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New Features

• [p]New Bloon Modifier: Phayze Bloons[/p]
• [p]👁 Phayze bloons spawn with reality altering shields that protect them from damage. [/p]
• [p]1️⃣ The shield has health equal to 1% of the bloons total health (minimum 1).[/p]
• [p]⛔ Damage to the shield does NOT transfer to the bloon if the shield is destroyed. (E.g. Hitting a red phayze bloon with a 20 damage sniper shot will destroy the shield and leave the red bloon unharmed)[/p]
• [p]🏃‍♂️ When the shield is destroyed, the bloon glitches forward 10% of the total track length. It is completely invulnerable while glitching. [/p]
• [p]🎈 Once a shield is destroyed and the bloon glitches forward, it becomes a normal bloon. It can never regain the phayze shield.[/p]
• [p]🔓 Phayze bloons unlock for sending at round 15. Adding phayze applies a 1.75x multiplier to the cost of the send.[/p]
• [p]🌎 Phayze bloons appear in the natural rounds starting at round 21.[/p]
• [p]🤵 Opponents in Hero Challenge will now send phayze bloons as part of their rushes.[/p]

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General Changes

• [p]Bling Season Length[/p]
• [p]📅 To avoid scheduling conflicts, Bling Seasons will now be 5 weeks long instead of 4.[/p]
• [p]📅 This begins with Season 36, which will run from the 12th September to the 17th October.[/p]
• [p]🏆 Arena leagues will remain 1 week long.[/p]

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Balance Changes

• [p]Tack Shooter[/p]
• [p]💰 5xx Inferno Ring: $45,500 -> $35,500[/p]
• [p]💭 While the Tack Shooter is a popular and powerful early game tower, it’s top path tier 5 felt like it was lagging behind the other upgrades in terms of efficiency. We are reducing its cost to bring it in line with the other tier 5s.[/p]
• [p]Monkey Ace[/p]
• [p]💰 Base cost: $850 -> $750[/p]
• [p]💰 Bomber ace: $1000 -> $1100[/p]
• [p]💥 5xx sky shredder: moab missile damage 200 -> 250[/p]
• [p]💥 5xx sky shredder: moab missile blast radius 12 -> 22[/p]
• [p]💭 The changes we made in 4.8 to the Monkey Ace turned out to be too drastic, causing its playrate to plummet. We are lowering its base cost again and transferring that money to the bomber ace upgrade instead. Additionally, we are increasing the power of the Sky Shredder upgrade as this has long been the least popular of the Ace’s tier 5s.[/p]
• [p]Dartling gunner [/p]
• [p]💫 xx4 Bloon Area Denial System: knockback now affects MOABs & BFBs[/p]
• [p]💫 xx5 Bloon Exclusion Zone: knockback now affects DDTs and ZOMGs[/p]
• [p]💥 xx5 Bloon Exclusion Zone: projectiles can pop all bloon types.[/p]
• [p]💭 The Dartling’s bottom path struggles to keep pace with the more powerful bloons in the later game. We are adding a knockback effect to its tier 4 and 5 to help it deal with these later rounds. In addition, we are allowing the bottom path tier 5 to hit lead so that it can be used to tackle DDTs.[/p]
• [p]Benjamin[/p]
• [p]🏦 Level 5: Bank hack 12% -> 10%[/p]
• [p]🏦 Level 9: Bank hack 18% -> 15%[/p]
• [p]💭 Benjamin’s bank hack was granting too much extra value to Banana Farms so we are lowering its effectiveness a small amount.[/p]
• [p]DJ Ben Jammin’[/p]
• [p]👀 Level 1: Range 25 -> 35[/p]
• [p]💭 DJ Ben was proving too tricky to utilise which is hurting his playability. We are increasing his range to make it easier to gather monkeys around him to fuel his money making abilities.[/p]
• [p]Star Captain Jericho[/p]
• [p]🚀 Level 20: Smuggler’s Run ship capacity $25,000 -> $27,000[/p]
• [p]💭We are increasing the capacity of Star Captain’s ship to allow it to fit a single phayze BAD at level 20.[/p]
• [p]Fateweaver Adora[/p]
• [p]🔪 Level 3: Sharp Sting of Fate Pierce (7 x main weapon pierce x number of projectiles) -> (8  x main weapon pierce x number of projectiles)[/p]
• [p]💭Sharp Sting of Fate felt underwhelming to use so we are increasing its pierce to make it more impactful.[/p]

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Bug Fixes

• [p]🎈 Fixed bloon sends getting stuck in the queue when using the Destroy All Bloons button in the Bloon Lab[/p]
• [p]🧣 Fixed the 203 Ninja Monkey not wearing a bandana[/p]
• [p]📛 Fixed Discord name displaying over Clan name in the profile screen on Tablet[/p]

[p align="start"][/p][p align="start"]Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and happy gaming! :D[/p]