Bloons TD Battles 2 news & patch notes

New Features

• New Map: Park

  • 🌳 Jump into an epic showdown on this iconic Battles 1 map!

  • 🏆 Park will appear in all arenas

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends

  • 🙈 Camo Multiplier: 2x → 1.75x

  • 💭 Camo bloons are feeling a bit under utilised. This price buff should hopefully make camo rush a bit more dangerous

  • 🎈 Tight Ceramics: ceramic count 40 -> 30

  • 🎈 All spaced and grouped ZOMGs are $500 cheaper

  • 💭 Even with tight ceramics, recent nerfs are still a bit too strong. Lowering the amount sent should allow them to still be dangerous but not over powered. We are also making ZOMGs cheaper to give an alternative rush to tight ceramics

• Bomb Shooter

  • 💣 x4x MOAB Assassin: 30 -> 40 moab damage

  • 💭 This buff should help the Bomb Shooter have better late game damage

• Tack Shooter

  • 💰 x3x Blade Shooter: $750 -> $600

  • 💭 Blade Shooter was getting over shadowed early game this should bring it back in line 

• Sniper Monkey

  • 🥽 x1x Night Vision Goggles: extra camo damage 2 -> 1

  • 💭 This nerf will help make camo bloons more dangerous 

• Monkey Sub

  • 💥 x5x Pre-emptive Strike: activated ability 7000d -> 11000d

  • 💥 x5x Pre-emptive Strike: passive ability 800d -> 1000d

  • 💭 Pre-emptive strike will be able to perform better against DDTs with this buff, as it was lacking in that area

• Monkey Buccaneer

  • 🐦‍⬛ xx2 Crow’s Nest: extra camo damage 2 -> 1

  • 💭 This nerf will help make camo bloons more dangerous 

• Monkey Ace

  • 🛩️ x2x Spy Plane: extra camo damage 1 -> 0

  • 💭 This nerf will help make camo bloons more dangerous 

  • 🎯 xx3 Neva-Miss Targeting: pierce increase +4 -> +2

  • 💭 Neva-Miss Targeting was overperforming for its price, so we are toning it down a bit

• Mortar Monkey

  • 💰 3xx Shell Shock: $1300 -> $1100

  • 💰 x1x Faster Reload: $400 -> $350

  • 💰 x2x Rapid Reload: $550 -> $400

  • 💭 Mortar has been a go-to de-camo option but it was not getting used for much else. This should hopeful make its other paths keep up

• Wizard Monkey

  • ✨ xx1 Intense Magic: pierce increase +5 -> +3

  • ✨ xx1 Intense Magic: Fireball pierce increase +7 -> +5

  • 💰 x1x Fireball: Cost $300 -> $350

  • 💰 Base wizard monkey $250 -> $300

  • 💭 The wizard monkey has been at the front of the pickrates for a while, we are toning back its pierce to make it a bit less reliable early game to combat this

• Super Monkey

  • ☀️ 3xx Sun Avatar: pierce increase +5 -> +3

  • 💰 xx4 Dark Champion: $27000 -> $32000

  • 🥷 xx4 Dark Champion: MOAB damage bonus +2 -> +3

  • 🥷 xx4 Dark Champion: pierce increase +2 -> +3

  • 💰 xx5 Legend of the Night: $100000 -> $140000

  • 🥷 xx5 Legend of the Night: damage bonus +4 -> +7

  • 🥷 xx5 Legend of the Night: MOAB damage bonus +4 -> +7

  • 🥷 xx5 Legend of the Night: pierce increase +8 -> +12

  • 💭 The bottom path Super Monkey was getting overshadowed by the top path, so we’re giving it a more distinct role by making it more expensive but also more powerful

• Ninja Monkey

  • 💣 xx5 Master Bomber: shuriken/flashbomb attack 0.55 -> 0.4

  • 💭 This change is to combat the recent nerf to x3x shinobi. That change made the Master Bomber unreliable as a stall option

• Druid

  • 💰 4xx Ball Lightning: $4000 -> $4700

  • 💰 xx3 Druid of Wrath: $750 -> $650

  • 😡 xx5 Avatar of Wrath: max damage buff 30 -> 26

  • 💭 We are buffing the early game of Druid as it was underperforming. We are also nerfing Ball Lightning, as a recent bug fix gave it a buff making it overall a bit too strong. The Avatar of Wrath was overperforming slightly as well.

• Banana Farm

  • 💰 Base price $1000 -> $900

  • 💭 This early game buff will allow for more aggressive and faster paced strategies

• Cyber Quincy

  • 💥 Level 3: Cyber Shot bonus pierce 15 -> 10

  • 💥 Level 10: Cyber Storm damage 30 -> 20

  • 💭 Cyber Quincy is still performing too well after his recent nerfs. This should keep him strong but not dominant 

• Obyn

  • 🌲 Level 1: spirit attack pierce 4 -> 5

  • 🌲 Level 4: Nature’s Ward totem slows 25% -> 35%

  • 🌲 Level 8: Nature’s Ward totem slows 35% -> 50%

  • 🌲 Level 10: Wall of Trees pierce 2000 -> 3000

  • 🌲 Level 10: Wall of Trees 2x -> 1.5x cash per RBE

  • 🌲 Level 18: Nature’s clarity - +10% attack speed to all druids in range

  • 🌲 Level 10: Wall of Trees pierce 7500-> 8500

  • 💭 Obyn has been overshadowed in favor of other heroes, even when using Druid

• Ocean Obyn

  • ⛵ All magic tower buffs also able to be used by water towers, including Ice monkey 

  • ⛵ Level 5: Gains Ocean’s Wrath buff: 5% attack speed to all water towers in range

  • 🐙 Level 10: Unleash the Kraken’s pierce 1200 -> 2500

  • 🐙 Level 10: Unleash the Kraken’s gains 2x -> 1x cash per RBE

  • ⛵ Level 12: Crystal Clarity buff 5% attack speed -> 10% attack speed

  • ⛵ Level 18: Crystal Clarity buff 10% attack speed -> 20% attack speed (renamed to Perfect Clarity) 

  • 💭 This should allow Ocean Obyn to give all water strategies a good synergy which they did not really have before, while retaining his current synergies

• Star Captain Jericho

  • 💰 Level 8: Money Trap steals 1.3x as much with BFBs, 2x as much with ZOMGs/DDTs, 3x as much with BADs

  • 💰 Level 11: Money Trap MOAB steals $1300 -> $1100

  • 💰 Level 14: Money Trap MOAB steals $3000 -> $2200

  • 💭 These changes should allow Star Captain to grow stronger as the game goes on, making him much more of a threat

Bug Fixes

• 💻 Benjamin Level 19 Biohack duration had been incorrectly set to 9 seconds. We have changed it to 18 seconds as intended.

New Features

• New Map Variants: Reverse Mode

• ⏪ Play 5 classic maps in reverse mode for a unique twist.

• 🏟️ Reverse maps appear in the same arenas and game modes as their regular versions.

• 🗺️ The maps with reverse versions are:

  • 🌳 Glade

  • 🏖️ Offtide

  • 🌴 Oasis

  • 🏢 COBRA Command

  •  📐Inflection

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends

  • 🎈 Tight Ceramics total time to send 1s -> 1.2s

  • 💭 Even after the nerfs in the last balance patch, Tight Ceramics are still proving to be one of the most dangerous rushes in the game. We’re spacing them out a little more in order to make it easier for defenses to handle them. 

• Bomb Shooter

  • 💣103 Cluster Bombs: bonus cluster pierce +6 -> +4

  • 💣203 Cluster Bombs: bonus cluster pierce +6 -> +4

  • 💭 Cluster Bombs is already a potent weapon against grouped bloons, especially when map blockers allow multiple explosions to hit the same bloon. We don’t feel like it needs any extra power so we are reducing the extra pierce gained from crosspathing.

• Ice Monkey

  • 💰x4x Snowstorm: $3500 -> $4000

  • 💭 Snowstorm is still an extremely effective stalling tactic, even with last update’s nerfs. We are increasing its price further in order to make it less efficient to micro.

• Sniper Monkey

  • 🎯x3x Bouncing Bullet: $2250 -> $2600

  • 💭This was buffed in a previous update, but it has been performing better than we thought it would. So this should bring its performance to where we want it.

• Heli Pilot

  • 💰xx3 Moab shove $3700 -> $4000

  • 🚁xx5 Comanche Commander: Mini comanches attack speed 0.15s -> 0.13s

  • 🚁xx5 Comanche Commander $35000 -> $34700

  • 💭The Heli Pilot’s bottom path tier 5s often feel weaker than those of other towers so we are giving it a small buff to help it out. In addition, we are nerfing MOAB Shove slightly because its stall was too cost effective**.**

• Mortar Monkey

  • 💥4xx The Big One: Pierce 80 -> 100,

  • 💥4xx The Big One: Stun pierce 85 -> 100, shockwave pierce 85 -> 100

  • 💭The Big One was feeling overshadowed by Artillery Battery in situations with large amounts of bloons. These pierce buffs should help it shine in these situations.

  • 💥1xx Bigger Blast: +8 blast radius -> +12 blast radius

  • 💥1xx Bigger Blast: +5p -> +10p

  • 💭This buff will improve the mortar’s strength as damaging tower.

• Wizard Monkey

  • 💰3xx Arcane Mastery: $1200 -> $1300

  • 💭This upgrade was a little bit too cheap for its power, this should nerf the early game a little while still keeping it viable. 

• Ninja Monkey

  • ⛩️5xx Grandmaster Ninja: shuriken damage 2 -> 4

  • 💭The recent shinobi nerf made the Grandmaster Ninja a little underpowered. This should bring it back in line.

  • 💣xx5 Master Bomber: shuriken/flashbomb attack 0.62 -> 0.55

  • 💭Like the Grandmaster Ninja, the Master Bomber is also now a little underpowered. This buff should help it feel more consistent like it used to.

• Banana Farm

  • 📈x5x Monkeynomics ability cooldown: 50s -> 40s

  • 💭Monkeynomics is underperforming after the x4x IMF Loan nerf. This should bring it back in line with how it was pre nerf.

  • ♻️xx2 Banana Salvage: +10% -> +5% sellback

  • ♻️xx3 Marketplace: +0% -> +5% sellback

  • 💭This change will hopefully add a bit more identity to the bottom path, setting it apart from the other 2.

• Biker Bones

  • 💥Level 3: Concussive Blast ability: 24s cooldown ---> 30s cooldown 

  • 🔥Flame trail pierce 4 ->2

  • 🔥Flame trails now affect buccaneer 4xx fighter planes

  • 💭Biker Bones is very strong with late game strategies. This nerf to his earlier game will make him weaker early game to balance out his late game strength. Additionally we are introducing a new synergy with the buccaneer to vary his playstyles.

• Pat Fusty

  • 🫸Level 5: Slap triggers every 5 -> 3 attacks

  • 🫸Level 5: Slap knockback lasts for 1s -> 0.5s

  • 🫸Level 5: Slap 0d -> 2d

  • 💭We are making this change to make Pat’s slaps more consistent, without reducing his DPS.

• Fusty the Snowman

  • 🫷Level 5: Slap triggers every 5 -> 3 attacks

  • 🫷Level 5: Slap knockback lasts for 1s -> 0.5s

  • 🫷Level 5: Slap makes frozen bloons spawn 6 -> 3 shards on impact

  • 💭We are changing this for the same reason as Pat’s, but the dps on Fusty the Snowman is already good so reducing amount ice shards will keep the dps as it was before.

• DJ Ben Jammin’

  • 💻Level 1: Child towers no longer count for DJ Ben’s money generation.

  • 💻Level 4: pierce bonus to towers in range +1 -> +0

  • 💻Level 5: Side Hustle buff 6% -> 3%

  • 💻Level 9: Side Hustle buff 9% -> 6%

  • 💻Level 11: pierce bonus remains +1

  • 💻Level 14: Encore ability cooldown reduction 15% -> 10%

  • 💭DJ Ben has been performing quite strongly in the current meta, so we’re making some adjustments to bring him more in line with other options.

• Etienne

  • 🛜Level 1: Pierce +1

  • 💭 This is to balance out the pierce he is losing from his old Level 4 upgrade

  • 🛜Level 4: Divide and conquer gives + 20 move speed and +10% attack speed

  • 🛜Level 4: Zone defence gives + 1 dmg

  • 🛜Level 4: First gives + 1 pierce

  • 🛜Level 9: First now gives +2 pierce

  • 💭 We thought it would be fun to add to Etienne's playstyle by incorporating his targeting options into his damage output.

• Beetienne

  • 🐝Level 3: Defend the hive: Now increases attack speed of swarms by 1.33x instead of 2x.

  • 💭Defend the hive was a little overpowered. This should bring it back in line.

Bug Fixes

• 🏹Fixed Quincy's camo bow weapon skin breaking his outline

• ⚡Fixed Ball lightning druid projectile not detecting camo properly

• ⏩Fixed boost cosmetics getting reset when you change loadouts in sandbox

• 🐝 Fixed being able to stack multiple beehives on a single rock on Pirate Cove.

• 💥 Fixed multiple damage debuffs stacking incorrectly.

New Features

• New Map: Magma Mixup

  • 🔀 Adapt your defences to a path that changes every round.

  • 🏆 Magma Mixup will appear in ranked and clan games in White Wasteland and higher.

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends

  • 🎈 Tight Lead bloons: Send time 1.2s -> 1.5s

  • 🎈 Tight Ceramic bloons: Send time 0.8s -> 1s

  • 🎈 Grouped White bloons: Cost $65 -> $75

  • 🎈 Grouped Black bloons: Quantity 4 -> 5

  • 🎈 Grouped Black bloons: Cost $75 -> $85

  • 🎈 Tight MOABs: Cost $4000 -> $4500

  • 🎈 Grouped DDTs: Cost $6000 -> $6250

  • 🎈 Phayze Multiplier: 1.75x -> 1.6x

  • 💭 Black Bloons were feeling underpowered as a rush and were getting overshadowed by white bloons. This buff should make them a more threatening rush. 

  • 💭 Tight leads and ceramics are one of the strongest rushes. This nerf should bring them more in line with other rushes.

  • 💭 The Phayze modifier does not have as big an effect as other modifiers. We’re reducing the price to match its effectiveness. 

• Dart Monkey

  • 🏹 3xx Spike-o-pult pierce increase 22 -> 30

  • 🏹 4xx Juggernaut pierce increase 50 -> 60

  • 💰 4xx Juggernaut price increase $1700 -> $1800

  • 💭 Spike-o-pult feels underwhelming compared to the other paths so we decided to increase the pierce in its earlier paths to make it a viable option.

• Tack Shooter

  • 💰 x4x Blade Maelstrom: $3000 -> $3550

  • 💭 Tack is a very popular tower and is used in a lot of strategies, in particular the Blade Maelstrom upgrade. We’ve decided to increase the price to make microing just a little bit less efficient.

• Ice Monkey

  • 🤽 Can place Ice Monkeys on water

  • 💰 3xx Ice Shards: $1800 -> $2000

  • 💰 x4x Snowstorm: $3000 -> $3500

  • 💭 Ice Shards is very strong despite recent nerfs and Snowstorm has become very powerful now that people are understanding how to use the attack speed buff more effectively. Some small nerfs to these two upgrades should hopefully pull them back in line. 

• Sniper Monkey

  • 🏹 320 deadly precision: shrapnel pierce: 3 -> 4

  • 💰 x3x bouncing bullet: price $3000 -> $2250

  • Sniper monkey has fallen off the play rate compared to other towers so we’re hoping that these changes will bring him back up to speed

• Dartling Gunner

  • 💰 000 Dartling: $700 -> $800

  • 💰 1xx Dartling: $250 -> $200

  • 💰 xx1 Dartling: $150 -> $100

  • 💰 4xx Plasma Accelerator: $12000 -> $14000

  • 🏹 x4x Rocket Storm: ability explosion pierce 8 -> 7

  • 💭 We found Dartling’s early game is a little bit too strong currently. This little nerf should slow its early game down but keep it very viable. The later upgrades were performing very well against tight rushes for very little investment. These changes will make these upgrades less efficient

• Wizard Monkey

  • 💰 xx4 Necromancer: Cost $2600 -> $2800

  • 💰 xx5 Prince of Darkness: Cost $24000 -> $28000

  • 💭 The recent bug fixes to Necromancer and Prince of Darkness have made it a bit more efficient than it needs to be so we are increasing the costs to reflect its new effectiveness.

• Ninja Monkey

  • ⏱️ x4x Ninja: Bloon Sabotage duration 15s -> 10s (x5x unaffected at 30s)

  • 💰 x4x Ninja: Cost $4500 -> $5200

  • 🏃 x3x Shinobi: Gives +15% attack speed -> +10% attack speed 

  • 🏹 x3x Shinobi: Gives +15% pierce -> +10% pierce

  • 🏹 xx3 Flash Bomb: Pierce 75 -> 40

  • 💭 Flash Bomb synergizes well with damage buffs and Ice Shards, making it a powerful early-game upgrade.

  • 💭 Shinobi’s buffs are too strong right now and the overall strategy becomes extremely powerful after round 20.

  • 💭 Increasing Bloon Sabotage cost and reducing its duration will require greater investment to maintain its effects during sustained rushes.

• Druid

  • 😡 xx5 Avatar of wrath buff max attack dmg increase 24 > 30

  • 💭 Druid has fallen down the ranks of player pick rate. We are increasing the maximum damage of Avatar of Wrath to make it more viable.

• Monkey Village

  • 📉 xx1 Monkey Business: Discount 10% -> 5%

  • 🌐 x5x Homeland Defense: now has a global cooldown

  • 💭 Monkey Business was giving too much value when buying multiple village farms. Homeland Defence is very powerful in the late game when microed. This will stop it being microed but still keep the ability impactful.  

• Banana Farm

  • 🏦  x4x IMF loan: Maximum capacity $20000 -> $18000 

  • 🏦 The loan gives you $20000 -> $15000 money and debt

  • 💭 The IMF Loan was proving to be a bit too good of a deal so we have reduced the amount it lends and also decreased the capacity of the bank.

• Cyber Quincy

  • 💰 Cost $450 -> $550

  • ⏱️ Level 3: Ability duration 6.5s -> 5.5s, 

  • 💥 Level 7 : EMP arrow damage +300% -> +200%

  • 💭 Cyber Quincy has had a very high pick rate compared to the other heroes, these nerfs should bring him back in line with the others

• Scientist Gwendolin

  • 🔥 Level 4 Heat It Up: Bonus damage to bloons with glue or acid: 2 -> 1 

  • 💭 With how easy it is to apply glue or acid to any bloon, Heat it up was providing too much damage in all situations.

• Biker Bones

  • 💣 Level 5 : Makes black bloons 50% vulnerable to explosions again 

  • 💣 Level 19: Makes black bloons fully vulnerable to explosions again

  • 💭 With the synergy between Biker and ace struggling against early game black bloons we thought that adding the vulnerability would be a good addition to help against early game rushes

• Benjamin

  • 💰 Base cost $900 -> $950

  • 💸 Skimming works for every bloon -> every 2nd bloon

  • 🪙 Level 1: End of round cash $100 -> $75

  • 🪙 Level 2: End of round cash $150 -> $125

  • 🧑‍💻 Level 3 biohack duration 6s -> 9s, bonus damage 2 -> 1, cooldown 45s -> 40s

  • 🪙 Level 5 income $250 -> $200

  • 🪙 Level 8 income $400 -> $350

  • 🧑‍💻 Level 9: Biohack bonus damage 1 -> 2

  • ⌛ Level 10 cooldown 65s -> 60s

  • 💸 Level 12 skimming works for every bloon 

  • 🧑‍💻 Level 13 biohack duration 8s -> 15s, biohack damage 3 -> 2

  • ⌛ Level 20 Ability cooldown 45s –> 40s

  • 💭 Benjamin has been steam-rolling other heroes in the player pick rate and has been a bit too effective. These changes should reel him in and make him a bit easier to handle

• DJ Ben Jammin’

  • 🎶 Level 4 : Towers in his range get an additional +1 pierce and +5 Range. 

  • 🎶 Level 11: Additional Pierce increased to +2 and range increased to +10

  • 💭 DJ Ben Jammin’ has had quite a low pick rate and his synergies haven’t been feeling great so these buffs should allow for him to get back up the ranks

• Sentai Churchill

  • 🏹 Level 2: Pierce 7 -> 6

  • 💭 Sentai Churchill outclasses regular Churchill on almost every round. This should even out the two heroes.

Bug Fixes

• 💛 Fixed Rubber to Gold not giving cash when the bloon was destroyed by an Engineer trap.

• 👩‍🚒 Fixed Gwen giving +2 damage to other monkeys from Heat it Up at level 17 instead of +1.

• 👁️ Fixed Phayze status not transferring correctly when the bloon is sent to the other side using Highwayman Jericho’s Misdirection.

• 🤖 Fixed incorrect Turkish translation for Cyber Quincy Level 15.

• 🎓 Fixed Battle button in the leaderboard screen not working before the tutorial is completed.

New Features

• New Bloon Modifier: Phayze Bloons

  • 👁 Phayze bloons spawn with reality altering shields that protect them from damage. 

  • 1️⃣ The shield has health equal to 1% of the bloons total health (minimum 1).

  • ⛔ Damage to the shield does NOT transfer to the bloon if the shield is destroyed. (E.g. Hitting a red phayze bloon with a 20 damage sniper shot will destroy the shield and leave the red bloon unharmed)

  • 🏃‍♂️ When the shield is destroyed, the bloon glitches forward 10% of the total track length. It is completely invulnerable while glitching. 

  • 🎈 Once a shield is destroyed and the bloon glitches forward, it becomes a normal bloon. It can never regain the phayze shield.

  • 🔓 Phayze bloons unlock for sending at round 15. Adding phayze applies a 1.75x multiplier to the cost of the send.

  • 🌎 Phayze bloons appear in the natural rounds starting at round 21.

  • 🤵 Opponents in Hero Challenge will now send phayze bloons as part of their rushes.

General Changes

• Bling Season Length

  • 📅 To avoid scheduling conflicts, Bling Seasons will now be 5 weeks long instead of 4.

  • 📅 This begins with Season 36, which will run from the 12th September to the 17th October.

  • 🏆 Arena leagues will remain 1 week long.

Balance Changes

• Tack Shooter

  • 💰 5xx Inferno Ring: $45,500 -> $35,500

  • 💭 While the Tack Shooter is a popular and powerful early game tower, it’s top path tier 5 felt like it was lagging behind the other upgrades in terms of efficiency. We are reducing its cost to bring it in line with the other tier 5s.

• Monkey Ace

  • 💰 Base cost: $850 -> $750

  • 💰 Bomber ace: $1000 -> $1100

  • 💥 5xx sky shredder: moab missile damage 200 -> 250

  • 💥 5xx sky shredder: moab missile blast radius 12 -> 22

  • 💭 The changes we made in 4.8 to the Monkey Ace turned out to be too drastic, causing its playrate to plummet. We are lowering its base cost again and transferring that money to the bomber ace upgrade instead. Additionally, we are increasing the power of the Sky Shredder upgrade as this has long been the least popular of the Ace’s tier 5s.

• Dartling gunner 

  • 💫 xx4 Bloon Area Denial System: knockback now affects MOABs & BFBs

  • 💫 xx5 Bloon Exclusion Zone: knockback now affects DDTs and ZOMGs

  • 💥 xx5 Bloon Exclusion Zone: projectiles can pop all bloon types.

  • 💭 The Dartling’s bottom path struggles to keep pace with the more powerful bloons in the later game. We are adding a knockback effect to its tier 4 and 5 to help it deal with these later rounds. In addition, we are allowing the bottom path tier 5 to hit lead so that it can be used to tackle DDTs.

• Benjamin

  • 🏦 Level 5: Bank hack 12% -> 10%

  • 🏦 Level 9: Bank hack 18% -> 15%

  • 💭 Benjamin’s bank hack was granting too much extra value to Banana Farms so we are lowering its effectiveness a small amount.

• DJ Ben Jammin’

  • 👀 Level 1: Range 25 -> 35

  • 💭 DJ Ben was proving too tricky to utilise which is hurting his playability. We are increasing his range to make it easier to gather monkeys around him to fuel his money making abilities.

• Star Captain Jericho

  • 🚀 Level 20: Smuggler’s Run ship capacity $25,000 -> $27,000

  • 💭We are increasing the capacity of Star Captain’s ship to allow it to fit a single phayze BAD at level 20.

• Fateweaver Adora

  • 🔪 Level 3: Sharp Sting of Fate Pierce (7 x main weapon pierce x number of projectiles) -> (8  x main weapon pierce x number of projectiles)

  • 💭Sharp Sting of Fate felt underwhelming to use so we are increasing its pierce to make it more impactful.

Bug Fixes

• 🎈 Fixed bloon sends getting stuck in the queue when using the Destroy All Bloons button in the Bloon Lab

• 🧣 Fixed the 203 Ninja Monkey not wearing a bandana

• 📛 Fixed Discord name displaying over Clan name in the profile screen on Tablet

New Features

• New Map: Street Party

  • 🎊 Join in the celebration with a fun and colorful new map!

  • 🎶 Battle bloons to a funky and nostalgic music track exclusive to this map.

  • 🏆 Street Party will appear in ranked and clan games in White Wasteland and higher.

• New Hero Challenge Opponent: Agent Jericho

  • 🤵 You thought Striker Jones was tough? Get ready for Agent Jericho!

  • 📡 The most dangerous Hero Challenge opponent yet, Agent Jericho will use all his high tech abilities against you. 

  • 😈 Agent Jericho is ruthless and doesn’t play by the rules. Don’t be shocked if he cheats to win!

• Friends List

  • 👥 View your Discord and Steam friends from inside the game (Desktop only for Steam).

  • 🤝 Invite Steam and Discord friends to private battles.

  • 📋 Manage your Discord friends list from inside the game.

  • 👋 View previous opponents and add them as Discord friends after your game.

Balance Changes

• Bloon Boost

  • ⏩Bloon Boost: Speed +40% -> +33%

  • 💭We made Bloon Boosts more powerful few updates ago to ensure that games stayed fast paced and aggressive despite some towers getting sizable buffs. We knew this would be an impactful change and we wanted to give it a lot of time to settle before we altered it further. We feel enough time has passed now and have decided that the new Bloon Boost makes some early rushes a little too hard to defend so we are dialing it back a bit.

• Bloon Sends

  • 💰 Tight Ceramics: $2800 -> $3200

  • 💭 Tight ceramics were a dangerous rush which offered a little too much value for their cost. We are increasing their price to reflect how potent this bloon send is.

• Monkey Buccaneer

  • 🏴‍☠️ x4x Monkey Pirates and x5x Pirate Lord abilities now give cash when they destroy a MOAB class bloon ($400 for a MOAB, $800 for a BFB, and $1200 for a ZOMG or DDT).

  • 🚢 xx3 Merchantman: End of round bonus: $300 -> $350

  • 💭The Buccaneer’s popularity has fallen as of late so we are bringing over a popular change from BTD6 to increase its utility.

• Monkey Ace

  • 💰 000 Monkey Ace: $700 -> $850

  • 💰 x3x Bomber Ace: $900 -> $1000

  • 💭 The Monkey Ace has been a strong tower in all stages of the game. We are increasing the cost of its early upgrades to make it a more difficult tower to start with.

• Dartling gunner 

  • 💰 000 Dartling Gunner: $800 -> $700

  • 💭Dartling is hindered by a expensive early game. Decreasing its base cost will make it viable in more strategies.

• Super Monkey

  • 🌞 3xx Sun Avatar: $11,500 -> $13,000

  • 🌞 4xx Sun Temple / 5xx True Sun God: Maximum sacrifice value $15,000 -> $20,000

  • 💭 We are increasing the maximum value of sacrificed towers to make it more of a decision whether to fully commit to a maxed out Sun Temple or get a less powerful temple quicker.

• Druid

  • ⚡ 4xx Ball Lightning: Ball of lightning now home in on bloons

  • 💚 x2x Heart of Oak: Attacks now have a 33% chance to remove fortified from non-MOAB bloons.

  • 💭 Druid has felt a bit weaker than we wanted. With the ball of light now homing to the bloons, it should be easier to use its full power. We are also increasing the utility of Heart of Oak as it has felt a little lacking.

• Banana Farm

  • 🍌 xx1 Quality Soil: Discount 20% -> 15%

  • 💭The introduction of the Quality Soil upgrade was another impactful change we wanted to allow plenty of room to settle before tweaking it. We feel this change will slow down farms in the early game, but keep their late game impact.

• Monkey Village

  • 💰 xx5 Monkeyopolis: Base price $15,000 -> $20,000

  • 💭 The Monkeyopolis upgrade was proving to be a bit too efficient seeing as it improves bloon income as well as generating cash itself. We are increasing its cost to reflect its powerful money making ability.

• Engineer Monkey

  • 🔧 4xx Sentry Expert: Initial sentries 6 -> 4

  • 💭 We want Sentry Expert to have a big impact the moment you purchase it so feel it's important to keep the bonus sentries it spawns. 6 bonus sentries were proving to be too much extra damage however so we are dialing it back to 4 to make it a more measured response to a rush.

• Cyber Quincy

  • 🏹 Level 10: Cyber Storm ability damage 25 -> 15 per 0.05s

  • 🏹 Level 14: Cyber Storm remains at 25 damage per 0.05s

  • 💭 Cyber quincy has very quickly become the most popular hero. This decrease in his initial damage should bring it back in line with the other heroes.

• Gwendolin

  • 👩‍🚒 Level 5: Pyrotechnic Expert gives +10% -> +15% attack speed and blast radius to Ring of Fire Tack Shooters, Signal Flare Mortars, and Dragon’s Breath Wizards.

  • 👩‍🚒 Level 18: Pyrotechnic Master gives +20% -> +30% attack speed and blast radius to Ring of Fire Tack Shooters, Signal Flare Mortars, and Dragon’s Breath Wizards.

  • 💭 Gwen’s synergies with other fire towers were not proving as impactful as we would like so we are improving its potency.

• Ocean Obyn

  • 🦞 Level 3: Living Coral pierce starts at 20->30, gains 10->15 pierce per 10 seconds, and caps at 100->150.

  • 🦞 Level 7: Living Coral pierce starts at 40->60, gains 20->30 pierce per 10 seconds, and caps at 200->300.

  • 🦞 Level 16: Living Coral pierce starts at 200->300, gains 100->150 pierce per 10 seconds, and caps at 800->1200.

  • 💭 Ocean Obyn has not had any changes in quite a long time so he was due for a shake up. Increasing the pierce of his Living Coral ability will hopefully give him a new lease on life.

• Smudge Catt Ezili

  • 😼 Level 7: Scratching Post ability duration increased 10s -> 15s

  • 😼 Level 16 Scratching Post ability duration increased 20s -> 30s

  • 💭Smudge Catt Ezili is another hero who has been proving less popular of late. We are increasing the duration of her Scratching Post to help her stand out amongst the crowd.

• Agent Jericho

  • 🦆 Level 10: MOAB Decoy is now affected by the late game speed ramping that applies to real MOABs.

  • 💭MOAB Decoy was proving to be too decisive in late game battles. Allowing it to be affected by speed ramping means it spends less overall time on screen and thus reduces the amount of time it can serve as a distraction.

Bug Fixes

• 🤖 Fixed Opponent Hero sometimes being unable to fire abilities on Bloon Bot Factory in the Bloon Lab.

• 🧪 Fixed Bloon Boost not working in Bloon Lab.

• 🦆 Known Issue: Agent Jericho will not send Bloon Decoys when facing him in Hero Challenge. This will be fixed very soon in an update.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and happy gaming! :D

New Features

• New Map: Splashdown - 🏊‍♂️ Dive into an all new, water focussed map. - 🏆 Splashdown will appear in ranked and clan games in White Wasteland and higher.
• Advanced Bloon Lab Features - 👩‍🔬A new Advanced tab has been added to the Scientist Gwen’s Bloon lab for more niche and complex controls. - 🚦 The Round Stall Amount slider simulates how far the opponent’s natural bloons travel along the track before being popped so you can test strategies in stalling and anti-stalling scenarios. - 🤵The Opponent Hero panel allows you to simulate an opponent using Agent Jericho, Highwayman Jericho, and Star Captain Jericho. The opponent hero’s passive abilities (such as bloon adjustment) will be applied to your rounds and you can activate their abilities against yourself (where relevant). - 📽 The Rush Recording panel allows you to record your bloon sends and play them back against yourself, allowing repeated testing against the same rush or more complex rush layering. - 🚫In addition to the Advanced Tab controls, there is now an option in the Control tab to disable all monkeys when you fall below zero lives in order to see the exact state of your defence at the moment it failed.
• New Text Emote Slots - 💬 We are increasing the number of Text Emote slots from 4 to 8. - 🆕 All players will also receive 4 new text emotes for free: “Yes”!, “Awesome!”, “Oh No!”, and “Ahh!”

General Changes

• Bloon Lab Speed Control - ⏩ The speed control in Scientist Gwen’s Bloon Lab has been moved off the central column and onto the main panel alongside the controls for removing monkeys, resetting cooldowns, etc. - 🚀 This is to prevent it conflicting with the UI from Star Captain Jericho’s Smuggler’s Run ability.
• Tech Bot and New Abilities - 🤖 Abilities unlocked on a tower after it has been linked to a Tech Bot will not auto activate by default. - 🤵 This is to stop situations like Agent Jericho firing his MOAB Decoy the moment he hits level 10 because he was linked to a Tech Bot for Seize Assets.

Balance Changes

• Boomerang Monkey - 👀 x4x Boomerang Monkey now gains camo detection during its Turbocharge ability. - 💭 While Boomerang Monkey is intended to primarily be an early game tower, it has felt a bit underpowered in the late game, particularly the x4x and x5x. We are adding this change from Battles 1 to give it a little boost.
• Monkey Sub - 💥 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts damage (after split) 3 -> 2 - 💥 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts MOAB damage (after split) 0 -> 1 - 💰 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts: $2800 -> $3200. - 💭 The xx4 Sub is very strong at all points in the game. We are moving some of its damage to be MOAB exclusive and increasing its cost slightly to hinder its ability to defend by itself.
• Dartling Gunner - 💥 x5x M.A.D. Rocket MOAB damage: 500 -> 450. - 💥 x5x M.A.D. Rocket Storm MOAB Damage: 12 -> 60. - 💭 This change from BTD6 should help the M.A.D. ability feel more impactful.
• Banana Farm - 🍌 240 IMF Loan crosspath: End of round bonus $550 -> $700 - 🍌 250 Monkey-Nomics: End of round bonus $550 -> $1000. - 💭 We are buffing the monkey bank top crosspath to make it a more tempting option when compared to the bottom crosspath and Quality Soil.
• Beetienne - 🐝 Level 3: Defend The Hive damage boost +2 -> +0 (bug fix) - 🐝 Level 17: Defend The Hive damage boost +3 -> +2 - 💭 Beetienne was mistakenly giving a damage buff in addition to the speed buff while Defend the Hive was active. This has now been removed which significantly lowers his ability to solo rushes using his ability.
• Striker Jones - 💣 Level 4: 10% attack speed boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Striker Jones as well. - 💣 Level 7: 25% blast radius increase for Mortar Monkeys now applies to Striker Jones as well. - 💣 Level 8: +15 range and +40% pierce boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Striker Jones as well. - ⏳ Level 10: Striker Jones now gains 4x attack speed, 200 range, and +10 MOAB damage for 7 seconds as part of his Artillery Command ability. This is in addition to firing all Bomb and Mortar abilities for free. - 💣 Level 18: 15% attack speed boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Striker Jones as well. - 💣 Level 20: 2x damage and pierce for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys during Artillery Command now applies to Striker Jones as well. Ability duration 10s -> 7s. - 💭 While heroes who have clear synergies with specific towers are generally a good thing, Striker Jones in particular has been over reliant on Bomb and Mortar which has made him an unpopular hero. We have changed several of his upgrades so that they no longer do nothing if Bomb/Mortar are not present and added a secondary effect to his Artillery Command so that, while he’s still better with his favourite towers, he is capable of functioning without them.
• Biker Bones - 🎯 Level 3: Concussive Blast now targets the strongest bloon on screen, not the densest cluster. The ability icon and projectile graphics have also been updated to be more relevant. - 🚁 Level 4: 10% attack speed boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Heli Pilots, Monkey Aces, and Biker Bones himself instead. - 📈 Level 5: The reduction to black bloons explosive resistance is replaced by a +10% range and pierce increase to Biker Bones. - 🔥 Level 7: The blast radius upgrade for Mortar Monkeys has been replaced by a flame trail weapon on all Monkey Aces and Heli Pilots. These monkeys will leave a trail of damaging fire wherever they move. - 🚁 Level 10: Double damage for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Heli Pilots, Monkey Aces, and Biker Bones himself instead. The ability icon has also been updated to be more relevant. - 🚁 Level 18: 15% attack speed boost for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Heli Pilots, Monkey Aces, and Biker Bones himself. - 📈 Level 19: The removal of black bloon explosive immunity is replaced by a 10% range and pierce increase to all towers within Biker Bones’ range (excluding himself). - 🚁 Level 20: Triple damage for Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now applies to Heli Pilots, Monkey Aces, and Biker Bones himself instead. - 💭 Similar to Striker Jones, Biker Bones relied too heavily on Bomb and Mortar to be useful and Striker was the better choice if you wanted to use those towers. With that in mind, we are reworking Bones so he leans much harder into the “Biker” part and synergises with vehicle towers, specifically Heli Pilot and Monkey Ace. As these towers do not specialise in explosive damage, there was no need for Biker to bypass explosive immunities so those upgrades have been replaced. In addition, Concussive Blast now targets the strongest bloon again. We were hoping the dense targeting would differentiate Biker from Striker but in practice it made the ability much less reliable and therefore worse.

Bug Fixes

• 🔊 Fixed in game audio not lowering while watching a video from the news panel.
• 🤖 Fixed Tech Bot link lines not disappearing when restarting a Bloon Lab game.
• ❌ Fixed red X not ending the Tech Bot’s targeting mode when pressed.
• 🥚 Fixed Humpty Monkey animated avatar not having any eyebrows.
• ⚠ Fixed occasional error popup in the pre-game agent shop.
• 🐵 Fixed monkey names not refreshing properly when restarting Bloon Lab games.
• 👹 Fixed being able to use hotkeys to upgrade towers while they are transformed by the Alchemist.
• 🤖 Fixed Tech Bot targeting line not updating when the linked tower is moved.

New Features

• Titles - 🎭 Express yourself with unique tag lines on your profile. - 🔓 Gain new titles by unlocking heroes, bling season rewards, and more.
• Tech Bot - 🤖 Easily keep on top of your activated abilities with the handy Tech Bot. - ⏳ Link a Tech Bot to a tower with one or more activated abilities and the Tech Bot will continually fire them as soon as they finish cooldown. - 🎛 Towers with more than one ability can choose which abilities the Tech Bot will activate. - 🆓 Claim 10 free Tech Bots in the shop to get started!
• New Clan Cosmetics - 🛒 New unlockable items have been added to the Gold and Ruby Clan Stores. - 🧚‍♀️ Decorate your islands with awesome Radioactive and Fairy themed items.

General Changes

• Copy User ID - 📄 User IDs can now be copied to the clipboard from the settings screen.

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - 🎈 Tight ceramics unlock round 28 -> 24 - 🎈 Tight leads spacing 0.0125s -> 0.02s - 💭 We are slightly increasing the spacing between the bloons in the Tight Lead send to take a little bit of the sting out of a very oppressive rush. We are also bringing the unlock round forwards for Tight Ceramics as they struggle to be relevant later in the game alongside MOAB class rushes.
• Maps - 🏢 Up on the Roof will no longer appear in Hall of Masters games. - 💭 As a longer map that favours stalling, Up On The Roof can lead to very long games in Hall of Masters. We are removing it from the HOM ranked pool to keep these games shorter and more exciting.
• Dart Monkey - 💰 Base cost: $150 -> $200 - 💰 x3x Triple Shot: $400 -> $350 - 💰 xx4 Sharp Shooter: $2000 -> $2300 - 💰 xx5 Crossbow Master: $25000 -> $27000 - 💥 xx5 Crossbow Master: Crit damage 100 -> 75 - 💭 The changes in 4.5 to make hoardes of Dart Monkeys less effective did not have the desired result so we are moving some of the cost of the triple darts upgrade into the base cost and weakening the powerful crossbow upgrades.
• Ice Monkey - 🥶 x2x Deep Freeze soaks through 3 -> 2 layers - 🌨 x4x Snowstorm: Other Ice Monkeys get +100% -> +50% attack speed during ability (x5x Absolute Zero ability still gives +100%) - 🧊 xx4 Icicles: $2400 -> $2900 - 💭 We are reducing the power of Ice Monkey’s Deep Freeze and Snowstorm upgrades to make it easier to rush in the early and mid game and increasing the cost of the xx4 Icicles upgrade since this offers too much value for its cost.
• Glue Gunner - 💰 2xx Corrosive Glue: $300 -> $500 - ⏳ x4x Glue Strike: cooldown 30s -> 40s - ⏳ x5x Glue Storm: cooldown 30s -> 40s - ⏳ x5x Glue Storm: duration 20s -> 15s - 💰 x5x Glue Storm: $14k -> $18k - 💰 xx4 Relentless Glue: $2200 -> $3000 - 💦 xx4 Relentless Glue: splat pierce 6 -> 4 - 💦 024 Relentless Glue crosspath: splat pierce +3 -> +1 (6 total pierce on a 024) - 💭 These changes reduce the effectiveness of using Glue Gunner as a starting tower and indirectly reduce the effectiveness of dissolver and glue hose which were extremely efficient. We are also changing the cooldown and duration of the Glue Storm ability so that it can’t be kept permanently active without microing.
• Monkey Sub - 🐟 3xx Submerge rate 1.5 -> 1.2 - 💭 We are making the Monkey Sub’s decamo effect more reliable to better cope with the new speed of boosted camo purples.
• Heli Pilot - 💰 x4x Support Chinook: $7500 -> $8500 - 🌬 xx3 MOAB Shove: Shove distance increased (MOAB 1.33->1.44, BFB 1.0 -> 1.11, ZOMG 0.5 -> 0.67) - 💭 MOAB Shove needed a small buff to prevent it being overwhelmed by the newly boosted MOAB speeds while the Support Chinook was due a price increase as it is currently the one of the best alternative income sources in the game.
• Wizard Monkey - 👻 xx5 Prince of Darkness now consumes 55 souls per zombie MOAB rather than 200. - 💭 This is a bug fix rather than a deliberate balance change but the significant effect it will have on the Prince of Darkness makes it worth calling out here. Previously the POD was using large numbers of bloon souls to create very high pierce zombie MOABs which would cause the graveyard to drain very quickly. POD now uses fewer souls to create much lower pierce MOABs so that it can create more of them over a longer period.
• Ninja Monkey - 💥 502 grandmaster ninja caltrop damage 25 -> 75 - 💰 xx4 sticky bomb $4900 -> $4600 - 💭 We are increasing the caltrop damage of the 502 Ninja to make it a more effective option for early fortified BAD defence. The Sticky Bomb is being made cheaper to allow it to be used in the early MOAB rounds as it's currently more expensive than the other options.
• Druid - 💰 4xx ball lightning $4300 -> $4000 - 💰 x4x jungles bounty $4200 -> $4000 - 🌵 x5x spirit of the forest brambles within 50 range of the druid deal 20 moab damage -> 25 moab damage - 🌵 x5x spirit of the forest brambles within 50 range of the druid deal 20 ceramic damage -> 30 ceramic damage - 💰 xx5 avatar of wrath $45000 -> $52000 - 💭 These changes aim to spread the power of the Druid around a little rather than having the Avatar of Wrath as the one, standout upgrade.
• Spike Factory - 💰 x4x Spike Storm: $5200 -> $6200 - 💭 This price increase makes microing the Spike Storm ability more expensive while still keeping the overall power of the tower intact.
• Quincy - 🎯 Level 1: Pierce 4 -> 5 - 🏹 Level 3: Rapid shot ability duration 2s + 0.5s per level -> 3s + 0.5s per level - 🏹 Level 10: Storm of arrows deals x1 -> x2 damage to ceramic bloons - 💭 Quincy has been struggling to maintain his identity as an early game hero so we are increasing his effectiveness in that niche. His Storm of Arrows ability is not as good at cleaning up MOAB insides or handling tight ceramics as it should be so we are adding extra damage to make it better in those situations.
• Cyber Quincy - 🎯 Level 1: Pierce 4 -> 5 - 👀 Level 3: +200 range during Cyber Shot ability, +200 retargeting range for ricochets. - 🏹 Level 10: Cyberstorm now deals 25 damage per 0.05s (100% hit chance) for 1s. - 💥 Level 18: cyberstorm damage 35-> 40 - 💥 Level 20: Cyberstorm moab damage x2 -> x3 - 💭 We are changing up Cyber Quincy’s abilities somewhat to help distinguish him from Quincy. Cyberstorm’s shorter but more consistent damage output should make it effective at dealing with tight MOAB class rushes and the functionally infinite range of his Cyber Shot ability works well with Cyber Quincy’s innate ability to shoot through walls.
• DJ Ben Jammin’ - ⭐ Difficulty Rating 4 -> 5 - 🐵 Level 1: DJ Ben now displays a buff icon to show how many other towers are in his range. - 🎈 Level 10: Beatdown can no longer be fired if there are no bloons on screen. - 💭 These are just minor quality of life changes to DJ. The change to Beatdown is to prevent Tech Bot from automatically firing the ability when there are no bloons to be affected by it.
• Fusty the Snowman - 🌨 Level 8: x3x arctic wind Ice Monkey slows moabs to 40% -> 66% of their speed during Chilling Cheer. - ⚪ All ice monkeys are able to pop white bloons at level 5 -> level 9 - 💭 Fusty’s ability to remove Ice Monkey’s weakness to white bloons was making part of his Chilling Cheer ability redundant before it had a chance to be relevant and was contributing to making Ice strategies too hard to rush. We are moving the global buff to higher in his upgrades so that the effect requires his ability to be active in the earlier game.
• Bonnie - 🧨 Level 3: Mass Detonation blast 3 -> 2 damage (carries over to later levels, but level 19 remains the same) - 🧨 Level 3: Mass Detonation shards 8 -> 6 damage (carries over to later levels, but level 19 remains the same) - 💭 Bonnie’s Mass Detonation was providing a bit too much defensive capabilities for a money making hero.

Bug Fixes

• 💵 Fixed cash sometimes displaying incorrectly on the pregame screen
• 🧊 Fixed the xx3 Ice Monkey not being able to pop bloons with splash damage if the first bloon hit was immune to freezing.
• 📶 Fixed the game sometimes downloading unnecessary during launch.
• 🚛Fixed Ice Monkey’s Arctic Wind visual effect showing incorrectly when placed in the water on the right hand side of Neo Highway.
• 📐 Fixed towers with abilities that target within their range not being able to target areas within the extra range created by buffs.
• 🧮 Renamed “Pop Counters” to “Monkey Counters” in Bloon Lab for clarity.
• 💦 Fixed the Mortar’s Water Bombs trail effect causing the visual for Pop and Awe to last longer than the ability.

New Features

• New Map: Neo Highway - 🏆 u/G00dbot’s winning entry to the community map competition. - 🛣 Placeable space is at a premium as you battle the bloons in a high speed chase down a highway. - 🚘 Bloons are slower when moving the same direction as the cars and faster when moving the opposite direction. - 🏍 The biker monkey can be convinced to move away and make room for another car to place monkeys on. - 🔓 Try this awesome new map in ranked and clan games in Lead Dungeon and above, plus all Casual and Event games.

General Changes

• 🛒 We have improved the UI in the shop to call out free content and sales more clearly.
• 🎲 It is now possible to reroll random loadouts in Hero Challenge.
• DLC will now be downloaded without prompting on Desktop devices

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - 🎈 Bloon boost speed modifier: +25% → +40% - 💭 A lot of heroes and towers have more powerful synergies now than they used to. In order to keep games aggressive and the bloons dangerous, we are increasing the potency of bloon boosts.
• Dart Monkey - 💰 2xx Razor Sharp Shots: $150 → $250 - 💰 4xx Juggernaut: $1,800 → $1,700 - 💰 x3x Triple Shot: $300 → $400 - 💭 We are increasing the cost of the Triple Darts upgrade and moving some of the top path’s cost into the lower upgrades to make dart monkey hoards more expensive.
• Glue Gunner - ⏩ 5xx Bloon Solver: Attack cooldown 0.25 → 0.4 - 💭 We are slightly nerfing the Bloon Solver’s attack speed to reduce the number of times it’s able to reapply its glue after Scientist Gwen has burned it off.
• Banana Farm - 🍌 030 Monkey Bank: End of Round Income: $550 → $450 - 🍌 130 Monkey Bank end of round income: $450 → $500 - 🍌 230 Monkey Bank end of round income: $500 → $550 - ⏳ x5x Monkey Nomics: Ability initial cooldown 25s → 30s - 💭 The Monkey Bank benefited a little too much from the introduction of Quality Soil. These changes are intended to keep the strength of the Monkey Bank when combined with the top path while nerfing the bottom crosspath.
• Scientist Gwendolin - 💥 Level 3: Chemical Cocktail damage 2→3 - ⏱ Level 3: Chemical Cocktail damage rate: 0.24s → 0.36s - 💭 By increasing the damage and reducing the attack rate of Scientist Gwedolin’s cocktail, we can reduce the amount of damage it does when combined with Glue Gunner without nerfing the attack as a whole.
• Benjamin - 🍌 Level 1: Benjamin gets buffed by the 5xx Banana Central as if he was a Banana Research Facility - 💻 Level 3: Biohack affects +2 monkeys (6 total) and they do an extra +1 damage (2 total). (applies to all future levels). - 🏪 Level 5: Bank Hack now applies to Marketplace as well. - ⏩ Level 6: Replace Cyber Security with Boost Hack. Bloon Boost and Tower boosts have 20% lower cooldown. - ⏩ Level 14: Boost Hack gives 1 additional boost of each type. - 💭 Poor Benjamin has had some of his uniqueness stolen by Bonnie and Beetienne in recent updates leaving him without a solid niche. To help find him a new one, we are strengthening his synergy with Banana Farms and replacing his life gain upgrade with a brand new effect: Boost Hack.
• DJ Ben Jammin’ - 🎵 All upgrades have been reflavoured to be DJ themed, not hacking themed. - 🔭 Level 1: Range +5 - 💸 Level 1: Generates $75 → $50 per round, +$10 per monkey in range, up to 10 monkeys. - 💸 Level 2: Generates $112 → $75 per round, +$15 per monkey in range. - 🗣 Level 3: For each different type of monkey in range of DJ Ben, Good Vibes gives the 3 furthest away monkeys of that type +2 damage for 6 seconds, then require a 2s cooldown. Excludes Monkey Village and Banana Farm. - 🤑 Level 5: Bank Hack replaced with Side Hustle: All cash generated by monkeys other than Farm and Village increased by 6%. - 💸 Level 5: Generates $187 → $125 per round, +$25 per monkey in range. - ⏳ Level 6: Cyber Security replaced with Encore: All activated abilities have 5% lower cooldown. - 💸 Level 8: Generates $300 → $200 per round, +$40 per monkey in range. - 🤑 Level 9: All cash generated by monkeys other than Farm and Village increased by 9% - 💸 Level 11: Generates $600 → $400 per round, +$80 per monkey in range. - 🗣 Level 13: Good Vibes now gives +3 damage and lasts for 8 seconds. The number of monkeys affected does not change. - ⏳ Level 14: All activated abilities have 15% lower cooldown. - 💸 Level 15: Generates $1500 → $1000 per round, +$200 per monkey in range. - 💸 Level 17: Generates $3000 → $2000 per round, +$400 per monkey in range. - 🗣 Level 19: Good Vibes affects the 4 furthest away monkeys of each type in range of DJ Ben. - 💭 DJ Ben has been given even more changes to distinguish him from the other heroes, including Ben. Every DJ needs a crowd so DJ Ben’s income is now based on the number of monkeys you can fit into his radius. He’s weaker than regular Ben by himself, but stronger if you can max out his crowd. We’ve also swapped his synergy with Farms for a synergy with alternative income monkeys like Sniper, Heli Pilot, and Engineer.

Bug Fixes

• 😾 Fixed Smudge Catt Ezili having the incorrect hero type (changed Supporter to Defender)
• 🐶 Fixed Obyn’s wolf animating incorrectly in the Druid’s Best Friend animation.
• 🌞 Fixed Sun God Adora’s range being decreased by sacrificing other monkeys rather than increased.
• 🏴‍☠️ Fixed Buccaneer not firing both cannons when placed too close to land.
• 😴 Fixed 3xx Monkey Sub sleeping on the job (visual issue only).
• 🌊 Fixed 3xx Monkey Sub not visually submerging when the upgrade is first bought.
• ⚡ Fixed 3xx Druid animating incorrectly when firing lightning.
• 📄 Fixed copying and pasting not working on some devices (desktop only)
• 🔤 Fixed German text not fitting in some buttons.
• 🎁 Fixed unread gift popup auto closing before it can be claimed.
• Fixed Beetienne permanently decamoing bloons that get popped in his radius.
• Fixed golden bananas sparkling in areas they shouldn’t during Double Golden Banana events
• Fixed Activated Ability list scrolling while dragging out Farmers, Bloon Bots, and Beehives.
• Fixed issue where it was possible to equip weapon skins to the wrong hero.
• Fixed Beetienne not playing his Defend the Hive animation if he is making honey.
• Fixed Beetienne not reverting to Making Honey if he was in that mode when Defend the Hive was activated.
• Fixed Pat Fusty’s Rallying Roar not applying bonus damage at level 14. this has been added to the 4.5 patch notes because itll be in an immediate ota

New Features

• New Hero: Beetienne - 🐝 A busy little bee who uses a swarm of honeybees to sting the bloons. - 🍯 Starting at level 2, Beetienne gains the “Making Honey” targeting option. While Making Honey, Beetienne stops attacking and generates lives every 3 seconds. - 💓 These extra lives can take you above the starting value of 150. Given enough time, Beetienne can generate thousands of extra lives, allowing you to leak even MOAB class bloons without losing. - 💢 Beetienne’s level 3 ability, Defend the Hive, summons extra swarms and makes all of them more aggressive. He stops making honey and attacks while it’s active so it’s great for emergency defence. - 🐝 His level 10 ability, Auxiliary Hives, allows you to spend some of those extra lives to place additional, permanent hive towers, each with their own bee swarm.
• Scientist Gwen’s Bloon Lab - 👩‍🔬 This single player sandbox mode is the perfect place to experiment with new strategies and combinations. - 🎛 Change your cash, income, and loadout at will from inside the game. - 🧪 Jump to any round and send any Bloon Send against yourself to test your defences. - 🧰 Make use of a host of other tools and stats to analyze your strategy. - 👑 Scientist Gwen’s Bloon Lab is available exclusively to Club Members.
• “Loses To” popout - ℹ You can now tap on your opponent’s life total to see a popout showing which bloons will do enough damage to defeat them. - ❤ You can also tap on your own life total to see which bloons you can afford to leak without losing. - 🎈 The popout will show single, weakest bloon currently available to send that will defeat them in a single hit, plus how many of the next weakest bloon it will take to defeat them.] - 🌈 E.g. An opponent with 100 lives will show as losing to 1 Ceramic Bloon (104 lives) or 3 Rainbow Bloons (141 lives). - ⚠ This warning only takes into account the amount of lives a bloon will cost if it leaks. It doesn’t account for the player’s ability to pop those bloons before they leak.

General Changes

• New Daily Offer Items
• 🛒 The following seasons and showcases have been added to the Daily Offer in the shop: - 📅 Season 19-23 - 👁 Fateweaver Adora - Eye of Misfortune - 👶 Quincy - Son of Quincy - 🏈 Sporting Heroes - 🌞 Adora - Summer Sun - 🏎 Etienne - Drone Racing
• New “Solo Play” Screen - 🏕 Hero Challenge has moved into the new “Solo Play” screen alongside Scientist Gwen’s Bloon Lab

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - 📉 Tight Leads: Income 22 → 7 - 💰 Tight Ceramics: $3400 → $2800 - 💭 The very fast send speed of Tight Leads made them a powerful source of income which wasn’t their intended use. We are significantly reducing their income gain to reinforce the fact that they are intended to be used as an offensive rush. Tight Ceramic Bloons have been left behind by other tower and bloon send buffs so we are reducing their cost to make them a more efficient send.
• Ports - 📦 The blue crate has been removed, making this area placeable immediately. - 🏗 Cost to remove crates $500 → $300 - 💭 Ports is a difficult map with a fairly low play rate. We are removing the blue crate to allow a larger variety of starting towers and reducing the cost of removing the other crates.
• Ice Monkey - ⏳ x4x Snowstorm: ability freeze and buff duration 6s → 8s - ⏳ x5x Absolute Zero: ability freeze and buff duration 10s → 12s - 💰 xx3 Cryo Canno: $1750 → $1300 - 💥 xx4 Icicles: +3 → +6 MOAB damage - 💥 xx5 Icicle Impale: Icicles do 50 → 70 MOAB damage. - 💭 We’re giving Ice Monkey some extra MOAB damage and buffing its higher tier abilities to make it more useful in the late game.
• Dartling Gunner - 💰 x3x Hydra Rocket Pods: $5600 → $5100 - 💰 x4x Rocket Storm: $5100 → $5500 - 💥 x4x Rocket Storm: Ability Damage for Rockets 4 → 5 - ⏳ x4x Rocket Storm: Duration 8s → 10s - 💭 We are buffing the Rocket Storm ability to make it more capable of handling mid game rushes like tight leads and MOABs.
• Spike Factory - 💰 xx3 Long Life Spikes: $750 → $1200 - 💭 Spike Factory is getting a lot of use right now in several different popular strategies. Similar to how we buffed the Spiked Mines upgrade in 4.3, we are nerfing the bottom path to encourage different uses of the tower.
• Engineer Monkey - 🤖 4xx Sentry Expert: Immediately spawns 6 sentries when the upgrade is first purchased. - 💭 The Engineer has been languishing at the bottom of the “most used towers” list for a while. This change makes the sentry expert more useful immediately since it no longer needs to wait to generate its special sentry towers, and also opens up some interesting micro opportunities.
• Pat Fusty - 🏫 Level 1: Pat is considered a primary monkey by the Monkey Village, allowing him to receive buffs from Primary Training, Mentoring, and Expertise. Since Pat cannot benefit from free low tier upgrades, he levels up 40% and 80% faster when in range of the 4xx and 5xx Village respectively. - 📣 Level 3: Rallying Roar gives primary monkeys in range (including himself) +20% attack speed in addition to giving everything +1 damage. - 🤗 Level 10: Monkeys in range of pat get +3 damage while he’s squeezing a MOAB. - 🤗 Level 20: Monkeys in range of pat get +9 damage while he’s squeezing a MOAB. - 💭 Pat Fusty has been lacking synergy with any other towers for a while now and his popularity has suffered a lot because of it. Pat Fusty is a simple fellow so we thought synergy with Primary Monkeys was a good fit and gave him a weaker but more versatile version of Fusty the Snowman’s speed boost. We also made Pat an honorary Primary Monkey so that he can benefit from the Village’s top path upgrades, creating a new use for some fairly niche upgrades.
• Fusty the Snowman - ⛄ Level 5: All Ice Monkeys can pop/freeze white bloons. - 🧊 Level 5: Fusty’s backhand creates 6 ice shards each time it hits a frozen bloon. - 🤗 Level 10: Bloons within 50 range of Fusty are slowed to 40% speed while he’s squeezing a MOAB. - 🤗 Level 20: Bloons are slowed to 20% speed while he’s squeezing a MOAB. - 💭 Despite having a much clearer strategy, Fusty the Snowman also suffers from very low play rates. Letting him remove the Ice Monkey’s main weakness makes the pairing much stronger in the early game.
• Highwayman Jericho - ⌛ Level 3: Stand and Deliver initial cooldown 45s → 35s - 💭 A small buff to the initial cooldown of Highwayman Jericho’s ability allows him to start stealing from the opponent quicker and brings him more in line with the power level of the other Jericho variants.

Bug Fixes

• 🏦 Fixed x5x Monkeynomics being unable to activate while in debt.
• 😎 Fixed Adora’s sunglasses clipping with her arms during her Sunburnt defeat animation.
• 🔢 Fixed RBE Popped stat in Hero Challenge not counting pops correctly.
• 🎬 Fixed towers with custom sell animations not animating correctly if sold while transformed.
• ⌨ Fixed hotkeys that use modifiers (ctrl, alt, etc) still activating when the modifier isn’t pressed (Desktop only)
• 💀 Fixed Necromancer bloons appearing on the Minecart only track on Bloonstone Quarry
• ❤ Fixed reactions to clan chat messages being added twice.
• 🖼 Fixed Highwayman Jericho appearing in much lower resolution than the other heroes on the hero screen.
• 🔊 Fixed heroes saying multiple voice lines simultaneously when unlocked.
• 🗝 Fixed issue where players could occasionally get stuck in expired Arena Leagues.
• 🍌 Fixed Banana Farm’s bottom path prices not displaying correctly in the monkeys screen.
• 🏙 Fixed Bloons taking too long to appear onscreen after they spawn on Up On The Roof.
• 👩‍🔬 Fixed Scientist Gwen appearing to cause the 2xx Village’s Jungle Drums buff to apply twice.
• 💬 Fixed tooltips not appearing when viewing accolades in some places.
• 📷 Fixed incorrect images on some hero summaries.
• 🤵 Fixed Agent Jericho’s decoy interfering with Ice Monkey’s Snowstorm and Absolute Zero abilities.

New Features

• New Map: Up on the Roof - 💣You might need to engage in some property damage to make room for your Buccaneers and Subs. - 🔓 Try this awesome new map in all ranked games, plus casual, event and clan games.
• Hero Challenge - 👤 An exciting single player challenge mode now available on all platforms. - 🏹 Challenge Quincy, Gwen, Striker Jones, and T.D. in practice games to hone your skills. - 🎈 You can send bloons to build your income but they won’t damage your opponent. - ⏲ Survive the final round to win the challenge!
• New Hero Screen - ♾ We have redesigned the hero screen to better support the growing roster of heroes in Battles 2. - 📋 Each hero now has a summary page showcasing their most important upgrades. - 📑 We have added the ability to sort and filter heroes by different criteria, making it even easier to find the one you’re looking for. - 📛 All heroes now have a role which shows what kind of playstyle they are best suited to. - 💥 Defenders focus on popping bloons by dealing damage. - 💫 Controllers specialise in hindering the bloons with debuffs and status effects. - 💞 Supporters buff your other monkeys, making them more powerful. - 💸 Money Makers do just that, make money! They can supplement your income. - 🦹‍♂️ Saboteurs interfere with your opponent in some way, such as by stealing their cash.

General Changes

• 🎴 The Daily Jackpop has been moved to the store and combined with the daily freebie. The rewards from the non-jackpop cards have been increased to reflect the merge.
• ⏸ The pause screen in Hero Challenge now has a resume button instead of a restart button for clarity. Restart has been moved to the central column.

Balance Changes

• Dart Monkey - 🏹 xx3 Crossbow pierce: 6 -> 8 - 🏀 xx4 Sharp Shooter: Bolts now ricochet once after the first hit. - 💥 xx5 Crossbow Master: Crit damage 50 -> 100 - 💭 The crossbow is the least used of the Dart Monkey’s upgrade paths. The Juggernaut and Super Monkey Fan Club both have their niche with high pierce group popping and concentrated single target damage respectively. We are buffing the Crossbow Monkey to give it a place somewhere between the two with solid pierce and damage and some slight seeking to ensure it makes the most out of its pierce.
• Monkey Sub - 💥 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts: 2 damage -> 3 damage - 💭 The bottom path sub is often neglected for the top path Reactor and the middle path First Strike upgrades. While this damage buff may look minor, it stacks quickly due to the high attack speed of the bottom path sub and the xx5 Sub Commander’s ability to double the damage of other subs. We hope this will make the bottom path sub a more appealing choice for DPS on maps where space isn’t an issue while preserving the middle path’s identity as elite MOAB stopping power.
• Monkey Buccaneer - 💰 3xx Destroyer: $2700 -> $2200 - ⏳ 140 Faster Shooting: Ability Cooldown 30s -> 20s. - 💥 xx2 Crows Nest: All attacks deal +2 damage to camo bloons, including attacks from the 4xx and 5xx planes. - 🚢 xx5 Trade Empire: Merchantmen ships generate +5% -> +10% income per round. Capped at 20 -> 10 Merchantmen. - 💭 The top path buccaneer does not currently see a lot of use, either as a crosspath or as a main upgrade, so we want to add some buffs to make it a more appealing option. The xx5 Trade Empire’s limit of 20 Merchantmen came from BTD6 and is very difficult to reach in the smaller maps of Battles 2. We are therefore increasing the buff while lowering the cap to make it easier to get the full value of the upgrade in a smaller space.
• Mortar Monkey - 🎯 000 Mortar now includes Increased Accuracy from 001 as standard (spread 18 -> 8). - 🎯 xx1 Increased Accuracy replaced with Dynamic Targeting, which costs $400 and allows the Mortar to aim itself at the strongest bloon on screen or the area with the most densely packed bloons. - 💰 xx2 Burny Stuff $700 -> $500 - 💭 The randomness of the Mortar has never been popular and the xx1 upgrade has often felt like a tax to remove RNG than an upgrade in its own right. The new Dynamic Targeting upgrade will hopefully give interesting crosspath options to the other upgrades, allowing the Mortar to easily focus fire on strong MOABs or maximise the impact of stunning by automatically aiming for the densest cluster of bloons. Manual targeting will likely still remain the most consistent option for effects like Signal Flare and Burny Stuff that just want to hit every bloon once.
• Ninja Monkey - 💰 x5x Grand Saboteur: $25,000 -> $20,000 - 🌸 x5x Grand Saboteur: All x3x and above Ninja Monkeys in range, including the Grand Saboteur itself, gain +10 range and +2 MOAB damage. - 💭 The Grand Saboteur is the weakest of the Ninja Monkey’s tier 5 upgrades. We are bringing over a popular balance change from BTD6 in order to improve its usage, although we are limiting it to only Ninjas in the Grand Saboteur’s range rather than a map wide buff to limit its interaction with other, more powerful combos.
• Spike Factory - 💰 5xx Super Mines: $110,000 -> $90,000 - 💣 5xx Super Mines: Explosion Pierce 60 -> 80 - 💭 Super Mines is by far the least used of Spike Factory’s tier 5 upgrades, overshadowed by Carpet of Spikes and Permaspike. We are making it more affordable while also buffing its pierce to make it more capable of dealing with its main weakness of tight ZOMGs.
• Biker Bones - 💣 Level 3: Concussive shot radius 27 -> 40 - 💣 Level 3: Concussive shot pierce 48 -> 72 - 🎯 Level 3: Concussive shot now aims at densest area, not strongest bloon. - 💭 The dense bloon targeting we added for Mortar in this update felt like it would be a good fit for Biker Bones as well, allowing him to affect more bloons with the stun and fire effects of his ability and further distinguish him from Striker Jones.
• Etienne - ⌛ Level 3: Drone Swarm Ability cooldown 45s -> 60s - ⌛ Level 16: Drone Swarm Ability cooldown 40s -> 45s - 💭 Etienne’s ability is extremely effective at clearing up early game rushes. We are increasing the cooldown to ensure that Etienne players cannot rely on it entirely and still need to spend on their early game defence.

Bug Fixes

• 🦹‍♀️ Fixed issue where Adora could appear visually as Dark Adora. Dark Adora does not feature in Battles 2.
• 👨‍🌾 Fixed issue where collectables picked up by the Banana Farmer would leave their visual on screen.
• 🦸‍♂️ Fixed issue where selling a x4x or x5x Dart Monkey while the SMFC/PMFC ability was active would cause the affected monkeys to visually revert to Dart Monkeys while still attacking like Supermonkeys. The ability now persists both visually and mechanically after the sale.
• ⛔ Fixed issue that would occasionally cause the game to think that the user account was already online and prevent it signing in.
• 🛳 Fixed issue where monkeys could not be placed on the 5xx Buccaneer’s platform if there was another monkey behind it.
• 🌞 Fixed issue where monkeys could be placed on the same space if a 5xx Buccaneer was sacrificed to a Sun Temple.
• 🌩 Fixed issue where the Plasma Bloon Boost was using the wrong fullscreen effect.
• 🎰 Fixed issue where save slots could not be deleted (Arcade only)
• 💬 Fixed incorrect Chinese translation for “Nexus Creator Code”.
• 📌 Fixed xx3 Spike Factory spikes clipping into the floor of some maps.
• 🖋 Fixed very long usernames displaying incorrectly in game.
• 🛤 Fixed issue where placing the Sniper at a particular point on Bloonstone Quarry broke its field of view.
• 💫 Fixed issue where MOABs would move sideways if they are hit with a knockback effect the moment they are spawned.
• ❄ Fixed issue where Level 6 Etienne was allowing Ice Monkey to always freeze the zebra children of rainbows, rather than only 25% of the time.
• 🦇 Fixed the xx4 Dark Knight’s visual aura not matching the range of its teleport ability.
• 🎬 Fixed some Monkey Subs not playing their firing animation.
• 🛒 Fixed Bonnie’s Minecarts sometimes drawing over the top of 3D objects when they should be behind them.
• 🖌 Fixed the Sniper Monkey’s paintball trail cosmetic not appearing on 250 Snipers.
• 🍌 Fixed the Banana Farm’s Banana Split weapon skin not appearing on 310 Banana Farms.
• 🐭 Fixed mouse wheel not controlling zoom on clan islands (desktop only)
• 🔭 Fixed animated banners appearing too zoomed in when viewed on the profile screen.
• 💥 Fixed Mortar Monkey targeting itself instead of the beginning of the map when first placed.
• 👀 Fixed Alchemist’s eyelids not lining up with its eyes on the main menu.
• 🔀 Fixed incorrect flow when viewing player profiles through clan leaderboards.
• 🔘 Fixed mini league leaderboard sometimes not animating like a button.
• 🥈 Fixed Silver Darts Dart Monkey weapon skin not applying to crossbow bolts and spiked balls.
• 📌 Fixed x42 Spike Factory firing too many spikes from its ability if activated at the very start of a round.
• ⚙ Fixed missing visual details on x3x Tack Shooter

New Features

• OTA Updates - 📡 We’ve added support for OTA (Over The Air) updates to allow us to make balance changes and fix some issues without requiring a full game update.

Balance Changes

• Arena League Trophies - 🏆 The penalty for losing a game in the Hall of Masters has been increased from -2 trophies to -3 trophies. - 🏆 The penalty for losing a game in ZOMG Superdome has been increased from -2 trophies to -3 trophies. - 📅 This will take effect on Friday 20th September with the start of new the Arena League. - 💭 The feedback from the Arena Leagues survey showed that many players wanted Hall of Masters to be a more exclusive arena with a much higher skill threshold. We are increasing the trophy penalty in ZOMG and HoM so that a 50% win rate (excluding streak bonuses) would be the minimum to avoid auto demotion. We want to avoid increasing the penalty to 4 or more trophies as it would significantly reduce the number of players in the Hall of Masters and make it much harder to find a match. We’re monitoring the other arenas and may make further adjustments in the future.

Bug Fixes

• 🛑 Fixed issue where players would get shown the fast track popup without a 10 win streak.
• 🧊 Fixed 205 Ice Monkey not freezing ZOMGs.
• 🏟 Fixed issue where some newly promoted Yellow Stadium players would not be put into a league after their first match.
• 💸 Fixed Bonnie’s minecarts not being sellable in round 50 sudden death.
• 👷‍♂️ Improved stability to reduce crashes.
• ✨ Fixed club sparkle effect not displaying correctly in the Events screen.
• 📈 Fixed bloon pops in event games not contributing to the stats displayed in the profile.
• 🎖 Fixed Striker Jones level 20 accolade not displaying in game when unlocked.
• ✌Fixed issue where it was possible to select 2 towers at once.
• 🚀 Fixed cannons not displaying correctly in Precious Space when reconnecting after a desync.
• ⛏ Fixed incorrect upgrade cost for Bonnie’s minecarts being displayed briefly after an upgrade.
• 🐌 Fixed slow initial load times on some devices.
• 🐟 Fixed Monkey Sub’s fish darts and Dart Monkey’s silver darts weapon skins not displaying correctly.
• 😵 Fixed jittering text in clan chat.
• 🦆 Fixed Agent Jericho’s decoys being the wrong size.
• 💫 Fixed Agent Jericho’s decoys spinning around when they spawn.
• 🧨 Fixed fuse not always displaying in Bonnie’s Ready to Blow animation
• 🔊 Fixed missing sound effects in a few of Bonnie’s animations.
• 🕹 Fixed missing sprites on save slots (Apple Arcade only).

New Features

• New Hero: Bonnie - ⛏ A hard working bloonstone miner with a whole new playstyle. - 💎 Starting at level 2, Bonnie causes minecarts full of bloonstones to appear on the natural bloon path. - 💰 Your monkeys will target the minecarts like bloons. You won’t lose lives if they escape but if you pop them, they drop cash. - 📈 You can upgrade the minecarts from Bonnie’s upgrade panel, making them more valuable but also tougher. - 🧨 Bonnie also helps your defences by throwing sticks of dynamite onto the track which explode after a delay or when a bloon touches them. - 💥 Bonnie’s level 3 ability, Mass Detonation, throws dynamite at all the minecarts on screen, destroying them instantly in big, bloon popping explosions. - 🚛 Her level 10 calls in the Bloonstone Excavation And Supply Truck, the B.E.A.S.T. This massive truck barrels down the path like a regular minecart, stunning any bloons that get in its way. The more damage you deal to it, the more cash it’ll drop.
• Arena League Changes - 🏆 Losing a game in Ceramic Crucible, MOAB Pit, and BFB Colosseum will incur a 1 trophy penalty. - 🏆 Losing a game in ZOMG Superdome or Hall of Masters will incur a 2 trophy penalty. - 0️⃣ Trophies still cannot fall below 0, so there is no penalty for losing in any arena if you are already at the bottom. - ⏲ You no longer receive 1 trophy for losing the game after round 30. - 📈 You no longer need to earn 20 trophies in a league to be eligible for promotion. You just need to finish in the promotion zone. - 📉 You will always be demoted if you end a league with 0 trophies. - 👑 Players will no longer be automatically demoted from Hall of Masters if they don’t participate in a league. - 📋 We are reviewing the feedback from the recent survey about these changes and make adjustments in the next update.
• New Lobby UI - 🧾 Battles 2 now features 24 playable heroes, too many to comfortably scroll in a single list. - 📑 The hero picker in the lobby is now split over 2 rows for easier readability. - 🎨 The hero screen will be redesigned in a future update to make it easier to view the full roster of heroes.

General Changes

• Jump Start Rewards - ➰ A quirk of the rules meant Jump Start games were giving a disproportionate amount of Hero Points and Tower XP. - 🌟 Hero Points and Tower XP are now based on the number of rounds played, not the starting round. - 👨‍🔬 The XP formula has been adjusted to account for the fact that Jump Start games often take place over fewer rounds than standard games.
• Avatar & Banner Information - 🔒 Locked avatars and banners now display an icon to show how to unlock them. - ℹ Tapping on the icon takes you to where they can be unlocked.

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - 🎈 Round 3 Grouped Blues: Gives +1 -> +1.1 eco - 🎈 Round 10 Grouped Blacks: Gives +3 eco -> +2.9 eco - 🎈 Round 10 Grouped Whites: Gives +2.6 -> +2.5 eco - 🎈 Round 23 Tight Leads: $1400 -> $1200, gives +24 -> +22 eco, sends out 80 -> 60 bloons, and send duration remains at 1s (bloon spacing 0.0125 -> 0.0167) - 💭 We’ve made a few adjustment to eco bloon sends, buffing the less-used grouped blues while nerfing grouped blacks and whites since they were very efficient as well as effective at applying pressure. Tight leads have also received a noticeable nerf since a lot of tower loadouts struggle to deal with them effectively. The main difference is that they will now be a lot less densely packed.
• Boomerang Monkey - 💨 xx4 MOAB Press: Special kylie pushes back MOABs 2 -> 2.4 units - 💭 While MOAB Press is certainly a solid upgrade and incredibly useful for things such as stalling ZOMGs, it’s not quite as effective at slowing down the faster MOABs.
• Bomb Shooter - 💰 xx5 Bomb Blitz: $35,000 -> $38,000 - 💭 Bomb Blitz is a great option to effectively deal with large rushes like tight MOABs and grouped DDTs. We have upped the price a bit so that it will be a bit more costly to keep on buying and selling it for its ability.
• Tack Shooter - 🎯 5xx Inferno Ring: Meteor’s targeting can now be selected (previously it always targeted strong) - 💭 A small quality of life change to offer added flexibility. It’ll default to ‘strong’ since that is what it targeted previously.
• Ice Monkey - 🌨 x4x/x5x Snowstorm/Absolute Zero: Ability slows down MOABs/BFBs/DDTs to 5 -> 2.25 speed (the same speed as it sets ZOMGs to) - 🧊 x5x Absolute Zero: Ability’s speed modifier can soak through MOAB class bloons - 🧊 3xx Ice Shards: $2,000 -> $1,800 - 💭 Absolute Zero lacks utility, not offering enough for its cost. We have added another benefit of using it, as well as reducing the cost of Ice Shards, in order to encourage Ice Monkey’s usage.
• Glue Gunner - 💫 xx4 Relentless Glue: $2,000 -> $2,200 and on-pop splats stun ZOMGs for 0.1 -> 0.06 seconds - 💭 It’s nice to see that Relentless Glue finally has more use, however it has offered a bit too much for such a cheap price on a tier 4 upgrade.
• Monkey Buccaneer - 💰 xx3 Merchantman: $1,600 -> $1,500 - 💰 xx4 Favored Trades: $5,400 -> $5,700 and generates $1,000 -> $1,200 per round - 💭 Monkey Buccaneer’s income generation is decent early on but it doesn’t quite compare to other alternatives, especially with water placement often being a major limitation. We have upped its income efficiency slightly to address this.
• Monkey Ace - 💰 x4x Ground Zero: $14,000 -> $15,000 - 💥 xx5 Flying Fortress: Dart damage 4 -> 12 and MOAB class damage 10 -> 2 - 💭 We’ve raised Ground Zero’s price because it is extremely cost effective, offering a top tier ability as well as pretty solid defense with its high-damage bombs. Flying Fortress has been changed so that it can pop Bonnie’s minecarts more easily.
• Heli Pilot - 🤏 Base: Footprint size reduced 23x23 -> 18x18 - 💰 xx4 Comanche Defense: $8,500 -> $7,500 - 💥 5xx Apache Prime: Missile damage 3 -> 15 and damage to ceramics and moab class 15 -> 3 - 💭 Heli Pilot’s large footprint has been a major limitation on the tower’s viability on a lot of maps, so we hope to open up its viability by reducing its size. Comanche Defense has never been a popular choice so we think it’s fair to make it slightly more affordable, and Apache Prime’s damage has been altered so that it performs better against Bonnie’s minecarts.
• Mortar Monkey - 💥 5xx: damage 25 -> 50 and bonus ceramic and MOAB class damage +25 -> 0 - 💭 This shouldn't have any impact other than making the Biggest One perform a little better at popping Bonnie’s minecarts.
• Dartling Gunner - 💰 Bloon Area Denial System: $14,500 -> $16,000 and deals 4 -> 5 - 💰 xx5 Bloon Exclusion Zone: $53k -> $50k (damage remains at 8) - 💭 xx4 and xx4 are at similar price points but 4xx far outshines xx4. We’ve upped xx4’s damage and price slightly so that it can offer a stronger alternative against certain rushes.
• Wizard Monkey - 💀 xx4 Necromancer: As long as graveyard count is above 18, then 18 pops will consistently be deducted from the graveyard count every second. The number of spawned bloons will still randomly be between 1 and 5, however their collective pierce will always total 18. Previously, the pops deducted from the graveyard (and collective pierce of spawned bloons) was not consistent. - 🐔 x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix: All projectiles from the ability Phoenix now deal +15 damage to fortified bloons - 💭 The randomness made Necromancer very unreliable and inconsistent - sometimes it’d wipe out rushes easily, other times it’d let the rush by. The community has expressed their issues with this and so we have changed it to limit the randomness. Wizard Lord Phoenix has been buffed so that it can more effectively deal with beefy Fortified BADs or ZOMGs.
• Sniper Monkey - 💥 x2x Shrapnel Shot: Shrapnel pieces now deal +2 damage to camo bloons. - 💭 There was a bug where only the main attack was dealing additional damage to camo bloons, not the shrapnel pieces. This has now been corrected which results in a slight buff to the Sniper.
• Super Monkey - 💥 5xx True Sun God: Damage 30 -> 38 - 💭 True Sun God doesn’t provide enough damage considering its massive price tag.
• Ninja Monkey - 💥 xx5 Master Bomber: Sticky Bomb deals 850 -> 1,000 damage - 💭 Ninja Monkey has been out of the limelight for a while now and so we would like improve it by targeting its late game support damage, rather than its early game which caused problems in the past.
• Alchemist - ⏱ x3x Unstable Concoction: attack cooldown 6s -> 4.5s - 🏹 1xx Larger Potions: Now increases Unstable Concoction pierce by +1 (3 -> 4) - 💭 Some small tweaks to Unstable Concoction, with the aim of making it more reliable against tight rushes. xx2 crosspathing affects Unstable Concoction so it makes sense for 1xx to have an effect as well.
• Druid - 💰 1xx Hard Thorns: $350 -> $250 - 💰 2xx Heart of Thunder: $900 -> $1,000 - 💭 These upgrades were nerfed in a previous update but have since been rendered unnecessary by more significant changes made to the Druid in the last update. We are therefore reverting these changes.
• Spike Factory - ⏱ x5x Carpet of Spikes: Attack rate 0.98s -> 0.49s - 💭 Carpet of Spikes’ base attack has been buffed so that there is more reason to keep it up, rather than selling it instantly after activating the ability.
• Engineer Monkey - 💰 1xx Sentry Gun: $450 -> $400 - 💰 3xx Sprockets: $525 -> $500 - 💭 A couple of minor tweaks to help out Engineer’s early game defense.

Bug Fixes

• 🌍 Fixed combined rules games having names that don’t make sense in non-english languages.
• 👨‍👧‍👦 Fixed buff icons not appearing on child towers when they are affected via their parent.
• ⚠ Fixed crash when using shortcuts on Gwen’s hero showcase carts
• ⛔ Fixed issue where players that lose their first game after fast tracking are not entered into a league.
• 🔥 Fixed losing win streaks if your opponent quits while in the lobby.
• 🐌 Fixed slow launch times on some desktop devices.
• 🖊 Fixed incorrect text colour displaying on Hero Packs in the store.
• 🔍 Fixed x2x sniper not dealing additional damage to camo - see balance changes
• 🛸 Fixed Etienne’s weapon skins not displaying on the main menu.
• 🛸 Fixed Etienne’s drones disappearing if they upgrade while Etienne is down the Bot Factory elevator.
• 🏆 Fixed incorrect trophy display for players with more than 1000 trophies.
• 👊 Fixed battle button not displaying on the league screen if you are not in a league yet.
• 👷‍♂️ Fixed missing animation on Engineer Monkey’s second gun.
• 😴 Fixed animated banners and avatars of inactive clan members not appearing greyed out.
• 🛒 Fixed missing animation on notification icon in the shop.
• 🔙 Fixed Esc/Back button working incorrectly on the leaderboard screen (Android/Desktop only)
• 💬 Fixed not being able to scroll through all the players who reacted to a clan chat message.
• 👾 Fixed low resolution casual game icon in post game screen.
• 🏖 Fixed overlapping banners in the clan screen for clans in vacation mode.
• 😎 Fixed Adora’s sunglasses not appearing in previews for other animations when equipped.
• 📑 Fixed the list of profile banners displaying incorrectly on some devices.

New Features

• New Game Mode: Jump Start - ⏩ Skip the early game and jump straight to the dramatic, late game finishes in this fast paced new game mode! - 🎰 Each game starts on a random round between 10 and 30 (or 20 and 40 when combined with Bananza). - 🤑 Starting cash and income are randomly determined based on the starting round. - ⏳ You have extra time before the first round starts to build an advanced defence. - 🤵 Club members can try this mode right now in Private Matches. - 🤝 A special Jump Start Clan War begins on July 24th. - 🌟 Jump Start will appear in event games starting on July 25th.
• New Map: Bloonstone Quarry - ⛏ Break out your pickaxe and head on down to the all new map: Bloonstone Quarry. - 💰 Farmland is at a premium in the quarry so you might need an alternative income source. - 🆕 Bloonstone Quarry is available in all arenas and game modes now!

General Changes

• Changes to Hall of Masters ranking system - 👂 We have heard and acknowledged the community's feedback regarding the scoring system for the Hall of Masters leaderboard, and we are making changes! - 👨‍🔬 Previously, score gain/loss from matches between HoM players was calculated using MMR (matchmaking rating) values, which are hidden to players. Moving forward, score changes will instead be determined solely based on the difference between the players' visible scores on the leaderboard.
• Back From The Dead: Casual Mode - 🦥 Many players have told us that, since Casual Mode was removed in 4.0, they missed the less competitive mentality among players in that game mode. - 🔙 We have therefore decided to reinstate Casual Mode games. - 📩 Casual Games can be found in the newly named “Social” section, along with Private Games.
• Changes to Fast Track - 📈 We added the option to Fast Track to the next arena by being the first to reach 50 trophies as an additional means for extremely dedicated and skilled players to climb the leagues faster than normal. - 👷‍♂️ However, many players viewed Fast Track as the optimal method of rising through the arenas and a reward for excessive grinding rather than skilled play. - 🔥 We are therefore changing Fast Track to be awarded to anyone who reaches a win streak of 10. - ♾ This is not limited to 1 per league, any player who reaches a 10 win streak will be offered Fast Track promotion. - 💵 As before, if you accept Fast Track promotion you will not receive the rewards for the league you are being promoted from, only the league you are currently in when the league ends. - 🔥 If you are offered Fast Track promotion and you refuse, you will need to win another 10 games in a row before you are offered it again. - 🤴 We hope that this new system will serve the same purpose we originally intended, giving skilled players who are ranked lower than they should be a faster route to the higher arena leagues, without encouraging excessive grinding.
• Win Streak and Streak Breaker in Events - 🩸 The First Blood and No Lives Lost stars in event games have been replaced by stars for Win Streak and Streak Breaker - 🌟 Similar to Arena Leagues, you earn 1 extra star if you are on a 3+ win streak and another if you defeat someone who was on a 3+ win streak. - 🔥 Win streaks are tracked per event for the extra stars (your win streak will not persist between events and losing in another game mode or event will not end your win streak). - These are the first in a wider range of changes we have planned over the coming months based on community feedback, which we'll continue to monitor going forward!
• New Daily Offer Items - 🛒 The following cosmetic items from Season 17 and 18 will now appear in the Daily Offers in the store: - 💿 Battles 2 OST Avatar - 💬 Almost! Text Emote - 💦 Glue Top Up Glue Gunner Idle - 🐱‍🐉 Dino DDT skin - 🥄 Mind Bending tower Boost - ✨ Glitter Bloons decal - 🌽 Popping Corn emote - 🏡 Secret Weapon Mortar Placement animation - 🟪 Voxel BAD skin - 🏗 Lunch Break Banner - ⏰ Alarm Clock Bloons decal - 🎿 Ski-daddle Ice Monkey Sell Animation - 🌊 Deep Sea Exploration Banner - 💬 What’s up guys? Text emote - 🍨 Jelly BFB skin - 🍃 Gone Like The Wind Ninja Sell Animation - 🧝‍♂️ Elf Bloons Decal - 🤷‍♀️ What ya gonna do? Emote - 🏸 Shuttlecocks Dartling Projectiles - 🧚‍♀️ Fairy Circle Tower Boost - 👶 My First ZOMG skin - 👷‍♀️ Hard Hat Emote - 🌈 Rainbow Blur Boomerang Trails - 🐾 Toe Beans Avatar - 🤖 Digi-Tagged Victory Animation - 🤖 Cyber Quincy Was ‘Ere Avatar - 🤖 Antagonistic Art Taunt - 🤖 Tagged for Improvement Upgrade - 🤖 Punk Pigment Emote - 🤖 Graffiti Pops - 🤵 Support Tech Victory Animation - 🤵 Drone Strike Taunt - 🤵Spy Bot Bloons decal - 🤵 Infiltration Avatar - 🤵 Concealed Weapon Matchup Animation - 🤵 Self Destruct Defeat Animation - 🧒 Intimidation Tactics Taunt - 🧒Rascal Bloons Decal - 🧒Huddle Up Matchup Animation - 🧒Cheeky Emote - 🧒Team Effort Victory Animation - 🧒Usual Suspects Banner - 🐇 Woodland Warriors Matchup Animation - 🐇 Squirrel Bloons Decal - 🐇 Animal Attack Taunt - 🐇 Wrong Neighborhood Emote - 🐇 Spirit of the Wilds Tower Boost - 🐇 Nature’s Revenge Victory Animation

Balance Changes

• Boomerang Monkey - 🦾 x5x Perma Charge: Ability increases damage by +8 -> +10 - 💭 While Boomerang excels as an early game tower and so we are conscious to not make its later tiers overly strong, we still want all upgrades to have some viability. Perma Charge is probably the weakest of Boomerang’s tier 5s and the other two aren’t particularly powerful either, so we think it’s well deserving of a buff.
• Bomb Shooter - 💥 502 Bloon Crush: Frags damage 12 -> 30 - 💥 502 Bloon Crush: Frags bonus damage to ceramics 12 -> 0 - 💭 A small adjustment to crosspath balancing to make this option a little bit more enticing.
• Tack Shooter - ☄️ 5xx Inferno Ring: Meteor damage 700 -> 900 - ☄️ 501 Inferno Ring: Meteor damage 1000 -> 1300 - ☄️ 502 Inferno Ring: Meteor damage 1400 -> 1800 - 💭 Inferno Ring is still in need of a buff, rarely seeing any use.
• Ice Monkey - 🎯 xx4 Icicles: Can now target and damage MOAB class bloons, placing Icicles on them without freezing them. - ❄️ xx4 Icicles: Now deals +3 damage to MOAB class bloons - 💭 Ice Monkey is useful for early game defense and late game support with stalling and debuffing, but provides pretty much no MOAB class damage with any of its upgrades. We would like to give it a bit more to offer by allowing Icicles to attack and damage MOAB class bloons. It won’t deal massive damage to them but it can be greatly buffed by Fusty the Snowman, so we will be curious to see what impact this change has.
• Sniper Monkey
• - 💰 Base: $250 -> $200 - 💰 1xx Full Metal Jacket: $250 ->$200 - 💰 2xx Large Calibre: $800 -> $600 - 💥 120 Shrapnel Shot damage 1 -> 2 - 💥 220 Shrapnel Shot damage 2 -> 3 - 💥 320 Shrapnel Shot damage 4 -> 5 - 💥 420 Shrapnel Shot damage 6 -> 8 - 💭 Since it’s hard to get much use out of Sniper in the early game, we’re giving it some simple early game buffs and improvements to crosspathing.
• Monkey Buccaneer - 💰 3xx Destroyer: $2,850 -> $2,700 - 🏹 4xx Aircraft Carrier: mini ace dart pierce 13 -> 20 but MOAB class bloons use up 2 pierce - 🏹 5xx Carrier Flagship: mini ace dart pierce 18 -> 72 but MOAB class bloons use up 4 pierce - 💭 We would like Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Flagship to be more effective in bloon cleanup, which we have done by increasing the pierce that the darts have against regular bloons but not against MOAB class bloons. For example, Carrier Flagship’s darts remain unchanged when hitting all MOAB class bloons, but they have the potential to hit 4x as many regular bloons now.
• Monkey Ace - 💣 x3x Bomber Ace: Bomb pierce 12 -> 10 (20 -> 17 with xx1 crosspath) - 💭 Ace Monkey has a pretty easy time getting through all stages of the game, with the potential to be extremely efficient in the early/mid game when targeted optimally. We have slightly nerfed Bomber Ace so that its bloon cleanup isn’t quite so solid.
• Heli Pilot - 💰 Base: $900 -> $800 - 💭 Heli Pilot rarely sees much use as a starting tower so we hope that this change will make this option more attractive.
• Mortar Monkey - 🔥 Base: blast radius 20 -> 18 (carries over to 3/4/5xx) - 💭 Mortar Monkey still excels in the current meta. We have reduced its blast radius, but increased (and fixed) the buff that Jones and Bones give it so that it remains similarly effective when paired with either of these heroes.
• Dartling Gunner - 🏹 5xx Ray of Doom: Pierce 40 -> 1000 and damage 30 -> 35 - 💭 We noticed that Ray of Doom’s pierce was remaining at 40 (the pierce that 4xx has), however this was never intended. We have brought its pierce up to its intended value and given it another small damage buff on top.
• Wizard Monkey - 💰 xx3 Shimmer: $1,600 -> $1,500 - 💥 210 Fireball crosspathed damage increased 2 -> 3 - 🏹 011 Fireball pierce increased 15 -> 22 - 🔥 x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix: Wall of Fire attack damage 3 -> 5 - 💀 xx5 Prince of Darkness: Its buff to other Necromancers (+1 damage and +50% duration to zombie bloons) now applies to itself - 💭 We still feel that Wizard Monkey could do with some minor improvements, with a slightly cheaper decamo and some added crosspathing changes that make sense. Prince of Darkness’ buff now applies to itself, as it was never intended for this not to be the case.
• Ninja Monkey - 💰 3xx Double Shot: $750 -> $700 - 🌸 x4x Bloon Sabotage: Ability now soaks through MOAB class bloons (e.g. a slowed BFB will pop into slowed MOABs) - 💭 Ever since Ninja’s major nerfs a few updates ago, it has not been at the level that we would like. We are very conscious to not repeat past mistakes and over-buff it’s early game, so we’re just making very small changes for now. Bloon Sabotage has also been changed so that it can be used more reliably and easily when defending ZOMGs and BFBs.
• Druid - 💰 1xx Hard Thorns: $250 -> $350 - 💰 2xx Heart of Thunder: $1,000 -> $900 - 💰 x1x Thorn Swarm: $250 -> $350 - 💰 x2x Heart of Oak: $350 -> $250 - 💭 Druid of the Jungle very recently received a big nerf and while it certainly still is strong, we’re not yet convinced that it needs any more significant changes. For now we’ve decided to just make some small price adjustments. With these changes, it’ll now be slightly more expensive to quickly and easily buy 1xx on your 030 Druids as a very cheap option to strengthen your defense.
• Banana Farm - 💰 x3x Monkey Bank: $4,600 -> $4,400 - 💭 A minor price cut for this upgrade which rarely gets used.
• Monkey Village - 💥 5xx Primary Expertise: Bounce distance 50 -> 90 and damage to ceramics and moab class 200 -> 250 - 💭 We’ve increased the bounce distance and damage of Primary Expertise so that it can be used a bit more reliably.
• Engineer Monkey - 🙅 1+xx: Sentry spawn rate can no longer be affected by any attack rate buffs - 💥 5xx Sentry Champion: Sentry damage 2 -> 3 - 💭 Recently, we altered Overclock so that buffing a parent tower will also buff all of its child towers (eg sentries). Additionally, in this update we’re fixing a bug with this, meaning that newly spawned child towers will now correctly inherit the buff. With these changes, it makes Sentry Champion incredibly strong but only when buffed up a lot by the likes of Homeland Defense and Overclock. We have decided to change Engineer so that the spawn rate of its sentries can no longer be affected by attack rate buffs, but we have also greatly increased Sentry Champion’s regular damage so that it’s much stronger on its own now.
• Striker Jones - 💪 Level 7: Increases all Mortar Monkeys’ blast radius by 15 -> 25% - 💪 Level 8: Bomb shooters in range get +5 -> +15% range and +35 -> +40% pierce - 💭 Striker Jones’ main purpose is to provide buffs to Bombs and Mortars, however he very often isn’t the preferred hero for Bomb/Mortar strategies and so he rarely gets used. We have augmented the buffs that he provides to Bombs and Mortars to help address this.
• Biker Bones - 💪 Level 7: Increases all Mortar Monkeys’ blast radius by 15 -> 25% - 💪 Level 8: All towers in range get +25 -> +30% pierce - 💭 Biker Bones’ new more general level 8 buff is an interesting one that we’re pleased to see has been effectively used with towers such as Spike Factory. We’re slightly increasing the buff to hopefully see more of this, as well as making the same changes to the Mortar buff which Striker Jones received.
• Benjamin - 🤑 Level 15: Earns $1,400 -> $2,000 per round - 🤑 Level 17: Earns $2,500 -> $4,000 per round - 💭 By the time you get to the later levels, the cash amounts that players typically have mean that any cash gained from Benjamin is negligible.
• DJ Ben Jammin’ - 🤑 Level 15: Earns $1,050 -> $1,500 per round - 🤑 Level 17: Earns $1,875 -> $3,000 per round - 💭 Same changes and reasoning as Benjamin.
• Pat Fusty - 💥 Level 11: Increases damage +1 -> +2 - 💥 Level 16: +5 bonus ceramic damage now also applies to moab class bloons - ⏩ Level 17: Attack rate 0.55 -> 0.4 - 💭 As Pat isn’t getting much attention recently, we’ve increased his damage and attack speed on his later levels, which also results in him being more effective at stalling MOAB class bloons.
• Fusty the Snowman - 💪 Level 8: Now applies the 3x moab class damage buff after the +1 damage buff has been applied, rather than before. This means that the +1 damage also gets multiplied - an Ice tower with 2 damage will now deal (2+1)*3=9 damage to MOAB class when buffed, instead of 2*3+1=7. - 💥 Level 11: Increases damage +1 -> +2 - 💥 Level 16: +5 bonus ceramic damage now also applies to MOAB class bloons - ⏩ Level 17: Attack rate 0.55 -> 0.4 - 💭 Same changes as Pat Fusty, plus a minor tweak to the level 8 Ice Monkey buff to increase its effectiveness.
• Fateweaver Adora - 💰 Base: $650 -> $700 - 💭 With Fateweaver still remaining a dominant hero particularly in the early/mid game, it leaves little room for other heroes like Quincy, as early game is meant to be his specialty. We’ve slightly upped Fateweaver’s base cost so that she’s not quite so efficient early on.
• Etienne - ⏱️ Level 3: Drone Swarm ability duration 17+0.5*hero_level -> 15+0.5*hero_level seconds - 💭 We love the impact that Etienne has had on the game - it’s been great to see all the new strategies that he has made possible. With that being said, we would like to make one very small adjustment to his ability, which we don’t expect will have much of an impact on his viability. Etienne provides so much utility that he doesn’t need to have strong DPS, and it does feel like his level 3 ability stretches on for longer than necessary.

Bug Fixes

• 💣 Fixed Striker Jones and Biker Bones only buffing the blast radius of Mortar Monkeys in range rather than map wide.
• 🔧 Fixed Overclock not affecting child towers spawned after the Overclock buff was applied.
• 🚁 Fixed xx4/5 Heli Pilot Commanches not spawning on Bloon Bot Factory
• 🚁 Fixed Heli Pilot dropping down the elevator shaft on Bloon Bot Factory.
• ❗ Fixed Apple Arcade players seeing notifications for IAP sales.
• 💲 Fixed incorrect rewards displaying when exiting a game where one player quit before the game began.
• 🏝 Fixed closed clans appearing in the join clan screen.
• 🎴 Fixed Daily Reward cards being unresponsive.
• 👨‍💻 Fixed Benjamin and DJ Ben Jammin’ having an extremely short initial cooldown on Siphon Funding and Beatdown.
• 📵 Fixed Apple Arcade players seeing the wrong arena league if they open the game while offline.
• 🎈 Fixed sent bloons using the wrong spacing in Hero Challenge games (Arcade only)
• 💌 Fixed posing in Gwendolin’s Hot Mail victory animation
• 🔍 Moved Etienne’s Spy UI to align to the centre of the screen so it isn’t covered by activated ability buttons.
• 🖋 Fixed incorrectly formatted text on the Complete Set button of the Bling Season screen.
• 💥 Fixed explosion vfx not playing when 5xx Sentry Turrets are sold.
• 👀 Fixed 2xx Monkey Sub attacking camo bloons in range of Fateweaver Adora even though she does not have camo detection.
• 📵 Fixed missing prompt when attempting to do something that requires an internet connection (Arcade only)
• 📛 Fixed clan name overlapping clan emblem in the profile screen
• 🔊 Fixed event banners on the main menu not playing a sound when clicked.
• 🤖 Fixed incorrect texture on Sentai Churchill’s Robo Flex, Rollout, and Monkey & Machine animations.
• 🎶 Fixed minor break in audio when waiting for a match.

New Features

• Nexus Tournament Rewards - Congratulations to Boltrix for winning the recent Nexus Tournament and well done to runners up ISAB and Tewtiy. - The text emote “A Defend, Is A Defend!”, chosen by Boltrix, is now unlocked for all players. - All players who made a purchase using any Nexus creator code during the tournament will also receive banners chosen by Boltrix and ISAB and an avatar chosen by Tewtiy.  - These cosmetics are also available to any player who makes a purchase using the respective creator code. 

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - Round 13 Spaced Ceramics: Spacing 0.75s -> 0.65s - Round 16 Grouped Ceramics: $400 -> $350, spacing 0.12s -> 0.11s, and eco change +1.8 -> +5 - Round 23 Tight Leads: $1,200 -> $1,400 and eco change +20 -> +24 - Round 28 Tight Ceramics: $4,000 -> $3,400 - A few buffs for the ceramic sends since other rushes are typically more effective than these ones relative to their unlock round. We’ve also increased the price of tight leads so that they are not quite as efficient.
• Dart Monkey - x4x Super Monkey Fan Club: $8,000 -> $9,000 and ability duration 15s -> 12s - x5x Plasma Monkey Fan Club: Ability duration 15s -> 12s - Dart has received a lot of buffs over the updates and has now gained recognition for being dominant tower in all stages of the game. We have decided to weaken its abilities so that it can keep its early game strength while being a bit easier to rush in the mid/late game.
• Boomerang Monkey - 1xx adds +3 -> +10 pierce to xx3 - 2xx adds +3 -> +12 pierce to xx3 - There was no reason to ever pick the top crosspath option for Kylie Boomerang since the attack speed buff heavily outclasses the small pierce increase. This change aims to balance the crosspaths so that the superior crosspath is situational.
• Ice Monkey - x2x Deep Freeze: Freezes 2 -> 3 layers - We’re providing a buff to an upgrade that doesn’t offer too much, to strengthen Ice Monkey’s early game a little bit.
• Glue Gunner - xx4 Relentless Glue: No longer drops any puddles on the track - xx4 Relentless Glue: Every time a glued bloon layer gets popped, a small splat occurs which stuns nearby bloons (6 pierce and 12 radius). Stuns bloons for 1s, moabs/DDTs for 0.35s, BFBs for 0.2s, abd ZOMGs for 0.1s - x1x Bigger Globs: increase xx4 on-pop stun pierce by 1 (6->7) - X2x Glue Splatter: increases xx4 on-pop stun pierce by 3 (7->10) - x3x Glue Hose: $2,000 -> $2,200 - Relentless Glue’s puddles have never felt right on this upgrade path, barely being a noticeable addition in most cases. Therefore, we have removed the puddles and given this upgrade something else to offer instead - greater stalling potential with stunning splats that occur every time a glued bloon is popped.
• Monkey Ace - xx2 Centered Path: This upgrade now allows you to target the position of any flight path (centered, infinite, and figure eight). Renamed to Advanced Navigation. - A small quality of life change to give greater flexibility in Ace’s flight pathing.
• Heli Pilot - xx1 Faster Darts: $150 -> $350 and this upgrade now increases dart pierce by 1 and razor rotor pierce by 3 - Faster Darts does not provide any significant benefit and Heli Pilot is not a common starting tower either. This change is intended to improve both of these aspects.
• Mortar Monkey - Base: Pierce 40 -> 35 - x1x Faster Reload: $300 -> $400 - x2x Rapid Reload: $500 -> $550 - x3x Heavy Shells: $900 -> $800 - Mortar Monkey has not really been affected by any recent nerfs, still remaining very strong and only seeing a drop in usage due to Etienne offering an exciting alternative. Therefore we think that it’s justified to make some significant nerfs to Mortar’s early game, as it’s been a top tier tower for quite a few updates now.
• Wizard Monkey - 1xx Guided Magic: Seeking angle 270 -> 360 and turning rate 600 -> 720 - 1xx Guided Magic: $150 -> $100 - xx4 Necromancer: $2,800 -> $2,600 - Wizard seems to be in a fairly decent spot in the meta, however we want to give it a little bump to encourage its usage. We’ve made a couple of small changes to Guided Magic so that it’s more dependable early on, as well as a small price buff to Necromancer for slightly cheaper purple popping power.
• Super Monkey - xx4 Dark Champion: $30,000 -> $27,000 - Sacrificing $15k of magic monkeys to 4xx or 5xx: The Super Monkey will buff towers in range with +10% -> +50% projectile lifespan and +2 pierce
• Ninja Monkey - Base: Shuriken attack rate 0.7 -> 0.62 - 1xx: Reduces all weapons’ attack rates by 38% -> 30% - 0x2: Caltrops attack rate 9 -> 8 - 0x4: Sticky bomb attack rate 5 -> 4.5 - 0x5: Sticky bomb attack rate 2 -> 0.18 - These changes buff 0xx Ninja upgrades while leaving 1xx Ninja upgrades unchanged. One major reason for this is so that 023 Ninja can be slightly more dependable.
• Druid - x3x Druid of the Jungle: Now has another vine attack that is identical to its regular one except it gives you $100 every time it pops a bloon and it has an 11 second cooldown between vines - x4x Jungle’s Bounty: $3,100 -> $4,500 - We’re introducing this change so that there is a cheaper money generation option available and accessible early on when using Druid. Jungle’s Bounty’s price has been increased so that this upgrade does not become too efficient as a result.
• Monkey Village - x1x Grow Blocker: Can now only affect a maximum of 200 bloons at once - xx3 Monkey Town: Renamed to Monkeyconomy. This upgrade no longer increases income from bloon sends. Instead, it produces four $100 crates each round and costs $5,000 -> $1,200. - xx4 Monkey City: No longer increases income from bloon sends or collects bananas in range. Instead, it increases the value of its crates to $400 and it costs $7,000 -> $7,500. - xx5 Monkeyopolis: Remains similar except it can now absorb xx3 and xx4 villages instead of farms. Money production is calculated in the same way, based on the cost of the absorbed towers. This upgrade also now increases income from bloon sends by 20% (what xx4 used to do). This upgrade costs $20k -> $15k, with $5k is added for every Village absorbed. - We’ve never been too fond of Village’s bottom path in this game - with xx3 and xx4 offering exactly the same thing and xx5 benefiting from being paired with Farms, which is not a common tower duo. We have simplified xx3 and xx4 to be simple money generation upgrades comparable to a Farm, and adjusted xx5 so that it no longer has any Farm dependency. Additionally, Grow Blocker has received a lot more attention recently, so we have added a limit to how many bloons it can affect at once.
• Engineer Monkey - x4x Overclock: Overclocking a tower will now also boost all its children towers (xx4/5 Heli’s mini comanches, Etienne’s drones, 4/5xx Buccaneer’s planes, 1+xx Engineer’s Sentries, x4/5x Wizard’s Phoenixes, 5xx Super’s mini Sun Avatars) - This change makes sense for most child towers such as Etienne’s drones and Buccaneer’s planes, as without it they were unfairly unaffected by Overclock. This also offers a pretty decent buff to Engineer’s sentries, particularly 5xx, however we are keen to see how it goes since this isn’t a very strong upgrade at the moment.
• Cyber Quincy - Level 1: Can now attack through blockers and has a faster projectile speed (480 -> 600) - Cyber Shot gives lvl7 explosions 2x pierce and 3x damage (previously it was simply +10 pierce and +2 damage, which did not scale up when his regular damage increased).  - Level 11: no longer reduces attack rate from 0.95 ->0.6. Instead, it now increases damage 1 -> 3 - Level 14: bonus moab class damage 4 -> 8 - Level 15: Cyber Shot gives explosions 3x -> 5x damage (previously +4 damage) - Level 16: no longer reduces attack rate to 0.4. Instead, it now increases damage 3 -> 8 - Level 20: no longer reduces attack rate to 0.15. Instead, it now increases damage 8 -> 35 - Cyber Quincy has never had enough changes in order to distinguish him from regular Quincy, and as a result there has never really been much reason to pick him. We think it’s finally time that Cyber Quincy gets some well deserved love and so we are making some significant changes. Firstly, his projectiles are now capable of flying through blockers which should provide more incentive to use him on certain restrictive maps. Secondly, we’ve traded a lot of his attack speed increases for pure damage increases, distinguishing the two heroes more and making him a much more powerful hero later on.
• Gwendolin - Leveling curve: 1x Quincy -> 1x Striker Jones - Level 1: pierce 4 ->3 - Level 2: gives +1 -> +2 pierce (pierce remains unchanged at 5) - Level 3: Cocktail of Fire damages every 0.2 -> 0.24s - Gwendolin is an exceptional hero, providing solid damage in the early game and great support later on with her Heat it up buff. We’ve made a few small adjustments, weakening her level 1 and level 3 DPS and altering the level curve so that she doesn’t reach level 10 quite so early.
• Scientist Gwendolin - Leveling curve: 1x Quincy -> 1x Striker Jones - Base pierce 4 ->3 - Level 2 gives +1 -> +2 pierce - Level 3 Cocktail damages every 0.15 -> 0.18s - Same changes as Gwendolin, as these heroes are very similar.
• Obyn - Level 12: Druids in range get +1 damage to all bloons (previously this was only to fortified bloons) - Level 13: All tier 5 Druid upgrades in range cost 10% less - Our previous change to Obyn made him give Druids in range +1 damage to fortified bloons, however we no longer think that limiting this to fortified bloons is necessary, and so we have opened this up to +1 damage to all bloons. Additionally, we have added further incentive to run Obyn and Druids with a nice price discount for tier 5 Druids at level 13.
• Ocean Obyn - Level 12: Druids in range get +1 damage to all bloons (previously this was only to fortified bloons) - Level 13: All tier 5 magic monkey upgrades in range cost 10% less - Similar to Obyn, we wanted to provide more incentive to pick Ocean Obyn as the hero of choice to be paired with magic monkeys like Ninja + Alchemist.
• Sentai Churchill - Level 1: explosion pierce 4 -> 5 - Level 2: explosion pierce 6 -> 7 - Level 11: explosion pierce 9 -> 10 - For quite a while now Captain Churchill has been preferred over Sentai Churchill, so we wanted to give Sentai Churchill a small buff to even it out.
• Benjamin - Level 5: All banks earn +8% -> +12% income - Level 9: All banks earn +14% -> +18% income - We’ve buffed the Benjamin and Banks interaction since both of them still don’t see much usage.
•  DJ Ben Jammin’ Level 5: All banks earn +8% -> +12% income - Level 9: All banks earn +14% -> +18% income - Same as Benjamin.
• Highwayman Jericho - Level 3: Stand and Deliver initial cooldown 60s -> 45s - For the past couple of updates, Highwayman Jericho has fallen out of popularity. Star Captain and Agent Jericho are both still seen as great heroes that are pretty relative to each other, however Highwayman no longer matches up to these two. To address this, we would like to partially revert one of the big nerfs we made to him a few updates ago.
• Adora - Level 1: Pierce 6 -> 5 - Adora has recently gotten a bit more recognition for being a powerful defensive hero in the early game, so we’re toning it down very slightly.
• Fateweaver Adora - Level 1: Pierce 6 -> 5 - Level 3: Sharp Sting of Fate projectile pierce = main weapon pierce * main weapon projectile count * 8 -> main weapon pierce * main weapon projectile count * 7 - Level 10: Chains of Fate pierce cap 500 -> 450 - Fateweaver is certainly deserving of some nerfs as she remains to be an top-tier hero, particularly because of her strong defensive abilities. In addition to the same change that Adora received, we have made a couple of changes which weaken her level 3 and level 10 abilities.
• Etienne - Level 5: Now has the camo prioritisation option - We’ve added this in since all other heroes with camo detection have this option. Note that this targeting option affects both his drones and the UCAV.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Ocean Obyn and Pat Fusty selling themselves when placed on the edge between land and water.
• Fixed issue where some players were unable to load the game after a season ended.
• Fixed Village ability buffs not ending when Village is sold
• Fixed Village ability buffs not affecting towers that were placed after the ability was activated
• Fixed x5x Ninja damaging newly spawned bloons even when the ability was not active
• Fixed notification icon not showing on the shop button during sales.
• Fixed main menu league leaderboard not animating like a button.
• Fixed Clan War timer not displaying correctly
• Fixed the target light on Etienne’s drones not working once upgraded.
• Fixed Etienne’s spy drone showing opponents cash during Hero Challenge (Arcade only)
• Fixed occasional hang when upgrading Etienne.
• Fixed event banners not aligning correctly to the edge of the screen on widescreen devices.
• Fixed incorrect interaction between Fateweaver’s level 3 ability cooldown and the 5xx Monkey Sub.
• Fixed score not appearing in the Hall of Masters leaderboard when viewed on mobile.
• Fixed not being able to view the profile of players with animated banners or avatars.
• Fixed the club icon being clipped if appearing on the #1 player in Hall of Masters.
• Fixed event screen not scrolling to the correct event after clicking on one of the banners in the main menu.
• Fixed settings button not working in the clan screen.
• Fixed accolades and medals not displaying in the league leaderboards.

Going Foward

• The return of Casual Mode - We've noticed a lot of comments from players who miss the non-competitive aspect of casual mode, so it'll be returning to the game in update 4.1!
• A rework of Fast Track - A lot of the feedback we saw about fast track in its current form was that it felt quite grindy and just a race to 50 trophies, so from 4.1, it'll no longer be based on trophies. Instead, if you reach a win streak of 10+ games, you will be given the option to fast track to the next arena. There will be no limit to the number of people per league who can be fast tracked. The hope here is that it'll make fast tracking more skill-based!

New Features

• Arena Leagues - A complete overhaul of the ranked play experience. - Enter weekly, 30 person leagues and compete to earn trophies. - Each week, the top players in each league will earn Monkey Money and be promoted to the league above, while the bottom players will be demoted to the league below. - Players in Hall of Masters leagues will also be ranked on a global leaderboard. - Each season, you earn a medal based on the highest arena league you competed in during the season or your final position in the Hall of Masters leaderboard. - Arena leagues use the same progression and theming as the current ranked system (Yellow Stadium, White Wasteland, etc). - Existing players will start in an arena league determined by the arena they are in when Season 18 ends (e.g. if you finish Season 18 in Ceramic Crucible, you will begin in a Ceramic Crucible arena league). - Players in Red Bloon Camp will enter a continuous, rolling league that does not reset. They are promoted to Yellow Stadium and enter weekly leagues when they earn 30 trophies.
• New Hero: Etienne - Remote flying drones attack all bloons that enter Etienne’s range. - Advanced scouting techniques reveal your opponent’s bloon queue and cash reserves to help you predict their next move. - Etienne’s UAV upgrades to give all your monkeys camo detection and allows them to bypass the damage immunities of special bloons like lead and purple. - Etienne can be purchased from the Hero screen for 3000 Monkey Money.
• New Bling Season - 6 awesome new cosmetics including Lighting Up Spike Factory trail and Puzzle Bloons decals. - Lock eyes with Fateweaver Adora and her Eye of Misfortune Showcase. - Unlock a special animated avatar for completing the entire season. - This season lasts for 4 weeks (see General Changes below).

General Changes

• New Season Length - Seasons now last 4 weeks instead of 8 weeks. - This means that medals are awarded, and the Hall of Masters leaderboard is reset, twice as often as before. - The Bling Season has also changed to every 4 weeks to line up with the ranked season. - Each Bling season now contains 12 items: 6 generic cosmetics and a 6 item Hero Showcase. - The cost in Golden Bananas of each Bling item has been altered to reflect this new timescale. - There is now a bonus animated avatar or banner each season that can be earned by completing the entire Bling Season. These are exclusive and will not be available again once the season ends.
• Ranked / League Game Rewards - The trophies awarded for ranked games are changing with the addition of Arena Leagues. - Winning a ranked (league) game now awards 3 trophies and 50 Monkey Money. - You earn an additional 1 trophy if you are on a 3+ win streak. - You earn an additional 1 trophy and 20 Monkey Money if you win and your opponent was on a 3+ win streak (you break their streak). - You earn 20 Monkey Money for losing a game. If it was before round 30, you earn 0 trophies. If it was later, you earn 1 trophy. - You earn 10 Monkey Money if you achieve First Blood. - There are no longer any special rewards for winning with No Lives Lost. - It is not possible to lose trophies, only gain them. Trophies reset to 0 each week at the end of the Arena League.
• RIP Casual Mode - Casual mode was necessary under the old ranked system to allow place for consequence free games where players could experiment with new strategies without risking their trophies. - Since you cannot lose trophies in league games, there is no consequence for failure (except a lack of progress). This means casual mode is no longer needed and so is being removed in this update. - This should allow for a larger pool of players in League games and thus faster matchmaking times, as well as freeing up space on the main menu for Clan Wars.
• New Daily Offer Items: The following cosmetic items from Season 16 will now appear in the Daily Offers in the store. - Shark MOAB Skin - Tasty Topping Bloons Decal - Lofi Monkey Avatar - Solar Trails Supermonkey trail - Time's Ticking Emote - Football ZOMG Skin - Late Game? Emote - Bit-nanas Banana Farm Weapon Skin - Monkey Marathon Banner - Mixed Up Alchemist Placement animation - I'm OK! Emote - Starlight Bloon Boost - Adora’s Sunbeam showcase items. - Star Captain Jericho’s Space Armoury showcase items.

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - Round 12: Spaced rainbows give $3 -> $2.8 income - Round 25: Tight MOABs $3,500 -> $4,000, quantity 20 -> 15 and spacing 0.05s -> 0.067s (total duration remains unchanged at 1s) - For the most part, we are pleased with the impact of the new tight rushes - noticeably shaking up the meta and leading to more exciting games. However, admittedly they are on the strong side, which has greatly diminished the viability of some towers that can’t deal with them. Tight MOABs is the main rush that stands out, so we have made quite a big nerf to this one. Additionally, Spaced Rainbows have been nerfed because they have always stood out as a top tier early game bloon send, providing high eco efficiency as well as decent pressure on your opponent
• Monkey Buccaneer - 4xx Aircraft Carrier: Aircraft darts pierce 9 -> 13 - 5xx Carrier Flagship: Aircraft darts pierce 14 -> 18 - 4xx Aircraft Carrier: Aircraft darts deal 0 -> 3 bonus damage to ceramics - 5xx Carrier Flagship: Aircraft darts deal 3 -> 6 bonus damage to ceramics - 5xx Carrier Flagship: now also buffs Etienne’s UCAV with -15% attack rate - Top path Buccaneer does not see a lot of use and Buccaneer in general does not have a good answer to the new tight sends, so we’ve added some decent pierce and cleanup buffs to Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Flagship.
• Heli Pilot - xx4 Comanche Defense & xx5 Comanche Commander: Missile blast radius 18 -> 25 - The mini comanche’s missiles have incredibly high pierce (100) but it would very rarely make use of it all due to such a small blast radius. This minor change should help it out a little bit, not increasing its DPS potential but allowing it to perform slightly better in a lot of scenarios.
• Mortar Monkey - x4x Artillery Battery: Deals +4 -> +3 damage to BADs - x5x Pop & Awe: Buffs all x4x Mortars with +4 -> +3 damage to BADs - Mortar has still kept its spot at the top of the meta, dominating in all stages of the game. We’ve decided to limit its late game damage so that it still remains a strong tower early on but is now easier to kill in the late game.
• Super Monkey - 2xx Plasma Blasts: $3,000 -> $2,500 - 3xx Sun Avatar: $11,000 -> $11,500 - xx3 Dark Knight: $4,000 -> $4,500 - 4xx Sun Temple: Main weapon base damage 9 -> 11 - Plasma Blasts in an upgrade that rarely gets used on its own (usually just used as a crosspath), so we’ve lowered its cost while adjusting 3xx and xx3 so that their total cost remains unchanged. Additionally, Super Monkey has struggled quite a bit since we fixed/nerfed Sun Temple a few updates ago, so we’re giving it a much needed damage buff.
• Alchemist - xx5 Bloon Master Alchemist: MOABs use up 20 -> 10 pierce and BFBs use up 50 -> 30. Total pierce remains at 200. - Just a small buff for Bloon Master Alchemist, letting it pop more MOABs and BFBs which gives it more potential to be a reliable option against the new tight rushes.
• Spike Factory - 4xx Spiked Mines: explosion pierce 40 -> 60 and explosion blast radius 19 -> 28 - We’d love to see Spiked Mines get some more use, and hopefully this sizeable pierce and radius buff with help with that.
• Engineer Monkey - x5x Ultraboost: The temporary Overclock buff now lasts twice as long (30s -> 60s on a tier 5 tower) - We’re giving small boost to Ultraboost to help justify its incredibly high price tag.
• Gwendolin - Level 3: Cocktail cooldown 40s -> 45s - Gwendolin is considered one of the strongest heroes with good early game damage and solid late game support. We’re just making a minor Cocktail cooldown change for now, allowing for more opportunities to effectively rush her early on.
• Obyn - Level 12: Now gives all Druids in range +1 damage to fortified bloons - Level 17: Hero range increased 43 -> 65 - We wanted to give Druids some attention and chose to do this by providing Obyn with another Druid-specific buff. This buff primarily targets Poplust Druids since Avatar of Rush already deals high damage. Obyn’s range increase is also aimed at Druids, with the larger range allowing for more Druids to be buffed.
• Ocean Obyn - Level 17: Hero range increased 43 -> 65 - Like with Obyn, this Ocean Obyn change is being implemented to make his buff capable of buffing a much greater number of towers now. In particular, this change is aimed at Ninja
• Benjamin - Level 5: Earns $200 -> $250 income per round - Level 20: Syphon Funding cooldown 65s -> 45s - We’re buffing Benjamin’s early game cash slightly because he is still overshadowed by the Jerichos. Additionally, previously his level 20 did not provide much compared to other heroes, so that now has another benefit.
• DJ Ben Jammin’ - Level 5: Earns $150 -> $187.5 income per round - Level 10: Can downgrade 10 -> 12 bloons in total, and can downgrade 3 -> 4 BFBs - Level 20: Can downgrade 2 -> 4 ZOMGs - Similar changes as Benjamin for the same reasons, with an added buff to DJ Ben’s level 10 ability so that he can deal with the new tight rushes a little bit more effectively.
• Smudge Catt - Level 7: Scratching Post cooldown 30s -> 40s - While Smudge Catt is not an incredibly popular hero, this is a strong ability with a quick cooldown. Most hero ability cooldowns have been increased to give more rushing opportunities, but Smudge Catt never received this same treatment.
• Pat Fusty - Level 3: Rallying Roar buffing range 30 -> 35 - Level 14: Rallying Roar buffing range 40 -> 50 - Pat Fusty has has been out of the limelight for a while now so we wanted to provide him with some buffs. For now we’ve increased his buffing range, since it was quite limiting before.
• Agent Jericho - Level 3: Seize Assets initial cooldown 17.5s -> 28s
• Star Captain Jericho - Level 3: In It For The Money initial cooldown 17.5s -> 35s - Highwayman Jericho’s usage rate has dropped off significantly ever since his last nerf, however we believe that this is simply due to the other Jerichos being the clear favorites now, rather than Highwayman being too weak relative to all the other heroes. Therefore, we have left Highwayman as is and targeted the other two Jerichos instead.
• Fateweaver Adora - Level 10: Chains of Fate now has a pierce limit of 500 bloons (previously infinite). MOAB class bloons use up more pierce: MOABs = 10, BFBs = 20, ZOMGs/DDTs = 40, BADs = 60. - Fateweaver Adora has retained her spot as the top hero in the highest arenas, with the new tight rushes not hindering her viability since Chains of Fate counters them exceptionally well. Given this, it seemed appropriate to limit the pierce on Chains of Fate, since infinite pierce was unnecessarily excessive for such a powerful ability.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed default hero upgrade animations not playing
• Fixed issue where daily clan reward text would show even if your clan day was complete
• Fixed effects on the xx4 and xx5 Alchemist not appearing or appearing incorrectly.
• Fixed Clan Wars daily game reward not sparkling on tablet devices.
• Fixed loading an empty clan island if opening a join link to a disbanded clan.
• Fixed bloons frozen by Ice Monkey’s ability retaining their immunity to sharp damage for the full freeze duration even if they are unfrozen early.
• Fixed Fusty the Snowman’s frozen popping effect not working on bloons frozen by the xx3 and x4x Ice Monkey.
• Fixed x3x Monkey Sub not receiving range buffs to its missile attack.

New Features

• New Map: Time’s Up - Time waits for no-one! The hands of the clock move between rounds, changing the path the bloons will follow. - Try this awesome new map in ranked games in White Wasteland and higher, plus casual, event and clan games.

General Changes

• Banana Farmers and Bloon Bots now appear below activated abilities in the abilities bar.
• Cosmetics for sale in the daily offer now display which type of cosmetic they are.
• Added support for inviting people to join clans and private matches through the native share dialog (iOS only, other platforms coming soon)

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - Round 19: Grouped MOABs send cost $1k -> $900 - Round 22: Grouped BFBs send cost $1.6k -> $1.3k - Round 23: Grouped Leads are now replaced with Tight Leads (80 tightly packed Leads for $1.2k and +$20 income) - Round 24: Grouped ZOMGs send cost $5.5k -> $5k - Round 25: Grouped MOABs are now replaced with Tight MOABs (20 tightly packed MOABs for $3.5k and -$50 income) - Round 26: Grouped ZOMG send cost now drops to $4.5k - Round 28: Grouped DDT income changed -$300 -> -$200 - Round 27: Grouped BFB is now replaced with Tight BFBs (10 tightly packed BFBs for $7k and -$150 income) - We’ve made quite a few additions and adjustments to the bloon send options to address a couple of things. Firstly, there were limited rushes between round 23 and 29, with players often just waiting until they can send a BAD in this stage, or DDTs if their opponent can’t handle them. Secondly, old bloon sends became very irrelevant as new ones unlock, because the new ones were so much more efficient. Now with new sends available such as tight MOABs, this offers new rushing options for the mid 20s while getting rid of the old and inefficient single MOAB send.
• Boomerang Monkey - xx3 Kylie Boomerang: $1300 -> $1100 - xx4 MOAB Press: $3200 -> $3400 - x4x Turbo Charge: $4350 -> $4500 - x5x Perma Charge: $35k -> $33k - We would like to give some more love to Kylie Boomerang since this upgrade has always been the less favorable of the tier 3 Boomerangs. MOAB Press has had its price adjusted since it didn’t need any indirect buffs. Also, Turbo Charge has always stood out as an excellent defending option so that has received a small price nerf.
• Tack Shooter - x3x Blade Shooter: reduces attack rate by 15% -> 12% - 5xx Inferno Ring: +7 -> +11 damage to moab class (total MOAB damage 18 -> 22) - The smallest of nerfs for Blade Shooter - an upgrade that has persistently remained an exceptionally efficient early game tower. We’ve also given Inferno Ring another much needed damage buff so that it can better deal with the ramped up MOAB class bloons in the late game.
• Ice Monkey - Base: $500 -> $450 - x5x Absolute Zero: $20k -> $18k - x4x Snowstorm: buffs Ice monkeys and Fusty the Snowman with 2x attack speed for 10 -> 6s - While Ice Monkey is not in a bad spot, we do want to encourage its usage a bit more and so we’re providing it with a couple small buffs. Snowstorm’s ability buffing Ice Monkeys was actually unintended, however we didn’t feel like it needed to be fixed and so we decided to keep, with a reduced duration to match the ability’s freeze duration.
• Monkey Ace - 5xx Sky Shredder: darts gain +3 -> +5 pierce and missiles deal 180 -> 200 damage - xx4 Spectre: darts now deal +2 damage to moab class bloons (xx5 damage unchanged) - By the time Spectre is affordable, it simply does not provide enough utility to be worth it. We have added some extra MOAB damage so it can help out a fair bit more. Sky Shredder has also received a small buff so that it can provide better clean up.
• Dartling Gunner - 3xx Laser Cannon: $3,000 -> $2,800 - Nothing huge for Dartling - just a minor buff to Laser Cannon since the other tier 3s are usually preferred over this one.
• Wizard Monkey - xx5 Prince of Darkness: unpopped MOABs deal 20 -> 25 damage and unpopped BFBs deal 100 -> 130 damage - Prince of Darkness is one of Wizard’s least used upgrades, since top path Wizard is often more reliable than this upgrade for DDT defense. This damage buff should hopefully make it more effective and give it more use cases.
• Super Monkey - x3x Robo Monkey: always crits every 15 shots rather than randomly between 15 and 20 - x4x Tech Terror: gains +4 -> +6 pierce (x5x pierce unchanged - now gives +3 instead of +5) - x5x Anti Bloon: crits every 15 shots rather than randomly between 13 and 17 - We’ve removed the minimal RNG from Robo Monkey while slightly buffing it at the same time, as it’s not seen as a particularly great upgrade. Likewise, Tech Terror is not amazing if you disregard its ability, meaning it’s always sold instantly after using the ability. We’ve buffed up its regular attack so that there is more value in keeping it around.
• Ninja Monkey - 2xx Sharp Shurikens: $300 -> $200 and increases pierce by 2 -> 1 - 3xx Double Shot: $650 -> $750 - xx2 Caltrops: Caltrops can no longer receive any pierce buffs - xx4 Flash Bomb: Stun duration 1.1 -> 1s - 4xx Bloonjitsu: Caltrops damage 10 -> 5 - Ninja Monkey has spiked up in popularity since the last update, with the Ninja + Alchemist combo standing out as overly strong in all stages of the game. We have made quite a few changes to address this, such as keeping the additional +1 pierce on the early tiers but taking it back off for 2xx, with some price rearranging to accommodate. Caltrops no longer benefit from pierce buffs which nerfs their interaction with Alchemist’s buff, and Bloonjitsu’s caltrops have additionally been nerfed. Bloonjitsu already stood out as a super effective upgrade even in the late game (when surrounded by Shinobi buffs), so the added caltrops damage is unnecessary.
• Alchemist - Base: pierce 14 -> 12 and splash radius 14 -> 12 - 1xx pierce 20 -> 18 and splash radius 21 -> 18 - x1x: acid deals damage every 1 -> 1.33 seconds and lasts for 3 -> 4 seconds - xx4: cash per pop $2 -> $1.5 - As previously mentioned, Ninja and Alchemist have become too dominant recently. Alchemist is super effective in providing solid early game DPS despite its primary role being a support tower. Its strengths in early game DPS, buffing support, and cash generation gives Alchemist too many strong points. Therefore, we’ve decided to lower its early game DPS and money generation.
• Spike Factory - x2x Even Faster Production: $600 -> $500 - xx3 Life Long Spikes: $600 -> $750 - xx4 Deadly Spikes: $3300->$3200 - We’re shuffling some prices around primarily to nerf Long Life Spikes, which still remains to be a top tier upgrade.
• Monkey Village - xx5: Generates an extra $600 per round ($3600 -> $4200 per round if no farms are absorbed) - This upgrade doesn’t see as much use as we like. It only really shines when combined with Farms, yet strategies with both Farm and Village are quite rare. Therefore, we’ve decided to buff it up so that it will now be more effective at base, without any farms absorbed.
• Smudge Catt Ezili - Level 2 pierce 7 -> 8 and splash radius 8 -> 11 - While Ezili’s new and improved Wizard buff has helped her out quite a bit, Smudge Catt hasn’t received the same attention. She’s getting another early game buff to fulfill an alternative role compared to Ezili.
• Pat Fusty - Level 14: Rallying Roar ability duration 10s -> 12.5s - Pat hasn’t received much attention for a while, with plenty of other heroes overshadowing him. We’ve upped his level 14 Rallying Roar duration so that he can better stand out as a dominant late game support hero.
• Fusty the Snowman - Level 2: now allows all frozen bloons to be popped by all projectile types - Level 14: Chilling Cheer buffs himself and Ice Monkeys attack rate by -20% -> -50% - We want Fusty the Snowman to focus in on Ice monkey strategies, although not many towers are compatible with Ice Monkeys because the damage immunities of frozen bloons get in the way. By making Fusty the Snowman allow all frozen bloons to be popped by all damage types, we aim to broaden the range of tower combinations that are possible for Ice Monkey. Level 14’s higher damage buff doesn’t help out Ice monkeys much, so now it additionally provides a larger rate buff.
• Fateweaver Adora - Level 10: Chains of Fate deal damage every 0.075 -> 0.12 seconds - Level 3 ability cooldown: 40s -> 50s (8s -> 9s when opponent’s bloon boost is active) - All of Fateweaver Adora’s abilities are extremely powerful. Her level 3 ability does a great job of cleaning up early/mid game rushes and heavily discourages your opponent from using their bloon boost, making it even harder to send effective rushes against her. We’ve increased the ability cooldown so that hopefully it should be a bit more situational when deciding if a bloon boost is worth it against her. Also, Chains of Fate has proven to be too effective, dealing massive damage in addition to the stall effect. This ability currently offers too much utility and so we have lowered how much damage this ability will deal.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some avatars and banners showing as locked in the profile screen when they should be hidden and vice versa.
• Fixed Spirit of the Wilds tower boost not fitting the preview window properly.
• Fixed enormous bunnies leaping around the island during the easter event, ready for next year.
• Fixed clan member counter not updating when accepting new members until the screen is reloaded.
• Fixed 203 Alchemist not displaying the Acidic Mixture Dip icon over monkeys its buffing.
• Fixed some heroes displaying their general description instead of their level 1 upgrade description in game.
• Fixed Fateweaver Adora’s projectiles not being able to seek to bloons that are behind blockers.
• Fixed Clan War bling quests rolling even if there is no clan war active.
• Fixed various visual and audio effects playing incorrectly.
• Fixed infinite loop when attempting to log in to an empty save slot (Arcade only)

General Changes

• Clan War games now give the same Monkey Money rewards as ranked games.
• There is now a sound effect on entering the lobby when a match is found to draw attention for players who may be doing other things while waiting. On desktop, the game will also automatically take focus when this happens. Thanks to Supertiger for this great suggestion!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Fateweaver Adora’s Eye of Misfortune ability selling the chosen monkey rather than sacrificing it.
• Fixed daily clan war monkey money not being awarded if disconnected in the lobby.
• Fixed Cyber Quincy’s level 18 upgrade increasing Cyber Shot’s cooldown instead of reducing Cyber Storm’s cooldown.
• Fixed players who reach the clan war milestones not receiving their bonus Golden Bananas until after they restart their game.
• Fixed the Battle Ready Quest for leveling up Quincy only triggering when he reached level 8 rather than 7 like the quest says.
• Fixed icons not aligning correctly on the Daily Offers card.
• Fixed issue where news panel items would occasionally show as black squares on Android devices.
• Fixed Spirit of the Wilds Tower Boost not aligning correctly to the edges of the screen.
• Fixed Embrace Your Fate exclusive cosmetics appearing as locked in all player’s profiles.
• Fixed some emotes overlapping the cash display in game.
• Fixed range outline not appearing when placing multiple monkeys using hotkeys (Desktop only)
• Fixed issues syncing save slots across multiple devices (Arcade only)

New Features

• New Hero: Fateweaver Adora - Fateweaver Adora specializes in manipulating her opponents and turning their own strength against them. - Fateweaver swaps Adora’s synergy with Supermonkeys for her Bad Luck effect, which increases the cooldown on the opposing hero’s abilities by 5%. Agent Jericho will have to wait a little longer before he helps himself to Fateweaver’s funds. This effect increases to 10% at level 11, and extends to all opposing monkeys at level 16. - Fateweaver’s level 3 ability is Sharp Sting of Fate, a single high speed, high pierce attack that seeks bloons all across the map. It usually has a respectable 40 second cooldown between uses but, if your opponent tries to rush you with a bloon boost, the cooldown drops to a mere 8 seconds so she’s always ready for action. - She wouldn’t be Adora if she wasn’t prepared to make a few sacrifices. Fateweaver can sacrifice one of your own monkeys to place the Eye of Misfortune over the enemy hero, causing bloons to move faster when they get near, with higher value sacrifices increasing the duration of the effect. It also increases the amount of XP needed for the hero to level up, slowing down their advancement. - Finally, her Chains of Fate ability summons chains which grab nearby bloons and hold them immobile, dealing damage as they do. The damage is based on the value of the most expensive opposing monkey, so if your opponent has built a powerhouse like the True Sun God, they’re going to have to work extra hard to break through Fateweaver’s chains.
• New Bling Season - Dive into a whole new season of awesome cosmetics including the Deep Sea Exploration Banner, Jelly BFB skin, and Rainbow Blur Boomerang Trails. - Rise up and take back the forest with the Eco Warrior Obyn Showcase. Terrorize your opponent in the lobby with an army of woodland critters. - The gang’s all here in Highwayman Jericho’s Highway Gang showcase. Jericho’s youthful proteges, Scrapper, Sweep, and Babyface, are here to learn the art of theft from the master himself.

General Changes

• Clan War Changes - Clans who manage to reach certain thresholds of medallions during a clan war will earn extra Golden Bananas to help them complete the bling season. - The Ruby to Black Diamond league promotion zone is changing from top 3 to top 1. - The Diamond to Ruby league promotion zone is changing from top 3 to top 2. - Clans will be automatically demoted if every member was inactive during the war. - There is now a 50 Monkey Money prize for playing your first Clan War game each day.
• Bling Quest Reward Changes - The rewards for Bling Quests are being increased: - Bronze Quests: 40 Golden Bananas to 60 Golden Bananas. - Silver Quests: 80 Golden Bananas to 100 Golden Bananas. - Gold Quests: 120 Golden Bananas to 140 Golden Bananas.
• New Bling Quests - The following Bling Quests are being added: -- Play 1 game using at least 1 Primary monkey (Bronze) -- Play 1 game using at least 1 Military monkey (Bronze) -- Play 1 game using at least 1 Magic monkey (Bronze) -- Play 1 game using at least 1 Support monkey (Bronze) -- Win 1 Clan War game today (Silver) -- Win 1 game using (Silver) -- Spend $20,000 on monkeys and upgrades (Silver) -- Win 1000 Medallions in Clan War games (Gold) -- Reach 1000 income in a game (Gold, moved from Silver)
• Retired Bling Quests - The following Bling Quests are being removed: - Win 2 event games (Silver) - Win 2 casual games (Silver) - Win 1 game using only primary monkeys (Silver) - Win 1 game using only magic monkeys (Silver) - Win 1 game using only military monkeys (Silver) - Reach 1000 income in a game (Silver, moved to Gold) - Get a No Lives Lost Win (Gold) - Win 3 games in which you lose less than 50 lives (Gold) - Win 3 games in a row (Gold)
• Daily Offer - One previously released cosmetic item will appear in the shop each day. - The item will be a cosmetic from a bling season or hero showcase (up to season 15) that you don’t already own. - It can be purchased for Monkey Money and refreshes every 24 hours, whether it’s purchased or not.

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - Spaced purples: bloon spacing 0.4 -> 0.3 - Grouped whites: bloons per set 3 -> 5 and bloon spacing 0.1 -> 0.07 - Since grouped blacks are better for eco and white’s bloon properties don’t impact many towers at all, the grouped whites bloon send didn’t really have any practical use. We have kept its eco efficiency the same but increased the density and amount of bloons per set, so that this bloon send can now offer a stronger rushing option as an alternative to blacks. Spaced purples have similarly been made stronger since they were rarely an effective bloon send.
• Dart Monkey - x4x Super Monkey Fan Club: deals 1 -> 3 damage (2 -> 4 damage when transformed by x5x) - x5x Plasma Monkey Fan Club: deals 1 -> 6 damage (2 -> 7 damage when transformed by x5x) - We wanted to very slightly improve Dart Monkey’s late game potential by giving x4x and x5x additional base damage, so that these upgrades no longer only provide an ability. This additional damage also applies when the tower is converted into a super monkey from an x4x or x5x ability.
• Sniper Monkey - 2xx Large Calibre: $1000 -> $800 - x2x Shrapnel Shot: $300 -> $250 - xx3 Semi-Automatic: $2500 -> $2300 - xx5 Elite Defender: $16k -> $14.5k - Sniper is still not quite as strong as we would like. It lacks early game efficiency and its bottom path is a little too expensive for what it does, so a few price cuts have been made.
• Monkey Sub - 3xx Submerge & Support: decamo pierce 100 -> 75 - 4xx Reactor: $2600 -> $2800 and decamo pierce 200 -> 150 - x1x Barbed Darts: still increases sonar pierce by 20% - x2x Heat-tipped Darts: still increases sonar pierce by 25% - xx2 Airburst Darts: $700 -> $800 - Sub still remains incredibly dominant. We previously lowered the decamo pierce and we do like the idea of making decamo options less reliable, but the change wasn’t significant enough and so we are lowering the pierce even further. With 3xx being less reliable now, this makes 4xx a more appealing option and so we have slightly bumped up its cost with that in mind. Lastly, we minimally increased xx2’s cost because Sub doesn’t need to be a great early tower given all of its other strong points.
• Mortar Monkey - 3xx Shell Shock: $1100 -> $1300 - 4xx The Big One: $7500 -> $7300 - xx3 Signal Flare: decamo blast pierce 80 -> 55 - x5x Pop & Awe: buffs all x4x Mortars with an additional 6 -> 4 bonus BAD damage - Mortar is another tower that has maintained a dominant presence in the meta for a while now. Similarly to Sub, we decreased the decamo pierce so that it can no longer be relied on as consistently. 3xx also stood out as a top tier mid-game option and x5x’s buff resulted in Mortar being fantastic late game, giving Mortar too many strong points.
• Wizard Monkey - Base: $300 -> $250 - xx Archmage: increases main attack pierce by 4 -> 6 - x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix: Phoenix Lord main projectile damage 40 -> 55 - Wizard deserved some attention after being out of the limelight for a while now. Note that we have also indirectly buffed Wizard with the Ezili change, and we fixed a bug which allowed x5x to be much stronger than intended.
• Super Monkey - No balance changes for Super Monkey, although note that there is a bugfix which is impactful on balance - 4/5xx with support sacrifices will no longer provide towers in range with +1 damage. 4xx with support sacrifices was an extremely cost effective upgrade due to this bug, so we have fixed this without changing anything else.
• Ninja Monkey - Base: pierce 2 -> 3 - 3xx Double Shot: caltrops damage 3 -> 5 - 4xx Bloonjitsu: caltrops damage 5 -> 10 - x5x Grand Saboteur: ability slow down effect can soak through MOAB class bloons - We have increased Ninja’s early-game potential since it stood out as a tower with relatively low DPS in the early game, always depending on another tower to deal the damage or to buff it. Additionally, we have made x5x Ninja’s ability stall more reliable by letting the slow effect soak through MOAB class bloons (so a stalled ZOMG will now pop into stalled BFBs)
• Druid - 5xx Superstorm: 60k -> $55k - Druid often relies on Superstorm for reliable DDT popping power, which is an expensive save up. We’ve made it slightly more affordable so that Druid strategies can have an easier time.
• Spike Factory - xx3: Speed increase at start of round lasts for 6 -> 5 seconds - We liked the previous change to xx3 and are glad to see this upgrade frequently being used now. However, it’s a bit too strong and so we would like to slightly lower the duration of the speed boost.
• Monkey Village - x3x Monkey Intelligence Bureau: $7000 -> $5000 - x4x Call to Arms: $21500 -> $23500 - There aren’t many strategies that depend on MIB, so we’ve made a decent price cut to it while increasing the x4x price so that this upgrade doesn’t indirectly receive a buff.
• Engineer Monkey - 1xx Sentry Gun: $500 -> $450 - 2xx Faster Engineering: $400 -> $350 - xx2 Pin: $220 -> $200 - 4xx Sentry expert: $2500 -> $2800 - xx4 Bloon Trap: max cash per trap $1000 -> $750 - 5xx Champion: sentries deal 200 -> 260 damage when they explode and attack at a rate of 0.035 -> 0.03 - Engineer’s early game upgrades aren’t great, nor is 5xx. However, Engineer has some incredibly strong upgrades, being xx4 for a huge boost in cash and 4xx for easy mid-game defense. We have altered all of these upgrades, weakening its strong points while improving its weaker ones to compensate and balance it out.
• Gwendolin - Level 3: Cocktail of Fire max pierce per tick 40 -> 26
• Scientist Gwendolin - Level 3: Cocktail of Chemicals max pierce per tick 60 -> 40 - Both Gwendolins have exceptional level 3 abilities with their only weakness being purples, but if that can be avoided then they’re hugely effective in demolishing any early/mid-game rush.
• Ezili - Level 2: now gives Wizard Monkeys in range +2 pierce - We wanted to give Ezili some attention and decided to do so by focusing on her Wizard synergy, giving Ezili the ability to make Wizard into an even stronger early-game tower.
• Smudge Catt - Level 2: now increases pierce of main attack’s splash by 2 (5 -> 7) - So that Smudge Catt doesn’t feel left out, we’re giving her a small buff to her early game attack at the same level.
• Pat Fusty - Level 8: towers buffed by Rallying Roar now temporarily gain the ability to pop all bloon types - Pat Fusty has been neglected for a while now. We added in this interesting change to Rallying Roar which fits in nicely since Fusty the Snowman’s Chilling Cheer also upgrades at this level.
• Fusty the Snowman - Level 8: Chilling cheer gives Ice towers 2x -> 3x damage to moab class - We wanted to buff up Fusty the Snowman as well and are doing so by improving his interaction with Ice Monkeys.
• Agent Jericho - Level 9-19: Reduction in cost to fortified bloons no longer applies to BADs until level 20 - Level 20: Reduction in cost to fortified bloons now applied to BADs
• Highwayman Jericho - Level 9-19: Reduction in cost to fortified bloons no longer applies to BADs - Level 20: Reduction in cost of fortified bloons now applied to BADs - Level 3: Stand and Deliver initial ability cooldown 33.3s -> 60s
• Star Captain Jericho - Level 9: health increase to fortified bloons no longer applies to BADs until level 20 - Level 20: Health increase to fortified bloons now applied to BADs - The Jerichos have consistently stayed dominant in the meta. While we do like the playstyle they introduce, we believe some small nerfs are warranted. Their ability to reduce the cost or increase the health of fortified bloons scaled very well as it applied to all bloons and scaled up with ramping. We have changed it so that it no longer applies to BADs unless you put in some extra cash to reach level 20. Additionally, Highwayman’s level 3 initial cooldown has been increased since he stood out as the dominant Jericho, primarily for this ability.
• Adora - Base: $700 -> $650 - Base: pierce 5 -> 6 - After the initial hype died down, Adora has not at all been popular in highest arenas. We’re giving her a couple of early game buffs since she particularly struggles at this stage

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where Clan War games were sometimes not expended if the opponent disconnected in the lobby.
• Fixed issue where the x5x Wizard Monkey would spawn multiple phoenixes instead of 1.
• Fixed x4x Ninja Monkey only slowing nearby bloons instead of all bloons when using Bloon Sabotage.
• Fixed 2xx Dart Monkeys having 1 less pierce than they should while transformed using a Super Monkey Fan Club ability.
• Fixed misleading description of Obyn’s level 11 upgrade.
• Fixed IAPs sometimes not working if the games servers were experiencing downtime.
• Fixed 4xx/5xx Super Monkey still giving nearby towers +1 damage with support sacrifices (this should have been removed in a previous balance patch).
• Fixed Striker Jones’ Artillery Command ability not activating the entire effect of the x5x Mortar’s Pop & Awe ability.
• Fixed Bomb/Mortar abilities being unusable in some situations after activating Striker Jones’ Artillery Command ability
• Fixed incorrect wording on Striker Jones’ level 14 and 15 descriptions.
• Fixed Obyn and Ezili not being able to place totems on some areas of the Ports map.
• Fixed rules button not displaying in event matches.
• Fixed Yellow Stadium in-game UI not displaying correctly on desktop.
• Fixed Battle Points symbol appearing on ranked game accolades.
• Fixed Clan leaderboard displaying incorrectly for clans in vacation mode.
• Fixed MOAB status effects visuals sometimes displaying incorrectly depending on opponent MOAB skins.
• Fixed there sometimes being an unusually long wait time between some rounds.
• Fixed Striker Jones not sending his final rush fast enough in Hero Challenge (Arcade only).
• Fixed authentication issues on older versions of iOS (Arcade only).
• Fixed Hero Challenge popability detectors missing some tower combinations (Arcade only).

Balance Changes

• Bomb Shooter - xx3 Cluster Bombs: 2xx increases the clusters’ pierce by 10 -> 6 (total pierce 24 -> 20) - Cluster Bombs has always stood out as a top tier early-mid game tower, leaving very little room for effective rushes against it on certain maps. We have decided to limit the pierce increase that 2xx gives to the clusters since it’s an extremely efficient upgrade, providing a big pierce bonus on top of extra damage.
• Sniper Monkey - 4xx Maim MOAB: ZOMG stun length 0.3s -> 0.45s - Sniper has remained one of the least used towers in the highest arenas for a long time now. We felt like its ZOMG stun could be more efficient since it pales in comparison to other upgrades such as Heli Pilot’s MOAB Shove.
• Monkey Sub - 3xx Submerge and Support: Sonar pierce ∞ -> 100. x1x adds 20 pierce and x2 adds a further 30 pierce. - 4xx Reactor: Sonar pierce ∞ -> 200. x1x adds 40 pierce and x2x adds a further 60 pierce. - 5xx Energizer: Sonar pierce ∞ -> 1000. x1x adds 200 pierce and x2x adds a further 300 pierce. - Monkey Sub has consistently been dominant in meta, with its incredibly cheap Submerge and Support upgrade being one of its strong points, efficiently nullifying all camo rushes. We also like the idea of camo rushes being more prevalent against decamo towers, therefore we have drastically reduced the pierce of Monkey Sub’s decamo sonar attack, potentially opening up room for camo rushes against it.
• Monkey Ace - 5xx Sky Shredder: darts now have +2 damage to Ceramics - Sky Shredder is the least used tier 5 ace. For now we have bumped up its ceramic damage so that it can provide better bloon cleanup.
• Heli Pilot - xx3 MOAB Shove: slows ZOMGs by 66% -> 50% (78% -> 66% with x1x) - 3xx Razor Rotors: $1900 -> $1800 - 4xx Apache Dartship: Missile damage 2 -> 3, Rotor blades damage 4 -> 6 - 5xx Apache Prime: Missile damage 2 -> 3, Rotor blades damage 8 -> 10 - MOAB Shove has always felt too effective at stalling MOAB class bloons, however since Heli Pilot overall has not been top tier, this upgrade has been left untouched until now. We have decided to nerf it now since we are simultaneously buffing some of its other less effective upgrades.
• Mortar Monkey - x5x Pop & Awe: stun can be reapplied on already stunned bloons - We noticed that the Pop & Awe ability actually performed worse when given attack speed buffs, due to overlapping stuns not re-stunning bloons. This change means that the ability will now be more effective at stalling bloons when buffed by towers such as Striker Jones.
• Dartling Gunner - x4x Rocket Storm: ability rocket spread reduced 120 -> 75 degrees. 1xx reduces spread by 60 -> 30% (to 48 -> 52.5 degrees) - Dartling Gunner’s Rocket Storm ability previously got a massive efficiency boost from 1xx, which meant that it was undoubtedly the best crosspath for it and it made Rocket Storm a very strong ability. We have noticeably reduced the default ability spread and very slightly increased the 1xx ability spread so that this one crosspath is not so necessary.
• Ninja Monkey - xx3 Flash Bomb: Throws a bomb every 4 -> 3 attacks, and stun length 1.3s -> 1.1s - 023 Flash Bomb: bomb explosion blast radius remains at 40, however it now has an additional decamo attack with a larger blast radius (no damage) with 65 range and 75 pierce - 510 Grandmaster Ninja: Can now distract BFBs. Chance of MOAB/BFB distraction 15% -> 50% and MOAB blowback distance 45-75 -> 60-100. - 502 Grandmaster Ninja: caltrops damage 30 -> 25 - Ninja Monkey’s Flash Bomb and Counter Espionage upgrades have never been commonly used upgrades. By buffing the combination of them, we hope to open up a new use case for these upgrades and Ninja as a whole, a somewhat reliable decamo option. As for Grandmaster Ninja, we liked giving the crosspaths much more utility in the previous update, however it needs some adjusting - Caltrops was a little bit too powerful and Distraction could not compete.
• Spike Factory - 1xx Bigger Stacks: $700 -> $600 - x1x Faster Production: $600 -> $500 - x2x Even Faster Production: $700 -> $600 - xx2 Smart Spikes: $400 -> $500 - x4x Spike Storm: $5000 -> $5200 - Spike Factory still feels a little bit lacking in the early game, so we’ve made a few price cuts to help with that.
• Monkey Village - 3xx: now increases primary towers’ pierce by 15%, minimum +1 (previously a fixed +1 in all cases) - 5xx: now increases primary towers’ pierce by a total of 40%, minimum +3 (previously a fixed +3 in all cases) - 4xx: reduces primary towers’ ability cooldowns by 10% -> 20% - Top Path Village’s pierce buff was incredibly negligible for primary towers with high pierce, such as Bomb and Boomerang. We have reworked it so that it now provides a percentage-based pierce buff instead, with the minimum pierce increase remaining at its old values so that low-pierce towers are not negatively impacted by this change. Primary Mentoring has been buffed because a 10% reduction to ability cooldowns was not significant enough, considering that primary towers’ abilities are more often than not sold after being activated.
• Striker Jones - Level 7: buff to mortar blast radius 10% -> 15% - Level 8: buff to bomb +25% -> +35% pierce - Level 10: instead of resetting bomb/mortar ability cooldowns, this ability now instantly activates all bomb/mortar abilities, without altering their ability cooldowns. - This change aims to encourage Striker Jones to be used more often with Bomb/Mortar strategies, since currently Jones has an unfavourably low usage rate despite these towers being very popular. As well as making Jones’ buffs to them slightly more noticeable, we have reworked his level 10 ability to be much more user friendly and intuitive. Activating this ability will now instantly activate all bomb/mortar abilities, regardless of if they were off cooldown or not. This will not alter their ability cooldowns either, so it can easily be fired at any time whenever needed.
• Biker Bones - Level 7: buff to mortar blast radius 10% -> 15% - Level 8: buff to bomb towers now applies to all towers in range (+25% pierce buff and +5% range) - Similar to Striker Jones, we want to up the usage rate of Biker Bones. However, we are also conscious that these two heroes are not that different from each other, so we want to introduce more changes to distinguish them further. We have done this by opening up one of Bones’ buffs to be more general, rather than bomb-specific.
• Obyn - Level 9 damage 4 -> 5, level 14 damage 6 -> 9, level 19 damage 10 -> 14 - Obyn sees a decent amount of use as the most effective hero to pair with Druid, although we still believed that a small improvement was warranted.
• Ocean Obyn - Level 11: provides magic monkeys with an additional +1 -> +2 pierce (+3 in total) - Level 9 damage 4 -> 5, level 14 damage 6 -> 9, level 19 damage 10 -> 14 - Ocean Obyn doesn’t receive as much attention as Obyn since his buffs are generalised to apply to all magic monkeys, but they are not significant enough. So we have given Ocean Obyn an improvement to one of his buffs, alongside the same changes that Obyn received.
• Benjamin - Level 5 now increases cash per round $150 -> $200 (level 8 unchanged at $400)
• DJ Ben Jammin’ - Level 5 now increases cash per round $112 -> $150 (level 8 unchanged at $300) - Benjamin and DJ Ben Jammin’ suffer from a slow progression from level 2 until their next cash gain increase at level 8. To address this, we have added an intermediate stepping stone at level 5 for a more gradual change and a small buff.
• Pat Fusty - Level 19 slam and aoe damage 10 -> 15 - Level 20 ability can grab up to 4 -> 6 MOAB class
• Fusty the Snowman - Level 19 slam and aoe damage 10 -> 15 - Level 20 ability can grab up to 4 -> 6 MOAB class - Pat Fusty and Fusty the Snowman’s top levels do not unlock quickly and are not worth the cost to buy them. We have enhanced the top 2 levels so that they are a bit more valuable now.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Bananza & Play With Fire game modes giving 2x as much income as they should have.
• Fixed incorrect description on x2x Glue Gunner (it hits 10 bloons, not 6)
• Fixed tutorial popups sometimes not appearing when they should.

New Features

• New Map: Salmon Ladder - Watch out for the mud! Bloons move faster on the muddy area of the map. - Try this awesome new map in ranked games in White Wasteland and higher, plus casual, event and clan games.
• New Map: Island Base - Battle the bloons on your home turf with the first clan wars exclusive map. - This map will only appear in clan war matches and has a higher chance of appearing than other maps. - Want to try it out without as much pressure? You can still play it in private matches even if you’re not in a clan.
• New Bling Season - Collect awesome new seasonal cosmetics like the Dino DDT and Ski-daddle sell animation. - Flaunt the law with Cyber Quincy’s Cyber Crimes Showcase. - Get sneaky with Agent Jericho’s Spy Bot Showcase.
• New First Time Player Experience - We’ve completely overhauled the first time play experience for new players as our stats showed that most new players were opting to skip the tutorial matches against T.D. in favour of diving right in to real games. - New players will be free to play how they want with less intrusive help messages that display only when needed. - There have been several UI improvements and clarifications to help players intuitively understand how to play. Check the General Changes section of the patch notes for more info. - Existing players who had not unlocked Gwendolin by completing the old tutorial can unlock her in the Heroes screen for free. The T.D. avatar and banner are no longer available but will return in a future update.

General Changes

• Casual battles have been removed from Red Bloon Camp and the Ranked Battle button has been renamed to just “Battle”. As Red Bloon Camp players cannot lose trophies, there is no need for a low risk game mode. Casual games become available in Yellow Stadium.
• Bling season quests that would be difficult or impossible to complete while in Red Bloon Camp, such as “Win 2 Casual Games”, will not roll until Yellow Stadium.
• Wording on the event banner changed to make it clearer to new players when event games unlock.
• A visual effect now plays over activated ability icons each time they become available to use.
• Changed colour scheme of tower upgrade menu to match the rest of the game. Upgrades you can’t afford will now appear as grey buttons with red text.
• There is a now a visual effect that plays over the bloon send buttons when pressed to make it clearer how they are affecting income.
• There is now a visual effect on each income tick showing the cash earned.
• Players no longer earn a medal at the end of a season if they did not play any ranked games during that season.

Balance Changes

• Dart Monkey - Base: $200 -> $150 - x2x Very Quick Shots: $150 -> $100 - 3xx Spike-o-pult: $400 -> $450 - xx3 Crossbow: $475 -> $450 - We’ve made a few small price cuts to Dart Monkey’s early upgrades so that the tower can obtain greater relevance in the meta as a dominant early game tower.
• Boomerang Monkey - xx5 MOAB Domination: special moab kylie deals 40 -> 50 damage to moab class - Boomerang Monkey lacks late game potential, with its tier 5s generally being regarded as on the weaker side. We’ve buffed up the MOAB Domination so that it can better deal with the beefy MOAB class bloons in the later rounds.
• Tack Shooter - 5xx Inferno Ring: ring damage 8 -> 11 - Despite receiving a few major buffs in the past, Inferno Ring still doesn't see much action and so we’re giving it another damage increase, this time to its ring in order to improve its grouped popping power.
• Ice Monkey - x5x Absolute Zero: ability grants all Ice Monkeys 1.5x -> 2x speed for 10 seconds. This now also affects Fusty the Snowman. - Absolutely Zero’s buff to Ice Monkeys is one interesting and obscure feature that many people may not know about, especially since the buff was not particularly significant. We have made this buff much more noticeable and included Fusty the Snowman so that it’ll hopefully now receive some more attention.
• Glue Gunner - Base: $200 -> $100 - 1xx Glue Soak: $200 -> $150 - Glue Gunner lacks early game efficiency, rarely seeing much use in the early few rounds. Therefore, we have made a couple of small price cuts so that it can perform a little better at this stage of the game.
• Sniper Monkey - Base: $350 -> $250 - 1xx Full Metal Jacket: $300 -> $250 - x1x Night Vision Goggles: $300 -> $200 - x2x Shrapnel Shot: $400 -> $300 - x3x Bouncing Bullet: $3000 -> $3200 - xx1 Fast Firing: $350 -> $250 - xx2 Faster Firing: $350 -> $250 - Sniper Monkey also lacks early game efficiency, being most used for its tier 3/4/5 upgrades way past the early game. Additionally, Sniper hasn’t been particularly prevalent in highest arenas recently, so we have made quite a few price cuts to the early upgrades to encourage Sniper to be used more and to potentially provide some more use cases for it in the early game.
• Monkey Buccaneer - x4x Monkey Pirates: ability cooldown 50s -> 30s - The x4x ability cooldown now matches the x5x ability cooldown. Monkey Pirates almost always gets sold after the ability is activated, so this felt like a harmless buff. However, the intention of this change is more so to deal with a bug that affects towers with differing tier 4 and 5 ability cooldown lengths, causing the tier 5 ability to have an initial cooldown if the tower was upgraded too quickly. This is still an issue for other tier 5s that we hope to fix in the future, but in the meantime, this balance change indirectly fixes the issue for Buccaneer by avoiding the bug.
• Monkey Ace - x4x Ground Zero: ability cooldown 45s -> 35s - The x4x ability cooldown now matches the x5x ability cooldown. This change has been made for the same reasoning as the change made to Monkey Buccaneer.
• Heli Pilot - xx4/5 Comanche Defense/Commander: mini helis’ missile attack rate 3s -> 2s - Comanche Defense and Comanche Commander are the least used tier 4 and 5 Heli Pilot upgrades respectively, plus Heli Pilot in general is not particularly known for being great at pure damage but plays a more supportive role with its abilities. Therefore, we felt like the Comanche upgrades were in need of a buff to be more on par with the top path.
• Dartling Gunner - 3xx Laser Cannon: dart spread degrees 9.2 -> 0 - x4x Rocket Storm: xx2 increases ability missiles pierce by +2 -> +3 - 5xx Ray of Doom: xx2 allows the beam to deal an extra 55 damage to the first 1 -> 3 bloons it hits - Dartling has always had a decent presence in the meta, however it’s also always had some subpar upgrades, such as Laser Cannon and Ray of Doom. Since the top path leads on to 4xx Plasma Accelerator which already has no spread in its aim, we have passed down this accuracy to 3xx Laser Cannon, so that it can be more precise in its long distance accuracy. The Ray of Doom change has been made to provide a general buff to the upgrade and also to even out the crosspaths for it. Previously, it barely benefitted from the bottom path crosspaths since the beam already has high pierce, whereas the middle path crosspaths were massively more enticing, providing faster attack speed and camo detection. This Ray of Doom change offers the interesting possibility of xx2 now being the stronger crosspath when dealing with certain scenarios, such as defending multiple BADs. Lastly, xx2 provides regular x3x rockets with +3 pierce so it makes sense for this to also be the case for the ability rockets, especially since this crosspath option is not as appealing as the top path.
• Wizard Monkey - 1xx: seeking/turning rate 360 -> 600 - 3xx Arcane Mastery: $1400 -> $1200 - x5x Wizard Lord Phoenix: ability main projectile damage 30 -> 40 - Wizard’s top path has high pierce but often struggles to make use of it all due to its slow turning speed, so that has been increased quite a bit. Alongside this, it has received a minor price cut so that it can perform better as a starting tower. Wizard Lord Phoenix’s damage has always felt a little bit underwhelming when faced with BAD’s, so we’ve upped its damage.
• Ninja Monkey - xx2 Caltrops: caltrops drop every 4.4s -> 9s and damage 1 -> 3. (102 increases rate to every 5.6s and 502 increases it to every 2.8s) - xx2 Caltrops: 5xx now increases Caltrops damage to 30 - x2x Distraction: 5xx now increases chance of distracting bloons from 25% -> 100% - x2x Distraction: 5xx’s projectiles now have a 15% chance of distracting MOABs (not BFBs and above) by a distance between 45-75 - The basic Caltrops change has been made so that they can pack more of a punch, since previously they often got disregarded as being insignificant. Additionally, they were known for contributing towards lag, especially if you had lots of them, so hopefully the slower attack rate will offer a slight improvement in this area. For 5xx Grandmaster Ninja, we’ve made 2 interesting crosspath changes. The middle path was never used as the preferred crosspath due to the distraction not being very relevant, so it has been greatly improved for 5xx by now including MOABs. For the bottom crosspath, although already the preferred choice, we wanted to buff it up anyway so that 5xx would be stronger overall now, since previously it was often more efficient to buy multiple 4xx Bloonjitsu Ninjas instead of a 5xx. The 5xx upgrade provides more shuriken and higher damage on them, yet Caltrops did not benefit from either of these things, so it provided negligible damage relative to the shuriken. It has received a massive damage buff so that it can now scale up with the shuriken and play a greater role in Grandmaster Ninja’s overall firepower.
• Alchemist - xx2 Acid Pool: pools on the track can now hit camo bloons - 3xx Berserker Brew: x2x crosspath now increases the maximum number of buffed projectiles per potion from 25 to 30 (previously 40) - 4xx Stronger Stimulant: x2x crosspath now increases the maximum number of buffed projectiles per potion from 40 to 50 (previously 55) - xx5 Bloon Master Alchemist: rate 8.5 -> 7.5 - Acid Pool gets very little attention, so we thought that it’d be an interesting and logical addition to allow the pools to hit camo bloons passing over them. On the other hand, Alchemist’s top path upgrades have always been appealing, usually serving as the primary incentive for Alchemist’s usage. We noticed that x2x is the preferred crosspath for 3xx/4xx Alchemists, being utilised 3 to 4 times more than xx1/xx2 in the highest arenas, so we decided to take the route of slightly weakening 3xx and 4xx by lowering the crosspath’s benefits. Lastly, Bloon Master Alchemist is far from a bad tower as it scales incredibly well with the late game MOAB ramping, however it is still the least used of Alchemist’s tier 5s. Its rate is incredibly slow which can make it unreliable for certain situations, so that has been buffed slightly.
• Druid - x3x Druid of the Jungle: $750 -> $450 - x4x: $2800 -> $3100 - x3x is pretty much always skipped over to get to x4x, rather than being an upgrade that can offer its own merit. Its price has been cut considerably whilst bumping up the x4x cost so that the total cost for a Jungle’s Bounty Druid remains unchanged.
• Banana Farm - 3xx Banana Plantation: $2600 -> $2750 - x3x Bank: end of round income (pre-interest) $400 -> $550 - x5x Monkey-Nomics: ability cooldown 60s -> 50s, initial cooldown 20s -> 25s - Banana Farm has become increasingly popular as of recently, with it arguably being too dominant in the meta. We would like to tone it down slightly by upping the price of 3xx, a particularly efficient farm for the early/mid game. In addition to this, we have improved the Bank so that it can fill up earlier, since this upgrade does not get used and the long fill time is one major reason for this.
• Spike Factory - xx3 Long Life Spikes: gains a 4x speed boost at the start of each round for 2.5 -> 6 seconds (carries over to xx4/5) - Spike Factory’s bottom path has potential but often is not the best option because it must be bought in advance to build up a decent pile. Since the bottom path is all about longer durations, we’ve increased the duration of the speed boost at the start of each round, allowing slightly beefier spike piles to be built up in the short term.
• Benjamin - Base: $1000 -> $900
• DJ Ben Jammin’ - Base: $1000 -> $900 - For being the only heroes that does not provide any bloon popping power early on, Benjamin and DJ Ben Jammin’ were pretty highly priced relative to the other heroes.
• Smudge Catt Ezili - Level 7: Scratching Post provides an additional x0.7 -> x0.5 rate buff to Smudge Catt - Level 7: Scratching Post gives Smudge Catt additional MOAB class damage equal to 5x -> 6x Smudge Catt’s level - Since Smudge Catt Ezili is currently a very under-utilised hero, we would like to give her Scratching Post ability a couple of buffs so that it can be more effective at dealing with rushes.
• Adora - Base cost: $850 -> $700 - XP leveling curve: 1.5x Striker Jones’ XP -> 1.5x Quincy’s XP - Level 3: Long Arm of Light ability increases pierce by 2x -> 2.4x - While Adora has demonstrated effectiveness in the later stages of the game, her performance is lacking early on, especially initially before she upgrades to shoot out multiple sparks. To address this, we have lowered the base cost and changed the leveling curve, so that she can reach some of the key early levels a little sooner. Furthermore, Long Arm of Light has been improved to make it a more impactful ability, as it currently offers mediocre assistance.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed towers automatically being sold when placed near water that is being frozen by an Ice Monkey.
• Fixed issue where it was possible to continue playing an event after it had ended.
• Fixed the speed boost from Star Captain Jericho still applying if a camo bloon loses its camo property.
• Fixed Clan War battles taking place in the event arena rather than the arena they are named after.
• Fixed randomisation of event rewards to give a more even spread of hero points.
• Fixed Super Monkey’s darkshift ability creating visual anomalies in the centre of the screen.
• Fixed Sun Goddess Adora losing access to Blood Sacrifice ability after merging with the 500 Supermonkey and then crosspathing to 510.
• Fixed graphical issue where UI elements were overlapping and black squares were appearing in the corners of some devices.
• Fixed planes and avatars spawned by a 500 Super Monkey not gaining camo detection if the Super Monkey was then upgraded to 502.
• Fixed scrolling textures losing quality over time.
• Fixed Adora sometimes playing her reveal animation on loop after merging with the True Sun God.
• Fixed x4x and x5x Banana Farm abilities now working correctly if you are already in debt.
• Fixed missing silencer when using Agent Jericho’s Pre-Mission Prep Matchup animation with the Ray Gun Weapon Skin.
• Fixed missing SFX in Agent Jericho’s Fresh Clip taunt.
• Fixed long and uncomfortable silence after some matchup animations.
• Fixed splash screen displaying at the wrong size on some devices.

General Changes

• Push Notifications (Mobile Only) - We’ve added notifications for important, time-sensitive events such as the season ending or a clan war beginning. - You will be asked to allow notifications the next time you open the game and can change your decision in your device settings.
• Cross Promotion - Battles 2 will now sometimes feature information about new updates and events in other Ninja Kiwi games.

Balance Changes

• Map Changes - Removed Thin Ice map from ZOMG Superdome ranked & clan games.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect terminology on the clan war results screen.
• Fixed 041 and 051 Super Monkey not knocking back bloons.
• Fixed Random Quad being able to roll banned towers in private games or war arenas with tower restrictions.
• Fixed confetti in clan war results screen not changing depending on your result.
• Fixed clan creation popup still saying clan names cannot be changed (they can).
• Fixed Bit-nanas and Banana Splits weapon skin not applying to 31x banana farms
• Fixed players who have a pending request to join a clan showing as if they are already part of that clan on their profile.
• Fixed misleading snazzy shades icon for Adora’s Horse Harassment taunt.
• Fixed xx3 Super Monkey playing the 3xx upgrade sfx when upgrading.
• Fixed bomb phasing through Star Captain Jericho’s hand in the Don’t Drop The Bomb defeat animation.
• Fixed some clan war accolades being unlocked earlier than they should have been (accolades will not be removed from players who unlocked them early).
• Fixed clan members leaderboard not scrolling correctly
• Fixed Sun Goddess not being able to use blood sacrifice if crosspaths are bought after the merge

New Features

• New Hero: Adora - Praise the Sun! Priestess Adora has arrived in Battles 2! - Unleash devastating seeking bolt attacks and empower nearby Supermonkeys with radiant energy. - Infuse other monkeys with divine power, massively increasing their attack speed for a short while before they are destroyed and their essence absorbed to power up Adora.
• New Map: Sun Palace - Battle the bloons in the holy palace of the sun. - Available in all game modes and arenas.
• New Bling Season - 12 new season cosmetics including the Lofi avatar and Mixed Up Alchemist placement animation. - Ride into battle with the Sunbeam showcase for Adora. - Bring out the big guns with Star Captain Jericho’s Space Armory showcase.

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends - Spaced/Grouped BFBs: $1800 -> $1600 - BFBs are the least effective of the early MOAB class bloon sends, so we would like to improve them to make them more appealing as a rush option.
• Dart Monkey - 5xx Ultra-Juggernaut: main ball deals 4 -> 5 damage and +5 -> +6 damage to fortified bloons - xx4 Sharp Shooter / xx5 Crossbow Master: the first attack will now always be a Crit Shot - 2xx Razor Sharp Shots: $250 -> $150 - 3xx Spike-o-pult: $300 -> $400 - Spike-o-pult feels like it’s in a decent spot, however the other low tier Dart Monkey upgrades aren’t at the same level. So we have made a small adjustment to 2xx while leaving 3xx’s total cost unchanged, which will help the other upgrade paths such as 230 more than anything. Additionally, we have changed xx4/5 so that when you first purchase the upgrade, the first attack will be a Crit Shot. This gives it a bit more potential to be effective in situations when you need to quickly build up defense to defend a speedy rush and instantly need the extra damage. We also felt that Ultra-Juggernaut could do with a little buff as it is on the weaker side for a tier 5 upgrade.
• Tack Shooter - x3x Blade Shooter: $700 -> $750 - 5xx Inferno Ring: regular attack deals +4 -> +7 to MOAB class. Meteor creates an Aoe with 50 -> 150 damage and 50 -> 150 DoT. - Tack Shooter has consistently remained one of if not the best starting tower, due to its incredibly efficient Blade Shooter upgrade. This strong point is the main appeal of Tack Shooter and we don’t want to take that away from it, however we have decided to tone it down very slightly so that it doesn’t stand out quite so much when compared to other early-game options. Inferno Ring has gotten another buff to slightly strengthen Tack Shooter’s late game effectiveness.
• Glue Gunner - 4xx Bloon Liquifier: deals 1 -> 2 damage to MOAB class - 5xx Bloon Solver: deals 9 -> 10 damage to MOAB class and ceramics - We’re making a couple of damage buffs to Glue Gunner to give the tower a little boost, as it feels a bit lacking and is not commonly used in the highest arenas.
• Sniper Monkey - x5x Elite Sniper: ability no longer has an initial cooldown - In a previous update, with distinguished the tier 5 ability from the tier 4 ability, which had the side effect of introducing an initial cooldown for the tier 5. We have removed this cooldown so that like before, the cooldown will remain unchanged when upgrading from tier 4 to 5.
• Monkey Sub - x4x First Strike Capability: $14k -> $15k - x5x Pre-emptive Strike: $32k -> $30k - Sub’s First Strike ability has always been exceptional at dealing with single ZOMGs and BADs. We have opted for a small price increase so that it can still deal its high damage but just slightly less efficiently, and we also made a minor price decrease to Pre-emptive Strike. We would also like to note that we have made a bug fix to xx5 Sub Commander, which was not receiving the 2x damage buff itself. This will greatly improve Sub Commander’s strength and will hopefully provide another valuable late-game upgrade to be used in conjunction with First Strikes.
• Monkey Buccaneer - x3x Cannon Ship: xx1 no longer increases pierce of x3x frags by 1 - x3x Cannon Ship: 1xx now reduces attack cooldown of the cannon by a 0.75x cooldown multiplier - In hindsight, the previous change to 031 Buccaneers was a bit too much, as Cannon Ship was already a decent upgrade. We have kept the pierce increase that xx1 provides to the explosion but removed the pierce increase to the frags so that the xx1 buff isn’t quite as impactful. Furthermore, we have allowed 1xx to buff the attack cooldown of the cannons, as it makes sense for both crosspaths to have an effect.
• Monkey Ace - xx1 Sharper Darts: gives darts +3 -> +4 pierce - We’re making this small buff to Ace to encourage some more early-game upgrades to be used.
• Mortar Monkey - xx2 Burny Stuff: DoT duration 3.75s -> 4.2s and tick rate 1.25s -> 1.4s - Mortar’s bottom path still stands out as being exceptionally strong and in need of a little nerf.
• Wizard Monkey - Base: $400 -> $300 - 2xx Arcane Blast: $350 -> $250 - 3xx Arcane Mastery: $1200 -> $1400 - x2x Wall of Fire: $900 -> $1000 - xx3 Shimmer: $1500 -> $1600 - Arcane Mastery seems to be in a decent spot, but it has poor stepping stones in the early game, so we have buffed the lower tiers leading up to it. Arcane Mastery, Wall of Fire, and Shimmer have all had their price increased so that they do not indirectly get buffed from the price cuts.
• Ninja Monkey - Base: $450 -> $400 - 1xx $250 -> $150 - x1x Distraction: projectiles have a 15% -> 25% chance of distracting bloons. Distracted bloons are sent back between 10 and 300 -> between 100 and 250 units. - x1x Distracton: $250 -> $200 - x3x Shinobi Tactics: $2000 -> $2100 - xx2 Calctrops: $300 -> $250 - xx3 Flash Bomb: $2000 -> $1800 - xx4 Sticky Bomb: $4500 -> $4900 - Ninja Monkey is a little bit lacking in early game popping power, only being effectively utilised when paired with another tower like an Alchemist. We have made some price cuts and improvements so that its early and unused upgrades are slightly better.
• Spike Factory - Base: $800 -> $600 - 3xx Spiked Balls: $2500 -> $2700 - xx1 Long Reach: spike duration 100s -> 75 (xx3 unchanged at 170) - xx4 Deadly Spikes: $3500 -> $3300 - The duration increase from Long Reach in addition to the start of round speed boost from Smart Spikes has resulted in xx2 being the dominant crosspath choice for Spiked Balls. We have lowered the duration so that there should be more choice between the crosspaths. xx3’s duration remains unchanged and xx4 has been buffed so that these upgrades can offer an alternative option.
• Engineer Monkey - xx3 Double Gun: $450 -> $350 - xx4 Bloon Trap: $3500 -> $3600 - This upgrade is not efficient enough to be used as an alternative to Engineer's other options, so we are making a price cut to encourage its usage. Bloon Trap’s price has been increased so that the total cost for it remains unchanged, since it did not need a buff.
• Obyn - Level 19: deals +2 -> +4 damage - Level 20: Wall of Trees RBE limit 5k -> 8k RBE - Due to late game ramping, Obyn’s damage is fairly negligible in the late game, and level 20 does not add much by the time you can get it.
• Ocean Obyn - Level 18: all Magic Monkeys in range attack 10% -> 15% faster - Level 19: deals +2 -> +4 damage - Level 20: Kraken RBE limit 2.5k -> 4k RBE - Obyn has a pretty clear spot in the meta as being the ‘Druid specialist’ hero, however Ocean Obyn does not have as much use, since his more general magic buff is less significant than Obyn’s druid buff. So in addition to the same changes that Obyn received, we have improved Ocean Obyn’s buff to Magic Monkeys later on.
• Highwayman Jericho - Level 3: initial ability cooldown 25s -> 33.3s - Highwayman Jericho still has the edge over Agent Jericho in the highest arenas largely due to being capable of stealing more cash in the early game, so this very minor adjustment is being made to slightly delay Highwayman’s income generation.
• Star Captain Jericho - Level 6: rainbows steal $35 -> $31 - For the most part, we like how Star Captain Jericho looks right now, with him working exceptionally well with aggressive strategies that rush frequently. However, we would like to tone it down slightly, so for now we have marginally reduced the cash that he steals when sending rainbows.
• Super Monkey - Base $2.1k -> $1.8k - 1xx Laser Blasts: $2.3k -> 1.4k - 2xx Plasma Blasts: $4.5k -> $3k - x2x Epic Range: $1.4k -> $1k - x3x Robo Monkey: $7k -> $10k - xx3 Dark Knight: $5.6k -> $4k and deals +3 -> +2 damage to MOAB class - 4xx Sun Temple: $100k -> $80k and main attack deals 6 -> 9 damage - x4x Tech Terror: ability knockback speed x25 -> x18 (x5x unchanged) - xx4 Dark Champion: $55k -> $30k, gains +4 -> +2 pierce, and deals +5 -> +2 damage to MOAB class - 5xx True Sun God: $400k -> $200k and deals 20 -> 30 damage - xx5 Legend of the Night: $240k -> $100k, gains +8 -> +4 damage, deals +8 -> +4 damage to MOAB class, and gains +15 -> +8 pierce - xx5 Legend of the Night: portal duration 8s -> 4s, and each portal can only absorb a maximum of 1 BAD - the portal will now close after absorbing a BAD. - 4xx Sun Temple / 5xx True Sun God: requires $20k -> $15k of sacrifices to receive the sacrifice benefits - Sacrificing $15k of primary towers to 4/5xx reduces attack cooldown by 25% -> 10% - Sacrificing $15k of support towers to 4/5xx no longer give towers in range +1 damage - Sacrificing $15k of support towers to 4/5xx reduces attack cooldown of towers in range by 10% -> 15% - Sacrificing $15k of support towers to 4/5xx spawns crates worth $750 -> $2000 - Sacrificing $15k of support towers to 5xx creates big perma-spikes at a rate of 60s -> 30s and no longer limited to 1 at a time - Sacrificing $15k of primary towers to 4xx provides blades that deal 25 -> 20 damage - Sacrificing $15k of primary towers to 5xx provides glaives that deal 30 -> 25 damage and have 50 -> 40 pierce - Sacrificing $15k of magic towers to 5xx provides mini sun avatars that deal 3 -> 1 damage - We have made significant adjustments to a lot of Super Monkey’s upgrades, as we feel like Super Monkey is not and has never been properly balanced for this game. While its main strength is its late game and we want to keep it that way, we do not think it should be to the extent where it has almost no use in the early/mid game. Therefore, we are making some pretty big price cuts to the early tiers, while adjusting the tier 3s to balance out these price cuts so that they don’t become too strong. A lot of the higher tiers have either been too expensive or too inefficient to have any practical use in ranked matches, and we want to change that. Legend of the Night’s price tag was justifiably high for what it did, so it had to be reworked to receive a price cut. True Sun God (without sacrifices) was actually incredibly weak for its extreme price tag, with a lot of its strength coming from the weapons/buffs it receives and provides from sacrifices. We wanted to shift more of its strength to the vanilla weapon, as it should always be a powerful tower given its hefty price. Therefore, in addition to a giant price buff, we have increased its damage while weakening some of the strongest sacrifice benefits. Tech Terror has proven to be a great ability with the knockback addition, so we have slightly lowered its effectiveness.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed not being able to roll random clan name after inputting an invalid name.
• Fixed clan leaderboard not scrolling past the first 7 members.
• Fixed UI issues when canceling a war battle.
• Fixed not being able to join clan from members screen
• Added button to take player to clan shop if they have no clan decorations unlocked.
• Fixed display issues in clan war explanation screen in various languages.
• Improved performance when dealing with a large number of bloon mods, such as with Ice Monkey or Glue Gunner.
• Fixed blinking text cursor not appearing in text input boxes.
• Fixed accept request buttons not being disabled when clan is full.
• Fixed incorrect messaging when a player’s request to join a clan is denied.
• Fixed default clan descriptions not being localised.
• Fixed clan chat notifications not appearing unless the player changed menus.
• Fixed UI issues on tablet screens when creating custom matches.
• Fixed UI issues in the clan island edit menu & shop.
• Fixed clan island decorations shrinking every time the clan screen is opened.
• Fixed full clans not being returned when searched for specifically.
• Fixed clan chat display issues on some widescreen devices.
• Fixed hit area on island style edit button being too small.
• Fixed minor display issues on clan creation screen.
• Fixed SFX not playing when purchasing bloon bots or banana farmers.
• Fixed incorrect header colour on bloon bot shop card.
• Fixed player names in clan chat reacting as if they are buttons.
• Fixed Dragon clan island decoration clipping in the preview screen.
• Fixed incorrect text in clan banner immediately after a war.
• Fixed some text in the clan screen not localising
• Fixed season screen jumping back to the first reward when opened.
• Fixed activated ability cooldowns not being inherited correctly (e.g. when x4x sniper upgrades to x5x)
• Fixed 040 Super Monkey being able to knock back MOABs with its ability without crosspathing to 041.
• Fixed Gwen’s Twirl animation having its audio cut off post game.
• Fixed clan chat button occasionally disappearing.
• Fixed Quincy’s Cupid Bow showing the wrong arrow
• Fixed players losing medallions and war arena game if the opponent disconnects in the lobby or during matchmaking.

New Features

• Clans - Join up with your friends and battle together! - Customize your clan with a unique symbol and banner. - Decorate a shared Clan Island with awesome cosmetics! - Clans can be created with Monkey Money or for free with Club membership.
• Clan Wars - Battle against a league of 11 other clans every week in the Clan Wars! - Check in every day for your free medallions. Use them to enter the War Arenas to win more medallions and move your clan up the leaderboard. - Finish in the top 3 to get promoted to the next league and earn even bigger rewards! - Earn Tokens based on your performance to spend on awesome new decorations for your clan island.
• Import Clans from Battles 1 - Leaders of existing clans in Battles 1 can import their clan into Battles 2 for free! - Imported clans keep their clan symbol from Battles 1 and unlock an exclusive banner and War Chest decoration for the clan island. In most cases, the clan name will also be imported. Where the name can’t be imported, a new name will be generated for the clan in Battles 2. - Clan leaders can start the import from the Clan Options screen in Battles 1. - This is a limited time feature and only clans created before 17th November 2023 will be eligible for import.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Sub Commander not giving itself the 2x damage buff
• Fixed Star Captain Jericho’s laser shock being removed when a bloon layer pops
• Fixed Star Captain Jericho’s background not being wide enough for tablet resolutions.
• Fixed track objects like Obyn’s totem not working on maps with unplaceable areas like Precious Space.
• Fixed IMF loan not doubling in Bananza games.
• Fixed black bars appearing on in game hud on some resolutions.
• Fixed incorrect translation for Quincy’s “Next Time…” defeat animation in German.
• Fixed Banana Farmer appearing as low resolution in game.

Known Issues

• Clan names cannot be changed after clan creation.
• Upgrading the Monkey Ace to Tsar Bomba very fast results in the ability having an initial cooldown when it shouldn’t.
• Bloons affected by the speed boost from Star Captain Jericho’s enhanced camo ability don’t lose it if they are de-camoed.
• The team is aware of these issues and they will be fixed in a future update.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed xx3 Monkey Ace causing crash on Ports map.
• Fixed Star Captain Jericho's ship not appearing in his unlock screen.
• Fixed crash when viewing player accolades.
• Fixed Club Members not earning double monkey money.
• Fixed visual issue on season screen between ranked seasons.
• Fixed issue where using xx4 Supermonkey's Darkshift ability would cause other towers to be sold.

New Features

• New Hero: Star Captain Jericho - The space-faring winner of the community hero vote! - Send trapped bloons that put your opponent into debt when popped. - Smuggle your rushes through hyperspace to get them past your opponent’s front line.
• New Map: Precious Space - Inspired by u/SuperPsou’s winning entry to the community map contest! - Activate the lasers to destroy placeable asteroids in exchange for cash. - How many can you afford to destroy while keeping enough room to defend? - You can find Precious Space in Ranked games in White Wasteland and above, as well as Casual, Private, and Event games.
• New Bling Season - 12 new season cosmetics including the Too Early emote and the Magical Teleportation placement animation for the Wizard Monkey. - Get sneaky with Quincy’s Silent Hunter showcase. - Make them an offer they can’t refuse with the Don Obyn showcase for Ocean Obyn.

General Changes

• Club Membership - Club Membership is now better value than ever! - Club Members now earn x2 Monkey Money rewards. - Club Membership now includes the Banana Boost, earning 2x Golden Bananas from Bling Quests with no daily quest limit.
• Named Monkey and Prestige Toggles - It is now possible to hide your monkey names and prestige badges. - Find this option in the settings menu.

Balance Changes

• Tower Boost - Tower Boost initial cooldown 30s -> 20s - We have reduced tower boost’s initial cooldown so that it is more accessible in the tricky early rounds of Speed Battles, as a lot of towers struggle here.
• Dart Monkey - 3xx Spike-o-pult now allows re-hitting targets after bouncing - 4xx Juggernaut now allows re-hitting targets after bouncing - 5xx Ultra-Juggernaut now allows re-hitting targets after bouncing - Allowing juggernaut projectiles to re-hit bloons after bouncing is a core mechanism of the tower in BTD6, so we are adding it to Battles 2 as well. We are also extending this to the Spike-o-pult like btd6 recently did, as Dart Monkey could definitely do with this small improvement.
• Boomerang Monkey - xx5 MOAB Domination: $55k -> $52k - We have given MOAB Domination some decent damage buffs in the past, but it’s still pricey for what it does, so we think a small price cut is a fair adjustment.
• Tack Shooter - x4x Blade Maelstrom: crosspathing with xx1 now changes the ability rotation direction to counter-clockwise - 5xx Inferno Ring: 510 Tack’s Meteor has 1 -> 2 pierce, 520 has 2 -> 3 pierce, 501 has 700 -> 1000 damage, and 502 has 1000 -> 1400 damage. - This Blade Maelstrom change was made to add greater versatility and limit any side advantages. Despite Tack being an incredibly popular tower, Inferno Ring still feels lacking in damage, therefore we have upped its Meteor damage and pierce values when crosspathed.
• Monkey Sub - xx5 Sub Commander: attacks 2x -> 3x faster than xx4 - Sub Commander is a very underutilised tier 5. Since its main strength is buffing other Monkey Subs, it lacks versatility as there are often situations where it isn’t practical to build up an army of subs with it. Therefore, we opted to buff its individual strength so that it can shine more on its own.
• Monkey Buccaneer - 031 Cannonship: cannonball pierce 28 -> 35 - 031 Cannonship: frags pierce 1 -> 2 - We’re bringing over some changes from BTD6 that felt reasonable for this game too, buffing the rarely-used Cannonship upgrade.
• Heli Pilot - x5x Special Poperations: cash crate ability will now also trigger all other cash crate abilities - x5x Special Poperations: cash crate ability no longer shares button space in the ability quickbar with tier 4 cash crate abilities. - We’ve extended the change that we did to Sniper’s ability to Heli Pilot, as it is a nice quality of life change that fits here as well.
• Mortar Monkey - 3xx Shell Shock: $950 -> $1100 - xx2 Burny Stuff: $600 -> $700 - Mortar has still been incredibly strong even with the previous nerfs. The last 3xx stun duration change didn’t appear to have much of an impact, so we have opted for a price increase as well. Burny stuff and signal flare also stand out as being exceptionally efficient options, so we have increased the xx2 price. Also note that we have fixed a bug that caused mortar’s targeting to be significantly more accurate than intended.
• Dartling Gunner - 5xx Ray of Doom: now deals +55 bonus damage to the first target hit - Ray of Doom is designed to be a high-pierce tower that effectively deals with large amounts of grouped bloons. However, due to this, it performs incredibly poorly against individual tough bloons, such as a single BAD. We felt that it should perform better against these types of bloons considering its extremely high price tag, therefore we added this change to improve its single target damage considerably.
• Druid - x5x Spirit of the Forest: Jungle’s Bounty ability will now also trigger all other Jungle’s Bounty abilities - x5x Spirit of the Forest: Jungle’s Bounty ability no longer shares button space in the ability quickbar with tier 4 Jungle’s Bounty abilities. - x5x Spirit of the Forest: Jungle’s Bounty ability cash $1k -> $1.5, end of round cash $3k -> $2.5k - Like with Heli Pilot and Sniper, this nice quality of life change fits very well for Druid’s ability too. We’ve also shuffled some of the cash amounts to distinguish the tier 5 ability from the tier 4, so that it can have its own button space in the ability quickbar.
• Sentai Churchill - Level 1: Pierce per explosion 5 -> 4 (carries over to future levels, so 7 -> 6 at level 2, 10 -> 9 at level 11) - Level 3 High Energy Shells: ability reduces attack cooldown by 45% -> 42% - Sentai Churchill is extremely strong in the early game for its cost. Not much gets past its ability either, so minor adjustments have been made to both.
• Pat Fusty - Level 6: stuns bloons for 0.3 -> 0.45 seconds - We’re making a small buff to encourage Pat Fusty to be utilised more, since he has fallen off in popularity in the highest arenas.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Mortar attacks being significantly more accurate than they should be.
• Fixed Sentai Churchill using Captain Churchill’s voice lines when tapped.
• Various text fixes
• Fixed Banana Farmer icon appearing with low resolution in game.
• Fixed Engineer Traps, Obyn’s trees, etc spawning over the empty lift shaft on Bloon Bot Factory.
• Fixed bloons sometimes getting stuck in a loop when affected by the Ninja Monkey’s distraction.
• Fixed Engineer’s sentries not spawning with the same targeting as the Engineer.
• Fixed incorrect sell values for towers in No Pain, No Gain games.

General Changes

• Reward Boost Changes (Desktop Only) - You can now claim 2 Reward Boosts for free every 4 hours from the Shop. - Features that allow you to spend Reward Boosts will show how many times they can be used in a given period (usually 24 hours). - Individual features will no longer offer “free uses” each day (e.g. It will always cost 1 Reward Boost to multiply your rewards post-game).

Balance Changes

• Bloon Bot Factory - All passive sources of cash (xx3 Farm, x5x Druid, Benjamin, etc) will continue to function even when the elevator is down. - This can be a punishing map to play on already and, as we allow xx3+ farms to function while down the elevator, it made sense to allow other passive sources of cash to work too.
• Boomerang Monkey - x4x Turbo-Charge: ability duration 10s -> 8s - Turbo Change is incredibly effective in dealing with all sorts of rushes, due to its long ability duration providing a massive speed boost in addition to a damage boost. We have slightly reduced its duration so that it’s not quite so dependable.
• Ice Monkey - x3x Arctic Wind: radius 20 -> 30. Slow radius 25 -> 35. x4x radius remains unchanged at 30 and 35. - Since Ice monkey hasn’t got a lot of attention in recent updates, we wanted to give it a little buff, and opted for improving the Arctic Wind upgrade since it is one of Ice Monkey’s lesser used upgrades. We have shifted the tier 4 range boost to tier 3, leaving the tier 4 unchanged while giving the tier 3 a bit more value.
• Glue Gunner - xx4 Relentless Glue: $2400 -> $2000 - Like the Ice Monkey, the Glue Gunner also hasn’t received much attention recently. We have decreased the cost of the Relentless Glue since the only real valuable thing about this upgrade is its camo detection, and the previous price tag was not justified for this.
• Sniper Monkey - x5x Elite Sniper Elite Supply Drop Ability will now also trigger all other Supply Drop Abilities - xx3 Semi-Automatic: $2700 -> $2500 - xx4 Full Auto Rifle: $4200 -> $3800 - Sniper Monkey’s bottom path continues to be considered one of the weakest of all tower paths, therefore we are making a couple of decently sized price buffs to the tier 3 and 4 upgrades.
• Monkey Sub - 4xx reactor pierce 26 -> 30 (410 remains at 35 pierce) - 401 pulse rate 0.32 -> 0.3 (xx1 reduces by 20->25%) - 402 pulse rate 0.224 -> 0.2 (xx2 reduces by 30 -> 33.3%) - For a long time now, x2x has undoubtedly been the optimal Reactor crosspath due to its lead popping power and greatly increased pierce. Ideally, we would like the xx2 crosspath to provide a valuable alternative option, if lead popping power is not required. To help with this, we have increased the base pierce while leaving the 410 Reactor pierce unchanged, and we have increased the attack speed boost that xx1 and xx2 provide.
• Monkey Buccaneer - 4xx Aircraft Carrier $6800 -> $6400 - Just a small price decrease to an upgrade that could do with a little buff.
• Monkey Ace - 4xx Operation Dart Storm: dart pierce 7 -> 9 - xx5 Flying Fortress: Attack cooldown 0.025s -> 0.03s - xx5 Flying Fortress main weapon targets the strongest bloon rather than the closest. - We have buffed up ODS a little, with the hope that it will now be a more efficient option for mid game defense. Regarding Flying Fortress, it has proven to be an incredibly strong and efficient tier 5, therefore we have reverted the previous attack speed buff we made, as it was not necessary. However, we also addressed it unreliability due to its poor targeting, so it should be a bit more consistent now.
• Heli Pilot - 4xx Apache Dartship: $19,600 -> $17,500 - This upgrade feels just slightly too expensive for what it offers, so we have dropped the price a little.
• Mortar Monkey - 3xx Shell Shock: stun duration 0.5 -> 0.4 - x4x: $7600 -> $8000 and duration 8s -> 7s - Mortar still stands out as one of the strongest defensive towers, particularly excelling in mid-game defense. We have addressed this by slightly weakening both its Shell Shock stun and its tier 4 ability.
• Super Monkey - 041 & 051 ability now knocks back any surviving targets by a large amount. - x5x Anti-Bloon: cooldown 45s -> 30s - We copied over this interesting knockback change from BTD6, helping to make Super Monkey’s ability more reliable with an added benefit. Additionally, the tier 5 ability cooldown was reduced so that there is more value in having the Anti-Bloon as a permanent tower, rather than just a tower to be sold and rebought for the ability.
• Banana Farm - x3x Monkey Bank: $5100 -> $4600 - x4x IMF Loan: $7500 -> $8000 - Monkey Bank has been in long need of an efficiency buff, since it has never been able to compete with the other Banana Farm upgrades. We did not want to indirectly buff IMF Loan, therefore the total cost of an x4x Banana Farm remains unchanged.
• Spike Factory - xx4: damage 2 -> 3 - This upgrade simply does not provide enough value for its high price tag, especially when Spiked Balls provides a cheaper alternative. We have decided to give this upgrade a major damage buff, which should definitely shake things up.
• Cyber Quincy - Level 3: Cyber Shot now also increases attack speed by 18% - No matter how much extra pierce Cyber Shot provides, it doesn’t seem to be able to compete with regular Quincy since attack speed is inherently more valuable. Therefore, we have decided to give Cyber Shot just a little attack speed boost as well.
• Ocean Obyn - Level 10: RBE per Kraken 1000 -> 1200 - Level 15: Nature’s Ward stuns every 4th -> 3rd MOAB class - With all the recent meta changes and hero introductions, Ocean Obyn has lost a lot of the relevancy that it once had. We have decided to buff up his own strength a little, improving Kraken since it’s almost always less desired than Wall of Trees.
• Agent Jericho - Base cost: $750 -> $850 - Level 10: Selling and rebuying Jericho will no longer reset the Bloon Decoy cooldown. - We still felt like Agent Jericho and Highwayman Jericho were in need of another early game nerf, and hopefully this will be the last. By increasing the base price, this reduces how much cash Jericho users have in the early game and additionally makes it a lot harder to place Jericho on round 1. A later Jericho placement is impactful as it results in his early cash steals and bloon adjustment being unlocked later. Additionally, we have slightly altered how Agent Jericho’s decoy works, so that it can’t be spammed by selling and rebuying the hero.
• Highwayman Jericho - Base cost: $750 -> $850

Bug Fixes

• Fixed part of the 420 Sniper Monkey’s rifle being invisible.
• Fixed 2xx Monkey Sub attempting to fire at bloons it couldn’t see on the Ports map.
• Fixed not being able to place towers on a 5xx Monkey Buccaneer if it is placed in front of a blocker.
• Fixed heroes not reacting to Benjamin’s Holo-Ben taunt.
• Fixed Preseason logo being hidden behind the Play With Fire art on the event banner
• Fixed 4xx and 5xx Super Monkey showing its range circle as if it can’t see through blockers.
• Fixed prestige avatars and banners not animating in the preview window.
• Fixed Highwayman Jericho not displaying the correct VFX when he sells the opponent’s tower.
• Fixed soft lock when dismissing a purchase confirmation window on Steam (Desktop Only).
• Minor text fixes.

New Features

• Monkey Prestige - New, long-term, cosmetic upgrades for your monkeys once you finish their mastery unlocks. - Use XP to unlock awesome new cosmetics like animated tower portraits and drag effects.
• New Map: Pirate Cove - Protect your booty from Bloon attack in an all new map. - Use the tall rocks to claim the high ground and attack the hard to reach bloons. - You can find Pirate Cove in Ranked games in Lead Dungeon and above, as well as Casual, Private, and Event games.
• New Bling Season - 12 new season cosmetics including the Toy Bricks weapon skin for the Spike Factory and Shark Tower Boost. - Meet Science Gwen’s safety-conscious sidekick in the Safety Bot Showcase. - Make some noise with Pat Fusty’s Pat-cussion showcase.

General Changes

• Pregame Store - Stock up on Banana Farmers and Bloon Bots before each game. - Watch an ad to trial any hero during the next game.

Balance Changes

• Ice Monkey - 4xx Embrittlement: $3k -> $2.7k - We want to encourage Ice Monkey to be used more, so we are buffing Embrittlement to make his decamo and debuff abilities a little bit more accessible early on.
• Sniper Monkey - xx4 Full Auto Rifle: $4600 -> $4200 - Sniper remains one of the least used towers in the highest areas. We previously gave Full Auto Rifle a decent damage buff but it hasn’t appeared to be enough, so we are also reducing its cost.
• Monkey Sub - x1x Barbed Darts: $450 -> $300 - xx1 Twin Guns: $350 -> $300 - xx2 Airburst Darts: $800 -> $700 - We would love to see Monkey Sub be used more in the early game, but currently he rarely is because other towers prove to be more efficient.
• Mortar Monkey - xx2 Burny Stuff: $500 -> $600 - x4x Artillery Battery: ability no longer increases blast radius by 15%, and $7300 -> $7600 - Mortar has quickly risen to become one of the top meta towers in the highest arenas, and we would like to tone down its strength just a little. Burny Stuff is an incredibly efficient early/mid-game option making it deserving of a small price increase, and despite previous nerfs, Artillery Battery remains to be an exceptionally effective upgrade to counter rushes. The 4x boost that the ability gives is already very significant, so we thought that the +15% blast radius boost on top of that could be removed, along with a small price increase, to slightly lower its efficiency while still ensuring it still remains a powerful ability.
• Dartling Gunner - 4xx Plasma Accelerator: Pierce 50 -> 40. - 402 Plasma Accelerator/Powerful Darts crosspath: Pierce 75 -> 70 - Dartling Gunner continues to be a top-tier tower and its Plasma Accelerator stands out as an incredibly efficient tower, with solid MOAB class damage and good group popping power. So we have decided to lower its pierce in order to lower its efficiency in bloon cleanup. 402’s pierce has not been changed as much in order to give more incentive to go with the xx2 crosspath instead of x2x.
• Ninja Monkey - xx3 Flash bomb: Stun duration 1 -> 1.3 and pierce 60 -> 75 - Despite Ninja Monkey being common in many top strategies over the seasons, Flash Bomb has never been a popular upgrade. We’ve bumped up its pierce and stun length so that hopefully it becomes a more appealing option.
• Druid - 3xx Druid of the Storm: tornado projectile has homing - 5xx Superstorm: big tornado has homing - 3xx $1650 -> $1500 and blowback distance is now fixed at 250 rather than 100-300 - 4xx Ball Lightning: $4500 -> $4300 - x3x Druid of the Jungle: vine deals damage every 0.2s -> 0.15s, $850 -> $750 - In previous seasons, Druid had its time to shine as one of the top towers in HoM. However, Druid now sadly sits at the very bottom of the HoM usage rates, and so we want to give some of Druid’s lesser-used attacks some attention. We’ve made Druid of the Storm more reliable by removing the randomness, cutting its price, and adding homing. Additionally, we added homing to Superstorm, and gave small buffs to the underutilised Ball Lightning and Druid of the Jungle upgrades.
• Spike Factory - xx3 Long Life Spikes: $1000 -> $600 - This upgrade simply increases the spike duration without adding any other benefit, so it didn’t deserve to be so expensive.
• Gwendolin - Level 4: Heat It Up duration 8s -> 10s. Activates every 32 shots -> 28 shots. - We are increasing Heat it Up’s uptime by increasing its duration and how often it activates. You can’t easily control when this buff is active, so making it more reliable felt like a sensible change to buff the Gwens a little.
• Science Gwen - Level 4: Heat It Up activates every 40 shots -> 36 shots - Since Scientist Gwendolin is already favoured over Gwendolin due to her stronger abilities, we are only giving Scientist Gwendolin the small Heat it Up activation buff and not the duration increase as well.
• Striker Jones - Level 18: all mortar and bomb shooters shoot an additional 10 -> 15% faster - We are giving a little buff to Striker Jones to give more incentive to pick him over Biker Bones, since currently Biker Bones is undeniably the favourite in the highest arenas.
• Captain Churchill - Level 3: ability increases shell pierce by +2 -> +4 - Sentai Churchill is favoured over Captain Churchill largely due to his stronger early game. Captain Churchill’s level 3 ability is not that effective in the early game when compared to Sentai’s, so we are giving it a pretty hefty buff to help put him closer in line with Sentai.
• Benjamin - Level 11: Generates $600 -> $800 per round - Level 15: Generates $1000 -> $1400 per round - Level 17: Generates $2000 -> $2500 per round - Despite previous balance changes, it still feels like the Jerichos outshine the Benjamins as the cash hero, so we are bumping up Benjamin’s cash amounts for his later levels again.
• Ben Jammin - Level 15: Generates $750 -> $1050 per round - Level 17: Generates $1500 -> $1875 per round - DJ Ben Jammin generates 75% of the cash of Benjamin so his values have been adjusted in line with Benjamins. DJ Ben was already generating $600 per round at Level 11, the same as Ben used to, by mistake so that value has not been increased.
• Ezili - XP leveling curve 1.5x striker -> 1.5x quincy - The meta has changed a lot over the previous seasons and the Ezilis are no longer considered top-tier heroes like they used to be. We have dropped the XP leveling curve so that their abilities are available earlier on.
• Smudge Catt Ezili - XP Leveling curve 1.5x striker -> 1.5x quincy
• Pat Fusty - Base Cost: $950 -> $900 - Level 1: slam blast radius 8 -> 10 (+2 to all future levels too) - Level 1: pierce 7 -> 8 - Similar to Ezili, Pat Fusty and Fusty the Snowman no longer have much of a place in the meta and so we would like to give them some small early-game buffs for now.
• Fusty the Snowman - Base Cost: $950 -> $900 - Level 1: slam blast radius 8 -> 10 (+2 to all future levels too) - Level 1: pierce 7 -> 8
• Agent Jericho - Level 4 (buff to adjustment) has been swapped with level 5 (buff to regrow cost) - Level 4: regen cost multiplier x1.3 -> x1.4 - Level 7: camo cost multiplier x1.5 -> x1.6 - Once again, some more nerfs to Agent Jericho and Highwayman Jericho as they still have the edge over all other heroes. We decided to switch level 4 and 5 in order to delay how quickly camo bloons start spawning, as this was one aspect of Jericho that was very effective against lots of strategies. Furthermore, we very reduced the buff that they give to the cost of camos and regens, so that mid-game rushes or not quite so efficient with them.
• Highwayman Jericho - Level 4 (buff to adjustment) has been swapped with level 5 (buff to regrow cost) - Level 4: regen cost multiplier x1.3 -> x1.4 - Level 7: camo cost multiplier x1.5 -> x1.6

Bug Fixes

• Fixed BFBs that pop due to a damage over time effect spawning their children in the centre of the screen.
• Fixed soft lock on matchmaking screen if cancel button is pressed too frequently
• Fixed MOABs flying to the centre of the screen if hit with a knockback on COBRA Command
• Fixed 3xx Sub not decamoing bloons if there is a frozen bloon in its range.
• Fixed zombie MOABs not spawning correctly if summoned by an 105 or 205 wizard.
• Fixed Buccaneer not firing at bloons if placed too close to the pipe on Building Site.
• Fixed soft lock if you buy something immediately before leaving the shop.
• Fixed removable blockers not working if removed at the same time as another cash spend.
• Fixed gap in the in game UI.
• Fixed Euro symbol being hard to read.
• Fixed players being unable to send emotes after they ready up in a lobby.
• Fixed DJ Ben Jammin’s level 20 upgrade description being incorrect in non-english languages.
• Fixed low resolution daily reward cards if the window is resized while that screen is open. (Desktop only)
• Fixed activated ability bar flashing incorrectly during the tutorial.
• Fixed accolades overlapping the club icon on player profiles inconsistently.
• Fixed hotkeys being reset each time the game is opened for Russian keyboards.
• Fixed stuttering when entering the shop screen.

• Design a Star Captain Jericho-themed map
• Post it on the Battles 2 Subreddit (here) with the ‘Map Competition Entry’ flair
• Comment on the stickied post with a link to your design!

Balance Changes

• Events - Removed minimum round length from Speed Battles games - Added bloon health and speed ramping past round 51 in Bananza games. - We previously added a rule meaning that rounds last a minimum 5.5 of seconds after the last bloon of the round spawns. However, this change did not feel necessary for speed battles, so we have removed this rule for the Speed Battles only. We noticed that there was not any ramping from round 50-101 in Bananza, but this was not intended so we have introduced ramping for these rounds.
• Dart Monkey - 3xx Spike-o-pult: Range increase 0% -> 15% - 4xx Juggernaut: Range increase 15% -> 0% - The intention of this change is to make Spike-o-pult a little bit more reliable without the range crosspaths since their aiming can be pretty inconsistent without it. The range crosspaths provide camo detection as well so it didn’t feel like this change is taking away too much from that crosspath. Juggernaut remains unchanged as we did not think that it needed changing as well.
• Tack Shooter - 4xx Ring Of Fire: Pierce 60 -> 45 - 420 Ring of Fire Crosspath: Pierce 80 -> 60 - xx4 Overdrive: $3200 -> $3400 - Note: A bug was fixed where the 5xx tack shooter was only applying the bonus damage to ceramic and MOAB class bloons, not the base damage. Fixing this has given the 5xx upgrade a +8 increase in damage against ceramic and moab class bloons. - Tack still feels a little bit too strong overall, so we are making some small changes to its tier 4 upgrades that have proven to be efficient. Alongside this, the bug fix should provide a noticeable buff to Inferno Ring’s late game power.
• Sniper Monkey - 5xx Cripple MOAB: Damage 80 -> 280 - xx3 Semi-automatic: $3200 -> $3400 - The damage buff is copied over from BTD6, giving Cripple Moab more strength on its own which it deserves for being an expensive tier 5. Bottom path sniper is still extremely underutilised, so we are giving it another price reduction.
• Monkey Buccaneer - 4xx Aircraft Carrier: $7200 -> $6800 - 5xx Carrier Flagship: Mini-plane missile damage 60 -> 80 and dart damage 2 -> 3 - Buccaneer as a whole lacks late-game potential in terms of dealing pure damage, so we are making some pretty substantial buffs to the top path.
• Monkey Ace - 2xx Lots More Darts: $650 -> $600 - xx4 Spectre: Attack cooldown 0.05 -> 0.04 - xx5 Flying Fortress: Attack cooldown 0.03 -> 0.025 - We are hoping to encourage Ace to be utilised more with a small early-game buff and bigger buffs to Spectre and Flying Fortress since they don’t quite hold up to their high price tags.
• Heli Pilot - 2xx Pursuit: $400 -> $250 - 3xx Razor Rotors: $1750 -> $1900 - x1x Bigger Jets: $300 -> $200 - x2x IFR: $450 -> $350 - x3x Downdraft: $3000 -> $3200 - xx1 Faster Darts: $250 -> $150 - xx2 Faster Firing: $350 -> $250 - xx3 MOAB Shove: $3500 -> $3700 - xx5 Comanche Commander: missile damage 3 -> 15, bonus MOAB damage 2 -> 8 - We are lowering a few of the early game upgrades that don’t provide much utility while increasing the tier 3 prices so that they remain unaffected. We also made some pretty big major buffs to the missiles (matching BTD6), since the missile attack makes up a very small amount of Comanche’s total damage and Comanche Commander is a relatively underwhelming tier 5.
• Dartling Gunner - x3x Hydra Rocket Pods: The missile itself can no longer receive extra pierce from any external buffs, meaning that you can no longer increase the number of times a missile can explode. The explosions themselves can still receive pierce buffs. - 5xx Ray of Doom damage 25 -> 30 - 2xx Laser Shock: $750 -> $600 - Hyrda Rocket Pods paired with an alchemist buff has recently stood out as a particularly effective tower combination, therefore we decided to specifically nerf their interaction. We didn’t feel that Hydro Rocket Pods on its own needed changing, but it was just very strong with Alchemist because it essentially received two lots of pierce buffs (with both the explosions and the missiles getting buffed). Furthermore, we reduced Laser Shock’s cost to make it a more viable early game option, and we improved Ray of Doom’s damage since that has always been a little underwhelming.
• Wizard Monkey - 110 Fireball: The fireball can now shoot through blockers with the Guided Magic crosspath - Guided Magic allows other Wizard attacks to shoot through blockers so it should work for Fireball as well.
• Super Monkey - Base attack cooldown 0.06s -> 0.045 - 2xx Plasma Blasts: Attack speed increase reduced to compensate for the base attack change. Plasma Blasts fire at the same speed they did before. - 3xx Sun Avatar: $13k -> $11k - We brought over some changes from BTD6 that make sense here too, giving more strength to low-tier Super Monkeys and potentially opening up more crosspathing options later on. Super Monkey’s top path is still considered to be overpriced so we are reducing Sun Avatar’s cost, hopefully making it a more appealing option in regular games. Sun Temple and True Sun God at least have utility in other game modes so we are leaving those as is for now.
• Alchemist - 3xx Berserker Brew: $1500 -> $1650 - Berserker Brew has always felt a little too cheap for the value it provides to many towers. Note that Alchemist’s interaction with Dartling is getting nerfed as well (see Dartling Gunner changes). Since it’s not quite as powerful on other towers compared to Dartling, we’re only giving it a small direct nerf for now.
• Druid - xx4 Poplust: Druids can now buff themselves with this upgrade (the maximum number of poplust effects a druid can have remains 5, including their own) - 5xx Superstorm: $65k -> $60k - Poplust is useful for buffing the tier 5s, however it does not get much value on its own. Superstorm is getting a small price cut too since it provides similar utility to upgrades such as Bomb’s Bloon Crush but it was quite a bit more expensive.
• Monkey Village - Base cost: $1200 -> $1000 - For simply providing a minor range buff, we thought that the base village could definitely do with a little price reduction. This also results in slightly cheaper camo detection from a village which sounded reasonable.
• Engineer Monkey - Base cost: $450 -> $400 - xx3 Double Gun: $500 -> $450 - 5xx Sentry Champion: Sentry attack cooldown 0.044 -> 0.035 - We are making some small changes to try and make Engineer a more viable starting tower. Note that xx3 pierce is correctly 8 despite reports that it is not. Our previous buff to Sentry Champion was a step in the right direction but not quite significant enough, so here’s a bigger buff that should be more impactful.
• Sentai Churchill - Level 1: Laser Shock effect now applies to bloons hit by both the shell and the explosions. - Sentai Churchill has fallen off in popularity after the last change to laser shock. We feel that it may have been unnecessary so we are reverting this change.
• Agent Jericho - Base cost $650 -> $750 - Usage rates for Agent Jericho in HoM have dropped a lot recently, however we assume that this is simply due to Highwayman being favoured, rather than Jericho not being a strong hero anymore. Therefore we have nerfed both Jerichos by increasing their base price so that it is a little harder to afford him on round 1.
• Highwayman Jericho - Base cost $650 -> $750 - Level 3: Stand and Deliver steals $250 -> $200 - Highwayman Jericho has been by far the most popular hero in the top arenas recently. In addition to the price nerf, we reduced how much cash Highwayman steals in the early game, hopefully making the two Jerichos a little more balanced relative to each other as well as the other heroes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bloons frozen by the 4xx Ice Monkey not losing their immunity to sharp damage.
• Fixed puddles created by the xx2 Alchemist not layering correctly
• Fixed Gwendolin’s Heat It Up buff allowing the x3x Heli Pilot to push back Agent Jericho’s decoys.
• Fixed issue where simultaneous activations of Highwayman Jericho’s Stand and Deliver ability caused one player to not receive the stolen money.
• Fixed 5xx Tack Shooter not applying its base damage to Ceramic and MOAB class bloons, only the bonus damage.
• Minor text fixes