Does the Visual Intensity setting affect your score?

Question

Setting the visual intensity as low as it can go definitely makes Beat Hazard easier, but does it affect your score at all?

Does a lower-than-default intensity lower your score? Inversely, does setting it higher than 100% give you bonus points?

If so, how many bonus points exactly? Because I have a pretty good idea of how many points I'm going to risk a seizure for.

Answer

Yes, it does. There's not a set amount of bonus points that it gives. What it does is use a scoring modifier to adjust the percentage of total points you can score based on 100% Visual Intensity as default.

The scale is as follows:

Visual Intensity: 50%/75%/100%/150%/200%

Scoring Modifier: 80%/90%/100%/110%/120%

So for setting your Visual Intensity on 75%, you'll score 90% of total points you would've received had you been playing on 100%. If you set it on 200%, you'll score 120% of total points you would've received, and so on.

Information is from these two Steam threads. One of the Beat Hazard developers, Starg, is very active there.

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