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Outsourced 2 Review
Two years on from the original, Nolimit City has sent the contractors back to the Balkans, and the sequel is the studio doing the thing it does best: making you pay handsomely for a fair fight. Outsourced 2 runs four reels of five symbols for 625 ways, and the paytable reads like a misprint until you understand it. A premium symbol pays 0.50 for four of a kind. That figure is per way, multiplied by however many ways the symbol occupies, which is why Infectious xWays inflating one symbol to four high across the board is the entire game rather than a side feature.
This is a real expansion rather than a paint job, which is worth saying because Nolimit City is not above a paint job. Outsourced ran 256 ways on a 4×4 grid, capped at 5,000x, and awarded three to five free spins. The sequel widens the board to 625 ways, more than doubles the ceiling to 11,111x, stretches the bonus to four or seven spins, and adds both the xNudge Balkan Wild and the Elevator.
That ceiling is real but distant, arriving once in 1,162,385 rounds if you are not buying. What it costs to change those odds is what the verdict comes down to.
Pros
- Payouts are calculated per way, so a 0.50 premium turns into serious money once Infectious xWays has grown that symbol across the grid, and multiple infections multiply the size rather than adding to it.
- The multiplier state carries across spins rather than resetting, so the later spins of a good round are both the most volatile and the most exciting part of the game.
- The xNudge Balkan Wild can nudge up to 999 steps with the multiplier climbing by one per step, and several wilds add their multipliers together.
- A win of 100x the bet or better lands about once in 970 spins, which for a game carrying an 11,111x ceiling is a reasonable rate of genuinely meaningful hits.
- The Bonus Balkan Booster at 13.5x guarantees a bonus symbol on the opening spin and on every respin a win triggers, moving free spins from about 1 in 201 to roughly 1 in 8.
Cons
- Nolimit City rate the volatility 10 out of 10 and High is as far as our scale goes. On normal spins with nothing bought, the max win arrives about once in 1,162,385 rounds.
- Nolimit City state outright that optimal return to player comes from not choosing an Extra Spin, so the game offers you a purchase it openly admits costs you money.
- Tilt Spins runs to only four spins, which is rarely long enough for the multipliers to build into anything. The cheapest way into the bonus is also the least interesting version of it.
- The 11,111x is a hard cap rather than a target. Exceed it and the round ends there and then, so anything the math would have paid above it is forfeited.
- Three RTP models are in circulation at 96.04%, 94.06% and 92.05%. Check which one your casino runs before you start buying anything.
Gameplay
Extreme variance dressed as a construction site. Wins need three or more matching symbols running from the leftmost reel, and each pays its paytable value multiplied by the number of ways it occupies, so those small numbers scale hard. Infectious xWays is the engine: it reveals a paying symbol at size two to four, infects every other instance of that symbol to the same size, and several landing together multiply the size rather than adding it. Print Spins then pay the win, clear the winning symbols, drop new ones in and raise the multiplier on each of those positions by one, repeating until a spin misses. Those multipliers count for regular paying symbols only, and the state carries across spins, which is why a round that opens quietly can be genuinely dangerous by its fifth or sixth spin. That escalation is the best thing this game does. Three bonus symbols award four Tilt Spins, four award seven Tiltier Spins, and base game multipliers are kept on entry.
How To Play
- Set your stake between $0.20 and $200 a spin. The 625 ways are fixed, so stake is the only setting to change.
- Wins need three or more matching symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, and each pays per way rather than as a flat amount.
- Land three bonus symbols for four Tilt Spins, or four bonus symbols for seven Tiltier Spins.
- Use a Nolimit Booster to improve a normal spin, or a Nolimit Bonus buy to drop straight into a round. Both menus are below.
- Watch the Elevator even on a losing spin, since in the base game it can reveal an instant bonus mode.
- Decline the Extra Spin offer if you care about return. Nolimit City confirm that optimal RTP comes from not taking it.
- Check the RTP in the game info at your casino first, since this ships at 96.04%, 94.06% or 92.05%.
Bonus Symbols
- Infectious xWays. Reveals a regular paying symbol at size two to four, then infects every other instance of that symbol to the same size. If more than one lands, they all reveal the same symbol, and multiple infections multiply the size. It can also reveal a blocker.
- xNudge Balkan Wild. Lands anywhere and nudges between 0 and 999 steps, gaining one multiplier point per step. Several add their multipliers together. It can also malfunction and stay a 1×1 wild with no multiplier, which is the running joke about Balkan engineering and very much the studio’s style.
- Elevator. In the base game it reveals either an instant bonus mode or a blocker. Inside a bonus round it awards 1, 2 or 7 extra spins, or reveals a blocker.
- Bonus symbol. The “0 days since last injury” sign. Three trigger Tilt Spins, four trigger Tiltier Spins.
- B, O, O and M. Nolimit City’s xGod mechanic. Land all four and Big Szukcess pays the 11,111x cap outright. They can land in the base game and in bonus modes, and they are what God Mode spins for.
- Wild. The green hazard triangle. It substitutes for every symbol except the bonus symbol, though its own listed payout only applies on a full screen of wilds, so treat it as a substitute rather than a payer.
- Blocker. The Toilet Out Of Order sign. It pays nothing, does nothing, holds its position through respins, and arrives courtesy of either Infectious xWays or the Elevator. Naming the dead position after a broken toilet is the most Nolimit City thing in the game.
Bonus Features
Nolimit City publish the split of where the money comes from, and it is the most revealing number on the sheet: of the 96.04% return, 63.52% comes from the base game and 32.51% from the bonus modes. Roughly a third of everything this game pays out sits inside rounds that arrive about once in 201 spins. The two menus below are how you shorten those odds, and the per-mode RTPs all fall within 0.09 of a point of each other, so compare trigger and max win odds rather than return.
One practical warning before you plan around any of it: Nolimit City note that both the Nolimit Bonus buys and Action Spins can be removed in some regulated markets, so check what your casino actually offers rather than assuming the full menu is there.
Nolimit Booster (improve a normal spin)
- Bonus Booster, 1.35x. Guarantees a bonus symbol on the top position of the second reel, and is more than three times as likely to trigger a round. Free spins about 1 in 68, max win about 1 in 391,200, RTP 96.07%.
- Bonus Balkan Booster, 13.5x. Guarantees a bonus symbol on the opening spin and on any respin a win triggers, and is more than twenty times as likely to trigger. Free spins about 1 in 8, max win about 1 in 21,300, RTP 96.07%.
- Print Spins x3, 15x. A spin starting with x3 multipliers on every position. Max win about 1 in 53,700, RTP 96.05%.
- Printier Spins x6, 200x. Starts at x6. Max win about 1 in 1,130, RTP 96.05%.
- Printiest Spins x8, 750x. Starts at x8. Max win about 1 in 113, RTP 96.05%.
Nolimit Bonus (buy into a round)
- Tilt Spins, 80x. Four spins, base game multipliers kept. Max win about 1 in 5,300, RTP 96.03%.
- Tiltier Spins, 390x. Seven spins on the same rules. Max win about 1 in 458, RTP 96.01%.
- Lucky Draw 50/50, 235x. A coin flip between the two rounds above, and the pricing proves it: 235x is the exact midpoint of 80x and 390x, its max win odds of 1 in 845 are the average of theirs, and its 96.02% RTP is the average of 96.03% and 96.01%. You pay the average price for an even chance of either.
- Filthiest Spins, 999x. Seven spins that open with x2 multipliers on every position. Max win about 1 in 90, RTP 96.03%.
- God Mode, 1,111x. Spins purely for B, O, O and M, paying the full 11,111x when they land. Max win about 1 in 10, RTP 96.10%. A lottery ticket, and priced as one.
Action Spins. An optional hyper mode that runs base game or bonus rounds at high volume and speed. It changes the pace rather than the math, and it is one of the features that may be absent depending on your casino.
Extra Spin. Offered when a round ends, keeping the multiplier state of the previous spin, with a price set by those multiplier values. Bonus symbols can land in it. Note Nolimit City’s own rule: optimal return to player is achieved by not choosing an Extra Spin.
SweepsPlays Verdict
- This is a buy menu with a slot attached, and on those terms it is very good.
- Because the multiplier state carries across spins, the premium tiers are where this comes alive. Four Tilt Spins rarely last long enough to matter, so buy up rather than in.
- Nolimit City’s own figures make the case: 32.51 of the 96.04 points of return sit in bonus modes reached once in 201 spins. The Bonus Balkan Booster at 13.5x shortens that to roughly 1 in 8, and is the pick of the menu.
- Grinding normal spins means a 1 in 201 bonus rate and a max win once in 1.16 million. Run the free demo first.
