New Slot Announcement Bonanza by Big Time Gaming

[snorky510238]

Is that your 3rd wild line Snorks?

6th I think and 5 scatters once.

 

[Slotter]

Well I dunno. Back when it was released big wins of big reels & stacked symbols in the bonus were quite common (which was what got me really into it) but now even if I get a bonus it's invariably destroyed by large swaths of dead spins and I reckon my chance of hitting a bonus now that actually pays 100x+ is about 0.5 in 10. So I only really play the game now for the nostalgia when I've won elsewhere.
Have the decent wins moved to the £2+ spin part of the game?
Although @dunover hits some nice wins on his £2+ spins here & there he also loses a fair bit to offset against that. I do enjoy watching his sessions. Injecting his humour & cat struggles into the mix make it entertaining

 

[snorky510238]

Yes, the bonus rounds did used to produce far bigger wins. The stacked symbols (6oak) would pay regularly and set up another big cascade that would produce again. Now, you can see 95% of the time, the next cascade is almost certainly going to produce nothing as everything is blocked off or highly unlikely to connect.

The amount that pay less than x100 has increased dramatically and most contain 6 dead spins. Other things that used to happen include, back to back bonus rounds (not often obviously but it happened). Multiplier hitting over x30. Haven’t seen that for ages. The 117 producing 3 or 4 successive cascades that all paid big. Sessions that regularly produced between 5 and 10 bonus rounds. If you hit 3 or 4 now it’s something out of the ordinary.

What makes me smile is that certain players say that raging rhino (most notably) and other games have changed but when I state that Bonanza has, I am imagining it and it hasn’t and people start posting things about the human brain finding patterns that aren’t there. Talk about double standards. Jeeeez!!!

 

[goatwack]

I'm of the firm belief that certain providers have been running their games at sub- optimal RTP for much longer than we've been led to believe, culminating in those wonky, wank sessions that defy any sense of logic or fairness, but are steeped in predictability beyond what is considered 'random' behaviour.

Bonanza does this better than most of course, or maybe it's become so predictable in its patterns that we end up wanting to believe it's somehow random in a Stockholm Syndrome kind of way. The only way for Bonanza to ever bare its loins to the player is to continuously feed it, because it works in completely cyclical patterns of 'dead' and 'recompense mode', of which the latter does eventually come around, the reason why most will persevere with it at all.

Still, it's the most compensated game I've seen in slotdom, it doesn't even make any bones about it. When the shill-protestations begins anew and the explanations start a-flowin' as to its suspect-yet-predictable 'gameplay', I raise an eyebrow and scratch my nuts in disbelief, and start muttering something to myself, because I'm all out of laughter at this point (and probably have crabs - might have to get that checked)

And Dazza. Dazza, Dazza, Daz, The DazMeister. What's there to say? Without getting misty- eyed about his older content, fact is a workman's only good as his tools. Modern slots are shit, whereas back in the day he'd cram so many good games into his vids because there were so many good games. We all loved the Wild Rockets, Rhino and Starburst sessions he did, but barring the self- flagellating Bonanza vids, the only blame lays at the door of the companies that keep messing with their portfolio, and the shit-pit industry itself.

That is all

 

[dunover]

I'm of the firm belief that certain providers have been running their games at sub- optimal RTP for much longer than we've been led to believe, culminating in those wonky, wank sessions that defy any sense of logic or fairness, but are steeped in predictability beyond what is considered 'random' behaviour.

Bonanza does this better than most of course, or maybe it's become so predictable in its patterns that we end up wanting to believe it's somehow random in a Stockholm Syndrome kind of way. The only way for Bonanza to ever bare its loins to the player is to continuously feed it, because it works in completely cyclical patterns of 'dead' and 'recompense mode', of which the latter does eventually come around, the reason why most will persevere with it at all.

Still, it's the most compensated game I've seen in slotdom, it doesn't even make any bones about it. When the shill-protestations begins anew and the explanations start a-flowin' as to its suspect-yet-predictable 'gameplay', I raise an eyebrow and scratch my nuts in disbelief, and start muttering something to myself, because I'm all out of laughter at this point (and probably have crabs - might have to get that checked)

And Dazza. Dazza, Dazza, Daz, The DazMeister. What's there to say? Without getting misty- eyed about his older content, fact is a workman's only good as his tools. Modern slots are shit, whereas back in the day he'd cram so many good games into his vids because there were so many good games. We all loved the Wild Rockets, Rhino and Starburst sessions he did, but barring the self- flagellating Bonanza vids, the only blame lays at the door of the companies that keep messing with their portfolio, and the shit-pit industry itself.

That is all

LOL.. I miss those days. Rhino went when it changed to the clunky, slow html5 version. Twin Spin, nerfed RTP made it unplayable. I never played Starburst (only a punishment video, I hate it!) but Wild Rockets was fun, now disappeared into the Netent ether alongside other good games like Evolution, another I would play. One I would play if it was still around, even ahead of Bonanza was IGT's brilliant Dungeons & Dragons - Fortress of Fortunes but that went years ago. So to get a 96% RTP, and because it hasn't been nerfed, I am Bonanza only. Boring, but reliably exciting on occasion. I think the satisfying sound of the 'D' banging in gives a thrill like no other slot, a precursor to disappointment mostly, kinda like bedding the fittest bird in the nightclub only to wake up in the morning to find you're lying next to a foul-mouthed harridan...

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Which casino are you playing it at Dazza???

 

[pinnit2014]

It's as good as its been since 20017: shite and magnificent.

Re Rhino - it went from magnificent to shite

Bonanza went from shite, to, er, shite

That's prob the difference :-0

 

[pinnit2014]

Which casino are you playing it at Dazza???

Jaz probably

 

[Downsman]

I've been doing some sports bets at Betway, and tried their version which is MGS..very smooth and fast.
Doesn't have that annoying pause on a non win cascade that the NextGen one at Novi has, which once you
notice it you can't un-see the bloody thing!!

 

[pinnit2014]

Ah Novibet, remember them before their 500 quid loss/ban limit: good times at a 96%!

 

[brianmon]

283x Base game hit from a shed-load of A's, and it wasn't even max ways

 

[pinnit2014]

Only a 300x but on 4 quid well welcomed

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Incredible 22 spin feature……

 

[cncas2123]

Incredible 22 spin feature……

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That really takes the piss, pure crap.

 

[pinnit2014]

Least it was on 20p

Another 200 1000x's and u'll be even.

 

[kennygamerboy]

betvictor well and truly compensating today. got this on 20p bonus before and a base game win earlier today

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Had no choice but to low roll.

Went through £400 odd on 40-60p for 2 features which didn’t make 20x between them.

Went back next day had some odd in account. Had already had a feature again under 10x then another landed few mins later. Double retrigger for that filth.

4 features including 1 22 spinner and not even 100X between them.

Knew the fucking worm would turn ffs

No doubt 6 months of brains from now.

 

[pinnit2014]

Heard that compensated games can't be a thing but Bonanza does it best to break that myth - as close to one as a puggy in the pub I've ever seen.

 

[curremon]

Love how people speak about compensated slot... Wtf IS that ? IS this compensation that last over 100x feature For me was january 2021 ? This game IS just patched as fuck and average bonus has Been Set from 100x to 20x... Also chance of hitting feature has Been reduced dramatically...

 

[pinnit2014]

Fearing the worst on a Hall of Fame stake but, not great, not too bad. Bonus wise i'm just glad to see >100x, on whatever stake



But aye, it's like you go 10 features, 30x each and then it gives you a 350x - rinse and repeat

 

[pinnit2014]

Love how people speak about compensated slot... Wtf IS that ? IS this compensation that last over 100x feature For me was january 2021 ? This game IS just patched as fuck and average bonus has Been Set from 100x to 20x... Also chance of hitting feature has Been reduced dramatically...

Just building you up for super compensation: you'll be due 2 20000x's in 50 spins: mark my words

 

[snorky510238]

I gave it a try last night and it was the worst I have ever seen it play. Absolute shite, like playing a game that’s broken. Dead spin after dead spin, I actually opened the session with 18 dead spins. A couple of years ago 5 dead’s in a row was considered bad. Now 10 in a row is the new norm.

BTG are losing face rapidly. They haven’t released a remotely decent slot for ages now so have gimped their popular slots to compensate. Although they made a couple of good slots early on, they have released some absolute flops too.

 

[kennygamerboy]

Fearing the worst on a Hall of Fame stake but, not great, not too bad. Bonus wise i'm just glad to see >100x, on whatever stake

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But aye, it's like you go 10 features, 30x each and then it gives you a 350x - rinse and repeat

yes indeed. the question is when do we all get off the bus?

 

[kennygamerboy]

I gave it a try last night and it was the worst I have ever seen it play. Absolute shite, like playing a game that’s broken. Dead spin after dead spin, I actually opened the session with 18 dead spins. A couple of years ago 5 dead’s in a row was considered bad. Now 10 in a row is the new norm.

BTG are losing face rapidly. They haven’t released a remotely decent slot for ages now so have gimped their popular slots to compensate. Although they made a couple of good slots early on, they have released some absolute flops too.

there games are dead in the water

 

[snorky510238]

Very few of their slots have longevity so they have probably shaved a bit more off of Bonanza, DHV and L’il Devil to cover their latest flops.