New Slot Announcement Narcos by Netent... Plata o Plomo

[pereblue]

A new Netent 243 Ways Slot Game Called 'Narcos' will be released tomorrow 25 May 2019. I've seen this preview:


Personally I've seen TV show but I preffer the Caracol TV show called 'El patron del Mal'.

 

[dunover]

Don't you mean 243-ways?

Tomorrow is 23rd. May not the 25th. Beer last night?

Harry had a go on it 6 weeks ago, says it's OK.

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[Scott1baird]

Poor @pereblue I feel your shame.

 

[pereblue]

hey @dunover , sadly no Beer last night but now time to get some Shots after your post

 

[YouTubeSlots]

I love the TV Show. And seems like they have nailed the whole theme of it pretty well. Even if its in a cartoon kind of way. NetEnt slowly diggin them selfs out of the grave of filth? We shall see, But looks promising!

 

[goatwack]

Looks good, if vice say so myself

 

[dunover]

hey @dunover , sadly no Beer last night but now time to get some Shots after your post

Yeah, I often don't know which day of the week it is myself. Perhaps I need some narcs...

 

[BrianGhattas]

First new Net Entertainment slot since the block was removed for Canadians. Hopefully better than Jungle Spirit.

 

[curremon]

Horrible game... but thats not surprise from netnonent...

 

[Greigssy]

Just had a go and £50 lost in 0.20 bets, highest win was 20x bet
Free Spins difficult to trigger and in the end were hopeless, hardly any wild conversion and none walking, paid 10x.
Catch-me feature, low paying dross!

More near misses than Napoleon and they've went all Red-Tiger with the 5th reel slowing down until the scatters just roll past.
Drive by bonus looks promising but never delivers any useful wilds.

 

[CasinoNinja]

Got nearly 400x in the freespins last night, so it can pay something.

 

[johnnybagel]

I found it much more entertaining than rewarding. The drive by thing triggered a lot but no pays worth mentioning, it just slowly but surely ate my bankroll. A bit like drugs... not that i'd know anything about that...

 

[incrediblestuff]

I like most Netent Games, new and old, and this is definitely one i will play on occasion! I now had 3 sessions on it, each of them winning. Notably the first session took quite a few spins to warm up, but i came in with a big balance from a win i posted in the winner screenshot thread

Had one 600x bonus, and just now hit another 200x...the Free Spins can go quite bonkers, when the wilds keep coming and line up for wins, giving you tons of extra spins. Also had a couple of good drive by's (it can actually combine well with the normal wilds and sometimes comes in short succession, giving you more or less the same effect as the actual Free Spins) and also had some very decent 'Catch me' bonuses.

The latter also seem to like to come in short succession of each other, at least when it in a good mood.

Should've made a screenie of the 600x but... i smoked a copious amount of extra weed before i started playing, to 'get connected' to the slot Hence was laying in bed like a zombie, and thus didn't feel the urge to get up and press the 'ole prt. scr. button!

 

[NeverLucky]

Played the game yesterday, had quite a good time even though i didnt win a whole lot and didnt manage to trigger the freespins once -- seems pretty hard to get but they look like they would have decent potential. However, the "Catch me!" bonus can pay quite nice too, was close to around 100x a few times on that one.

Should've made a screenie of the 600x but... i smoked a copious amount of extra weed before i started playing, to 'get connected' to the slot Hence was laying in bed like a zombie, and thus didn't feel the urge to get up and press the 'ole prt. scr. button!

 

[gk286]

Just had a go and £50 lost in 0.20 bets, highest win was 20x bet
Free Spins difficult to trigger and in the end were hopeless, hardly any wild conversion and none walking, paid 10x.
Catch-me feature, low paying dross!

More near misses than Napoleon and they've went all Red-Tiger with the 5th reel slowing down until the scatters just roll past.
Drive by bonus looks promising but never delivers any useful wilds.

My experience almost echoed this got close to losing my £50, long time to get free spins which was dead. persisted and eventually got some decent sized wins from both features but nothing spectacular. quit a small loss after about 900 spins. Pretty boring after a while with how dead the features nearly always are.

 

[Greigssy]

I gave it another go and lost £40, again on 0.20, biggest return was around 25x and no Free Spins.
Seems the norm now that every slot goes in excess of 300 spins (average) to trigger free spins and with some exceptions they still pay the same average wins as the 1/150 slots.

It has become a lot harder to get ahead on a deposit without being extremely lucky.

 

[goatwack]

Used to be that Netent were reliably 'Medium-variance' and would allow lowrollers great playtime and a chance to build up a bankroll, now as people state they're just like every other sucker with their HV shenanigans.

If I wanted that I'd play BTG or any of the billions of Megaways clones....NE need to acknowledge and recognize what their demographic is and stick to it. Who the hell wants to wait 300 spins on average for a bonus round, given that they're likely to be crap anyway. And no it's nothing to with being 'a sign of the times', companies are completely ripping the p*ss now with their greed

Hope everyone's having a great day

 

[ChopleyIOM]

There are still a few of the good old NetEnts available to play, Wonky Wabbits and Wild Rockets are two that spring to mind, although they'll be on the 'end of life' chopping block soon I believe

As for Narcos, have we established what its variance actually is? It could just be that the reports here are folks running badly on it when its variance is still relatively sensible. The old WMS slots that were very much medium variance could still do some damage if you caught them wrong.

I have no real interest in playing stupid high variance monsters. You know how many spins in real play I've put through The Final Countdown since I hit that 5698x stake win? Zero. Not a single one.

I did rag the arse out of it in free play for a few hours though at £1 per play, lost a shitload of pretend money and didn't come anywhere close to getting a decent bonus round.

 

[xxshepxx]

Vikings is the only netent worth playing.

Tried narcos, £60 down, 40p bets, freespins once and it paid 5x.

Its on the shitlist.

 

[NeverLucky]

There are still a few of the good old NetEnts available to play, Wonky Wabbits and Wild Rockets are two that spring to mind, although they'll be on the 'end of life' chopping block soon I believe

As for Narcos, have we established what its variance actually is? It could just be that the reports here are folks running badly on it when its variance is still relatively sensible. The old WMS slots that were very much medium variance could still do some damage if you caught them wrong.

I have no real interest in playing stupid high variance monsters. You know how many spins in real play I've put through The Final Countdown since I hit that 5698x stake win? Zero. Not a single one.

I did rag the arse out of it in free play for a few hours though at £1 per play, lost a shitload of pretend money and didn't come anywhere close to getting a decent bonus round.

From my limited play on it (around 3-400 spins if i had to guess) i'd say medium to high. The catch me bonus does keep your balance afloat and i did hit it a fair few times, however the freespins seem to be very hard to get. (Also, i hate scatters only being on 1/3/5, feels like a pain to bonus every time.)
I ended up being about 100x Stake up after my play, without ever seeing the Free Spins. IIRC @Harry_BKK played it a fair bit in demo mode, maybe he can comment

 

[Harry_BKK]

From my limited play on it (around 3-400 spins if i had to guess) i'd say medium to high. The catch me bonus does keep your balance afloat and i did hit it a fair few times, however the freespins seem to be very hard to get. (Also, i hate scatters only being on 1/3/5, feels like a pain to bonus every time.)
I ended up being about 100x Stake up after my play, without ever seeing the Free Spins. IIRC @Harry_BKK played it a fair bit in demo mode, maybe he can comment

Here a few details from the game sheet. The RTP is rather evenly split between the base game and the three features. That explains while it will destroy balances rather quickly if you don't trigger any of them for a longer time.

The game trends towards high-variance, appr. 8-9/10, so you would expect it to have poor runs at times. The 5,000x win potential has to come from somewhere

 

[NeverLucky]

Here a few details from the game sheet. The RTP is rather evenly split between the base game and the three features. That explains while it will destroy balances rather quickly if you don't trigger any of them for a longer time.

The game trends towards high-variance, appr. 8-9/10, so you would expect it to have poor runs at times. The 5,000x win potential has to come from somewhere

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Interesting, during my play it felt like the wild feature was just a nice little gimmick not like they were split almost evenly. I did however get maybe 5 or 6 locked ups in ~350 spins so thats way better than average.
Thanks for the chart

 

[BrianGhattas]

The first session was OK. It has potential but I think it’s too much like Blueprint. Best to play Narcos when ahead, not behind.

 

[09237653]

Seems good on paper: JABS mechanics with 243 ways, really bad execution though.

 

[09237653]

Here a few details from the game sheet. The RTP is rather evenly split between the base game and the three features. That explains while it will destroy balances rather quickly if you don't trigger any of them for a longer time.

The game trends towards high-variance, appr. 8-9/10, so you would expect it to have poor runs at times. The 5,000x win potential has to come from somewhere

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Really like these game sheets that you have access too, if UKGC want to do something useful they should make it so all of this information is legally required to be available on every slot.

Did ask about png ones last time but are these netent ones publicly available anywhere?

 

[Harry_BKK]

Really like these game sheets that you have access too, if UKGC want to do something useful they should make it so all of this information is legally required to be available on every slot.

Did ask about png ones last time but are these netent ones publicly available anywhere?

No, I'm afraid not!

Some say the numbers will allow competitors to reverse engineer a slot. Not really convinced that's true but who knows. Would be surprised if just a few numbers would be enough.

What I find more troubling is the trend of more spins to trigger the feature.

Bonanza - 1:450, this one 1:351 and there are many more of the latest releases where you will need hundreds of spins on average to get a feature which 7-8/10 pay less than 20x bet.

 

[Harry_BKK]

Seems good on paper: JABS mechanics with 243 ways, really bad execution though.

Slightly different to JatB because the Walking Wild will disappear immediately if you don't score a win. On JatB it always goes to the far left, win or no win.

 

[09237653]

Slightly different to JatB because the Walking Wild will disappear immediately if you don't score a win. On JatB it always goes to the far left, win or no win.

Yeah I know, one of its many shortcomings
Never actually seen the free spins either but i believe you dont get extra free spins from wilds like with beanstalk unless its the last spin.

 

[Harry_BKK]

Yeah I know, one of its many shortcomings
Never actually seen the free spins either but i believe you dont get extra free spins from wilds like with beanstalk unless its the last spin.

No retrigger and no extra spins when a walking wild is on screen.

Only if you have walking wilds in play on the last free spin will it give extra spins until all disappear or you don't score a win.

 

[DreamRJ]

I tried this in real. Must have done around 1k spins on it. Only had 1 free spins which paid 13X bet from them. Very very poor paying slot yet again from Net Ent. Maybe the money is in the other feature with the 3 scatter in the same line feature where it holds and re-spins and you get those gold suitcases where it upgrades the wins etc etc. I had that feature 3 times, best I had from one of those 3 was 60x ish bet. But if you get loads of suitcases then it might actually be where the money is located. I doubt the money is in the free-spins on this slot, the base game is also pretty boring and dull as well.

 

[Harry_BKK]

I tried this in real. Must have done around 1k spins on it. Only had 1 free spins which paid 13X bet from them. Very very poor paying slot yet again from Net Ent. Maybe the money is in the other feature with the 3 scatter in the same line feature where it holds and re-spins and you get those gold suitcases where it upgrades the wins etc etc. I had that feature 3 times, best I had from one of those 3 was 60x ish bet. But if you get loads of suitcases then it might actually be where the money is located. I doubt the money is in the free-spins on this slot, the base game is also pretty boring and dull as well.

Base game is similar to Vikings if you don't hit features regularly.

Max in the free spins is 1,506x bet per free spin. Would have to check what it is for the bonus game.

 

[Harry_BKK]

Max win in the bonus game is 272x bet

 

[DreamRJ]

Base game is similar to Vikings if you don't hit features regularly.

Max in the free spins is 1,506x bet per free spin. Would have to check what it is for the bonus game.

Max win in the bonus game is 272x bet

Ahh ok I see, so I was wrong then, I mean the free spins just do not seem huge win potential. I was lucky to even get 1 wild show up, mostly all dead spins. Maybe I might try it again in the future.

 

[sufferinsilence]

Gave it a go earlier and I wasn't really impressed, but I wasn't with Vikings either. Perhaps it'll give me a nice feature when I try it again, just like Vikings did

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Apologies for being daft but where is this available to play? I can't see it at VS or LeoVegas.

Thanks

 

[dionysus]

Apologies for being daft but where is this available to play? I can't see it at VS or LeoVegas.

Thanks

Narcos?
Def at VS - I just checked

 

[ChopleyIOM]

What am I do doing wrong lol

 

[dionysus]

lol, I'm not sure, sorry

 

[ChopleyIOM]

TO THE VIDEOSLOTS NEWLY ACCREDITED THREAD-O-TRON!

 

[Harry_BKK]

TO THE VIDEOSLOTS NEWLY ACCREDITED THREAD-O-TRON!

You cannot play some branded NetEnt games in selected countries.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

ZOMG, I just spent weeks asking about getting normal NetEnt games available here on the IOM, now there are a whole different set of rules when it comes to branded games?

 

[Harry_BKK]

ZOMG, I just spent weeks asking about getting normal NetEnt games available here on the IOM, now there are a whole different set of rules when it comes to branded games?

Can you see Motorhead, Guns N' Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Vikings?

It all depends where the casinos are paying the licence fee for the respective slots. And in some countries they are restricted altogether. So yes, never straightforward!

 

[Harry_BKK]

ZOMG, I just spent weeks asking about getting normal NetEnt games available here on the IOM, now there are a whole different set of rules when it comes to branded games?

E.g. in my country no Jimi or Vikings.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I can see all of those, but not Narcos!

 

[Harry_BKK]

I can see all of those, but not Narcos!

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It really depends on the licence. In some countries, there are franchise partners who hold the licence and thus you won't see the game.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

This has been sorted for me now by Team VS support and I've been lumping away at in free play for a while already - lumpy bugger isn't it

 

[Luckyscouser45]

I got ten free spins on this from hyper, got the bonus and got £27 then had nearly £1000 wagering needless to say I failed miserably at wagering haha

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Here's my play session, general review, thoughts on the RTP distribution and so on.

 

[johnnybagel]

Here's my play session, general review, thoughts on the RTP distribution and so on.

Cheers mate, that was interesting. And actually, even though you had some crappy luck with the freespins you still came out ahead and the slot is fun to play so it's hard to have too much to gripe about.

I think tactically playing at 20p spins with a £100 roll was a good move too. A lot of the time when folks moan about slots chomping through their bankroll its probably because they dont know the slot that well and go in at the wrong stake level.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I think tactically playing at 20p spins with a £100 roll was a good move too. A lot of the time when folks moan about slots chomping through their bankroll its probably because they dont know the slot that well and go in at the wrong stake level.

As I say in the video it depends what you're after and what your expectations are.

When I deposit £100 I want some playtime, I want some fun, and I want some features. Having done around 1000 spins in free money mode at £1 per play and ending up 350x down with scarcely a murmur of a response from the slot, it became clear this was a 20p per play endeavour on a £100 deposit, and that 40p could risk a bust out early doors.

The old adage to 'never bet more than 1% of your bankroll' was coined in more innocent times IMO, I think it's entirely inappropriate with the lumpy high variance monsters that stalk the online casino landscape these days, and TBH it never made much sense back in the day unless you were specifically playing known low variance games. (The original WMS slot Bruce Lee for example, would dismantle £100 on 90p spins without so much as a pause to do a spinny head kick on a nearby bad guy.)

Honestly, I think Narcos is a pretty good game, I'd certainly take it over most (all?) of BTG's output.