A simplified explanation of new mods

"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.