Yup i played the first two. :-)

The nebulae fields can be seen up close, but i think that is alowable so you know you are in one. :-)

So far of the ships i play they have gotten rid of the "ram" ships. But i have not seen all of the ships yet. Most likely because nobody used them effectively.

Also i have not found any kamakazi yet.

This one does have close asteroid fields. But you do not see hundreds of them withing a few feet of eachohter. Most are miles apart and in small clumps of differing sizes.

I will try to take a screenshopt sometime to show you what i mean.

They did gewt rid of that awesome artillery gun in Cataclysm and the ability to combine ships. Which i did like in cataclysm. too bad. :-(