http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=263558&p=4671727

Funny that your opinion is/was the other way around in the german forum. Concerning the issue you mentioned it turned out that the privious coupled parameters (MU like Smoky's damage reduces its reload time) were seperated and have to be upgraded individally now. This now directly availabe parameters starts at level zero. Meaning that if you had a M3+ Smoky before the update, which fired with a rate of 1.3sec/shoot, has after the update a reduced rate of fire (1.46sec). By investing crystals you can upgrade it again. Same is true for the other new available parameters. So with this update some of the micro upgradet weapons (Smoky,Shaft, Ricco and Isida) were weakend but this can be leveled out for "some" crystals again.

In the German forum we have a discussion about the issue for 3 days and roughly 100 posts. The offical statement from Tanki Online is that the values given in the Wiki for M3+ were not correct for all parameters. For example the reload time of the Smoky M3 was the same as the M3+. We have doubts about this but cannot proof it anymore. I read at several posts that the reload time was coupeled to the damage before the update. Can somebody proof this? If this wasn't the case, the update will change the weapon balance drastically, since M3+ is now roughly 10% stronger (compared reload times) then before.

In the German forum we have a discussion about the issue for 3 days and roughly 100 posts. The offical statement from Tanki Online is that the values given in the Wiki for M3+ were not correct for all parameters. For example the reload time of the Smoky M3 was the same as the M3+. We have doubts about this but cannot proof it anymore. I read at several posts that the reload time was coupeled to the damage before the update. Can somebody proof this? If this wasn't the case, the update will change the weapon balance drastically, since M3+ is now roughly 10% stronger (compared reload times) then before.