so ive been building my own quads for a few years now but honestly im just tired of spending weekends doing soldering and debugging, i just want something i can fly. been looking at prebuilts and the roma f5 keeps coming up but i cant tell if its still relevant or if everyones just recommending it because its the go-to answer on here

main thing im worried about is the stock tune, ive heard prebuilts can be pretty rough out of the box and i dont want to spend hours in betaflight anyway because thats kind of the point of buying prebuilt. also flying mostly freestyle, not racing. budget is somewhere around 250-300 for the quad itself not including radio or goggles

is there anything else i should be looking at in that range or is the roma still the move

the roma f5 v2 is still solid honestly, i picked one up like 8 months ago and the stock tune was actually fine for freestyle, not amazing but totally flyable. i think people oversell how bad prebuilt tunes are, like yeah it wont fly like a custom build but it wont embarrass you either

if youre coming from building your own stuff youll probably want to tweak the rates at minimum but thats like 5 minutes in betaflight not a full retune. the only thing that bothered me was the vtx power felt a little weak in dense trees but swapped that out pretty early anyway

also look at the flywoo explorer or the iflight nazgul evoque if you can stretch the budget slightly. the nazgul especially has a pretty decent factory tune these days, iflight got a lot better about that. roma is fine but its not the only option in that range anymore