hi, thank you for playing! the serious mode just gives the crab a propeller hat, it's purely visual
also the transition intensity setting worked for me when I tested it on the windows build - the skybox shader doesn't stretch or get brighter in the minimal setting, and the extreme setting makes it MUCH brighter
we added this setting because some playtesters told us that the transitions hurt their eyes a little, so it potentially not working is a cause for concern..... if it's not too much trouble could you check it again? if it doesn't work we'll have to edit the page to add a warning
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I tested it out a bit now, it seems the pause menu does actually work and changes intensity correctly. But the main menu doesn't work! If you change intensity in the main menu, the game still plays transitions on the previous intensity level. The only way to update intensity is to open pause menu and go to the settings page, you don't actually need to click on the toggle, intensity instantly updates when the page is opened already.
Basically the only way transition intensity is updated is from the pause menu, the main menu only updates the text that is displayed on the setting toggle, but the actual intensity value is unchanged.
Also this does not happen for the hat lmao, the setting works from both pause and main menus. Don't know how I didn't notice that you only get the hat on serious mode! But yeah, I'd advise trying to replicate this and if this behavior is consistent, updating the page to warn people.