Version 38.0
Release dates Steam 26 July 2023
Version 38.0 is the fourth major update to Bloons TD 6 of 2023. This update introduced the Boss Bloon Phayze , Competitive Mode for Contested Territory , the new Water Park map, and the Lifeguard Brickell skin for Admiral Brickell .
Additions
Cosmetics
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General Changes
Added Bronze & Silver map borders for completing all Easy/Medium medals
Assigned more icons within the custom challenge creation UI making it easier to distinguish different game modifiers quickly
‘Regrown’ Bloons will now no longer count towards increasing a tower’s damage stat when they are popped repeatedly.
Categorized and sorted Quests to organize Patch’s quest menu
Added further support to grant our events more flexibility in Boss starting and finishing rounds
Team search filter added to search for Competitive Teams
Towers
Tiers
Changes
3-X-X Spike-o-pult
Spike-o-pult now allows re-hitting targets after bounces
Paragon
Paragon cost ― $350,000 → $325,000
4 and 4 Monkey Knowledge now applies to Dart Paragon (bug fix )
Tiers
Changes
5-0-1 Glaive Lord + Long Range Rangs
Glaive Lord radius increase from Long Range Rangs increased ― 15% → 33%
0-5-0 Perma Charge
Perma-Charge ability cooldown ― 40s → 45s Note: Initial cooldown reduction when bought also reduced from 10s to 15s
X-X-1 Long Range Rangs
Long Range Rangs range bonus increased ― 15% → 33%
Paragon
Paragon orbit no longer deals +2 damage to fortified
Paragon cost ― $325,000 → $350,000
Tiers
Changes
3-X-X Really Big Bombs
Bombs now pushes back Bloons by 10 units
4-X-X Bloon Impact
Bomb stun duration increased ― 1s → 1.4s Note: 4xx Bloon Impact now also pushes Bloons back on every hit in addition to the Stun
5-X-X Bloon Crush
Bloon Crush pushes back MOAB-Class by 5 units
X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
Secondary cluster pierce multiplier increased ― *3 → *4
Tiers
Changes
X-3-X Arctic Wind
Pierce reduced ― 100 → 40 Note: Absolute Zero unaffected
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon
Cryo Cannon has 20% shorter freeze lifespan ― 1.5s → 1.2s Note: also affects Icicles and Icicle Impale reducing their freeze durations by 20%
Tiers
Changes
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
Bloon Liquifier and Bloon Solver will only drop puddles from the first child in the split
Bloon Liquifier and Bloon Solver puddles no longer hit Camo Bloons innately
4-2-0 Bloon Liquefier + Glue Splatter
Fixed a bug with 420 glue gunner not spawning puddles from the splat (bug fix )
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
Relentless Glue stun on pop now stuns DDTs & Blue MOABs for 0.25s
Relentless Glue stun on pop stuns for 1s, also stuns BFBs and ZOMGs (bug )
Tiers
Changes
5-X-X Cripple MOAB
Cripple MOAB can no longer debuff Dreadbloon during Military Immune Phase (bug fix )
X-5-X Elite Sniper
Elite Sniper Elite Supply Drop will now also trigger all other Supply Drop Abilities
Elite Sniper’s Elite Supply Drop no longer shares button space in the ability quickbar with other Supply Drop Abilities
Tiers
Changes
X-4-X Ground Zero
Ground Zero ability pierce increased ― 1000 → 2000
Tiers
Changes
X-3-X Downdraft
Downdraft ceramic pierce penalty ― 0 → 1
X-3-X Downdraft
Downdraft ceramic pierce penalty ― 0 → 1
X-4-X Support Chinook
Support Chinook downdraft pierce ― 1 → 4
Support Chinook downdraft no longer increases maximum blowback distance ― 300 → 150
Tiers
Changes
X-3-X Heavy Shells
Lead/MOAB/Fortified bonuses no longer stack (bug )
Tiers
Changes
X-4-X Summon Phoenix
Summon Phoenix now requires the 042 crosspath for Phoenix ability to see Camo
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army
Necromancer targeted spawn point can now be reset back to default by activating the target option, then canceling without selecting a point
Paragon
Wizard Paragon no longer drains 100 mana for every single Bloon hit by the main attack
Each main attack fired drains mana 50
Each Phoenix firebomb attack fired drains mana 50
Zombie Bloon spawn mana cost increased ― 100 → 250
Zombie Bloons travel range increased ― 175 → 400
Resolved an issue creating a permanent magus flamethrower attack (bug fix )
Tiers
Changes
0-4-1 Tech Terror + Knockback
041 Tech Terror's Bloon Annihilation ability now knocks back any surviving targets by a large amount: Knockback MOAB Multiplier 25, lifespan 0.2
Tiers
Changes
1-X-X Ninja Discipline
Ninja Discipline no longer grants increased range
X-X-1 Seeking Shuriken
Seeking Shuriken now grants increased range +7
X-X-4 Sticky Bomb
Sticky Bomb bonus +50% of tower range removed, now matches base tower Note: xx5 Master Bomber still has full map range Stickies
X-X-4 Sticky Bomb
Sticky Bomb bonus +50% of tower range removed, now matches base tower Note: xx5 Master Bomber still has full map range Stickies
Tiers
Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm
Druid of the Storm tornado gains strong homing
Druid of the Storm tornado travel distance increased ― 80 → 100
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle
Upgrading a crosspathed Druid to x3x changes target prio to strong (bug fix )
Brambles can no longer grab frozen bloons without popping them (bug fix )
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
Cash bonus per farm in range increased ― $120 → $130
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
Cash bonus per farm in range increased ― $120 → $130
Tiers
Changes
4-0-1 Spiked Mines + Long Reach
Long Reach crosspath explosion blast radius increased ― 30 → 40
5-0-1 Super Mines + Long Reach
Long Reach crosspath large explosion blast radius increased ― 100 → 133
X-5-X Carpet of Spikes
Carpet of Spikes main attack gains +5p Note: Also affects its ability
X-X-2 Smart Spikes
Smart Spikes passive ability duration increased ― 2.5s → 3s
X-X-5 Perma-Spike
Pierce increased ― 25 → 50
Damage reduced ― 15 → 10
Attack rate reduced ― 4.85 → 6.0625
Start of round buff duration ― 2.5s → 10s
1-0-5 Perma-Spike + Bigger Stacks
Bigger Stacks crosspath spike pierce increased ― 45 → 90
Tiers
Changes
X-X-5 Monkeyopolis
Monkeyopolis base cash amount reduced ― $2500 → $1250
Monkeyopolis now gives the correct cash amount in Half Cash mode (bug fix )
Tiers
Changes
Paragon
Engineer Paragon no longer defaults to throwing out a Green Sentry after loading a save (bug fix )
Engineer Paragon sentries are now correctly destroyed if their platform is removed (bug fix )
Engineer Paragon sentries no longer position incorrectly when placed as the round ends (bug fix )
Tiers
Changes
X-2-X Adasaurus
Adasaurus attack cooldown scale ― 0.3439 → 0.3105 Note: Max-power attack cooldown increased from 0.5561s to 0.5895s
Adasaurus pierce reduced ― 10 → 8
Adasaurus pierce range reduced ― 15 → 12 Note: Max-power pierce decreased from 25 to 20
X-3-X Velociraptor
Velociraptor raptor attack cooldown scale ― 0.3951 → 0.3105 Note: Max-power attack cooldown increased from 0.5049s to 0.5895s
Velociraptor damage ― 12 → 9
Velociraptor damage range ― 24 → 18 Note: Max-power damage decreased from 36 to 27
X-X-5 Pouākai
Pouakai pierce reduced ― 300 → 200
Pouakai pierce range reduced ― 400 → 250 Note: Max-power pierce decreased from 700 to 450, middle-power pierce decreased from 500 to 325
Heroes
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May as well be a general camo for Ben level given that Trojan gives camo at 18 too — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
18+
Level 18 Syphon Funding affects DDTs
Levels
Changes
3+
Placing towers in Pat’s radius will now show a grayed out Rallying Roar buff icon (bug fix )
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Adora is a unique hero in how she has a great deal more value in spending cash to level her up faster, however she outperforms other heroes by too much regardless of this added cost. As her ability uptime is so incredibly good to the point of being completely spammable we’re increasing that cooldown slightly and reducing her base pierce in the higher levels so more thought must be required to utilize the large pierce increase she gains from usage of that ability. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
3+
Long Arm of Light cooldown increased ― 35s → 40s
11+
Main attack pierce reduced ― 13 → 11
Ball of light pierce reduced ― 13 → 11
20
True Adora pierce reduced ― 43 → 41
True Adora Ball of Light pierce reduced ― 48 → 46
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Because it didn’t really matter before, but guess it kinda does now. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
10+
UCAV ability can now naturally see Camo Bloons
Levels
Changes
1+
Geraldo’s restock rates are no longer 1 round longer if used from full stock (bug fix )
2+
Geraldo’s action figure should no longer inherit the wrong sell value when reassigned in co op (bug fix )
10+
Geraldo Rabbits placed on ice platforms no longer prevent them from merging (bug fix )
Geraldo’s Rabbits should no longer despawn when attacking in vicinity of an ice platform (bug fix )
Geraldo’s Rabbits should no longer become extinct due to climate change on Erosion (bug fix )
Bosses
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As knowledge, power & variety of Paragons has developed they have turned out to be extremely powerful against vortex and we have reached a point with enough good paragon diversity we no longer feel like they need to resist Vortex’s stun for such a large advantage over other towers, instead of this we feel Vortex’s stun is just too long in general so is being reworked to an overall lower amount across the tiers without any paragon immunity. — Update notes
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Paragons no longer have 50% reduced stun duration
Stun duration reworked at all tiers for generally reduced durations
T2 ― 16s → 19s
T3 ― 20s → 21s
T4 ― 25s → 24s
T5 ― 30s → 27s
ET1 ― 20s → 18s
ET2 ― 25s → 21s
ET3 ― 30s → 24s
ET4 ― 36s → 27s
ET5 ― 40s → 30s
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Lych has some cheese strategy in pre-buffing before spawn to get around the draining mechanics, but boss functionality now makes it easy for us to try out a quick change to counteract some of this. — Update notes
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Lych now triggers the 'buff drain' attack immediately on spawn
Release descriptions
App Store / Google Play
“
Cosmic Boss Update!!
• Warp out of this world with the new Boss Bloon: Phayze!
• Keep the pool safe with the new Admiral Brickell Skin: Lifeguard Brickell!
• Splash out on Water Park, our latest Intermediate Map!
• New Quests, including story quest: Scoop's Tall Tale!
• Plus all the Trophy store items, quality of life improvements, and balance changes you've come to expect
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Video
External links
Official patch notes on Reddit
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