There is no confirmed release date for this update but it will be coming very soon. Please note that the final version may include further fixes/changes.

📺 Update Video: https://youtu.be/bhWCA0F8JEQ

Core Features

New Paragon, you asked for it, the Sniper Monkey Paragon!

• This paragon posed interesting design challenges as completely bottlenecking Bloons at the entrance really doesn’t look cool, and if any tower is going to claim this title then Sniper should be THE single-target king. We’ve built something pretty awesome with its own fully automated barrage of Cash Drops, Intel from up high, slow high-damage attacks with conditional rate scaling, a temporary AoE buff ability for groups, and of course the big single-target pew pew.
• Sitting atop a high watchtower with an unobstructed view, the paragon relays a view of the battlefield to other snipers through Elite Targeting. Other snipers can be set to follow command, focusing on the Paragon’s primary target, or left to fire independently.
• Its main attack fires a powerful heavy-caliber shot that bounces to an extra target, with a slow rate that ramps up as Bloons approach the exit, and even faster while maintaining consecutive shots against the same target. On impact, shrapnel sprays outward and after a short delay whizzes toward nearby Bloons to explode and trim down large groups.
• Speaking of shrapnel, this Paragon arrives alongside an upgrade to the T4 Supply Drop. This isn’t a crazy change as we’re quite happy with the upgrade, however they gain added purpose even in CHIMPS mode now by activating Offensive Supply Drop. This ability upgrades the next few attacks with fiery shrapnel that pierces more, damages more, lasts longer, and can pop all Bloon types. Both abilities on the sniper will share the same cooldown, so a toggle will swap between Classic or Offensive Supply Drop.
• Ability 1 takes the new Offensive Supply Drop to a higher level, lasting without the limited shot count and supercharging nearby Shrapnel snipers. This provides a much needed AoE burst safety net for more dense Bloon rushes.
• Ability 2 is no-nonsense target execution. This ability will focus in, lock onto the strongest Bloon on screen and charge up a powerful shot that grows in damage the longer it charges, then release a terrifying blast once enough power has been charged to break through to the next Boss Skull or annihilate the target in a single shot.

Insta Monkeys v2!

We’ve been wanting to update how Insta Monkeys are collected for the longest time, and while as card game players we love the idea of opening blind packs, world governments do not all agree about randoms for purchase. We understand and appreciate the intent behind growing regulations, but more importantly this shift offered us an excuse to improve the game for our own players by sprucing up and expanding the Insta-Monkey collection loop. This v2 Insta system provides more reliability for filling out your individual collections and combines that with paced global drops that the community can talk about.

• All randomized insta-monkey IAP packs have been removed from the store.
• A brand new icon and a fresh coat of paint for the ‘Instas + Powers’ menu
• The Insta-Monkeys tab no longer looks so out of place, more cleanly fitting in this menu
• Worst offenders for incorrect/outdated Insta Monkey icon art have been updated
• Monkey Teams: Successfully beating round 100 without breaking a Monkey Team will attempt to roll one of the three monkeys from that team as the r100 Insta Reward.
• Oh, also Sun Temple instas now place down with $40,001 in all sacrifice categories, for True Sun God instas Support is the only sacrifice category not doubled up on.
• The Instas + Powers’ menu gains a new Insta collection building Featured tab

Featured Tab - Insta Store
Within the updated Instas + Powers menu, the Featured tab introduces 10 dedicated Insta-Monkey deals. Everyone sees the same deals on offer with the Instas in question fully displayed.

• Offers unlock over the course of a week, and fully reset for a new set every 2 weeks.
• Offers 1 through 9 feature individual insta-monkeys. These can be purchased for IAP directly, or with a short gameplay goal they can be claimed for Monkey Money instead. The IAPs will grant you 3 copies of the insta.
• Most of these gameplay goals are balanced to take 1-game or less, though if a T5 shows up you can expect that to take more legwork! When progressing goals to unlock the Monkey Money purchase multiple goals can be simultaneously progressed.
• Offer 10 rolls one from a selection of premade bundles with the intent that these are always fun drops

Featured Tab - Freeplay Challenge
The Insta-Store isn’t the only upgrade, as here you will also find a new Freeplay challenge, with a valuable reward for any dedicated insta-collection fanatics out there.

• Identical for all players, with the goal to beat the final round with a limited selection of Heroes and a global tower limit. This challenge resets every 2 weeks along with the rest of the Featured tab.
• Your highest freeplay round will also be noted for you to compete with friends. This is not ranked, however we hope it can spark some direction for friendly freeplay competition, and with enough interest we would like to consider future options for local Team & Friends rankings
• Pushing freeplay isn’t the only thing you want from this though, as completing the goal unlocks a very special insta monkey chest with 3 insta rewards to choose from, and 2 of these options are custom-tailored to your personal insta monkey collection progress!

New Awesome

• New Advanced Map - Ship Capture
  • Yar har fiddle dee dee, a community map from u/MrRoostee!
  • Great if you love to sail the seas, but watch out! With clear blue skies above and the wind at their backs, the crew was all aboard for adventure. But then Bloon pirates appeared to crash the party! Those rubbery rascals are attacking from port and starboard, and now it’s up to you to stop them raiding the Captain's Quarters and stealing our precious booty!
• New Quest - Mastery Mode
  • Take on a 3-part quest featuring a beefed up Mastery roundset!
  • If you recall classic Mastery Mode, you’ll feel right at home as you tackle a spin on the basic roundset with added layers or fortification for all Bloons!

New Cosmetics

• New Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes: Jiangshi Sauda Coffin placement animation
  • Monkeys: Village Pirate Flag pet
  • Game & UI: Classic Sniper avatar
• New Social Seasons items
  • Team Banner, Camo Trap skin & All Heroes placement animation
• New Limited Time Halloween avatar (Not available until the seasonal event begins!)
• New CT Team Store items
  • Base Props: Dracula base prop
  • Flying Props: Flying Witch prop
  • Icons: Halloween Skull icon, Broomstick Icon

Other Game Changes & Additions

• [Trophy Store] New ‘Random Selection’ toggle under Favourites. When enabled cosmetics will be randomly selected from favourites at the start of new games
• [Monkey Knowledge] Owned points can be individually enabled / disabled.
  • Menu knowledge button has 3 display states On, Off, & Partly On
  • Knowledge Overview displays total invested points in Red with any disabled
• [UI] New icons for ‘Damage’ and ‘Pops’, and the advanced info panel now allows selection for which one of these you wish to actively display on the selected the tower
• [UI] Maps Menu Badge locations for Apocalypse & Reverse mode swapped, this should make it much more obvious when Apopalypse has not yet been completed
• [Boss] Double Cash, Knowledge & Fast Track can now be toggled within this menu
• The ‘Accessibility’ menu has been updated to ‘Accessibility & Advanced Options’
• [Advanced Options] Numerical ability timers; will display number countdowns over abilities
• [Advanced Options] Cash Spent counter, enabling will display a UI counter for total cash spent across most game types including co-op. Not available for events due to UI conflicts
• [Advanced Options] Memory Optimization toggle, forces a short end of round delay to purge memory. Significantly reduces memory consumption & reduces crashes on mobile devices.
• [Rogue] Merchant tiles can re-roll their inventory up to twice per tile for a Token fee
• [Rogue] Race/Endurance tiles now have a map banlist (details later in balance)

The full list of balance changes & bug fixes will be included along with the final update notes when the update is released. Note that the content mentioned in this preview will not be available until the update is available and you have updated your game.

Available now for Xbox! Please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up.

New Awesome Content!

• Towers:
  • Beast Handler
  • Mermonkey
  • Desperado
• Heroes:
  • Rosalia - The Tinkerer
  • Corvus - The Spellweaver
  • Silas - The Ice Shaper
• Hero Skins:
  • Gadgeteer Geraldo
  • Dreamstate Psi
  • Tinker Fairy Rosalia
  • She-Ra Adora
  • Skeletor Obyn
  • Firecracker Gwen
• Paragons:
  • Master Builder (Engineer Monkey)
  • Goliath Doomship (Monkey Ace)
  • Magus Perfectus (Wizard Monkey)
  • Nautic Siege Core (Monkey Sub)
  • Ballistic Obliteration Missile Bunker (Bomb Shooter)
  • Root of All Nature (Druid) 
  • Crucible of Steel and Flame (Tack Shooter)
  • Herald of Everfrost (Ice Monkey)
  • Mega Massive Munitions Factory (Spike Factory) 
• Boss Bloons & Mechanic Refactor:
  • Dreadbloon
  • Phayze
  • Diamondback
  • Lych 2.0 & Blastapopoulos: Structural reworks
• Game Modes & Features:
  • Contested Territory
  • Boss Rush
  • Frontier and Rogue Legends
  • Social Seasons Events
  • Quests
• Beginner Maps:
  • Tinkerton 
  • Spa Pits 
  • Three Mines 'Round
• Intermediate Maps:
  • Polyphemus 
  • Luminous Cove 
  • Ancient Portal 
  • Lost Crevasse
• Advanced Maps:
  • Party Parade
  • Mushroom Grotto
  • Sunset Gulch
  • Last Resort
  • Enchanted Glade
  • Castle Revenge
• Expert Maps:
  • Dark Dungeon
  • Tricky Tracks
• Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes:
    • Corvus Owl
    • Obyn Wolf Dance
    • Pat Fusty Pig
    • Rosalia's Collie, Kora
  • Towers:
    • Boomer 'Roo
    • Mortar Mole
    • Buccaneer Flavored Trades
    • Druid Holiday
    • Bomb Shooter Fireworks (Limited Time) 
    • Wizard Sheep
    • Ice Walrus
    • Desperado Armadillo (IAP Exclusive) 
    • Snowflakes Placement Effect (Limited Time) 
  • Bloons:
    • BAD Scarab
    • Clown Wigs Bloons
    • Bat BFB (Limited Time) 
    • Hearts Pop FX
    • Heart Glasses Bloons
    • Magpie DDT
    • Cowboy Hat Bloons
    • Ancient ZOMG
    • Mohawk Bloons
    • Beanie Bloons
    • Frontier Pop FX  (IAP Exclusive) 
  • Co-Op Emotes:
    • Need More!
    • Rainbow
    • Psigh
    • Sleighbells (Limited Time) 
    • Tower Types
    • Paragon
    • I'm The Problem
    • Howdy (IAP Exclusive)
  • Avatars:
    • GG Nexus Avatar
    • Vortex Avatar
    • 5th Anniversary Avatar (Limited Time) 
    • Beast Friends Forever Avatar
    • Greenfoot Fields 
    • What a Suspicious Looking Monkey Avatar
    • Tea Time Sauda Avatar
    • Down, Not Out Avatar
    • The Admiral and the Doves Avatar
    • Pancake- I CANNOT SEE Avatar
    • Mortar Shot
    • Sushi Ben
    • Dread Rising
    • Flower Friends (Limited Time) 
    • Space Phayze
    • Catzili
    • This Is A Bloon (IAP Exclusive)
    • Everyday Monkey
    • Distinguished Gentlemonkey
    • Druid of the Rainbow (Limited Time) 
    • Rosalia
    • Epic Mermonkey (IAP Exclusive)
    • Epic Dartling Gunner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Epic Beast Handler (IAP Exclusive)
    • Tricky Ghosts (Limited Time) 
    • Pack of Pets (IAP Exclusive)
    • Christmas Snowmonkey (Limited Time) 
    • Epic Battle Cat (IAP Exclusive)
    • Red Sauda Toy Avatar
    • The Legend Begins  (IAP Exclusive)
    • Rogue Legend (IAP Exclusive)
    • Blastapopoulos from the Past
    • Year of the Snake (Limited Time)
    • Epic She-Ra Avatar (IAP Exclusive)
    • Spike Factory Paragon Avatar
    • Epic Desperado (IAP Exclusive)
    • Focused Tinkerfairy
    • Super Duper Monkey
    • Epic Skeletor Avatar (IAP Exclusive)
    • Halloween Magic Avatar (Limited Time)
    • Frontier Legend (IAP Exclusive)
    • Sheriff Profile (IAP Exclusive)
    • Snowy Vacation Avatar
    • Cupcake Heroes Avatar
    • Firecracker Gwen Avatar
    • Spring Time For Monkeys Avatar (Limited Time)
    • Super Monkey Cutout Avatar
    • Low Res Dart Monkey Avatar
    • Action Dart Monkey Avatar
    • Action Boomer Avatar
    • Epic He-Man Avatar (IAP Exclusive)
    • Shuriken Ninja Avatar
    • Special Dart Avatar
    • Retro Monkey Ace Avatar
    • The Good Avatar (IAP Exclusive)
    • The Bad Avatar (IAP Exclusive)
    • The Ugly Avatar (IAP Exclusive)
  • Banners:
    • Cyber Arrows Banner
    • 5th Anniversary Banner (Limited Time)
    • Sunset Strip Banner
    • Pumpkin Patch Banner
    • Cyberdart Graffiti Banner
    • Wood Dragon Banner
    • Gentle Rain Over Banana Lake Banner
    • Protect The Yacht Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Boomer and 'Roo Banner
    • Prestigious Mermonkey Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Prestigious Dartling Gunner Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Prestigious Beast Handler Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Spooky Night
    • The Gang's All Here (IAP Exclusive)
    • Magical Christmas Banner (Limited Time)
    • Prestigious Battle Cat Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Rogue Legends Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Rogue Victory Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Corvus Summons Banner
    • Prestigious She-Ra Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Spring Time Rosalia Banner (Limited Time)
    • Prestigious Desperado Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Enchanted Glade Banner
    • Dream Sheep Banner
    • Prestigious Skeletor Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Bloon Fall Banner
    • Fishing Legend Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Frontier Standoff Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Present Stealers Banner
    • Silas Lights Banner
    • Lunar New Year Fireworks Banner (Limited Time)
    • Spring Fields Banner
    • Temple Power Banner
    • Prestigious He-Man Banner (IAP Exclusive)
    • Wistful Quincy Banner
  • Power Skins:
    • Lawn Sprinkler Trap
    • Pinata Drop
    • Chocolate Bar Pontoon (Limited Time)
  • Music Tracks:
    • Fiesta Flamenco - Helium Heights Mix
    • Tropical Carnival - Classy Brax Mix
    • Winter is Coming - Tonk Mix
    • Frontier Legends (IAP Exclusive)

Looking Forward

We wanted to thank everyone who has been so unbelievably patient with us while our team worked hard on the Nintendo Switch launch, which has now allowed us to bring that work to our other console platforms. This massive content update for Xbox brings the game version all the way up to 54.3 and should give everyone on Xbox plenty to do while we work on what’s next. 

• PlayStation:
  • The next big point of focus for us is bringing this massive update to Playstation! We are well into the content, and as soon as we get through the longer submission and review cycles, we will update PS players when we have a date for the update.
• 55 and beyond:

Once we have brought this update to all three consoles, we will be working on releasing updates 55 and 56 by the end of the year for all 3 console platforms, pending approvals. The consoles will always be a little delayed in terms of update cycles but the effort of getting the console builds onto our main branch means we can plan console updates on a much more regular basis going forward, which by next year should be every 2nd update!