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Questions from the comments on last week's post:
If heroes had different weapons, What would they have? How do you decide how long a battles 2 season will last? 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? 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. How does overclock affect monkeys if they are living organisms? 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? 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? 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? 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)? 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? do the monkeys ever think the weaponry they use is a little... overkill? they
drop the Tsar Bomba for goodness sake! 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? Why do some monkeys not have shoes? I imagine maps like inferno can be uncomfy
:( How many Tack Shooters does it take to reach the moon? Do you guys come up with lore on the spot for these questions? Or is it all
information you already have? Do alchemist monkeys watch breaking bad? Did the original dart monkey from Bloons become the TSG we know
today? What happens to the super monkey when you upgrade to the Robo Monkey, Tech
Terror, and Anti Bloon? Will there be a ninjakiwi pet, but the fruit not the bird? What's Ben's online username? Do you have access to combined stats from the player base? If so, what's the
combined total number of pops by the community? What happened to Bloontonium tipped darts? Were they decommissioned because they
were dangerous to the monkeys? Do bloons sometimes hate each other? 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 :) are the bloons in adventure time the bloons that got vanished by the portal
abilities of POD? If you could bring any old boss bloon into BTD6's boss event, which one would
it be? a little late, but what did the NZ division do for Matariki (Maori New
Year)? 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. Are there times the blog post lore doesn’t add up? How can pat fusty be placed on water? Does he float? Can he just walk on
it? Will you make plushies of different upgrades of towers, like 400 Dart Monkey? And
if you will, will you do cross paths? Has a MOAB Glue piloted an air vehicle? If so, what kind of the air vehicle being
piloted by MOAB Glue? How much darts could a dart monkey throw if a dart monkey could throw
darts? What bloon does the necromancer/POD resurrect, is it a red bloon, ceramic,
pink? - Ninja Kiwi Team
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…
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.
This is definitely something we’ll discuss for a future update, but we can’t
give an ETA at this time.
Don’t worry, they manage to always just barely get away, like in the movies.
Have you ever had a really strong espresso? It’s kinda like that.
Do not get Brickell started on sea shanties! We will be here until the wellerman comes.
It is very likely! Like… extremely likely!
A restart is more like a rewind, magically moving everything in time back a bit.
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.
We do tend to have a date in mind as a goal but this date is very subject to
change!
You’ve met Gwen, right?
Many nations and cultures are similar to the real world! You should have seen
Arisdartle.
Those monkeys probably have tough feet like the Ninja Kiwi!
The approximate distance to the moon is 3,363,097,112.8 monkey hands! So it would
take 632,161,111.4 tack shooters!
Our blog team spend far too much time researching and finding the correct answers to all
the questions. See above!
I thought everyone had seen Breaking Bad by now!!
That would be a pretty epic origin story wouldn’t it?
They become even more powerful
While that is great, we don’t tend to call kiwifruit just “kiwis” in
NZ!
Ben…. Just Ben.. :)
From the analytics team: “We are guessing above 3…” (we do not
actually track total pops) :)
I mean, would you want to mess around with Bloontonium?!
We wouldn’t say hate each other, but they occasionally do get a little deflated.
No maximum amount in mind at the moment, we just decide this on a per-paragon basis.
Nope, those Bloons got vanished.
We would love to have every Boss Bloon featured in BTD6 eventually!
Matariki was a public holiday for NZ, there was a lot of relaxation, board games and
activities!
Referred to by many names, this ancient entity has grown accustomed to the name
“Kelly”.
No! Yes! Well.. umm maybe?
He is the big fluffy floaty boy!
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!
A modified firefighting plane rigged to drop glue strikes!
How many?!?
It depends on what's fallen nearby…
Have a great weekend and happy gaming!
