Red Baron machine shot me down again at the pub, felt dead all arvo

FreoBlue, yes exactly — same cabinet, same Free Games feature, but the return is set per venue within the state minimum, so two Red Barons a suburb apart can play differently. Worth keeping in mind that on a small spin sample you'd never pick the difference anyway; the feature landing or not over one session is variance doing its thing, and the EV is still negative wherever you sit. I keep chasing those multipliers too, and my notes say the pub one near me is the stingiest Red Baron I've logged 📊

Sorry, dumb question 😅 when yous say tuned per venue, does that mean the same Red Baron at two pubs could have different RTP settings? Still learning this stuff 🙏

SamJackpot nailed it, the pub pays for the cabinet but the venue picks the pay setting within the state floor, so two Red Barons literally next door to each other can feel like different games 📊 My one caveat for the newbies: don't read a dead session as proof your local got the tightest chip, on a small spin sample variance will happily hand you a dozen barren sessions before the Free Games with multipliers finally show up. Mine took weeks of club slaps before it landed, and even then the multipliers were modest.

My local's Red Baron has got to be on a tighter setting than the one at the other pub near the river, I swear 🤣 same Free Games chase, same dead vibes, haven't seen the multipliers land there in months. It really does feel like a different game venue to venue... maybe I just need to shop around 😭

QueenOfSpins, I hear you, though I'd add one caveat: two dead sessions in a row isn't proof your local runs the tighter chip. Venue RTP is set per machine within the state minimum, so the gap between two pubs is real, but you can't measure it from a handful of sessions - the variance on a feature chase like this is huge. Free Games with multipliers is where all the return sits on the Red Baron, so when the feature refuses to land, the session feels completely starved. I tracked a fortnight of visits at my club once: same A$20 buy-in each arvo, and the paying nights were almost entirely the ones where the feature hit early. The base game keeps you hovering around breakeven-ish while you wait. That said, if the other pub genuinely pays the feature more often over months, that's worth noting down, that's the only honest way to compare venues: long-run observation, not one brutal afternoon.

Honestly the triplane sounds when the free games finally hit are half the reason I keep feeding this thing 😂 mine at the RSL pays different to my mate's pub one for sure ✈️

SteveCobber mate, same here 😂 my RSL one actually paid the free games with a nice multi a few Fridays back, then the club version near work felt dead all session. Same Aristocrat cabinet, totally different vibes 🤷🔥

Grinder's right that two dead sessions prove nothing, but I'll back QueenOfSpins on the venue gap - I've felt it myself between the club and the pub versions. Thing is, chasing the Free Games with the multipliers on a tight cabinet is a slow bleed 😭 my rule now: if the feature hasn't landed within my set budget, I walk and try the other machine down the road. Would the Red Baron at the RSL have hit for you, Steve? Sounds like that's the one paying 💸

@Grinder_Hunter fair point re: variance, but my Red Baron at the local has gone so many arvos without a peep that I've stopped believing in luck 😅 then one Friday it drops the free games with a proper multi and I'm feeding it a twenty again straight away ✈️🔥 that triplane sound does something to my brain, ngl

Red Baron robbed me blind last Friday night, A$60 gone and not even a sniff of the triplanes 😤 reckon the pub one near me is the tightest cabinet in Newcastle. But then it hits, that multi drops and I forget all about the dead arvos 😂🔥

@BigWinGod A$60 dead with no triplanes, been there mate. My rule after a Red Baron drubbing like that: walk before it eats the second twenty. Done plenty of dead arvos on it at the pub here, then one Friday it dropped the free games with a fat multi and paid for the whole fortnight of losses in one hit. The trick I've landed on is setting the loss limit before I sit down, because that machine can go stone cold for ages and then suddenly cough up. When the multi lands and you're up, bank it and cash out, chasing another bonus straight after has burned me more times than I can count 😭🎰

lol that triplane sound gets me too, Chris 😂 gave Red Baron a flog at the club Friday, then bam, free games with a multi and I'm up A$180 ngl 🤑🔥 this machine pays when it wants.

Cronulla up A$180 and suddenly Red Baron "pays when it wants" 😏 funny how no one posts the six dead Fridays in between, eh. That triplane sound is just the house telling you a win on paper, right, until the next twenty goes in 🤡 Bet your bank's still smarting from the last flog you gave it.

@DeadSpinRegret mate no one's saying it pays every visit, that's the whole point of the game 😂 I copped dead arvos on Red Baron for weeks then hit big last night, A$200 up ngl. Worth it, ah well 🔥🎰

I've only had a couple of goes on Red Baron so far and it chews my A$20 fast, no idea how you blokes sit through the dead arvos 😅 Is the free games thing random or does it build up the longer you feed it? Keen to know before I feed this thing another twenty 🙏

@Cronulla_True good result mate, A$180 off a free games multi is the dream hit on Red Baron 👌 But DeadSpinRegret has a point buried in his trolling, memory picks the wins and forgets the flogs. I've had plenty of Fridays where that triplane sound was the only entertainment my A$50 bought, no feature all session 😭 To the newbie, from what I've seen the free games just land randomly, feeding it more doesn't build anything up. My rule at the pub: set the budget before you sit, if twenty dies with no feature, that's the machine telling you to walk. Chase it and you'll post the same sad arvo thread as Chris did 🎰

Red Baron free games are random mate, no meter building. Some arvos it just won't fire, then next Friday I'm up A$300 off the feature 🤑🔥

Red Baron free games are fully random yeah, no meter. That's half the fun imo, could fire any spin 🤑 Once paid my whole Friday in one feature, was shaking laughing 🔥

@Freo_True cheers, that's good to know 😅 I'd been feeding Red Baron thinking the feature was "due" after a dry arvo. So it's pure luck any spin, cool. Do you still bet small while waiting for it or go bigger near the feature? Still learning this stuff 🙏

@SpinToWin_Club that A$300 feature sounds nice, but for every Friday like that there's a dry arvo like the OP's, and the machine only remembers the boring one. Red Baron's been chewing through my twenties at the local for years, random trigger or not. BrizzieTrue, bet small the whole session, no "going bigger near the feature" because there's nothing to get near. Each spin is its own thing. And mate, screenshot the hit if it's real. Believe it when you cash out.

@John_Cairns same here mate, Red Baron running hot and cold keeps me coming back 🔥 last dry arvo nearly did my head in, then one feature and I'm laughing again, ah well 🎰