When it comes to slot volatility, one of the most significant mechanics that can make a slot more volatile is the ability to multiply your wins. While all ways pays games can introduce it through stacked symbols, multipliers can add a further volatility element to a slot machine.
Multipliers can amp up a games pays if they appear in a winning combination. On old three-reel machines you had classics like Double Diamond and Triple Diamond, which offered a 2x or 3x opportunity. But nowadays the multipliers are most often used to further wind up big line hits on games that are already pretty volatile.
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Examples abound. The Buffalo series is a great example of it, with Buffalo Gold turning it up a bit with the chance to get multipliers in a line hit during the base game. The newer Buffalo Diamond adds a multiplier for the entire bonus, on top of the multipliers that can be picked up off the wilds.
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Mega Vault lets you collect multipliers during the free games, with the chance for multiple multipliers in reels 2, 3 and 4. But even in the base game you can get one of each and, when lined up with a high paying symbol, can pay very well. It ultimately is known as one of the most volatile games out there.
Many Konami games play with multipliers in various ways; Nouveau Beauties and its sister games will bring out multipliers on certain base game spins and multiply the top symbols, for example.
What a lot of the most volatile machines have in common is they combine other volatility plays together, such as multipliers, all ways pays and stacked symbols.
This serves to make a game have the possibility of astronomical pays… but without the multipliers and symbols lining up a game can also have a ton of dead spins. We’ve all probably had the experience of a stacked reel of something getting in the way and blocking any chance for a line hit.
As such, multipliers become another indicator of a potentially volatile slot. If you want volatility in your life, seek them out! And if you don’t, there’s plenty of games that don’t include them as well. Something for everyone!