Impressions of 5.0 to date

[BobMacaroni]

Battleships and BC - I haven't played enough of them to make too much of a comment. More powercore and tankier with nerfs to strafe turret steering all around means that I've seen that generally the bigger the ship, the better for dueling, which might be changed with enough skill and practice, but... missiles... Besides that, backwards BC gun is... interesting. Not too much of a fan, but otherwise the weapon loadouts seem OK from what I've played of them. BCs are really fun to play

Cruiser - Completely OK in fleet battles. does not work in dueling. STS changes were a massive blow to cruiser players, but that could just be me, since I came during Cruiser meta and abused Storta too much to ever go back to "normal" cap pvp. again, weapons (in general) seem to be balanced in terms of damage. There could be a lot more variation in setups, however, and missiles are... we don't talk about missiles.

Gunboats - Best PVP part about patch. Gunboats 10/10

Bombers - Re add SNAC. That's all you need. It was a little shaky to begin with, but balance is getting there

Fighters - Seem good. Not too much was changed, but fighter missiles are nice

Systems - best part about 5.0. they look absolutely amazing and super fun to see all the new stuff and they are just... good and fun to explore. Especially the new puzzle systems.

Systems part 2 - why remove so many system connections? poor dublin! I dont know what happened to gallia. why remove so many systems? I get that people are more squished together now and theres more chance for interactions, but I liked all the systems. they were cool.

Economy - work in progress. I get it. good direction, though

PVE - Haven't done very much missions, but they seem nice. still not very good for making money though. unfortunately not smart enough to figure out new encounters (they never spawn )

that's about all. as Emperor Tekagi said though, the direction is good. even though it's not perfect yet, I like seeing that the devs are looking to improve the game, and thats a big win