Station Defense missions are my favorite so far.

Ironically it's not the P or Ls that are the problem when fighting in a M4, it's the stupid Xenon Ns and Xenon Ms that kill me - they can actually hit me. Xenon Invasion missions are either decent (a P shows up with some escorts) to stupidly hard (5 Ls show up with escorts). However, since you can now tell if a ship or station has a mission in your sector map, it's SOOOO much easier to find this shit it's not even funny. There are a couple of combat mission types, most of which are in X3:R. I've flown into a Xenon sector but with a M4 I just don't feel confident enough to do anything crazy. I have captured a Xenon L but it was so banged up that I just sold it for 10k. I haven't done much in the way of cool shit in game yet, other than taking out a Xenon J by hiding in it's crotch and shooting for an hour. If you've played Xtended you're used to this, however. Speaking of the Khaak, both the Khaak and the Xenon are much more active in X3:TC - I've seen random invasions from Khaak Destroyers, Xenon Q, etc. Oh, and you don't have to be HIT by it, it just has to explode NEAR you. The Khaak get a special type of missile that, when you're hit by it, causes your engines to turn off for a few seconds. Some of the missiles are remote fire - you fire then then click again to blow them up - or at least, that's what the description says. Wasp? (Splits into like 50 missiles and then they all start randomly exploding). You have to spin around and kill them before they eventually get you) or the. The new missiles are stupidly sick too, like the Banshee (very slow, like 100/s, but they don't give up, EVER. The Terrans are nowhere near as stupidly powerful as in X3:R, where a single shot would kill you no matter WHAT, but still, they're pretty damned pewpew. There's a mission early on that you get 3 M5s to pilot that each come with one - if I have to replay that, I'll throw 2 of them on my Sabre and sell one or something. Fortunately, that weapon is also pretty damned good, so. Seriously, their version of the Nova uses them, their M4s, M5s, TPs, TSes, all use the exact same weapon AND ONLY THAT WEAPON. Terrans only use their Electric Beam Things - they will NOT use non-Terran guns or missiles. It encourages you to get different gear layouts or something. Now the're' just 'Shockwave Generators' or 'High Energy Plasma Throwers'. They got rid of Alpha, Beta, and Gamma weapons. I can already feel the addiction kicking in. Unfortunately im in a puny M4, and I have no idea if my weapons are any use after they have rebalanced all the guns and got rid of the 'alpha', 'beta' variations.

Some of the Terran M2s and M1 look awesome close up. I'd never played XTM so all these new ships are completely new to me and they look great. I've just been flying around their sectors taking in the sights doing a few plot patrol missions. Holy hell the Terrans space stations are huge like really really huge.

X3 reunion aim assist