The Scanner things that suck:
- D-Scan sound is godawful, needs checkbox to disable. WE HIT THIS EVERY FIVE SECONDS.
- Probe "Warping" sound cribbed from Star Trek is godawful (and I like Star Trek). Needs checkbox to disable.
- Probe "Distance"/"Move Center"/"Relocate Probe" sound *woooOOOOOooooo* needs to die in a fire. No checkbox, kill it.
- Map ambient sound is godawful, needs checkbox to disable.
- Swooping, swooshing sounds when probing is godawful, needs checkbox to disable.
- Map too bright.
- Vertical lines on map too bright, obnoxious, obscure information.
- Sun massively bright for no reason.
- Range up/down needs to match "invert zoom" settings.
- Probe bubble and D-scan bubble too bright, signature sphere too dim
- Buttons need to go back to previous location.
- Docking in the map wastes a huge chunk of screen space below Scanner window unless BOTH scanners are docked.
- Ability to select one signal and have others disappear removed/broken, resulting in extraneous input to replicate. Roll back.
- Automatically docking the scanner windows in the map REQUIRES you to un-dock to put them back where you had them.
- Showing "No Probes In Launcher" would be useful if clicking it reloaded probes, but it doesn't. Having another "LAUNCH" button below is redundant. You should move the "No Probes Loaded" message INTO the "Launch/Analyze" button, so it's less clutter.
- Green/Red: Horrid Christmas colors, IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE if colorblind (~8% of the male population). Seriously, use Amber or Teal or Violet or Purple or ANY OTHER COLORS than Red and Green.
- We are not submarines, we don't want/need submarine noises. Spaceship, Submarine. Spaceship =/= Submarine.
- Filter Hotkeys have always been useless, because we cannot alter, re-order, or delete/hide the defaults. NO ONE uses your defaults, and only the very first user-made filter gets assigned a hotkey in D-scan (0). Now they're doubly useless because they effect both windows--1-0 are essentially useless as keybinds.
- MAP CENTER IS OFFSET WITH CAMERA OFFSET, even if the option to "Offset Interface With Camera" is disabled. HELL TO THE NO.
The things I like:
- Recover Probe sound: Okay, useful.
- "Analyze" button click sound: Okay, laid back and not obnoxious.
- Icons added to Probe Scanner: Could be useful, I like it.
- The faint starfield/nebula in the background of the map is nice.
- Holding D-scan button and scanning a particular object is excellent.
Look, CCP, here's the real issue: You added a ton of clutter and what should be optional sounds/tweaks, but the Scanner windows don't have a dedicated Options tab like Overview does. If you add all these sounds, we need to be able to turn them down/off individually. If you add visual effects (map brightness, vertical lines, etc) these need toggles to turn on/off.
I love the ambient ticks and clicks of the UI, and having to turn them all off because of one sound is ridiculous.
And if you want color variance, you NEED to take into account colorblind players--if you're gonna insist we need a wider variety of colors,
LET US PICK THE COLORS OURSELVES. That way everyone gets more features, and they can turn off what they don't want/need, and you account for visual problems.
Everything could be fixed with a dedicated Scanner Options menu to toggle off or decrease visual and audio effects and features. And to re-order filters, hide/delete default filters, and assign filter hotkeys independently. But the main problem is
you were told these were issues weeks ago. Hell, I mentioned the red/green colorblind problem on the forum post detailing patch notes myself. You have to listen to feedback before implementing changes, or you will **** users off and they'll quit.
So, at the very least, let us select which "version" of the scanner to use: The Original, the v2 we had until this week, and this new v3--at least until you add said options menu.