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Hey everyone! Welcome to this week's blog with the NK team!
What's been going on this week?
Spooky Speedway Race results:
1st: Gumball - with 2min 41.5 seconds.
2nd: Myszkaedzio - with 2min 41.8 seconds.
3rd: KLTD1234 - with 2min 42 seconds.
4th: Tobi - with 2min 43.2 seconds.
5th: wthbloons - with 2min 43.6 seconds.
- BTD6 -
Pile O' Monkey Money and T3 Insta Monkeys on sale.
Ongoing "Cookie-cutter" Odyssey ending Tuesday.
"Snow Shovel" Race this weekend.
Lych will be appearing on Encrypted this week, starting Saturday and ending Thursday.
- Bloons Pop -
Friday: Pink Bloon Popper
Saturday: Bloon Popper
Sunday: Merge Monkeys
Auto Fastforward, Vault of MM, Barrel of Bloonstones and Bloonstones on sale.
- BTD Battles -
Professor Evil appearing on Dungeon this weekend. With a second tougher one on Offside starting Tuesday and ending Thursday.
Friday: MOAB, MOAB Club - BFB Boosts Only, BFB and BFB Cards
Saturday: MOAB Club Card and MOAB - BFB Cards, BFB Club and BFB
Sunday: MOAB R15, MOAB Club - BFB Cards, BFB and BFB Boosts only.
Monday: MOAB
2x Medallions with Chest and Bag of medallions on sale.
- BATTD -
Ongoing Martian games: Wizard Attack, Half Cash and No Powers.
Clones, More Shields and More Fortified starting Sunday
Finn Adventure Pack, Character Bundle and Max Adventure Pack on sale.
- SAS4 Mobile -
LMS on Friday, Apoc with black box as reward 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 Totem event
Black counting for the leaderboards. Ninja skin and Monkey Money on sale.
Questions from the comments:
What are the ages of all the heroes?
Quincy, Striker, Obyn and Gwen are the oldest being 1,380 days old.
Would you ever make YouTuber towers or skins
As soon as there is a legit monkey youtuber with a significant Bloons playing viewership, we will be all over that.
what does obyn think of plants vs zombies
Big fan of plants, not really a fan of zombies, which is why we eradicate them in SAS. Zombies do make good fertilizer, though…
What species are the monkeys? And are heroes like Pat Fusty and Obyn different species from the rest?
They’re all monkeys. Pat is just a very large monkey. Obyn is a fuzzy monkey. Don’t tell Obyn we said that.
So, the Dartling Gunner's Hydra Rocket Pods upgrade says that it shoots missiles made of depleted Bloontonium. How in the world do you deplete Bloontonium?
Dr. Monkey keeps a tight lid on the inner workings of his creations. Don’t want them falling into the wrong hands!
I have a idea for the bloon chipper and how you can balance and or nerf it, for the top path, you can split the damage of ceramics to half of the original, you can limit the Tier 4 top path to BFBs, and for a 5th tier, it can chip away at ZOMGs but it has a cool down between each time it tries to suck up moab class bloons, and for middle path, you can turn triple barrel to double barrel for the Tier 3 middle path, and you can turn the T4 into triple barrel, and then the T5 should still have 3 barrels, but its ability sucks up the remaining lead bloons on screen, and the bottom path is yours to figure out NK
Awesome idea, but Bloonchipper is not a tower we see coming back to the game at the moment.
When will Benjamin get a pet?
Probably at some point. What pet could you imagine Benjamin having?
Quincy is apparently a french name. Are he and Etienne friends? Do they eat croissants together?
Yep, they’re mates :) Never turn down the chance for a good croissant!
What's the estimated population of the bloons world?
b^100.n
Which hero has the best “funny face” picture?
Quincy when something gets past his bow.
Many bugs have been fixed in sas4 mobile/Steam version in Ver.1.10.2. Is this bug still in the Flash version? Or is it already fixed?
The SAS4 Mobile and Flash games are completely separate codebases. SAS4 Flash is not receiving any updates at this point.
Would there ever potentially be a show based on the heroes from BTD6? or at least some short comics?
I personally love the idea. Whether it’s a possibility... I have no idea.
is super monkey's weakness kryptonite? or is it a special monkey kryptonite?
Monktonite? Kryptomonkite? If you ask us though, it’s mirrors. Supes can spend hours standing there admiring his own reflection.
do monkeys have abs
Have you seen how strong monkeys are? I wouldn’t be surprised if they have abs on abs.
when will be the next update in btd6?
Soon™. Stay tuned for news about update 31 next week.
Will there ever be a race mode switch in the challenge editor? I think it'd be cool if you could send rounds like in races in the challenge editor
We’ve definitely thought about it and continue to add new things to the challenge editor… hint hint, wink wink
When will there be another collection event? It's been a long time
Glad you noticed - we mixed up our timing here with the communication issues around lockdown and work from home in New Zealand. We’re overdue for a totem event but now too close to Easter so that will be the next one. We’ll let it run a bit longer to make up the time.
how do super monkeys become super monkeys?
They’re born super, just like you!
will you guys ever consider looking into adding special missions to btd6 they were one of my favorite parts of btd5
There’s always so much awesome stuff we want to add to BTD6, it’s just a balance of production time and picking what ideas to go with first. Special Missions weren’t replayable enough for how difficult they were to make; we are looking at new map functionality that will add cool features and be more replayable.
Has there ever been monkeys that tried to help the bloons and tried attacking monkeys?
We don’t talk about that.
Do any of the other heroes get jealous of Psi for being so gifted at such a young age?
Not jealous, just glad they are all on the same team.
Hey Sav and Tarn, how are you doing? :) I would like to suggest a new targeting setting: MOAB Class Bloon. This targeting setting would be similar to the Camo Bloon setting, with the tower targeting MOAB Class Bloons according to First, Last, Strong etc. It would be very handy for example on round 98, where after you popped a few FBFBs and want a tower like a Maim MOAB to target the first FMOABs that spawn instead of the Super Fortified Ceramics. The towers that have this targeting setting would mostly be support towers, like MOAB Glue, Maim MOAB, MOAB Press/Domination etc. I think it would be a nice quality of life change to help players deal with blimps better instead of having their Maim MOAB one shotting Ceramics but not stalling the blimps behind them. Please let me know how you think of this idea and have a nice day!
So combining Strong with First? That sounds like cheating!
What's the most times in a row Quincy has missed his shots
Got it on the first try.
which hero is the most fun at parties
Pat, he gives the best hugs!
Why isn’t the technology from bens level 20 computer used in more towers? It seems to be really useful.
He has a ton of patents on most of his stuff.
Since in the victory screen and defeat screen paragons show as 5-5-5 towers does this mean technically paragons are just 5-5-5 towers?
They are a combination of all three tier 5 towers so yes but also so much more so no!
Hey why did you guys remove fortress destroyer from the App Store? I know the game was dead but as one of the ten people who still played the game Every week. I thought it was really fun and it had no compatibility issues with the latest iOS. Why does nk not care about their games becoming lost media?
Really happy to hear you enjoyed Fortress Destroyer, we loved making it! We definitely do care about our old games (see the NK Archive on Steam)! But unfortunately, platforms like iOS and Google regularly update their systems and some games fall foul of changes to those platforms, and that’s what happened to Fortress, especially as it was one of our first Unity games and it would have been a huge effort to update that would take too much time away from awesome new stuff - we hope you’ll like what we have in store and will share news when we can!
That’s all for this week! Have a great weekend everyone, catch you in the next blog! - NK Team
do or did humans exist in the btd world? Were they there before monkeys, before some disaster happened? or are the humans still hiding???
Does wizard monkey have weaknesses? because he seems pretty serious about popping balloons.
Where would I put an idea for a hero? I've been working on a design I really want to show the Ninjakiwi team. Also, is there a monkey inside the bomb/tackshooter?
Where would I put an idea for a hero? I've been working on a design I really want to show the Ninjakiwi team. Also, is there a monkey inside the bomb/tackshooter?
Can the engineer monkey paragon make tack shooters, bomb shooters, drones, spike factories, etc. ? or can he only make sentries and bloon traps?
Why can't engineer monkey just make another bloonchipper?
Will there be any exclusive bloons spawned from vortex? Kinda like lych's soul.
How does "Krakatoa" laser puddle damage work in SAS4? It does not specify it in the description
How does "Krakatoa" laser puddle damage work in SAS4? It does not specify it in the description
How does "Krakatoa" laser puddle damage work in SAS4? It does not specify it in the description