Art by u/Arkiiana. Original post here.
Hey everyone! Welcome to this week's blog with the NK team!
What's been going on this week?
Battles 2 Update 1.3.3 arrived this week with a change to how we do ranked seasons as well as a bunch of balance changes! You can see the full patch notes here.
Pit Stop Race Results:
1st: EMINEMI - 1 minute and 43.08 seconds
2nd: Gumball - 1 minute and 43.2 seconds
3rd: (YT) Colt BTD6 - 1 minute and 43.45 seconds
4th: SayGoodbye - 1 minutes and 43.46 seconds
5th: KLTD1234 - 1 minute and 44 seconds
This weekend's focus:
- BTD6 -
Pile O' Monkey Money and T3 Insta Monkeys on sale.
Ongoing "4 to 44" Odyssey ending Wednesday.
"Cup Race - Jump the Gun" Race this weekend.
Bloonarius will be appearing on Streambed this week, starting Saturday and ending Thursday.
- Battles 2 -
Ongoing Season 5.
Ongoing 4th of July Showcase.
- Bloons Pop -
Friday: Level Smasher
Saturday: Black Bloon Popper
Sunday: Bloon Popper
Great Pack, 3rd Canister and Vault of Monkey Money on sale.
Ongoing Party Crashers event, ending Tuesday
- BTD Battles -
Professor Evil appearing this weekend. With a second tougher one starting Tuesday and ending Thursday.
Friday: MOAB, MOAB Cards - BFB, BFB Random 15, BFB Boosts Only
Saturday: MOAB, MOAB Cards, MOAB Club - BFB, BFB Cards
Sunday: MOAB, MOAB Cards - BFB, BFB Boosts Only, BFB Card Club
Monday: MOAB
2x Medallions with Bag of Medallions and Chest of Medallions on sale.
- BATTD -
Collection event starting Friday, ending in two weeks.
Ongoing Martian games: More Regrow, Faster Regrow and More Fortified.
More Shields, Magic Man and No Weapons starting on Saturday.
Fire Princess Adventure Pack, Jake Adventure Pack and Character Bundle pack on sale.
- SAS4 Mobile -
LMS on Friday, VS with Black Box as rewards on Saturday and Apoc on Sunday.
Sales on nantos, NV vet pack, Epic pack and 8th premium gun set: Torment, Proton Arc and Zerafallen
- BTD5 -
Bloon Hunt event starting Thursday, ending Monday.
Ace skin on sale.
Questions from the comments:
Will a boss run ever be on an expert map?
It is possible but not super likely as it would really limit who could play!
If a BTD6 hero could have a Thanksgiving parade balloon, which hero would it be?
Quincy!
Do you plan to change or balance the battles 2 hero xp soon?
We have a lot of changes planned for the coming updates to further ease the XP grind across the board.
I'm eager to know why there wasn't an easter event in BMC mobile this year. Please answer it this time?
Sorry about that! This was an oversight on our part but we’ll do our best to have it live next Easter!
If you sell and then buy the same type of monkey, will it be the same monkey I sold?
It could be but not usually, as they tend to go to rest after they are sold!
I remember a question about will there be a third water tower, can't the ice monkey go onto the water without any upgrades, I would assume it's a lot harder to freeze rubber then water, let alone being the source of ice.
It's a bit harder for them to do the water actually as they have to focus on keeping themselves balanced!
Have the Bloons ever seen a balloon and have monkeys seen a balloon if so do they use them in training
There was an attempt long ago to talk with the Bloons using balloons but it didn’t work very well…
Have the monkeys ever kidnapped a bloon, put it on a fake track and tested if it would follow the track?
Bloons have been documented following the paths of each area they attack, no bloonnapping needed! :)
Who, or should I say what, is the leader of the bloons? Bloonarius? B.A.D? A bloon made of pieces of other bloons called King Bloon?
The M.I.B has told us that a shadowy network of bloons is pulling the strings!
Why the mortar monkey can't have the other monkeys as forward obeservers as the Monkey Submarine to attack like any other tower, maybe he needs monkey knowledge for that?
All the calculations that would need to be done by the monkeys to coordinate second-to-second changes to the mortar would be too distracting!
Don't get me wrong, I love BTD6, but I just don't have time to play the game every single day. Say a challenge I submit is chosen for a daily challenge, how will I know? I think I'd be able to beat it. Just a hunch.
We make sure to credit each player challenge we use in the title of their respective challenges!
Unfortunately, our system doesn’t allow us to notify players if their challenges are chosen. This is something we are looking into!
is sauda vegetarian?
She tends to eat vegetarian but wouldn’t define herself by it!
Is there any unused concepts for already released paragons?
Yes! Everything we make tends to go through a few versions before we settle on the final product
will Vortex receive his own theme in the future?
It is unlikely as not all of the bosses will get their own theme music!
If a Monkey Club exists instead of Fight Club, what other movies have been adapted into monkey form?
Indiana Monke and the Temple of Bloon, Monkey Python and the Holy Grail, My Neighbour Bloontoro, The Monktrix, Blooninator 2: Popment Day, Monk-e, Monkey-Man: Into the Monkeyverse and many more!
What exactly inspired you to make these paragons?
From way back in BTD5 when the tower pathing system was split off to have choices for different ‘end’ towers, people have been interested in combining pinnacle upgrades together into an ultimate tower. We first did this with the Wizard Lord in BTD5, and Paragons are just the next step in evolution after that.
I have a few questions but I 'll save them for next time. This time I'm here to say your guys game is really fun and keep up the good work!
We absolutely love to hear when players love and enjoy our games!
Why does Grand Saboteur only has one eye?
They have another one… it's just hidden.
Is Berserk Brew more like tea/coffee, fruit juice, soft drinks or alcohol? (Hey, i would love to see buyable brew drinks one day)
It's closer to coffee in that it has something like caffeine but tastes a bit more like fruit juice!
Is the robot ally from BSM2 related to the anti-bloon in some way?
There are quite a few robotic companions and a lot of them have been designed by the Engineers so yes!
At this point I don't even know if I want a thorough description for the ace-agon, just "This is the biggest plane." You?
There is something great about that description…
Were there any MOAB-Class or Boss Bloon ideas that were ultimately rejected? I'm kinda interested in the design ideas of those.
There are a lot more designs that are not currently in-game/yet (Bosses especially), though not necessarily rejected. That said, outside of bosses we’re really happy with our default round set and don’t want to mess with it too much no matter how much we may like a new Bloon concept. That only leaves the possibility that we could one day possibly use new Bloon types in custom round sets for events.
can you add bloonchipper as a pet for engineer monkey. It would be cute to see a mini bloonchipper circling around engineer monkey. Also you wont have to worry about balancing it either!
We’d have to ask the Engi if they want to make one…
Did the ascended shadow just run out of caltrops I don’t see him throwing them down
They have so many other things to throw!
If you don't mind me asking, through all the years Ninja Kiwi has been alive, is there anything you wish you could go back in time to change or are things fine the way they are (in terms of your games or the company as a whole)? Regardless, love you Ninja Kiwi.
I think everyone can look back at what they have done and see ways they could have done it better or differently but we are all still so happy with how Ninja Kiwi has developed as a company and how our games have changed and improved. We always want to be looking forward and keep improving everything we can as both a company and our games. A big part of that is how much the community has helped shape us and helped us grow and we love having you all along with us! We love our team and this community and can not wait to see what else we make together!
What do the bloons do in their spare time?
Lounge around watching Bloony Toons, while plotting their next attack!
Since the boss bloons have eyes, does that mean they can see? or can all bloons see regardless?
They have blindsight with some of them having eyes as well!
Have a great weekend and happy gaming!
- Ninja Kiwi Team
Hey you haven't answered a question from me in 6 weeks but here I go. If someone somehow managed to 100% complete every nk game ever made. What would anything special happen. Asking for a friend wink* wink*.
I remember a while ago that you announced that BTD6 will be coming out on consoles somewhere here. How much progress is done on it?
If bloonarius doesn't feel any pain then how does he know when to use his "special attack"? Plus , will ever bloonarius spew different set of bloons every single boss event with this green chonky boi?
Have DJ Benjammin' and Psimbals ever started a band together?
If the bloons are controlled by the bloonminati, who or what leads the monkeys? Do they have an elected leader? Are they a theocracy following the true sun god?
Thanks for finally answering that easter question! Here's another btd6 question: For the planned ace paragon, would it cost the most amongst the others?
I remember when I got to round 432 without using the Temple at all, in Update 12 when the Engineer was released (Overclock had yet to be nerfed). I loved that I was able to get through all those rounds, having the stall towers at front to only allow BADs through, and using Ezili and literally everything else I could to defeat the BADs. What's your favorite memories from earlier versions of BTD6?
What would happen if a monkey got trained to be two separate tower types? Like for example, they received both wizard and darling training?
Just return to play btd games after 3-4 years of break 1 and a half months ago,not sure do people asking this but is it possible to have 2v2(Or more) in battles series.
In the 3 years that you have released towers and buffed/nerfed existing ones, what has been the most broken, completely unfair iteration of a tower/upgrade that never reached an update?