Game Difficulty Stuck at 1

[FlyingFish]

This issues started a few months ago. I’ve been changing gathering rates and taming speed in the gameusersettings (single player) because I don’t have time to spend 10 hours a day on a game. I just want to have fun and spend a few hours on the game. Some of the changes work, like taming speed and egg hatch speed, but I can’t get difficulty level to change. I changed it to 4, started the game, it showed 4, played the game, and the highest level I could find was a level 100 raptor. I exited and found it was back to being 1.

The weird thing is a few weeks before I was playing scorched earth without any changes and it was easy to find a level 120. But now, the level cap seems to be at 100 (if I can find a 100, mostly there are level 60 dinos)

It’s like this on both scorched earth and the island. I got so tired of low levels (Seems to be stuck below 70, with the extremely rare 100 that is always something useless like a dodo) I decided to play the extinction core mod because most mods have high levels spawning. And even with a mod the highest level I could find was a 108, and that was after doing a DestoryWildDinos command. I’ve seen people playing this mod and they had level 600s spawning, though I don’t know if they changed anything.

This is what I have now. As you can see Difficulty Offset is stuck at 1. I have changed that so many times, but it just changes back to 1 when I launch the game. The other changes work. What am I doing wrong?

Steam>steamapps>common>ARK>ShooterGame>Saved>Config>WindowsNoEditor>GameUserSettings

MatingIntervalMultiplier=.1
EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=150
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=180
DifficultyOffset=1.000000
XPMultiplier=6.591269
TamingSpeedMultiplier=9.000000
HarvestAmountMultiplier=4.000000
ResourcesRespawnPeriodMultiplier=4.000000

I would be happy if I could just get level 120s to spawn again.

[Midnight Piper]

DifficultyOffset=1.000000 means 100% of the official standard difficulty - that means you ARE set at difficulty 4. Setting your difficulty to 3 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.750000, 2 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.500000, 1 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.250000, all a reduced percentage of the official standard difficulty.

I run into very few dinos over 100 on single player - very few over 30 actually - an experience far diffferent from what I get online. All I can suggest is a regular use of DestroyWildDinos to respawn the dino population, or increasing your difficulty to 5 (DifficultyOffset=1.250000) like The Center so that 150 becomes the max and the level average rises.

[FlyingFish]

Originally posted by Midnight Piper:

DifficultyOffset=1.000000 means 100% of the official standard difficulty - that means you ARE set at difficulty 4. Setting your difficulty to 3 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.750000, 2 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.500000, 1 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.250000, all a reduced percentage of the official standard difficulty.

I run into very few dinos over 100 on single player - very few over 30 actually - an experience far diffferent from what I get online. All I can suggest is a regular use of DestroyWildDinos to respawn the dino population, or increasing your difficulty to 5 (DifficultyOffset=1.250000) like The Center so that 150 becomes the max and the level average rises.

But that doesn't work for me. I raised it to 1.25, but it goes back to 1 the moment I start the game.

[margalus]

Originally posted by Cyprian:

Originally posted by Midnight Piper:

DifficultyOffset=1.000000 means 100% of the official standard difficulty - that means you ARE set at difficulty 4. Setting your difficulty to 3 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.750000, 2 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.500000, 1 would result in DifficultyOffset=0.250000, all a reduced percentage of the official standard difficulty.

I run into very few dinos over 100 on single player - very few over 30 actually - an experience far diffferent from what I get online. All I can suggest is a regular use of DestroyWildDinos to respawn the dino population, or increasing your difficulty to 5 (DifficultyOffset=1.250000) like The Center so that 150 becomes the max and the level average rises.

But that doesn't work for me. I raised it to 1.25, but it goes back to 1 the moment I start the game.

1.0 is the highest you can go with the settings. That will give you lvl 120 dinos.

You can change it in the .ini to go up to the new high of 150.

ARK's difficulty settings are confusing. They have difficulty and difficulty offset. You can change one of them in the .ini to 5 and it will give you lvl 150 dinos. But if you try to change the difficulty above 1 it will always reset itself to 1.

Sorry to be so confusing, but this difference between difficulty and difficulty offset has always confused me. . I just stick with a difficulty of 1 for lvl 120 dinos.

[Kraken:1]

If you want dinos to spawn over level 120 you need to use the OverrideOfficialDifficulty= command where the = is a figure where timesed by 30 gives the max level of dinos, so 4 which is default would give 120, 5 150, 6 180 etc, that is how you see some servers getting 600's, they use OverrideOfficialDifficulty=20.

If you're trying to make dinos spawn more towards the higher end of the top limits, ie you want to see more lvl 100-120's than 4-20's then there is no ini command for that, it's luck of the draw what level a dino spawns at with specific unchangable weighting towards level bands. All you can do is regular dino wipes or killing sprees to try and cause higher levels to spawn.

[FlyingFish]

Originally posted by margalus:

Originally posted by Cyprian:

But that doesn't work for me. I raised it to 1.25, but it goes back to 1 the moment I start the game.

1.0 is the highest you can go with the settings. That will give you lvl 120 dinos.

You can change it in the .ini to go up to the new high of 150.

ARK's difficulty settings are confusing. They have difficulty and difficulty offset. You can change one of them in the .ini to 5 and it will give you lvl 150 dinos. But if you try to change the difficulty above 1 it will always reset itself to 1.

Sorry to be so confusing, but this difference between difficulty and difficulty offset has always confused me. . I just stick with a difficulty of 1 for lvl 120 dinos.

Originally posted by The Daemon Kraken:

If you want dinos to spawn over level 120 you need to use the OverrideOfficialDifficulty= command where the = is a figure where timesed by 30 gives the max level of dinos, so 4 which is default would give 120, 5 150, 6 180 etc, that is how you see some servers getting 600's, they use OverrideOfficialDifficulty=20.

If you're trying to make dinos spawn more towards the higher end of the top limits, ie you want to see more lvl 100-120's than 4-20's then there is no ini command for that, it's luck of the draw what level a dino spawns at with specific unchangable weighting towards level bands. All you can do is regular dino wipes or killing sprees to try and cause higher levels to spawn.

Thanks for the help.
Every time I looked up how to change difficuty, all the forms and sites just said change diffuctlyoffest in the ini. to a higher number, but it never stated how high it would go, or how to get above level 120.