Battles 2 Update 4.11 Out Now - Update Notes!

New Features

• New Map Variants: Reverse Mode

• ⏪ Play 5 classic maps in reverse mode for a unique twist.

• 🏟️ Reverse maps appear in the same arenas and game modes as their regular versions.

• 🗺️ The maps with reverse versions are:

  • 🌳 Glade

  • 🏖️ Offtide

  • 🌴 Oasis

  • 🏢 COBRA Command

  •  📐Inflection

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends

  • 🎈 Tight Ceramics total time to send 1s -> 1.2s

  • 💭 Even after the nerfs in the last balance patch, Tight Ceramics are still proving to be one of the most dangerous rushes in the game. We’re spacing them out a little more in order to make it easier for defenses to handle them. 

• Bomb Shooter

  • 💣103 Cluster Bombs: bonus cluster pierce +6 -> +4

  • 💣203 Cluster Bombs: bonus cluster pierce +6 -> +4

  • 💭 Cluster Bombs is already a potent weapon against grouped bloons, especially when map blockers allow multiple explosions to hit the same bloon. We don’t feel like it needs any extra power so we are reducing the extra pierce gained from crosspathing.

• Ice Monkey

  • 💰x4x Snowstorm: $3500 -> $4000

  • 💭 Snowstorm is still an extremely effective stalling tactic, even with last update’s nerfs. We are increasing its price further in order to make it less efficient to micro.

• Sniper Monkey

  • 🎯x3x Bouncing Bullet: $2250 -> $2600

  • 💭This was buffed in a previous update, but it has been performing better than we thought it would. So this should bring its performance to where we want it.

• Heli Pilot

  • 💰xx3 Moab shove $3700 -> $4000

  • 🚁xx5 Comanche Commander: Mini comanches attack speed 0.15s -> 0.13s

  • 🚁xx5 Comanche Commander $35000 -> $34700

  • 💭The Heli Pilot’s bottom path tier 5s often feel weaker than those of other towers so we are giving it a small buff to help it out. In addition, we are nerfing MOAB Shove slightly because its stall was too cost effective**.**

• Mortar Monkey

  • 💥4xx The Big One: Pierce 80 -> 100,

  • 💥4xx The Big One: Stun pierce 85 -> 100, shockwave pierce 85 -> 100

  • 💭The Big One was feeling overshadowed by Artillery Battery in situations with large amounts of bloons. These pierce buffs should help it shine in these situations.

  • 💥1xx Bigger Blast: +8 blast radius -> +12 blast radius

  • 💥1xx Bigger Blast: +5p -> +10p

  • 💭This buff will improve the mortar’s strength as damaging tower.

• Wizard Monkey

  • 💰3xx Arcane Mastery: $1200 -> $1300

  • 💭This upgrade was a little bit too cheap for its power, this should nerf the early game a little while still keeping it viable. 

• Ninja Monkey

  • ⛩️5xx Grandmaster Ninja: shuriken damage 2 -> 4

  • 💭The recent shinobi nerf made the Grandmaster Ninja a little underpowered. This should bring it back in line.

  • 💣xx5 Master Bomber: shuriken/flashbomb attack 0.62 -> 0.55

  • 💭Like the Grandmaster Ninja, the Master Bomber is also now a little underpowered. This buff should help it feel more consistent like it used to.

• Banana Farm

  • 📈x5x Monkeynomics ability cooldown: 50s -> 40s

  • 💭Monkeynomics is underperforming after the x4x IMF Loan nerf. This should bring it back in line with how it was pre nerf.

  • ♻️xx2 Banana Salvage: +10% -> +5% sellback

  • ♻️xx3 Marketplace: +0% -> +5% sellback

  • 💭This change will hopefully add a bit more identity to the bottom path, setting it apart from the other 2.

• Biker Bones

  • 💥Level 3: Concussive Blast ability: 24s cooldown ---> 30s cooldown 

  • 🔥Flame trail pierce 4 ->2

  • 🔥Flame trails now affect buccaneer 4xx fighter planes

  • 💭Biker Bones is very strong with late game strategies. This nerf to his earlier game will make him weaker early game to balance out his late game strength. Additionally we are introducing a new synergy with the buccaneer to vary his playstyles.

• Pat Fusty

  • 🫸Level 5: Slap triggers every 5 -> 3 attacks

  • 🫸Level 5: Slap knockback lasts for 1s -> 0.5s

  • 🫸Level 5: Slap 0d -> 2d

  • 💭We are making this change to make Pat’s slaps more consistent, without reducing his DPS.

• Fusty the Snowman

  • 🫷Level 5: Slap triggers every 5 -> 3 attacks

  • 🫷Level 5: Slap knockback lasts for 1s -> 0.5s

  • 🫷Level 5: Slap makes frozen bloons spawn 6 -> 3 shards on impact

  • 💭We are changing this for the same reason as Pat’s, but the dps on Fusty the Snowman is already good so reducing amount ice shards will keep the dps as it was before.

• DJ Ben Jammin’

  • 💻Level 1: Child towers no longer count for DJ Ben’s money generation.

  • 💻Level 4: pierce bonus to towers in range +1 -> +0

  • 💻Level 5: Side Hustle buff 6% -> 3%

  • 💻Level 9: Side Hustle buff 9% -> 6%

  • 💻Level 11: pierce bonus remains +1

  • 💻Level 14: Encore ability cooldown reduction 15% -> 10%

  • 💭DJ Ben has been performing quite strongly in the current meta, so we’re making some adjustments to bring him more in line with other options.

• Etienne

  • 🛜Level 1: Pierce +1

  • 💭 This is to balance out the pierce he is losing from his old Level 4 upgrade

  • 🛜Level 4: Divide and conquer gives + 20 move speed and +10% attack speed

  • 🛜Level 4: Zone defence gives + 1 dmg

  • 🛜Level 4: First gives + 1 pierce

  • 🛜Level 9: First now gives +2 pierce

  • 💭 We thought it would be fun to add to Etienne's playstyle by incorporating his targeting options into his damage output.

• Beetienne

  • 🐝Level 3: Defend the hive: Now increases attack speed of swarms by 1.33x instead of 2x.

  • 💭Defend the hive was a little overpowered. This should bring it back in line.

Bug Fixes

• 🏹Fixed Quincy's camo bow weapon skin breaking his outline

• ⚡Fixed Ball lightning druid projectile not detecting camo properly

• ⏩Fixed boost cosmetics getting reset when you change loadouts in sandbox

• 🐝 Fixed being able to stack multiple beehives on a single rock on Pirate Cove.

• 💥 Fixed multiple damage debuffs stacking incorrectly.

As always, please let us know your thoughts in the comments below, and happy gaming!