Basicaly Joubarbe created his own genre here :-) It is like playing a slower version of Sins of a Solar Empire from the perspective of a single pilot with the ability to influence fleet battles. Mayhem takes the balance and fixes from LU, puts LUs empire management features to good use, applies it's own little rebalancing (for example a debuffed player with slower strafing speed) and ultimately creates an interesting blend with a strategy game.
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Just don't forget: NEVER use random vanilla mods with LU or bunnies will die !!! Everything is nice and balanced, without big bumps or ditches. You will also notice that many of your favourite vanilla ships with exceptional characteristics got heavily debuffed.
LU streamlines nearly everything and some of the more exotic things like ammunation based cannons are completely cut from the game. You can optionally have two "endboss" enemy factions. But building such an empire feels a bit like a gimmick and the game can be mostly played like vanilla. It also comes with many tools to handle a big empire. But this is required for performance (less particles) - LU supports much larger battles than vanilla and has a better framerate. Combat feels strangely slow in the beginning (heavy weapons fire like 2 times per minute). Less bugs, better performance, very heavy rebalancing of ships and weapons (mostly for the better in my opinion). Go for Litcubes if you don't need the story, but want a more polished game. I can't remember their balancing philosophies, but i had the feeling that XRM combat was overall faster paced and was designed primarily for direct combat control (dogfighting). The engine is a little bit stressed though and performance is not great. Xtended or XRM if you mainly seek new content and stuff to see. But you get better control over your ships with new commands and menus.
The interface can't be modded much and is mostly the same for all of them. I've tried the big ones and would go for the one with gameplay you like the most.
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