I have couple of legacy Overcharged Cannons with HYS which I did not convert and both of them got nerfed with -50% damage postfactum, now the damage is laughable. However I also have a couple of Rails with Feedback and new engineers give -40% heat generation, but legacy mods did not get that... I am puzzled why one legacy modules were change postfactum but others don't?
High Yield Shell cannons got nerfd but Feedback Cascade rails were not buffed (legacy mods)
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Because one was horribly OP and the other was a lucky bonus. I have a few rails with 55% heat bonus (long range), so it does cut both ways, they haven't been nerfed to 40%.
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@Aashenfox
You sure that's not the dodgy UI maths, which used to express (/overstate) the reduction?
The current rail special reduction drops the thermal load on a c2 from 20.0 to 12.0.
What's the thermal load on your legacies..?
@Tandko
Frontier's reason is that the new -40% on rails is intended to achieve rough parity with the best secondaries on legacy mods.
Whenever they change the actual values of a mod or weapon, it's retrospective. So the plasma slug (slight) buff was retrospective and HYS buff (tightening of damage sphere) and nerf (damage) were retrospective.
In other words the discrepancy you identify is between changes aimed at specials/weapons themselves and changes aimed at grandfathering and secondaries.
(Not saying it's right, just saying it's Frontier's reason.)
Because combining -50% heat and -40% heat would resultin either -70% heat or even -90%, which would be OPdue to grandfathering. Convert for new bonus.
Hm...I never considered whether or not it was accurate back in 2.4. I think I still have a legacy rail at 51%, that I haven't looked at in 3.0 yet (but I know other railguns didn't get nerfed, hence my statement to the OP) I'll check later today what the outfitting screen says for the legacy module now.