Slot Machine rooms

[Syraniss]

Is the first encounter with this programmed to never void and give you a false sense of this actually being useful? First one I encoutnered I maxed out (with a sizeable investment) and was happy. Every one since then has voided out after acheiving a decent score basically costing me thousands of gold for nothing. I now refuse to touch them, seems a complete waste of time and money.

[Hanyou]

If a game can teach you to avoid slot machine, I would consider it a great game. lol

[Memfisto]

Are the rewards even good? The maxed out is a legendary relic if I'm not mistaken? It's cheaper to buy it from the shop for ~1k gold than to hope you'll even get to it.

[HoneyDrake]

Originally posted by Memfisto:

Are the rewards even good? The maxed out is a legendary relic if I'm not mistaken? It's cheaper to buy it from the shop for ~1k gold than to hope you'll even get to it.

not exactly. you also get all the previous rewards, too.

What I figured out:

A slot machine is pre-determined on the payout, when the floor gets created.

So, let's say you see a slot machine, you can 100% know what kind of results you can expect at which roll:

So you can create an document, or just use pen&paper for this, and write down:


Roll # | payout | moment to take current payout
-------------
1 | 0
2 | 10 | yes
3 | 0
4 | 100
5 | 50 | yes
6 | 0
7 | 400 | yes
8 | 25 | yes
....



You can, after spending all your money, just go back to the menu and reload your save file.

And just do the "optimal slot machine" now, using the note you created.



That way you can optimize your gold win/loss, while also getting a desired weapon or relic. (the prizes are not randomized).



The gacha machine (the one with weapons only), has also a "crackable code", though it's too time consuming in most cases. You can just spend all your money, if you find it early enough, and if the results are not worth it, just reload and ignore it.




And if you properly do the slot machine, you will be able to multiply your money, and also shards, on top of getting some gear.

[Syraniss]

That totally sounds like the kind of cheesy min maxing I would be tempted to do to achieve success.... it also sounds totally unintended and unfun way to play the game.

[Tim]

Originally posted by Syraniss:

That totally sounds like the kind of cheesy min maxing I would be tempted to do to achieve success.... it also sounds totally unintended and unfun way to play the game.

^ So this.
Hahahaha

[Neemys]

There is enough RNG in this game to not bother with slot machine and the like.

[Shin]

I once got the jackpot...but it happens very rarely. Usually it seems like a waste of money.

[roddy]

I am too lazy to cheese it, so I have lived with three (3) bust outs on the slots. I have since avoided them like a plague.

[I]

Slot machines are basically guarantee you a good run, they are crazy strong, you just have to be good at gambling

[LordlyLump]

I have had a lot of luck with the slot machines i see. Very good payout every time i have found it. Very random it seems!

[Hxppy Thxughts]

I use them often when I get the Greed modifier since there's a number of times where a big fight or boss room will just annihilate my gold reserves. And even then it's still a good gold dump if you don't trust your luck but still like engaging with those Dream stones, you can go bankrupt on those sometimes too.

How it seems to me so far is that it's a bad tactic to keep spinning to build it up, chances of losing all progress is way too high before you get to any big payoffs. As soon as you hit gold you claim rewards so you have more chances at spins.
Its a decent way of building up your items and getting large stacks of them but otherwise the payoff is really low. The first tier for soul gems only nets you some 60 of them if I'm not mistaken.