Everything looks as intended. Would you cut the poor guy a break, he had to get dressed in the dark 
For me, the original set visually decodes much easier and faster. This is not to say that tweaks won’t be made, but the whole “different hue for box and bow” needs to be applied only if there’s no alternative.
Perhaps you should move closer to the chicken? The Ion blaster isn’t really ideas as a long-range weapon (intended), precisely due to the acceleration.
Fixed in v.45 
Idea
Intended
Because there’s 3 beams now.
Intended. The colors you select mainly determine the hue. The color brightness is “modulated” with already existing brightness at each pixel (from the texture). An unpainted surface has different brightness than a painted one, so they won’t match.
There’s a “mono” option in the sound menu to work around this.