New Slot Announcement Max Megaways 2 by Big Time Gaming

[dunover]

Due out on 27 July, BTG said it's addressed 'everything that was wrong with Max Megaways'...

hey!! According to Shite & Blunder's info sheet, it has a max win potential (in testing) of 147,620x stake!!

 

[slotmaster]

Also just got the email from BTG, they are doing a copy of Buffalo but in megaways!!! for a new release as well.

Wow max megaways 2 already!

 

[Jono777]

Due out on 27 July, BTG said it's addressed 'everything that was wrong with Max Megaways'...

hey!! According to Shite & Blunder's info sheet, it has a max win potential (in testing) of 147,620x stake!!

?

 

[bamberfishcake]

I wonder what the issues were that needed addressing.

Quite interesting that a follow-up has come so quickly. I guess we will see Max Megaways slip out quietly via the back door.

That potential is pretty impressive. But, not that appealing to me personally, considering in 5 years, I have not won more than 8,000x bet.

I am sure a streamer somewhere will see a max win on a 10 EUR bet though. Some players streamers get all the luck.

 

[dunover]

Also just got the email from BTG, they are doing a copy of Buffalo but in megaways!!! for a new release as well.

Wow max megaways 2 already!

You mean this? Played it a while ago, here's the video:

 

[dunover]

I think it's only fair to post this video of the latter game too:

(Contains two 'peak potential' bonus set-ups that were actually troughs lol)

 

[09237653]

Didn't get on with the first one, will probably give it a try some time though, is it just me or is the BTG magic fading a bit on their newer releases? maybe because of the now standard feature buys and super scatters.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Hmmm this is certainly a lumpy bugger!

It cost 366x bet (!) for my first bonus, which took over 900 spins and nearly an hour and a half to come in, fortunately it was the enhanced free spins, which kicked back 333x to put me pretty much right back to where I started

I'm getting a bit tired of hearing, 'The name's Megaways, Max Megaways', only to watch said Max Megaways splutter out like an impotent fruit fly.

I shall continue to ride out the variance waves and hope for the best, hard game to bonus though, fortunately I have Astro Bot on my PS5 to fill in the dead patches when not much is happening. (i.e. Most of the time.)

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Bugger can certainly do some big multipliers, although your purple gem wins aren't nearly as potent as they are in Bonanza. (The rules explicitly stake that it caps out at 99x.)

There's a real bonus buy enticement sort of feel about this one to me, but I won't succumb, and do it the old fashioned way. The base game isn't too bad at grinding along really. Not into Bonanza territory but not terrible.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

0.5x bonus round.

First nine spins were dead, last spin paid 12p.

That's the Power Of Megaways!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Enhanced free spins, (this costs 200x if you buy it), I landed this naturally as I don't do feature buys. Note the diamond scatter on reel 6 which turns it into the enhanced free spins. Although the word 'enhanced' is probably a bit optimistic here.

Paid 5x.

 

[dunover]

Enhanced free spins, (this costs 200x if you buy it), I landed this naturally as I don't do feature buys. Note the diamond scatter on reel 6 which turns it into the enhanced free spins. Although the word 'enhanced' is probably a bit optimistic here.

Paid 5x.

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Ah, the dreaded 'traffic light' enhanced bonus which gives red-yellow-green the worst one of the lot likely to stuff you. Same on the Max 1 version, the combo you want to avoid.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Ah, the dreaded 'traffic light' enhanced bonus which gives red-yellow-green the worst one of the lot likely to stuff you. Same on the Max 1 version, the combo you want to avoid.

The two-scatter retrigger in particular feels really bad, I swear the top reel switches to a different reel set so that it can troll you with one scatter blockers, instead of two scatter blockers like you get loads of when you need three for a retrigger.

Sometimes the maths on Megaways games, and indeed BTG's stuff as a whole, starts to fall away a little bit and you can see the machinery whirring away underneath. (Rasputin Megaways with its fully evolved reels being perhaps the worst offender.)

I get why they have to do all this stuff with dynamic reel sets and blocker setups, alternating reels for the symbols and so on, otherwise we'd have slots paying out 300% RTP or some other such nonsense, but when you're on the wrong side of it, it can start to get a little tiresome.

I'll stick at it, I'm locked on target now, I need either a big recovery win, or see it to a bust.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Well that's the end of my (current) Max Megaways 2 adventure. Stats below. RTP is well off the pace.

Feature frequency finished up at 1/343, average pay at 77x, although a couple of higher outliers there (333x and 292x) are doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Remove those from the equation and it would have been quite a bit more brutal.

Also note that I got two retriggers, and those features were two of the worst, at 14x and 7x (!). These were both where one of the bonus items was the two scatter retrigger, which is a terrible bonus item to get. The best one IMO seems to be the wild replacement which switches out of one of the regular symbols for a wild on reels 2-5, and really helps pull some wins out of the bag.

It has a moderately grindy basegame but don't expect any big wins in there, in 5145 spins it didn't top 50x once.

So alas a big win eluded me on this one, total loss was 870x stake. (£150 deposit plus wins from Clash Of Spins.) Total playtime wasn't dreadful though, coming in at around eight hours.

I'll probably have another bash at this one, because I'm stupid and stubborn like that

 

[TheAddict]

Buy time.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Buy time.

Not a chance! I've had 1x off the normal feature and 5x off the enhanced feature, imagine having bought those fuckers!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Once more unto the breach!

Stupid bastard thing.

I have a slight sense of trepidation about this one, it's a really volatile slot (more so than some of BTG's other HV offerings), so it'll slice through another £150 without much trouble if the mood takes it.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

You've just got to stick with it Hasn't repaired all the damage, but it's pulled a good chunk of it back.

The two-scatter retrigger bonus item did piss-all as usual, but a Max Megaways, in the free spins, on a solid multiplier and a tumble that actually went right, paid nicely.

Round finished at 647x.

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You're not fancying your chances of an Ace on reel one after this tumble, right?

But it happened!

Solid bonus.

 

[The Viking]

Tried the orginal Max Megaways Chop ?
Ive had way more big hits on that one
3 x past 1000x

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Tried the orginal Max Megaways Chop ?
Ive had way more big hits on that one
3 x past 1000x

I have not, rather stupidly I carried on plugging away at MM2 to push my luck and it didn't exactly pan out, so despite hitting 647x earlier in the evening I've still ended up a bit below my starting point

Tonight's features are in the green box below, the enhanced spins delivered another stinker (17x) but then redeemed themselves a bit with a final 131x, which still isn't exactly magnificent.

7937 spins up to now and it still hasn't managed 50x in the base game!

I think this one might be a bit too HV even for my low stakes plugging away style of play, I basically just ignore it and sit on the couch playing Astro Bot until it needs some interaction (100 spin block to start, or it's hit a feature), so it's not a problem in that regard.

However the features can take so long to come in, (70-90 minutes isn't rare, as you can see from the length of the Bandicam clips below), and it's entirely capable of 10x or less, with around 20-30x not being uncommon. Add those two things together for any length of time and it'll shred you.

I had it in my head I'd stick at it until it finally coughed 1000x, but I think that might be a bit of a fool's errand. And that's coming from someone who doesn't usually mind taking on stupid quests

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Final punt at this, with the balance left over from yesterday.

1000x or bust. LOL.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Christ this game is hard work. Got a three scatter retrigger with the two scatter retrigger bonus item in play, ten extra spins which takes the round to 20 free spins. Maybe this will be a good pay?

Nope, dead spin city and the round finishes at 29x.

I'm actually having a decent run on feature triggers at the moment but they're all paying wank:

7x, 13x, 23x, 29x with 135x being the high point.

Tough game to win on.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

These are the ones that kill you on this. One hour of solid spinning for a 1x bonus round.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

This was a bit of a bonkers one, the two scatter retrigger bonus item doing some heavy lifting for once and retriggering out to a total of 40 spins! (5 spins per retrigger, from the base of 10 spins, although one of the retriggers was three scatters which does 10 extra spins.)

With a finish point of 482x I shouldn't really complain but with that monster multiplier towards the last few spins it felt so close to being magnificent.

Anyway, as you can see, still very much in the game! TBH at this point I'm content enough, yes I'm still down on this overall but I've been proper spannering it and I've still got a decent balance.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Decided to call it at £200 and withdraw.

I've made £278 of deposits to play this game (the rest was from Clash Of Spins and Weekend Booster), so a £200 withdrawal is still a loss, but only £78 as opposed to £278!

At my low point on today's session I was down to £30 and staring down the barrel of a bust out, so that's a pretty decent recovery.

Here are the stats from three days of plugging away at this bugger.

Feature frequency finished up at 1/282 which I suspect is probably pretty close to the expected average frequency.

As you can see from the details in the second screenshot, I had a good rally this evening with some solid paying features, after that offensive 1x pay!

 

[dunover]

Decided to call it at £200 and withdraw.

I've made £278 of deposits to play this game (the rest was from Clash Of Spins and Weekend Booster), so a £200 withdrawal is still a loss, but only £78 as opposed to £278!

At my low point on today's session I was down to £30 and staring down the barrel of a bust out, so that's a pretty decent recovery.

Here are the stats from three days of plugging away at this bugger.

Feature frequency finished up at 1/282 which I suspect is probably pretty close to the expected average frequency.

As you can see from the details in the second screenshot, I had a good rally this evening with some solid paying features, after that offensive 1x pay!

IIRC the feature frequency is 1/275 on it, so you're pretty much bang on the money there. If not, it was 1/250 but something in the back of my mind says the former is right.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

IIRC the feature frequency is 1/275 on it, so you're pretty much bang on the money there. If not, it was 1/250 but something in the back of my mind says the former is right.

Yeah 10K spins is usually enough to make a decent stab at average feature frequency, you'll generally be within +/- 10% in either direction at that point in my experience.

As for MM2, not a bad game IMO, as long as you know what you're getting yourself into.

One thing I would draw attention to is my RTP, which at 94.64% over 11,562 spins is below T-RTP on this game, and represents a loss, but would be above T-RTP on a 94% slot!

With a 96.xx slot I can be below the curve and take a modest loss over that spin number, but it's not a wipe out. Do that many spins on a 94.xx slot and run a couple of percent below T-RTP, all of a sudden you've been getting 92% which is going to brutalise a balance. Also you're going to, on average, get far more spins with a 96% slot, which gives you a greater 'hit zone' in terms of getting those decent wins and features, whereas on a 94% slot, you'd be long bust out.

I know I've banged this drum enough in the past already, as have you dunover, but it can't be stated often and loudly enough how insane 94% slots are from a player perspective. Steer clear!

There is no way on earth I'd try this sort of shit with a 94% incarnation of MM2.