Update history:Bloons TD Battles 2/Version 4.1

Version 4.1

Steam	17 July 2024

◄◄ 4.0

◄ 4.0.3

4.2 ►►

4.1.1 ►

Version 4.1 is the fourth major update to Bloons TD Battles 2 and Bloons TD Battles 2+ of 2024. It introduced the Jump Start mode and the Bloonstone Quarry map, and re-introduced Casual Battles after it was removed in version 4.0.

Additions

Item	Category
License To Serve	Avatar Icon
Snorkel Selfie Avatar	Avatar Icon
Basketbloons	Bloon Decal
Ballin'	Emote
Personal Best	Emote
BMXtreme	Match Up Animation
Perfect Landing	Placement Animation
Deep Dive Banner	Profile Banner
Opening Ceremony	Profile Banner
Opening Ceremony (Animated)	Profile Banner
Ready, Set, GO!	Text Emote
High Dive	Victory Animation
Competitor Chic	Weapon Skin
Footbombs	Weapon Skin
Sporting Goods	Weapon Skin

Changes

Boomerang Monkey

“

While Boomerang excels as an early game tower and so we are conscious to not make its later tiers overly strong, we still want all upgrades to have some viability. Perma Charge is probably the weakest of Boomerang’s tier 5s and the other two aren’t particularly powerful either, so we think it’s well deserving of a buff. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Perma Charge	Ability: damage modifier increased ― +8 → +10

Bomb Shooter

“

A small adjustment to crosspath balancing to make this option a little bit more enticing. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-0-2 Bloon Crush + Frag Bombs	Frag: damage increased by 8  Frag: no longer deals +12 damage to Ceramics

Tack Shooter

“

Inferno Ring is still in need of a buff, rarely seeing any use. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-X-0 Inferno Ring	Meteor: damage increased ― 700 → 900
5-0-1 Inferno Ring + More Tacks	Meteor: damage increased ― 1,000 → 1,300
5-0-2 Inferno Ring + Even More Tacks	Meteor: damage increased ― 1,400 → 1,800

Ice Monkey

“

Ice Monkey is useful for early game defense and late game support with stalling and debuffing, but provides pretty much no MOAB class damage with any of its upgrades. We would like to give it a bit more to offer by allowing Icicles to attack and damage MOAB class bloons. It won’t deal massive damage to them but it can be greatly buffed by Fusty the Snowman, so we will be curious to see what impact this change has. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Icicles	Can now target and damage MOAB-Class Bloons, placing Icicles on them but not freezing them  Now deals +3 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons

Sniper Monkey

“

Since it’s hard to get much use out of Sniper in the early game, we’re giving it some simple early game buffs and improvements to crosspathing. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $250 → $200
2-X-X Large Calibre	Upgrade cost reduced ― $800 → $600
4-2-0 Maim MOAB + Shrapnel Shot	Shrapnel: damage increased by 2 Note: Cripple MOAB shrapnel is unchanged
1-2-0 Shrapnel Shot + Full Metal Jacket 2-2-0 Large Calibre + Shrapnel Shot 3-2-0 Deadly Precision + Shrapnel Shot	Shrapnel: damage increased by 1

Monkey Buccaneer

“

We would like Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Flagship to be more effective in bloon cleanup, which we have done by increasing the pierce that the darts have against regular bloons but not against MOAB class bloons. For example, Carrier Flagship’s darts remain unchanged when hitting all MOAB class bloons, but they have the potential to hit 4x as many regular bloons now. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Destroyer	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,850 → $2,700
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Plane dart: pierce increased ― 13 → 20  Plane dart: MOAB-Class Bloons now consume +1 pierce
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Plane dart: pierce increased ― 18 → 72  Plane dart: MOAB-Class Bloons now consume +3 pierce

Monkey Ace

“

Ace Monkey has a pretty easy time getting through all stages of the game, with the potential to be extremely efficient in the early/mid game when targeted optimally. We have slightly nerfed Bomber Ace so that its bloon cleanup isn’t quite so solid. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Bomber Ace and further upgrades	Bomb: pierce reduced ― 20 → 12
0-3-1 Bomber Ace + Sharper Darts 0-4-1 Ground Zero + Sharper Darts 0-5-1 Tsar Bomba + Sharper Darts	Now increases pierce of bombs by 5 Note: Overall pierce is reduced from 20 to 17 due to the base pierce nerf

Heli Pilot

“

Heli Pilot rarely sees much use as a starting tower so we hope that this change will make this option more attractive. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $900 → $800

Mortar Monkey

“

Mortar Monkey still excels in the current meta. We have reduced its blast radius, but increased (and fixed) the buff that Jones and Bones give it so that it remains similarly effective when paired with either of these heroes. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower X-1-X Faster Reload and further upgrades X-X-1 Dynamic Targeting and further upgrades	Blast radius reduced ― 20 units → 18 units
1-X-X Bigger Blast 2-X-X Bloon Buster	Blast radius reduced ― 28 units → 25.2 units
3-X-X Shell Shock	Blast radius reduced ― 38 units → 35.2 units  Shockwave: stun radius reduced ― 19 units → 17.6 units  Shockwave: outer radius reduced ― 57 units → 52.8 units
4-X-X The Big One	Blast radius reduced ― 58 units → 53.2 units  Shockwave: stun radius reduced ― 29 units → 26.6 units  Shockwave: outer radius reduced ― 87 units → 79.8 units
5-X-X The Biggest One	Blast radius reduced ― 74 units → 67.6 units  Shockwave: stun radius reduced ― 37 units → 33.8 units  Shockwave: outer radius reduced ― 111 units → 101.4 units
X-X-3 Signal Flare and further upgrades	Decamo AoE: radius reduced ― 50 units → 48 units
X-X-4 Shattering Shells X-X-5 Blooncineration	Shattering AoE: radius reduced ― 20 units → 18 units

Dartling Gunner

“

We noticed that Ray of Doom’s pierce was remaining at 40 (the pierce that 4xx has), however this was never intended. We have brought its pierce up to its intended value and given it another small damage buff on top. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Ray of Doom	Beam: pierce increased ― 40 → 1,000  Beam: damage increased ― 30 → 35

Wizard Monkey

“

We still feel that Wizard Monkey could do with some minor improvements, with a slightly cheaper decamo and some added crosspathing changes that make sense. Prince of Darkness’ buff now applies to itself, as it was never intended for this not to be the case. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
2-1-0 Arcane Blast + Fireball 3-1-0 Arcane Mastery + Fireball 4-1-0 Arcane Spike + Fireball 5-1-0 Archmage + Fireball	Fireball: damage increased by 1
0-1-1 Fireball + Intense Magic 0-2-1 Wall of Fire + Intense Magic 0-3-1 Dragon's Breath + Intense Magic 0-4-1 Summon Phoenix + Intense Magic 0-5-1 Wizard Lord Phoenix + Intense Magic 0-1-2 Monkey Sense + Fireball 0-1-3 Shimmer + Fireball 0-1-4 Necromancer + Fireball 0-1-5 Prince of Darkness + Fireball	Fireball: pierce increased by 7
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Wall of Fire: damage per tick increased ― 3 → 5
X-X-3 Shimmer	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,600 → $1,500
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Necromancer buff: now applies to itself

Ninja Monkey

“

Ever since Ninja’s major nerfs a few updates ago, it has not been at the level that we would like. We are very conscious to not repeat past mistakes and over-buff it’s early game, so we’re just making very small changes for now. Bloon Sabotage has also been changed so that it can be used more reliably and easily when defending ZOMGs and BFBs. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Double Shot	Upgrade cost reduced ― $750 → $700
X-4-X Bloon Sabotage X-5-X Grand Saboteur	Ability: now soaks through MOAB-Class Bloon layers

Druid

“

Druid of the Jungle very recently received a big nerf and while it certainly still is strong, we’re not yet convinced that it needs any more significant changes. For now we’ve decided to just make some small price adjustments. With these changes, it’ll now be slightly more expensive to quickly and easily buy 1xx on your 030 Druids as a very cheap option to strengthen your defense. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Hard Thorns	Upgrade cost increased ― $250 → $350
2-X-X Heart of Thunder	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,000 → $900
X-1-X Thorn Swarm	Upgrade cost increased ― $250 → $350
X-2-X Heart of Oak	Upgrade cost reduced ― $350 → $250
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle	Upgrade cost reduced ― $750 → $450 (undocumented)
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty	Upgrade cost increased ― $4,200 → $4,500 (undocumented)

Banana Farm

“

A minor price cut for this upgrade which rarely gets used. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Monkey Bank	Upgrade cost reduced ― $4,600 → $4,400

Monkey Village

“

We’ve increased the bounce distance and damage of Primary Expertise so that it can be used a bit more reliably. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Primary Expertise	Bounce distance increased ― 50 → 90  Damage to Ceramic and MOAB-Class increased ― 200 → 250
X-X-3 Monkeyconomy	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,500 → $1,200 (undocumented)
X-X-4 Monkey City	Upgrade cost increased ― $7,200 → $7,500 (undocumented)

Engineer Monkey

“

Recently, we altered Overclock so that buffing a parent tower will also buff all of its child towers (eg sentries). Additionally, in this update we’re fixing a bug with this, meaning that newly spawned child towers will now correctly inherit the buff. With these changes, it makes Sentry Champion incredibly strong but only when buffed up a lot by the likes of Homeland Defense and Overclock. We have decided to change Engineer so that the spawn rate of its sentries can no longer be affected by attack rate buffs, but we have also greatly increased Sentry Champion’s regular damage so that it’s much stronger on its own now. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Sentry Gun and further upgrades	Sentry: no longer affected by attack speed buffs
5-X-X Sentry Champion	Champion Sentry: main attack damage increased ― 2 → 3

Striker Jones

“

Striker Jones’ main purpose is to provide buffs to Bombs and Mortars, however he very often isn’t the preferred hero for Bomb/Mortar strategies and so he rarely gets used. We have augmented the buffs that he provides to Bombs and Mortars to help address this. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
7+	Mortar Monkey blast radius buff increased ― +15% → +25%
8+	Bomb Shooter range buff increased ― +5% → +15%  Bomb Shooter pierce buff increased ― +35% → +40%

Biker Bones

“

Biker Bones’ new more general level 8 buff is an interesting one that we’re pleased to see has been effectively used with towers such as Spike Factory. We’re slightly increasing the buff to hopefully see more of this, as well as making the same changes to the Mortar buff which Striker Jones received. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
7+	Mortar Monkey blast radius buff increased ― +15% → +25%
8+	Pierce buff increased ― +25% → +30%

Benjamin

“

By the time you get to the later levels, the cash amounts that players typically have mean that any cash gained from Benjamin is negligible. — Update notes

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Levels	Changes
15-16	Cash per round increased ― $1,400 → $2,000
17+	Cash per round increased ― $2,500 → $4,000

DJ Benjammin'

“

Same changes and reasoning as Benjamin. — Update notes

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Levels	Changes
15-16	Cash per round increased ― $1,050 → $1,500
17+	Cash per round increased ― $1,875 → $3,000

Pat Fusty

“

As Pat isn’t getting much attention recently, we’ve increased his damage and attack speed on his later levels, which also results in him being more effective at stalling MOAB class bloons. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
11-18	Slam: base damage increased ― 5 → 6
16+	Slam: bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +8 → +13
17+	Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.55s → 0.4s
19+	Slam: base damage increased ― 15 → 16

Fusty the Snowman

“

Same changes as Pat Fusty, plus a minor tweak to the level 8 Ice Monkey buff to increase its effectiveness. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
8+	3× damage buff against MOAB-Class Bloons now applies after the +1 base damage buff instead of before, so the flat damage buff is also multiplied — an Ice Monkey with 2 damage now deals (2+1)×3 damage to MOAB-Class when buffed instead of (2×3)+1
11-18	Slam: base damage increased ― 5 → 6
16+	Slam: bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +8 → +13
17+	Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.55s → 0.4s
19+	Slam: base damage increased ― 15 → 16

Fateweaver Adora

“

With Fateweaver still remaining a dominant hero particularly in the early/mid game, it leaves little room for other heroes like Quincy, as early game is meant to be his specialty. We’ve slightly upped Fateweaver’s base cost so that she’s not quite so efficient early on. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
All	Placement cost increased ― $650 → $700

Etienne

“

We love the impact that Etienne has had on the game - it’s been great to see all the new strategies that he has made possible. With that being said, we would like to make one very small adjustment to his ability, which we don’t expect will have much of an impact on his viability. Etienne provides so much utility that he doesn’t need to have strong DPS, and it does feel like his level 3 ability stretches on for longer than necessary. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
3+	Drone Swarm: overall duration reduced by 2 seconds

League Battle

• Fast Track now becomes accessible after reaching a win streak of 10 instead of being the first to reach 50 Trophies in a league

Limited time event

• The First Blood and No Lives Lost stars have been replaced with Win Streak and Streak Breaker stars

In-game description

“

Jump right into the action in an all new game mode, Jump Start! This mode skips straight to the good stuff and begins on a much higher round than normal with higher starting cash and income so you can play dramatic late game finishes without having to work through the earlier rounds first. Why not test it out on the new map Bloonstone Quarry, available now in all arenas and private game modes.

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External links

• Official patch notes on Reddit