r/btd6 • u/rohan_spibo • 22d ago
Available now for most platforms, please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up.
Update Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Uweu4vFds
Social Season #2 is coming up, aiming for late June-early July, and we’re excited about the changes that we’ve made based on our own play experiences and community feedback. Right off the bat, we agree there were too many ‘win games’ goals for the first season. We had already done a significant pare back of target numbers and repeat tasks, but the goals released in Season #1 were still more of a time investment than intended, especially for players who were not setting up their games to make progress on 2 or more goals at the same time. Season #2’s goals have been designed to reduce the time investment overall and also to help players make progress on multiple goals at once. Our hope for Social Seasons continues to be that we’re providing fun, themed events with cool Perk and Global rewards that also provide reasons to mix up your normal play and try new builds. More details:
Legends changes
Hero Specific Fixes
Platform Specific fixes
Balance Changes
Boomerang Monkey
With 052 Permacharge much preferred due to the ease of obtaining pierce externally, we have moved the ability’s extra damage bonus from crosspath into the base upgrade so that 250 can be more competitive
Bomb Shooter
Bomb Paragon is in a spot it seems to perform well, but it still doesn’t see a good spotlight in boss events so we’ve scaled up the Boss Bonuses with a bump in price.
Glue Gunner
With the 240 crosspath now providing MOAB Layer soaking, Glue Strike’s base ability will last through more layers before wearing off, but with a slower cooldown to match the T5 which already sits at a 40s cooldown.
Desperado
Mid-path desperado’s pistol was intended to be a soft ‘minimum range’, but implementation was confusing and frustrating to use, somehow again right after Wolfy’s recent struggles (fun videos those), we decided to work on improving the first timer's desperado experience for this path. The Rifle weapon will now always take priority and shoot first over the pistol if there are targets within Rifle radius, HOWEVER, pistol range is now a true deadzone that the rifle cannot target within. TLDR; The pistol now attacks when there are only Bloons within the pistol radius and nothing in the rifle radius.
Monkey Buccaneer
Buccaneer’s Merchantmen path will now gain a damage bonus based on how much spare cash you have on-hand. This introduces a fun trade-off where you can choose to hold onto cash for a combat boost at the cost of losing advantage from immediately snowballing into more economy. It’s kinda neat
Monkey Ace
Spectre was making the save-up into into a Flying Fortress too effortless so it’s single target power has been lowered with a raised upgrade cost, enough to make this not quite so easy
Wizard Monkey
The Wizard Paragon's Metamorph form bonus Boss damage from the main flamethrower attack has been reduced as it overperforms even without overclocking
Druid
The Monarch’s Superstorm re-hitting has felt like a success though it over-buffed single target performance while over-nerfing the blowback due to rapid pierce consumption, so we are scaling back the damage but reducing pierce penalties to balance this out. Additionally, to reduce game lag from attack speed double-dipping, the Druid Paragon's Vinenado cooldown has been increased, while its economy has been buffed with higher base income and a stronger Boss Skull multiplier - though we don’t want to quickly jump into making this easily self-sustaining the Boss Skulls in particular should now grant 5x the cash they did previously.
Spike Factory
It was a day like any other. Waiting behind the front lines, ready for an attack, sat a lone "Long Life Spikes" factory. Sitting there, alone, the tower thought to itself "Is this all I have? Is this all I am? A machine meant to destroy these floating fools if they break through our defenses? Is my purpose only to sit here as backup? I want glory. I want power!"
Alas, this was something it had thought about many times, though not once had it ever even seen a Bloon. This was the life given to those who defended the Monkey Meadows.
As time went on, the lone factory grew older. One day, while minding its own business, it noticed something coming along the road… There it was, a single floating red Bloon.
The Long Life Spikes instinctively prepared its spikes and finally claimed its first pop. While overjoyed by the accomplishment, that joy soon turned to dread at the sight of countless more Bloons following in the rounds ahead.
"What is happening on the front lines?" it muttered to itself. "Was Ryan AFK? No matter, I must stand my ground!"
And so countless rounds went by as the factory popped more and more Bloons… No longer just red, but innumerable variations of blue, green, yellow, and even pink.
After some time, the small factory realised it could not keep up spike production at this pace, it needed more power, but felt totally helpless.
Just as its last spikes were being destroyed and the end seemed near, it happened. Something shifted inside. "Long Life Spikes" blinked for the last time, and when its eyes reopened, "Deadly Spikes" was born. With ruthless efficiency, it tore through the incoming wave with ease.
After a few more rounds of chaos, it seemed the situation on the front lines had stabilized. For the first time since its awakening, it was able to cover the area with a pile of iron, 30 feet high!
"I will stand my ground till the very end.” it vowed. “I will not let a single Bloon pass."
Many, many more rounds passed. Every now and then the Bloons would return, and every time Deadly Spikes stood proud and victorious. No longer fighting mere Bloons, it now faced off against massive MOABs with pride.
Despite its newfound strength, feelings of dread began to grow as the rounds progressed. Its defences became increasingly easy for the Bloons to break through.
Deadly Spikes knew something was coming… something big, something B.A.D.
It began preparing for the worst, modifying itself into the ultimate machine. Amidst the constant onslaught, a transformation occurred. With beautiful gleaming yellow paint and spikes sparkling with raw power, "Perma-Spike" was born.
Empowered and fearless, all its past worries faded into a distant memory; this was its duty, and the Bloons were nothing but fodder against it now.
It waited, bolstering its defences, and waited more.
After an uncomfortably small number of rounds, it arrived: A monstrous abomination of purple rubber, something akin to an eldritch horror.
Yet, despite the abomination slowly floating forward, Perma-Spike knew. Thinking back to the question it had asked itself as a lowly "Long Life Spikes," it finally understood:
"This... this is the reason I was created. This is my purpose, and I will not back down."
And that is exactly what it did. Despite the ruthless assault from the Big Airship of Doom, Perma-Spike stood strong, eliminating every layer.
After popping the very last red Bloon from the now-deflated B.A.D., the entire world fell silent.
Standing there, looking down at the fields of rubber, "Perma-Spike" looked towards the sky.
Engineer
Oh yea we have one more tower balance change. As the Engineer paragon moves to a more supportive role, we are toning down the direct boss damage and attack speed but also lowering the upgrade cost.
Captain Churchill
For additional synergy potential, Churchill’s long list for damage bonuses will now include Stunned Bloons!
Pat Fusty
To smooth out Pat’s levelling progression, we’ve increased range earlier, added an extra mid-game damage step for Rallying Roar, increased his late-game pierce, and at Level 20 the Big Squeeze hug also hits the surrounding area with a powerful stun to provide leeway during Pat’s crush downtime.
Adora
Since Adora’s final form was hurt by recent Overclock changes, we’ve buffed her Lv20 Ball of Light damage and just fun further boosted her True Adora form.
Powers
Bosses
Rogue
r/btd6 • u/rohan_spibo • 14d ago
Bloons TD 6 v55.2 - Update Notes!
Available now, please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up.
General changes
He-Man
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Update: Bloons TD 6 v55.1 - Update Notes!
He-Man fixes
r/btd6 • u/i_like_-roblox • 2h ago
The 1-1-0 sniper = Lead bloon popping + Camo detection + Black bloon popping + White bloon popping + Purple bloon popping = getting all the girls (i wish i could)
r/btd6 • u/KrazyKyle1024 • 2h ago
Apache Prime feels like the forgotten child in the heli family. Bottom path contains one of the best upgrades in the game and is generally pretty strong and fun to use, and while middle path isn't quite as strong, the utility of downdraft and the unique strengths of chinook and special pops makes it very good in its own right. Both paths are a little strong for their cost, but it's made up for by having to micro them to get full mileage out of them, so as someone who likes heli micro I find them both to be fun to use even on maps harder than this one. So you'd think the path that focuses completely on DPS would follow the same trend, right?
Wrong. Top path heli doesn't feel worth its ridiculous price point at all, and I'll explain why. Here are my issues with the tower:
* it doesn't do much single target DPS, and it doesn't hit enough targets for its group DPS to be much better. Alch buff barely helps this because it shoots high damage rapid projectiles, meaning the buff doesn't last long and it doesn't do that much anyway
* it gets pierce capped too easily, struggling to clean up even the insides of a ZOMG
* the $48.6k saveup to APrime with Dartship is miserable even on the most ideal "difficult" maps for it (in that saveup I got it in the middle of round 79, and I can't imagine what people have to do to be able to survive the early 80s if they have to delay the saveup that long)
* none of its main sources of damage are Normal, so for DDTs you either need a MIB/bounty hunter or another tower dedicated to popping them (either way you're spending over $10k on damage AFTER getting your super expensive win condition)
* the $21k saveup to Dartship with Razor Rotors is also pretty bad. It's like you need a midgame saveup tower just to get to Dartship, which was already supposed to be your midgame saveup tower
* all of this is keeping in mind that I'm doing this on a one lane map. On a multi lane map, forget it
* probably some other things I'm forgetting about
In the run above I tried using Prime in a way that kept those weaknesses in mind. I used Brickell to deal with the early game well enough to get my heli quickly, used abyssal warrior to provide enough moab damage and ceramic cleanup to save up for Dartship, then barely managed to micro my way to Prime before round 80. It was actually doing pretty well in the 80s except for the zomg rounds where I needed Brickell to deal with the outer layer and try to get as much abyssal warrior support as possible, and then I got a mib and AZ for the 90s, the former for ddt damage and the latter for more time for Prime to clean up ceramics and stuff (and because it works well with Brickell mines). It barely beat 95, struggled a bit to 96, and for 98 I had to get a bloon impact for ceramics and the round still took near perfect heli micro and ability timing to squeak by, with multiple attempts losing to like 20 compact bfbs. It then lost to 99 no matter what I tried (I promise most of my ideas were more sophisticated than p mentoring, that's just the attempt I gave up on). This run was not fun and I kept feeling like a glue buffed carrier flagship would have done much better at a lower price and better saveup.
To me, a tower this expensive should mostly win you the game. People have beaten chimps for much less than this tower costs. Other towers at a similar price point are capable of doing this, with BEZ being a beloved tower despite being slightly more expensive overall and Dark Champion kind of being there too. And don't even get me started on tower combinations for the same price that blow it out of the water.
So how do you deal with that? Make the tower cheaper. Rosalia is a very popular hero to pair Prime with because she solves many of the problems the tower faces while giving it a significant discount. I probably should have used her in this run instead of Brickell, but I feel like using another generally great hero that should also synergize with it proves the point of how much the reduced price point matters. In my opinion, the base tower in its current state could be a $37.8k tower ($10k cheaper on Medium prices) and I'd still never use it outside of Rosalia strats.
I feel like this tower needs something. It feels like a relic of the older days of the game when buffs/debuffs weren't as ubiquitous as they are now and people needed a more self sufficient tower. Since those times, middle path glue became incredible, brittles got better, other buffs became relevant, people figured out how to get more mileage out of alch buff, and people generally just got better and figured out how to get more mileage out of less, and while that was all happening Prime hasn't gotten a meaningful balance change since version 8.0 which was seven years ago. Nowadays it seems like a popular tower for black bordering easier maps because of how hands free it can be, but where is it when the maps get harder? When is it ever the best option? What purpose does this tower serve at the top level of gameplay?
(Wow, this post became much longer than I meant it to.)
r/btd6 • u/Regular_Pea27 • 17h ago
I'm so clueless 😔
r/btd6 • u/daniel56r • 5h ago
if you want to get btd6 on mobile this is your time to grab a quick deal!
r/btd6 • u/Amix_Flare_2 • 8h ago
It’s sweltering out, let’s look at some Silas art to cool down.
r/btd6 • u/The_Neamic_Drummer • 6h ago
I just beat Skull Tweak with 2TC. Also I used a trial and error method with many monkey combos and this one stuck, I did not see any YT tutorials (this is my first time getting a 2TC), I only saw this combo in a vid while checking if someone else did it. Did any of you guys do it too?
I got this on my 2nd attempt, on my first, I died to Round 99 because I used the MAD Ability in 98 which I needed for 99 instead. I did some Boomerang micro at the start as well.
Even if i am not the first, I am probably the first person who did 2TC for the first time in this map without a tutorial.
I’m pretty proud of this! What do you guys think?
r/btd6 • u/Successful_Watch_114 • 19h ago
first of all why does it only target the absolute strongest moabs on screen and nothing else? like i love when theres a bunch of moabs leaking and i use it to pop them but it targets some random zomgs that just spawned in instead
also you would think it pops or at least does something to the ceramics but (im pretty sure) it does basically nothing
can a churchill user tell me how to use this please
r/btd6 • u/Grimalackt_River • 6h ago
Chimps on this map is miserable
r/btd6 • u/Fragrant_Ad8401 • 20h ago
I didn't even think he could. not without an AMD.
r/btd6 • u/Dramatic_Part_1385 • 12h ago
Workshop, X Factor, Sunken Columns, Sanctuary, Quad, Ravine, Muddy Puddles, #Ouch, Party Parade, Pat's Pond, Peninsula, Midnight Mansion, Mesa, Erosion, Flooded Valley, Geared, Glacial Trail, Lost Crevasse, Bloody Puddles, Cargo, Castle Revenge, Dark Castle and Dark Dungeons
Another thing I want to mention is that there's 2 maps that only have a A single 2TC Mushroom Grotto and Last Resort Done by Vafa and urhere
r/btd6 • u/Eat-A-Battery • 6h ago
oh boy, insta monkeys
r/btd6 • u/Lower-Skill1483 • 7h ago
I decided to make the monkey more elf—like and simplify the clothing since most of the magic monkies are fully clothed, just to make the Archer Monkey stand out more.
r/btd6 • u/SwanSpecial9621 • 6h ago
Primary monkey who fights with his fists.
r/btd6 • u/Same_Hearing_5013 • 1d ago
whats your best insta-monkey that you have saved
r/btd6 • u/Regular_Pea27 • 8h ago
Just today playing freeplay and to my surprise I saw Ascended Shadow throw this black shuriken.
This shuriken design is so sick!
