so ive been flying a self built 5inch for the past two years and finally decided to grab a prebuilt just to have something i dont have to worry about constantly. went with the nazgul evoque f5 because a buddy swore by it and the price felt reasonable for what you get out of the box.

first thing i noticed is the video feed is actually pretty solid for a prebuilt, they put a decent camera on it and the vtx output is not bad at all. the frame feels sturdy too, took a couple nasty hits into a chain link fence and nothing snapped which surprised me. motors seem fine, spun up smooth and it didnt feel sluggish on takeoff.

but the tune straight from the factory... i dont know man. it was flyable but definitely had that kind of mushy mid throttle feel and i could notice some oscillations on fast rolls. spent maybe two hours in betaflight tweaking the pids and filter settings and now it feels much better. not perfect but way more locked in. i think a lot of prebuilts just ship with safe tunes that work for most people but if youre used to a dialed in custom build you will definitely want to go in and adjust things.

overall pretty happy with it for a grab and go quad. anyone else running one of these or the v2? curious if the v2 tune is any better out of the box

yeah the factory tune on basically every prebuilt ive ever touched has been tuned for someone who just wants it to not flip out. its kind of the nature of the thing, they cant know what props youre gonna run or what battery weight youll be using so they go conservative. the evoque f5 is actually one of the better ones ive seen though, at least they dont ship it with master multiplier cranked down to 80% like some of the cheaper ones do.

i ran a v1 for a few months and the main thing i changed was bumping d term a little and turning off some of the rpm filter notches that were adding latency. once i did that it was genuinely fun to fly. never got around to trying the v2 but from what ive read online the motor spec is slightly different and the stack might be revised, not sure if the tune carries over well or if they adjusted it.

chain link fence hits and nothing broke?? thats actually impressive for a 5inch. ive snapped arms on way more expensive frames doing less. might have to look at this one, been wanting something i can just throw in a bag without doing a full preflight checklist every time lol