The Rave xWays

Join DJ P5ychØ Manhunt for a transcendent reel journey on the slot from Nolimit City. The Rave xWays will take you on a wild party ride across five reels with xWays, xSplit and Double xWays Wilds modifiers, a Drop the Bass feature as well as two Free Spins modes with extra modifiers that can lead to wins of up to 41,500 times your stake.

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Slot Details

The Rave xWays is a video slot with 5 reels, 3 rows and 243 ways to pay as default. This can increase substantially when xWays and xSplit mechanics trigger (more to that shortly). Match three or more symbols on successive reels from the leftmost for a win. You can dance until the morning on desktop, tablet or mobile from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin.

The game has a 10/10 extreme volatility rating, a hit frequency of roughly 1 in 4, and a default RTP of 96.09%. Alternative models will be offered at 94.23%, and possibly lower, depending on casino preference. Always check the help file for the active RTP setting.

Get ready to join the crowds on the dance floor when you load the game while DJ P5ychØ Manhunt is at the tables on top of the reels. As the beats whip up the crowd into a wild rave, you might get to see on the reels some characters you would typically meet at such locations including a Party Jesus and a lollipop-licking grandma. Naturally, the various dance tracks provide the main audio to the gameplay.

The pay symbols start at the low end with headphones, lollipops, glasses, a laser gun, and a gold chain, awarding from 0.5x to 0.9x your bet for five of a kind. Five character symbols of four ravers and DJ P5ychØ Manhunt follow, and matching five across the reels will pay from 1x to 6x your stake.

An Acid House smiley face represents the wild symbol, which substitutes all others in win combos. The trademarked xWays and xSplit symbols make a return as modifiers, and lastly, a dial with the words ‘Drop The Bass’ appears as the bonus scatter that triggers free spins for landing three or more.

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The Rave xWays Slot Features

Having firmly established their various x-mechanics in the casino community, it feels often like Nolimit City will reach the end of their creativity on how to use them in different ways on their slots. After all, players don’t want to see endless clones. So far, however, the folks at Nolimit have done a great job in making each slot a unique slotting experience even when the same mechanics are mainly used for the gameplay. Reason enough to see how they will fare on The Rave.

A common choice with the current flow of Nolimit City games is whether to enable the xBet feature before you play. For a 20% increase of your stake value, activating xBet will guarantee a bonus scatter to land on the second reel on every spin. Once enabled, this mode must be switched off to return to the default bet.

At the core of the reel rave are two trademarked mechanics from Nolimit City – xWays and xSplit. The first will divide the position it landed on into 2-6 symbol of the same kind. This also applies when more than one land on different reels. xSplit will split all symbol positions on the same reel into two before transforming itself into two wilds.

On this occasion, the mechanics are intertwined with the Drop the Bass feature that will trigger in the base game when only two scatters land on a spin. They will turn into Enhancer Cells, each revealing one of the following modifiers, which will be applied before any win evaluation is done:

• xWays: Reveals 2 – 6 symbols positions within the xWays symbol, increasing the number of ways. Can reveal any symbol from the pay table chosen at random and more than one landing on different reels will always unveil matching symbols.
• xSplit Wild: Splits each symbol on the reel in two and itself into two wilds, doubling the ways to pay for that reel.
• Wild: Reveals a regular 1×1 wild symbol.
• Character Symbols: Reveals a character symbol. They will be matched if the modifier is randomly selected for both scatters.

And there is more. Hit two xWays symbols on the same reel to activate the Double xWays Wild modifier. An expanded xWays Wild will be created to cover the entire reel with 6 – 11 Wilds. This modifier can be triggered in base game and free spins. A full screen of xWay Wilds will instantly start playing the ultimate Busted rave track and award the maximum win of 41,500x your bet.

Landing three or four scatters anywhere on the reels will get you 7 and 8 Murder on the Dancefloor Free Spins, respectively. Accordingly, you will start the round with either 3 or 4 Enhancer Cells placed on the bottom row of the grid. Landing a fourth scatter after a 3-scatter trigger will add the fourth Enhancer Cell and award + 1 spin while the fifth scatter will upgrade the feature to the God is a DJ Free Spins and add + 2 spins. There are no further retriggers possible.

During the bonus round, only premiums, wilds and modifier symbols will appear in the Enhancer Cells. The xWays and xSplit symbols will apply their respective modifier as in the base game while the Wild remains the standard version. Lastly, the premiums appearing in the Enhancer Cells will get a multiplier added that is shown in a horizontal bar at the top of reels two, three and four. They start at x2 and will increase by x2 every time when a xSplit symbol lands on the reel below them.

Yet again, there is more. Nolimit City included three extra features that can trigger randomly on any free spin. Mashup! will transform all premiums in view into the top symbol. Crossfader turns all royals from randomly selected reels from two to four into wilds. Sidechain will sync 2 – 5 reels and land matching symbols across them.

The ultimate rave track will play when you trigger the God is a DJ feature with 10 Free Spins. This can be done either outright by landing five scatters in the base game or via an upgrade during the lower Murder on the Dancefloor round. The feature will have 5 Enhancer Cells on the bottom row and is guaranteed to trigger one of the extras – Mashup!, Crossfader or Sidechain – on every free spin. As mentioned, no retriggers are available. The round ends when you run out of spins or hit the maximum win.

As usual, Nolimit City included a whole range of Bonus Buy options for players in unrestricted jurisdictions that will allow them a direct entry into the bonus rounds. The prices range from 68x to 522x your bet while a random Lucky Draw with 20/60/20 odds for 202x your stake will offer the chance for the top feature at a lower cost.

Final Verdict

The Rave xWays joins many other creations from Nolimit City that often look absolutely chaotic at times, especially for someone playing the slot for the first time. Since all mechanics can trigger in a single spin, it can be rather challenging to make sense of it all. But let them play out a few times and it will all look simpler than anticipated, well, most of the times.

Admittedly, even we as gaming veterans fail sometimes to guess the correct winning amount from a spin, especially when more than one modifier is triggering. However, that is part of the fun when playing Nolimit City slots as they are totally unpredictable and as a result extremely volatile. But, hit’em right and you will be dancing all the way to the bank.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. If more than on xWays symbol lands on different reels, will they reveal matching symbols?

Yes, symbols will always be matched when xWays symbols land on multiple reels. There is one exception, when you hit two on the same reel as that will trigger the Double xWays Wild modifier which will turn the entire reel wild.

2. How much can I win on The Rave xWays and what are the odds for hitting the max payout?

The top payout for a single five of a kind comes in at just 6x your bet, which sounds low but add the various mechanics into the mix and it can easily turn into a mega win. The overall win potential is noted with 41,500 times your bet. The good news is that it can be hit in the base game and Free Spins with the odds at roughly 1:5 million rounds.

3. Is the RTP different for Bonus Buys?

Yes, the RTP is slightly higher when using Bonus Buys, ranging between 96.20 and 96.37% depending on which option is purchased.

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