Art by u/7_Kevin_Sevin_11.Original post here.
Hey everyone! It’s Sav and Tarn here this week
What's been going on this week?
Battles 2 launched on iOS, Android and Steam this week and we are so excited! We’ve released a few updates already and we also made a change to how XP works and you can see the info on that here.
Bad Egg Race results:
1st: IAmCracked - 1 minute and 29 seconds
2nd: Colt - 1 minute and 31.3 seconds
3rd: YtseJam - 1 minute and 31.7 seconds
4th: Gumball - 1 minute and 31.7 seconds
5th: alittlebear - 1 minute and 31.8 seconds
This weekend's focus:
- BTD6 -
Pile O' Monkey Money and T3 Insta Monkeys on sale.
Ongoing "Bloon Failure" Odyssey, ending Tuesday.
"ekaR" race this weekend.
Lych will be appearing this week, starting Saturday and ending Wednesday.
- Bloons Pop -
Friday: Merge Monkeys
Saturday: Black Bloon Popper
Sunday: Green Bloon Popper
3rd Cannister, Great Pack and Vault of Monkey Money on sale.
- BTD Battles -
Professor Evil appearing this weekend on Mine. With a second tougher one on Shallow River starting Tuesday and ending Thursday.
Friday: MOAB, MOAB R3 Speed - BFB, BFB Boosts Only, BFB Card
Saturday: MOAB, MOAB Card Club - BFB, BFB Club, BFB Card
Sunday: MOAB Random 15, MOAB R3 Speed - BFB Boost Only, BFB, BFB Card
Monday: MOAB,
2x Medallions with Club Access on sale.
- BATTD -
Ongoing Martian games: Shuffle, more regrow and fast regrow.
Monkeys only, no allies and more shields starting on Sunday.
Sai Adventure Pack, Dungeon Finn and Character Bundle pack on sale.
- SAS4 Mobile -
LMS on Friday, Apoc with black box as rewards on Saturday and VS on Sunday.
Sales on nantos, NV vet pack, epic pack and 9th premium gun set: Contagion, Ahab and Calamity
- BTD5 -
Ongoing Bloon Hunt, ending Sunday.
Green counting for the leaderboards. Wizard skin and Monkey Money on sale.
Questions from the comments:
What's stopping Psi from popping a Golden bloon? Surely a hero who regularly obliterates MOAB-class bloons would have no issue?
Psi’s ways are truly mysterious.
Would a non-monkey hero (like the tack shooters or spike factories) be possible in the future?
Possible but unlikely. Heroes have to be packed to overflowing with character.
Since nothing gets past quincy’s bow, why not just leave it on the track so the bloons can’t get past it?
Well if it were just lying on the track it wouldn’t be Quincy’s bow then would it? It’d just be “bow on track”.
What's the best tower, and why is it Boomerang?
We see what you did there.
What will happen to BTDB1 once BTDB2 is released? Will BTDB1 still receive updates and server running? And are the teams for both games completely separate?
BTDB1 will continue to receive support for as long as it makes sense and as long as people play it! We’re definitely still putting time into BTDB1 balance and variety, but most new feature work will shift to BTDB2.
Will holding the send bloon button in mobile BTDB2 also work instead of repeatedly tapping it?
Yes!
Why are certain game modes restricted for public co-op?
An excellent question… maybe we should do something about that...
large caliber is large, but how large?
Larger than normal calibre. Significantly larger than small calibre.
What does Berserker Brew taste like?
We’ve heard it’s *demon voice* RAGE INDUCING!!!!
Does the Ray of Doom's chair have a recliner seat, how far back does it go if it does?
Dr. Monkey says it’s his patented La-Z-Monkey technology but we’re not sure. Dartling tells us it is like relaxing on a cloud.
Is the Avatar of Wrath a pleasant monkey to be around? There are obvious issues with personality, but what about that lightning aura around it? Would that hurt?
Only if you are a Bloon. You wouldn’t want to be a Bloon around AoW but otherwise they are just like super pleasant and polite.
If you could fuse any two heroes together, Dragon Ball Z style, which two would you fuse, and what would their name be? Mine would be Benjienne.
You won’t trick us into talking ships that easily my friend!
Do you have any plans to add sas4 flash things such as ice station, meltdown, and bounty event to mobile? it would be nice if it happen.
is that all? will there be no more updates for sas 4? I would like to see web-level updates on mobile / steam.
The last content update won’t be the last update for SAS4 mobile. But, we do want to set some expectations here. The game is 7 years old, and while we love it, we also do want to develop other things. So this won’t be a return to the heyday of updates but we do want to keep adding cool things to the game. And at the same time, look to build new awesome in the SAS universe.
Why does Bloonarius looks way smaller than Lych?
Must be all the Bloons he keeps spewing out
do ice monkeys melt?
In summer? You are just trying to get us to start singing Frozen songs again.
Why did "SAS4 web" disappear from the blog weekend's focus information?
We cut down the list of things on the list so that it’s easier to see key information.
Is Adora the true sun god's daughter? or just a niece/cousin?
We’re not completely sure but we’ve heard their relationship is divine.
Will the Cobra and Bloonchipper be added to BTDB 2?
No.
why is the co-op daily challenge always on Cubism?
It's a good map
Do you think the monkey buccaneer has pirated anything before?
Even if Buccaneer Monkey pirates something, they’d still call it plundering. Mainly to throw off the feds.
Can the hero/tower pets get an update? Just saying that if you could pet them the game would be 10% awesomer.
That would be awesome and has been suggested before. Not currently in the plans but you never know! Another idea would be to have some of them as plushies, and then players could actually pet them. Perhaps we should run a poll...
what's the draw strength of Quincy's bow?
You’d want at least 19 Str to be able to even think about pulling that string back.
Are smudge(i assume ezilis cat) and pancakes(etns cat) friends?
Yes! BTW, Etienne thinks the community missed something in translation. In French the name is Crepe after all.
Have a great weekend and happy gaming!
- Sav and Tarn
Please drop the extensive Another Brick pigeon lore
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if you need a strength score of 19 to even THINK of drawing Quincy's bow then how strong is he!?!?
For BTDB2, can you please make all towers have 3-3-3 upgrades at the start and decrease EXP cost for 4th and 5th tiers drastically? The 1.0.2 update is cool, but I don't feel it's enough.
What would happen if the ninja (who can already see camo) put on the sniper’s camo goggles? Would it be able to see through space and time?
What is stopping the monkey farmer from eating all the bananas he collects instead of giving them to the player like he’s supposed to?
Why is crossplay a thing for battles 2 when mobile players are at a serious disadvantage? Besides micro, they've got forced ads before every match too. Isn't the copious amount of in app purchases enough?
2v2 mode for Battles 2? Probably not very soon because you guys are focused on balancing the main game but at some point down the line?
So hero skins have different attributes than originals in BTDB2. Will this kind of change ever happen to BTD6 or is it BTDB2 exclusive?
If the heroes had DnD classes, assuming at least a couple play it or some variation of it, what would they be? And why would Ben be the Dungeon Master?