Had basically almost the same experience but I had to turn off Velma Mode due to the snow covering up the glasses constantly. I think the new signal scanner station is very good, but it misses a lot of critical points of composition that the previous one had. The old station was all white and every button was colored, now I can barely tell where everything is. The old layout for the filter and polarity part of the station was clean and allowed you to easily see the percentages just by glancing, but the new one adds this useless "volume bar" type visual element that takes up useful space. If they could make the stations less colorful and less clunky on the filter/polarity part then everything would be great again.
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Not what I was saying. The previous screen was clean and easy to read, allowing for efficient and quick actions. With that volume bar thing in the way, it's only harder to do stuff like that, not to mention MOVING THE DETECTOR PERCENTAGE UP FOR SOME REASON??? I have to wonder who said this was a good idea. In a perfect world, the percentages would be right next to the oscillator visualizers.
im pretty sure its supposed to be like this considering the lore implications. its not meant to be pleasant to look at, and its a miracle that its still working despite years of being unmaintained.
the company wanted cheap, top of the line equipment and they got what they wanted at the dismay of the employees.