Update history:Tack Shooter (BTD6)

This is a list of changes to the Tack Shooter in Bloons TD 6 post-release.

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Version 2.0

Tiers	Changes
0-1-5 The Tack Zone + Long Range Tacks 0-2-5 The Tack Zone + Super Range Tacks	Now increases tack projectile lifespan (bug fix)

Version 4.0

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Ability: Duration increased ― ??? → 6s  Ability: Damage increased ― 1 → 2  Main blade: Damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 6.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Main attack: MOAB damage increased by 3

Version 7.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ring of Fire	Base damage increased ― 2 → 3
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Base damage increased ― 2 → 4

Version 8.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Meteor attack added

Version 9.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Maelstrom projectiles are no longer deleted at the end of the round in Race events

Version 11.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Ability: duration increased ― 2s → 3s
X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Ability: duration increased ― 6s → 9s

Version 12.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Meteor: cooldown reduced by 3s
X-X-4 Overdrive X-X-5 The Tack Zone	Attack cooldown reduced by 50%

Version 13.0

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Super Range Tacks	Portrait has been replaced
X-X-4 Overdrive	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,500 → $3,200
X-X-5 The Tack Zone	Upgrade cost increased ― $20,000 → $24,000

Version 17.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ring of Fire 5-X-X Inferno Ring	Changed the visual effect of the fire bursts
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Meteor attack: Now creates an explosion on contact with the first Bloon that does damage and applies DoT

Version 18.0

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Super Range Tacks	Now increases pierce by 1 (total of 2) Note: Blade Shooter unaffected

Version 20.0

“

Inferno Ring has felt very outclassed for a long time, and more recently the tack shooter was reworked to give pierce on x2x which made the old 402 pierce crosspath not make as much sense anymore. We wanted to start work on both these issues together by reworking how Ring of Fire and Inferno Ring interact with crosspaths
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-1-0 Ring of Fire + Long Range Tacks and further upgrades	Long Range Tacks now grants +10 pierce to Ring of Fire/Inferno Ring
4-2-0 Ring of Fire + Super Range Tacks and further upgrades	Super Range Tacks now grants +10 pierce to Ring of Fire/Inferno Ring (+20 total)
4-0-1 Ring of Fire + More Tacks and further upgrades	More Tacks no longer grants +10 pierce to Ring of Fire/Inferno Ring
4-0-2 Ring of Fire + Even More Tacks and further upgrades	Even More Tacks no longer grants +10 pierce to Ring of Fire/Inferno Ring  Even More Tacks now increases damage by +1 for Ring of Fire/Inferno Ring Note: Ring of Fire damage increased 3 to 4 and Inferno Ring damage increased 4 to 5

Version 21.0

“

The Ring of Fire & Inferno Ring upgrades recently received a crosspath functional rework, as we’re happy with the x2x range/pierce combo now this small follow-up is just to bring a bit more impact to the short-range 402 variant.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-0-1 Ring of Fire + More Tacks	Damage increased ― 3 → 4
4-0-2 Ring of Fire + Even More Tacks	Damage increased ― 4 → 5
5-0-1 Inferno Ring + More Tacks	Damage increased ― 4 → 5
5-0-2 Inferno Ring + Even More Tacks	Damage increased ― 5 → 6

Version 22.0

“

Ring of Fire doesn’t perform well for the price as a low-range AoE tower with no single target advantage. Since we value the original design intent as low range AoE, we’ve lowered the price to remain a viable choice.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ring of Fire	Upgrade cost reduced ― $4,500 → $3,500

Version 23.0

“

With pierce and range on the base Tack Zone so high that increases weren’t noticeable the middle crosspath was underserved. To balance crosspathing we have reworked the base Tack Zone around lower values then improving them greatly for the crosspaths.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-5 The Tack Zone	Damage increased ― 1 → 2  Range reduced ― 46 → 30  Pierce reduced ― 9 → 4
0-2-5 The Tack Zone + Super Range Tacks	Super Range Tacks grants Tack Zone +20 range bonus ― +3.9 → +20 Note: range reduced from 53.8 to 50  Super Range Tacks grants Tack Zone +6 pierce bonus ― +1 → +6 Note: pierce unchanged at 10

Version 24.0

“

Maelstrom upgrades are in a good spot overall, but specifically for the low cost of this tower with such a rapid cooldown it was able to hit too many targets under race conditions. This targeted nerf is to the value of it under those race conditions and should be negligible in other game areas.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 100
X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 500

Version 25.0

“

Inferno Ring is priced high for a low single-target damage pierce based tower when pierce isn't as important at high rounds, so price has been reduced. We liked Maelstrom’s pierce change, however want to ease off a little as higher density rounds feel a lot more position & timing dependent now than they need to be. Similar to Bomb, Tack Zone’s innate popping of Lead with obviously sharp projectiles no longer feels fitting and so along with a large price reduction the damage type stays Sharp.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Upgrade cost reduced ― $50,000 → $45,500
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Maelstrom ability: pierce increased ― 100 → 200
X-X-5 The Tack Zone	Upgrade cost reduced ― $24,000 → $20,000  Damage type changed ― Normal → Sharp

Version 30.0

“

Ring of Fire doesn’t keep up well enough for where it is placed, so the attack speed increase from this upgrade has been bumped up from 15% to 25%. Inferno Ring itself feels ok but for the difficult saveup not so much, so as a bit of a buff we have added crosspathing to the Meteor attack.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ring of Fire	Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.5355s → 0.4725s (attack speed increased by 13.33%) Note: Inferno Ring unaffected
5-2-0 Inferno Ring + Super Range Tacks	Super Range Tacks now increases the pierce of the meteor attack by 1
5-0-2 Inferno Ring + Even More Tacks	Even More Tacks now increases the meteor attack's damage by 300

Version 31.2

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Meteor Explosion: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)

Version 33.0

“

The Tack Zone’s all-purpose high single target & grouped DPS plus cleanup utility scales too well with so many options, as this is primarily intended to be the single-target damage path. To reinforce this we have traded off damage for a bonus to MOABs in order to nerf its unbuffed cleanup potential, so watch out for cluster and Super Ceramics now. Ring of Fire should pick up in that area for cleanup use & general destruction but it has more pierce than it really needs in most scenarios with other important stats sitting lower to compensate for high pierce, so we have shifted this high pierce more into requiring the pierce crosspath in exchange for more base power and an overall buff. Inferno Ring’s meteor will now also follow target priority since that was a fun idea that was worth adding.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ring of Fire	Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.4725s → 0.315s (attack speed increased by 50%) Note: Attack cooldown reduction changed from 25% to 50%. Inferno Ring attack speed unchanged  Base damage increased ― 3 → 5
4-X-X Ring of Fire 5-X-X Inferno Ring	Pierce reduced ― 60 → 40
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Flame ring: Base damage increased ― 4 → 8  Flame ring: MOAB-class bonus reduced ― +6 → +4  Meteor: Now follows Target Priority instead of locked on Strong Note: Still defaults on Strong
X-X-5 The Tack Zone	Damage reduced ― 2 → 1  Now deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class

Version 34.0

•  Inferno Ring should now swap to 'first' target on upgrade purchase (bug fix)

Version 36.0

“

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

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Even Faster Shooting	Even Faster Shooting attack cooldown bonus reduced ― -40% → -25% Note: 3xx and above unaffected
5-X-X Inferno Ring	"Targeting priority inconsistency resolved" (bug fix)

Version 37.0

“

Blade Shooter has always struggled to find much value without MK or as a step to Maelstrom, so to give it build value on its own we feel like this should be a part of the base value on the upgrade.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Blade Shooter and further upgrades	Blade pierce increased ― 6 → 8

Version 38.0

“

Tack Zone has so much base pierce the increase from 025 is rendered irrelevant no matter how large the upgrade bonus, so to fix this we must make the base pierce value low enough to actually struggle sometimes & we will give back extra attack rate to the base upgrade to compensate for this. Ring of Fire also generally has too high a pierce amount for how effective it is at utilizing its full pierce value. 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

”

Tiers	Changes
4-0-X Ring of Fire 5-0-X Inferno Ring	Pierce reduced ― 40 → 30
4-1-0 Ring of Fire + Long Range Tacks 5-1-0 Inferno Ring + Long Range Tacks	Pierce reduced ― 50 → 30
4-2-0 Ring of Fire + Super Range Tacks 5-2-0 Inferno Ring + Super Range Tacks	Pierce reduced ― 60 → 45
0-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Ability: Pierce reduced ― 200 → 120
1-4-0 Blade Maelstrom + Faster Shooting	Ability: Pierce reduced ― 200 → 160 Note: 240 unchanged
0-4-1 Blade Maelstrom + More Tacks	Ability: Duration increased ― 3s → 3.5s
0-4-1 Blade Maelstrom + More Tacks and further upgrades	Ability: Now rotates counter-clockwise with this crosspath
0-4-2 Blade Maelstrom + Even More Tacks	Ability: Duration increased ― 3s → 4s
0-5-X Super Maelstrom	Ability: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 300
1-5-0 Super Maelstrom + Faster Shooting	Ability: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 400 Note: 250 unchanged
0-5-1 Super Maelstrom + More Tacks	Ability: Duration increased ― 9s → 10.5s
0-5-2 Super Maelstrom + Even More Tacks	Ability: Duration increased ― 9s → 12s
X-X-5 The Tack Zone	Tack Zone rate increase from previous tier ― 25% → 35%  Tack Zone pierce reduced ― 4 → 2 Note: 025 pierce reduced from 10 to 8

Version 41.0

“

Inferno Ring didn’t need the pierce reduction that was last applied to Ring of Fire so we’re adding this back. 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

”

Tiers	Changes
5-0-0 Inferno Ring	Main attack: Pierce increased ― 30 → 45
5-2-0 Inferno Ring + Super Range Tacks	Main attack: Pierce increased ― 45 → 60
X-3-X Blade Shooter X-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Main attack: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Shatter
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Ability: Pierce increased ― 120 → 200
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Ability: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.03s → 0.045s (attack speed reduced by 33.33%)
1-4-0 Blade Maelstrom + Faster Shooting 1-5-0 Super Maelstrom + Faster Shooting	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)
2-4-0 Blade Maelstrom + Even Faster Shooting 2-5-0 Super Maelstrom + Even Faster Shooting	Ability: Even Faster Shooting no longer increases pierce  Overall pierce is unchanged (due to changes to the base pierce)  Ability: Even Faster Shooting now decreases attack cooldown by 15% Reduces overall attack cooldown by 27.75% (due to changes to the previous tier)  Overall attack cooldown with this crosspath increased ― 0.03s → 0.0325125s (due to changes to the base attack cooldown)
X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Ability: Damage type changed ― Normal → Shatter  Ability: Pierce increased ― 300 → 500

Version 43.0

“

Tack is a very powerful base tower technically, but it is unable to achieve high uptime of that potential power in many early rounds, so some base cost is moving into the cheaper xx1 and xx2 upgrades to make it easier for other towers to start alongside the tack. Additionally, while we’ve held out on this change as there are strong use cases in prior upgrades, Blade Maelstrom lacks the single target punch to last late in Modern Bloons. While it is designed as a high pierce cleanup of low tier Bloons we want to try shifting some pierce to single target damage to feel good for longer.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $280 → $260
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Ability blade: Damage increased ― 1 → 2  Ability blade: Pierce reduced ― 200 → 100
X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Ability blade: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 300  Ability blade: Damage increased ― 2 → 3 (bug)
X-X-1 More Tacks	Upgrade cost increased ― $100 → $110
X-X-2 Even More Tacks	Upgrade cost increased ― $100 → $110

Version 43.2

•  Super Maelstrom deals the correct amount of damage again ― 3 → 2 (bug fix)

Version 44.0

“

For a tower that functions best close-up anyway increasing range has questionable viability, Tack Shooter’s middle crosspath has always struggled due to this so we’ve decided to try out a more considerable pierce increase.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Meteor: explosion no longer hits camo without Camo detection (bug fix)
X-2-X Super Range Tacks and all crosspaths	Pierce bonus increased ― +1 → +3 Note: Blade Shooter, Ring of Fire, and their higher tiers are unchanged
0-2-5 The Tack Zone + Super Range Tacks	Pierce bonus increased ― +6 → +8

Version 46.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Tack Sprayer	Description changed ― "Sprays out 16 tacks per volley." → "Sprays out 16 higher pierce tacks per volley."

“

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. Given the bottom path Tack is slightly nerfed from this rate change, it is seeing additional pierce to make an overall buff. Finally Blade Shooter has always visually increased the projectile size considerably but not actually changed this value at all, Blades will now actually be bigger.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 0-1-X Long Range Tacks 0-2-X Super Range Tacks 0-X-1 More Tacks 0-X-2 Even More Tacks	Reload rate reduced ― 1.4s → 1.12s
1-X-X Faster Shooting	Reload rate reduced ― 1.05s → 0.84s
2-X-X Even Faster Shooting	Reload rate reduced ― 0.7875s → 0.63s Note: 3-X-X remains 0.63s.
X-3-X Blade Shooter and further upgrades	Reload rate reduced ― 1.19s → 1.12s Note: Stacks with top crosspath: 1-X-0 ― 0.8925s → 0.84s. 2-X-0 ― 0.6694s → 0.63s  Main attack: Projectile radius increased ― 0 → 4
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Blade Maelstrom ability: Projectile radius increased ― 2 → 4
X-X-3 Tack Sprayer	Reload rate increased ― 1.05s → 1.12s Note: Stacks with top crosspath: 1-0-3 ― 0.7875s → 0.84s. 2-0-3 ― 0.5906s → 0.63s  Pierce increased ― 1 → 2 Note: Stacks with 0-2-3 upgrade ― 4 → 5. X-X-4 pierce remains 2
X-X-4 Overdrive	Reload rate increased ― 0.35s → 0.3733s (undocumented) Note: Stacks with top crosspath: 1-0-4 ― 0.2625s → 0.28s. 2-0-4 ― 0.1969s → 0.21s
X-X-5 The Tack Zone	Reload rate reduced ― 0.2275s → 0.224s Note: Stacks with top crosspath: 1-0-5 ― 0.1706s → 0.168s. 2-0-5 ― 0.128s → 0.126s

Version 47.1

•  Resolved an issue where Tack Paragon’s Maelstrom ability stopped increasing lifespan (bug fix)

Version 48.0

“

Range fits well for this path, so we’re working this more into the main attack of middle path
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Blade Shooter and further upgrades	Acquisition range increased ― 31 → 46  Blade: Projectile range increased ― 49.24 → 64
Paragon Crucible of Steel and Flame	No longer grants full map range to Advanced Intel Subs (bug fix)

Version 49.0

“

Middle Tack has always been ability heavy, so the base tower damage is improving with higher tiers to get more than just the ability. Tack Paragon’s abilities on the other hand are both seeing an improvement to help support their roles and highlight that strong ability use case
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Blade Maelstrom	Main blade: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Main blade: Damage increased ― 2 → 5
Paragon Crucible of Steel and Flame	Meteor Impact ability: Cooldown reduced ― 90s → 60s  Maelstrom ability: Pierce increased ― 60 → 80

Version 50.0

“

To match the base tacks fired by Tack Shooters the Tack Paragon’s tack nova count is increasing, which along with lower projectile lifespan should tighten up the effective single target damage close to the tower. Eruption ability’s lifespan bonus is also being increased to keep the tower’s long-range buff very similar to how it was before even with the lower starting lifespan.
— Update notes

”

Tiers

Changes

Paragon Crucible of Steel and Flame

Main attack — sub-projectile: Count increased ― 6 → 8  Main attack — main projectile ― Lifespan reduced → 0.3s (0.25s)  Main attack — sub-projectile: Lifespan reduced ― 0.2s → 0.15s  Maelstrom ability: Projectile lifespan bonus increased ― ×2 → ×2.5 Note: With Maelstrom, blade lifespan increased from 84 to 87.5, tack lifespan decreased from 48 to 45.  Maelstrom ability: Initial cooldown is fully reset ― 6.67s → 20s (undocumented)  Meteor Impact ability: Initial cooldown is fully reset ― 20s → 60s (undocumented)

Version 51.0

“

As it is primarily a small Bloon cleanup tower path, Super Maelstrom has struggled to keep up in the lategame, mostly because Super Ceramics don’t care how fast you’re spinning if you can’t break them so we’ve added a Ceramic bonus to the attack and ability.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Super Maelstrom	Main attack: Now deals +5 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons  Ability: Now deals +8 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons

Version 53.0

“

We feel the Tack Paragon needs a nudge to help it compete against other paragons as this price range proves to be quite easy to skip over.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-5-5 Crucible of Steel and Flame	Meteor Impact explosion: Damage increased ― 50,000 → 60,000  Meteor Impact fireball: Damage increased ― 700 → 900

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