I owe this game an apology.
Yes, the controls is 10 times worse then in the previous one, but what I thought to be THE dumbest feature does in fact make the game SO MUCH better.

The walking mode is annoying 90 percent of the time, but then, it fucking hits you like a truck with breathtaing visuals, that make you immersed in a way, that has to be absolutely unique in all of gaming.

BTW, one of the things that made x3 click a lot differently then the x4 was the hangar size.

You cannot talk about scale of ships, when you literally ignore the size of fighter. And these ships were pushing the efficiency all humans love so much into an extreme.

I had to use a magnetar to protect my trading fleet with a rapid response jump-engine powered micro-fleet. It was a great tool, since it allowed me thanks to the briliant command structure of x3 to jump into a sector, and immediatelly tell all 4 fighters to sprint into the battle and protect my trading ships.

But, this ship class simply no longer exists. Why? Because the X4 wanted to add much wider allowance to their hangars. But with a gigantic hangars, the scale is lost again.

Yes, I do get, that ranking ships as M1,M2,M7,M6,M8,M3,M4,M5,TL,TM,TS and TP might have been a bit of an overkill, but now, they are just small, medium large and extra large. And that is the other extreme.