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Golden Scout
Golden Perk Cost	50,000 (Golden Crate) or 55,000 (Daily Store)
Tower Cost	Free (Scout)
Role	Offense
Placement	Ground
Statistics
Base Cost	$250
Base Selling Cost	$83
Base Damage	2
Damage Method	Single
Base Firerate	0.75
Base Range	14
Hidden Detection	Level 2+
Lead Detection	Level 3+
Flying Detection	N/A
Immunities	None
Placement Footprint	Average (1.5)
Evolution
Evolves Into	Operator
Evolution Levels	20
Base Exp	50
Growth Rate	1.09
Skip Cost	499
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A well rounded and cheap basic tower.
Capable of detecting hidden enemies.

The starter tower of the game.

―Store Description

Description

The Golden Scout is a upgraded version of the Scout, obtained in the Golden Crate for 50,000. It can also appear in the Daily Skin Store for 55,000. You automatically unlock the Golden Scout's normal counterpart, the Scout, when you first join in the game.

The Golden Scout is very cheap in comparison to other towers, meaning that it can be placed right from the start of the game. However, the Golden Scout has mediocre DPS, meaning that in harder modes it is not that effective later on during the game.

In comparison to its normal counterpart, the Scout, it is considerably more expensive to upgrade. Despite this, the Golden Scout is significantly better than its normal counterpart because it has much higher DPS and efficiency. The Golden Scout is considered an early-game to mid-game tower, although it can handle the late-game with some support.

Upgrades

Higher Caliber

Level 1 • Cost: $150

0.75 > 0.5 Firerate

+1 Range

Sell Price changes to $133

Precise Aiming

Level 2 • Cost: $600

+3 Damage

+Hidden Detection

Sell Price changes to $333

Golden Deagle

Level 3 • Cost: $1,800

+25 Damage

0.5 > 1.2 Firerate

+3 Range

+Lead Detection

Sell Price changes to $933

Twin Sovereigns

Level 4 • Cost: $4,000

1.2 > 0.6 Firerate

+6 Damage

Sell Price changes to $2,266

Statistics

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page.

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Level	Cost	Total Cost	Damage	Firerate	Range	DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	$250	$250	2	0.75	14	2.67	$93.63
1	$150	$400	2	0.5	15	4	$100
2	$600	$1,000	5	0.5	15	10	$100
3	$1,800	$2,800	30	1.2	18	25	$112
4	$4,000	$6,800	36	0.6	18	60	$113.33

Skins

To see all the upgrades of a skin, see the gallery page.

Skin	Default	Red	Green	Blue
Rarity	Common	Common	Common	Common
Daily Store Cost	N/A	1,250	1,250	1,250
Obtained From	Owning Scout	Basic Crate	Basic Crate	Basic Crate
Skin	Survivor	Black Ops	Party	Bunny
Rarity	Rare	Common	Exclusive	Event
Daily Store Cost	2,000	85	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Basic Crate	Premium Crate	Party Crate	Bunny Crate
Skin	Eclipse	Valentines	Beach	Intern
Rarity	Event	Common	Event	Rare
Daily Store Cost	N/A	4,000	N/A	120
Obtained From	Solar Eclipse Season	Valentines 2026 Crate, Lovestruck Crate, Lovely Crate, Season of Love Season	End of Summer Season	Premium Crate Philips x TDS Season
Skin	Prime Raven	Holiday	Cookie	Frost Hunter
Rarity	Legendary	Event	Exclusive	Common
Daily Store Cost	N/A	5,000	N/A	3,000
Obtained From	Raven Hunter Hood from Amazon Prime Gaming	Jolly Crate Violent Night Season	Code: M3RRY2022TDS	Cold Front Crate
Skin	Plushie	Ducky	Skull Trooper	Masquerade
Rarity	Exclusive	Common	Exclusive	Event
Daily Store Cost	N/A	3,000	5,000	N/A
Obtained From	Code	Ducky Crate	Halloween Crate	Lunar Overture Season
Skin	Phantom	Valhalla	Toilet	Guest
Rarity	Uncommon	Event	Legendary	Exclusive
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A	190	N/A
Obtained From	Phantom Crate	Krampus' Revenge Season	Premium Crate (Formerly) Triumph Headache Headquarters	Triumph Classic Castle
Skin	Fallen	King of Rock	Haz3mn	Shark
Rarity	Rare	Common	Event	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	The Underworld Dreg Mission Quest	Hexscape Event Regular Battle Pass	Triumph Pls Donate Easy difficulty	Surf & Turf Regular Battle Pass
Skin	Banned	Penguin
Rarity	Exclusive	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Banned Crate	The Final Act Regular Battle Pass

Strategy

• The Golden Scout is mainly used as an early-game to mid-game tower and does not perform as well later on during the game.
  • Placing multiple Level 0 Golden Scouts can be a good way to defend earlier waves.
• The Golden Scout has cheap hidden detection. This means that the Golden Scout can be used to defend against weaker Hidden enemies, like the Hidden and Shadow, while you can work on getting more expensive towers and upgrades.
  • It can also defend well against Hidden enemies with higher health such as the Hidden Boss or Shadow Boss at later levels, when multiple of them are placed down.
  • It also has cheap lead penetration, making it useful for enemies like Lead and Elite Lead. However, it does not have flying detection, so it cannot target the Lead Balloon while its balloons are not popped.
• The Golden Scout can be used as a cheap way to distract enemies like the Molten Boss from using their abilities on more useful towers, like the Accelerator.
  • This could be risky however, due to the tower slot limit of 5, you may not be able to choose better towers.
    • You can use the Golden Scout to deal with the early waves to give it some use other than distracting bosses' abilities.
• The DJ Booth can increase the Golden Scout's somewhat short range.

Trivia

• The Golden Scout's name and function are loosely based on the Tower Battles' Golden Scout.
• The Golden Scout is the only public golden tower that has different upgrade icons than its normal counterpart.
  • If exclusive towers are included, then the Golden Snowballer also has different icons.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

• 13 May 2022 - v1.2.2
  • Golden Scout added, replacing the Golden Scout skin buffs.
• 5 August 2022 - v1.3.1
  • New skin: Beach
• 30 September 2022 - v1.4.0
  • New skins: Intern, Prime Raven
• 21 December 2022 - v1.6.0
  • Skin rarity added to all skins.
  • Survivor skin rarity changed from Uncommon to Rare.
  • New skins: Holiday, Cookie
• 14 February 2023 - v1.6.2
  • New skin: Frost Hunter
• 14 April 2023 - v1.7.1
  • New skin: Plushie
• 12 May 2023 - v1.7.3
  • New skin: Ducky
• 28 October 2023 - v1.9.0
  • New skins: Skull Trooper, Masquerade
• 21 December 2023 - v1.11.0
  • New skins: Phantom, Valhalla
• 1 April 2024 - v1.17.0b
  • New skin: Toilet
  • Bug: Toilet skin cannot be equipped in the intermission lobby.
  • Bug: Toilet skin breaks the tower icon and stats in the tower hotbar.
• 1 April 2024 - v1.17.2
  • New skin: Toilet
  • Bugfix: Toilet skin now can be equipped in the intermission lobby.
  • Bugfix: Toilet skin no longer breaks the tower icon in the tower hotbar during matches.
• 23 May 2024 - v1.23.0
  • New skin: Guest
• 21 June 2024 - v1.25.0
  • Bug: Damage is no longer boosted by Damage Buffs.
• 2 August 2024 - v1.27.0
  • New skin: Fallen
  • Bugfix: Damage is now boosted by Damage Buffs.
• 11 September 2024 - v1.31.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Placement cost increased from $200 to $250.
      • Damage increased from 2 to 3.
    • Level 1
      • Cost increased from $125 to $200.
      • Firerate changed from 1.225 to 1.225 > 1.025.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +0.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from $500 to $650.
      • Damage increased from +1 to +4.
      • Firerate changed from 1.225 > 1.025 to 1.025.
    • Level 3
      • Damage increased from +6 to +7.
      • Firerate changed from 1.025 > 0.775 to 1.025 > 0.825.
      • Range increased from +0 to +2.5.
      • Lead detection added.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from $4,000 to $4,500.
      • Firerate changed from 0.775 > 0.425 to 0.825 > 0.425.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +0.
• 18 September 2024 - v1.32.0
  • Bug: Level 1 description does not state that damage is increased by 1.
• 25 September 2024 - v1.33.0
  • Bugfix: Level 1 description now states that the Golden Scout's damage is increased.
• 23 October 2024 - v1.37.0
  • New skin: King of Rock
• 13 November 2024 - v1.41.0
  • New skin: Haz3mn
• 26 March 2025 - v1.58.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost increased from $250 to $300.
      • Firerate decreased from 1.225 to 1.025.
      • Range increased from 12 to 14.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from $200 to $100.
      • Firerate changed from 1.225 > 1.025 to 1.025.
    • Level 2
      • Cost decreased from $650 to $500.
      • Damage decreased from +4 to +2.
      • Firerate changed from 1.025 to 1.025 > 0.775.
    • Level 3
      • Damage decreased from +7 to +6.
      • Firerate changed from 1.025 > 0.825 to 0.775 > 0.625.
      • Range decreased from +2.5 to +2.
    • Level 4
      • Damage decreased from +5 to +4.
      • Firerate changed from 0.825 > 0.425 to 0.625 > 0.325.
• 9 April 2025 - v1.60.0
  • Offense role added.
• 9 July 2025 - v1.70.0
  • New skin: Shark
• 4 October 2025 - v1.76.2b
  • New skin: Banned
• 18 October 2025 - v1.77.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Placement cost decreased from $300 to $250.
      • Damage decreased from 3 to 2.
      • Firerate changed from 1.025 to 0.825.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from $200 to $150.
      • Damage decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Firerate changed from 1.025 to 0.825 > 0.525.
      • Range increased from +0 to +1.
      • Hidden detection added, moved from Level 2.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from $500 to $650.
      • Damage increased from +2 to +3.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Lead detection added, moved from Level 3.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from $1,500 to $2,325.
      • Damage increased from +6 to +35.
      • Firerate changed from 1.025 > 0.825 to 0.525 > 1.225.
      • Range increased from +2.5 to +3.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from $4,500 to $5,500.
      • Damage increased from +5 to +10.
      • Firerate changed from 0.825 > 0.425 to 1.225 > 0.625.
• 25 October 2025 - v1.78.0
  • Placement limit of 16 added.
    • Bug: Despite what the update log says, this change did not actually happen.
• 26 October 2025 - v1.78.1
  • Bugfix: Now has a placement limit of 16.
• 20 December 2025 - v1.83.0a
  • New skin: Penguin
• 28 January 2026 - v1.84.0
  • Placement limit removed.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from $500 to $600.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from $2,325 to $2,250.
      • Damage decreased from +35 to +30.
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from $5,500 to $3,400.
      • Damage decreased from +10 to +0.
• 11 March 2026 - v1.86.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 2
      • No longer gives lead detection, moved to Level 3.
    • Level 3
      • Now gives lead detection.
• 5 June 2026 - v2.0.0
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being fixed.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 0.825 to 0.8.
    • Level 1
      • Firerate changed from 0.825 > 0.525 to 0.8 > 0.5.
      • Hidden detection removed, moved to Level 2.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from $600 to $700.
      • Hidden detection added.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from $2,250 to $2,400.
      • Damage decreased from +30 to +29.
      • Firerate changed from 0.525 > 1.225 to 0.5 > 1.2.
      • Range decreased from +3 to +2.5.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from $3,400 to $3,600.
      • Firerate changed from 1.225 > 0.625 to 1.2 > 0.6.
      • Name changed from Double Tap to Twin Sovereigns.
• 19 June 2026 - v2.1.0
  • Now can gain experience which is used to unlock the Operator. Has 20 levels, a base exp of 50 and a growth rate of 1.09.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 2
      • Cost decreased from $700 to $600.
• 7 August 2026 - v2.5.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 0.8 to 0.75.
    • Level 1
      • Firerate changed from 0.8 > 0.5 to 0.75 > 0.5.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from $2,400 to $1,800.
      • Damage decreased from +29 to +25.
      • Range increased from +2.5 to +3.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from $3,600 to $4,000.
      • Damage increased from +0 to +6.

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