Mod’s Secondary Stats Probability to Increase
When upgrading mods, does the order of the secondary stats play any role in the probability that the stat will increase? There are 4 secondary mod stats. Does the stat in the 1st slot have more of a chance to increase in value than the stat in slots 2, 3, and 4? Is slot 4 the least likely to increase in value when upgrading, or are all four slots equal in probability to increase in value when upgrading? Thanks.
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Update: Had forgotten about the change to second stats when slicing was updated. That explains the skew.
They've never publicized any probabilities for slicing. However, I've sliced and upgraded thousands of mods, and never noticed skew towards certain positions.
That being said, I've also not recorded data surrounding it. I just assume it's an equal probability.
For fun, I just took a look at all my mods with +20 or greater speed. I have a total of 19 mods that are at +20 or above speed. The speed stat positions for those mods:
First - 10
Second - 6
Third - 2
Fourth -1
So, out of my very limited sample size there does appear to be a skew towards the top. However, since my sample size is very small, I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it.
First - 80
Second - 83
Third - 25
Fourth - 12
It really seems like these results are skewed towards the top two. I wonder if anyone has a good way to extract a chunk of the mod results over the entire population. Speed mods should be a good indicator, since those are the stats that the majority of top players slice for.
Oooh, good call! I didn't consider that, and there's no way to know if a mod was obtained pre or post slicing.
Have to take into account how many of those are mods that were sliced to that speed. Several of my 20+ mods started life as green or blue, hit speed back before slicing was a thing (guaranteed hit on greens, good chance on blues) and then had good luck after slicing was introduced. Speed would be the first stat on a green and would be first or second on a blue for those mods.
This skew probably comes from the period of time when the lower tier mods would upgrade visible stats before adding new ones.
For example, a blue mod showing Speed and Offense would perform two upgrades before revealing the last two secondary stats. You had a 50% chance of upgrading Speed on each of level 3 and 6. This would make it look like it historically skewed to the top positions.
Dude you literally always post stuff like this. 100% certainty about things that nobody ever claimed or stated. This makes you seem like a fool, no offense, but please stop assuming things just because they seem obvious to you. Unless it's been officially stated by the devs, or unless you are a dev or know a dev personally and this was confirmed to you, please refrain from stating things as if they are facts.
You're right, nobody at CG has confirmed this in any way. However, since mods 2.0 launched this has been accepted as fact in the forums. A quick search turned up a half a dozen posts stating the 25% chance and none of them were meet with opposition. Do you offer new information that might change our understanding of the chance of each slot upgrading?
= 0,39%
Basically the odds of getting 30 speed secondary are very very very low
I'm a CG burner account who always posts things without any official confirmation
Its not like I have evidence to back up my claims or anything
Definitely more convincing to link the info like you just did here instead of a statement without explanation
It was a statement that's been generally accepted as common knowledge for many, many months now. Do you expect us to cite literally everything we say on the forums?
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