Eh.. I for one prefer to stick to 4th edition. After that it was too streamlined for my taste - with that modular approach to character generation stifling creativity..
My Ex-urban-brawler bear shapeshifter adept was lots of fun to play though... Just never ask him to knock out a target for interrogation.. the results might be ...too effective.
Had that happen once. Hit the target once, going deliberately for non-lethal damage. Result: Stun damage track: 10/10, Physical damage track: 9/10. After that the group decided to try gel rounds instead in similar situations... ..can't blame them.

I've run a Rigger and a Weapons specialist for 5E. Granted, one of the missions involved fighting a BUG DRAGON (Chicago SUCKED), so my railgun got a workout, alongside me running for the hills due to the fact that dragon didn't like me that much. Neo-Tokyo's mission had me running an assassin and team muscle/stealth specialist. I could get in and do the damage while they backed me up.

yeah.. said bear came from the NAN originally and had the appearance of an anthro-bear thanks to SURGE, hence nobody looked too closely at him being an actual bear. ...that was until some jackass on a Renraku airfield hit him with an injection dart containing K-10, followed by a squad of Red Samurai shooting at him. Let's just say the day of those power-armored dudes bacame a lot worse very, VERY quickly. You really don't mess with someone who can hurl a troll through a bar even without considering the insane physical boosts provided by K-10. Strength 12 or 13 even without the +6 which K-10 added... Add to that the rather extreme capabilities of a melee-adept and you can imagine the ..mess that resulted. Four out of the five he mauled and mangled in a single round of combat. What's really scary, however, is that his Constitution of 13 along with the +3 from K-10 meant his regenerative capabilities were also kicked into overdrive, rendering the troopers' assault rifles and LMGs effectively useless...