Oh I see. It’ll be great to see the unused content in the final product, much like the SBS
Now, after some research into both the unused content, the mobile version of the game, and your own, I have some ideas and discoveries
Firstly, for the Dart Monkey specialty building(And I’ll be taking my idea for the 2-sided 5th upgrade, if you don’t mind). The first 2 upgrades are the same across all of them, so that’s set. The third I don’t think needs to change, since I think the third upgrade of every tower should affect it in as many states as possible. The fourth could keep the exploding darts(maybe fixed to apply to all darts shot, which would include the fan-club), but also make Spike-O-Pults balls burst into 6 spikes upon expiring, and Jugernaut’s into 4 spiked balls(that still burst into spikes). Basically inspiring it on the bomb tower to amplify its crowd control. Now for the fifth, I had 2 unusual ideas. The left path would get “BunchOFans!”(I know they don’t have names, but I made it for posterity), which would work like this: You can place Dart Monkey towers on top of the SMFC, and they’ll be sublimated into the tower(Up to 6, which when complete would look very similar to the BunchOMonkeys upgrade). They attack like normal unupgraded dart monkeys along with the SMFC, but when the ability is activated, not only do they all become super monkeys(on top of the 9 separate dart monkeys the ability transforms), but the other dart monkeys that become Supers get the same amount of extra monkeys surrounding them as the main one(Only theirs are normal monkeys). I thought this would be a cool way to introduce the BunchOMonkeys concept, and I love the idea of the fans huddling around their beloved super monkeys. And for the Jugernaut I thought of “Unending Doom”, inspired by BTD6. This would make it so Jugernauts bounce off the map’s walls(the screen walls, cause adding BTD6 object physics to every map would be insane), with no timer to disappear(Until the round ends, of course). This is so it can use its full pierce before disappearing, while also allowing the funny scenarios where Jugernauts would hit enemies way off its tower’s range by bouncing over to it, amplifying even more the Crowd Control. But I do see how this could make it easily cluster the whole screen, so if necessary, every second it spends not hitting any Bloons it could lose 2 pierce(and maybe get a bit more velocity). So the longer rounds don’t become a massive mess of balls
I also think Spike-O-Pult should get a damage or attack speed buff. Maybe even both of they would both be smaller ones. I compared the basic versions of 3-2 and 2-3 dart monkeys on the OG and yours, and triple darts is better in both crowd control and single target situations, with the latter being by a massive margin, even though they’re cheaper in total. Though, to get a more conservative approach to the attack speed buff, it could be that the tower has a slow start-up attack(using its current base speed), but every subsequent toss is a bit faster. Still slower than dart throwing, but faster than normal
And my other ideas were in relation to the Glue Gunner, following up on what you mentioned about the glue Strike
The first 2 unique upgrades could stay as is(Though if the right path seems too underpowered, it could Glue Hose allow for the slowing of Blimps, but only by the extra 15% of the upgrade). And for the 5th, I have 2 ideas I very much like. “Bloontonium Reaction”: By making the glue’s acid components react with the Bloontonium in every Bloon, Bloonsolver’s corrosion ticks now get 1 point of damage stronger every second(This only lasts for the current instance of glue, so it’ll only build up for 22.9 seconds at full upgrades, resulting in 2737 damage per glue shot at the end). And “Limited Edition Super Glue”: Using the now abandoned product line of Super Monkey sponsored glue, this upgrade would make the Glue Strike ability be able to slow down blimps with the glue’s full capacity(which would be 65%), and Bloons by an even stronger 90%, and after the end of the ability, Bloons stay glued with the super glue, but blimps have a weaker 30% residue that will last the full glue duration before expiring
Now, some questions and observations(including “bug” sightings)Also, I still think it would be better to use discord for this back and forth. Just make things smoother and more responsive. Though I’m sorry to inquire, if it’s unwelcome. Corrosive glue seems to be ticking incorrectly in fast forward, resulting in a loss of damage when using it. Something else ive also observed in fast forward was jugernaut and spike-o-pult projectiles damaging the same bloom twice if it persists on top of their hitbox for a long part of their airtime(This could be spun into an alternative idea for the Jugernaut specialty 5, where when on top of a Blimp it uses its pierce multiple times a second to pile of damage. This could also be accompanied by making its ceramic damage buff apply to blimps as well, or apply to everything if you feel so bold). There’s a transparent line near the nose of the ZOMG spike. And finally, the mobile version of Bloon Impact makes it be able to pop black and zebra Bloons, despite that being the job of one of the specialty upgrades. While the one in your game does not do that. Was that on purpose so that the upgrade can keep its job? If not, I may have some ideas on how to make it work in tandem with Bloon Impact doing it by itself
also, thanks for your attention. I know I talk a lot