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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxl6Z1pfrPw&hd=1 Albion Prelude's Earth Orbit Battle] theme definitely defines epic space battle.

* [[Demonic Spiders]]: Xenon "M" interceptors. While they're poorly shielded, they come in huge swarms, and 90% of them will mount Pulsed Beam Emitters -- weapons which are ''impossible'' to dodge. A single M can strip down the shields of an M3 fighter very quickly on its own -- add in several dozen friends and you basically need a capital ship to kill them all without dying instantly in a hailstorm of (nearly) hitscan weapons.

* [[Designated Villain]]: As of ''Albion Prelude'', we are clearly meant to consider the Terrans as the enemy, despite the fact that {{spoiler|The Argons struck first, and the Terrans are acting purely in self defense while the Argons are attempting ''genocide''.}}

* [[Evil Is Cool]]: For some, the Split and Paranid empires have the best looking ships.

** "Attention, one of your ships is under attack, Xenon Sector 472... Attention, one of your ships is under attack, Xenon Sector 472..."

*** Particularly when you happen to be ''in'' Xenon Sector 472 and the ship being attacked is your wingman.

** The sector Vestibule of Creation. For some bizarre reason, Betty (the ship's computer voice) switches to a different voice to speak the name of this sector.

** The Teladi's obsession with the word "profits" means they say it ''at least'' 2-3 times when you talk to one of them. [[Sssssnaketalk|With a very pronounced emphasssisssss on the letter ssssss.]]

** Most of the other death cries fit this quite well. "SPLIT CURSE YOU! Awreughrguhrgh." Or in the case of another Teladi, "Gruuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh."

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The Xenon, if you think about it. Imagine a robotic race that only has one desire: to completely rid the universe of all organic life. They do not breath. They do not eat, sleep or anything like that. They do not care about resources. They do not even ''think'', they act purely on instinct. Their sole purpose is to kill, kill, and kill, until nothing remains...

* [[Scrappy Weapon]]:

** The Fragmentation Bomb Launcher sounds like a dangerous weapon. It's [[Space Is Noisy|loud]] and produces a pretty explosion. But it burns weapons energy fast, and unless you manage to hit the target ''before'' it detonates and produces its [[Flechette Storm]], you're not going to hit anything. Its only saving grace is its price tag: as [[Vendor Trash]] a salvaged or manufactured FBL will net you roughly a quarter of a million credits.

*** And if that isn't enough, this level was made even harder with one patch.

** In ''Terran Conflict's'' Operation Final Fury plot, the last mission has you attack and destroy the last [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Kha'ak hive]] in known space. Well and good, except there's multiple Kha'ak capital ships and defense platforms, not to mention endlessly respawning fighters, which requires most players to fly an M2 destroyer to survive. And the sector's jump-in point is about 250 kilometers from the objective, and [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|an M2 can't even top 100 meters per second]]. So after the initial fight with a defense platform at the jump point, you're left crawling laboriously across the sector with nothing breaking the monotony except occasional raids by fighters that can't even dent your shields and are promptly splattered by your flak mounts. Most players use this time to do admin work on their trade empire and/or grab a sandwich.

* [[That One Sidequest]]: '''''Every''''' [[Escort Mission]] except the one in ''X3: Terran Conflict's'' Terran Plot (which is the exception that proves the rule). See that page for the reasons why players avoid them like the plague.

** [[Stalking Mission|"Follow Ship"]], because it takes ''forever'' since you can't just call up the quest giver and tell him the target's destination, even though it's prominently displayed in the target's infobox. "Retrieve Stolen Ship" because you have to make the pilot bail out, which requires you to [[Cherry Tapping]] the target until the [[Random Number God]] smiles on you.

*** Ditto ''Albion Prelude''. The forum moderators have basically put a moratorium on pro/con [[Steam]] discussion for the time being because they're tired of dealing with flame wars.

** Some hardcore players were up in arms about how easy it is to get money in ''Terran Conflict'' compared to previous games (read: no longer takes 50 hours of gameplay to get a capital ship) by doing the entirely ''optional'' randomly generated missions.

*** It should be noted that the idea of an optional multiplayer feature (such as an online arena) was generally fairly well thought of.

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Subverted. The opening cinematic for ''Terran Conflict'' claims that races outside the Solar System are experimenting with AGI. The only guy in the game proper doing anything remotely like that is {{spoiler|Marteen Winters, a [[Mad Scientist]] in the Aldrin System who's fiddling with their #deca CPU ship}}. Then ''Albion Prelude'' comes out and turns it into a [[Brick Joke]] with the Argon Federation's artificially intelligent warships.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The Argon race portraits frequently dip down into the valley, and the Terran portraits to a lesser extent.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: These ''really'' start to crop up if you start to think about who each race represents. Boron are squid, Paranid vultures, Split are warlike humans, Teladi lizards, and Kha'ak are insects/birds. Heck, there's even an unseen, non-space-capable Whale race that's protected by the Boron.

** Made even more confusing by the ATF Valhalla and Terran Kyoto, which are M2s that can carry M6 corvettes.

*** Add to it that the ATF Valhalla is canonically an M0 Battleship. X3 simply doesn't have an M0 classification in its files, thus limiting the Valhalla to being a very slow and deadly M2.