Max dino level

[Akita]

What determines the max dino level on single player? I have difficulty set to default (0.2) and Ive never seen a dino above around lvl 50. Even in the mountains. Just wondering what to hunt for on this single player game.

[GotBPS]

If you up the difficulty, the max Dino level will go up as well.

[Kisston]

if you set your difficulty to 1 you will have dinos in multiples of 4 up to 120 on the island, SE and abb; multiples of 5 up to 150 on The Center and Rag. Putting OverrideOfficialDifficulty at any number above 4 or 5 will get you dinos of higher levels. For example OverrideOfficialDifficulty=10.0 will yeild dinos from lvl 10 to 300, and OverrideOfficialDifficulty=28.0 will get dinos lvl 28 to 840.

[Akita]

Well the wiki states that max dino level is:

(DifficultyOffset * 3.5 + 0.5 ) * 30

So I agree that DifficultyOffset of 1.0 gives max level of 120. (1.0 must be default on servers)

But if you hit the single player option, it sets the difficultyOffset to 0.2. That gives a max dino level of 36. Hmmm seems like ive seen higher level than that.

What difficulty do people play single player at, assuming you are doing caverns and eventually bosses solo?

[Indigo Synn]

The wiki is out of date for this. They added a ini setting for it.
In GameUserSettings.ini under [ServerSettings]
OverrideOfficialDifficulty = (Desired Creature Level) / 30
So for dino capped at 300 -> OverrideOfficialDifficulty is 300 / 30 =10
Ignore the DifficultyOffset it is hard coded to 1 now.

[ServerSettings]
DifficultyOffset=1.0
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=10

[Akita]

I dont think that is true, at least for single player. I messed around with the difficulty level slider. At 1.0, after DestroyWildDinos, I was getting much higher level. (didnt spot a 120, but saw several 80s.) Going back to 0.2 the max was in the 30s.

[123]

Even if maxlevel on the mainmap is for example 150,
you still have higher level dinos in caves !

The settings i use to mimic offical (on dedicated) is
DifficultyOffset=1.286
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0

results in maxlevel 150 wild dinos (on main maps)
+ better drops from beacons (as in offical )

!!! That doesn t mean you are guaranted to see 150 anytime soon ( they are rare ) !!!