btd6 or btd5

[Henry is a sore loser]

which is better

[Millie]

Well i would say the original flash BTD5 was amazing and i prefer BTD5 Deluxe just a little bit over Steam because of the original style and it still being as simple as before but BTD5 on Steam is still a blast. I would go for BTD5 Flash and BTD5 Deluxe but the Steam editions definetly BTD6.

[Joemon150]

btd5 easily. ♥♥♥♥ 6. A disgrace to the series. Grindy ass weak ass towers. Devs got super ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ greedy from their orignal roots. ♥♥♥♥ Ninjakiwi

[Deeeeniiiiss?]

Joemon never ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ played btd5 or 4 and it SHOOOOOOOOWS, reminder that flash btd4,5 and monkey city had microtransactions 50x more insane than btd6 or btd5 on steam, btd5 and 4 had 10+ special powers that you could ONLY buy with irl money.

Anyway. I'm biased so i like BTD5 Deluxe over every other btd game but mechanically btd6 is better, more challenging, more monkeys, more tiers, more paths.

[darwin]

btd 6 is better both in terms of constant updates and in general.

btd 5 is worse in terms of graphics, variety of gameplay (there are more maps, but there are few modes and variations of improvement) and the development of the co-op. Btd 5 is rather unpleasant to play - in multiplayer you can't see information about your friend's towers, hotkeys work strangely. the game is perfect on an old computer and a square monitor (the new monitors have monkeys on the sides of the screen lol), but not now. btd 6 is much better because btd 5 is outdated. and also in btd 5 just boring improvements compared to btd 6, where there are three times more farming variations. in btd 5 you NEED to spam monkeys, and in btd 6 you can put a few and improve them correctly.

btd 5 is better for anyone just because of nostalgia

[AaronTMG]

btd 5 just becuase it is a clasic

[Red Sword]

btd6

[HoBoMiKe]

Originally posted by Joemon150:

btd5 easily. ♥♥♥♥ 6. A disgrace to the series. Grindy ass weak ass towers. Devs got super ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ greedy from their orignal roots. ♥♥♥♥ Ninjakiwi

there's pros and cons to BTD5, but yes I agree that the towers in BTD6 are weak as sh!t now.


they used to be

Base tower: weak
2x2 tower: pretty strong
4x2 tower: REALLY strong


with BTD6, despite having FIFTEEN possible upgrades, all the towers are insanely weak. they constantly miss/leak bloons, the attack speed is really slow no matter what upgrades you use, and most daily advanced missions require either insanely accurate placement or insane micromanaging to make the towers work the way they should work WITHOUT all that extra stuff.


BTD5's towers were Bad@$$, AND they had special agents too that were iconic, got the job done and were worth the money.

BTD6 replaced special agents with lame "powers" that barely do anything useful. one of them just stops time for 5 seconds or something.... really? trash-tier.

[HoBoMiKe]

The only other big problem I have with BTD6 is that the cash flow sucks really bad; if you don't use farms or some kind of Jew strategy where you micro the crap out of cheap towers so you can just baaaaaarrreeeely buy the good upgrade in time on chimps, you'll always never have enough money.


BTD5's cash flow scaled in proportion to the amount of bloons you were popping; but in THIS game, they have these "cash starve" rounds where you're only earning like 50% or 40% of the amount of money that you SHOULD be making.


other than these downfalls, BTD6 is mostly the better game. the graphics and music is good, the game runs waaaay better because it's not a port of a flash game, there's more to upgrade and more to do as well as choices you can make, tower footprints are easier to understand, and there's more game modes.



honestly All I want is for them to re-add special missions, special agents, and the bloonchipper and I would let all other grievances go.


imagine the successor mission to "wizard Lord," where it's a 5-5-5 wizard monkey. yeaaaaah, see what I mean? they really dropped the ball not adding that. almost anyone would want to play that special mission just to see what the wizard lord would look like

[AGuyThatDoesThings]

hobo mike is so incredibly incorrect the point that he makes is that the cash flow sucks and you have to use farms or other money making methods, but in chimps you don't get any extra money making methods, also the towers are not weak he is just complaining that the towers are balanced and that the strategies that worked in btd5 no longer work here, and so what if the towers are weak that just makes it an extra challenge, so stop complaining and get gud also the graphics and gameplay are a zillion times better with so much extra content added so im sorry if spamming the same tower 50 times no longer works

[AGuyThatDoesThings]

and even tho i grew up on btd4 and 5 i can agree that btd6 is better, ninja kiwi has grown and they have gotten better so that's why its better. its also a lot less grindy unlike btd5 and the cloud sync actually works in btd6.

[AGuyThatDoesThings]

this is coming from a guy who has beaten chimps on dark castle in btd6 and a guy who has 200+ hours in each game

[Skyfire]

6 is better than 5, because it plays super without bugs. The only thing I"m missing is the ballon chipper in 6, now that was awesome.

[Platypus]

Bloons Tower Defense 6 is just all around better than BTD 5. I have put several hundred hours into both games and I can say that with certainty. (100+ hours in BTD 5 flash version, 100+ hours in BTD 5 Steam version. Nearly 300 hours in BTD 6 Steam version and around 100 hours in the BTD 6 mobile phone version which is linked to the same account.)

The only real issue I have with BTD 6 is that NinjaKiwi can't make up their minds and keeps rebalancing all the towers every year so old strategies don't work anymore. In a PvP game that would be great but for a mostly-solo PvE only tower defense game I would much prefer consistency rather than all info becoming outdated that fast.