It's not just me right, single player 'easy' setting is super easy right?

[Smurff-a-thon2k]

Not a complaint, and I guess I don't have a point here just want to verify that easy is actually this easy:

So I basically wandered around the starting area not doing much of anything but building a pathetic base, taming a few of the most basic dinos, and then by the time I pay attention my character is already like level 80 something, and my first maschops is like level 100 something and doing insane damage, just 1-hit killing everything (yes I just leveled damage in order to gather more materials)

So around level 115 I finally decided to actually start playing...

got the long neck with tranq darts to actually start taming anything worth while.
most things go down from a single tranq to head, Therizine... Argent... Raptor...
yea, the bronto near the base took 3 tranq to the neck... lol
then a second one spawned so just tranq'd him up too

Taming things is near instant, requiring only like 1 of whatever tame food.

I didnt change any kind of server settings, its just default single player set to easy.

Any comments and info welcome

[MrBishop077]

the difficulty setting at the very bottom of game world settings is .. a pain in the bum, and should never be used.
it bulk changes the values of many world settings from care bear to murder bear with little room in-between.
my suggestion is to reset to default, never touch that difficulty setting, and custom adjust the world to fit your play style.
If you do not want to level up too fast turn off single player settings or adjust the XP rates.*(one advantage to single player settings ON is you will eventually earn enough Engram points to learn everything, where with it OFF you will have to make wise decisions by end game on what you want to learn to make **(or mindwipe often..which for the crafting skills % you kind of do anyway) )

[Smurff-a-thon2k]

Originally posted by MrBishop077:

the difficulty setting at the very bottom of game world settings is .. a pain in the bum, and should never be used.
it bulk changes the values of many world settings from care bear to murder bear with little room in-between.
my suggestion is to reset to default, never touch that difficulty setting, and custom adjust the world to fit your play style.
If you do not want to level up too fast turn off single player settings or adjust the XP rates.*(one advantage to single player settings ON is you will eventually earn enough Engram points to learn everything, where with it OFF you will have to make wise decisions by end game on what you want to learn to make **(or mindwipe often..which for the crafting skills % you kind of do anyway) )

I like to play on 'default' settings, imaging the way the game was 'meant to be played' by the devs...

except I fully realize Ark is a special case where there is no real one-way meant to to be played.

That said, I did pick easy world because I wanted to try to just casually get through the game quick in this first real play through, and without dying constantly to various things.

So I guess this world will just stay with whatever these defaults are, next world I will go with medium or hard and see what happens.

Thanks though for confirming, I kind of thought that might be the case with the easy-medium-hard, simple choice button

[MrBishop077]

you can change the settings on the fly as it were, the next time you load into the game the changes will take effect.