Tactical Tweaks

Adds in an assortment of minor gameplay altering tweaks to BTD6

This is an offshoot of my Useful Utilities mod that includes tweaks that are more gameplay altering. Incorporates a few things ported from Useful Utilities, a few of my old mods, and many new tweaks.

Brand New Features

• Buffable Paragons (Default Off)
  • Makes Paragons able to receive buffs like normal towers.
• Pursuit Path Prioritization (default on)
  • Allows Heli Pilots to choose to prioritize Bloons on specific paths.
• Beast Handler Lone T5s (Default Off)
  • Allows Tier 5 Beast Handlers to be purchased even without any other Beast Handlers contributing to them.
  • Megalodon still requires 84 Beast Power to insta kill BAD Bloons.
• Brickell Mermonkeys (Default On)
  • Makes Brickell's effects apply to non-exclusively water based towers again.
• Elite Defender Target Switch (Default Off)
  • An Elite Defender will switch to First targeting after a Bloon leak activates its ability.
• Etienne Targeting (Default Off)
  • Replaces Etienne's targeting options with the standard Fist, Last, Close, Strong.
• Sticky Bomb Attack Speed (Default Off)
  • Makes attack speed buffs cause Sticky Bombs to blow up quicker. (Also affects Master Bomber)
• Better Laser Blasts (Default Off)
  • Makes the Laser Blasts upgrade give a minor Attack Speed buff for Super Monkeys. Plasma Blasts unaffected.
  • Rates for 0/0/0, 1/0/0, 2/0/0 are .045, 0.45, .03 -> .045, .04, .03
• Better Trojan (Default Off)
  • Makes Benjamin's Bloon Trojan use the real internal layer count for Bloons so that it no longer loses money.
• Better Monkey City (Default Off)
  • Makes the Monkey City income buff affect more things, including Lead to Gold, IMF Loan, Monkey-Nomics, Monkey Pirates, and similar effects.
• Better Central Market (Default Off)
  • Makes the Central Market buff affect all non-Support towers' income generation not just Merchantmen.
• Obyn Price Change (Default Off)
  • Puts Obyn back down to 650 so he can be used for CHIMPS starts
• Auto Collect Banks (Default Off)
  • All Banks will auto collect when full like the XX2 Banks do.
• Auto Deposit Banks (Default Off)
  • When making a full collection from a Monkey Bank that has Deposits enabled, half of the amount collected will be automatically deposited back.
• More Overclock Interactions (All Default On)
  • Overclock Cash - Makes the Overclock buff increase other forms of cash generation for towers such as from end of round or from abilities.
  • Overclock Banks - Makes the Overclock buff affect the interest rates of Monkey Banks.
  • Overlock Monkeyopolis - Makes the Overclock buff affect Monkeyopolis income in the same way it affects Banana Farms.
  • Overclock Periodic Abilities - Makes the Overclock buff affect the frequency of periodic ability activations like Carpet of Spikes.
• Periodic Ability Cooldown Reduction (Default On)
  • Makes ability cooldown reduction effects also apply to periodically activated abilities like Carpet of Spikes.
• Hero Boost Debt (default on)
  • Replaces the Monkey Money Hero Boost with a button that lets you purchase the next level up of the hero by going into debt.
• Glacial Trail More Unfreezable Towers (Default On)
  • Fire Towers and other Ice Towers no longer get frozen on Glacial Trail, including:
    • Gwen (Any Skin)
    • Fusty the Snowman
    • Ring of Fire Tack Shooters
    • Dragon's Breath Wizards
    • Signal Flare Mortar Monkeys
    • Tidal Chill Mermonkeys

Ported from Useful Utilities

• Dartling Gunner Targeting (Default On)
  • Adds First/Last/Close/Strong targeting options to Dartling Gunners
• Mortar Monkey Targeting (Default On)
  • Adds First/Last/Close/Strong
• Paragon Sentry Targeting (Default On)
  • Gives the Green Paragon Sentry the same targeting options as Dartling Gunners
• Auto Trap Retarget (Default On)
  • Automatically retarget Larger Service Area Bloon Traps so they refresh at the start of each round

Older Mod Features Fully Included

• Better Armor Piercing (Default Off)
  • Lets Armor Piercing Dart subs pop lead Bloons
• Better Ezili Totem (Default Off)
  • Setting to make Ezili's totem not actually cost lives

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

Unreleased

1.2.3 - 2026-07-02

• Fixed a few Tweaks that weren't correctly reading their Enabled state from settings
• Separated into its own tweak: More Pyrotechnics Towers (Default On)
  • Expands the towers affected by Gwen's Pyrotechnics Support buff. Currently just adds The Blazing Sun Desperado.
• Fixed a couple typos

1.2.2 - 2026-06-24

• Fixed Pursuit Path Prioritization overriding the buttons for Lock in Place and Patrol Points

1.2.1 - 2026-06-07

• Updated for BTD6 v55
• Fixed Brickell Mermonkeys

1.2.0 - 2026-05-26

• Added Pursuit Path Prioritization (default on)
  • Allows Heli Pilots to choose to prioritize Bloons on specific paths.
• Added Hero Boost Debt (default on)
  • Replaces the Monkey Money Hero Boost with a button that lets you purchase the next level up of the hero by going into debt.

1.1.7 - 2026-05-11

• Fixed ice monkey paragon console error when using ability choice
• Added a tweak for making Obyn's Druid buffs be global

1.1.6 - 2026-04-12

• Fixed some tweaks for v54

1.1.5 - 2026-02-22

• Fixed some tweaks for v53

1.1.4 - 2026-01-12

• Fixed Better Ezili Totem not aligning with its toggled setting state
• Fixed a scaling issue with Sticky Bomb Attack Speed for very highly buffed attack rate
• Added a temporary fix for the Ice Monkey Paragon ability not activating its full slow if a round ends during it (this should get fixed for real by NK soon)

1.1.3 - 2025-12-11

• Fixed Buffable Paragons not immediately getting the pre-existing zone buffs they're within on creation

1.1.2 - 2025-12-03

• Fixed Brickell Mermonkeys for v52
• Fixed an error message that could appear in the log about Sticky Bomb Attack Speed
• Made the Overclock Cash tweak also affect cash generating abilities

1.1.1 - 2025-11-06

• Fixed the default value of Buffable Paragons

1.1.0 - 2025-11-06

New Tweaks

• Buffable Paragons (Default Off)
  • Makes Paragons able to receive buffs like normal towers.
• Brickell Mermonkeys (Default On)
  • Makes Brickell's effects apply to non-exclusively water based towers again.
• Elite Defender Target Switch (Default Off)
  • An Elite Defender will switch to First targeting after a Bloon leak activates its ability.
• Sticky Bomb Attack Speed (Default Off)
  • Makes attack speed buffs cause Sticky Bombs to blow up quicker. (Also affects Master Bomber)
• Better Laser Blasts (Default Off)
  • Makes the Laser Blasts upgrade give a minor Attack Speed buff for Super Monkeys. Plasma Blasts unaffected.
  • Rates for 0/0/0, 1/0/0, 2/0/0 are .045, 0.45, .03 -> .045, .04, .03
• Better Trojan (Default Off)
  • Makes Benjamin's Bloon Trojan use the real internal layer count for Bloons so that it no longer loses money.
• Etienne Targeting (Default Off)
  • Replaces Etienne's targeting options with the standard Fist, Last, Close, Strong.
• Beast Handler Lone T5s (Default Off)
  • Allows Tier 5 Beast Handlers to be purchased even without any other Beast Handlers contributing to them.
  • Megalodon still requires 84 Beast Power to insta kill BAD Bloons.

1.0.1 - 2025-08-27

• Fix for v50
• New toggleable utilities for opening up some additional interesting farming strategies
  • Overclock Cash - Makes the Overclock buff increase end of round cash generated by towers.
  • Better Monkey City - Makes the Monkey City income buff affect more things, including Lead to Gold, IMF Loan, Monkey-Nomics, Monkey Pirates, and similar effects.
  • Better Central Market - Makes the Central Market buff affect all non-Support towers' income generation not just Merchantmen.

1.0.0 - 2024-10-25

• Initial Release