How to get better loot?

[Raikyr]

My wife and I are playing on a private server together and I'm trying to make it to where we get better loot to drop from beacons and crates but I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong. I have the loot quality from crates set to 5 and the difficulty offset set to 5 as well. From what I'm reading and what I see in videos we should be getting crazy loot but we aren't getting that crazy of stuff. We've started farming the red crates in the desert and the Ice Cave and the rare Ascendant item or blueprint we get isn't that impressive. Most of the ascendant saddles have 80 armor and the ascendant weapons are only maybe 220%. I've seen stuff on other servers that don't have the settings set as high as we do with like 500% weapons and crazy other gear. Is there something that I'm missing or do you have any idea what could be causing us to have lower drops even though the settings are maxed?

[medicinehead]

bump up fishing loot to five and you wont bother with beacons anymore

[Natjur]

difficulty offset max is 1
Any number above that will just be one

Default values are
DifficultyOffset=1
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5


DifficultyValue = DifficultyOffset*OverrideOfficialDifficulty

LootScale = DifficultyValue

So you could try increasing OverrideOfficialDifficulty but that means the dino levels go up too

I would just increase
SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier=5.0
to even higher
SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier=10.

[Raikyr]

I have it set to 5 as well but can't get a better fishing rod than the engram version I can craft. With that I only get fish meat and a couple of crafting mats. Best thing I got after an hour of fishing was like 3 metal ingots.

[KitsuneShiro]

Have you considered mods?

Is it just the two of you playing?

[Raikyr]

Originally posted by Natjur:

difficulty offset max is 1
Any number above that will just be one

Default values are
DifficultyOffset=1
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5


DifficultyValue = DifficultyOffset*OverrideOfficialDifficulty

LootScale = DifficultyValue

So you could try increasing OverrideOfficialDifficulty but that means the dino levels go up too

I would just increase
SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier=5.0
to even higher
SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier=10.

Sorry I meant that the override difficulty was set to 5. The supply crate loot multiplier has a max of five it says. It's not a slider but just a number I can put in. Can I raise it higher than that max?

[Raikyr]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Have you considered mods?

Is it just the two of you playing?

I'm getting to the point where that feels like the only option. We cleared the Ice Cave out, didn't kill the boss just got the red crates, and the best piece of loot we got was a Journeyman Chitin chestpiece. Feels a little off when all the loot settings are maxed.

[Natjur]

Originally posted by Raikyr:

I'm getting to the point where that feels like the only option. We cleared the Ice Cave out, didn't kill the boss just got the red crates, and the best piece of loot we got was a Journeyman Chitin chestpiece. Feels a little off when all the loot settings are maxed.

Even with high setting, loot is still random and can be crap. A red loot box can still contain loot from a green loot box (Each higher level has a change to have loot from the levels below)

They need to change loot boxes so they only have a limited set of possible items and not include all the other stuff from lower tiers....Looting a red loot chest and getting a water bottle is enough to make you cry, but it often the norm!

We have got some really high level gear from red chests on offical servers, but then again, we have farmed 1000 of red loot chests and so many times got useless crap.

Random....is random

Time to look at a loot crate mod if you want better then that

[KitsuneShiro]

If it's just the two of you. You might like the upgrade station mod. This makes your progress more reliant on grind than luck (rng).

Or you could got with a beacon mod, but since custom beacon code is now part of the game.ini not sure these mods are really being developed.

[HüpfDuSau]

Well, its luck... If you cheat yourself 100 items with quality ascendant you will get maybe 4 or so with 700+% dmg, 10 or more with 600+, 20 with 500+ and so on... Its the same with loot crates... you get ascendant stuff a lot, but that doesnt mean it has to be ultra quality all the time. Solution? Loot more and be lucky (long way) or since you play private cheat them in. Last option would be the upgrade station mod, where you can upgrade your items for yourself (which can get quite expensive)

[SpeedFreak3]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

If it's just the two of you. You might like the upgrade station mod. This makes your progress more reliant on grind than luck (rng).

Or you could got with a beacon mod, but since custom beacon code is now part of the game.ini not sure these mods are really being developed.

The Rebalanced Beacon mod still does a great job at making supply drops and caves rewarding.
Downside is, it doesn't work on Scorched Earth and Abberation.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=875914548

[Forral]

Originally posted by SpeedFreak3:

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

If it's just the two of you. You might like the upgrade station mod. This makes your progress more reliant on grind than luck (rng).

Or you could got with a beacon mod, but since custom beacon code is now part of the game.ini not sure these mods are really being developed.

The Rebalanced Beacon mod still does a great job at making supply drops and caves rewarding.
Downside is, it doesn't work on Scorched Earth and Abberation.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=875914548

does it work on ragnarok?

[SpeedFreak3]

Originally posted by Forral87:

does it work on ragnarok?

People on the modpage report that it works on Center and Ragnarok too.

[PebrocFR]

gameuserseting.ini or game.ini?
i write LootScale=1000 or LootScale=1000% ?

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by PeugeotFR:

gameuserseting.ini or game.ini?
i write LootScale=1000 or LootScale=1000% ?

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration

SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier is what you are looking for.