Update history:Bloons TD 6/Version 42.0

Version 42.0 is the second major update to Bloons TD 6 of 2024. This update introduced the hero skin Gentlemonkey Gadgeteer for the hero Geraldo, the Castle Revenge map, and Accolades and player revenue share.

Accolades and Player Revenue Share

• We are so excited to bring the success of BTD6 back to players and share revenue with players who are helping in making the game more awesomer!
• The system allows players to gift player creators with animating Accolades that will follow their map or challenge wherever they are seen in game.
• The initial 12 Accolades express a variety of positive reactions to inspiring content, such as Smart, Tricky, Beautiful, Fun, Masterpiece, and more!
• At launch and for the foreseeable future we’ll be sharing 35% of the Accolade purchase price with the player creator, which means 50% if they are also a content creator and you are using their Creator Code. This is an industry leading share amount, which we aim to maintain; after the platform fees, Ninja Kiwi and Nexus.gg have the smallest shares of these purchases, as they truly are meant for the player creators.
• Revenue share is available on platforms with IAP systems. We’ve tried to make Accolades receivable wherever possible, but we must restrict this to players who register with Nexus according to their terms and to players on non-subscription platforms. We are looking for solutions for subscription players but this will take significant time.

Game changes/additions

• Map search is now also available for co-op lobby map selection
• Map ‘Gizmos’ are now influenced by Challenge Editor 'removable cost rate'
  • This includes items such as: Workshop Conveyor Belt / Track Extensions, Dark Dungeons Statue & the Polyphemus Eye mechanic.
• While we like giving players lots to choose from as early as possible, we’ve seen feedback that the current hero unlock flow can feel overwhelming with all Monkey Money unlockable heroes becoming available immediately at account level 10. To address this, we are spacing this period out with a few different groupings of Hero unlocks and holding back some of the more complex Heroes until account level 35.
  • Level 15 heroes: Churchill, Benjamin, Pat Fusty
  • Level 25 heroes: Sauda, Ezili, Etienne, Adora
  • Level 35 heroes: Psi, Brickell, Geraldo, Corvus
• Added 'cash spent' to the Victory Screen summary
• PC players request to have many niche things hotkeyed, but unfortunately these are often too niche for us to take up valuable real estate with limited keyboard space. To enable players to take this into their own hands we have added a new advanced section of default unbound hotkeys to cover more heavily situational use cases. None of these hotkeys will work by default, but if you find any to sound useful they can be manually bound in order to enable them. We are interested in hearing your feedback on more things that make sense to fit in this list.
• Cycling upgrades menu in challenges now skips past towers that are banned (yay!)
• Individual stages of Quests can now be replayed without resetting the entire Quest