So barrel roll loses some of it's effectiveness. I assume that's factored into the ship costs? I can't tell you how many times being able to do a full 1.0 barrel roll saved my as-s!!!

I think there are two ideas behind limiting the barrel roll:

1) Reigns in arc-dodging. It’s pretty anti-fun to go against ships that are just way too good at dodging arcs. Like when you set a good trap, and then they escape because the barrel roll just fits. With the new rules, the ace player has to set himself up to have barrel roll options, which is a better balance

2) Medium base ships have to barrel roll too, and you don’t want them to have full vertical movement. I imagine this change lets them keep the rules consistent between ship sizes. If I had to guess, you’ll have to line up the top or bottom of the one straight with the hash mark on the far side o the barrel roll.

2 minutes ago, Ailowynn said:

I think there are two ideas behind limiting the barrel roll:

1) Reigns in arc-dodging. It’s pretty anti-fun to go against ships that are just way too good at dodging arcs. Like when you set a good trap, and then they escape because the barrel roll just fits. With the new rules, the ace player has to set himself up to have barrel roll options, which is a better balance

2) Medium base ships have to barrel roll too, and you don’t want them to have full vertical movement. I imagine this change lets them keep the rules consistent between ship sizes. If I had to guess, you’ll have to line up the top or bottom of the one straight with the hash mark on the far side o the barrel roll.

I think they said medium sized BR will work the same as large ship. It may have been in one of the demo games.