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This is a list of changes to the Monkey Ace in Bloons TD 6 post-release.
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| X-X-4 Spectre
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 Attack cooldown increased by about 16.6% ― 0.05s → 0.06s
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| X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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 Attack cooldown reduced by 20% ― 0.05s → 0.04s
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| X-3-X Bomber Ace
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $500 → $900 (undocumented)
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| X-3-X Bomber Ace and further upgrades
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- Bomb: blast radius increased ― 25 → 35
- Bomb: attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 1.5s
- Bomb: damage increased ― 2 → 4
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| 5-X-X Sky Shredder
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- Dart attack: Damage increased by 1
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| X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting
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- Projectile lifespan increased by 50%
- Projectile speed increased by 50%
- Projectile turn rate increased
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| X-X-4 Spectre
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $18,000 → $24,000
- Dart attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Bomb attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 4
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| X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Dart attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 4
- Bomb attack: Damage increased ― 3 → 5
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| X-5-X Tsar Bomba
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- Correctly applies stun art (bug fix)
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| X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting
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- Neva-Miss Darts should no longer perform considerably worse with the Accelerated Aerodarts knowledge active
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| X-3-X Bomber Ace
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- Bomb: explosion damage reduced ― 4 → 3
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| X-3-X Bomber Ace and further upgrades
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- Bomb: cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 1.7s
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| 1-3-0 Bomber Ace + Rapid Fire and further upgrades
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- Rapid Fire now reduces bomb attack cooldown ― 1.7s → 1.02s
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[N]o one really noticed that this gained +8 damage for 10 seconds after ability use. So, Bombs dropped by this tower now deal 10 damage permanently
— Update notes
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X-4-X Ground Zero
X-5-X Tsar Bomba
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- Bomb: explosion damage increased ― 4 → 10
- Ability: no longer increases bomb explosion damage by 8 for 10 seconds after activation
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| X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting
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- "Global Range tracking no longer stutters unreasonably"
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| 5-X-X Sky Shredder
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- All attacks: Ceramic damage bonus added ― +0 → +2
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| 3-X-X Fighter Plane
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- Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 3s → 4s (attack speed reduced by 25%)
- Missile explosion: Pierce increased ― 1 → 3
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| 3-X-X Fighter Plane and further upgrades
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- Missile explosion: Damage reduced ― 25 → 18
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| 4-X-X Operation: Dart Storm
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- Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 2s (attack speed reduced by 25%)
- Missile explosion: Pierce increased ― 1 → 4
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| 5-X-X Sky Shredder
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- Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 2s (attack speed reduced by 25%)
- Missile explosion: Pierce increased ― 1 → 5
- Missile explosion: No longer damages DDTs (bug)
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| 5-X-X Sky Shredder
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- Main attack: Can no longer hit Camo Bloons without Camo detection
- Can damage visible DDTs again without buffs (bug fix)
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Tsar Bomba currently holds low value compared to multiple Ground Zero purchases aside from the stun, this greatly requested change should hopefully add more niche benefit .[sic]
— Update notes
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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.
— Update notes
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Monkey Ace was never intended to be a great starting tower and instead come into power at mid- and high-tier upgrades, but since the base tower feels lacking to new players (and some of us old timers) we decided to rework low tier power into the base tower. 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.
— Update notes
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Similar to Tack Shooter Maelstrom upgrades, we have targeted a nerf to Ground Zero for race conditions by amounts which are not relevant outside of those conditions. Additionally Tsar Bomba has received a much smaller version of this nerf along with a reduced cooldown to increase its relevance.
— Update notes
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| X-4-X Ground Zero
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- Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 1,000
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| X-5-X Tsar Bomba
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- Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 5,000
- Ability: Cooldown reduced ― 40s → 35s
- Also reduces initial cooldown ― 10s → 5s
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As Dart Storm currently feels like a lossy stepping stone the damage has been increased.
— Update notes
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Now allows you to find your center. Very zen.
— Update notes
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| X-X-2 Centered Path and further upgrades
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- Centered Path mode: Now allows the player to change the center point of the path
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Monkey Ace has had an overall rework to a lot of different upgrades in order to highlight the x1x Exploding Pineapples upgrade as a buff to all explosives, in addition to this Spectre has been reworked to have less base pierce but a higher damage bonus to Ceramic Bloons in order to make the new option of a pierce crosspath more viable while also allowing it to carry on better into the endgame against Super Ceramics.
— Update notes
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| 3-0-X Fighter Plane
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- Missile attack: Pierce increased ― 3 → 4
- Note: Operation Dart Storm unaffected
- Overall pierce with the X-1-X crosspath increased ― 3 → 6 (due to changes to Exploding Pineapple)
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| 3-1-0 Fighter Plane + Exploding Pineapple and further upgrades
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- Exploding Pineapple now grants +4.5 units to the radius of the missile attack's explosion ― 30 → 34.5
- Exploding Pineapple now grants +2 pierce to the missile attack's explosion
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| X-X-4 Spectre
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- Main attack dart: Now deals +2 damage to Ceramic
- Main attack dart: Pierce reduced ― 30 → 15
- Main attack bomb: Now deals +2 damage to Ceramic
- Main attack bomb: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 30
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0-1-4 Spectre + Exploding Pineapple
0-2-4 Spectre + Spy Plane
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- Exploding Pineapple now grants +15 pierce to the main attack's bombs
- Overall pierce reduced ― 60 → 45 (due to changes to the projectile's base pierce)
- Exploding Pineapple now grants +3 units to the radius of the main attack's bombs ― 20 → 23
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More of a straight quality of life, Ace has gained a new special toggle button to allow it to turn back and fly in reverse on any selected flight pattern. As Ground Zero stands out in power, & enough so to make the upgrade to Tsar Bomba questionable, some upgrade cost has been moved out of Tsar Bomba into Ground Zero to make Ground Zero more expensive while not changing Tsar much other than a slight overall cost buff. 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.
— Update notes
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| All tiers
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- Reverse flight pattern added
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| X-4-X Ground Zero
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $14,000 → $18,000
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| X-5-X Tsar Bomba
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $35,000 → $30,000
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| X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $100,000 → $85,000
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Spy Plane is always a lesser crosspath aside from specific challenges that call for camo detection. It has a similar vibe to Night Vision sniper so we have given it a similar buff.
— Update notes
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X-2-X Spy Plane and all crosspaths
X-3-X Bomber Ace and further upgrades
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- Spy Plane grants attacks +1 bonus damage to camos
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Neva-Miss has been generally over performing for quite a cheap T3, increasing price here slightly but not carrying that increase up through higher tiers.
— Update notes
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| X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $2,200 → $2,800
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| X-X-4 Spectre
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $24,000 → $23,400
- Spectre no longer missing bonus ceramic damage on darts ― +0 → +2 (bug fix)
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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.
— Update notes
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| X-X-4 Spectre
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- Dart: damage increased ― 2 → 3
- Bomb: damage reduced ― 3 → 2
- Bomb: ceramic bonus increased ― 2 → 4
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X-X-4 Spectre
X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Darts & bombs now both have a weaker homing effect
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| X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Darts: now deal +10 damage to MOAB-Class
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Sky Shredder has a higher skill ceiling than most towers so has evaded many nerfs, but is still too good for what it offers so is finally seeing a slight price increase. Same as mentioned above for the flagship, we are experimenting with new homing changes for the Spectre & Flying Fortress to improve their feeling. Users have noticed that Goliath Doomship's ability overall has far less pierce than the T4 ability, while this rarely matters at all the pierce value downgrading by that much was not an intended reduction, so we are bumping up each of those ability bombs to bring the total pierce up.
— Update notes
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| 5-X-X Sky Shredder
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $40,000 → $41,500
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X-X-4 Spectre
X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Spectre new homing style
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| Paragon
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- Carpet-bomb pierce increased ― 50 → 150
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While we wanted to initially ensure general farming achievability of the (still very high) price compared to how good we actually felt the Doomship was due to the target goal of giving it an intentional ability niche and the jump it would be as most expensive paragon, but after seeing the results of its power we're happy to take this up now
— Update notes
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| X-X-2 Centered Path
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- Ace ‘centered path' markers now visually update immediately after setting new points (bug fix)
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X-X-2 Centered Path and further upgrades
Paragon
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- 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)
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| Paragon
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- Paragon cost increased ― $800,000 → $900,000
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Spectre is shifting a little of the ceramic bonus around into basic all damage at the cost of reduced pierce, which should make up for lack of single target damage while also making the pierce crosspath more necessary when being used for cleanup focus.
— Update notes
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| X-X-2 Centered Path
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- Upgrading to Centered Path no longer refreshes the cooldown on the special toggle (bug fix)
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| X-X-4 Spectre
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- Dart: damage increased ― 3 → 4
- Dart: ceramic bonus reduced ― +2 → +1
- Dart: pierce reduced ― 15 → 10
- Bomb: damage increased ― 2 → 3
- Bomb: ceramic bonus reduced ― +4 → +3
- Bomb: pierce reduced ― 30 → 20
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As the price of Ground Zero has been considerably increased in the base game since then, the nerf to 1000 pierce set for races a long time ago now feels restrictive for the price.
— Update notes
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| X-4-X Ground Zero
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- Ability: Pierce increased ― 1,000 → 2,000
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X-X-4 Spectre
X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Spectre and Flying Fortress can no longer ignore Phayze’s camo immunity when under Radar Scanner (bug fix)
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Limiting many changes to Ace for now, we feel that it wasn’t nerfed that badly from the bug fix and we also currently want it to stay one of the much higher level price tags. It has been performing incredibly well even as the most expensive paragon, however given it is very cooldown dependent and scaling that cooldown via degrees is going to be much harder now we want to wait and see the impact of the rest of that rework before anything more significant to it.
— Update notes
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| Paragon
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- Cost per power increased ― $25 → $38.25/$45/$48.6/$54
- Carpet Bomb: Base cooldown increased ― 40s → 45s
- Has less Boss damage, especially on Elite and at higher Degrees
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The homing for Neva-miss darts can cause darts to expire just before they are able to loop around and hit their target, which is unsatisfying to see – we like the pattern this attacks with though so allowing a little extra distance before expiration should mostly solve this.
— Update notes
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Sky Shredder somewhat justifies its power as one of the very best towers in the game, although everything at this level is a bit too cheap. Exploding pineapples gained a larger rate bonus from crosspathing than the main attack did to make up for its base rate being so poor, so we’re fixing that poor base rate while keeping the crosspath bonus the same. Centered Path these days adds a lot more potential power to Ace than before and we are moving price down into it from Neva-Miss. 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. Finally, the Doomship continues to outperform all other paragon significantly enough even for the much higher price that we feel the need to slightly increase the ability cooldown - although the new buff from sub paragon lowers this back down to exactly 45 again anyway.
— Update notes
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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.
— Update notes
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0-1-X Exploding Pineapple
0-2-X Spy Plane
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- Exploding pineapple: attack cooldown reduced ― 1.7s → 1.6s
- Note: Rapid Fire crosspath attack cooldown is reduced from 1.275s to 1.2s
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| 0-3-X Bomber Ace and further upgrades
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- Bomb salvo: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.7s → 1.6s (undocumented)
- Note: Rapid Fire crosspath attack cooldown is reduced from 1.275s to 1.2s
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| X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Homing dart: Damage increased ― 3 → 6
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A lot of stats shuffled around here; this should keep the power level roughly similar overall but with proportionally more of that power coming from the seeking attacks, and less from micro aiming the faster firing frontal gun.
— Update notes
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| Paragon
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- Seeking Radials: Projectile count increased ― 4 → 8
- Seeking Radials: Base damage increased ― 200 → 300
- Seeking Radials: Boss damage bonus increased ― +200 → +300
- Non-seeking Radials: Projectile count reduced ― 16 → 12
- Non-seeking Radials: Base damage increased ― 200 → 300
- Non-seeking Radials: Boss damage bonus increased ― +200 → +300
- Frontal Gun: Base damage reduced ― 300 → 150
- Frontal Gun: Boss damage bonus reduced ― +300 → +150
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Even with the higher cost Goliath Doomship continues to pull too far ahead of other paragons, given that this is mostly an ability based paragon we’ve decided to nerf this ability greatly but also somewhat counterbalance this change for standard freeplay by converting all of the boss bonus on the ability into basic damage similar to our changes for the Sub Paragon.
— Update notes
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| Paragon
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- Carpet Bomb: Cooldown increased ― 50s → 60s
- Carpet Bomb: Explosion base damage increased ― 20000 → 30000
- Carpet Bomb: Explosions no longer deal +20,000 Boss damage
- Note: Total D1 Goliath Doomship damage to Bosses is reduced from 40,000 to 30,000
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Fighter Plane’s missiles often get stuck circling slower targets until they expire, since Ace can’t reasonably plan against this the missile turn acceleration has been tweaked to reduce chance of this happening. Tsar Bomba is a powerful ability that sees a decent lot of use for an ability heavy upgrade, but as it doesn’t really add to the tower outside of that ability we’ve decided to give the base bombs a boost so that well placed Bombing Runs can shred through Super Ceramics.
— Update notes
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| 3-X-X Fighter Plane and further upgrades
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- Missile: max turn speed increased ― 400 → 500
- Missile: turn acceleration reduced ― 160 → 150
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| X-5-X Tsar Bomba
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- Bomb attack: damage increased ― 10 → 15
- Bomb attack: now deals +8 damage to Ceramics
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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.
— Update notes
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| X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting and further upgrades
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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)
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X-X-4 Spectre
X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Spectre dart: seeking turn rate is no longer capped at 180°/s
- Spectre dart: seeking targeting angle is no longer capped at 30°
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| X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting and further upgrades
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- Radial dart: projectile lifespan reduced ― 1.5s → 1s
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Upgrades to the basic Bombing run are never why you move up this path, so we’re improving these across the board while also reducing the cooldown of Ground Zero to match the T5.
— Update notes
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| X-4-X Ground Zero
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- Ability cooldown reduced ― 45s → 35s
- Bombing run: Damage increased ― 10 → 15
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| X-5-X Tsar Bomba
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- Bombing run: Damage increased ― 15 → 30
- Ability initial cooldown increased ― 5s → 11.6667s (undocumented)
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Tsar Bomba’s last bomb change appeared to be an over-buff and is being reeled back on. 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.
— Update notes
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| X-5-X Tsar Bomba
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- Bombing run: Damage per bomb reduced ― 30 → 25
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| X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting and further upgrades
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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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We have shifted up top upgrade costs into Operation Dart Storm to improve the early game upgrade flow for Monkey Ace. Long ago Tsar Bomba was given normal damage type to allow for more interesting 2TC combos at the time, however this no longer feels needed with its current power level so instead we have lowered the upgrade cost and shifted some base bombing run damage into Ceramic bonus
— Update notes
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| 1-X-X Rapid Fire
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $650 → $450
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| 2-X-X Lots More Darts
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $650 → $550
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| 4-X-X Operation: Dart Storm
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $3,000 → $3,300
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| X-5-X Tsar Bomba
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $30,000 → $26,000
- Bombing run: Damage per bomb reduced ― 25 → 20
- Bombing run: Bonus damage against Ceramic Bloons per bomb increased ― +8 → +10
- Bombing run: Bomb damage type changed ― Normal → Explosion
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As Spy Plane crosspath doesn’t see much love we’ve gone all-in on the Camo crosspath making it a double damage bonus, which is especially good news for Ground Zero vs. Fortified DDTs. 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.
— Update notes
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| 3-2-0 Fighter Plane + Spy Plane and further upgrades
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- Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks, except Anti-MOAB missiles ― +1 → ×2
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| X-2-X Spy Plane and further upgrades
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- Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks ― +1 → ×2
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| X-X-4 Spectre and further upgrades
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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.
— Update notes
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| X-X-4 Spectre
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- Frontal dart: Pierce reduced ― 10 → 4
- Frontal dart: Damage increased ― 4 → 8
- Frontal dart: No longer does +1 Ceramic damage
- Frontal bomb: Bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons increased ― +3 → +5
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| X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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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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The suggestion sounded cool? & Pineapple crosspath has always been really boring so some cool would be nice. Ground Zero feels like a good tower, but has had a hard time fitting anywhere being power creeped by other meta options.
— Update notes
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| 3-X-X Fighter Plane and further upgrades
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- Missile attack: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 24s → 16.8s
- Note: Projectile speed remains the same, meaning that the distance traveled by the projectile is reduced from 600 units to 420 units.
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| 3-1-0 Fighter Plane + Exploding Pineapple and further upgrades
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- Missile attack: The explosion now leaves a Exploding Pineapple in the ground, with the same stats as the regular drop
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| X-4-X Ground Zero
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $18,000 → $16,000
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Pineapple radius is scaling up to match x3x Bomber Ace’s explosion size, since there are virtually no recorded instances of these actually hitting a Bloon yet (Fingers crossed!)
— Update notes
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X-1-X Exploding Pineapple and all crosspaths
X-2-X Spy Plane and all crosspaths
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- Exploding Pineapples: Explosion radius increased ― 25 units → 35 units
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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
— Update notes
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| X-X-4 Spectre
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- Frontal darts: Damage reduced ― 8 → 6
- Frontal bombs: Bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons reduced ― +5 → +4
- Note: Flying Fortress frontal bombs already had +4 Ceramic damage
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| X-X-5 Flying Fortress
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $85,000 → $90,000
- Frontal darts: Damage reduced ― 8 → 6
- Side darts: Damage reduced ― 8 → 6 (undocumented)
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