Beam accuracy 9.0 sucks

So i played a couple of years back. Dont remember but about 6.0 i think but when cadle of humanity dlc came. (Human supremacy)

Beam weapons were instant and mostly 99% accurate. It was easy to clean up small raider ships and laser towers, mines, ect.
Meson steams were like a hot knife through hot butter.

Now they suck. i hit about 20% of all attacks.

I got a katana with 4 meson stream and i hit nothing at all longer away than 1.5 km away.

I tried the normal beam emitters M size and i have to attack 3 times before it counts as hitting.
They absolutely suck right now.

Did beams get nerfed beyond the grave in 9.0? I agree beams beside meson were subpar but their instant hit and perfect accuracy made up for that for crowd controll.