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

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'''Version 38.0''' is the fourth major update to ''[[Bloons TD 6]]'' of 2023. This update introduced the Boss Bloon [[Phayze]], Competitive Mode for [[Contested Territory (BTD6)|Contested Territory]], the new [[Water Park]] map, and the [[Lifeguard Brickell]] skin for [[Admiral Brickell (BTD6)|Admiral Brickell]].

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== Additions ==

=== [[Quest (BTD6)|Quests]] ===

{{BTD6 quest list by introduced|38.0}}

{{BTD6 cosmetic item list by introduced|38.0}}

{{BTD6 team flair list|introduced=38.0}}

{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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.

| tower = Dart Monkey

| changes 1 tiers = 3XX

| quote 2 = 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.

|quote 2 tiers=3xx

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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.

| version = 38.0

| tower = Boomerang Monkey

| changes 1 = *{{buff|Range increased|49.45|57.19|note=Long Range Rangs range modifier increased from +15% to +33%}}

| changes 2 tiers = 501;502

| changes 3 tiers = x5x

| paragon quote = 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.

| paragon cost before = 325000

| quote 2 = 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.

| quote 3 = 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.

| quote 3 tiers = x5x

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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.

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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.

| changes 4 = *{{nerf|Pierce reduced|60|45}}

| changes 5 tiers = 04x

| changes 6 tiers = 140

| changes 8 tiers = 041

| changes 9 tiers = 042

| changes 10 tiers = 05x

| changes 11 tiers = 150

| changes 12 tiers = 051

| changes 13 tiers = 052

| quote 2 = 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.

| quote 3 = [...] Ring of Fire also generally has too high a pierce amount for how effective it is at utilizing its full pierce value.

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| version = 38.0

| quote 1 = Plenty of attention has been drawn to the high power of Ice, so we’re continuing to work on slowly dialing this back in fair ways.

| changes 2 tiers = XX3+

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

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{{BTD6 tower changes

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

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| version = 38.0

| tower = Sniper Monkey

| changes 1 tiers = X5X

*{{change|Elite Sniper’s Elite Supply Drop no longer shares button space in the ability quickbar with other Supply Drop Abilities}}

| quote 1 = Sniper farming gets a bit, er, very tedious in lategame when you reach large numbers of x4xs.

| quote 1 tiers = x5x

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| tower = Monkey Buccaneer

| version = 38.0

| quote 1 = Small tweaks to Buccaneer’s Long Range upgrade to improve its additional pierce benefit for a number of attacks.

| changes 2 tiers = 031+

| changes 3 tiers = 401+

| quote 1 tiers = 4xx;5xx;x3x+;xx1+

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| version = 38.0

| tower = Monkey Ace

| changes 1 tiers = X4X

| quote 1 = As the price of Ground Zero has been considerably increased in the base game since then, the nerf to 1000 pierce set for races a long time ago now feels restrictive for the price.

| quote 1 tiers = x4x

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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.

| tower = Heli Pilot

| changes 1 tiers = X3X

| quote 2 = 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.

| changes 2 tiers = X3X+

| changes 3 tiers = X4X;X5X

| quote 2 tiers = x3x

| quote 1 tiers = x4x;x5x

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| version = 38.0

| tower = Dartling Gunner

| changes 1 tiers = 203

| quote 1 = We weren’t quite ever able to take Laser Shock in the direction we initially hoped to, and due to this the 203 crosspath has fallen behind in value and overall use, so we are improving some crosspath values here to fix up damage with bottom path Buckshocks

| changes 2 tiers = 204

| changes 3 tiers = 205

| quote 1 tiers = 2xx;xx3+

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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.

| path 2 tier 3 cost after = 3300

| changes 1 tiers = x4x;x5x

| quote 2 = 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.

|quote 2 tiers=x4x;x5x

| changes 2 tiers = x5x

| changes 3 tiers = XX4;XX5

| changes 3 = *{{buff|Necromancer targeted spawn point can now be reset back to default by activating the target option, then canceling without selecting a point}}

*{{neutral|Each main attack fired drains 50 mana}}

*{{neutral|Each Phoenix firebomb attack fired drains 50 mana}}

*{{nerf|Resolved an issue creating a permanent magus flamethrower attack|fix=y}}

| paragon quote = 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.

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| version = 38.0

| tower = Super Monkey

| changes 1 tiers = 041+

| quote 1 = We’ve wanted to try out this idea for a while, and finally thought why not. It seemed fun to test with, so we hope people can find some fun use for it in challenges.

| quote 1 tiers = x4x;x5x;xx1;xx2

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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.

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

| changes 4 tiers = XX4

| quote 2 tiers = 1xx+;xx1+

| quote 3 tiers = xx4;xx5

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{{BTD6 tower changes

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

| tower = Druid

| changes 1 tiers = 3XX+

| quote 2 = 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.

| changes 2 tiers = X4X

| path 1 tier 5 cost before = 65000

| path 1 tier 5 cost after = 60000

| changes 3 tiers = X3X

| changes 3 = *{{neutral|Upgrading a crosspathed Druid to x3x changes target prio to strong|fix=y}}

| changes 4 tiers = X4X;X5X

| changes 4 = *{{buff|Cash bonus per farm in range increased|$120|$130}}

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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

| tower = Spike Factory

| changes 1 tiers = 401;402

| quote 2 = 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.

| changes 2 tiers = 501;502

*{{buff|Mini-explosion: blast radius increased|30|40}}

| quote 3 = A flat pierce increase is added on to middle T5’s base attack to reduce crosspath dependency & improve r100 strength.

| changes 3 tiers = X5X

| quote 4 = 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

| changes 5 tiers = XX5

| changes 5 = *{{buff|Pierce increased|25|50}}

*{{nerf|Damage reduced|15|10}}

*{{nerf|Attack cooldown reduced|4.85s|6.0625s}}

| changes 6 = *{{buff|Pierce increased|45|90}}

| quote 2 tiers = 4xx;5xx;xx1;xx2

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{{BTD6 tower changes

| version = 38.0

| tower = Monkey Village

| changes 1 tiers = XX5

| quote 1 = As a 1 per player T5 we didn’t mind this being excessively powerful at a base level, however the base level became so powerful people stopped investing into the actual farm sacrificing aspect, so we’re dropping this base value down to not skip massively ahead of the normal farm curve.

| quote 1 tiers = xx5

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{{BTD6 tower changes|version=38.0|tower=Engineer Monkey|paragon changes=*{{buff|Engineer Paragon no longer defaults to throwing out a Green Sentry after loading a save|fix=y}}

*{{buff|Engineer Paragon sentries are now correctly destroyed if their platform is removed|fix=y}}

*{{buff|Engineer Paragon sentries no longer position incorrectly when placed as the round ends|fix=y}}}}

{{BTD6 tower changes

| 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. 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.

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{{BTD6 hero changes|version=38.0|hero=Pat Fusty|changes 1=*{{buff|Placing towers in Pat’s radius will now show a grayed out Rallying Roar buff icon|fix=y}}|changes 1 levels=3+}}

{{BTD6 hero changes

| quote = Adora is a unique hero in how she has a great deal more value in spending cash to level her up faster, however she outperforms other heroes by too much regardless of this added cost. As her ability uptime is so incredibly good to the point of being completely spammable we’re increasing that cooldown slightly and reducing her base pierce in the higher levels so more thought must be required to utilize the large pierce increase she gains from usage of that ability.

| hero = Adora

| changes 1 levels = 3+

| changes 2 levels = 11+

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{{BTD6 hero changes

| quote = Because it didn’t really matter before, but guess it kinda does now.

| hero = Etienne

| changes 1 levels = 10+

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{{BTD6 hero changes

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{{BTD6 changes

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

| names = Vortex

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== Release descriptions ==

=== App Store / Google Play ===

• Warp out of this world with the new Boss Bloon: Phayze!

==Gallery==

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:*one syllable, maybe two?

:*oh well no one minds}}

==References==