Rogue Legends

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Rogue Legends is a rogue-lite adventure across a huge variety of Bloon infested maps. Build your Monkey Party and make strategic reward choices at key steps to advance. Win and Buy Artifacts to boost your Party's power and defeat the Boss!
— Rogue Legends | Coming Soon to Bloons TD 6!

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Rogue Legends promotional image

Rogue Legends (or Rogue Legend) is a paid DLC expansion for Bloons TD 6, introduced in version 47.0. It is a "BTD rogue-lite adventure" and the first of a series of DLC campaigns called Legends. In a Rogue Legends campaign, the player navigates a monkey on a grid with different types of tiles, encountering Bloons and collecting towers and enhancements to add to their Party. When the player encounters a Bloon, the game transitions to a short Bloons TD game, much like the tiles in Bloons Monkey City, during which the player uses their party's towers, Hero, and items called Artifacts to clear all the rounds. The campaign is split into five stages, each ending with a special Final Boss tile.

Rogue Legends is officially priced at USD$9.99, though the actual cost depends on platform and region. A demo can be played in the Quest Rogue Legends Preview, which only allows playing three encounters. Purchasing the DLC unlocks an exclusive Avatar and Profile Banner, and an additional Avatar, Profile Banner, and and one more of each is unlocked by completing a campaign.

Gameplay

The player begins a Rogue Legends campaign by creating their Starter Party, which is done by selecting a Hero or Hero Skin and up to three Artifacts. Each campaign is divided into five stages. On each stage, the player progresses through the map by navigating tiles on a hexagonal grid. Players can move by clicking on the tiles indicated by a blue Wisp, but they cannot move back afterwards (indicated by the path becoming darkened). On some stage layouts, there are there multiple starting tiles or branching paths that the player can choose from, but all possible roads will eventually converge on the Final Boss tile. Some tiles will have a Red Bloon floating over it that lead the player to a Bloon Encounter, which is a game of BTD6 with a custom set of rules, rounds and mechanics. Completing encounters earns items called Tokens (represented by an icon of Geraldo's head) that can be used to trade with Merchants. The player has five hearts (separate from lives) and loses a heart each time they lose an encounter. If the player runs out of hearts, the campaign ends with no option of continuing.

In Rouge Legends, the player cannot place towers and Powers freely and can only use their party Insta Monkeys, which cost cash to place. They are cheaper to place than their combined base and upgrade costs, but more expensive to upgrade than normal. Insta Monkeys in the player's Party are reusable, but have a 4-round cooldown between uses. The player can only have up to 10 Insta Monkeys in their Party; obtaining an 11th tower prompts the player to remove a tower to make space. During Bloon Encounters the player can earn temporary items called Boosts, which can be Artifacts, Powers (which are purchased with cash instead of Monkey Money), or a one-time Insta Monkey. Temporary Artifacts will be active for the rest of the encounter and Powers or towers obtained from Boosts will be lost upon finishing the encounter, regardless of if they were used or not.

Players can encounter special tiles with different mechanics, Mini Games or Mini Bosses that can award additional Artifacts if the player can beat certain scores, Merchants that can exchange their Artifacts for tokens or other Artifacts, Loot Chests with additional Artifacts, Camp Fires^[sic] that allow players to add more Insta Monkeys, permanently upgrade existing Insta Monkeys or Artifacts, or regain hearts. Aat the end of the stage, there is a unique Final Boss tile, which is a Bloon Encounter featuring a Boss Bloon (in Normal difficulty). Defeating the Final Boss is required to progress to the next stage. Boss games start at Round 15/50.

Parties

Parties are a set consisting of a Hero, Insta Monkeys, and artifacts. Each Hero has a unique starter party that includes two Insta Monkeys and one hero artifact, and Hero Skins have different starter parties. Before beginning a campaign, the player can also choose their own "permanent artifacts" to start with, though limited to a combined artifact cost of 9.

Artifacts

Main article: Artifact

Artifacts are items that can be equipped during a campaign. All of them have beneficial effects, though some have negative effects as trade-offs, and some of them can add more Insta Monkeys to the player's party. The player starts their campaign with one artifact called a "hero artifact" that depends on the Hero or Hero Skin, and can choose up to three additional "permanent artifacts". Each permanent artifact has a value that determines its cost to equip in the starter party and to trade at a merchant. There are over 60 unique artifacts and upgraded versions. Most of them appear to come in at least three rarities: Common, Rare, and Legendary. Common Artifacts cost 3, Rare Artifacts cost 6, and Legendary Artifacts cost 9. After completing a stage, the player can extract one Artifact to allow it to be chosen in a Starter Party, but the extracted artifact will be lost for the rest of the current campaign.

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  Ability Stacking
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  Absolute Ability
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  Abundant Choices
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  Added Preservatives
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  Alchemic Engineering
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  Bargaining Chip
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  Battlefield Commission
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  BB Gatling Gun
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  Biggest Beacon
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  Blitzing Ape Barrage Emitter
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  Bouncing Projectiles
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  Carry A Big Stick
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  Cats Meow
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  Ceramic Chunker
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  Charismatic Leader
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  Cold Steel
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  Confuddling Spelling
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  Conscription
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  Cornered Beasts
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  Corrosive Torp-E-Darts
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  Critical Impact
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  Critical Success
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  Crystal Crash
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  Dazing Frostburn
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  Discord
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  Divine Inspiration
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  Divine Intervention
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  Divine Precision
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  Dream Teams
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  Duckageddon
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  Elite Military Inspiration
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  Enchanted Rebuttal
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  Esoteric Elementalist
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  Essence Of Blastapopoulos
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  Essence Of Bloonarius
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  Essence Of Dreadbloon
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  Explosive Economics
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  Extra Change
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  Fata Morgana
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  First Class Support Inspiration
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  First Class Support Quickening
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  Fish Nova
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  Flaming Hot Punch-A-Rang
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  Follow Me
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  Frosted Tips
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  Full Broadside
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  General's Disposition
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  Get to the Chopper
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  Gluesplosion
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  Grand Magic Inspiration
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  Growing Steady
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  Hawk's Eye
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  Heightened Perception
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  High Impact Glue
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  Home Brew Alchemy
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  Homing Projectiles
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  Improved Spelling
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  Innate Ability
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  Insider Trading
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  Intelligence Agent
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  Just Like Magic
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  Malicious Mauling
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  Master of all Trades
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  Mighty Mulligan
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  Monkey Academy (BTD6)
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  Mystic Twister
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  No More Please
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  One Monkey Army
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  One Shot
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  Perceptive Crow
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  Pincushion Flyby
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  Power Nexus
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  Pure Damage
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  Quantum Leap
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Boosts

Main article: Artifact#Boosts

Boosts are temporary items that are obtained every 3 rounds on Bloon Encounters, after a certain number of rounds on Mini Games, at the start of a Mini-Boss and every 5 'pops' afterwards, and after triggering a Skull during a Final Boss fight. Boosts can be Artifacts, Insta Monkeys, or Powers (including the Cave Monkey).

When selecting a boost, the player can choose one of three items (except during Races or Endurance Races where they are awarded automatically), or spend cash to reroll them. The first reroll is free, and every successive roll costs an additional $300 ($300, $600, $900 and so on). Insta Monkeys from Boosts can only be used once, and Powers from Boosts cost cash to place instead of Monkey Money.

Stages

Campaigns are split into five stages, each composed of a grid of hexagonal tiles. There are 14 different layouts that can appear. Each layout has a name internally, but they are not displayed in the game itself.

In Stage 2, the Bloon Encounters will start at round 2/13 and progress in the same way as Stage 1, also, the Final Boss will be in its Elite version and will start at Round 20/55.

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  Dam
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Tiles

• Spawn Points — The starting position of the player, represented by a tent. On some stage layouts, the player can choose from multiple spawn points.
• Bloon Encounters — Takes the player to a game of Bloons TD 6. Players are rewarded with 1 to 3 tokens after completing the game.
• Mini Games — Optional challenges that can be set in Race, Endurance Race (deal as much damage as possible in a certain amount of time, like the 5 Minutes of Frozen Over quest), or Least Cash modes that can award additional artifacts if player beats a specified goal score, there are 3 thresholds that award a choice between Common, Rare and Legendary Artifacts. Players do not lose a heart if they fail to achieve a goal score.
• Mini Boss — Similar to Mini Games, these can award Artifacts if the player can achieve certain goal scores by challenging a Boss Bloon in Boss Rush mode. These use the normal round set with the boss-specific modifiers rather than the Rogue Bloons round set, and Powers are enabled. Players will be able to see which Boss Bloon they will be facing in that tile as it will be floating above it.
• Loot Chests — Gives the player a set of Artifacts to choose one of.
• Legendary Augment Tiles — Sparkling tiles that allow the player to choose a Legendary Artifact upon completing them.
• Merchants — Allows the player to trade Artifacts and tokens for different Artifacts. A trade is performed by selecting 1 to 4 Artifacts from the Merchant's inventory and a combination of tokens and Artifacts from the player's inventory until the value of both selections are the same (Tokens have a value of 1 and Merchant Artifacts are valued on twice its regular price), and upon confirmation, players will lose the selected tokens and artifacts which and gain the ones they have chosen from the Merchant. Only one trade is allowed per Merchant tile.
• Log Bridges — Allows the player to cross water tiles.
• Camp Fires^[sic] — Allows the player to choose one of four benefits:
  • Recruit: "Befriend a new Monkey to add to your Party." — The player can select a new Insta Monkey to add to their party.
  • Mentor: "Mentor one of your monkeys to make it stronger." — Permanently increases the upgrade tier on one path of a chosen Insta Monkey if available. For example, a 2-0-0 Alchemist can be enhanced into a 3-0-0 Alchemist, 2-1-0 Alchemist, or 2-0-1 Alchemist.
  • Enhance: "Study an Artifact to increase its strength" — Converts a Common or Rare artifact into the next tier.
  • Heal: "Taking a short nap can restore some health" — Restores two hearts, this option will not be available if the player already have 5 hearts.
• Final Boss — A final battle against a Boss Bloon, played in a similar way to the Boss Challenge mode, but the Boss will spawn immediately upon starting the game. This tile will use the corresponding challenge modifiers of a Bloon Encounter tile, but the Boss will usually have higher health but lower speed modifiers compared to regular Boss Challenge. Defeating it rewards the player with a choice between a Legendary Artifact related to the Boss or Tier 5 Insta Monkeys, also the game will progress to the next stage on a new map.

Rounds

Main article: List of rounds in Rogue Legends

Bloon Encounters use a unique "Rogue Bloons" round set. These rounds scale in difficulty much quicker than the regular set (for example, MOABs will start spawining in the mid 10's), and to compensate, the players recieve a much larger amount of starting cash in addition to their party Insta Monkeys and active Artifacts. Encounters start at round 1 out of 10 with the default challenge rule modifiers. After each encounter cleared, all future encounters in the same stage will start 1 round later and will last for 3 more rounds at the end (ex. 1/10, 2/13, 3/16, and so on); also Bloon speed, MOAB health, and Ceramic health will be increased by +5% each encounter.

Modes

Practice

Practice mode allows the player to simulate a Bloon Encounter on any map. The player chooses a map and their Starter Party as normal and plays rounds 1–65. There are no health or speed modifiers.

CHIMPS

CHIMPS mode is unlocked by completing stage 5 of a campaign for the first time. In CHIMPS mode, the player plays an endless version of the campaign where each map plays like CHIMPS mode in the main game, meaning selling is disabled and the player only has one life. During the campaign, the player is also limited to three hearts and cannot extract Artifacts after stage 5.

Rogue Feats

Main article: Rogue Feat

Rogue Feats are tasks similar to achievements that add points to a badge displayed on the player's profile.

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	Journey Awaits
	Vici XX
	Just Getting Started
	Perfect Adventure
	Here We Go Again
	Full Party
	One For All
	Monkey Manager
	Training Weights
	Centurion
	What Tomfoolery
	Perfect Trade
	Master Blacksmith
	Diverse Skillset
	Game Master
	Overgeared
	Artifact Gourmand
	Artifact Collector
	Fully Boosted

Cosmetic items

Purchase the DLC	The Legend Begins,  Rogue Legends Banner
Complete a campaign	Rogue Legend,  Rogue Victory Banner

In-game information

There are two in-game information menus: one on the main menu of Rogue Legends and the other that can be accessed by clicking on the "i" icon in the top-right corner during a campaign.

Main menu

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	Start a Campaign with any Unlocked Hero.
	Each Hero Skin has a custom loadout that will start your Party - two Monkeys and one Artifact.
	Use your Party to beat each tile. There are no Continues - if you lose the tile you lose a Heart.
	You can replenish some Hearts by Healing at a Camp Fire. Other choices at the Camp Fire include Recruiting a new Monkey, Mentoring an existing Monkey in your party, or Enhancing one of your Artifacts.
	You will get to pick Temporary Boosts to use during tiles. You will get options for Permanent Artifacts and Insta Monkeys when you win special tiles or when you find Loot.
	Complete Rogue Legends Feats to upgrade a unique badge for your Player Profile. Earn an exclusive banner for beating one campaign.
	If you lose all your Hearts your Campaign is over and you must start again. Good luck and happy adventuring!

Campaign menu

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	This is where you Tap to spawn. (mobile) This is where you Click to spawn. (desktop)
	Tap the Wisp to follow the path. (mobile) Click the Wisp to follow the path. (desktop)
	Camp Fire! Recruit a new Monkey to your Party, Mentor a Monkey in your Party, Enhance an Artifact, or Heal some Hearts.
	Bloons in your way must be cleared.
	Artifacts and Boosts enhance your Monkeys to help fight the Bloons. Though some numbers may appear small, it all adds up. Extraordinary power can be unlocked when combining multiple Artifacts. Note: Ability Cooldowns are capped at 70% faster.
	Loot Chest! Open the chest and there could be some Artifacts to choose from.
	Mini Games! A variety of challenges. Beat the Goal to earn a reward.
	Mini Boss! Challenge a Boss to earn great loot.
	Merchant! Trade Artifacts and Tokens with the Merchant.
	Final Boss! You have won many battles, but can you complete the journey?
	Legendary Augment! These sparkles represent this tile has been enhanced with Legendary power.
	A Log Bridge allows you to cross narrow waterways.
	Tap to go back to Rogue Monkey. Swaps between Spawn point on maps that have more than one. (mobile) Click to go back to Rogue Monkey. Swaps between Spawn point on maps that have more than one. (desktop)
	See the Artifacts you have in your current campaign. Also discard Artifacts here.
	Restart Journey to begin your Journey again.

Bugs

• Tapping or clicking on a Boost multiple times when the Boost selection menu appears will give it multiple times.
• Entering the Rogue Legends menu with music turned off in the options, then turning it back on, plays Main Theme instead of the Rogue Legends theme.

Development

Legends were first mentioned in passing the update notes for version 41.0 as "periodic Legends content drops for players looking for even more challenge".

Version 44.0

More information about Legends was revealed in the update notes for version 44.0, and that the first Legends will be DLC and a "rogue-lite adventure".

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Legends - this is our answer to player questions and business questions around BTD7. We’re not ready to build BTD7 as we see incredible technical and creative potential inside BTD6 without disrupting our awesome community. With Legends, our plan is to build challenging new content that’s worthy of being in a new game and offer it inside BTD6 for a reasonable price. PC and console players will recognize that these are DLCs (downloadable content), which are standard ways to expand content on those platforms, so we are bringing this approach across to mobile as well. Overall we’ll continue to focus updates on a huge variety of content that players get at no additional cost, but we do need to keep IAPs and DLCs coming into the game to support all of our development. Hopefully tempting, this first Legends will be a BTD rogue-lite adventure.
— Update notes for version 44.0

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Version 45.0

The update notes for version 45.0 revealed that the development team was planning a "dev diary" to preview the art and gameplay of Rogue Legends.

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Legends is shaping up to be amazing and we’re eager to share more details (check back to the Update 44 Notes Looking Forward if you missed the explanation). We’ll plan on at least one dev diary during development to preview the art and gameplay of this super cool rogue-lite DLC.
— Update notes for version 45.0

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Version 46.0

The update notes for version 46.0 revealed that the first Legends DLC was planned to be released in version 46.0, but was delayed until version 47.0.

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Those who have been following along may note we planned to release our first Legends DLC along with version 46, but there was even more we wanted to add to truly make it a full game within the game, so we hope you won’t mind waiting until update 47 in early February.
— Update notes for version 46.0

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Version 47.0

The update preview for version 47.0 revealed more information about Rogue Legends, as well as answering questions from the community about Legends in general.

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Screenshots

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  Rogue Legends on the Legends menu
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  Main menu
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  Captain Churchill's starter party
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  Choosing starter artifacts
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  Selecting a boost
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Stages

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  Zoom out of a stage layout
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  Zoom out of a stage layout
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  Zoom out of a stage layout
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  Zoom out of a stage layout
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  Opening a chest
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  The same location as before, but with different special tiles
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  "BTD6 Legends loading..." teaser animation
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