Just looking for others to play a few games with. Feel free to hit me up if you play any of the games listed and we can try to set something up on Discord! Also just down to make some friends in general. Bonus points if you enjoy anime. Also, not really interested in joining any servers, sorry!
Across the Obelisk
Rabbit & Steel
Eternal Return
Crab Champions
For the King 2
Sun Haven
Inkbound
Bloons TD6
Civ 6 (super noob at it)
PlateUp
Ember Knights
Barony
Deep Rock Galactic
Gunfire Reborn
Gloomhaven
Phasmophobia
Rivals of Aether

The last 13 games I played were against Fadora/Star Cap Jericho Tack/Dart Mortar Farm. There are few more meta loadouts but overall everything stays the same. I just wish we could see more loadouts that don't include Banana Farm and are capable of rushing, forcing defence to make the game more dynamic. I believe the main problem the current balancing has is that meta Eco loadouts nowadays are focused on going super late rounds without ever attacking your opponent and meta Banana Farm strategies are made to be super aggro (there are few exceptions). I really wish the game was more in the middle where we can see more room for experimenting. My solution for this was already presented - Rushes (or only MOAB rushes (maybe even without B.A.D included)) should be cheaper but the more you send at once the more expensive rushing gets for limited time, that way people will be encouraged to rush smaller but more often to force defence while still being able to send big, game ending Bloon attacks. Also eco loss from MOAB sends should be halved or reduced to 2/3. Lastly I just wanted to say that we NEED more balance changes per update, because with only 22 towers the meta becomes stale fast. What's your opinion about current balancing? Correct me if my ideas are bad. :)

Hi all, im currently building a $250 budget build and am looking for advice on which gpu to pick. I have a i5 4590 non K and will be running games that shouldnt be too graphics intensive like bloons, modded minecraft, or sims. My overall budget for the gpu is $100 but not sure on which card to go with.
As ive seen on the used market i can get a rx 580 8gb for $70, a 1070 for $90 or a 1660 super 6gb for $100.
I dont want to over buy if there will be too great of a bottleneck
Any advice is appreciated!

Does anyone else play console bloons? I keep hearing it's like in a super old update or something, is that true?

Per the Ninja Kiwi patch notes for 4.0 (NK ran out of character count, so it’s best to document directly in Reddit in case the external Google Doc is lost):
Battles 2 4.0 Balance Changes * Bloon Sends * Round 12: Spaced rainbows give $3 -> $2.8 income * Round 25: Tight MOABs $3,500 -> $4,000, quantity 20 -> 15 and spacing 0.05s -> 0.067s (total duration remains unchanged at 1s) * For the most part, we are pleased with the impact of the new tight rushes - noticeably shaking up the meta and leading to more exciting games. However, admittedly they are on the strong side, which has greatly diminished the viability of some towers that can’t deal with them. Tight MOABs is the main rush that stands out, so we have made quite a big nerf to this one. Additionally, Spaced Rainbows have been nerfed because they have always stood out as a top tier early game bloon send, providing high eco efficiency as well as decent pressure on your opponent * Monkey Buccaneer * 4xx Aircraft Carrier: Aircraft darts pierce 9 -> 13 * 5xx Carrier Flagship: Aircraft darts pierce 14 -> 18 * 4xx Aircraft Carrier: Aircraft darts deal 0 -> 3 bonus damage to ceramics * 5xx Carrier Flagship: Aircraft darts deal 3 -> 6 bonus damage to ceramics * 5xx Carrier Flagship: now also buffs Etienne’s UCAV with -15% attack rate * Top path Buccaneer does not see a lot of use and Buccaneer in general does not have a good answer to the new tight sends, so we’ve added some decent pierce and cleanup buffs to Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Flagship. * Heli Pilot * xx4 Comanche Defense & xx5 Comanche Commander: Missile blast radius 18 -> 25 * The mini comanche’s missiles have incredibly high pierce (100) but it would very rarely make use of it all due to such a small blast radius. This minor change should help it out a little bit, not increasing its DPS potential but allowing it to perform slightly better in a lot of scenarios. * Mortar Monkey * x4x Artillery Battery: Deals +4 -> +3 damage to BADs * x5x Pop & Awe: Buffs all x4x Mortars with +4 -> +3 damage to BADs * Mortar has still kept its spot at the top of the meta, dominating in all stages of the game. We’ve decided to limit its late game damage so that it still remains a strong tower early on but is now easier to kill in the late game. * Super Monkey * 2xx Plasma Blasts: $3,000 -> $2,500 * 3xx Sun Avatar: $11,000 -> $11,500 * xx3 Dark Knight: $4,000 -> $4,500 * 4xx Sun Temple: Main weapon base damage 9 -> 11 * Plasma Blasts in an upgrade that rarely gets used on its own (usually just used as a crosspath), so we’ve lowered its cost while adjusting 3xx and xx3 so that their total cost remains unchanged. Additionally, Super Monkey has struggled quite a bit since we fixed/nerfed Sun Temple a few updates ago, so we’re giving it a much needed damage buff. * Alchemist * xx5 Bloon Master Alchemist: MOABs use up 20 -> 10 pierce and BFBs use up 50 -> 30. Total pierce remains at 200. * Just a small buff for Bloon Master Alchemist, letting it pop more MOABs and BFBs which gives it more potential to be a reliable option against the new tight rushes. - Spike Factory * 4xx Spiked Mines: explosion pierce 40 -> 60 and explosion blast radius 19 -> 28 * We’d love to see Spiked Mines get some more use, and hopefully this sizeable pierce and radius buff with help with that. * Engineer Monkey * x5x Ultraboost: The temporary Overclock buff now lasts twice as long (30s -> 60s on a tier 5 tower) * We’re giving small boost to Ultraboost to help justify its incredibly high price tag. * Gwendolin * Level 3: Cocktail cooldown 40s -> 45s * Gwendolin is considered one of the strongest heroes with good early game damage and solid late game support. We’re just making a minor Cocktail cooldown change for now, allowing for more opportunities to effectively rush her early on. * Obyn * Level 12: Now gives all Druids in range +1 damage to fortified bloons * Level 17: Hero range increased 43 -> 65 * We wanted to give Druids some attention and chose to do this by providing Obyn with another Druid-specific buff. This buff primarily targets Poplust Druids since Avatar of Rush already deals high damage. Obyn’s range increase is also aimed at Druids, with the larger range allowing for more Druids to be buffed. * Ocean Obyn * Level 17: Hero range increased 43 -> 65 Like with Obyn, this Ocean Obyn change is being implemented to make his buff capable of buffing a much greater number of towers now. In particular, this change is aimed at Ninja * Benjamin * Level 5: Earns $200 -> $250 income per round * Level 20: Syphon Funding cooldown 65s -> 45s * We’re buffing Benjamin’s early game cash slightly because he is still overshadowed by the Jerichos. Additionally, previously his level 20 did not provide much compared to other heroes, so that now has another benefit. * DJ Ben Jammin’ * Level 5: Earns $150 -> $187.5 income per round * Level 10: Can downgrade 10 -> 12 bloons in total, and can downgrade 3 -> 4 BFBs * Level 20: Can downgrade 2 -> 4 ZOMGs * Similar changes as Benjamin for the same reasons, with an added buff to DJ Ben’s level 10 ability so that he can deal with the new tight rushes a little bit more effectively. * Smudge Catt * Level 7: Scratching Post cooldown 30s -> 40s * While Smudge Catt is not an incredibly popular hero, this is a strong ability with a quick cooldown. Most hero ability cooldowns have been increased to give more rushing opportunities, but Smudge Catt never received this same treatment. * Pat Fusty * Level 3: Rallying Roar buffing range 30 -> 35 * Level 14: Rallying Roar buffing range 40 -> 50 * Pat Fusty has has been out of the limelight for a while now so we wanted to provide him with some buffs. For now we’ve increased his buffing range, since it was quite limiting before. * Agent Jericho * Level 3: Seize Assets initial cooldown 17.5s -> 28s * Star Captain Jericho * Level 3: In It For The Money initial cooldown 17.5s -> 35s * Highwayman Jericho’s usage rate has dropped off significantly ever since his last nerf, however we believe that this is simply due to the other Jerichos being the clear favorites now, rather than Highwayman being too weak relative to all the other heroes. Therefore, we have left Highwayman as is and targeted the other two Jerichos instead. * Fateweaver Adora * Level 10: Chains of Fate now has a pierce limit of 500 bloons (previously infinite). MOAB class bloons use up more pierce: MOABs = 10, BFBs = 20, ZOMGs/DDTs = 40, BADs = 60. * Fateweaver Adora has retained her spot as the top hero in the highest arenas, with the new tight rushes not hindering her viability since Chains of Fate counters them exceptionally well. Given this, it seemed appropriate to limit the pierce on Chains of Fate, since infinite pierce was unnecessarily excessive for such a powerful ability.

I composed a list of ideas that Etienne can potentially be used in to introduce new stratagies that have previously been impossible to use. His ability to give camo and negate bloon immunties opens up so much potential, but mostly for lategame stratagies.
Note: If you place Etienne on round 1, then at the start of round 12, his level 8 will cost $4,280. This is $1330 more than a 0-2-0 village. This is because he presumably levels up at the same speed as Quincy, just like in BTD6. It also looks like he either starts off with 2 drones instead of just 1, or gets another drone at level 2.
Also, his scouting ability is likely to be at level 4 judging by how he has it on round 6 in the update video.
Towers most affected by Etienne:
Tack - Can now solo rounds with Ring of Fire with no need for camo or purple popping power. Tack Glue Super is likely to become meta.
Bomb- Top path no longer needs bottom path to hit blacks, + can solo the rounds on its own due to not needing camo.
Boomer- Can solo rounds all on its own with no need for camo.
Ice- No more camo and white immunity allows 0-1-4 ice or ice shards + Artic Wind to be used as solo round 11-17 defense.
Glue- Opens up Glue to be used in numerous stratagies that it couldn’t otherwise fit in due to lack of camo. Particularly with towers like Druid, Super, Boat, and Tack.
Boat? - May not be strong enough to defend bloons on its own, but perhaps a 2-4-0 could do good enough? Most likely too expensive/weak though. May also do well with glue.
Super- One of the most impacted by this change. It can now be paired with glue in so many new stratagies to preform incredibly well lategame, such as Druid-Glue-Super.
Druid- No need for camo or purple popping power means that you can potentially use a 4-0-2 druid to solo the rounds with, as well as allowing for Druid to be used with more supporting towers such as glue. Druid-Spac-Farm may also become viable.
Engi- Can now be used as a solo tower for the early rounds since you no longer have to rely on its garbage camo detection. Sentry Expert is also no longer blocked by zebras, purples, or leads.

Hi hi! Decided it's about time to look for somebody again, so here I am. I'm 22 NB from the southeast US. To be upfront I am AMAB, so please keep this in mind if that matters to you. I'm looking for a genuine, long-term connection with somebody who is introverted and ideally autistic like myself. Attraction-wise women and feminine enbies are my main preference, but I wouldn't rule out an androgynous enby or maybe a femboy.
My interests are kinda simple tbh. I like anime aesthetics. Creatures of all sorts- living, extinct, and sometimes fictional- are my lifelong passion. I'm a small dog, fox, and dinosaur person. When it comes to games I like simulation and tycoon games the most, especially when they relate to my other interests! Otherwise I do play some other games such as Roblox, Bloons, and sometimes Nintendo ones. I'm not the computer nerd type of autistic, the good at math type of autistic, or the cute and socially quirky type of autistic. I'm the "will excitedly tell you all the habitats an animal lives in by comparing ecoregion and range maps" type of autistic, and wouldn't have it any other way!
Now, to not waste anybody's time, here's some important compatibility points. I have depression and diagnosed anxiety on top of some physical stuff, so I do best with people who are more chillaxed and can mesh with me not always being super high energy. I lean towards being childfree and don't see myself being in the position to care for crotch goblins. I'm fully monogamous. I date seriously. My love languages are quality time and words of affirmation. And lastly, despite being demisexual, I do have a high drive.
If none of that is an issue and you feel that you might click with my eccentric self, please don't hesitate to reach out! I'm far from perfect but I wear my heart on my sleeve and have a lot of affection to offer to the right person. Hope to hear from you!

I just want to see more tower combinations see play that don't include farm and aren't super boring r32+ to play against. It would be cool if even small rushes to force defence were more encouraged in this game. Something like the first moab bloon send (except B.A.D.) cost could be decreased and the more moabs you send at once the more expensive the rush gets. Any ideas on how to make this game less of a farming race and more Bloons TOWER DEFENCE?

Remember this is strictly my opinion
Primary
Underrated: Top path Dart monkey
It may be sort of situational, but I think it’s useful in more maps than people give it credit for. Even just getting it near the entrance to a map can make it pretty good
Overrated: Middle path tack shooter
I’m not too sure if people actually like this thing, but I think they do?? Anyway I’ve always just found it annoying to use and not very good, though it is very cheap so I guess there’s that
Military
Underrated: Middle path mortar
It’s super effective even if you hate microing (which I do), works incredibly well on loops. I may be biased because I’m working on glacial trail chimps though lmao
Overrated: middle path sub
Every time I’ve used it the missile just feels like it doesn’t do much idk
Magic
Underrated: Top path Druid
Tier 5 is very expensive, but the ball lightning is super powerful, and even freezes bloons
Overrated: Bottom path Druid
It just never feels like it affects the Druid much, even with 5
Support
Underrated: middle path farm
Apparently people don’t like this?? It makes more money than a marketplace in the long-term, requires minimal microing, and is extremely good with Benjamin’s bank hack. I only go up to tier 3 though
Overrated: top path spike factory
I like using it, but I find that I’m often disappointed by it’s performance, unless it’s tier 5, but that’s often way too expensive
Edit: I forgot heroes
Underrated: brickell
Overrated: Quincy

Round 6: Start with sauda at in the loop
Round 10: Get a dart monkey and place it at the end of the line where the bloons come from
Round 13: Buy a farm
Round 18: Sell sauda to buy a super monkey
Round 25: Get camo on the dart monkey
Round 28: Make the dart monkey a 050 and place 10 dart monkeys around it
Round 35: Place down Benjamin
Round 40: Use 040 village ability on the Avatar of Wrath
Round 53: Use 57 cash drops
Round 63: Pray
Round 64: Get a 005 village and a 005 sniper with a 300 alch
Round 70: Use ezilis totem
Round 99: Summon God
Round 100: Sell everything snd tell the bad it can't kill you without your consent
Congratulations on winning

(this is a remake of a post I made in the past) so, the tower I will suggest is my original idea that I made so I will tell about this idea that I had made so, here I go. Please note ninja kiwi that I have remodeled it to some extent for top path so it may change this also includes the other paths. Shock tower bio: Dr monkey's invention has helped this tower use the shocks it uses to fight. Can pop purple bloons
Top path: 1-0-0 stronger shock: pops a additional layer with a +4 pierce 2-0-0 electovison:grants camo detection (3-0-0 anti-camo tek:grants camo detection to towers in range of tower. 4-0-0 super sonar:camo Bloons detected in radius will lose camo for 5 seconds until popping after that. 5-0-0 camo-be-gone:the camo Bloons will be unmatched with permanent camo removal (grants all shock towers with a permanent camo removal (when it is granted any other paths will have a camo Bloon temporarily lose it's camo when hit) .
Middle path 0-1-0 static charge:a static charge strengthens adding extra pierce . 0-2-0 static cling:every 30 seconds Bloons cling together for 3 seconds and the camo is removed;grants camo detection. 0-3-0 static cloud: static cloud appears granting shock tower a speed boost and a powerful cling that makes Bloons up to m.o.a.b stick together for 5 seconds. 0-4-0 static storm: ability static storm: the cloud splits into two strong clouds that pop Bloons and makes Bloons up to d.d.t cling together for 15 seconds. 0-5-0 bloontonium storm: the Storm gets stronger letting zomg's cling together for 10 seconds and b.a.d's clinging together for 5 seconds. Grants damage to all Bloon types.and a permanent +5 speed boost.
Bottom path: 0-0-1 greater reach: increases range by 4 0-0-2 even stronger reach: buffs attack and increases range. 0-0-3 volt whip:adds a tentacle attachment for increased attack. 0-0-4 volt assist:gives a increased range to towers in range and gives shock towers a increased attack. 0-0-5. Volt defense:elite defense grants this tower a permanent speed boost and pierce buff to all towers for elite defense for any lives lost (boosted in c.h.i.m.p.s)
Ninja kiwi I hope you like my idea and use it for a new tower.
From:u/upstairs_music_1672.

Ezili is a very unpopular hero and arguably the least popular hero in the game so why is that?

Niche

Ezili is a very niche hero, and is only really used for ultra-late game and for expert-map chimps. But why? Ezili's main selling point is her level 10 ability "Hex" which can kill a moab-class bloon and make it spawn no children and if there is still time in the ability left it will jump to another moab. This is amazing and at level 20 it can affect BADs. This means you want to use her on gamemodes and maps where she will be reaching very high levels so she can get as much value from her ability as possible which is why she is used on expert chimps (where you will be going all the way to round 100 and there is extra hero xp because of the higher map difficulty) and late-game where she will be level 20

Surely she will be popular in her niche then, right..?

I will be focusing on chimps. Now, unlike every other hero in the game, ezili sucks. She is unplayably bad. Her attack does one damage with very slow attack speed, and will curse a single bloon from the bloons she hits. The cursed bloon will take one extra damage (despite having 6 pierce she can only curse one bloon for some reason until level 4). This is horrendously bad and you are basically throwing 650 down the drain early-game which you really need. Her abilities are also straight up useless. Her level 3 only helps you pop regrows and purple bloons and her level 7 ability is unusable in chimps as it requires life sacrifice. This means up until level 8 (where she starts doing decentish moab damage) and level 10 (where she gets her moab hex ability) she doesn't help you at all. 99% of players won't waste all this time and effort when they can just use any other hero who will be useful (or at least not useless) in all stages of the game

tldr: ezili is horrendous early/middlegame is too much effort for what you get back for most players

suggestions:

The easiest and most straightforward thing to do is to buff her main attack but just making her lvl 3 and 7 abilities useful will take her super far. Making her lvl 3 help you pop all types of bloons (even if for just bloons or towers in radius) will make her so much better earlygame. or making her lvl 7 usable in chimps somehow like i dunno making it sacrifice a tower who must at least be of x value to use her totem?
anything works but when a hero can't solo round 6 on a beginner map nor do they offer any kind of support at all something is wrong.
Edit:I know she's a good hero once you unlock moab hex. When I said she's terrible I was referring to her early/middlegame

I remember a lot of details about this game but the name always escapes me. I believe it was either a flash game or an actual downloadable exe. Isometric POV, almost like a wave defense kinda genre, similar to Bloons Tower Defense, but it was an open field instead of a set path. The map was Geonosis so very sandy aesthetic. You could summon in squads of Clone troopers, tanks, and even Jedi to fight and they kinda just go on their own iirc you mightve been able to control them. They would fly in on LAAT gunships and they just go fight the droid waves. Graphics were nothing too crazy I think it was mostly textures sprites or basic 3D model cause you couldn't zoom in super close. Any help or names are appreciated.

How to beat all of the featured challenges:

Boass battle!! T4 monkeys VS Super BFB
205 ace + 042 wizzard + 204 sniper
any placement works i guess
no need for ace micro - just keep it on centered
spam the wizzard's ability
mlokulu's Challenge
200 village + 205 sniper + 502 sniper
place both snipers in range of the village
you can leave snipers on first
Uh... clean up on aisle 163!
040 super
place super monkey in the middle and just keep spamming the ability
Broken Tamagothci
402 bomb
Sniper's Range
3x010 sniper + 220 sub
place snipers near the track so that their range covers the whole track
you can leave everything on first
4k?!
420 dart + 024 bomb mid round
you need a good placement
no inferno ring? whats the solution
052 glue + 040 ace
get a glue gunner and wait untill all bloons are glued
sell the glue gunner and get the ace
use the ability as soon as possible
No Name
005 super
MonkeyWizzard01's Challenge
032 boomer
? How many 0-0-0 Sniper does it take ?
just place a bunch of snipers (i hate challenges like this one, they are not fun to do)
111k to defend a B.A.D with only wizard
just get 5xx and x5x wizzards and use ability
camarapotato's Challenge
502 boomer in the middle + 402 spike at the end on smart
no one asked, no one needed :3

So the dainty Bison herself has announced she is super busy this week because it’s Payyyygeeeeeyyyyysssssss 16th tomorrow so she has to go and collect some blooooons today to set up tomorrow. I didn’t realise 16 was a big birthday? She’s going above and beyond for Paige when it was her nephews 18th a couple of weeks ago and he got a sweaty grazing table and a bloon with £5 notes in. Favouritism or what.
Becks try having to work a full time job, look after a home and kids and still have to fit in your ‘busy’ events toum. She has no idea what it’s like to be in the real world. Can’t wait for TikTok to flop and she gets a dose of what hard work is really life.
Pfttt pathetic.

When I first used the alchemist monkey, I liked the 4-X-X. It was fairly cheap and gave a good boost to towers. Upon seeing the price for the level 5 upgrade, I thought it would do a very good job, attack very fast or at least make all my towers super super ultra buffed. However when I purchased it, I was surprised to see the only thing it did, was make the brew last permanent. It doesn't even make your towers more powerful, it just makes it permanent. When really you can literally just stick with the level 4 alchemist for much cheaper and wait for him to keep throwing the potion at the tower for the same boost. You can also use a monkey village, or an overclock engineer. So upon finding this out, I was like "F tier. What a waste of money". However upon entering the fandom. I was very surprised to find out everyone absolutely loved perma brew despite it being way too expensive and literally doing almost nothing different from Berserker Brew. I don't understand. Some people have said you can perma brew all your towers by using support chinook to carry it around. So to get my money back I did just that and then sold the alchemist to get my 40 thousand money back for other very very expensive upgrades. Only to find out that IF YOU SELL THE PERMA BREW ALCHEMIST, IT REMOVES ALL BUFFS FROM ALL TOWERS IT THREW THE POTION AT! Perma Brew is literally the most ridicolous upgrade in the entire history of bloons. If it were up to me, I'd make it so that it makes towers go absolutely crazy fast and also makes the alchemist attack very very fast. For around 55 thousand dollars for just a tiny permanent boost. Not worth the money!
So can you please explain to me the secret to this tower? Why everyone adores it while I hate it?