Faster Shooting (BTD6) (Tack Shooter)

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Faster Shooting
Portrait of Faster Shooting
Icon of Faster ShootingShoots tacks faster.
Tower Tack Shooter — Path 1 — Tier 1
XP cost 150
Cash cost $125 — Easy
$150 — Medium
$160 — Hard
$180 — Impoppable

Faster Shooting is the Tack Shooter's path 1 tier 1 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It reduces the Tack Shooter's attack cooldown by 25%, for an attack speed increase of ~33.33%. In the cases of Blade Maelstrom and Super Maelstrom, the attack cooldown of the ability blades is reduced by 15% for an attack speed increase of ~17.6%.

Stats

For a complete list of Tack Shooter stats, see Stats:Tack Shooter (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
Tower
Display range23 units
Footprint radius6 units
Targeting options
  • Close
Attack
Cooldown0.84s
Offset (X, Y, Z)
0, 0, 5.11
TargetingDepends on targeting option
Targeting range23 units
Filters
  • Cannot target Camo
Projectile
Count8
Angle360°
Pierce1
Damage1
Damage typeSharp
Speed160 units/s
Lifespan0.2s
Radius0 units
Filters
  • Cannot hit Camo

1-1-0

Tower
Display range23 units → 26.91 units
Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z)
0, 0, 5.11
0, 0, 5.07
Targeting range23 units → 26.91 units
Projectile
Speed160 units/s → 187.2 units/s
Lifespan0.2s → 0.234s

1-0-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z)
0, 0, 5.11
0, 0, 4.82
Projectile
Count8 → 10

Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
Tiers Total cost Sell value
Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Easy Medium Hard Impoppable
1-0-0 $345 $410 $440 $490 $242 $287 $308 $343
1-1-0 $430 $510 $550 $610 $301 $357 $385 $427
1-2-0 $620 $735 $795 $880 $434 $515 $557 $616
1-3-0 $1,085 $1,285 $1,390 $1,540 $760 $900 $973 $1,078
1-4-0 $3,380 $3,985 $4,305 $4,780 $2,366 $2,790 $3,014 $3,346
1-5-0 $16,130 $18,985 $20,505 $22,780 $11,291 $13,290 $14,354 $15,946
1-0-1 $440 $520 $560 $620 $308 $364 $392 $434
1-0-2 $535 $630 $680 $750 $375 $441 $476 $525
1-0-3 $915 $1,080 $1,165 $1,290 $641 $756 $816 $903
1-0-4 $3,635 $4,280 $4,620 $5,130 $2,545 $2,996 $3,234 $3,591
1-0-5 $20,635 $24,280 $26,220 $29,130 $14,445 $16,996 $18,354 $20,391

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 49.3

The attack speed increase that Faster Shooting grants over the base Tack Shooter is insufficient to be worth it, thus Faster Shooting is only recommended as a crosspath. When using it as a crosspath, it is strongly recommended to continue crosspathing to Even Faster Shooting in nearly all cases.

Faster Shooting is the optimal crosspath for Tack Sprayer, Overdrive, and The Tack Zone. Super Range Tacks and its succeeding tiers, when crosspathed with Faster Shooting, become strong towers in Race Events. However, Blade Maelstrom and Super Maelstrom can use the other crosspath as well.

Update history

For a complete list of Tack Shooter changes, see Update history:Tack Shooter (BTD6).
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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.
— Update notes
1-4-0
  •   Ability: Pierce reduced ― 200 → 160
    • Note: 240 unchanged
1-5-0
  •   Ability: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 400
    • Note: 250 unchanged
The recent ability crosspathing for Tack Shooter was fun but feels too lopsided as pierce concerns are very niche on Maelstrom, instead we want to shift this entire focus around for top path to be the rate crosspath for more damage in a shorter amount of time and leaving bottom mainly about greater overall uptime.
— Update notes
1-4-0, 1-5-0
  •   Ability: Faster Shooting no longer increases pierce
    •   Overall pierce is unchanged (due to changes to the base pierce)
  •   Ability: Faster Shooting now reduces attack cooldown by 15%
    •   Overall attack cooldown with this crosspath increased ― 0.03s → 0.03825s (due to changes to the base attack cooldown)
  •   Overall cost reduced by $20 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
Every Tack Shooter Tier 3 needed a different attack rate boost, so to tidy this up we’ve moved much of that rate to the base tack shooter.
— Update notes
  •   Reload rate reduced ― 1.05s → 0.84s
For more Tack Shooter images, see Gallery:Tack Shooter.

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Assets

In other languages

Language Name / Description Notes
Arabic إطلاق بسرعة أكبر
يطلق المسامير بشكل أسرع.
Danish Hurtigere Skydning
Affyrer stifter hurtigere.
German Schneller Schießen
Schießt Reißnägel schneller.
Spanish Tiro acelerado
Dispara tachuelas más rápido.
Spanish (LA) Tiro acelerado
Dispara tachuelas más rápido.
Finnish Nopeampi ampuminen
Ampuu nastoja nopeammin.
French Cadence de tir plus élevée
Tire des punaises plus vite.
Italian Fuoco accelerato
Spara le puntine più velocemente.
Japanese 高速射撃
びょうを撃つのが早くなる。
Korean 더 빠른 발사
압정을 더 빠르게 쏩니다.
Dutch Sneller schieten
Schiet sneller punaises af.
Norwegian Raskere skuddveksling
Skyter stifter raskere.
Polish Szybsze strzelanie
Szybciej strzela gwoździami.
Portuguese (Brazil) Disparos Mais Rápidos
Dispara tachinhas mais rápido.
Russian Скорострельность
Стреляет быстрее.
Swedish Snabbare Eldgivning
Skjuter stift snabbare.
Thai ยิงเร็วขึ้น
ยิงตะปูเร็วขึ้น
Turkish Daha Hızlı Atış
Çivileri daha hızlı fırlatır.
Chinese (simplified) 快速射击
刺钉射击更快。
Chinese (traditional) 更快射擊
射擊釘子的速度更快。
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