Update 4.3 Out Now - Update Notes!

New Features

• New Map: Up on the Roof
  - 💣You might need to engage in some property damage to make room for your Buccaneers and Subs.
  - 🔓 Try this awesome new map in all ranked games, plus casual, event and clan games.
• Hero Challenge
  - 👤 An exciting single player challenge mode now available on all platforms.
  - 🏹 Challenge Quincy, Gwen, Striker Jones, and T.D. in practice games to hone your skills.
  - 🎈 You can send bloons to build your income but they won’t damage your opponent.
  - ⏲ Survive the final round to win the challenge!
• New Hero Screen
  - ♾ We have redesigned the hero screen to better support the growing roster of heroes in Battles 2.
  - 📋 Each hero now has a summary page showcasing their most important upgrades.
  - 📑 We have added the ability to sort and filter heroes by different criteria, making it even easier to find the one you’re looking for.
  - 📛 All heroes now have a role which shows what kind of playstyle they are best suited to.
  - 💥 Defenders focus on popping bloons by dealing damage.
  - 💫 Controllers specialise in hindering the bloons with debuffs and status effects.
  - 💞 Supporters buff your other monkeys, making them more powerful.
  - 💸 Money Makers do just that, make money! They can supplement your income.
  - 🦹‍♂️ Saboteurs interfere with your opponent in some way, such as by stealing their cash.

General Changes

• 🎴 The Daily Jackpop has been moved to the store and combined with the daily freebie. The rewards from the non-jackpop cards have been increased to reflect the merge.
• ⏸ The pause screen in Hero Challenge now has a resume button instead of a restart button for clarity. Restart has been moved to the central column.

Balance Changes

• Dart Monkey
  - 🏹 xx3 Crossbow pierce: 6 -> 8
  - 🏀 xx4 Sharp Shooter: Bolts now ricochet once after the first hit.
  - 💥 xx5 Crossbow Master: Crit damage 50 -> 100
  - 💭 The crossbow is the least used of the Dart Monkey’s upgrade paths. The Juggernaut and Super Monkey Fan Club both have their niche with high pierce group popping and concentrated single target damage respectively. We are buffing the Crossbow Monkey to give it a place somewhere between the two with solid pierce and damage and some slight seeking to ensure it makes the most out of its pierce.
• Monkey Sub
  - 💥 xx4 Armor Piercing Darts: 2 damage -> 3 damage
  - 💭 The bottom path sub is often neglected for the top path Reactor and the middle path First Strike upgrades. While this damage buff may look minor, it stacks quickly due to the high attack speed of the bottom path sub and the xx5 Sub Commander’s ability to double the damage of other subs. We hope this will make the bottom path sub a more appealing choice for DPS on maps where space isn’t an issue while preserving the middle path’s identity as elite MOAB stopping power.
• Monkey Buccaneer
  - 💰 3xx Destroyer: $2700 -> $2200
  - ⏳ 140 Faster Shooting: Ability Cooldown 30s -> 20s.
  - 💥 xx2 Crows Nest: All attacks deal +2 damage to camo bloons, including attacks from the 4xx and 5xx planes.
  - 🚢 xx5 Trade Empire: Merchantmen ships generate +5% -> +10% income per round. Capped at 20 -> 10 Merchantmen.
  - 💭 The top path buccaneer does not currently see a lot of use, either as a crosspath or as a main upgrade, so we want to add some buffs to make it a more appealing option. The xx5 Trade Empire’s limit of 20 Merchantmen came from BTD6 and is very difficult to reach in the smaller maps of Battles 2. We are therefore increasing the buff while lowering the cap to make it easier to get the full value of the upgrade in a smaller space.
• Mortar Monkey
  - 🎯 000 Mortar now includes Increased Accuracy from 001 as standard (spread 18 -> 8).
  - 🎯 xx1 Increased Accuracy replaced with Dynamic Targeting, which costs $400 and allows the Mortar to aim itself at the strongest bloon on screen or the area with the most densely packed bloons.
  - 💰 xx2 Burny Stuff $700 -> $500
  - 💭 The randomness of the Mortar has never been popular and the xx1 upgrade has often felt like a tax to remove RNG than an upgrade in its own right. The new Dynamic Targeting upgrade will hopefully give interesting crosspath options to the other upgrades, allowing the Mortar to easily focus fire on strong MOABs or maximise the impact of stunning by automatically aiming for the densest cluster of bloons. Manual targeting will likely still remain the most consistent option for effects like Signal Flare and Burny Stuff that just want to hit every bloon once.
• Ninja Monkey
  - 💰 x5x Grand Saboteur: $25,000 -> $20,000
  - 🌸 x5x Grand Saboteur: All x3x and above Ninja Monkeys in range, including the Grand Saboteur itself, gain +10 range and +2 MOAB damage.
  - 💭 The Grand Saboteur is the weakest of the Ninja Monkey’s tier 5 upgrades. We are bringing over a popular balance change from BTD6 in order to improve its usage, although we are limiting it to only Ninjas in the Grand Saboteur’s range rather than a map wide buff to limit its interaction with other, more powerful combos.
• Spike Factory
  - 💰 5xx Super Mines: $110,000 -> $90,000
  - 💣 5xx Super Mines: Explosion Pierce 60 -> 80
  - 💭 Super Mines is by far the least used of Spike Factory’s tier 5 upgrades, overshadowed by Carpet of Spikes and Permaspike. We are making it more affordable while also buffing its pierce to make it more capable of dealing with its main weakness of tight ZOMGs.
• Biker Bones
  - 💣 Level 3: Concussive shot radius 27 -> 40
  - 💣 Level 3: Concussive shot pierce 48 -> 72
  - 🎯 Level 3: Concussive shot now aims at densest area, not strongest bloon.
  - 💭 The dense bloon targeting we added for Mortar in this update felt like it would be a good fit for Biker Bones as well, allowing him to affect more bloons with the stun and fire effects of his ability and further distinguish him from Striker Jones.
• Etienne
  - ⌛ Level 3: Drone Swarm Ability cooldown 45s -> 60s
  - ⌛ Level 16: Drone Swarm Ability cooldown 40s -> 45s
  - 💭 Etienne’s ability is extremely effective at clearing up early game rushes. We are increasing the cooldown to ensure that Etienne players cannot rely on it entirely and still need to spend on their early game defence.

Bug Fixes

• 🦹‍♀️ Fixed issue where Adora could appear visually as Dark Adora. Dark Adora does not feature in Battles 2.
• 👨‍🌾 Fixed issue where collectables picked up by the Banana Farmer would leave their visual on screen.
• 🦸‍♂️ Fixed issue where selling a x4x or x5x Dart Monkey while the SMFC/PMFC ability was active would cause the affected monkeys to visually revert to Dart Monkeys while still attacking like Supermonkeys. The ability now persists both visually and mechanically after the sale.
• ⛔ Fixed issue that would occasionally cause the game to think that the user account was already online and prevent it signing in.
• 🛳 Fixed issue where monkeys could not be placed on the 5xx Buccaneer’s platform if there was another monkey behind it.
• 🌞 Fixed issue where monkeys could be placed on the same space if a 5xx Buccaneer was sacrificed to a Sun Temple.
• 🌩 Fixed issue where the Plasma Bloon Boost was using the wrong fullscreen effect.
• 🎰 Fixed issue where save slots could not be deleted (Arcade only)
• 💬 Fixed incorrect Chinese translation for “Nexus Creator Code”.
• 📌 Fixed xx3 Spike Factory spikes clipping into the floor of some maps.
• 🖋 Fixed very long usernames displaying incorrectly in game.
• 🛤 Fixed issue where placing the Sniper at a particular point on Bloonstone Quarry broke its field of view.
• 💫 Fixed issue where MOABs would move sideways if they are hit with a knockback effect the moment they are spawned.
• ❄ Fixed issue where Level 6 Etienne was allowing Ice Monkey to always freeze the zebra children of rainbows, rather than only 25% of the time.
• 🦇 Fixed the xx4 Dark Knight’s visual aura not matching the range of its teleport ability.
• 🎬 Fixed some Monkey Subs not playing their firing animation.
• 🛒 Fixed Bonnie’s Minecarts sometimes drawing over the top of 3D objects when they should be behind them.
• 🖌 Fixed the Sniper Monkey’s paintball trail cosmetic not appearing on 250 Snipers.
• 🍌 Fixed the Banana Farm’s Banana Split weapon skin not appearing on 310 Banana Farms.
• 🐭 Fixed mouse wheel not controlling zoom on clan islands (desktop only)
• 🔭 Fixed animated banners appearing too zoomed in when viewed on the profile screen.
• 💥 Fixed Mortar Monkey targeting itself instead of the beginning of the map when first placed.
• 👀 Fixed Alchemist’s eyelids not lining up with its eyes on the main menu.
• 🔀 Fixed incorrect flow when viewing player profiles through clan leaderboards.
• 🔘 Fixed mini league leaderboard sometimes not animating like a button.
• 🥈 Fixed Silver Darts Dart Monkey weapon skin not applying to crossbow bolts and spiked balls.
• 📌 Fixed x42 Spike Factory firing too many spikes from its ability if activated at the very start of a round.
• ⚙ Fixed missing visual details on x3x Tack Shooter

Update Video: https://youtu.be/ypynJXuNnaI

Happy gaming! :D