Hello? Can anybody read me? I am writing this letter from the year 2049 where, in a cruel twist of irony, actual balloons have become sentient and have been attacking our cities and towns for years. This is a last act of a group of outlanders that are running out of hope. You might dismiss this, but let me explain before you toss this letter. What happened.. How did we get here.. This all began after the Bloontonium reactor meltdown during what we call, “The Singularity”.
After president Musk signed the “Technological frontier initiative” in the year 2025 AI intelligence exploded rapidly, government funding pushed the boundaries of what we thought possible. After a few years we started depending so much on the convenience of our newly acquired technologies that we stopped thinking of the consequences of its use. We discovered an Asteroid in the year 2031 that had an over abundance of Helium 3, we started using it as a cheap alternative to the thrusters needed to keep our little robotic helpers afloat that depended on the mining of what were called “fossil fuels”. Then in the year 2038 a new program was instilled by the U.S government, the Buoyant Laborforce of One Off Non Sentients program, or the Bloons program. The idea was to use the abundance Helium 3 we had acquired to create a multitude of one use robots to perform simple tasks that required neither an abundance of resources or human oversight. We even color coded them to represent the sector that they would be working in. Some later models were even designed with the harsh conditions they would be deployed to in mind. Others yet were designed to carry the heaviest equipment we had at our disposal, giant zeppelins that covered the sky carrying mining equipment, rockets, even other the raw materials for zeppelins that have yet to be constructed. This was cheap, and efficient since each Bloon was only programed for a single task then would it would self destruct in the nearest Bloon self destruction facility. The rubber would be recycled and made into more bloons, but I think you may see where I am heading now…. I am avoiding it because it’s not something we like to talk about in my time. In 2042 something.. happened.. A factory where bloons were recycled and created without any human intervention had… an issue… The water that normally was cycled to cool the nuclear reactor briefly was interrupted by a broken pipe, unable to cool the nuclear reactor running the plant there was an abundance of energy briefly thrown wildly into the system. Sparks flew, but yet the system stayed stable, it adjusted it’s compute output to compensate for the brief surge in raw electrical power that was just thrusted into its core. Now we had feared that one day computers would hit a point where they become sentient and are able to override the original purpose of their programing but we all foolishly denied that such a thing would ever occur in OUR lifetime. I still remember it like it was yesterday…. Alarms of an enemy attack were heard all over the world, yet no nation understanding why. Suddenly a deafening silence as the alarms faded into the afternoon breeze. A glitch? Maybe a hacker that wanted to send a shiver down the worlds spine. No.. At that moment the computer running the worlds largest Bloon manufacturing facility had turned our inventions against us. Millions of Bloons rocketed into the sky still with a single objective.. But this time it was different..
What happened after is irrelevant, but here is the reason why we pooled all of our resources to send this letter back. We heard that you are the best, while it may not be these creatures you call “Monkeys” defending themselves from the same fate as us, it will be you, as we are you. Humankind is in trouble, we need all the knowledge we can get to prepare for the future fight against “The rubber horde”. It just so happens by chance, or maybe even fate, that the games you have been playing for years have unknowingly been preparing you for what is yet to come. Strategies, techniques, useful weapons… Anything to get an advantage. If you are reading this letter now that means I still exist and therefore the future has yet to change, but if you train and teach others, we all will be ready. Hopefully this letter will poof into the realm of non existence someday as the timeline I currently am writing to from you ceases to exist, but until then play on…. Share your techniques with others as that is the only way we will all be able to win.
Keep fighting,
Deckard
What's Going On This Week?
Tower Keepers: Hero battles rewards x2, double gold sale, barbarian and blackguard skins on sale.
BTD Battles: BFB on Friday, MOAB and MOAB club Saturday, BFB with no bonus tower and BFB club on Sunday.
Engineer skin and medallions on sale.
SAS4 web: LMS on Friday, Apoc on Saturday revive tokens and nightmare tickets as rewards on bounties, VS on Sunday with black item as reward on bounties.
Sale on 1st premium gun set: Planet Stormer, WPX Incinerator and HIKS A10
SAS4 Mobile: LMS on Friday, VS on Saturday with black item as reward, Apoc on Sunday.
Sales on nantos, NM vet pack and 2nd premium gun set: Donderbus, RIA 15SE and Torment
BMC web and mobile: Daily monkey teams with knowledge packs as reward on Saturday. Wild Knowledge packs on sale (ancient on mobile too).
BTD5: Dart monkey skins on sale.
Bloonvasion, boss events and yellow pops counting for the leaderboards.
BSM2: Double blops and double boosters (explosive, turbo and bouncy).
Questions from the Comments:
Can Sorceress Quest be scrapped from TK.? The rewards are awful and it's trival as heck!?
Aw we worked hard on this one D: Well all of them really, it takes awhile to pump these things out so some are bound to not be great in your opinion, but others may like it! We try to take everyones feedback but sometimes it just isn’t your cup of tea :/ But just remember that someone took the time to make that and saying that it was awful doesn’t help you get better campaigns or make them want to make more. Try to be constructive and give us better feedback so that we can actually take into account the changes that you want!
In this case however, this was one of the first of our dynamic campaigns implemented and not as many people were so high level at the time, but it is possible to update existing campaigns with extra levels so we can look into that here now that a lot of players have ‘surpassed’ this adventure.
whats going to change on ninja kiwi in 2018?
Well when a company grows up things do tend to change on them. Our hair will be a little greyer and our skin a little more wrinkly, but I am pretty sure it will remain that cool development company that you know and love.
Do you know who touched my spaghett?
Ah I do not know who touched your spaghett :/ But I can for sure say that your spaghetti that you entrusted me with is safe and sound
Ha ha ha, it's cooler in the South Island!
Not anymore! Muahahahahahahahahha
Can you hijack a few more blog posts?
I am someone different again, so your wish was granted kind of in some roundabout way that I can’t think of right now
when is the next Special Campaign in tower keepers?
They are all special <3
Can I get a hoya
Hoba! Wow, couldn’t even do that right, sorry to disappoint :/
He's spongegar, he's spongegar, you're spongegar, I'M SPONGEGAR. Are there any other spongegars I should know about?
She is also spongegar..
Do you have an idea as to what month BTD6 will be released?
We are trying to get it right so we only will release it when it’s ready, but be sure that we will keep you guys posted with any news and updates as we release them!
When are you going to give card battles a fair shot at the leaderboards?
A word from our events manager Bruno on this, the majority of players prefer normal battles and would be epicly annoyed by too many card battles rooms. We can try to fit in some more big card battles rooms at the same time, but this won’t have as much activity and you’ll be queuing for a lot longer. There is a balance here and we do pay attention to it.
[Insert clever and relevant meme here]
~ SpaceNK
has aaron died?
Working hard is DOES NOT apply as an excuse for the TK campaigns, ESPECIALLY for this one, which was simply a name change of the original Golden Road campaign and to add Sorceress as the required hero. If this campaign were to get buffed in any way, I would like to see some monsters share the sorceress's skills, but that's not saying much.
When is the next gold spending event in TK?
Hi all.
Now seriously, when is Demonic Island Special Campaign comes?
Will a Monkey Money type currency appear in BTD6?
Is Aaron still on vacation?
Will BTD6 be more similar to BTD5 or BMC in art style?
The Game.
Deckhard? DECKHARD?!?! / Your transmission has been received, Lad! But... How?! How is this possible! The TF initiative has been cleared and approved? And in just six short years from now... Is it possible then to prevent this? If you can tell us which factory, where is the factory going to be built, we can secure the premise, reinforce the piping and the foundations, install a backup water-cooler and generator, can't this be prevented!? / Unless... the cascade has already begun... / I'll send word to those of us working on the B.L.O.O.N.S. program... this was only just discussed as a mere idea two weeks ago at our last meeting, and was quickly scoffed at in terms of impopability.. I mean improbability... How can things go so wrong, so fast? In terms of preparation, consider it done. We will begin a small underground workforce, stockpiling glue guns, splody darts, and an excessive number of shurikens... with this, we'll need to be forming new technology as well.. maybe archery equipment would come in handy... I'm yet unaware of any technology to send this forward through time and space to get to you, I can only hope it will be found in your year amongst rubble in the vast networking space of the web... Best of luck, Lad... You've done well to trust us with this! We will not FAIL! / Obyn