New Features
- New Map: Building Site - New dynamic map for all game modes. Appears in White Wasteland and above in ranked games. - Paths change every round for a new layer of strategy.
- Bling season 8 - New ranked season with 12 new bling items including Plushie ZOMG, Foam Party emote and Lucky Tower Boost.
General Changes
- Removal of Hall of Masters placement matches - Players who reach 100 Trophies will see their place on the Hall of Masters leaderboard after their first game played in the Hall of Masters. - They will no longer need to play 3 games before being given a score on the leaderboard.
- MOAB Skin Damage States - We received feedback that it was difficult to tell how damaged a MOAB class bloon was when it had a custom skin equipped. - We have reworked several MOAB skins so that their damage states more closely resemble the base MOAB damage states.
- Pregame ad offers - Players will now sometimes be offered the chance to watch an ad before a game to enable a one-time boost on that game’s rewards. Players on desktop can use reward tokens to enable these boosts. - Players will now sometimes be offered the chance to watch an ad before a game to temporarily unlock all heroes and alts for that game only, allowing them to try out heroes they have not purchased. Players on desktop can use reward tokens to do this.
- New Starter Pack IAP - Players can now purchase a special, one-time bundle of Monkey Money, Battles Points and 7 days VIP along with an exclusive Dart Monkey placement animation. - This bundle is time limited and will no longer be available once it expires. - This bundle is designed to help new players get started in Battles 2 but it will also be available to experienced players.
Balance Changes
- The in-game XP required for heroes to reach each level has been increased in early levels and decreased in later ones. This means that it will take longer for heroes to reach level 10 and unlock their ability, but the time it takes to reach level 20 will remain approximately the same.
- This is to allow a bigger window for sending rushes like BFBs before the hero abilities become available to counter them.
Bloon Sends
- Spaced pinks: eco reduced 1.8 -> 1.5
- Spaced whites: eco reduced 1.8 -> 1.5
- Spaced blacks: eco reduced 2 -> 1.6
- Spaced purples: eco reduced 4 -> 3.5
- These bloon sends were giving farm income too much of an advantage over bloon income. Farm users can use spare cash on farms and so could afford to use these slow, but incredibly efficient, sends. Eco users do not have the cash to put into farms so they have to resort to the faster, but less efficient, grouped bloon sends.
- Spaced and Grouped BFB: $2.2k -> $2.1k
- Tight ZOMGs: delay between bloons increased 0.2 -> 0.3
- Tight ZOMGs: $10k -> $12k
Towers
- Dart Monkey - 2xx Sharp Shots: $200 -> $250 - 2xx Sharp Shots: Pierce increased +2 -> +3 - 2xx Sharp Shots: Crossbow Pierce increased to xx5 +7 -> +8 - xx3 Crossbow: Pierce increased 5 -> 6
- Boomerang Monkey - x3x Bionic Boomerang: $1450 -> $1300 - x4x Turbo Charge: $4200 -> $4350
- Glue Gunner - 4xx Bloon Liquefier: attack cooldown reduced 0.9 -> 0.65 (5xx remains unchanged)
- Monkey Sub - x3x Ballistic Missile: $1400 -> $1600 - x3x Ballistic Missile pierce reduced 75 -> 50 - x4x First Strike Capability damage decreased 8k -> 7k
- Mortar Monkey - 4xx The Big One: $8k -> $7.5k - 5xx The Biggest One: stun length increased 0.2 -> 0.25
- Dartling Gunner - x5x M.A.D: $60k -> $68k - xx2 Powerful Darts: $700 -> $800
- Wizard Monkey - x4x Summon Phoenix: phoenix damage increased 5 -> 6
- Super Monkey - xx5 Legend of the Night: damage increased 5 -> 10 - xx5 Legend of the Night: now does 4 additional damage to ceramic bloons. - xx5 Legend of the Night: bonus moab damage increased 5 -> 8 - 4xx Sun Temple: damage increased 5 -> 6 - 4xx Sun Temple: pierce increased 20 -> 30 - 5xx True Sun God: damage increased 15 -> 20
- Druid - 2xx Heart of Thunder: $850 -> $1k - 050 Spirit of the Forest base thorn attack damage increased 1 -> 20
- Banana Farm - 5xx Banana Central: $60k -> $64k
- Obyn Greenfoot - Level 3 Brambles duration reduced 120s -> 95s, - Level 3 Brambles pierce reduced 50 ->40. - Level 7 Brambles pierce reduced 100 -> 80
Hero XP
Bug Fixes
- Fixed first tutorial progressing incorrectly after Quincy is placed.
- Fixed notification icon not dismissing on bling screen
- Fixed buy button being unresponsive when attempting to buy hero showcases with insufficient monkey money
- Fixed currency amounts on hero showcases showing as red even with enough monkey money and hero points.
- Fixed hero showcases incorrectly showing as owned when more than one were in the store at once.
- Fixed Hall of Masters leaderboard sometimes displaying names in an incorrect font.
- Fixed sfx not playing when interacting with the level 7 entry on Ezili & Smudge Catt’s card in the hero screen.
- Fixed graphical glitch when transitioning between main menu screens.
- Various text fixes.
- Fixed being able to place Obyn’s brambles and trees inside 3D blockers.
- Fixed graphical glitch when placing the Heli Pilot using hotkeys (Desktop only)
- Fixed graphical glitch caused by game desyncing while using the Chinook.
- Fixed some buttons displaying text that is too large
- Fixed xx3 and xx4 Monkey Village having the same name in Brazilian Portuguese.
- Sync issues with bloon trap
- Engineer sentries no longer buffed by Primary Training
- Brambles, Trees and Totems are no longer placeable in blockers.
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