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Torade Oct 1, 2017 @ 9:21am
Dino Damage .ini questions
I'm trying to buff wild dinos while keeping tamed dinos where they're currently at but I can't find a quite clear description of what certain parameters I should use to properly do this.

I've seen people talk about how DinoDamageMultiplier works on just wild but then see that it works for all, not just wild.

Any help on this topic would be appreciated.
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cwattyeso Oct 1, 2017 @ 9:33am 
You should require two seperate parameters in your GameUserSettings.ini

DinoDamageMultiplier= *.* which will effect the damage done by wild dinos in your game.

TamedDinoDamageMultiplier=*.* which will effect damage done by dinos once they are tamed and belong to you.

If you want wild dinos to hit harder and hurt more then tamed dinos ensure the first parameter is set higher then the TamedDino one, reduce the TameDino one to a value lower then 1.0 if you wish to nerf the damage of tamed dinos.
Torade Oct 1, 2017 @ 9:38am 
Originally posted by cwattyeso:
TamedDinoDamageMultiplier=*.* which will effect damage done by dinos once they are tamed and belong to you.
I've seen this displayed before but heard that people are finding it doesn't work. It's also not on the wiki, only DinoDamageMultiplier.
Hundezahn Oct 1, 2017 @ 9:44am 
Just try it and report your findings. You can just read the damage numbers before and after your changes to the ini. It's not rocket science.
Torade Oct 1, 2017 @ 1:51pm 
Yeah, that didn't work. It upped all dino stats including tamed dinos
cwattyeso Oct 1, 2017 @ 2:00pm 
If those two parameters no longer work, then the only other way to adjust things would be with the perlevelstats multipliers setiings, for Wild and then each stage of a tamed dino. Much harder to do as they don't specify easily which multiplier applies to the damage value.
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[0]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[1]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[3]=3.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[4]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[6]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[7]=5.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[8]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[9]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[0]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[1]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[3]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[4]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[6]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[7]=2.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[8]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[9]=1.5
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[0]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[1]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[2]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[3]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[4]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[5]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[6]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[7]=2.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[8]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[9]=1.5
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[10]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[0]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[1]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[2]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[3]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[4]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[5]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[6]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[7]=1.5
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[8]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[9]=1.0
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[10]=1.0
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