User:Blackeyefly/Sandbox/Attack cooldown

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Attack cooldown, also called reload time, is the amount of time that must pass after an attack that the same attack (from the same Tower or entity) may be fired. It is typically measured in seconds or frames.

Attack speed, also called fire rate, is the number of attacks that may be fired per unit time, and is the inverse of attack cooldown. Therefore, decreases in attack cooldown are equivalent to proportional increases in attack speed, and vice versa.

This concept appears in many games in the Bloons franchise including the Bloons TD series and the Bloons Supermonkey series. In most games, there is an attack speed cap which no attacks can exceed, typically one attack per frame.

Mechanics and terminology by game

Bloons Tower Defense

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Bloons TD 6

In Bloons TD 6, some in-game descriptions of percentage increases in attack speed are slightly inaccurate or misleading. This is because listed percentages are sometimes actually the decrease in attack cooldowns, not increases in attack speed. For example, the description of Fast Glue reads:

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Glue Gunner 10% increased attack speed.
— Description of Fast Glue in BTD6

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However, this upgrade actually decreases the Glue Gunner's attack cooldown by 10%, which constitutes an attack speed increase of ~11.11%.

Attack speed cap

Bloons TD 6 and Bloons TD Battles 2 do not have an attack speed cap like the other games. If a tower's attack speed is greater than 60 attacks per second (equivalent to 1 attack per frame), attacks produce more projectiles per attack on some frames in order to make the average attack speed consistent with what it should be.

In what may be a bug, these additional projectiles do not benefit from Bloon debuffs.^{[citation needed]}