New Features

• New Map: Neo Highway
  - 🏆 u/G00dbot’s winning entry to the community map competition.
  - 🛣 Placeable space is at a premium as you battle the bloons in a high speed chase down a highway.
  - 🚘 Bloons are slower when moving the same direction as the cars and faster when moving the opposite direction.
  - 🏍 The biker monkey can be convinced to move away and make room for another car to place monkeys on.
  - 🔓 Try this awesome new map in ranked and clan games in Lead Dungeon and above, plus all Casual and Event games.
  

General Changes

• 🛒 We have improved the UI in the shop to call out free content and sales more clearly.
  
• 🎲 It is now possible to reroll random loadouts in Hero Challenge.
  
• DLC will now be downloaded without prompting on Desktop devices
  

Balance Changes

• Bloon Sends
  - 🎈 Bloon boost speed modifier: +25% → +40%
  - 💭 A lot of heroes and towers have more powerful synergies now than they used to. In order to keep games aggressive and the bloons dangerous, we are increasing the potency of bloon boosts.
  
• Dart Monkey
  - 💰 2xx Razor Sharp Shots: $150 → $250
  - 💰 4xx Juggernaut: $1,800 → $1,700
  - 💰 x3x Triple Shot: $300 → $400
  - 💭 We are increasing the cost of the Triple Darts upgrade and moving some of the top path’s cost into the lower upgrades to make dart monkey hoards more expensive.
  
• Glue Gunner
  - ⏩ 5xx Bloon Solver: Attack cooldown 0.25 → 0.4
  - 💭 We are slightly nerfing the Bloon Solver’s attack speed to reduce the number of times it’s able to reapply its glue after Scientist Gwen has burned it off.
  
• Banana Farm
  - 🍌 030 Monkey Bank: End of Round Income: $550 → $450
  - 🍌 130 Monkey Bank end of round income: $450 → $500
  - 🍌 230 Monkey Bank end of round income: $500 → $550
  - ⏳ x5x Monkey Nomics: Ability initial cooldown 25s → 30s
  - 💭 The Monkey Bank benefited a little too much from the introduction of Quality Soil. These changes are intended to keep the strength of the Monkey Bank when combined with the top path while nerfing the bottom crosspath.
  
• Scientist Gwendolin
  - 💥 Level 3: Chemical Cocktail damage 2→3
  - ⏱ Level 3: Chemical Cocktail damage rate: 0.24s → 0.36s
  - 💭 By increasing the damage and reducing the attack rate of Scientist Gwedolin’s cocktail, we can reduce the amount of damage it does when combined with Glue Gunner without nerfing the attack as a whole.
  
• Benjamin
  - 🍌 Level 1: Benjamin gets buffed by the 5xx Banana Central as if he was a Banana Research Facility
  - 💻 Level 3: Biohack affects +2 monkeys (6 total) and they do an extra +1 damage (2 total). (applies to all future levels).
  - 🏪 Level 5: Bank Hack now applies to Marketplace as well.
  - ⏩ Level 6: Replace Cyber Security with Boost Hack. Bloon Boost and Tower boosts have 20% lower cooldown.
  - ⏩ Level 14: Boost Hack gives 1 additional boost of each type.
  - 💭 Poor Benjamin has had some of his uniqueness stolen by Bonnie and Beetienne in recent updates leaving him without a solid niche. To help find him a new one, we are strengthening his synergy with Banana Farms and replacing his life gain upgrade with a brand new effect: Boost Hack.
  
• DJ Ben Jammin’
  - 🎵 All upgrades have been reflavoured to be DJ themed, not hacking themed.
  - 🔭 Level 1: Range +5
  - 💸 Level 1: Generates $75 → $50 per round, +$10 per monkey in range, up to 10 monkeys.
  - 💸 Level 2: Generates $112 → $75 per round, +$15 per monkey in range.
  - 🗣 Level 3: For each different type of monkey in range of DJ Ben, Good Vibes gives the 3 furthest away monkeys of that type +2 damage for 6 seconds, then require a 2s cooldown. Excludes Monkey Village and Banana Farm.
  - 🤑 Level 5: Bank Hack replaced with Side Hustle: All cash generated by monkeys other than Farm and Village increased by 6%.
  - 💸 Level 5: Generates $187 → $125 per round, +$25 per monkey in range.
  - ⏳ Level 6: Cyber Security replaced with Encore: All activated abilities have 5% lower cooldown.
  - 💸 Level 8: Generates $300 → $200 per round, +$40 per monkey in range.
  - 🤑 Level 9: All cash generated by monkeys other than Farm and Village increased by 9%
  - 💸 Level 11: Generates $600 → $400 per round, +$80 per monkey in range.
  - 🗣 Level 13: Good Vibes now gives +3 damage and lasts for 8 seconds. The number of monkeys affected does not change.
  - ⏳ Level 14: All activated abilities have 15% lower cooldown.
  - 💸 Level 15: Generates $1500 → $1000 per round, +$200 per monkey in range.
  - 💸 Level 17: Generates $3000 → $2000 per round, +$400 per monkey in range.
  - 🗣 Level 19: Good Vibes affects the 4 furthest away monkeys of each type in range of DJ Ben.
  - 💭 DJ Ben has been given even more changes to distinguish him from the other heroes, including Ben. Every DJ needs a crowd so DJ Ben’s income is now based on the number of monkeys you can fit into his radius. He’s weaker than regular Ben by himself, but stronger if you can max out his crowd. We’ve also swapped his synergy with Farms for a synergy with alternative income monkeys like Sniper, Heli Pilot, and Engineer.
  

Bug Fixes

• 😾 Fixed Smudge Catt Ezili having the incorrect hero type (changed Supporter to Defender)
  
• 🐶 Fixed Obyn’s wolf animating incorrectly in the Druid’s Best Friend animation.
  
• 🌞 Fixed Sun God Adora’s range being decreased by sacrificing other monkeys rather than increased.
  
• 🏴‍☠️ Fixed Buccaneer not firing both cannons when placed too close to land.
  
• 😴 Fixed 3xx Monkey Sub sleeping on the job (visual issue only).
  
• 🌊 Fixed 3xx Monkey Sub not visually submerging when the upgrade is first bought.
  
• ⚡ Fixed 3xx Druid animating incorrectly when firing lightning.
  
• 📄 Fixed copying and pasting not working on some devices (desktop only)
  
• 🔤 Fixed German text not fitting in some buttons.
  
• 🎁 Fixed unread gift popup auto closing before it can be claimed.
  
• Fixed Beetienne permanently decamoing bloons that get popped in his radius.
  
• Fixed golden bananas sparkling in areas they shouldn’t during Double Golden Banana events
  
• Fixed Activated Ability list scrolling while dragging out Farmers, Bloon Bots, and Beehives.
  
• Fixed issue where it was possible to equip weapon skins to the wrong hero.
  
• Fixed Beetienne not playing his Defend the Hive animation if he is making honey.
  
• Fixed Beetienne not reverting to Making Honey if he was in that mode when Defend the Hive was activated.
  
• Fixed Pat Fusty’s Rallying Roar not applying bonus damage at level 14.
  this has been added to the 4.5 patch notes because itll be in an immediate ota
  

UPDATE VIDEO: https://youtube.com/shorts/Bq0zNQPLY3w


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