I think it is good to brake things once in a while, it keeps the players on the edge, and levelling the playing feald...
The latest realise had some changes to its physics(I think so at leest), and I have to sat it was a gr8 move, you do not feel like a lead weight any more... (some servers has reverted to the old physics stings though...)
over all I think that Nexuiz gets better and better for every realise, even when it brakes with how it was before...
and i love the "skiing"(auto bonny hopping), it is just like the skiing in Tribes 1/2... and the jetpack makes it even more like it tribes... ^_^