Update history:Bloons TD 6/Version 27.0

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Version 27.0
Artwork representing version 27.0
Build №4218
Release dates
SteamWindows26 July 2021[1]
macOS26 July 2021[2]

Version 27.0 is the fifth major update to Bloons TD 6 of 2021. This update introduced the Paragon mechanic alongside the first two Paragons, the Apex Plasma Master for the Dart Monkey and the Glaive Dominus for the Boomerang Monkey. It also introduced Boss Bloon Events, with Bloonarius as the first Boss Bloon, and the map Bloonarius Prime.

Additions

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What is this new Bloonery?
Defeat a Tier 1 Boss
Reward(s):   100
 
Who's the Boss?
Defeat a Tier 5 Boss
Reward(s):   100,   Tier 4 Dart Monkey ×1,   Tier 4 Boomerang Monkey ×1
 
I'm the Boss
Defeat a Tier 5 Elite Boss
Reward(s):   250,   Tier 5 Dart Monkey ×1,   Tier 5 Boomerang Monkey ×1
 
Apotheosis
Upgrade to a Monkey Paragon Tower
Reward(s):   Tier 3 ×3
 
Like a Boss
Pop 50 Boss Bloons
Reward(s):   ×2,   Tier 0 ×3

Cosmetic items

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Changes

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Towers

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Due to large memory leak issues with Glaive Lord’s stacking DoT which could not be resolved this upgrade has seen a rework to the DoT. Bionic Boomerang’s base attack rate has been improved to compensate for recent reworking of the 2xx Glaives Crosspath
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
5-X-X Glaive Lord
  •   DoT no longer stacks
  •   DoT damage increased ― 10 → 100
  •   Orbitals: Pierce reduced ― Infinite → 1000 (undocumented)
X-3-X Bionic Boomerang
X-4-X Turbo Charge
  •   Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.28s → 0.238s (attack speed increased by 17.65%)
    • Note: Stacks with Turbo Charge's attack cooldown buff
X-5-X Perma Charge
  •   Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.04s → 0.034s (attack speed increased by 17.65%)
X-X-5 MOAB Domination
  •   MOAB Domination press attack should correctly explode even if it runs out of pierce (bug fix)
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Bloon Impact
  •   No longer applies a non-slowing "stun" effect to MOABs (bug fix)
    • Note: Nerf to strategies that used bonus stun damage
Snowstorm’s duration has been improved to give it more bang for its buck as an alternate option to Ninja’s Bloon Sabotage, and Absolute Zero’s price has been reduced to bring it more within reach for a support upgrade.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Snowstorm
  •   Ability: Duration increased ― 4s → 6s
    • Note: Does not carry over to Absolute Zero
X-5-X Absolute Zero
  •   Upgrade cost reduced ― $26,000 → $20,000
Tiers Changes
5-2-0 Cripple MOAB + Shrapnel Shot
  •   Now applies its debuff effect and visuals correctly in all cases (bug fix)
Ballistic Missile’s 230 crosspath has been in a confusing spot for a while where it functioned different to Advanced Intel, so it has been converted to function with Advanced Intel in the same way that any other Sub upgrade would. Additionally First Strike's secondary explosion has had its target count reduced slightly.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
2-3-0 Ballistic Missile + Advanced Intel and further upgrades
  •   Ballistic Missile: Now benefits from Advanced Intel's targeting in the same way as the main attack
    •   Can now detect and hit Camo Bloons in range of towers that have Camo detection
    •   No longer has infinite range; can only target Bloons in range of other towers
X-4-X First Strike Capability
X-5-X Pre-emptive Strike
  •   Ability: Secondary AoE pierce decreased ― ∞ → 80
Now allows you to find your center. Very zen.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-X-2 Centered Path and further upgrades
  •   Centered Path mode: Now allows the player to change the center point of the path
As a small quality of life feature Chinook’s redeploy ability has been reworked to allow slight movements of towers in a single use, rather than having to move them away and then use another redeployment to move them back again.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Support Chinook
X-5-X Special Poperations
  •   Redeploy: Now ignores the footprint of the selected tower when choosing where to relocate it
Mortar Monkey has been given a T4 ability, since it didn’t have one and also to make up for Bloon Impact no longer triggering ‘stun debuff’ on MOABs when it hasn’t actually been stunning them. Signal Flare has had its camo revealing aspect reworked to make it more generally useful.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Artillery Battery
  •   Bombardment ability added
X-X-3 Signal Flare and further upgrades
  •   Now triggers a larger secondary AoE at the point of impact that removes Camo and ignores Bloon immunities
  •   Main explosion: No longer removes Camo
In order to allow for more strategic use of the birdy, Summoned Phoenix[sic] will now follow the set target priority.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Summon Phoenix
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix
  •   Phoenix breath attack: Now uses the Wizard Monkey's current targeting option (instead of always targeting Close)
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix
  •   Lava Phoenix breath attack: Now uses the Wizard Monkey's current targeting option (instead of always targeting Close)
Robo Monkey has never filled the super effective role it held in BTD5, so Dr Monkey has installed updated HUD targeting systems that now deal occasional critical hits. Additionally as the abilities on this path didn’t match up to their history or other Monkey Tower options (like Ground Zero) so they have been improved significantly in damage and increased radius.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-3-X Robo Monkey
  •   Upgrade cost increased ― $7,000 → $8,400
X-3-X Robo Monkey
X-4-X Tech Terror
  •   Main attack: Now fires a crit shot every 15–20 shots that deals 10 damage
X-4-X Tech Terror
  •   Ability: Damage increased ― 1,000 → 2,500
  •   Ability: Radius increased ― 60 → 70
X-5-X The Anti-Bloon
  •   Main attack: Now fires a crit shot every 13–17 shots that deals 50 damage
  •   Ability: Damage increased ― 3,500 → 5,000
  •   Ability: Radius increased ― 110 → 120
To try and allow more strategic use Ninja’s Sticky Bombs will now use the targeting of the main tower instead of always Strong. Additionally as they weren’t feeling good enough in general Sticky Bombs will now deal a smaller amount of damage in an AoE to anything surrounding the main target.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-X-4 Sticky Bomb
  •   Sticky Bomb: Now generates an additional AoE on explosion that deals 100 damage
X-X-4 Sticky Bomb
X-X-5 Master Bomber
  •   Sticky Bomb: Now follows the tower's current targeting instead of always targeting Strong
X-X-5 Master Bomber
  •   Sticky Bomb: Now generates an additional AoE on explosion that deals 300 damage
Tiers Changes
3-0-1 Berserker Brew + Faster Throwing and further upgrades
  •   Faster Throwing crosspath once again increases the rate of the Brew attack (bug fix)
X-3-X Unstable Concoction and further upgrades
  •   Unstable Concoction: Explosion damage no longer scales with Freeplay or HP modifiers in the Challenge Editor (undocumented)
  •   Unstable Concoction: Explosion damage for fortified blimps is the same as their unfortified counterparts (bug)
To allow for more strategy in placement, Druid’s Spirit of the Forest track vines are now more dense & deadly the closer they are to the main tower. Also by popular demand Avatar of Wrath’s 205 crosspath will now benefit from improved Lightning damage proportional to the RBE of Bloons on screen similar to the main thorns.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
  •   Bloons outside 100 Range take 2 damage and +8 bonus damage to Ceramics and MOAB-class
  •   Bloons within 100 Range take an additional 1 damage and +4 bonus damage to Ceramics and MOAB-class
  •   Bloons within 50 Range take an additional 1 damage and +4 bonus damage Ceramics and MOAB-class
2-0-5 Avatar of Wrath + Heart of Thunder
  •   Now grants a slight portion of its RBE damage bonus to the Heart of Thunder lightning chains as well equal to 1 damage for every 6000 RBE on screen with a cap of +15 damage
Due to a number of performance concerns, the ability for the Spike Storm factory will no longer be able to benefit from a denser storm of spikes via stacking speed buffs on the base tower.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
5-X-X Super Mines
  •   Spike: Damage corrected ― 2 → 10 (bug fix)
X-4-X Spike Storm
X-5-X Carpet of Spikes
  •   Ability: No longer is affected by rate buffs
    • Note: Overclock rate buff does affect Spike Storm ability with Call To Arms or Homeland Defense. Other rate buffs may also work but need to be tested.
Tiers Changes
X-3-X Monkey Intelligence Bureau and further upgrades
  •   Now causes Zebra Bloon children to be frozen if spawned from a higher tier Bloon popping from a freezing attack (bug fix)
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Overclock
  • Ability: No longer causes framerate issues if linked to a Tech Bot without a target assigned (bug fix)

Heroes

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Levels Changes
10+
  •   Firestorm: No longer damages all Bloons with an additional instance of Heat it Up (bug fix)
In order to just generally grant more value to this ability and develop strategy in what targets you want to pick to use it on and when, Adora's buff gained after sacrificing another tower will now scale based on the sacrifice's cost. Additionally as Sacrifice loses value when using it after Adora reaches the level 20 cap it now receives a large duration buff at that point.
— Update notes
Levels Changes
7–19
  •   Blood Sacrifice: Buff now grants 1% more range and attack cooldown reduction for every $100 spent on the sacrificed tower, capped at +25% range and -25% attack cooldown
20
  •   Blood Sacrifice: Buff now grants 1% more range and attack cooldown reduction for every $50 spent on the sacrificed tower, capped at +50% range and -50% attack cooldown
  •   Blood Sacrifice: Buff duration increased ― 10s → 60s
  • Ball of Light: Plays a sound when activated again (bug fix)
True Adora
  •   Divine Bolt: Damage bonus increased ― +5 → +8
Due to much user concern with Brickell’s Sea Mines seriously overkilling weak targets and wasting themselves in this way, they now have a short delay between activations.
— Update notes
Levels Changes
All
  •   Sea mine: Can now only set off one mine every 0.4 seconds
While we feel Sauda’s power has been balanced fairly well, we have also felt that too much of this power is generally available while ignoring the synergies that she was intended to be built around.To correct this her damage will in total remain the same, but some key levels that increased damage will now instead buff her weakness bonuses. We would also like to make it clear that this has been in the works for some time and has nothing to do with the recent 1TC completion, so please don’t be mad at that person. This will mean fairly little to most players, who are not doing those sorts of challenges anyway.
— Update notes
Levels Changes
13–16
  •   Main attack: Damage reduced ― 4 → 3
  •   Main attack: Damage to Ceramic and MOAB-Class reduced ― +4 → +3 (undocumented)
  •   Main attack: Damage to stunned Bloons increased ― +2 → +3
17+
  •   Main attack: Damage reduced ― 7 → 4
  •   Main attack: Damage to Ceramic and MOAB-Class reduced ― +7 → +4 (undocumented)
  •   Main attack: Damage to stunned Bloons increased ― +2 → +4
  •   Main attack: Damage to regular Bloons with negative mutations increased ― +2 → +3
  •   Main attack: Damage to MOAB-Class Bloons with negative mutations increased ― +10 → +11
Knowledge Changes
  There Can Be Only One
  •   Base attack damage reduced ― 75 → 50
  •   Damage multiplier for sacrifice powers reduced ― 3x → 2x
  Bank Deposits
Given the relatively low value and use case of upgrading Banks further to IMF Loan, the overall incredible power of the Bank Deposits MK on Banks, and the fact that Banks are majorly considered to be the most powerful farm; we have decided to limit this incredibly powerful Knowledge point until the IMF Loan to both reign it in and give a little more back to that lacking T4 upgrade.
  •   No longer applies to Monkey Bank, only IMF Loan and above
  • Description updated to include "Tier 4 and above [...]"

Powers

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As Timestop is not considered to be an actual application of ‘slowing’ it will now apply to all Bloon types including BAD. This is a unique case that isn’t going to be changed for any Monkey Towers, just the Timestop.[sic]
— Update notes
Power Changes
Time Stop
  •   Can now slow BADs
  • Freeplay formula for MOAB Health Increase from round 125+ reduced ― 0.20 → 0.15
  • Freeplay formula for MOAB Health Increase from round 152+ reduced ― 0.50 → 0.35
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Video

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In-game description

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Epic Boss-sized content update!
Boss Bloon Events have arrived! Who dares challenge Bloonarius?!
Paragon Monkeys! Try out the all new Paragon Tier for Dart and Boomerang!
• Brave the swampy new Intermediate map: Bloonarius Prime
• New trophy store items: including brand new Profile Banners!
Co-op rejoining: Get back into your co-op games!
• New achievements and rewards!
• Balance changes: some towers have had bigger changes, check the patch notes for more

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