So it seems like the visuals on the new belt is the biggest issue because at 60 fps it's hard to tell if it's going forward, backwards, or sitting still with a flashing. The random colors of items on belts does help but I think it can be better. The problem I find with the noise is it's very "b...

The upgrade chances don't look quite right to me for how it was explained in the article for a 1% quality boost

out of the 1000 gears, 9 would be uncommon and 1 rare.

I believe these are the correct chances instead for the 10% quality boost of 4 regular tier 3 quality modules: