New Slot Announcement Opal Fruits from Big Time Gaming!

[brianmon]

I got bored after over an hour of my balance going up and down by 50x stake.
I left to play something else, with the same balance I started with

 

[dave1888]

I was thinking this last night. I think each and everyone of us has been fooled by the potential of BGT slots and been sucked in to believing the life-changing win is coming. DoA II has shaken things up so I look forward to see what other providers come up with.

At ICE I asked the NetEnt guys why they didn't adopt the Megaways licence and aside from the 'asking price' they have prooved a 9-line slot is worth it's weight in gold! I know I was critical of NetEnt last year, but bloody hell I'm so proud of what they have achieved so far this year.

Megaways is being flogged to death now, wont be long before we see Cleopatra Megaways and Rainbow Riches Megaways

Oi you I saw your insane Final Countdown win If I was you I'd love BTG right now. Congrats btw!

 

[pinnit2014]

Played this a lot for the comp. Don’t really plan on playing again though - not as limp as Holy Diver but it’s a tad beige. Decent balance holder but just the same old.

Maybe they’ll mix it up and have a 9 liner as their next release.

 

[Scott1baird]

Oh dear oh dear, BTG what have you made? I know some people will get huge massive wins on this game, I know people will get bad wins on this game, I know how bad the feature frequency of these games are. But Oh dear what have you made? Over 2k spins not one bonus... How can this be your games are good but there not worth the wait for a bonus, yes its down to luck and yes I'm sure people will get bonus after bonus but BTG what have you made? Its even worse than final countdown which I thought was impossible, Oh dear Oh dear what have you made.

 

[deleted_user-20231116]

It's a very good looking game, and the potential is huge. It's more exciting than The Final Countdown, but just as hard to get a bonus.

What is the average number of spins to get a bonus on The Final Countdown and Opal Fruits? Feels like it's harder to bonus those than Bonanza, but that might just be me.

I'm not gonna complain about the slot, it does look really nice, and i'm sure someone will have massive wins on it.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Opal Fruits real money play, includes a couple of decent bonus rounds.

Also Beavis & Butthead by Blueprint.

 

[Harry_BKK]

so not launching exclusively on Wednesday the 29th of May on Leo Vegas

RP is part of LV as far as I know.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I've got to be honest, not long after finishing the video linked above, I genuinely just got bored of Opal Fruits and switched to a different slot.

I had one more feature and managed another retgrigger, the feature paid 100x stake so in fairness the three features I hit all paid well. I suspect my feature frequency wasn't too bad (does anyone know that the theoretical hit rate is on this?), but I can well imagine this routinely doing 1000+ spins for a feature, and over 2000-2500 at the outer edge. With the base game returning so poorly, that could be ruinous.

On top of that, the base game is fucking diabolically dull, and the feature feels far too hard to hit. With nothing else going on with the slot, I couldn't find the motivation to carry on.

In the end I got three hours of solid play at both VS and LeoVegas, and ended up withdrawing £75 from VS (from a £50 deposit), and £50 from LeoVegas (from a £50 deposit) - so a modest little profit as well.

PRO TIP - Taxi Movida at VS has a 98.27% RTP and sensible variance/feature frequency.

 

[Cardio1979]

Might be just me but this game is the most horrible slot I've ever played.
I thought Bonanza was bad but this is like a mix of the final countdown, high voltage and bonanza together with even higher variance.

Got 4 bonuses in thousands of spins where 1 was okayish but the rest were shit.

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If this was was just a once in a time thing it would not matter but I must have played BTG games atleast a couple of hundred thousand spins, got tons of screenshots of all their shitty games and horrible bonuses. Big time gaming can suck it.

 

[johnnymcc1966]

Played it for the first time yesterday and hit a quick bonus.Nothing great but nice win

 

[Siohmy]

Looks like a slot which will pay more frequent 100-200x features at the cost of feature frequency. Standard.

 

[Balthazar]

Is it wrong to assume that this is Bonanza with a slightly better feature frequency and a slightly lower base game RTP?

If so, it looks like BTG is trying to please everyone with the Bonanza recipe but it's not an easy task because at the end of the day it's the same TRTP.


Original Bonanza:
Good: base game RTP, bonus RTP
Bad: bonus frequency

Chilli and Millionaire (without gambling):
Good: base game RTP, bonus frequency
Bad: bonus RTP (only 8 spins)

Opal Fruits:
Good: bonus frequency, bonus RTP
Bad: base game RTP

Each variant of basically the same game would have a different "bad". Interesting.

 

[snorky510238]

Is it wrong to assume that this is Bonanza with a slightly better feature frequency and a slightly lower base game RTP?

If so, it looks like BTG is trying to please everyone with the Bonanza recipe but it's not an easy task because at the end of the day it's the same TRTP.


Original Bonanza:
Good: base game RTP, bonus RTP
Bad: bonus frequency

Chilli and Millionaire (without gambling):
Good: base game RTP, bonus frequency
Bad: bonus RTP (only 8 spins)

Opal Fruits:
Good: bonus frequency, bonus RTP
Bad: base game RTP

Each variant of basically the same game would have a different "bad". Interesting.

Yeah I have said similar before. If they all return around the 96% mark then there are only so many ways to cut the cake and like you rightly say if one is better in one area it has to be compensated by being worse in others.

My personal opinion is they got it virtually spot on with Bonanza and since then they have been trying to fix something that wasn’t bust. As far as I can see all subsequent releases drop short of the mark in one way or another.

 

[Mr_Slot5]

Yeah I have said similar before. If they all return around the 96% mark then there are only so many ways to cut the cake and like you rightly say if one is better in one area it has to be compensated by being worse in others.

My personal opinion is they got it virtually spot on with Bonanza and since then they have been trying to fix something that wasn’t bust. As far as I can see all subsequent releases drop short of the mark in one way or another.

Surely they could have taken bonanza, increased the bonus frequency slightly and dropped the average bonus payout from the claimed near 100x slightly to 90x or something. Doesn't sound a lot but would make a bit of a difference. No need to radically change any one variable.

To be fair to BTG I think that's what they tried with WWTBAM. There seems to be less middling bonuses, so I think they've reduced them and so you get bonuses which are more polarised i.e either crap or massive. The bonus in that game is probably the most volatile of the lot bar perhaps The Final Countdown.

In my very humble opinion, BTG peaked with DHV- it has pretty much the perfect balance. Volatility spot on.

 

[snorky510238]

Surely they could have taken bonanza, increased the bonus frequency slightly and dropped the average bonus payout from the claimed near 100x slightly to 90x or something. Doesn't sound a lot but would make a bit of a difference. No need to radically change any one variable.

To be fair to BTG I think that's what they tried with WWTBAM. There seems to be less middling bonuses, so I think they've reduced them and so you get bonuses which are more polarised i.e either crap or massive. The bonus in that game is probably the most volatile of the lot bar perhaps The Final Countdown.

In my very humble opinion, BTG peaked with DHV- it has pretty much the perfect balance. Volatility spot on.

Yes I like DHV although I have never hit more than x300 a couple of times and my best hits have come via the base game.

I didn’t take DHV into account in my post above as I was generally referring to the megaways theme so I tend to think of that slot as a stand alone.

Good point with Bonanza and I wonder sometimes wether games are tweaked a little here and there without us being told as from recent observations I would say the bonus seems a little easier to trigger but my average hit has gone down. Though in the great scheme of things it’s not a massive sample so who knows.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

The problem with the way they've balanced Opal Fruits is if you have a bad run on feature triggers and/or feature pays, it's going to do serious damage, whereas the grindy base game RTP of Bonanza can really keep you going.

I really quite like the feature on Opal Fruits but the risk of camping it out is more than I'm prepared to take on again.

 

[snorky510238]

I haven’t played it yet but from what I have read I see exactly what you’re saying.

 

[incrediblestuff]

I have been playing this on Free Play for the CM comp, and ever since release pretty much daily on LeoVegas in real play..
I can now safely say i have done a sufficient number of spins to confirm what i initially felt when i tested it first.

This could be an amazing game for wagering purposes, the bigger the bonus the better in this case. It's surprisingly friendly, and can easily recover from longer dry spells - in both feature and base. There's sniff of the 'ole Rhino in the basegame, when you get all four 3x multipliers, or even more (so that you could have 3x, 6x, 3x, 6x for example, which can pay pretty damn well, even without the grapes), and the biggest hit i've seen without a 3x wild, was around 300x bet. That is of course nice to hit in the feature, with any multiplier, and even though it will not often retrigger more than once - there's still insane potential, with those kind of numbers.

I'm not saying you can't lose a bankroll on it, but it's definitely one of the most easygoing slots i have played in the last 10 years, and i've played tons.
I would stress that it's not a slot to highroll on: when you keep the bets to a minimum (average of 400x bankroll should be a 'safe' entry) but of course you can always go for a quick hit or whatever floats your boat. It's definitely an interesting slot, and i would most likely not have learned this without the incentive to hammer it for days during the freeplay comp..

So, my tip: give this a proper go, and it's volatility may surprise you..

 

[johnnymcc1966]

I have been playing this on Free Play for the CM comp, and ever since release pretty much daily on LeoVegas in real play..
I can now safely say i have done a sufficient number of spins to confirm what i initially felt when i tested it first.

This could be an amazing game for wagering purposes, the bigger the bonus the better in this case. It's surprisingly friendly, and can easily recover from longer dry spells - in both feature and base. There's sniff of the 'ole Rhino in the basegame, when you get all four 3x multipliers, or even more (so that you could have 3x, 6x, 3x, 6x for example, which can pay pretty damn well, even without the grapes), and the biggest hit i've seen without a 3x wild, was around 300x bet. That is of course nice to hit in the feature, with any multiplier, and even though it will not often retrigger more than once - there's still insane potential, with those kind of numbers.

I'm not saying you can't lose a bankroll on it, but it's definitely one of the most easygoing slots i have played in the last 10 years, and i've played tons.
I would stress that it's not a slot to highroll on: when you keep the bets to a minimum (average of 400x bankroll should be a 'safe' entry) but of course you can always go for a quick hit or whatever floats your boat. It's definitely an interesting slot, and i would most likely not have learned this without the incentive to hammer it for days during the freeplay comp..

So, my tip: give this a proper go, and it's volatility may surprise you..

I agree.I am getting excellent play value on small deposits and on lower value spins such as £0.2,0.3,0.5 etc. I like the cut of it's jib.

 

[SteveBr]

The 3x multiplier wild only exists in the base game, it’s not present in the free spins.

 

[Siohmy]

It’s all a bit horses for courses isn’t it? You are not going to please all the people all the time as everyone has their own preferences. BTG regularly get quite the kicking on here as many feel they never hit that “sweet spot”. Problem is that “sweet spot” is more spots. Personally I don’t mind Bonanza and do like the fact you don’t often get a kicking balance wise. However, you also regularly go 100, 200x plus without a bonus (well I do) and I actually quite like the odd bonus no matter how well a base game plays.

With that in mind I’d rather take Bonanza on than Final Countdown or, by the sounds of things, Opal Fruits. If I am regularly going to wait hundreds, and possibly thousands, of spins for a bonus I sure as hell do not want the base game to also be handing me my arse.

If you are gearing your slot for infrequent, volatile bonus games then the least you should be doing is balancing your base game to help the player a little.

 

[incrediblestuff]

The 3x multiplier wild only exists in the base game, it’s not present in the free spins.

Hi mate - was that in reply to me? Or just a general observation?
As i said, the x3 (or x6 if you get 2 on the same reel) wilds ar i hint of Rhino, in the basegame, and the biggest multiplier i have seen without using them, in the basegame, was about 300x..

Now that 300x wasn't even a full screen, which means you could get a higher basehit without multi, which is replacable in the FS, and so far, taking in an average multiplier (without retrigger) of around 5/6x, that is already a possible 1500/1800x in various combinations! With the purples or 2nd best symbol, that would be much higher. And of course there are the retriggers! I personally got up to like 36 in the Free Play promo, so imagine that x300

Just clarifying in case you meant me/misunderstood me..

 

[SteveBr]

No worries mate, I think I just misunderstood. I thought I’d read about multiplier wilds in the bonus

 

[Balthazar]

It’s all a bit horses for courses isn’t it? You are not going to please all the people all the time as everyone has their own preferences. BTG regularly get quite the kicking on here as many feel they never hit that “sweet spot”. Problem is that “sweet spot” is more spots. Personally I don’t mind Bonanza and do like the fact you don’t often get a kicking balance wise. However, you also regularly go 100, 200x plus without a bonus (well I do) and I actually quite like the odd bonus no matter how well a base game plays.

Yes, Bonanza can be mean but most of the time it's a very kind slot.

As for the rest, people want a good base game RTP, no crap bonus (so no 8 spins) and good bonus frequency. That's not possible for obvious reasons.

 

[Siohmy]

Yes, Bonanza can be mean but most of the time it's a very kind slot.

As for the rest, people want a good base game RTP, no crap bonus (so no 8 spins) and good bonus frequency. That's not possible for obvious reasons.

Having it all obviously is but I always thought that slots were entertainment with a chance to win on the odd occasion. That is being consigned to history in favour of little to no entertainment and exceptionally unlikely decent bonuses.

The sort of bonuses regularly on YouTube should be once in a lifetime like events if the slot is designed with any sort of sanity.