Update history:Bloons TD Battles 2/Version 4.0.2

Version 4.0.2
Steam19 June 2024[1]

Version 4.0.2 is a minor update to Bloons TD Battles 2 version 4.0. It introduced the new cosmetics from the Nexus Competition, as well as made some balance changes and fixed some bugs.

Additions

Changes

A few buffs for the ceramic sends since other rushes are typically more effective than these ones relative to their unlock round. We’ve also increased the price of tight leads so that they are not quite as efficient.
— Update notes
  •   Spaced Ceramic: Spacing reduced ― 0.75s → 0.65s
  •   Grouped Ceramic: Cost reduced ― $400 → $350
  •   Grouped Ceramic: Spacing reduced ― 0.12s → 0.11s
  •   Grouped Ceramic: Income increased ― +$1.8 → +$5
  •   Tight Lead: Cost increased ― $1200 → $1400
  •   Tight Lead: Income increased ― +$20 → +$24
  •   Tight Ceramic: Cost reduced ― $4000 → $3400
Dart has received a lot of buffs over the updates and has now gained recognition for being dominant tower in all stages of the game. We have decided to weaken its abilities so that it can keep its early game strength while being a bit easier to rush in the mid/late game.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Super Monkey Fan Club
  •   Upgrade cost increased ― $8,000 → $9,000
X-4-X Super Monkey Fan Club
X-5-X Plasma Monkey Fan Club
  •   Ability: duration reduced ― 15s → 12s
There was no reason to ever pick the top crosspath option for Kylie Boomerang since the attack speed buff heavily outclasses the small pierce increase. This change aims to balance the crosspaths so that the superior crosspath is situational.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
1-0-3 Kylie Boomerang + Improved Rangs
  •   Pierce bonus increased ― +3 → +10
2-0-3 Kylie Boomerang + Glaives
  •   Pierce bonus increased ― +3 → +12
We’re providing a buff to an upgrade that doesn’t offer too much, to strengthen Ice Monkey’s early game a little bit.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-2-X Deep Freeze
X-3-X Arctic Wind
X-4-X Snowstorm
  •   Freeze affects more layers ― 2 → 3
Relentless Glue’s puddles have never felt right on this upgrade path, barely being a noticeable addition in most cases. Therefore, we have removed the puddles and given this upgrade something else to offer instead - greater stalling potential with stunning splats that occur every time a glued bloon is popped.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-3-X Glue Hose
  •   Upgrade cost increased ― $2,000 → $2,200
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  •   No longer drops glue puddles on the track
  •   Popped Bloons with Glue on them triggers a small splat which stuns nearby Bloons.
0-1-4 Relentless Glue + Bigger Globs
0-1-5 Super Glue + Bigger Globs
  •   On Pop Splat pierce increased ― 6 → 7
0-2-4 Relentless Glue + Glue Splatter
0-2-5 Super Glue + Glue Splatter
  •   On Pop Splat pierce increased ― 7 → 10
A small quality of life change to give greater flexibility in Ace’s flight pathing.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-X-2 Advanced Navigation
  •   Replaced Centered Path with Advanced Navigation
Faster Darts does not provide any significant benefit and Heli Pilot is not a common starting tower either. This change is intended to improve both of these aspects.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
3-0-1 Razor Rotors + Faster Darts
  •   Rotors Pierce increased ― 13 → 16
X-X-1 Faster Darts
  •   Upgrade cost increased ― $150 → $350
  •   Dart Pierce increased ― 3 → 4
Mortar Monkey has not really been affected by any recent nerfs, still remaining very strong and only seeing a drop in usage due to Etienne offering an exciting alternative. Therefore we think that it’s justified to make some significant nerfs to Mortar’s early game, as it’s been a top tier tower for quite a few updates now.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
0-0-0 base tower
X-1-X Faster Reload and further upgrades
X-X-1 Dynamic Targeting and further upgrades
  •   Pierce reduced ― 40 → 35
2-X-X Bloon Buster
3-X-X Shell Shock
  •   Pierce reduced ― 45 → 40
4-X-X The Big One
  •   Pierce reduced ― 85 → 80
    • Note: Does not affect The Biggest One
X-1-X Faster Reload
  •   Upgrade cost increased ― $300 → $400
X-2-X Rapid Reload
  •   Upgrade cost increased ― $500 → $550
X-3-X Heavy Shells
  •   Upgrade cost reduced ― $900 → $800
Wizard seems to be in a fairly decent spot in the meta, however we want to give it a little bump to encourage its usage. We’ve made a couple of small changes to Guided Magic so that it’s more dependable early on, as well as a small price buff to Necromancer for slightly cheaper purple popping power.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
1-X-X Guided Magic
  •   Upgrade cost reduced ― $150 → $100
  •   Main attack: seeking targeting angle increased ― 270° → 360°
  •   Main attack: turning rate increased ― 600 → 720
X-X-4 Necromancer
  •   Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,800 → $2,600
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Sun Temple
5-X-X True Sun God
  •   Range buff on $15k Magic Sacrifice increased ― +10% → +50%
  •   Now provides +2 pierce buff on $15k Magic Sacrifice
X-X-4 Dark Champion
  •   Upgrade cost reduced ― $30,000 → $27,000
These changes buff 0xx Ninja upgrades while leaving 1xx Ninja upgrades unchanged. One major reason for this is so that 023 Ninja can be slightly more dependable.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
0-0-0 base tower
X-1-X Distraction and further upgrades
X-X-1 Seeking Shuriken and further upgrades
  •   Shuriken attack: cooldown reduced ― 0.7s → 0.62s
1-X-X Ninja Discipline
  •   Attack cooldown reduction reduced ― 38% → 30%
2-X-X Sharp Shurikens and further upgrades
  •   Overall attack speed is unchanged
0-X-2 Caltrops and further upgrades
  •   Caltrop attack: cooldown reduced ― 9s → 8s
1-0-2 Caltrops + Ninja Discipline
2-0-2 Sharp Shurikens + Caltrops
3-0-2 Double Shot + Caltrops
4-0-2 Bloonjitsu + Caltrops
5-0-2 Grandmaster Ninja + Caltrops
1-0-3 Flash Bomb + Ninja Discipline
1-0-4 Sticky Bomb + Ninja Discipline
1-0-5 Master Bomber + Ninja Discipline
  •   Caltrop attack: cooldown slightly increased due to changes to Ninja Discipline ― 5.58s → 5.6s
0-X-4 Sticky Bomb
  •   Sticky bomb attack: cooldown reduced ― 9s → 8s
1-0-4 Sticky Bomb + Ninja Discipline
  •   sticky bomb attack: cooldown slightly increased due to changes to Ninja Discipline ― 5.58s → 5.6s
0-X-5 Master Bomber
  •   Sticky bomb attack: cooldown reduced ― 2s → 0.18s
    • Note: Unintentionally reduced by a factor of 10 due to a typo
1-0-5 Master Bomber + Ninja Discipline
  •   Sticky bomb attack: cooldown reduced ― 1.24s → 0.126s
    • Note: Unintentionally reduced by a factor of 10 due to a typo
We’re introducing this change so that there is a cheaper money generation option available and accessible early on when using Druid. Jungle’s Bounty’s price has been increased so that this upgrade does not become too efficient as a result.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle and further upgrades
  •   Added a second golden vine attack which gives $100 per bloon grabbed and has an 11 second cooldown.
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
  •   Upgrade cost increased ― $3,100 → $4,500
We’ve never been too fond of Village’s bottom path in this game - with xx3 and xx4 offering exactly the same thing and xx5 benefiting from being paired with Farms, which is not a common tower duo. We have simplified xx3 and xx4 to be simple money generation upgrades comparable to a Farm, and adjusted xx5 so that it no longer has any Farm dependency. Additionally, Grow Blocker has received a lot more attention recently, so we have added a limit to how many bloons it can affect at once.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-1-X Grow Blocker and further upgrades
  •   Grow block: can only affect a maximum of 200 Bloons at once
X-X-3 Monkeyconomy
  •   Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,000 → $1,200
  •   Replaced Monkey Town with Monkeyconomy
X-X-4 Monkey City
  •   Upgrade cost increased ― $7,000 → $7,500
  •   Now produces four $400 crates each round
  •   No longer increases income from Bloon sends
X-X-5 Monkeyopolis
  •   Upgrade cost reduced ― $20,000 → $15,000
  •   Now absorbs other Monkeyconomy villages instead of Banana Farms
  •   Now increases income from Bloon sends by 20%
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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Ocean Obyn and Pat Fusty selling themselves when placed on the edge between land and water.
  • Fixed issue where some players were unable to load the game after a season ended.
  • Fixed Village ability buffs not ending when Village is sold
  • Fixed Village ability buffs not affecting towers that were placed after the ability was activated
  • Fixed x5x Ninja damaging newly spawned bloons even when the ability was not active
  • Fixed notification icon not showing on the shop button during sales.
  • Fixed main menu league leaderboard not animating like a button.
  • Fixed Clan War timer not displaying correctly
  • Fixed the target light on Etienne’s drones not working once upgraded.
  • Fixed Etienne’s spy drone showing opponents cash during Hero Challenge (Arcade only)
  • Fixed occasional hang when upgrading Etienne.
  • Fixed event banners not aligning correctly to the edge of the screen on widescreen devices.
  • Fixed incorrect interaction between Fateweaver’s level 3 ability cooldown and the 5xx Monkey Sub.
  • Fixed score not appearing in the Hall of Masters leaderboard when viewed on mobile.
  • Fixed not being able to view the profile of players with animated banners or avatars.
  • Fixed the club icon being clipped if appearing on the #1 player in Hall of Masters.
  • Fixed event screen not scrolling to the correct event after clicking on one of the banners in the main menu.
  • Fixed settings button not working in the clan screen.
  • Fixed accolades and medals not displaying in the league leaderboards.

References

Official patch notes on Reddit