Is the free games feature on More Chilli worth the chase?
Oh man, chasing the feature on More Chilli is such a mood 😅 I had a slap on it at my local club on Saturday and same thing, sat there waiting for the free games and they just never landed. Paid out a bit on the base game with the 243 Ways but nothing exciting.
Question for the legends here: is the feature actually worth grinding for, or do most of you just take whatever the base game gives you? I'm pretty new to pokies so no idea if I was just unlucky or if that's how this machine usually runs. Also read somewhere it can be set up as 25 Lines instead, does that change how often the feature hits? Cheers 🌶
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Funny you mention the 243 Ways paying a bit on the base game, that's been my experience too. More Chilli keeps you fed just enough between features that you don't notice you're down forty bucks until you check.
Been giving it a slap at the club near me for years now, and honestly the free games have always been a tease. I remember the old Queen of the Nile days when features felt like they turned up regularly enough to plan a session around. This one's got more of a sting in the tail. When it does hit, the multiplier chillis can turn a quiet arvo into something memorable, turned a lazy A$20 into a decent night once when three of them stacked up. But that's the trap isn't it, you sit there for two hours chasing that one hit and it mostly never shows.
Worth knowing the venue sets its own RTP within the state minimum, so the club version up my way might play tighter or looser than the pub one someone else is on. Hard to compare notes when every machine's tuned differently.
I remember the old slots first-hand.
That's the classic More Chilli trap, the base game drip feeds you just enough to keep feeding it. No single RTP on these either, club setups can run tighter than the pub one, so your arvo might've been a dead config.
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More Chilli took a fair few of my arvos before the feature ever came good for me, and I copped it on both setups over the years. The club near me runs it on 25 lines while the pub up the road has the 243 Ways version, and honestly they feel like two different machines. The ways one dribbles back just enough to keep you parked there, same as BonusVegas said, then you stand up and realise the afternoon's gone. The line config plays chunkier, fewer hits but they mean something when they land.
The free games themselves are worth the wait when they finally drop, that's the cruelty of it. One good feature can wipe out a whole session of chasing, which is exactly why we keep feeding it. Old-school grind this one, patience machine through and through. My rule after too many dead arvos is give it a set amount, if the feature hasn't shown by then, walk. Greed's what keeps us in the chair, and the chair knows it 😉
Been grinding longer than some have played.
Makes sense why mine felt different then, the pub near me has the 243 Ways one and the base game carried my whole session 😅 Maybe I'm being dumb but I reckon the free games are worth a wait if you can cop the dry spells.
All this chat about the club vs pub versions is blowing my mind a bit 😅 I only just realised the two setups could play differently. Guess that explains why my free games felt like they never existed on Saturday. Still learning all this but honestly the waiting on More Chilli almost feels like part of the game at this point lol
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