Art by u/miaojianyou. Original post here.
Hey everyone! It’s Sav and Tarn here this week
What's been going on this week?
This week's blog comes a little bit early as our teams go into the long weekend.
BTD6 got a new update this week in 17.0 that had a new Gwen skin, a new map and the Jukebox! The update is now live on iOS, Android and Steam. See the full patch notes here.
You can also watch a video summarizing the update here.
BTD Battles also received a new update which included a new map called Pinball Wizard, as well as a bunch of balance changes! See the full patch notes here.
Also, take a look at this super cool graph of most used towers! Is your favourite there?
Antifreeze race results:
1st: Skibimi - 2 minutes and 2 seconds
2nd: tsp - 2 minutes and 4.15 seconds
3rd: GivenUp! - 2 minutes and 4.91 seconds
4th: DartElite0051- 2 minutes and 5 seconds
5th: Toby438 - 2 minutes and 6 seconds
This weekend's focus:
- BTD6 -
Ongoing Easter event, ending Wednesday.
Pile O' Monkey Money and Vault O' Monkey Money with T4 Insta Monkeys on sale. T5 Insta Monkeys on sale for Easter Sunday. Powers Pandamonium and Mega Monkey Compendium on sale over the weekend.
"Community Race: Slow but Not Okay" Race this weekend.
- Countersnipe -
Friday: Target Practise and Medium XP Boost on sale.
Saturday: 10 Player Free For All and Consumables Pack on sale.
Sunday: Factionless event and Stacks of Cash on sale.
Case of Tokens on sale for the whole weekend.
- BATTD -
Ongoing Easter event.
Martian games: Shuffle, no powers and half cash starting Friday.
Wizard attack, half cash and no powers starting Sunday.
Flame Princess Adventure Pack sale, Jake Adventure Pack sale and Character Bundle Pack.
Cosmic Esseence, Super Rare Wish Orb and Epic Wish Orb sale over the weekend, starting Friday.
- Tower Keepers -
Hero battles rewards x2 and x2 Gem sale. Hero battles rewards x3 for Sunday.
Learned Scholar starting Thursday.
- BTD Battles -
Friday: MOAB - BFB Cards, BFB Boosts only
Saturday: MOAB Club, MOAB Card - BFB, BFB Card
Sunday: MOAB, MOAB Club - BFB, BFB Boosts Only, BFB Card Club
Monday: MOAB
2x Medallions with Chest and Bag of Medallions on sale.
3x Medallions with Club Access on sale, starting Sunday.
- SAS4 web -
Ongoing Trident Championship
Sale on Epic pack and 1st premium gun set: Planet Stormer, WPX Incinerator and HIKS A10
- SAS4 Mobile -
VS on Friday, Apoc with Black Box as rewards on Saturday, LMS with Black Box as rewards on Sunday.
Sales on nantos, NV vet pack, epic pack.
Friday: 2nd premium gun set: Donderbus, RIA 15SE and Torment
Saturday: 1st premium gun set: Planet Stormer, WPX Incinerator and HIKS A10
Sunday: 9th premium gun set: Contagion, Ahab and Calamity
- BMC web and mobile -
Ongoing Festival of Bloonstones and Easter event.
Daily monkey teams.
Knowledge Pack sale(ancient on mobile too).
- BTD5 -
Ongoing Easter event.
Black counting for the leaderboards. Heli skin and Monkey Money on Sale.
Double Monkey Money on Sunday.
- BSM2 -
Discounted price sale.
Double blops and boosters starting Sunday.
Questions from the comments:
Is it possible to Rick roll Ben?
Not easily. He’s memorized all the URLs…
What does Striker Jones think of Tsar Bomba?
It’s a real bommer that he doesn’t get to pilot it.
Could you tell us in what are you actually working? And... Are all of you still okay? :))
In houses and yes, we’re swell. Thanks for asking :)
How did Churchill get his scar?
He refuses to talk about it… What happens in tank, stays in his tank :D
What do the other heroes think when a new hero comes out?
I wonder if *new hero* can handstand as well as I can.
Where do the heroes get their haircuts?
Depend on the hero. Striker has a barber he goes to, Adora has a very fancy salon and Quincy does it himself.
How does the writer of the books know English then?
Probably learned it from somewhere.
Does Ben have a criminal record? His quote "rules are meant to be broken" implies that he uses his hacking powers for some... bad things…
That would require Ben to get caught.
If the heroes ever got a chance to play BTD 6, what would their favorite Monkey towers be?
Quincy - Son of Quincy
Gwen - Either Tack Shooter, Mortar or Boomerang.
Striker - Bomb shooter.
Obyn - Druids. Duh.
Adora - Top path Supermonkey
Churchill - Anything that gives him a tanktical advantage.
Ben - He’d strictly use Monkey Banks to keep learning their secrets and how he can continue hacking them.
Ezilli - Prince of Darkness.
Pat - Cave Monkey
How do Vengeful druids calm down after leaving the map (from completing a game mode)?
Yoga does wonderful things to angry souls.
The cypher from last week:
Answer: An echo. Congratulations to lucian1221 for getting the correct answer!
Have a great weekend everyone!
-Tarn and Sav
is dartling ever gonna appear at BTD 6?
also i r8 8/8 for the gwen art. great pic!
I know the whole sas 4 thing is beating a dead horse at this point but I just looked at some 'peak players in last 24 hours' stats on steam site today. SAS steam: 261. Countersnipe steam: 7. Now i'm curious what (if indeed anything) upper management has to say about that choice... cause while hindsight is a lot easier to judge than future possibility, it doesn't really look like that choice worked out super well for anyone. especially not the people who would have liked sas steam to be thoroughly bugfixed and balanced.
Hello friends, have you considered bringing blog challenges back?
17.0 has buffed various towers. What towers do you plan on nerfing?
How *does* the bouncing bullet bounce?
Why is Gwen's bandage plastered over her eye?
It isn't easy to rickroll Ben... sounds about right. But I wonder if he rickrolled any of the other monkeys like the King...
you guys should reach out & partner with nintendo to make donkey kong a hero. throws barrels and fires a coconut gun that fires in spurts
Have any internal assets ever been leaked?