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Hey everyone! It’s Sav and Tarn here this week
What's been going on this week?
We posted a new teaser for the next boss bloon, Lych, this week! What do you think it will be able to do?
Few Two Many results:
1st: RIZE - 2 minutes and 10.93 seconds
2nd: Alpowk - 2 minutes and 10.95 seconds
3rd: alittlebear - 2 minutes and 10.95 seconds
4th: KLTD1234 - 2 minutes and 11.51 seconds
5th: IAmCracked - 2 minutes and 11.73 seconds
This weekend's focus:
- BTD6 -
Pile O' Monkey Money and T3 Insta Monkeys on sale.
Ongoing "Raindrop" Odyssey, ending Tuesday.
"Bloons Of The Corn" race this weekend.
Bloonarius will be appearing on Town Center starting Saturday and ending Thursday.
- Bloons Pop -
Friday: Pink Bloon Popper
Saturday: White Bloon Popper
Sunday: Powerup Mania
Gold Passes and Great Pack on sale.
- BTD Battles -
Professor Evil appearing on Marsh this weekend. With a second tougher one on Offside starting Tuesday and ending Thursday.
Friday: MOAB - BFB, BFB Boosts Only, BFB Card
Saturday: MOAB, MOAB Card Club, MOAB Card - BFB, BFB Club
Sunday: MOAB, MOAB R3 Speed, MOAB Card - BFB Random 15, BFB Boosts Only
Monday: MOAB, MOAB Boosts Only
2x Medallions with Club Access on sale.
- BATTD -
Ongoing Martian games: No items, more regrow and level 10 towers only.
Clones, half cash and wizard attack starting on Saturday.
Tuxedo Jake, Hunter Marceline and Character Bundle pack on sale.
- SAS4 Mobile -
VS on Friday, LMS on Saturday and Apoc with black box as rewards on Sunday.
Sales on nantos, NV vet pack, epic pack and 10th premium gun set: T189, CM Starfury and Banshee
- SAS4 web -
LMS on Friday, VS with black items as rewards on Saturday and Apoc on Sunday.
Sale on Epic pack.
- BMC web and mobile -
Daily monkey teams with Monkey Knowledge pack on Saturday.
Knowledge Pack sale (ancient on mobile too).
- BTD5 -
Ongoing Totem event, ending Wednesday.
BFB counting for the leaderboards. Sub skin and Monkey Money on sale.
- BSM2 -
Discounted price sale.
- Tower Keepers -
Hero battles rewards x2 and x2 Gem sale.
Ongoing Training day.
Questions from the comments:
Have you guys considered changing up what Bloonarius spawns, perhaps in something like ABR?
We feel like for the most part the main parts of the base game being predetermined is overall a more enjoyable learning and conquering experience than it would be to have everything randomized or constantly changing. We have lots more coming for Bosses, so stay tuned.
How did cracked get cracked? Did psi just ‘behold, the bloated green of envy’ and mind blast all the grass or something
I blame the Wizard Lord
Would a Tack Shooter be able to eat taco bell nachos?
They don’t have mouths… And if they were going to eat nachos, they’d probably save it for actually good nachos.
I understand that you are focusing development on BTDB2, but any ETA on the next BTD6 update? (I wanna see more paragons lol)
Soon ™
Does Btdb2 has a number or a score as a particular elo that goes up and down when you win and lose respectively or is it just the average winrate?
More details on this subject soon!
Is the sun god and vengeful god the only gods in the Monkeyverse or are they more?
Well Bloonarius could be seen as a Bloon god...
all the blogs have the same question amount or depends on the comment amount?
It depends on the comments! Sometimes we get more than we can answer.
Will you be doing more user contests? I really liked all of the entires in the latest one, and look forward to future ones.
For sure!
What's Benjammin's favourite music genre?
Anything he can jam to
How’s development for the next btd6 update been going?
Pretty boss
Has Ezili ever been exiled from other monkey towns for dark magic usage
No. (They may have been too scared to…)
How is it possible to have multiple of the SAME EXACT hero’s in one game? I’m talking about how you can get multiple in coop.
Dr Monkey messing around in multiverse theory
Will there be a new hero skin for the Halloween update? Maybe like a Sauda skin? Also, will there be a collection event?
You’ll have to wait and see!
Do you plan on making a Linux/Mac friendly version of the Ninja Kiwi Archive?
Sadly, no. :(
is Etienne's roomba cat good friends with Ezili's smudge cat?
They are friendly but only as friendly as two cats living in separate homes can be
Who's more intelligent: Humans or monkeys?
Ah, but is intelligence or wisdom the real question?
How do you guys at the team pronounce "Etienne"? There are a couple totally different ways of pronouncing it and I'd like to know hoe you guys do it
I’ve always said it like ‘Eh-Tien’ ~ Rohan
I say Et-ien! - Sav
Do you think Obyn likes mint ice cream
Who doesn’t?
If all the heros faught each other, who would be the last hero standing?
Oh, it's hard to tell. Psi can stun and Adora uses the power of the Sun God. But Churchill has a tank. I feel like tank wins.
is SAS 5 still on the idea backburner? would love to give some concepts if you guys are considering it. I don't want any money just really love the game. Also I have a question, is attempting to modify the swf files of the game to implement new ideas by replacing old assets just for the sake of a proof of concept to send to my friends and you guys okay? I'm not planning on distributing any modified versions of the game as I understand it breaches copyright law and I don't want to get sued. Just want to visualise my ideas better and basically mess around.
Modifying the game violates the Terms of Service, but to help visualize ideas and discuss with a few friends that’s not anything we want to shut down. As we say in our terms, we’re not asking for ideas as we have plenty of our own and that’s part of what makes it fun to work on, but we know the community has great ideas, so you can send your ideas to support! Do understand that modifying game files will most likely mean your account will be flagged for hacking.
Does the ninja kiwi have any arch enemies?
No, never. Other folks who make games, especially smaller teams, are usually super cool. We feel plenty of competition and motivation, but that doesn’t make anyone enemies.
why is the bomb shooter not called a cannon
Why is a Cannon not called a Bomb Shooter?
Yo, I just had a crazy idea for a new hero. what if there was a hero, that consists of more than one tower. like, you can place, say up to three of them (hero bros. ?) and their levels are shared across the three towers? and then, depending on whether or not they are in range of each other they have different buffs? idk, just came up with this, and had to put it down here.
I’m really just picturing three monkeys in a trench coat! It is a great idea and must admit we’ve already got a couple different combo-heroes in our own idea box.
Which hero is most likely to go crazy and accidentally hurt their friends? I say Gwen, since, you know, "Pyromaniac"
Gwen would probably be the most likely but she's pretty grounded by her friends! Pat rolls over suddenly in his sleep, which does mean slumber parties can be injurious.
Does turning off hero audio physically obstruct their speech? (Not that I’d ever turn it off)
Nah, it's more like a game of “who can be the most quiet?” that everyone played with their parents. Wait, what do you mean other people didn’t play that?
Does Ninja Kiwi hire interns by any chance? If so, how would one go about applying?W
We don’t but you can send your CV to info@ninjakiwi.com. :)
Does Pat like to be pat? Or is it all just hugs for him?
He’s happy with both - just not at the same time. Those bro hugs with the pat-pat are the worst.
Why isnt banana pizza illegal?
The legislature is full of monkeys.
what monkey is most likely to throw keyboard when they lose ranked match in a game
005 Druid…
If pat fusty has a tail, that means he’s a monkey. Does that mean that bloons without tails are apes?
Apes are still primates so I’m gonna have to say that’s a logical fallacy train wreck.
how to peel a banana(wrong answers only)
Peel it? Just take a bite from it
If etn is from a different reality than ettiene then why is their technology the exact same?
It only appears the same…
May I ask, DJ ben is known for hitting sick beats. So is he the ones who compose the music we hear in the game?
That honour belongs to Tim Haywood!
Can we get some statistics for boss events? (e.g. number of completions, most common round of death)
Sure!
Is the pushie made of dart monkys, or banana?
Surprisingly, neither! It's made of plush
Since the dart plush is already 300% funded in less then a day, will we see any other plushes anytime soon? I'm not sure if I should get the dart or wait for something in the future, (hopefully wizard plush)
If we do any more, they may not be soon. Also, if you don’t get dart now you’ll never be able to get this 0-0-0 beauty again…
How many Bloons could a Bloonchipper chip if a Bloonchipper could chip Bloons?
Seven quadrillion seven hundred and seven seven trillion
Have a great weekend and happy gaming!
- Sav and Tarn
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will there ever be a vr game for Bloons TD? like maybe an expansion for Bloons TD6 or a new Bloons game for vr?
The few towers that aren't monkeys (Tack Shooter, Bomb Shooter, Bloonchipper, perhaps Spike Factory?), are they sentient/have an AI of sorts? Or are they controlled remotely by a monkey? We do see a Bomb Shooter talking and coughing in Bloons Pop...
Alright, I‘m calling it. Lightning Scar, the track in BTD5 is the unseen part of Cracked due to Wizard Lord‘s magical powers being very unstable, and not to mention his insanity(hoping he‘s ok after I call him that) causing those two tracks that were once green turn into what they are now. Now I‘m just wondering if the Wizard Monkey Paragon IS the Wizard Lord from BTD5, except that he has learned some new tricks like arcane and necromancy.
so you know about the bloon properties like resistant to ice and bombs right? so why dont they just add all of them together into one BIG BAD bloon with all of these properties and ultimately destroy the monkeys without a scratch.
i rewatched the trailer for btdb2 the other day, and i noticed that we dont actually ever see the upgrade paths in it. where will those be placed on screen, and will there be three paths like with btd6? i assume so, but just wanna make sure
How does the Wizard Lord from BTD5 compare with the Paragons from BTD6 ?
I ordered the dart monkey plush i am hyped to meet my new 0-0-0 friend!
I ordered the dart monkey plush i am hyped to meet my new 0-0-0 friend!
I feel like Ezili deserves the All Hallows Eve costume personally since she is the one that is most likely to scare someone. Lych sounds like Lich which means undead related. Maybe the more bloons you pop, the stronger Lych's defenses?