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New Slot Announcement Vikings by Netent

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Chipkin9 said:
The game mechanics behind NotEnt or the game mechanics behind Novo.

Essentially which provider would you personally prefer to play.

Would you prefer NotEnts games where the slots play in a volatile manner (Despite not meant to be a volatile provider) and have the majority of slot sessions give you a bonus after 300+ spins and pay you 30x. Or would you rather Novo's games where they are also volatile giving you a bonus after 300 spins that on averge your bonus feature pays 100x+

Because I seriously can not wrap my head around how Notent can be seriously regarded as a decent provider never mind a good one.
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Depends... I don't tend to stick to one provider more than others... I take it in a game by game basis.

And remember we are a very small and not necessarily indicative group of players.
 
Chipkin9 said:
Glad to hear all of that. Sadly I am going to have to play this at least once as I'm in love with Lagertha :D
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You might have read my previous verdicts on Netent games, there was rarely a good one and IMO, rightly so. But I do think that to be a fair reviewer, I have to give credit where it's due. And with Vikings they did IMO produce something quite spectacular, visually and for the win potential. Will we see as many 1,000+ screenshots as with DOA? Time will tell, but I can see it happening rather often as I have the feeling that the best chunk of the RTP is in the Raid Spins.

Well, just got the game sheet while I was typing the post. :D My feeling was right, the Raid Spins have more than a third of the RTP, so there is potential that we will see many wins going past 1,000x bet. For comparison, DOA has only about 25% of the RTP attributed to the Free Spins.
 
i had 20 wagerfree and 10 bonus spins on it so far. From 20 spins i got 22 cents. From my the other spins i got... 2 cents ($0,02). At least it looks nice and from my limited funmoney play i thought it doesnt actually look that bad. Then i tried it for said 30 spins and from $6 worth of spins i got $0,24 back.

for gods sake all of their new releases play like they can pay 277777x per spin and have more dead spins than Jammin jars, with 1/1000th of its potential.

I really, really dont ditch slots after just one play and im going to give it another shot later today but with netent this is becoming a norm. I play their new releases once and i have no desire whatsoever to play them again.
 
No one's denying Netent make stupendous-looking slots

It's just that all their focus has gone on production values, leaving none on 'pays'

I mean look at DOA, looks like dog but their best game by a country mile :cool:
 
More volatile than other Not Ent's recent slots. I like the dark layout and theme. RTP (96.05%) could be a tad higher.

Had freespins after some 600 spins and paid nicely. Base game random feature gives 5-30x hits now and then, other than that there really aren't any wins. So it can suck your balance pretty fast until freespins.

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As i mentioned in my posts, Vikings is a HV game and the RTP is rather heavily skewed to the Hotspot, Raid Spins and Random Shieldwall features. 88% of 96.05% RTP is in those three features. The plain base game has only 8% of the RTP. Hence, it will be a balance killer when you don't hit a feature regularly. For comparison, DoA has only appr. 25% of the RTP in the free spins.

The free spins should hit on average 1:386 spins, HotSpot in the base game on average 1:19 spins and Random Shieldwall in the base game 1:29 spins.

This is the nature of HV games, take from many to spit out a few huge wins. Just had this result on Moon Princess in the battle - 18.85% RTP :oops: .....So it is not only NetEnt. :oops: :D

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Nate said:
Decided to try it out. Played it in fun mode first. Took about 170x ... no features and best hit 32x.

Real money roughly 200 spins and 3 features. They paid 0x , 120x and 1077x.

So far so good.

Btw the 0x said better luck next time :oops:

Nate
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Yeah the exact same thing Napoleon says on a zero bonus..... Grrrr seen it several times! only slightly better than the " Congratulations you won 0.00 " both are close to monitor smashing moments if you were on a decent stake and had done a fair bit in them.
 
Feature on this is crazy potential, but its brutal and the feature is insanely hard to hit 500-1000spins seems normal without.

Gotten 2 so far 130x and 140x, basegame hit 14 ladys was 160x, but there is a few 1000x + on this already thats rare from a new Netent slot.
 
This is one of NetEnt's best games for the last couple of years. The full stack symbol transform mechanic is original and has the potential to pay good money. You can actually win something decent from the feature all of a sudden. My best feature win is £98.80 on a £0.20 stake. They've done a good job with this slot and I must congratulate them for that. Hurrah! NetEnt have still got it :)
 
So I'm getting high-variance with a varied set of bonuses and features, good graphics & production values and great use of a popular licence!

A return to form indeed for Netent, what's not to like :cool:
 
My issue with this is that it is the most one-dimensional spin to come out in the last 2 years.
  • Main reason: no basegame at all. The 5 reels, paylines and all symbols that arent scatters or vikings are utterly worthless. Because of this, the only thing that matters is seeing fullstack vikings landing on reel 3, so "following the spin" is dull as hell.
  • No difference in pays between the different vikings. Another factor that makes the game more one-dimensional.
  • There are only three kinds of ways to get paid: some 10-30x on Scatter pays, same on Shield Wall, and then FS.
  • Insane volatility forces you to budget your bankroll like an accountant to avoid getting shafted without getting any excitement.
 
It says in the paytable 200.000 coins for 27 symbols, which means 10.000x bet size, but what are is the probability of this event? How many symbols on each reel?
 
theapple said:
well if its anything like starburst, odds for someone hitting max possible win are 0 in 1.
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Unibet is having a tournament on this slot and already two players with +4000x hits and 4 players with +3000x hits. 1000x win is eligible for 35th place atm. The tournament has been running like 66 hours now. So this slot is far more capable than any Bottom Time Gaming slot.

Last week Unibet held tournament on the new Quickspin Tigers Gloryhole and only one player had +1000x hit.
 
Broke said:
Unibet is having a tournament on this slot and already two players with +4000x hits and 4 players with +3000x hits. 1000x win is eligible for 35th place atm. The tournament has been running like 66 hours now. So this slot is far more capable than any Bottom Time Gaming slot.

Last week Unibet held tournament on the new Quickspin Tigers Gloryhole and only one player had +1000x hit.
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LMAO! That really made me laugh. :laugh: :D
 
Broke said:
Unibet is having a tournament on this slot and already two players with +4000x hits and 4 players with +3000x hits. 1000x win is eligible for 35th place atm. The tournament has been running like 66 hours now. So this slot is far more capable than any Bottom Time Gaming slot.

Last week Unibet held tournament on the new Quickspin Tigers Gloryhole and only one player had +1000x hit.
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I never said it cant pay, i just said it wont pay its max theoretical win. Starburst never did :)

Even with those 2000-4000x i dont like it and wont be playing it because... its still a slot with 8% base game rtp. Its also slot with bonus frequency of 1 in 500ish. Oh and yeah, and odds for that max theoretical hits are still 0% :P
 
I haven't touched a NetEnt in ages since I felt like the potential got worse every game. People liked this one, so I gave it a shot today and got my first bonus after roughly 200 spins.

I got a scatter win with loads of symbols and thought, yeah, that'll be an alright win.
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. Although it was on lowest stake, probably my biggest multiplier win I ever had. I didn't check the paytable before that, but according to that, I got 20 symbols. Pretty nuts, great game, never in doubt. Insane result for my first bonus on the game.
 
Had some winning free sports bets yesterday and today, decided to spend it on Vikings and hit absolutely nothing at all yesterday: €20 on 20c bet gone in about 125 spins.. vile! But today started with €25 again on 20c bets, got up to €38 with some nice hits with scatter pays in the basegame and then the very next spin after a 110x scatter pay finally hit the bonus for 190x.

Pretty happy about it but still I don't think I'll spend any more money on it, especially not if I have to deposit for it :p

Couldn't take screenshots as I was on another PC :(
 
eizei said:
NetEnt finally makes a slot that seems to dish out actually big wins a decent amount of time and people are still complaining why am I not surprised. I think this game is a big improvement over many of their other newer releases and I hope they'll keep going in this direction.
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A slot that actually dishes out good wins & a big improvement?

I'd have to disagree. I see one very good screenshot of 2000x, but that doesn't make it a good game at all. To make something a good game there needs to be balance to match it's volatility. For example look at DoA. It spews out wildlines that pay in excess of 2000x every single day of the year. This game isn't difficult to trigger the bonus on and has a trigger frequency of 1 in 150 spins (Or there abouts). It's a high variance game with low volitilty which means 99% of the time bonuses pay less than 10x until you finally hit a wildine; this to me is perfectly acceptable.

Now let's take a look at this POS. It has 8% RTP (Allegedly) in the Base game. It's high variance and highly volatile. The Freespin trigger frequency on this is 450 spins (Again, allegedly). So for this to be a good game these bonuses should never pay less than 10x, in fact the freespins on this should only be spewing out 100x wins 99% of the time.

But of course it's NotEnt and the majority of freespins pay less than 50x.

So how can they make such a game like this and have it plauded as "Good" just because 999 people loss thier whole bankroll and 1 person hits 2000x?

I had a nice win earlier on Rizk and hit 500x on Lucky Ladies charm Deluxe on £0.20 bet. The thing with Novomatic is they are the only developer who can make high variance & high volatile games and get the perfect balance of trigger frequency and payouts. It's uncommon to be on the end of a Novomatic freespin round that's paid less than 100x. This is what you expect from HV games, not this utter pathetic attempt by NotEnt.

In fact it's not exclusive to NotEnt. Play n Go (With - Moon Princees, Rise of Olympus and Crapatoonz) have tried and utterly "failed" at making and perfecting HV slots that appeal to slots players and make them want to come back and play the same slot. I now just avoid PnG as most of thier games have followed this same "badly programmed" trend of just robbing players as quick as they can under the guise of HV.

Push Gaming and Merkur are pretty much the same. While Blueprint & Microgaming have a good balance with their HV titles.

Long story short. After my win on Rizk I went and blew my whole £115 at £0.20 on this crap and triggered one bonus round after 1200 odd spins and this was the magnifcent bonus round I highly anticpated for such a HV slot :rolleyes:

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So, in my opinion this is more garbage from NotEnt and shouldn't even be played with a £2000 bankroll on minmum bets, seriously!

Get used to this type of slot by the way as all the developers have been slowly tweaking and heading in this direction. High Variance, High Volatility, Long freespin frequencies and low paying bonuses.
 
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I played this too when the Unibet tournament was on. 3100 spins later and I hadn't hit a single free spins bonus. I enjoyed the leaderboard prize of 25 free spins at 10p on Viking Runecraft more than anything this turd slot showed me.

You can all say what you want about this slot...for me, it can go and die in hell along with pretty much every other NotEnt balance bleeder (which is probably 95% of their games catalogue).
 
eizei said:
NetEnt finally makes a slot that seems to dish out actually big wins a decent amount of time and people are still complaining why am I not surprised. I think this game is a big improvement over many of their other newer releases and I hope they'll keep going in this direction.
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Just because other netent releases were utter crap and were capped at 500x or 1000x, making a slot that can pay more than that doesnt by default make it good slot. This slot can pay, thats obvious. Im sure we will see some more 2000x or even 5000x soon. But i dont think its a good slot because base game rtp is non existant, it has too many dead spins (1 in 6 hit frequency) and bonus frequency is way too low (1 in 400 or so).

Sure one or two people are going to hit 1000x - 2000x on it, but the rest is going to end up with 8% - 28% rtp. Thats actually very good slot, from casinos point of view, if you have 1 person winning on said slot, and 100 persons losing on it, its not just good, its freaking brilliant slot.

It really looks (and plays) a lot like Jammin jars, so people who liked that one are probably going to like this one too, so obviously there is market for slots like this one. At least they got that one thing right, unlike their previous slots (stuff like jumanji, mirror games, etc) that were made for... idk, free spins giveaways because i dont think anyone actually plays those slots?
 
theapple said:
Just because other netent releases were utter crap and were capped at 500x or 1000x, making a slot that can pay more than that doesnt by default make it good slot. This slot can pay, thats obvious. Im sure we will see some more 2000x or even 5000x soon. But i dont think its a good slot because base game rtp is non existant, it has too many dead spins (1 in 6 hit frequency) and bonus frequency is way too low (1 in 400 or so).

Sure one or two people are going to hit 1000x - 2000x on it, but the rest is going to end up with 8% - 28% rtp. Thats actually very good slot, from casinos point of view, if you have 1 person winning on said slot, and 100 persons losing on it, its not just good, its freaking brilliant slot.

It really looks (and plays) a lot like Jammin jars, so people who liked that one are probably going to like this one too, so obviously there is market for slots like this one. At least they got that one thing right, unlike their previous slots (stuff like jumanji, mirror games, etc) that were made for... idk, free spins giveaways because i dont think anyone actually plays those slots?
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I don't agree with you on this "if you have 1 person winning on said slot, and 100 persons losing on it, its not just good, its freaking brilliant slot". Think casinos actually want as many as possible winning as little as possible (but still winning). Since if one person hits a 1000x win he or she is more likely to cash out and do something fun with the money. If instead 10 players hits a 100x win, most of them will keep playing and lose back all their money.
 

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