|Blade Maelstrom pierce reduced|200|120|note=240 unchanged}}

| tiers 6 = 140

| changes 6 = *{{nerf|Blade Maelstrom pierce reduced|200|160}}

| tiers 7 = 041,051

| tiers 8 = 041

| changes 7 = *{{neutral|Maelstrom ability changes rotation direction to counter-clockwise}}

| changes 8 = *{{buff|Blade Maelstrom duration increased|3s|3.5s}}

| tiers 9 = 042

| changes 9 = *{{buff|Blade Maelstrom duration increased|3s|4s}}

| tiers 10 = 050,051,052

| changes 10 = *{{nerf|Blade Maelstrom pierce reduced|500|300|note=250 unchanged}}

| tiers 11 = 150

| changes 11 = *{{nerf|Blade Maelstrom pierce reduced|500|400}}

| tiers 12 = 051

| changes 12 = *{{buff|Blade Maelstrom duration increased|9s|10.5s}}

| tiers 13 = 052

| changes 13 = *{{buff|Blade Maelstrom duration increased|9s|12s}}

| quote 1 tiers = xx5

| quote 2 tiers = 40x,50x,410,510,420,520

| quote 3 tiers = 140,240,040,041,042,150,250,050,051,052

=== [[Ice Monkey (BTD6)|Ice Monkey]] ===

| tiers 1 = X3X,X4X

| tiers 2 = XX3,XX4,XX5

| changes 2 = *{{nerf|Cryo Cannon has 20% shorter freeze lifespan|1.5s|1.2s|note=also affects Icicles and Icicle Impale reducing their freeze durations by 20%}}

| quote 1 tiers = x3x,x4x,xx3,xx4,xx5

=== [[Glue Gunner (BTD6)|Glue Gunner]] ===

| quote = 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.

| tiers 1 = 4XX,5XX

| quote 1 = 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.

| tiers 2 = XX4

| quote 2 = Also adding a little extra bonus for Relentless glue, allowing the stun splats to work on smaller MOABs & DDTs.

| tiers 3 = 420

| quote 1 tiers = 4xx,5xx

| quote 2 tiers = xx4

=== [[Sniper Monkey (BTD6)|Sniper Monkey]] ===

| tiers 1 = X5X

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Elite Sniper's Supply Drop: will now also trigger all other Supply Drop Abilities}}

=== [[Monkey Buccaneer (BTD6)|Monkey Buccaneer]] ===

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

| tiers 1 = 001,101,201,301,401,501,102,103,104,105,011,021,031,041,051

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Long Range: pierce bonus to darts increased|+1|+2}}

| tiers 2 = 031,041,051

| changes 2 = *{{buff|Cannonball pierce|28|35}}

*{{buff|Cannonball frags pierce|1|2}}

| tiers 3 = 401,501

| changes 3 = *{{buff|Long Range: pierce bonus to aircraft increased|+1|+2}}

| changes 4 = *{{buff|Dart: Pierce increased|5|6}}

| quote 1 tiers = 001,101,201,301,401,501,102,103,104,105,011,021,031,041,051,xx2,xx3,xx4,xx5

=== [[Monkey Ace (BTD6)|Monkey Ace]] ===

| tiers 1 = X4X

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Ground Zero: ability pierce increased|1,000|2,000}}

=== [[Heli Pilot (BTD6)|Heli Pilot]] ===

| quote = 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.

| tiers 1 = X3X

| changes 1 = *{{nerf|Downdraft: rate reduced|0.15s|0.225s|note=Support Chinook unchanged}}

*{{buff|Downdraft: pierce increased|1|2}}

| quote 1 = 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.

| tiers 2 = X3X,X4X,X5X

| changes 2 = *{{nerf|Downdraft: now has ceramic pierce penalty|+0|+1}}

| quote 2 = 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.

| tiers 3 = X4X,X5X

| changes 3 = *{{buff|Downdraft: pierce increased|1|4}}

*{{nerf|Downdraft: Maximum blowback distance decreased|300|150}}

*{{nerf|Downdraft: Gains +1 pierce penalty to all bloons when crosspathed|undoc=y|bug=y}}

| quote 1 tiers = x3x

| quote 2 tiers = x4x,x5x

=== [[Mortar Monkey (BTD6)|Mortar Monkey]] ===

{{BTD6 tower changes|version=38.0|tower=Mortar Monkey|tiers 1=X3X,X4X,X5X|changes 1=*{{nerf|Lead/MOAB/Fortified bonuses no longer stack|bug=y}}}}

=== [[Dartling Gunner (BTD6)|Dartling Gunner]] ===

| tiers 1 = 203

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Laser Shock: shock bonus damage increased|+1|+2}}

| tiers 2 = 204

| changes 2 = *{{buff|Laser Shock: shock bonus damage increased|+1|+3}}

| tiers 3 = 205

| changes 3 = *{{buff|Laser Shock: shock bonus damage increased|+1|+6}}

| quote 1 tiers = 203,204,205

=== [[Wizard Monkey (BTD6)|Wizard Monkey]]===

| quote = Middle path T4 Phoenix continues carrying rounds quite well for a long period of the game, as a light nerf here we’re taking away the free camo detection that Phoenix used to get, given the tower has a camo crosspath it could go for to properly inherit this onto the phoenix anyway. When the Wizard Paragon released it unintentionally drained mana from every target the main attack came into contact with, which caused the passive mana drain to scale much faster with degrees than intended. At a base level it was balanced around this factor though so the passive mana drain values have been properly reworked to trigger from attacks being performed with amounts keeping it roughly similar but not scaling up to such crazy fast drains with the high degrees.

| tiers 1 = x4x,x5x

| changes 1 = *{{nerf|Phoenix: no longer sees Camo innately without the Monkey Sense crosspath}}

| quote 1 = Middle path T4 Phoenix continues carrying rounds quite well for a long period of the game, as a light nerf here we’re taking away the free camo detection that Phoenix used to get, given the tower has a camo crosspath it could go for to properly inherit this onto the phoenix anyway.

| tiers 2 = x5x

| changes 2 = *{{nerf|Lava Phoenix: no longer sees Camo innately without the Monkey Sense crosspath}}

| tiers 3 = XX4,XX5

| paragon changes = *{{buff|Wizard Paragon no longer drains 100 mana for every single Bloon hit by the main attack}}

*{{nerf|Zombie Bloon spawn mana cost increased|100|250}}

*{{buff|Zombie Bloons travel range increased|175|400}}

=== [[Super Monkey (BTD6)|Super Monkey]] ===

| tiers 1 = 041,051

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Annihilation ability: now knocks back any surviving targets by a large amount: Knockback MOAB Multiplier 25, lifespan 0.2}}

| quote 1 tiers = 041,051

=== [[Ninja Monkey (BTD6)|Ninja Monkey]] ===

| quote = We’re mindful that this has been in place since launch, but still think this change could lead to more balanced crosspath Ninja play for casual and for apex players. Ninja's 1xx feels like it does too much, granting both range and attack speed to all crosspaths, so these benefits are now being split apart. As Sticky feels like it’s doing a fair lot of work these days we’re somewhat reworking this path into a range path but taking away the free ‘bonus range’ that Sticky used to gain independent of the tower radius.

| tiers 1 = 1x0,2x0,3x0,4x0,5x0

| changes 1 = *{{nerf|Range reduced|47|40|note=101 crosspath unchanged}}

| quote 1 = We’re mindful that this has been in place since launch, but still think this change could lead to more balanced crosspath Ninja play for casual and for apex players. Ninja's 1xx feels like it does too much, granting both range and attack speed to all crosspaths, so these benefits are now being split apart.

| tiers 2 = 0x1,0x2,0x3

| changes 2 = *{{buff|Range increased|40|47|note=101 crosspath unchanged}}

| quote 2 = As Sticky feels like it’s doing a fair lot of work these days we’re somewhat reworking this path into a range path but taking away the free ‘bonus range’ that Sticky used to gain independent of the tower radius.

| tiers 3 = XX4,XX5

| changes 3 = *{{buff|Range increased|40|55|note=Ninja Discipline crosspath range increased from 47 to 55}}

| tiers 4 = XX4

| changes 4 = *{{nerf|Sticky Bomb: bonus +50% of tower range removed, now matches base tower|note=Master Bomber still has full map range Stickies}}

| tiers 5 = 1xx

| changes 5 = *{{nerf|Ninja Discipline no longer grants +7 range}}

| tiers 6 = xx1

| changes 6 = *{{buff|Seeking Shuriken now grants +7 range}}

| tiers 7 = 110,120,130,140,150

| changes 7 = *{{nerf|Range reduced|47|40}}

| changes 8 = *{{buff|Range increased|40|47}}

=== [[Druid (BTD6)|Druid]] ===

| quote = Druid of the Storm is too inconsistent due to placement causing projectiles to intersect the path and spend very little time actually touching Bloons, it is gaining some homing to keep the nados running along the track over the top of Bloons to more consistently utilize their high pierce value. We love how this is working and hope you do, too. Middle path T4 isn't a very good improvement over the T3 so is getting small improvements to both its offense and cash generation.

| tiers 1 = 3XX,4XX,5XX

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Druid of the Storm tornado gains strong homing}}

*{{buff|Druid of the Storm tornado travel distance increased|80|100}}

| quote 1 = Druid of the Storm is too inconsistent due to placement causing projectiles to intersect the path and spend very little time actually touching Bloons, it is gaining some homing to keep the nados running along the track over the top of Bloons to more consistently utilize their high pierce value. We love how this is working and hope you do, too.

| tiers 2 = X4X

| changes 2 = *{{buff|Vine brambles damage increased|1|2}}

| quote 2 = Middle path T4 isn't a very good improvement over the T3 so is getting small improvements to both its offense and cash generation.

| tiers 3 = X3X

*{{buff|Brambles can no longer grab frozen bloons without popping them|fix=y}}

| tiers 4 = X4X,X5X

| quote 1 tiers = 3xx,4xx,5xx

| quote 2 tiers = x4x,x5x

=== [[Spike Factory (BTD6)|Spike Factory]] ===

| quote = Further balance for 401 crosspath, while this does already see some niche use it made sense to include increased explosion radius with the larger tower range. A flat pierce increase is added on to middle T5’s base attack to reduce crosspath dependency & improve r100 strength. Finally, we enjoyed the hard hitting nerf to Permaspike’s early game, but admittedly this change didn’t really change much of anything for its endgame power while impacting pre r80 rounds far more, so we’re redoing the nerf into a pure attack speed nerf along with an increased benefit to the start of round rate buff to reduce the necessity in playing slowly with it

| tiers 1 = 401

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Explosion: blast radius increased|30|40}}

| quote 1 = Further balance for 401 crosspath, while this does already see some niche use it made sense to include increased explosion radius with the larger tower range.

| tiers 2 = 501

| changes 2 = *{{buff|Large explosion: blast radius increased|100|133}}

| quote 2 = A flat pierce increase is added on to middle T5’s base attack to reduce crosspath dependency & improve r100 strength.

| tiers 3 = X5X

| changes 3 = *{{buff|Spike Pile: pierce increased|5|10|note=Also affects its ability}}

| quote 3 = Finally, we enjoyed the hard hitting nerf to Permaspike’s early game, but admittedly this change didn’t really change much of anything for its endgame power while impacting pre r80 rounds far more, so we’re redoing the nerf into a pure attack speed nerf along with an increased benefit to the start of round rate buff to reduce the necessity in playing slowly with it

| tiers 4 = 002,XX3,XX4,102,202,302,402,502,012,022,032,042,052

| changes 4 = *{{buff|Smart Spikes: start of round attack speed bonus duration increased|2.5s|3s}}

| tiers 5 = XX5

*{{buff|Start of round buff duration increased|2.5s|10s}}

| tiers 6 = 105

| quote 1 tiers = 401,501

| quote 2 tiers = x5x

| quote 3 tiers = xx5

=== [[Monkey Village (BTD6)|Monkey Village]] ===

| tiers 1 = XX5

| changes 1 = *{{nerf|Monkeyopolis base cash amount reduced|$2500|$1250}}

*{{nerf|Monkeyopolis now gives the correct cash amount in [[Half Cash]] mode|fix=y}}

=== [[Engineer Monkey (BTD6)|Engineer Monkey]] ===

=== [[Beast Handler (BTD6)|Beast Handler]] ===

| quote = Compared to other T4 Beast Handlers and given the high cost of merging multiple beasts we agreed that the Orca & Megalodon’s total prices were too much more expensive for their somewhat random nature. The lower tiers on middle path Microraptor and Velociraptor are seeing all-round reductions as both have too high a base power and benefit too much from merges, gaining an overall greater attack speed benefit percentage-wise from merges than Trex does. Pouakai’s base pierce value was far too high so this along with the merge amount is being taken down.

| tiers 1 = X2X

| quote 1 = Compared to other T4 Beast Handlers and given the high cost of merging multiple beasts we agreed that the Orca & Megalodon’s total prices were too much more expensive for their somewhat random nature.

| tiers 2 = X3X

| quote 2 = The lower tiers on middle path Microraptor and Velociraptor are seeing all-round reductions as both have too high a base power and benefit too much from merges, gaining an overall greater attack speed benefit percentage-wise from merges than Trex does.

| tiers 3 = XX5

| quote 3 = Pouakai’s base pierce value was far too high so this along with the merge amount is being taken down.

| quote 1 tiers = 4xx,5xx

| quote 2 tiers = x2x,x3x

| quote 3 tiers = xx5

== Heroes ==

=== [[Benjamin (BTD6)|Benjamin]] ===

{{BTD6 hero changes|quote=May as well be a general camo for Ben level given that Trojan gives camo at 18 too|version=38.0|hero=Benjamin|changes 1 levels=18+|changes 1=*{{buff|Level 18 Syphon Funding affects DDTs}}}}

=== [[Pat Fusty (BTD6)|Pat Fusty]] ===

=== [[Adora (BTD6)|Adora]] ===

| changes 1 = *{{nerf|Long Arm of Light cooldown increased|35s|40s}}

*{{nerf|Ball of light pierce reduced|13|11|undoc=y|note=Applies to higher levels}}

=== [[Etienne (BTD6)|Etienne]] ===

| changes 1 = *{{buff|UCAV ability can now naturally see Camo Bloons}}

=== [[Geraldo (BTD6)|Geraldo]] ===

| changes 2 = *{{change|Geraldo’s action figure should no longer inherit the wrong sell value when reassigned in co op|fix=y}}

| changes 2 levels = 2+

| changes 2 names = Rare Quincy Action Figure

| changes 3 = *{{buff|Geraldo Rabbits placed on ice platforms no longer prevent them from merging|fix=y}}

*{{buff|Geraldo’s Rabbits should no longer despawn when attacking in vicinity of an ice platform|fix=y}}

== Monkey Knowledge ==

=== [[4 and 4]] ===

| changes = *{{buff|Now affects Apex Plasma Master|fix=y}}

| names = 4 and 4

== Bosses ==

=== [[Bloonarius (BTD6)|Bloonarius]] ===

| changes = *{{buff|Resolved an issue with Bloonarius spawning too many bloons when health drops too far below 0 in a single frame|fix=y}}

| names = Bloonarius

=== [[Vortex (BTD6)|Vortex]] ===

| changes = *{{nerf|Paragons no longer have 50% reduced stun duration}}

*{{neutral|Stun duration reworked at all tiers for generally reduced durations}}

*{{buff|Elite tier 5|40s|30s}}

| names = Vortex;Elite Vortex

=== [[Lych (BTD6)|Lych]] ===

| changes = *{{nerf|Lych now triggers the 'buff drain' attack immediately on spawn}}

=== [[Lych-soul]] ===

| changes = *{{nerf|Resolved an issue where some 1 shot effects could destroy the Lych Soul|fix=y}}

=== [[Dreadbloon (BTD6)|Dreadbloon]] ===

| changes = *{{buff|Dealing damage to Dreadbloons armor now counts correctly towards tower damage|fix=y}}

== Release descriptions ==

{{Quote|Cosmic Boss Update!!

== Video ==