A simplified explanation of new mods

Other than the 6dot mod showing as gold (which is not correct) this is a helpful little pic too.

Even more simple:

Grey: the same as before.

Green: extremely reduced chance of getting speed to 7-11.

Blue: very reduced chance of getting speed to 11-17.

Purple: reduced chance of getting speed 14 - 23

Gold: the same.

Blue through purple now have a super small chance of gaining and upgrading speed that wasn't initially visible(as seen in ops image). This does not mathematically make up for the chance that was taken away. Not even close.

Good luck!

Thank you both- very useful.

Good post. Danke!

Really good sum up :)

Beautiful explanation

"Snake2;c-1629581" wrote:
Even more simple:

Grey: the same as before.

Green: extremely reduced chance of getting speed to 7-11.

Blue: very reduced chance of getting speed to 11-17.

Purple: reduced chance of getting speed 14 - 23

Gold: the same.

Blue through purple now have a super small chance of gaining and upgrading speed that wasn't initially visible(as seen in ops image). This does not mathematically make up for the chance that was taken away. Not even close.

Good luck!

A bit over the top no? Because without doing any slicing yes the chance goes down - but you also get the benefit of being able to slice...

Let's take the case of a stat that's showing on a green mod being upgraded before the update.
1 upgrade, 100%
2 upgrades 0%
3 upgrades 0%
4 upgrades 0%

Now after the update, 1 upgrade will happen 25% of the time when simply levelling to lvl12 but include slicing and here are the chances

0 upgrades = 31.6% = 81/256
1 upgrades = 42.2% = 108/256
2 upgrades = 21.1% = 54/256
3 upgrades = 4.69% = 12/256
4 upgrades = 0.39% = 1/256

Yes it'll take more resources than before and include a 31.6% chance of not getting you any upgrades but 21.1%, 4.69% and 0.39% are all quite a bit more than 0% and identical to current (and future) gold mod chances. I.e. now all mods have the same potential to reach max upgrades just that non gold mods will require more resources via slicing.

Then (like you said) you now have a chance for stats that were not their at the start to be upgraded, i.e. speed shows up on a green mod while levelling prior to update -> chance of upgrade = 0%; Speed shows up on a mod while levelling post update -> chance of upgrading = same a gold mod currently.

If you include the fact that you probably already have a bunch of green blue and purple mods from before the update that have upgraded a secondary stat, there's a lot of opportunity to get "top end" mod stats.

An argument could be made that the resource cost will be too much to make any good use of slicing but not until we have a better idea of how easy or hard it is to do.

Some clarification to add, if you want to see all secondaries, just reverse rules from before of seeing if shown secondaries would upgrade.

So blue is still 6.

Now greens you upgrade to 9, and purples to 3. So then if you want to upgrade any of those, you can continue to 12.

"Snake2;c-1629581" wrote:
Even more simple:

Grey: the same as before.

Green: extremely reduced chance of getting speed to 7-11.

Blue: very reduced chance of getting speed to 11-17.

Purple: reduced chance of getting speed 14 - 23

Gold: the same.

Blue through purple now have a super small chance of gaining and upgrading speed that wasn't initially visible(as seen in ops image). This does not mathematically make up for the chance that was taken away. Not even close.

Good luck!

Given that I already upgraded all my blue mods with speed showing, I could only do a theoretical comparison, but you need to take the numbers game into account as well!

Upgrading a blue mod to level 6 costs 18k credits. That's peanuts. If speed isn't showing, sell it. If speed is showing upgrade to 12 (costs a further 70k). If the combo of primary and secondaries is good enough to keep, upgrade to 15 (most of the cost is here). If not, then trash it (and recover 30k).

Now a blue mod may upgrade less often now than it did before... but you'll have far more blue mods to upgrade.

Purple mods are not changed much at all.

Green mods are almost certainly worse. Haven't experimented enough with them, but they don't seem worth the money of upgrading.

Grey mods are essentially the same, but if slicing turns out to be far cheaper than we thought, they can possibly be made worth it. Probably still need to be sold on sight tho.

Also the devs have said (don't ask me where lol) that they want to reduce the importance of speed mods which is great cause then the is more strategy involved besides

Farming speed mods + having speed mods = winning everything