[Solved] Difficulty setting not working

[Wafool]

So,I'm playing single player and I'm trying to get wild dinos to lvl 300. No matter how many times I change the settings, the dinos always stay the same level even after I destroywilddinos. I have changed the difficulty offset number in the settings multiple times. I have made sure the file is read only. I've tried everything. I even have the difficulty offset set to 100 to see if that helps. Nothing... I was hoping somebody might be able to spot what I'm doing wrong. I'll post my settings files too.

[Wafool]

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[Wafool]

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[Alcheya]

I've read that if you have "single player settings" enabled, it caps the max difficulty (wild dinos to 120/150 on rag).

[🦊 Hermit]

The difficulty offset setting is capped at 1.0, it can't go higher. In order to get higher than that, you have to set the offset to 1.0 then add the extra config line 'OverrideOfficialDifficulty=#' into the gameusersettings.ini. Then set the # to the difficulty value, not the difficulty offset, that you want.

[Wafool]

I did both of those things and it's working now. Thanks Guys!

[🦊 Hermit]

It is indeed an old thread. But to answer the question:

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Difficulty

The game determines wild dino difficulty by multiplying a given number by 30. There are 30 increments that dinos can be spawned at, and the multiplier then increases that. So for a multiplier of 1, 1x30=30, so dinos will spawn with a level range between 1 and 30. A multi of 5, on the other hand, 5x30=150, so dinos will spawn at 5 level intervals between 5 and 150. The difficulty offset will automatically set the multiplier to any value between 1 and 5, depending on player choice and the map being played (see the wiki for specifics on map variations).

But to get a multi higher than 5, you need to add the OverrideOfficialDifficulty line, and set the value to reflect the multiplier you want. So a value of 6 would give 6x30=180, with dinos ranging in intervals of 6 from the lowest level 6 to the highest 180. A multiplier of 10 would be 10x30=300, and dinos would range from lvl 10 min to lvl 300 max. So 'value' is the specific multiplier you want the game to use, above the normal default of 5.

[Wayne]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.