Art by u/CB00610. Original post here.
Hey everyone! Welcome to this week's blog with the NK team!
What's been going on this week?
Update 1.4 for Battles 2 launched this week, with all new game modes and season 6! You can see the full update notes here
We also finished up our BTD6 Anniversary Cup event and have our winners! Winners will be contacted by support. You can see them all here
Finally, we have announced the launch of three new plushies, Super Monkey, Quincy and Ninja and are doing a giveaway over on our Twitter! See the post for it here
Finish Line Race Results:
1st: YT Colt BTD6 - 2 minutes and 10 seconds
2nd: infinity - 2 minutes and 11.1 seconds
3rd: KLTD1234 - 2 minutes and 11.53 seconds
4th: Infinity**(-1) - 2 minutes and 11.56 seconds
5th: Alpowk - 1 minute and 48.9 seconds
This weekend's focus:
- BTD6 -
Pile O' Monkey Money and T3 Insta Monkeys on sale.
Ongoing 4th of July collection event, ending 25th of July
Ongoing "Alternative Rounds" Odyssey, ending Wednesday.
"Corntada" Race this weekend.
Vortex will be appearing on Spillway, starting Saturday and ending Thursday.
- Battles 2 -
Ongoing Season 6, ending 17th of August.
Ocean Obyn Showcase ending Tuesday.
Speed Battles starting Friday, ending Wednesday.
- Bloons Pop -
Friday: Green Bloon Popper
Saturday: Pink Bloon Popper
Sunday: Level Smasher
Auto Fast Forward, 3rd Canister, Vault of Monkey Money, Bloonstones and Barrel of Bloonstones on sale.
Ongoing Party Crashers, ending Tuesday.
- BTD Battles -
Professor Evil appearing this weekend. With a second tougher one starting Tuesday and ending Thursday.
Friday: MOAB - BFB, BFB Cards, BFB Boosts Only
Saturday: MOAB, MOAB Cards, MOAB Card Club - BFB, BFB Club
Sunday: MOAB, MOAB R3 Speed, MOAB Cards - BFB Random 15, BFB Boosts Only,
Monday: MOAB, MOAB Boosts Only
2x Medallions with Bag of Medallions and Chest of Medallions on sale.
- BATTD -
Ongoing collection event ending Monday.
Ongoing Martian games: Deflation, No Powers.
Shuffle, No Powers, Half Cash, starting on Saturday.
Max Adventure Pack, Finn Adventure Pack and Character Bundle pack on sale.
- SAS4 Mobile -
VS on Friday, LMS on Saturday and Apoc with Black Box as rewards on Sunday.
Sales on nantos, NV vet pack, Epic pack and 10th premium gun set: T189, CM Starfury and Banshee
- BTD5 -
Ongoing Monkey Teams rotating every 3 hours, ending Sunday.
Banana Farm skin and Monkey Money on sale.
Questions from the comments:
If heroes had different weapons, What would they have?
Brickell would have a hook, like the buccaneers do! Sauda would probably like a gunblade but that seems like too much power for one monkey to have…
why did you update the design for the super monkey plush, and why can't you sell your plushies on your website?
The original Super Monkey plushies were based on our style of games when they were made so we just updated this to match our new style! Unfortunately, we just don’t have the means to make and ship these sustainably which is why we work with the team at Makeship with their limited-time runs!
How do you decide how long a battles 2 season will last?
We wanted seasons to be longer than the weekly leaderboards were in Battles 1. The current six week period allows enough time for players to progress through arenas and get a foot-hold in HoM and just feels like a good cadence for us.
Why is vortex so different in btd6 when bloonarius in btd6 is at least kind of similar to how it was in bmc?
It’s a remix
In regards to the new modes in Battles 2, when will we be able to select them in private games? Same with Random Quad and future modes?
This is definitely something we’ll discuss for a future update, but we can’t give an ETA at this time.
What happens to the engineer monkey who opens the dam in Flooded Valley? Are they okay? Tell them we all salute them for their bravery.
Don’t worry, they manage to always just barely get away, like in the movies.
How does overclock affect monkeys if they are living organisms?
Have you ever had a really strong espresso? It’s kinda like that.
What are the heroes' favorite songs to listen to? Does Obyn enjoy more nature-y music, while Brickell prefers songs that could be associated with the sea?
Do not get Brickell started on sea shanties! We will be here until the wellerman comes.
The Buccaneer Paragon is currently the only Paragon to have an Activated Ability. Do you think any future Paragons will have Activated Abilities as well?
It is very likely! Like… extremely likely!
Is restarting a match a mutual agreement by the monkeys and bloons to try again after the bloons win? Do the bloons ever get tired of wasting the rubber?
A restart is more like a rewind, magically moving everything in time back a bit.
With the addition of the contested territory event, will there be a rotation between this and some other event (ex. boss events) like in Bloons Pop with the Party Crashers and Adventure events or will it just be a fourth/fifth event on the screen every single week (without Collection events)?
CT will be its own event that runs alongside bosses and races! It will also be available for much longer than the other events currently.
If the alchemist buff doesn't work on turrets, why does it work for the spike factory?
They are just built different
Do you guys have a internal date that you try to shoot for when making a update? Or do you guys not have a internal date in mind for a update and it's ready when it's ready?
We do tend to have a date in mind as a goal but this date is very subject to change!
do the monkeys ever think the weaponry they use is a little... overkill? they drop the Tsar Bomba for goodness sake!
You’ve met Gwen, right?
I know you probably don't have a specific time frame, but generally how long do you plan to keep with btd6 as the primary game being developed, assuming you eventually want to do a btd7.
There isn’t even really a general time we think about so it's really just as long as we feel BTD6 can work with all the ideas we have.
Okay so, judging by the existence of France in the monkey universe, does that mean that there was a monkey roman empire and a monkey french empire?
Many nations and cultures are similar to the real world! You should have seen Arisdartle.
Why do some monkeys not have shoes? I imagine maps like inferno can be uncomfy :(
Those monkeys probably have tough feet like the Ninja Kiwi!
How many Tack Shooters does it take to reach the moon?
The approximate distance to the moon is 3,363,097,112.8 monkey hands! So it would take 632,161,111.4 tack shooters!
Do you guys come up with lore on the spot for these questions? Or is it all information you already have?
Our blog team spend far too much time researching and finding the correct answers to all the questions. See above!
Do alchemist monkeys watch breaking bad?
I thought everyone had seen Breaking Bad by now!!
Did the original dart monkey from Bloons become the TSG we know today?
That would be a pretty epic origin story wouldn’t it?
What happens to the super monkey when you upgrade to the Robo Monkey, Tech Terror, and Anti Bloon?
They become even more powerful
Will there be a ninjakiwi pet, but the fruit not the bird?
While that is great, we don’t tend to call kiwifruit just “kiwis” in NZ!
What's Ben's online username?
Ben…. Just Ben.. :)
Do you have access to combined stats from the player base? If so, what's the combined total number of pops by the community?
From the analytics team: “We are guessing above 3…” (we do not actually track total pops) :)
What happened to Bloontonium tipped darts? Were they decommissioned because they were dangerous to the monkeys?
I mean, would you want to mess around with Bloontonium?!
Do bloons sometimes hate each other?
We wouldn’t say hate each other, but they occasionally do get a little deflated.
Is there a certain maximum amount paragons can cost (in experience) in future? Currently, the maximum seems to be 1 000 000 XP. Asking since I’d like to be prepared :)
No maximum amount in mind at the moment, we just decide this on a per-paragon basis.
are the bloons in adventure time the bloons that got vanished by the portal abilities of POD?
Nope, those Bloons got vanished.
If you could bring any old boss bloon into BTD6's boss event, which one would it be?
We would love to have every Boss Bloon featured in BTD6 eventually!
a little late, but what did the NZ division do for Matariki (Maori New Year)?
Matariki was a public holiday for NZ, there was a lot of relaxation, board games and activities!
What's the name for the cute kraken fella in the BTD6 Oddyssey hard mode? I believe that such a beautiful existance deserves a name in this monkey world.
Referred to by many names, this ancient entity has grown accustomed to the name “Kelly”.
Are there times the blog post lore doesn’t add up?
No! Yes! Well.. umm maybe?
How can pat fusty be placed on water? Does he float? Can he just walk on it?
He is the big fluffy floaty boy!
Will you make plushies of different upgrades of towers, like 400 Dart Monkey? And if you will, will you do cross paths?
At this point, we aren’t planning to as we already have so many base towers and heroes. That isn’t to say we won’t ever do them though!
Has a MOAB Glue piloted an air vehicle? If so, what kind of the air vehicle being piloted by MOAB Glue?
A modified firefighting plane rigged to drop glue strikes!
How much darts could a dart monkey throw if a dart monkey could throw darts?
How many?!?
What bloon does the necromancer/POD resurrect, is it a red bloon, ceramic, pink?
It depends on what's fallen nearby…
Have a great weekend and happy gaming!
- Ninja Kiwi Team
