First post, it's long, just making up for lost time. Firstly, thanks for the great works, now and always, much love x
..however..

im assuming the 'big three' armour buff went ahead. A quick look at outfitting shows me my (lvl5 focussed) large Plasma now has armour piercing 151. Id read on beta forum that large weapons were getting armour penetration doubled to compensate for the big 3 armour buff, huge weapons penetration tripled. What im seeing is an increase, but its not doubled, but ok im good with that. (I know PAs have had a bunch of tweaks independently of overarching changes so its fine so far) Having a gander at a medium PA (again lvl5 5 focussed) shows it has armour penetration of 155. That is more than doubled its previous value, and higher than the large PA. Which it wasnt before. And cant be right, surely? Im confused, not overly bothered, i still have great love for fdev, this is unshakable. I am a bit shaken tho. Id thought the reason for these changes was to make large and huge weapons more effective against the biggest ships' hulls, and penalise medium and small weapons by default. I was expecting a nerf on my medium PAs so im still good with this. Still seems broken. heyho. Thats fine though. 'Fdev error in your favour, go straight to go, collect +25% bounty on the next conda' I want Elite Monopoly next christmas please.
.... however .... Large MC armour penetration is still 55 (lvl4 oc) [rate of fire is down from 2.2.02, dps down accordingly (now 26.2/s) incidentally, so theres no offset]
If the armour increase went ahead, then these MCs will now flail haplessly at a conda/corvette/cutter, like attacking a bear with a fly swat. given approx 200 resist, my 55 penetration, actual damage done to hull about 1/4 of 26.2 dps = well looking at the maths, its nothing, multipled by nothing, carry the nothing, divided by nerfing squared, = dead python, or callused secondary fire thumb at least.
Its fine I wanted to use cannons more & im glad im forced to try, but before I rush off to Sargey and get my cannon longrange mods.. is it intended to make MCs a more marginalised weapon from now on? given the two apparent anomalies, medium PA with more armour penetration than large PA, and large MC with no armour penetration buff + dps reduction, does this indicate a monumental cockup or is this the Brave New World for the foreseeable?
Im scared, im also brave, very brave and willing to persist but im still scared.
I guess all im asking is will this be rush-fixed following a lot of panicked scurrying or is it all as fdev intended? Just would like to know before I bin my MCs

well ok store them in the awesome module storage thing that's great thanks guys xxxxxx