Noisy collector limpets

Did a spot of core mining last night, my first since maybe 6 weeks ago.
I eventually spotted that the collectors now fly in a (weird :)) circular pattern beneath the ship when not busy. Must be new with Trailblazers I guess?

But the very first thing I noticed was the noise. OMG. They are so loud now it's beyond a joke. I actually looked for an option in the audio settings to make the little beggars shut up, but no joy.
They just fly around in circles chirping away like mad things. I tried to keep flying along between cores and ignoring them, but it was too distracting.
In the end, I had to resort to scraping them off on a rock each time I finished harvesting a core (more fun than turning the controller off!).

ED has amazing sound effects, and I think this is the first sound from the game that I've ever wanted to kill with fire.
Anyone else finding this a tiny bit annoying?
 
Anyone else finding this a tiny bit annoying?
Everyone, I think.

With all the reported, confirmed, and voted bugs on their own bug reporting site, they spend time on messing with idle limpet behavior, which literally nobody had requested to be messed with. There was a bug report regarding limpets refusing to deposit cargo/materials into the cargo hatch, which appears to be fixed, but nobody asked for a dancing limpet show with associated annoying music. That’s how they value the bug reports.
 
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Yeah, the sound of collector limpets can be jarring, especially over long play sessions. While they’re essential for efficient mining and salvage, it’d be nice to have an audio mix option that tones down just limpet sounds without muting everything else. A limpet “quiet mode” could go a long way for immersion. Until then, manually collecting might be a short-term workaround, but that’s obviously not ideal. Hopefully Frontier adds more audio customization in future updates! I go into more detail about limpet sound behavior and possible quality-of-life improvements in my extended post here: https://www.filemail.com/d/yjirepnwcetetkx
 
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Me, going mining...
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