Any realism mods?

[Redarmy]

Too many mods make things easy or straight up cheaty.I want a tough experience for solo play. Any suggestions?

[Cipher]

Checkout the workshop :)

[Sperber]

The two must haves to improve the game for a solo player are Structures Plus and Kraken's Better Dinos. They fix so many things Studio Wildcard forgot to care about after they discovered that many of their players just want to smash each other heads in.

[Redarmy]

Originally posted by Sperber:

The two must haves to improve the game for a solo player are Structures Plus and Kraken's Better Dinos. They fix so many things Studio Wildcard forgot to care about after they discovered that many of their players just want to smash each other heads in.

haha ye its what the gaming industry is coming to,when a survival game is more aimed towards pvp than "survival". Thanks i was holding off on S plus because i wanted vanilla engrams and such at least for a first run through.Will check the Dino one thanks

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Redarmy:

Too many mods make things easy or straight up cheaty.I want a tough experience for solo play. Any suggestions?

It is more appropriate to say some mods in conjunction with relaxed settings may make the game more accomodating to people who want to play the game in a way that matches them.

Thus it is a recipe. Even without mods you can adjust settings in single player that are much more challenging than default.

With that then in mind, most any overhaul mod will become a challenge for you.

But its up to you to do your own due diligence to find mods that best match your wants from the work shop.

[Martin]

need a realism mod to fix the boss HP. Maybe then we can finaly win this trash game. The only game in Steam what is not winable lol shame to the developers.

[Veeshan]

Rates at 0.25 represent the original intent, many things become "necessary" rather than just "whatever got unlocked next, may as well."

Depends on what type of difficulty you mean though, my method increases RPG difficulty, i.e. more grinding required. Spend longer at each progression tier, farming trips limited by the world rather than weight capacity or tolerance, kinda thing.

If you want action difficulty could try making tamed dinos gain like 5-10% power rather than like 50%, as is default.

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

Originally posted by Martin ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ (GER):

need a realism mod to fix the boss HP. Maybe then we can finaly win this trash game. The only game in Steam what is not winable lol shame to the developers.

LMAO this guy again.

[Dj DNA]

Originally posted by Martin ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ (GER):

need a realism mod to fix the boss HP. Maybe then we can finaly win this trash game. The only game in Steam what is not winable lol shame to the developers.

This game is easily winnable. stop spamming the forum and go back to your salt mine

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Martin ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ (GER):

need a realism mod to fix the boss HP. Maybe then we can finaly win this trash game. The only game in Steam what is not winable lol shame to the developers.

Factually not true. I am sorry you personally are challenged in this capacity but if you are unwilling to use options that many have used to successfully beat em, then its a user end issue and not a game one.

[Sperber]

Originally posted by Redarmy:

Thanks i was holding off on S plus because i wanted vanilla engrams and such at least for a first run through. Will check the Dino one thanks

I too held off on a structure mod for years. But after starting out a new game with S+, I began to regret the time I wasted with the awkward vanilla system. There is nothing in it that makes the vanilla structures feel like cheating and all the additional stuff like the automation helpers is up to you to use or not.

One more tip: the best "tough realistic experience" mod for ARK is to just disable all flyer saddles or make the flyers untamable in the game's ini files. Having to always traverse the terrain on foot (or on fins) is a great way to increase both the difficulty and immersion.

But you may also want to adjust the DinoCountMultiplier down to more reasonable levels, since in a single palyer game, 99% of the dinos will be in stasis and do little to "thin out" the predator density by natural selection before you come closer and kick off the carnage (with you right in the middle of it).

[NatuvGuy]

For me, I changed the experience points for the 4 items, generic, special, kill and harvest to 0.25 then eventually changed the xp point ramp. This allows you to try and survive without blowing through the levels, also makes reaching that certain level mean something. I changed some engrams around too, to compensate for the slower pace in levels, and added some primitive style mods.

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by thefullbug:

For me, I changed the experience points for the 4 items, generic, special, kill and harvest to 0.25 then eventually changed the xp point ramp. This allows you to try and survive without blowing through the levels, also makes reaching that certain level mean something. I changed some engrams around too, to compensate for the slower pace in levels, and added some primitive style mods.

And this level of customization is unfortunately likely necessary, we tried just slowing down XP gain significantly but it was just as imbalanced.

Still works okay-ish to only reduce rate though. Especially for PVE since you wont care about many engrams anyway. Just hit 47 for my Ravager saddle and boy did it take some work. Several sessions of deliberate and directed xp farming. Quite refreshing.

Oh and I'm REALLY feeling the lack of Flak. Literally farming Chitin for armor repairs!

[Redarmy]

i put my...

XP on 0.2
Harvesting 0.4
dino count 0.4
Harvest health a bit higher than vanilla to compensate
Dino harvest health HALF of vanilla setting


This makes the game pretty tough as meat is hard enough to find and dinos are rarer,also improves performance.

XP gain in ARK is a joke at default levels so i found 0.2 perfect..infact after finding 2 explorer notes i went from level 2 to 10 in 15 minutes....at a rate of 0.2 XP...WTF?? anyway im using an NPC mod(Human NPCs) which allows those NPCs to harvest and contribute in some ways to help the player...good balance.Im happy with all said settings....game is a challenge and pacing is great