Beef Lightning Megaways Slot Review – Time to Ring Those Cowbells or Is This a Cow Pat of a Slot?
Videoslots Casino has just added another new slot from Big Time Gaming hot on the heels of their hit Bonanza Megapays slot called Beef Lightning!
The backstory to Beef Lightning Megaways is that it’s set on a farm near Mount Cashmore which happens to be the home of the Bonanza mine, whilst this isn’t particularly relevant or important in any way it does give us a clue where this weird cow-themed slot has been thought up from!
So at the core, you have another Megaways slot with all the usual functionality, 117,649 ways to win, megaways free spins, retriggers and all the usual crazy win potential to be found on this style of machine
Unique to this slot release is a selection of special randomly expanding wilds (Duplicating Wilds) that can fill up to 3 reels completely with wild substituting symbols, along with a unique Cow Auction Multiplier bonus feature which is built into the free spins round.
With a distinctive set of Gold Scatter symbols spelling MOO! to signal the start of this main 12 free spins bonus round, and of course, it wouldn’t be a BTG slot without some re-trigger potential too with an extra 10 free spins awarded for a bonus re-trigger!
The biggest addition to this slot over other Megaways titles is the special Beef Lightning Bonus Coins which are awarded and collected during the bonus feature, these come in the form of a variety of modifiers including Multipliers, Extra Spins and some Jackpot coins which can result in wins of up to 25,000 x Stake just from this Jackpot
Whilst the maximum possible win is stated as a very respectable 56,000 x stake! which is probably achieved from an insane amount of multipliers and cows collected during the free spins round!
Beef Lightning Megaways Slot – Gameplay
| Beef Lightning Megaways Slot - Technical Summary | |
|---|---|
| Paylines | up to 117,649 Megaways |
| Variance/Volatility | High |
| Free Spins | Yes |
| Multipliers | Yes |
| Re-Trigger Bonus Round | Extra Spins |
| Special Features | Free Spins Multipliers Duplicating Wilds Bonus Coin Feature |
| RTP (Return To Player) | 96.43% |
Beef Lightning Megaways – Special Features
Beef Lightning Base Game
The base game is a very standard megaways offering, there are no extra randomly triggered features to be looking for, however, the special Wild symbols can occasionally turn into Duplicating Wilds which can fill that entire reel with wild symbols, this is capped at a maximum of 3 entire reels during any spin, and can also occur during the free spins bonus round too!
It’s worth noting that the wild symbols can only land on reels 2 to 5, so don’t expect the so see any wild reels on the first or last reel!
For this feature to really pay off ideally you are looking for them to appear on the leftmost reels (2, 3, 4) to make winning combinations much easier to form.
So the main feature to look out for is the bonus trigger which on this slot is achieved by landing the Golden coloured MOO! Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels and signals the start of the bonus spins feature.
The usual cascading wins can help find the final scatter if 2 are already in view with the usual “anticipation” of hoping that 3rd one will drop into view!
Free Spins
Land three scatter symbols that will spell out the word MOO for the free spins bonus round to begin, 12 starting free spins are awarded, any extra scatters are displayed as a +4 Symbol and as you would expect add an extra 4 free spins to the starting total.
Bonus Coins
The unique collection feature during the bonus round is a series of random gold bonus coins that can appear on the reels, these include a variety of rewards that can increase the number of cows collected at auction (tracked to the side), their total value, a free spins bonus trigger or even a variety of the special Jackpot Medals/ Trophies which are all tracked in handy Collection Meters shown below.
Filling any of these meters completely awards that particular Jackpot prize with the largest awarding a staggering 25000 x Stake win!
The Jackpot rewards when fully completed and won are added on top of any other regular wins you may have received during the bonus round, such as regular payline wins and of course the Cow Auction feature which is a “multiplier based reward” that is also summarised nicely at the end of the bonus round (See the earlier Screenshots above).
Basically the more Cows you collect and the higher the Auction price rises the greater the multiplied reward at the end of the bonus round becomes.
The cumulative effect of all these small features combined means that there are lots of ways to get a very decent paying bonus round feature on this slot, but if you have won 25,000x stake from the largest jackpot we very much doubt you will care too much about the rest of the bonus round anyway!
Beef Lightning Megaways FAQ
Beef Lightning Megaways Slot
Final Review
The Beef Megaways slot felt more like a complete Pig to actually playtest, honestly testing any Megaways slot with long periods of not hitting bonus rounds is tiresome and frankly not much fun. Bonus Buys are definitely a godsend for playtesting!
The base gameplay isn’t offering anything new in terms of features in comparison to rival Megaways slots, the expanding wilds are a novel addition but tend to be more of a “potential tease feature” given that most time they don’t actually seem to expand.
The bonus round however does make up somewhat for the base games shortcomings, the variety of different Golden Coin collectable items, full bonus re-triggers and the novel twist to the multipliers being based on a Cow Auction grabbed our attention.
The icing on the cake though for this slot is going to be the lucky players who do manage to fill up those Jackpot Meters, with a 25,000x wins on offer this is going to be “Very Rare” and since it’s based on your “Steak” size could produce some fantastic wins.
Overall it’s a decent Megaways slot but contains nothing so exciting feature-wise to make you want to play it ahead of the 100’s of other Megaways titles already on offer at casinos unless of course, you have been desperately waiting for a Cartoon styled Cow-themed slot? Moo!
If so all your prayers have been answered here!
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