Flying Fortress (BTD6)
For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Flying Fortress (Battles 2).
Flying Fortress
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 This is a BIG plane.
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| Tower | Monkey Ace — Path 3 — Tier 5 | |
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| XP cost | 45,000 | |
| Cash cost | $72,250 — Easy $85,000 — Medium $91,800 — Hard $102,000 — Impoppable With  Aeronautic Subsidy:$65,025 — Easy $76,500 — Medium $82,620 — Hard $91,800 — Impoppable | |
Flying Fortress is the Monkey Ace's path 3 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants Monkey Ace the ability to fire 3 projectiles per shot from its Spectre attack, instead of only 1 at a time. One of these projectiles targets First, one targets Last, and one targets Close (relative to the Monkey Ace, not its runway). This upgrade reduces the attack cooldown of the Spectre attack by 33.33%, increasing its attack speed by ~50%.
This upgrade increases Spectre darts' Ceramic damage from +1 to +2, their MOAB-Class damage from +0 to +10, their pierce from 10 to 15, and allows them to damage all Bloon types. This upgrade increases Spectre bombs' damage from 3 to 5, their Ceramic damage from +3 to +4, their pierce from 20 to 30, and allows them to damage all Bloon types. This upgrade increases the damage of Monkey Ace's main darts from 3 to 6.
Stats
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
| Tiers | Total cost | Sell value | ||||||
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 0-0-5 | $100,125 | $117,800 | $127,225 | $141,360 | $70,088 | $82,460 | $89,058 | $98,952 |
| 1-0-5 | $100,505 | $118,250 | $127,710 | $141,900 | $70,354 | $82,775 | $89,397 | $99,330 |
| 2-0-5 | $100,970 | $118,800 | $128,305 | $142,560 | $70,679 | $83,160 | $89,814 | $99,792 |
| 0-1-5 | $100,295 | $118,000 | $127,440 | $141,600 | $70,207 | $82,600 | $89,208 | $99,120 |
| 0-2-5 | $100,590 | $118,350 | $127,820 | $142,020 | $70,413 | $82,845 | $89,474 | $99,414 |
Update history
For a complete list of Monkey Ace changes, see Update history:Monkey Ace (BTD6).
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Attack cooldown reduced by 20% ― 0.05s → 0.04s
Overall cost increased by $6,000 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)- Dart attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 4
- Bomb attack: Damage increased ― 3 → 5
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While Pineapples are never the star of the show, the amount of pierce they have is completely unnecessary for their usage window and has only led to balance problems for Bombing Run, specifically in races. This high amount of pierce has been more evenly spread through higher tiers & crosspath. Flying Fortress has also been reduced in price because, while achievable, it doesn't match well with freeplay progress.
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $120,000 → $105,000
- 0-1-5, 0-2-5
- Pineapple/bomb explosions now gain +12 pierce from Sharper Darts
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In addition to this we are experimenting with adding a small amount of homing to the spectre upgrade as rapid fire missing is not the intended design.
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $105,000 → $100,000
- Now has a slight seeking effect on dart projectiles
- 0-1-5, 0-2-5
- Exploding Pineapple: attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s
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Now allows you to find your center. Very zen.
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- Centered Path mode: Now allows the player to change the center point of the path
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While Flying Fortress has started to see use in Boss events this feels like more of a cash dump than actual value in the tower. As Spectre value already drops off the later any game gets, the saveup into a ‘better version’ also drops off in value, and so the price should reflect that better.
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $100,000 → $85,000
- Reverse flight pattern added
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To help you work towards the new Ace Paragon we have reduced Spectre’s lategame ceramic weakness with improved targeting for the bomb projectiles & a large increase to their bonus Ceramic damage to help out later on, to change focus on these projectiles we have also shifted damage around for the darts to deal single target with the bombs providing ceramic AoE cleanup. Flying Fortress’s value drops off by the lategame when you can realistically afford it, so following on with this dart single target focus change at T4 we have added a large MOAB damage bonus to Flying Fortress darts.
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- Dart: now deals +10 damage to MOAB-Class
- Darts & bombs now both have a weaker homing effect
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Same as mentioned above for the flagship, we are experimenting with new homing changes for the Spectre & Flying Fortress to improve their feeling.
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- Spectre new homing style
- Resolved an issue where reversing flight path before purchasing Centered Path would prevent the centered path target from flying in the correct direction (bug fix)
- Note: nerf to ace micro
- Spectre and Flying Fortress can no longer ignore Phayze’s camo immunity when under Radar Scanner (bug fix)
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Neva-Miss itself is too fun and cool to be lost completely on the very next upgrade so it’s coming back to Spectre as an additional attack, as this main attack is back again 204 no longer needs to give an additional conflicting crosspath benefit.
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- Radial 'neva-miss' attack is no longer disabled
- Radial attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 3
- 2-0-5
- Lots More Darts no longer grants +25% pierce to darts
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Minor catchup changes to some parts have fallen out of line slightly due to balance changes for other parts of the Ace.
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- Homing dart: Damage increased ― 3 → 6
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As efforts to improve the feeling of top path Buccaneer have gone relatively well, projectile seeking has now been greatly improved for the Bottom path Ace as well.
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- Radial darts: now use Adora's seeking mechanics, allowing them to decelerate to take much tighter turns towards targets and accelerate when targets are directly in front
- Radial darts: lifespan reduced ― 3.33s → 1.5s (undocumented)
- Spectre dart: seeking turn rate is no longer capped at 180°/s
- Spectre dart: seeking targeting angle is no longer capped at 30°
- Radial dart: projectile lifespan reduced ― 1.5s → 1s
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[...] Neva-Miss darts max speed and homing acceleration is being increased so the projectiles are less likely to expire before meeting their target unless placement is terrible.
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- Homing dart: Max projectile speed increased ― 180 → 350
- Homing dart: Projectile acceleration increased ― 20 → 50
- Homing dart: Projectile lifespan increased ― 1s → 3.3333s (undocumented)
- Note: Only affects the projectile while not homing; the lifespan while homing switches to Adora homing stats, which remain unchanged at 1s
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Since Spectre works best at the edge of the map far from the entrance the radial attack can expire too early, so projectile distance has been increased.
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- Radial dart: Lifespan increased ― 3.3333s → 5.0s
- Note: Projectile distance increased from 600 units to 900 units
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Spectre is trying a new approach: darts are trading in pierce for higher single-target damage, while bombs lean more into AoE Ceramic cleanup to improve overall efficiency. These changes are mirrored on the Flying Fortress to keep the behavior consistent.
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- Frontal dart: Pierce reduced ― 15 → 4
- Frontal dart: Damage increased ― 4 → 8
- Frontal dart: No longer does +2 Ceramic damage
- Frontal dart: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +10 → +14
- Radial dart: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Normal
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Spectre was making the save-up into into a Flying Fortress too effortless so it’s single target power has been lowered with a raised upgrade cost, enough to make this not quite so easy
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $85,000 → $90,000
- Frontal darts: Damage reduced ― 8 → 6
- Side darts: Damage reduced ― 8 → 6 (undocumented)
Gallery
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In other languages
| Language | Name / Description | Notes | |
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| Arabic | الحصن الطائر هذه طائرة كبيرة. |
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| Danish | Flyvende Fæstning Dette er et STORT fly. |
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| German | Fliegende Festung Das ist ein richtig GROSSES Flugzeug. |
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| Spanish | Fortaleza voladora Este es un avión GRANDE. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Fortaleza voladora Este es un avión GRANDE. |
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| Finnish | Lentävä linnoitus Tämä on SUURI lentokone. |
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| French | Forteresse volante C'est un GROS avion. |
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| Italian | Fortezza volante Questo aereo è ENORME. |
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| Japanese | 空飛ぶ要塞 これこそ、大型航空機。 |
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| Korean | 천공의 요새 정말 커다란 비행기입니다. |
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| Dutch | Vliegend fort Dit is een GROOT vliegtuig. |
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| Norwegian | Flyvende festning Dette er et STORT fly. |
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| Polish | Latająca forteca To WIELKI samolot. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Fortaleza Voadora Esse é um avião GIGANTE. |
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| Russian | Летающая крепость БОЛЬШОЙ самолёт. |
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| Swedish | Flygande fästning Det är ett STORT plan. |
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| Thai | ปราการลอยฟ้า นี่ล่ะ เครื่องบินลำ "ใหญ่" ของจริง |
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| Turkish | Uçan Kale Bu BÜYÜK bir uçak. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 飞行堡垒 这是一架大飞机。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 飛行堡壘 這是架大飛機。 |
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