okay so this might be a weird comparison but hear me out. ive been on liftoff and velocidrone for about 8 months and im finally pulling the trigger on a real quad. i dont have a specific use case, mostly want to do backyard stuff and maybe some light woods flying. budget is around $350 all in which i know is tight with goggles and a radio but i already have a radiomaster boxer so thats one thing handled

the reason im looking at these two specifically is someone on reddit mentioned the crux35 is more forgiving for beginers and the nazgul evoque is better if you already have good stick feel from sim. but honestly i dont know how much to trust random reddit advice. anyone here actually gone through this comparison or know someone who has

and yes i know i should just pick one and fly it but i keep going back and forth and figured id ask people who actually know what theyre talking about

the crux35 is a 3.5" right so you're looking at a pretty different experience than the nazgul 5". if your backyard isnt huge the smaller quad might actually make more sense just from a practical standpoint, less prop wash noise, easier to not destroy your neighbors fence. but if you have sim time you probably have decent enough stick feel to handle a 5" in a more open space, theyre not as scary as people make them out to be when youre not a total beginner

that said 350 all in with goggles is gonna be rough no matter what you pick. what goggle situation are you working with?

sim time translates better than most people admit so dont sell yourself short there. i came from probably 6 months of velocidrone before my first real flight and the main adjustment was just the latency feeling different and obviously the consequences being real lol. went with a 5" prebuilt and did fine. the reddit thing about forgiving quads is kind of real but also kind of overstated ? a well tuned 5" isnt going to kill you, an undertuned anything is gonna feel bad no mater the size