New Features
- New Hero: Agent Jericho - Turn up the pressure on your opponents with cheaper rushes and enhanced natural bloons. - Siphon away their cash with the Seize Assets special ability. - Send an invulnerable decoy bloon down their track to distract their monkeys from your own rushes.
- New Hero: Highwayman Jericho - Unlock Highwayman Jericho with Jericho points - Steal a chunk of your opponent’s cash with the Stand and Deliver special ability. If they can’t pay, one of their towers will be forcibly sold to pay for it. - Send your opponent’s own bloons back at them with the Misdirection ability.
- New Map: COBRA Command - Defend COBRA HQ from the bloon attack. - Activate the hidden panic buttons in the furniture to reveal more placement areas, including water. - Hit the alarm to open a secret passage on the opponent's side letting the bloons take a shorter path towards the exit.
- Season 12 - A brand new bling season full of awesome rewards. - Show off your power with the Supercharger bloon decals and the Thunder Tower Boost. - Collect awesome Agent Jericho cosmetics from the Diamond Heist Showcase - Unlock cool Fusty the Snowman cosmetics from the Fusty the Snowboarder showcase.
- Accolades - Collect achievements by reaching certain milestones. - Show off the accolades you unlock on your profile like medals. - Accolades are secret until you unlock them. Can you find them all?
General Changes
- Thin Ice Map - This map will no longer appear in Hall of Masters ranked games. - This map resulted in much longer games than we’d like in Hall of Masters games due to its long path. It will no longer appear in Hall of Masters ranked games but will still appear in casual and event games.
Balance Changes
- Bloon Sends - Spaced ceramics: income 4 -> 5 and spacing 0.9 -> 0.75 - Spaced ceramics rarely get sent as an effective rush, so we have improved the efficiency and made them slightly more dangerous. This will hopefully make them more of a viable option for pressuring your opponent whilst building income.
- Boomerang Monkey - xx5 MOAB Domination: $60k -> $55k - xx5 MOAB Domination: Special kylie moab damage 30 -> 40 - MOAB Domination did not do enough damage to justify its high price tag, so we have reduced its cost and increased its damage. - Sniper Monkey - xx4 Full Auto Rifle: Bonus MOAB damage 1 -> 2 (xx5 remains at 2) - Bonus MOAB damage from 105 and 205 crosspaths now applies to 104 and 204 crosspaths. - The bottom path of the sniper does not see much use in general so we are increasing its MOAB damage in the interim ahead of more substantial changes in a future update.
- Monkey Sub - xx5 Sub Commander: Now increases the range of all subs by +20 - xx5 Sub Commander: Pierce increase for other subs +4 -> +6 - Sub has always been a popular tower, however its bottom path has never been utilised much.
- Monkey Buccaneer - 4xx Aircraft Carrier: Missile damage 15 -> 20 and damage type changed to unstoppable - 5xx Carrier Flagship: Missile damage 50 -> 60 - Buccaneer has shown to be a useful tower for its money generation and early game popping power, as well as its easy MOAB defense with its ability. However, it felt lacking in general late-game damage, therefore we have buffed its top path.
- Wizard Monkey - xx4 Necromancer: Max graveyard capacity 500 -> 450 (xx5 capacity unchanged) - x4x Summon Phoenix: Phoenix Pierce 10 -> 8 - Wizard has become one of the most used towers in all arenas, with its necromancer and phoenix attacks standing out as its strong points.
- Alchemist - 5xx Permanent Brew: range 55 -> 45 - Now that permanent brew has shown to be an incredibly strong and efficient upgrade in the late game, the extra range that this upgrade provides no longer felt necessary.
- Spike Factory - xx5 Permaspike: damage 10 -> 15 - This upgrade very rarely sees use, as it is outclassed by spike factory’s other paths.
- Engineer Monkey - x5x Ultraboost: max ultraboost stacks per tower 10 -> 5 - x5x Ultraboost: Each stack increases attack speed by 4% -> 8% - For such an expensive upgrade, it takes too long to get the full effect from this upgrade, and so we have doubled the effect from each buff in order to help with this.
- Gwendolin - Base Cost: $850 -> $800
- Science Gwen - Base Cost: $850 -> $800 - We reduced Gwendolin and Scientist Gwenodlin’s price in a previous update, however it did not have much effect, therefore we are reducing it again to encourage them to be used more often.
- Sentai Churchill - Level 3: High Energy Shells ability increases attack speed by 50% -> 45% - Sentai Churchill has still proven to be one of the strongest and most popular heroes in Hall of Masters, so we are giving it another small nerf to bring it more in line with the other heroes.
- Cyber Quincy - Level 3: Cyber Shot ability duration increased from 2s + 0.5s per level to 5s + 0.5s per level - There was a bug with Quincy and Cyber Quincy where the ability itself had a different duration from the buff it created, meaning the effect was always cut short even as we increased the duration through other balance patches. This has now been fixed and both abilities are lasting the duration we intended.
- Quincy - Level 3: Rapid Shot ability duration is 2s + 0.5s per level - This is not a change, but as the bug mentioned above meant that no previous change to Quincy’s ability duration was actually applied, it’s worth noting for future context.
- Benjamin - Base Cost: $1200 -> $1000 - Level 5: all banks earn +5% -> +8% income - Level 9: all banks earn 12% -> 14% income - Level 8: generates $250 -> $400 per round - Level 11: generates $300 -> $600 per round - Level 15: generates $500 -> $1000 per round - Level 17: generates $800 -> $2000 per round
- DJ Benjammin’ - Base Cost: $1200 -> $1000 - Level 5: all banks earn +5% -> +8% income - Level 9: all banks earn 12% -> 14% income - Level 8: generates $187 -> $300 per round - Level 11: generates $225 -> $600 per round - Level 15: generates $375 -> $750 per round - Level 17: generates $600 -> $1500 per round - Benjamin and DJ Benjamin do not see as much use recently. We have made it easier to place Benjamin early on, and improved his buff to Banks to allow for more potential for them to be used in combination with him. Furthermore, his income generation did not feel significant enough to be of much impact, so we increased his income amounts in the later levels.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Activated Abilities displaying as on cooldown when they are ready if a recent upgrade reduced the cooldown.
- Fixed RodenDDT skin missing a fin
- Fixed clipping issues with various emotes
- Fixed hero reward backgrounds incorrectly changing colour when scrolling.
- Minor text fixes
- Fixed being able to place Monkey Subs and Buccaneers in the pools on Bloon Bot Factory without opening the hatch.
- Fixed 4xx Tack Shooter occasionally not gaining camo detection from the x2x Village if Gwen was nearby.
- Fixed Ocean Obyn visual issues.
- Fixed xx5 Supermonkey’s shield not displaying correctly.
- Fixed Bomb Shooter occasionally not playing the reload animation.
- Fixed Quincy having no feet when he appears in the tutorial.
- Fixed Bloon Boost not working if you lose and restart during the tutorial.
- Fixed Fusty the Snowman’s Cold Cannon animation displaying incorrectly in the preview window.
- Fixed the Monkey Village fire being unlit on the main menu.
- Fixed 3xx and xx3 Dart Monkeys not reverting from the Super Monkey Fan Club transformation if they are upgraded while transformed.
- Fixed mud splatter not appearing on the right hand side of the screen when the pipe moves on the Building Site map.
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