Last week's blog post was jam-packed with information because of the few week blogging hiatus. This week will be smaller by far, but hopefully the more dense morsels of knowledge getting flung will be appreciated nonetheless. Next week's blog post should hopefully have a few words of wisdom from one of our newest Ninjas at NK that you may have seen around a particular beta.
Temple of the Monkey God: What's it all about?
The Temple in Bloons TD 5 has been the subject of much research among the amazing community you find yourselves a part of. In the grand assortement of documents created during BTD5's... creation, there is but a single page in a spreadsheet dedicated to the most powerful tower in the game. A question on the blog last week asked if there was more information about the Temple, so I've opened said page and had a look.
What has been uncovered by the community pretty much sums up all there is to know about Temple powers. The Temple has 6 attack slots which it cycles though. The base Temple (no sacrifices) will shoot the Base Plasma Effect in all of these slots. There are 5 other possible attack types which are added to a slot when a particular tower type is sacrificed. Each attack type, including the Plasma, has 5 stages of strength which are reached by spending more on the tower type sacrificed or in the case of the Plasma, the total number of "stages" for all other attack types (similar to how Healthy Bananas works).
They other five types are: Freeze, Explosion, Glue, Wind and Sharp. From Ice Towers; Bomb Towers and Mortars; Glue Gunners; Apprentices; and any other tower respectively. The "cost of sacrifice" range for each stage is: 1-1500, 1501-4000, 4001-10000, 10001-30000, 30001+
Each stage will increase the power of that attack type by improving duration of the effect, pierce, popping power, radius, projectile number or even the damage type the attack uses.
If you've always wanted to summon the full powers of the Monkey God you can go forth now and wield it for the personal glory of a high score in BTD5. Though remember that more than power is required to reach to loftiest of lofty heights at the top of the leaderboard. Space management and finding the right balance of strength and support is what will win on the day.
Questions from the Comments
What song was used in your vid [about Impoppable mode last week]?
The description under the YouTube video has a little more info (a tune from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)) but the title of the track has evaded my search... for now.
Will there be more frequent updates to BTD5 web?
BTD5 web's current update frequency is not likely to be increased, no. There will still be updates, but we won't be returning to the weekly updates that BTD5 started out with.
Thanks for joining me! The last week at Ninja Kiwi has been fully focused on SAS: Zombie Assault 4 (besides the work on updates and games we're not ready to talk about yet) so there isn't a whole lot to talk about today. Leave a question or comment below if you want to know something and I'll see you next week!
Aaron
make an apopalypse medel and you get it by getting to round 60 in apopalpse
Could you bring back the superrewards free offers? They were a good way to get NK coins without having to pay real money for them.
The portal artifact demands we have it's knowledge. Give it to us or suffer it's curse, NK...
NK Coins How To Earn Them? And I Dont Really Understand What Are These Awsome`s For I Dont Get A Single Bit Of This Page Though I Understand Some -_-
Can't wait for next week :)
Still no info on the portal artifact...
http://ninjakiwi.com/forums/204-monkey-city-general/posts/40562-suggestions-thread
chocolatepanda suggested for SAS 4 either female versions of soldiers or a female class of soldier. My thoughts on that is that 3 soldier clas.ses is probably enough, (also adding a female class could raise the question of how to balance that class with the other 3 without getting stuck on any stereotypes, and also be unbalanced in terms of having 1 female type but 3 male types), but adding the option to choose the gender of any of your characters when creating them would be a good addition. Such an option would not necessarily have any actual function in terms of zombie killing, (i.e. all weapons and armor function the same), yet it could add appeal for some gamers. After all as chocolatepanda said, why have only male characters? There are female soldiers in real life, so this could also be so in SAS4. It could be fun for players to personalise their characters.
Will there ever be an achievement for completing 500 daily/vault challenges? now that there is so many vault challenges it would be nice to have something bigger than 40 AP to work towards after you have challenge legend.
Note that "wield" is misspelled as "weild". Always wanted to know about the Temple :)