ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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Zetnus Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:24am
Single player dino levels/difficulty
I've been playing on single player or local servers for the most part, and all the dinos I see are only level 1-32 or so. I'm guessing this is because the difficulty slider is at 0.2, but the thing is, I don't recall ever changing that slider. Is that just the default for single player, or did I change it and just forget that I did that? Also what is the default on official servers?
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Ploppy Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:27am 
Mine is default 0.2.
BeerMonster Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:29am 
Default for official is 1.0 which has wild dinos up to lv150
Last edited by BeerMonster; Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:30am
Veeshan Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:29am 
I've been pressing the default button each time i start a SP game, no idea what the value is but i see levels far higher than 32.

They apparently just changed the defaults, could be your slider didnt go along.
Marksthecylon Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:30am 
The default setting is 0.2 as you push it up the max level of the creatures on the island will increase. At 1.0 the max levels of creatures is 120.
BeerMonster Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:30am 
Originally posted by Marksthecylon:
The default setting is 0.2 as you push it up the max level of the creatures on the island will increase. At 1.0 the max levels of creatures is 120.

The island is lv120

The new maps are lv150
Daywalker Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:34am 
no island has 150 with 1.0 that was changed some time ago
BeerMonster Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:40am 
Originally posted by Daywalker:
no island has 150 with 1.0 that was changed some time ago

The offical servers are having problems at the moment, so I made a sp game last night on Ragnarok.

Difficulty is 1.0 and it has wild dinos at lv150
Last edited by BeerMonster; Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:40am
Splićo Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:58am 
Originally posted by Daywalker:
no island has 150 with 1.0 that was changed some time ago

only with OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0
without that its 120 (SP game). Not sure about MP bcz i don't play MP.

Btw, that "max difficulty" checkbox still don't make lvl 150 spawn in SP, you still must use OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0 if you want lvl 150 dinos (Island).
Zetnus Jul 10, 2017 @ 10:08am 
Hmm I just tried resetting to defaults and after doing that it stays at 0.2
Luux Jul 10, 2017 @ 10:53am 
Yes, 0.2 is the default for SP. The highest lvl dinos I see on this difficulty is lvl 36.
Splićo Jul 10, 2017 @ 11:04am 
most people use 1.0
On The Island min lvl dino will be 4 and max lvl 120.
With OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0 min dino lvl will be 5 and max 150.
Greywolf Jul 10, 2017 @ 11:14am 
Wildcard actually allows you to change the difficulty setting to 10 now for Ragnarok. Not sure about other maps. I am playing with 10 and get 300 as max wild level. Pretty fun.

Single Player and Private Servers of course without any mods.
Last edited by Greywolf; Jul 10, 2017 @ 11:15am
eL.ToRo Aug 31, 2017 @ 3:58pm 
I'm still so very confused by this topic. I set the slider to 1.0 on my single player setting and checked off the max difficulty check box and I have dinos spawning at 340. Can someone explain that to me? No difficulty mods installed.
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Date Posted: Jul 10, 2017 @ 9:24am
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