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u/Thinkin_G
Hey everyone! Welcome to this week's blog with the NK team!

What’s been going on this week?

BTD6 Update 37.0 is right around the corner! To get a sneak peek of what is coming, check out the links below!
Check out the preview notes here!
Watch this awesome video to get all the info!
Have a look at this magical paragon here! Big thanks to u/TimHaywoodProductions for adding in some epic Tower Keepers music!
Battles 2 Update 1.10.4 is live, bringing some bug fixes and changes!
Read the notes here!
Tread Carefully Race results: 1st: Near - 1 minute 37.86 seconds 2nd: ozen - 1 minute 38.71 seconds 3rd: bruhbruhiscute - 1 minute 38.86 seconds 4th: Vcoach - 1 minute 39.26 seconds 5th: Eins-Bohr - 1 minute 39.40 seconds

This weekend's focus:

- BTD6 - Pile O' Monkey Money and T3 Insta Monkeys on sale. Ongoing "Military Exercise" Odyssey, ending Wednesday. "Central Establishment" Race this weekend. Lych will be appearing on Quarry this weekend, starting Saturday and ending Thursday. Ongoing Contested Territory, ending Tuesday.
- Battles 2 - Ongoing Season 12 ending June 21st. Biker Bones showcase, ending Thursday 8th.
Ongoing No Pain No Gain, ending Saturday. Bananza starting after.
- Bloons Pop - Friday: Yellow Bloon Popper Saturday: Level Smasher Sunday: Black Bloon Popper Party Goal: Lead Bloon Popper Vault of Monkey Money, 3rd Canister and Great Bundle on sale. Ongoing Party Crashers, ending Wednesday Triple Rewards starting Friday, ending Monday.
- BTD Battles - Professor Evil appearing this weekend. With a second tougher one starting Tuesday and ending Thursday. Friday: MOAB - BFB Cards, BFB Boosts Only Saturday: MOAB Cards, MOAB Club - BFB, BFB Cards Sunday: MOAB, MOAB R3 Speed - BFB, BFB Card Club, BFB Boosts Only Monday: MOAB 2x Medallions with Club Access on sale.
- BATTD - Ongoing Martian games: More Ghosts, More Camo, More Zombies. Magic Man, No Powers, More Regrow starting on Sunday. Tuxedo Jake, Hunter Marceline and Character Bundle pack on sale.
- SAS4 Mobile - VS on Friday, APOC on Saturday and LMS with Black Box as rewards on Sunday. Sales on nantos, NV vet pack, Epic pack and 2nd premium gun set: Donderbus, RIA 15SE and Torment
- BTD5 - Ongoing Bloon Hunt, ending Friday. Preferred Monkey rotating every 3 hours, starting after. Heli Pilot Skin on sale.

Questions from the comments:

What happened to all the Mini MOABs and other special MOAB-class bloons in BSM2? Super Monkey appears to have held them off… for now. But yes, we do think about them, too!
Where can I buy a cape like Adora's? Your local Renaissance faire is likely to have some excellent options!
Have crosspathing benefits been considered for the Beast Handlers (beyond just having that extra T2 beast)? As it stands, it's the one tower where crosspathing is usually not worth the cost. The benefit to cross-pathing Beast Handlers is being able to merge those cross-paths into other Handlers to juice them up or to just hang out with more than one Beast at a time!
What do the monkeys do with the real-world money spent in-game? Do they convert it or use it on human things? We suspect it was confusing to them at first, but they seem to have adapted and use it like we might. Mostly they go to the movies or the arcade, maybe some bowling too. And banana cake, sales are through the roof!
How do the bloons react when they find out that a new monkey has ascended to paragon status? (how will they react when the wizard paragon comes) Hopefully, by being terrified of the power that is to be unleashed upon them. But it is a fair question if there is any information that leaks back, if there are no witnesses…bwaahahahaha!
Has the engineer monkey or other monkeys ever convinced Etienne to have other weapons on his drones? Etienne is very protective of his drones, he has crafted them for excellent balance and control. As much as the engineer's ideas sound fun and amazing, he doesn’t want to mess with his perfection!
Do the monkeys celebrate birthdays? You bet they do! Keep an eye on our socials in the coming weeks to see what they are up to!
How do the heroes react when they see a spider in the house? Most of them are pretty calm and let it go about its business. Obyns always wondering if that was Steve or Tom?!?!
Bloons Pop told us that Striker Jones likes to bake so I'd like to ask what his favorite pastries to bake are! Pain au chocolat or a classic apple pie!
Are there other monkey clerics out there besides Adora? If so, are they all devoted to the sun god or are there other deities they align with? We’re pretty sure Ezili is not a sun god acolyte. Is scary-dark-cosmos a deity?
How does Gwen feel about hockey? She hasn’t played it herself but she really enjoys full contact sport! Watch out for her on the roller-derby track.
What is the recipe for the post-battle banana cake and who cooks it? Every monkey has their own tweaks and secrets they like to add! Here is one of our favourties! https://ninja.kiwi/Banana-Bread
What happens to the super monkey after he transforms into the tech terror? does he lose his personality or mind? It does look like a complete transformation after Robo Monkey but we’re not entirely sure. It could still be a suit or fancy adaptive metal, or it could just be a full suit as that would be needed to withstand the power that comes from the Annihilation. Either way we think they retain control of their faculties as they are still able to target effectively and work so well with their Monkey friends.
what is blons about? is it simply an obscure map that monkeys made soley for testing or is it something more?
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Have a great weekend and happy gaming! -Ninja Kiwi Team

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Preview: Bloons TD 6 v37.0 - Update Preview! upcoming v37.0

Preview of what is to come in the next update! 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/u8Tlduy5DDc

Key New Features

• New Paragon - The Magus Perfectus! (loves casting spells) Some of you know we teased this last year, but we needed more time to balance the art and design required to make this extra special, so we are very pleased to get this live! Wizard Monkey’s Paragon is designed to be a higher level strategic Paragon with powerful ability usage similar to the Doomship.
  • The core of the Magus is a toggle to and from a Draining Beam which deals very small single target damage but absorbs graveyard mana as it damages and destroys Bloons
  • While toggled off from the Drain Beam, Magus attacks with a powerful Arcane Spike that deals massive damage to MOABs and revives Bloons it slays, while a Dark Phoenix circles overhead attacking with Firebomb breath and a radial fireball attack
  • Phoenix Explosion Ability: can be cast to consume the Paragon’s entire graveyard to set all Bloons on screen on fire for 30 seconds and summon one Zombie ZOMG for every 9000 graveyard mana consumed
  • Arcane Metamorphosis Ability: can be used to consume all graveyard mana and transform the Magus briefly into an alternate form which decimates everything with a flame cascade attack; Metamorphosis lasts longer the more mana it consumes
  • Magus was designed for armchair play so it will fill and consume graveyard mana on its own, but our goal was to create more actively controlled Paragon for those who will enjoy microing between Beam on and off and choosing which awesome Ability to unleash and when

New Awesome

• Happy Birthday BTD6 - On June 14th, BTD6 will celebrate 5 years of monkeytastic fun and strategy! We hope you’ll join us for the main menu changes, skinned Collection event, special Questing, and general celebration. Thank you for five amazing years and we’re looking forward to all the years ahead!
• New Hero Skin - Jiangshi Sauda, a fun new cross-cultural look for Sauda brainstormed by the art team, mixing inspirations from a favorite show and Chinese folklore
• New Map - Erosion
  • Community designed advanced map Erosion by “I am not an artist” ~ u/TheWiseTroll
  • TheWiseTroll’s original concept proposed land and water but when thinking about map colors and the little stories we think of behind each map, the concept of the polar bear walking back with the shrinking ice was too compelling to do anything else
• New Quests
  • Birthday Party - Pop the Party Bloon as many times as you can before it escapes
  • Blade Sauda Nowhere - Try out Sauda and learn some of her skills
  • Patch’s Cheap Chimps Challenge - Beat Logs with as little cash spent as you can
  • Striken Bad - Defeat the BAD on round 100 using First Strike. The spelling hurts us, too, you’re not the only one - but we had to do it!
• Least Cash and Least Tier Boss Events
  • We’ve heard feedback about and have been wanting to shake up Boss rules, so here we go!
  • Applying new victory conditions to Boss Events completely changes the focus while still needing the damage output and type to handle each Boss
  • Time still matters, as the secondary time score will break any ties
• New Trophy Store Items
  • Heroes: Geraldo Pack Mule pet, Quincy Spec Ops Drop In placement
  • Monkeys: Sweden Village Flag
  • Bloons: Party Hat Bloons
  • Game & UI: Vortex Avatar, Sunset Samba 64 Mix music track, Quincy Arrows banner
  • Nexus.gg Creator Supporter Avatar - show your support for Content Creators by using the Creator Support button on the Settings screen and purchasing any IAP
• Limited Time only {trophy items if there’s a seasonal}
• 5 Year Anniversary Avatar, 5 Year Anniversary Banner
• New CT Team Store items
  • Base Props: Treasure Chest
  • Icons: Overclock icon, Archmage Staff icon
  • Frames: Bloon From The Dead frame, Mage Hat frame

Ok wanted to share this from Btd6

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/btd6/comments/13lilwo/elementalist_hero_concept/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 A friend did the coloring btw

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u/Ma0gaSa
Hey everyone! Welcome to this week's blog with the NK team!

What’s been going on this week?

Battles 2 is going through some big changes in the weeks ahead! With update 1.10.3 out now, the first big changes have started appearing! To see what is coming and look over the update click on the links below!
You can read the update 1.10.3 notes here!
To see the roadmap and what exciting new features are coming for Battles 2 you can head here!
Not To Quarry Race results: 1st: Vcoach - 1 minute 55.78 seconds 2nd: YtseJam - 1 minute 55.81 seconds 3rd: OG_Gamer2012 - 1 minute 56.35 seconds 4th: salo - 1 minute 56.41 seconds 5th: doesshibacare - 1 minute 56.51 seconds

This weekend's focus:

- BTD6 - Pile O' Monkey Money and T3 Insta Monkeys on sale. Ongoing "Scaling To New Heights" Odyssey, ending Wednesday. "Tread Carefully" Race this weekend. Bloonarius will be appearing on High Finance this weekend, starting Saturday and ending Thursday. Upcoming Contested Territory, Starting Tuesday.
- Battles 2 - Ongoing Season 12 ending June 21st. DJ Ben showcase, ending Thursday 1st. Ongoing No Pain No Gain, ending Saturday June 3rd.
- Bloons Pop - Friday: Merge Monkeys Saturday: Pink Bloon Popper Sunday: Pink Bloon Popper Party Goal: White Bloon Popper, ending Saturday. Black Bloon Popper starting after. Vault of Monkey Money, 3rd Canister and Great Bundle on sale. Ongoing ZOMG Adventure, ending Wednesday Double Rewards starting Friday, ending Monday.
- BTD Battles - Professor Evil appearing this weekend. With a second tougher one starting Tuesday and ending Thursday. Friday: MOAB, MOAB Cards - BFB, BFB Random 15, BFB Boosts Only Saturday: MOAB, MOAB Cards, MOAB Club - BFB, BFB Cards Sunday: MOAB, MOAB Cards - BFB Card Club, BFB Boosts Only Monday: MOAB 2x Medallions with Bag of Medallions and Chest of Medallions on sale.
- BATTD - Ongoing Martian games: Half Cash, Allies Only. Allies Only, Shuffle starting on Saturday. Finn Hero Pack, Ice King Adventure Pack and Character Bundle pack on sale.
- SAS4 Mobile - LMS on Friday, VS with Black Box as rewards on Saturday and APOC on Sunday. Sales on nantos, NV vet pack, Epic pack and 8th premium gun set: Torment, Proton Arc and Zerafallen
- BTD5 - Ongoing Totem Event, ending Friday. Monkey Teams rotating every 3 hours, starting after. Monkey Ace skin on sale.

Questions from the comments:

We know that heroes are like celebrities in the monkey world. How are paragons perceived by monkey society? We know what you mean by celebrities but we’re not sure the Monkeys look at it that way. Heroes and Paragons are certainly special and unique but they don’t seem to keep themselves apart from other Monkeys, nor do other Monkeys seem to treat them any differently. At least that’s what we see both on and off the battlefield, so maybe the Monkeys have this better sorted than us humies do. Have to say, though, both Heroes and Paragons have a little bit of the “there can be only one” thing going on. We’re not sure whether that’s ego, worry about crossing their streams, or the fact that they don’t want to share the post battle banana cake.
Are daily challenges created by the monkeys as daily training or are the Bloons the ones training in different ways each day? Ahhhh, think you are onto something there. We figured it was training and feedback that could help Dr Monkey analyze any gaps in capabilities, but what if it were the Bloons studying the Monkeys, constantly searching for weakness. Or they both think that they are testing each other. You’ve made us think about everything differently.
Has Benjamin ever tried typing with boxing gloves on? He tried, but he could barely get one line done before it was a knockout!
Do Hopsy, Flopsy, Button, and Dave help Geraldo around the shop or are they just there for emotional support You’ve seen them! Not sure what help they’d be other than emotional support. Certainly wouldn’t trust them around a batch of GFire.
Are there plans in the future to add Monkey Knowledge specific for Beast Handlers? We would definitely like to! No concrete plans as yet.
What's the names of the engineers' sentries? (blue green and red are not acceptable) The master builder has not named them yet, they like to recycle and drop a new one each time they are needed!
How does Geraldo feel when the player opens his shop only to leave without buying anything That is your choice my friend! Though you may have just missed out on a real bargain!
Do the monkeys feet hurt from standing or arms hurt from throwing darts for a long time in freeplay or hard? That’s what they have been training so hard for. We expect those arms feel like steel bridge support cables. Monke strong.
Are the monkeys aware of our existence? They seem to be, they do like leaving us instructions on how to help pop the Bloons!
Do normal monkeys have access to tanks? At least of a different model akin to how Brickell’s vessel is different from the Buccaneers ships or is Churchill's tank the first of its kind? So far Churchill has the only tank, but the engineers are looking into a mass production option!
Who runs the monkey newspaper? J. Jonah Blooneson is the editor-in-chief, but it takes many more to get a quality paper to the press!
Have you ever seen full auto snipers on multi lane maps? How do they not get whiplash spinning and turning so much? Many snipers love to dance in their free time, this gives them all the training and coordination to spin and twirl!
The monkeys seem to always be on defense. Have they or will they ever go on offense and attack the Bloons? We haven’t seen Monkeys go on the offensive and we’re not sure if that’s world view or supply line issues or lack of intel about where to go after these Bloons that seem to be endless and everywhere. Supermonkey has certainly gone the furthest, but it has always been in response to incoming threats.
I do believe there is a connection to the Bloons lore, and I think I've got something… By~ AverageSeaCucumber Whatcha got there?
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Have a great weekend and happy gaming! -Ninja Kiwi Team