


Each CT event itself will now consist of two experiences: Competitive and Casual.If you are on a Team with a dormant Mayor and want to play competitively, you can consider leaving your Team and using the Team search to identify Teams with the Competitive shield icon. We understand that some Teams have been playing competitively with dormant Mayors.Teams that have been set to Competitive stance will appear in the Team search with a new shield icon indicating this Competitive stance and interest in recruiting competitive players.Team members can send canned chat requests to set stance to Competitive. All existing Teams will default to Casual, so Mayors will need to set their stance to Competitive in order for the team to sign up for each CT’s competitive leaderboards.

Mayors can now set their team stance inside their Team settings.We’ve pushed the cadence for Contested Territory back one week to give time for Teams to review this new system and sign up for Competitive play.We’ve heard the community feedback and have wanted ourselves to help Teams define themselves as Competitive or Casual, so we’ve developed a system that allows Teams to set their stance to attract players with the same mindset as well as sign up for each CT and lock those Team rosters in to acknowledge and help address some of the Team griefing that we’ve seen happening.Skulls also trigger a stacking slow aura around Phayze, which reduces the attack speed of all Monkey Towers until the boss is defeated.Note that the warp is proportional to track length, so shorter warps on short tracks and prepare for startling warps on longer tracks! When each skull is reached, Phayze rebuilds the Reality Shield and warps forward, while opening a tear in the fabric of reality that allows for all Bloons to spawn further along the track.When Radar Jam occurs Phayze also pulls all Bloons forward to Phayze’s Location and grants them the Camo property.Phayze triggers a Radar Jam every 24 seconds – this restores its Camo property if this has been lost & for 12 seconds grants Phayze immunity to any form of camo removal as well as disabling all shared Camo-granting buffs from towers.Monkeys can destroy this shield to reduce Phayze’s movement speed back to normal again Phayze has the Camo property and spawns with a Reality Shield that increases its movement speed while the Shield is active.We knew camo would be a focus but the movement and entry migration proved to be essential as Phayze’s design took shape. As existing Bosses continue to be tuned and refined, designing new Bosses becomes increasingly complex to find both visual and functional differences that truly mix up play styles, approach to eco, and Monkeys used.
