Update history:Bloons TD 6/Version 36.0
Version 36.0 is the second major update to Bloons TD 6 of 2023. This update introduced the new tower Beast Handler, the map Polyphemus, Quests, and new achievements.
Additions
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 Quincy, Student of Quincy |
Tutorials |
 Keep Up With Biker Bones! |
Challenges |
 Epic Beast Quest |
Tales |
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Side Quest Complete a Quest Reward(s):  100,  Tier 2 ×2
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 150K |
World League Training Have 150,000 Beast Handler XP at once Reward(s): 200
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Cosmetics
edit| Item | Category | Trophy Store? |
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| Bloons ― MOAB Skins |  |
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| Game & UI ― Profile Banners | |
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| Monkeys ― Pets | |
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| Monkeys ― Projectiles | |
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| Frame | |
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| Icon | |
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| Island Slot | |
| Island Slot |
General changes
editUI
edit| “ | We apologize to the players who were comfortable with the “buttonized” target priorities, but many players were confused by that implementation, so we’re hoping this is a better, clearer UI for all. | ” |
- Reworked towers with secondary attack target options to use a smaller icon for this target that is no longer linked to the target priority display.
Bug Fixes
edit- Resolved an issue with damage bonuses to ‘stunned targets’ where the bonus was not always being applied correctly to targets that were stunned again before their previous stun expired
- Resolved a number of cases of UI not fitting correctly in some resolutions
- Resolved a softlock that could occur canceling request to join a team and reapplying to the same team
- Resolved sparkle effect not playing on Instamonkey Black borders when viewed through the in game Powers menu
- Resolved some issues with some textures loading with low resolutions
- Made a number of corrections to tower descriptions
- Resolved an issue where certain pets could move under raised terrain and become hidden
- Resolved a game crash that could occur when you select a tower and then quickly perform a tap-hold-drag action.
- Resolved an issue with UI breaking after attempting to create a team without enough monkey money
- Added some tap feedback to buttons which did not give feedback
- A number of localization fixes
- Resolved an issue that could prevent claiming prime gaming rewards
- Resolved an issue with Odyssey extreme overlay being cropped on wide devices
- Added an audio prompt when players join co-op lobbies
Resolved an issue that could prevent paragons from sacrificing their T5 towers (bug fix)
- Resolved an issue with placement behind the water tower on Middle of the Road (bug fix)
Event bug fixes
edit- Resolved an issue with Boss Checkpoints not being offered if taking 20 rounds to lose to a boss (bug fix)
- Resolved an issue with Boss co-op lobbies not respecting main boss menu ranked checkbox option (bug fix)
- Resolved an issue that could allow guest accounts to load into co-op event lobbies (bug fix)
Resolved an issue with Bosses scaling their health both from Boss & MOAB multipliers (bug fix)- Added Retry Last Round functionality to co-op Boss events
- Resolved a number of Boss HP scaling inconsistencies (bug fix)
- Resolved an issue where T5 bosses would defeat the player earlier than intended (bug fix)
- Corrected the format of CT Time Attack score display (bug fix)
- Resolved an issue where CT Team tickets may not refresh as often as they should (bug fix)
- Flagged accounts will now restore their captured CT tiles to the previous owner
- Resolved an issue that could prevent some Teams from appearing when searched (bug fix)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent players from accepting an invite to a team (bug fix)
Towers
edit| “ | Current Sharp Shooter niches appear to struggle with some tight placement due to their high range opening up a ranged niche but being extremely tight on that range, given this is actually 'the range path' it feels fair to help this with a little further increased range. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| X-X-4 Sharp Shooter |
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| X-X-5 Crossbow Master |
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| “ | Boomerang’s Ricochet buildup into T4 feels rough compared to many other options that exist nowadays, ignoring obstacles worked out as a strong fix for the T4 so we want to bring that down to the T3 as well along with some other general tweaks to bridge this gap. Glaive lord is too expensive for so low a single target tower so this is going down. We wanted to include a take on the Boomerang paragon’s range buff improving so much to apply to other primaries along with the buff synergy in the last update, but time didn’t quite allow for it. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 3-X-X Glaive Ricochet |
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| 4-X-X M.O.A.R Glaives 5-X-X Glaive Lord |
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| 5-X-X Glaive Lord |
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| Paragon |
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| “ | Tack Shooter lacks any significant crosspathing choice due to the overwhelmingly large rate increase from top path making it almost always too good an option, we are reducing this crosspath rate benefit but moving that amount back up to the T3. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 2-X-X Even Faster Shooting and all crosspaths |
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| 5-X-X Inferno Ring |
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| “ | Arctic wind felt extremely overbuffed with the slowing field going from 40 to 50%, but we like seeing the use on it go up so we want to meet halfway on that & keep the higher slow at T5. While we like the added pierce value on x2x crosspathing, the drop of pierce on xx3 feels too large now on a tower that already had quite good crosspath balance, so we want to try out removing the pierce downgrade entirely here. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| X-3-X Arctic Wind X-4-X Snowstorm |
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| X-X-3 Cryo Cannon and further upgrades |
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| “ | Our Glue rework last update wasn't quite ready soon enough to go through in depth balancing of how the new mechanics felt before release, but we still wanted to just get them out and see what people thought anyway, so this is mostly just a bit of catch up on that with fixes to crosspathing value. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 4-X-X Bloon Liquefier |
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| 5-X-X The Bloon Solver |
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| 5-1-0 The Bloon Solver + Bigger Globs |
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| 5-0-1 The Bloon Solver + Stickier Glue |
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| X-X-4 Relentless Glue X-X-5 Super Glue |
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| 0-1-4 Relentless Glue + Bigger Globs 0-1-5 Super Glue + Bigger Globs |
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| 0-2-4 Relentless Glue + Glue Splatter 0-2-5 Super Glue + Glue Splatter |
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| “ | Sniper is feeling really good, but Elite Defender gaining further increased MOAB Damage locked behind the 205 crosspath feels unnecessary now given how much current crosspath balance has started leaning towards favoring 205 anyway. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 0-X-5 Elite Defender |
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| 1-0-5 Elite Defender + Full Metal Jacket |
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| 2-0-5 Elite Defender + Large Calibre |
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| “ | We wanted to do a little general lower tier balancing of costs, as things work a bit better at higher tiers but on the lower end with T1-2 upgrades cost for power doesn’t compare well. We’ve realized that the 130 crosspath just hasn’t even been working for cannons, so we wanted to correct this so that people get all that they pay for with that crosspath, however middle path buccaneer at higher tiers has been overperforming significantly so in addition to this attack speed buff we have also balanced back out that difference in the opposite direction with a damage reduction. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 1-X-X Faster Shooting |
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| 2-X-X Double Shot |
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| X-2-X Hot Shot and all crosspaths X-3-X Cannon Ship X-4-X Monkey Pirates |
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| 1-3-0 Cannon Ship + Faster Shooting and further upgrades |
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| X-4-X Monkey Pirates |
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| X-4-X Monkey Pirates X-5-X Pirate Lord |
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| X-5-X Pirate Lord |
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| X-X-1 Long Range |
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| X-X-2 Crow's Nest |
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| “ | For how powerful downdraft is in comparison to other blowback effects, it didn’t feel right that it wasn’t blowing off status effects as should be normal there. Redeploy feels like it has no business having so long a cooldown, maybe it could see more realistic use cases for this main mechanic if it was able to be utilized more frequently. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| X-3-X Downdraft and further upgrades |
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| X-4-X Support Chinook X-5-X Special Poperations |
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| “ | Dragon’s Breath will still be great, just a little less excessively so — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 5-X-X Archmage |
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| X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades |
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| “ | Higher tiers on the bottom path have struggled to compare to clusters of T3s for a while now. To help with this we thematically really liked the idea of bottom path gaining a ricochet effect, possibly gaining teleport mechanic value repositioning for better ricochet angles, and a big improvement to the tower's camo path identity as higher tiers becomes far more effective at handling DDTs — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| X-X-4 Dark Champion |
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| X-X-4 Dark Champion X-X-5 Legend of the Night |
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| X-X-5 Legend of the Night |
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| “ | Ironing out Caltrop inconsistency & power a little on top and bottom T5s, but also as frequently unused caltrops clutter up the screen and cause extra lag we want to balance out their lifespan to reduce the number always on screen and make them no longer last longer than the base Spike Factory. Ninja currently appears to be the least competitive paragon, & as it is also very similar in cost to the Navarch we feel that lowering Ninja into its own price range will fill a bit of a cost-gap and increase the effective value it has for the cost. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 5-0-2 Grandmaster Ninja + Caltrops |
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| X-X-2 Caltrops and all crosspaths X-X-3 Flash Bomb and further upgrades |
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| X-X-5 Master Bomber |
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| Paragon |
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| “ | Slightly shifting price down from T4 into T3 midpath, and increasing the base cash amount gained from the ability as it currently needs quite a lot of initial investment to really get going at all compared to other farming options — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle |
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| X-4-X Jungle's Bounty |
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| X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest |
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| “ | Spiked Balls provides incredibly powerful cleanup in all stages of gameplay, and we like the use here but for a cheap T3 it doesn't drop off enough lategame with the lower pierce requirements there. Permaspike, while admittedly not often utilized to its max potential, has sat in a dominant high end position for a long time so we are shifting it away from such high pierce into more damage per pierce. — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 3-X-X Spiked Balls and further upgrades |
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| X-X-5 Perma-Spike |
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| 1-0-5 Perma-Spike + Bigger Stacks 2-0-5 Perma-Spike + White Hot Spikes |
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| “ | Last update included a change to the x2x Banana Farm which allowed Banks to finally receive external cash production buffs (previously none of these applied to bank path). This didn’t affect base level unbuffed farm balance, but some players noticed slight reductions in how effective buffs were when applied to other farms (320 and 023 crosspaths) due to this change, overall we’re positive about what the change means but to push back past that nerf to endgame farm synergy we balanced it out with a stronger synergy buff from villages — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| X-X-4 Monkey City X-X-5 Monkeyopolis |
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| “ | XXXL Trap 205 crosspath hasn’t actually ‘been working’ due to the base attack rate being faster than minimum deployment delay so we have slowed the base rate to make 205 crosspath actually matter. Along with this, since the fortification bonus aspect of x2x hasn’t ever done anything for Bloontraps, 024 will now ignore the fortification of Bloons that it eats — Update notes |
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| Tiers | Changes |
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| 0-2-4 Bloon Trap + Deconstruction 0-2-5 XXXL Trap + Deconstruction |
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| X-X-5 XXXL Trap |
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| 2-0-5 XXXL Trap + Faster Engineering |
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Heroes
edit| “ | Adora skyrocketed in value with her fortification changes and this has been great, but the initial fort bonus she gains doesn't feel like it needs to immediately start at +2 given her base damage of only 1 — Update notes |
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| Levels | Changes |
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| 9–12 |
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| 13–18 |
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| 19+ |
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| “ | Geraldo has a lot of items that are still undervalued compared to others while Pickles appears to stand far above the rest as the downside for the power increase isn’t quite enough. We’re pulling more of these lower & higher items closer in to the middle — Update notes |
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| Item | Changes |
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| Stack of Old Nails |
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| Jar of Pickles |
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| Tube of Amaz-o-Glue |
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| Fertilizer |
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| Pet Rabbit |
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| “ | The Spike Traps on Dark Dungeons weren’t intended to have a stun element and having this has scaled them through the game more effectively than intended, this has caused some balance implications so we are reducing the duration of the stun significantly. We also wanted to try out a few tweaks to the secret statue, allowing v2 to 1shot super ceramics, and v3 to 1shot fortified super ceramics along with a slight projectile speed increase on each upgrade. — Update notes |
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Spike Traps stun lifespan reduced ― 6s → 1s- Dungeon Statue ball v2 projectile speed ― 24 → 30
- Dungeon Statue ball v2 damage ― 50 → 100
- Dungeon Statue ball v2 moab bonus ― 200 → 150
- Dungeon Statue ball v2 cost ― $150,000 → $100,000
- Dungeon Statue ball v3 projectile speed ― 24 → 36
- Dungeon Statue ball v2 damage ― 100 → 150
- Dungeon Statue ball v3 moab bonus ― 400 → 350
- Dungeon Statue ball v3 cost ― $300,000 → $200,000
Release descriptions
editApp Store / Google Play
edit| “ | Awesome New Tower Update!
• The Beast Handler commands powerful land, water and air beasts to help you fight against the Bloons. • Quests. Go on fun and challenging quests and learn about some Monkey personalities! • New Intermediate map, Polyphemus. • Trophy store items, quality of life improvements, balance changes and much more! |
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