X3 really needs better combat AI.
This. The current's AI's tactic of "Beeline towards an enemy while making no attempt to dodge incoming fire and THEN take evasive action once I'm half dead" isn't working for them. I'm still hoping they'll buff out all the minor errors/glitches/inconveniences in this next game.
Indeed.
Space Force: Rogue Universe has some of the best space combat AI I've seen in a while.
Enemies will kill their engines, spin around rapidly to shoot at you, spin around and afterburn away, then come back at you from the direction of the sun so that you cannot see them, and they will repair their ship with nanobots (although they do it WAY too much when you're level 30 or above) versus the stupid X3 "run at you and tap the fire button once in a while, then turn around and use only the turret" method