Update history:Bloons TD Battles 2/Version 4.2.1

Version 4.2.1

Steam	16 September 2024

◄◄ 4.2

4.3 ►►

Version 4.3.1 is a minor update to Bloons TD Battles 2 version 4.2. It introduced Over the Air updates, made tweaks to Leagues and fixed some bugs. It was the first update to receive Over the Air updates, one for fixing a visual bug and another for additional balance changes.

Additions

Item	Category
Retro Ad	Avatar Icon
Cyclops Bloons	Bloon Decal
Fist Bump	Emote
No Manners	Emote
Metal BFB	MOAB Skin
Scramble Fighters	Placement Animation
Pop Music	Pop FX
Moment of Quiet	Profile Banner
Moment of Quiet (Animated)	Profile Banner
Shaken Up	Taunt
Soda Explosions	Trail Effect
Victory Swig	Victory Animation
Soda Bombs	Weapon Skin

Changes

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue where players would get shown the fast track popup without a 10 win streak.
• Fixed 205 Ice Monkey not freezing ZOMGs.
• Fixed issue where some newly promoted Yellow Stadium players would not be put into a league after their first match.
• Fixed Bonnie’s minecarts not being sellable in round 50 sudden death.
• Improved stability to reduce crashes.
• Fixed club sparkle effect not displaying correctly in the Events screen.
• Fixed bloon pops in event games not contributing to the stats displayed in the profile.
• Fixed Striker Jones level 20 accolade not displaying in game when unlocked.
• Fixed issue where it was possible to select 2 towers at once.
• Fixed cannons not displaying correctly in Precious Space when reconnecting after a desync.
• Fixed incorrect upgrade cost for Bonnie’s minecarts being displayed briefly after an upgrade.
• Fixed slow initial load times on some devices.
• Fixed Monkey Sub’s fish darts and Dart Monkey’s silver darts weapon skins not displaying correctly.
• Fixed jittering text in clan chat.
• Fixed Agent Jericho’s decoys being the wrong size.
• Fixed Agent Jericho’s decoys spinning around when they spawn.
• Fixed fuse not always displaying in Bonnie’s Ready to Blow animation.
• Fixed missing sound effects in a few of Bonnie’s animations.
• Fixed missing sprites on save slots (Apple Arcade only).

OTA update 1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed visual issue when using Plasma Bloon Boost

OTA update 2

Sniper Monkey

“

We were a little too successful in trying to increase the popularity of the Sniper Monkey as it is now the single most used tower in the game, surpassing even the Banana Farm. Sniper's popularity is due to it's versatility as an income source that also excels with both group popping through its shrapnel shot and at single targets with its high damage. We believe the primary culprit for Sniper's dominance is the x3x Bouncing Bullet's ability to create multiple bursts of high damage shrapnel so we have capped it to 1 burst per shot and also moved the 1xx shrapnel damage upgrade to 3xx so that only dedicated top path snipers can benefit from it. We've also increased the cooldown of the Supply Drop ability and added ability cooldown reductions to the bottom path to create a choice between the more offensive 240 Sniper farm or the more efficient 042. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost increased ― $200 → $300
1-X-X Full Metal Jacket	Upgrade cost increased ― $200 → $250
2-X-X Large Calibre	Upgrade cost increased ― $600 → $750
1-2-0 Shrapnel Shot + Full Metal Jacket 2-2-0 Large Calibre + Shrapnel Shot	Shrapnel: damage reduced by 1 Note: 3-2-0 and above are unaffected
X-3-X Bouncing Bullet	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,200 → $3,000
X-3-X Bouncing Bullet and further upgrades	Shrapnel: now only creates on the initial hit and not on bloons hit by bounces
X-4-X Supply Drop X-5-X Elite Sniper	Supply Drop: cooldown increased ― 40s → 50s
0-4-1 Supply Drop + Fast Firing 0-5-1 Elite Sniper + Fast Firing	Fast Firing now reduces the cooldown of Supply Drop by 5s Note: Overall cooldown increased from 40s to 45s
0-4-2 Supply Drop + Even Faster Firing 0-5-2 Elite Sniper + Even Faster Firing	Even Faster Firing now reduces the cooldown of Supply Drop by 5s Note: Overall cooldown for this crosspath is unchanged
X-5-X Elite Sniper	Attack speed buff reduced ― 25% → 20%
X-X-1 Fast Firing	Upgrade cost increased ― $250 → $300
X-X-2 Even Faster Firing	Upgrade cost increased ― $250 → $300
X-X-3 Semi-Automatic	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,300 → $2,200
X-X-4 Full Auto Rifle	Upgrade cost increased ― $5,600 → $5,800

Super Monkey

“

Super Monkey is proving to be a bit too good as an early game defender which isn't in keeping with its intended use as a late game powerhouse. We're increasing its base cost so that it's harder to get out early without impacting its late game usage too much. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost increased ― $1,800 → $2,000

Spike Factory

“

As we describe in Bonnie's balance changes, the BEAST is proving to be much easier to pop than we anticipated. The Spike Factory is the worst offender for this and the Spike Storm Ability is guaranteed to instantly vaporise[sic] the BEAST. We prefer not to add special exceptions to the rules but in this case we feel it's warranted as trying to nerf the Spike Factory so that it does a fair amount of damage to the BEAST would make it unfairly weaker against everything else. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X MOAB SHREDR and further upgrades	No longer deals bonus MOAB-Class damage to Bonnie's B.E.A.S.T.

Bonnie

“

Bonnie is extremely popular and appears in a significant portion of matchups across all arenas. This isn't a concern for us because, like Etienne, she enables a variety of strategies rather than just one or two so her popularity shouldn't make things stale. Despite her popularity, her win rate is well below average in the Hall of Masters so we don't believe she needs much in the way of nerfs. That said, one common complaint is that Bonnie gives too much early game income for too little investment so we are reducing the value of her base Minecarts and moving that value into the upgrades, making her less efficient right out of the gate but keeping her the same strength once she's a few upgrades in. We have also seen that it's much easier to get full value out of the BEAST than we anticipated, essentially turning her ability into a "free money button" at higher levels. We've kept the amount of cash contained in the BEAST the same but increased the amount of damage required to extract it all. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
1	Price decreased ― $900 → $700
2+	Base minecart value decreased ― $50 → $25
2+	Tier 1-5 Minecart upgrade value increased ― $+10 → $+15
2+	Tier 1-5 Minecart upgrade cost increased ― $240 → $300
3-12	Mass Detonation cooldown increased ― 50s → 60s
13+	Mass Detonation cooldown increased ― 40s → 50s
10-19	B.E.A.S.T. Health increased ― 2000 → 4000
20	B.E.A.S.T. Health increased ― 10000 → 20000
10-19	Damage required per B.E.A.S.T. cash drop ― 20 → 40 Note: Total cash generation unchanged
20	Damage required per B.E.A.S.T. cash drop ― 100 → 200 Note: Total cash generation unchanged

External Links

• Official update notes on Reddit
• Official OTA update notes on Reddit