Impressions of 5.0 to date

[LuckyOne]

Battleships - Not fun anymore, feel totally underwhelming

BCs - Interesting concept, but the arcs on the big back firing gun feel too restricted. You are losing DPS all the time if you don't bind the roll keys.

Cruisers - Sh** core energy, need to run 4 pulses minimum to deshield something bigger than a GB. The only thing they supposedly do good is dodge, but it often fails because of the small thruster capacity.

PvE - Can't comment on encounters, haven't tried yet but the ones I did approach feel overwhelming to solo. You get instantly deleted in any bigger boat, and have to dodge all the time in a small one. Missions were a bit hard at the start, now they're doable.

GBs - Okay, maybe even a bit overpowered in groups

Bombers - They sucked at the start, now with magic back they are fine. I love the changes to the Hellfires!

Fighters - The missiles now have more viable loadouts, that's good!

Systems - Probably the best thing of the patch

Story - I feel the time skip left too many holes, and made players feel like it's not their "own" story, as lots of stuff was changed without any events.

JDs - interesting change but needs +1 base range, and make it unlimited with matrices, or at least matrices should do +3 range, as they are underused now

Docking Modules - Nice to see these fixed

Cloaks - Was hoping for one crucial change, and that is to make cloaked ships only show region if possible or Unknown on player list. I feel it could work now when they only last for a longer time when staying still.

Econ
- feels unfinished so far (only a couple "best routes"), and I don't mean adding 20 commodities to every base - that's just bad for usability.

PoBs - Refineries are cool and good

Sieges - Seem to be more balanced now. Maybe the ammo is a bit too expensive though ?