How do I make server difficulty changes stick?

[Dinoposse 0]

Greetings I am fairly new when it comes to this, I was wondering how do I make it so I can change the server difficulty and keep it that way.I added the difficulty offset line in my ini file but it still does not show.

 

Thank you in advance.   

[Razor14150 0]

Edit the green text. From what I have herd you can change it to a number between 0 and 4... tho most from what I hear most set it to 0 or 1. Red text isnt working to remove alphas.... so you can ignore that

 

This is MY servers DefaultGameUserSettings.ini

 

[serverSettings]
DifficultyOffset=0.000000
NewMaxStructuresInRange=6000.000000
DayCycleSpeedScale=1.000000
DayTimeSpeedScale=1.000000
NightTimeSpeedScale=1.000000
DinoDamageMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerDamageMultiplier=1.000000
StructureDamageMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerResistanceMultiplier=1.000000
DinoResistanceMultiplier=1.000000
StructureResistanceMultiplier=1.000000
XPMultiplier=1.000000
TamingSpeedMultiplier=3.000000
HarvestAmountMultiplier=7.000000
PlayerCharacterWaterDrainMultiplier=0.500000
PlayerCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=0.500000
DinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=0.800000
PlayerCharacterStaminaDrainMultiplier=1.000000
DinoCharacterStaminaDrainMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=3.000000
DinoCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=3.000000
DinoCountMultiplier=1.500000
HarvestHealthMultiplier=1.000000
PvEStructureDecayPeriodMultiplier=0.200000
ResourcesRespawnPeriodMultiplier=7.000000

ServerCrosshair=True
NoTributeDownloads=True
AllowThirdPersonPlayer=True
ShowMapPlayerLocation=True

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRaptor_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaCarno_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRex_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

[darR3Ke 3]

The difficulty offset range is from 0 to 1

 

the internal difficulty setting is set to 4.

 

With difficulty offset 1 your dino's will be max level 120

with offset 0.5 they will be max level 60

etc...

 

We cant change the internal difficulty settings, only the developer can atm.

 

The red text need to be put in the game.ini and not in the gameusersettings.ini like this. It's very important to have the script stuff above it or else it will clear the ini file.

 

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRaptor_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaCarno_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRex_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

[samsso 5]

Guys, I think he is talking about the fact that he is adding the difficulty offset in his GameUserSettings.ini but they disappear. I am having a similar problem because every time I add my whole [serverSettings] section to my GameUserSettings.ini and then upload it to /ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer, the whole [serverSettings] section disappears. The changes being made are not saving on the server.

[Razor14150 0]

Guys, I think he is talking about the fact that he is adding the difficulty offset in his GameUserSettings.ini but they disappear. I am having a similar problem because every time I add my whole [serverSettings] section to my GameUserSettings.ini and then upload it to /ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer, the whole [serverSettings] section disappears. The changes being made are not saving on the server.

Dont change the file called GameUserSettings.ini, locate the DefaultGameUserSettings.ini and change that. If you change the GameUserSettings.ini and restart your server the DefaultGameUserSettings.ini will overwrite it.

[darR3Ke 3]

Guys, I think he is talking about the fact that he is adding the difficulty offset in his GameUserSettings.ini but they disappear. I am having a similar problem because every time I add my whole [serverSettings] section to my GameUserSettings.ini and then upload it to /ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer, the whole [serverSettings] section disappears. The changes being made are not saving on the server.

 

Make sure your server is offline before making those changes. I've had problems with the GameUserSettings.ini resetting, but that was usually cause i changed it before the server was down. 

 

 

Changing the DefaultGameUSerSettings.ini will work, but you will have to change it EVERYTIME the devs make a change to it cause it will reset to the default values with a patch.

[Razor14150 0]

Honestly I keep a backup of all my modded files sooo when ever there is a update all I have to do is look to see whats changed on the new Default files and if nothing then just copy/paste.

 

Ive tried the whole stop the server, up date then start it back up and things still revert to defaults.

[darR3Ke 3]

Could be that typo snuk in there and that's why it was resetting. Can you post the content of your  GUS.ini ?

[Geoffry 8]

Only the official severs can change the difficulty setting to 4  from what I recall... 0.0 is normal we think and 1.0 is 300% more difficult...  they made it all confusing when they (devs) started throwing out the 2x 3x 4x terms then said in one of the patch notes that it applied to official servers only for the 4x

[Dragonfly187 1]

I had to research this one a bit to raise the game difficulity, and balance player/dino levels. First thing is to not to get Difficulty_Offset (0 to 1) confused with DifficultyValue(1 to 4). Overall difficulty is calculate by declaring the difficulty_offset(DifficultyValue = DifficultyOffset * 3.5 + 0.5). To set a diffucultylevel of 3, I had to set Difficulty_Offset(as seen below) to a value of 0.714.

 

more info on these values found at: http://ark.gamepedia.com/Difficulty#Difficulty_Value_and_Difficulty_Offset

 

Location via FTP: /ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini

 

Added under [serverSettings]

DifficultyOffset=0.714

 

I also found without declaring LevelExperienceRampOverrides in the two lines below in my Game.ini. My game was capped for our highest tribe member at level 64(Limitation since level 174). I know that v190 was supposed to default to level 74. So I'm not sure why I had to declare new level caps. Maybe because we have been using same world prior to v190 adjustment?

 

Though it looks like that LevelExperienceRampOverrides is declared twice below. The first line is automatically applied to players, and the second line is dinos.(Disregard message board wrapping, there is two lines declared below)

 

Location via FTP: /ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini

 

LevelExperienceRampOverrides=(ExperiencePointsForLevel[0]=5,ExperiencePointsForLevel[1]=20,ExperiencePointsForLevel[2]=40,ExperiencePointsForLevel[3]=70,ExperiencePointsForLevel[4]=120,ExperiencePointsForLevel[5]=190,ExperiencePointsForLevel[6]=270,ExperiencePointsForLevel[7]=360,ExperiencePointsForLevel[8]=450,ExperiencePointsForLevel[9]=550,ExperiencePointsForLevel[10]=660,ExperiencePointsForLevel[11]=780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[12]=910,ExperiencePointsForLevel[13]=1050,ExperiencePointsForLevel[14]=1200,ExperiencePointsForLevel[15]=1360,ExperiencePointsForLevel[16]=1530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[17]=1710,ExperiencePointsForLevel[18]=1900,ExperiencePointsForLevel[19]=2100,ExperiencePointsForLevel[20]=2310,ExperiencePointsForLevel[21]=2530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[22]=2760,ExperiencePointsForLevel[23]=3000,ExperiencePointsForLevel[24]=3250,ExperiencePointsForLevel[25]=3510,ExperiencePointsForLevel[26]=3780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[27]=4060,ExperiencePointsForLevel[28]=4350,ExperiencePointsForLevel[29]=4650,ExperiencePointsForLevel[30]=4960,ExperiencePointsForLevel[31]=5280,ExperiencePointsForLevel[32]=5610,ExperiencePointsForLevel[33]=5950,ExperiencePointsForLevel[34]=6300,ExperiencePointsForLevel[35]=6660,ExperiencePointsForLevel[36]=7030,ExperiencePointsForLevel[37]=7410,ExperiencePointsForLevel[38]=7800,ExperiencePointsForLevel[39]=8200,ExperiencePointsForLevel[40]=8610,ExperiencePointsForLevel[41]=9030,ExperiencePointsForLevel[42]=9460,ExperiencePointsForLevel[43]=9900,ExperiencePointsForLevel[44]=10350,ExperiencePointsForLevel[45]=10810,ExperiencePointsForLevel[46]=11280,ExperiencePointsForLevel[47]=11760,ExperiencePointsForLevel[48]=12250,ExperiencePointsForLevel[49]=12750,ExperiencePointsForLevel[50]=13260,ExperiencePointsForLevel[51]=13780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[52]=14310,ExperiencePointsForLevel[53]=14850,ExperiencePointsForLevel[54]=15400,ExperiencePointsForLevel[55]=15960,ExperiencePointsForLevel[56]=16530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[57]=17110,ExperiencePointsForLevel[58]=17700,ExperiencePointsForLevel[59]=18850,ExperiencePointsForLevel[60]=21078,ExperiencePointsForLevel[61]=22448,ExperiencePointsForLevel[62]=23908,ExperiencePointsForLevel[63]=25462,ExperiencePointsForLevel[64]=27498,ExperiencePointsForLevel[65]=30248,ExperiencePointsForLevel[66]=34786,ExperiencePointsForLevel[67]=40004,ExperiencePointsForLevel[68]=46804,ExperiencePointsForLevel[69]=54761,ExperiencePointsForLevel[70]=63713,ExperiencePointsForLevel[71]=73000,ExperiencePointsForLevel[72]=85000,ExperiencePointsForLevel[73]=98000,ExperiencePointsForLevel[74]=112000,ExperiencePointsForLevel[75]=127500,ExperiencePointsForLevel[76]=144500,ExperiencePointsForLevel[77]=163500,ExperiencePointsForLevel[78]=184500)
LevelExperienceRampOverrides=(ExperiencePointsForLevel[0]=5,ExperiencePointsForLevel[1]=10,ExperiencePointsForLevel[2]=30,ExperiencePointsForLevel[3]=60,ExperiencePointsForLevel[4]=100,ExperiencePointsForLevel[5]=150,ExperiencePointsForLevel[6]=210,ExperiencePointsForLevel[7]=280,ExperiencePointsForLevel[8]=360,ExperiencePointsForLevel[9]=450,ExperiencePointsForLevel[10]=550,ExperiencePointsForLevel[11]=660,ExperiencePointsForLevel[12]=780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[13]=910,ExperiencePointsForLevel[14]=1050,ExperiencePointsForLevel[15]=1200,ExperiencePointsForLevel[16]=1360,ExperiencePointsForLevel[17]=1530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[18]=1710,ExperiencePointsForLevel[19]=1900,ExperiencePointsForLevel[20]=2100,ExperiencePointsForLevel[21]=2310,ExperiencePointsForLevel[22]=2530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[23]=2760,ExperiencePointsForLevel[24]=3000,ExperiencePointsForLevel[25]=3250,ExperiencePointsForLevel[26]=3510,ExperiencePointsForLevel[27]=3780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[28]=4060,ExperiencePointsForLevel[29]=4350,ExperiencePointsForLevel[30]=4650,ExperiencePointsForLevel[31]=4960,ExperiencePointsForLevel[32]=5280,ExperiencePointsForLevel[33]=5610,ExperiencePointsForLevel[34]=5950,ExperiencePointsForLevel[35]=6300,ExperiencePointsForLevel[36]=6660,ExperiencePointsForLevel[37]=7030,ExperiencePointsForLevel[38]=7410,ExperiencePointsForLevel[39]=7800,ExperiencePointsForLevel[40]=8200,ExperiencePointsForLevel[41]=8610,ExperiencePointsForLevel[42]=9030,ExperiencePointsForLevel[43]=9460,ExperiencePointsForLevel[44]=9900,ExperiencePointsForLevel[45]=10350,ExperiencePointsForLevel[46]=10810,ExperiencePointsForLevel[47]=11280,ExperiencePointsForLevel[48]=11760,ExperiencePointsForLevel[49]=12250,ExperiencePointsForLevel[50]=12750,ExperiencePointsForLevel[51]=13260,ExperiencePointsForLevel[52]=13780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[53]=14310,ExperiencePointsForLevel[54]=14850,ExperiencePointsForLevel[55]=15400,ExperiencePointsForLevel[56]=15960,ExperiencePointsForLevel[57]=16530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[58]=17110,ExperiencePointsForLevel[59]=17700,ExperiencePointsForLevel[60]=18300,ExperiencePointsForLevel[61]=18910,ExperiencePointsForLevel[62]=19530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[63]=20100,ExperiencePointsForLevel[64]=20800,ExperiencePointsForLevel[65]=21450,ExperiencePointsForLevel[66]=22110,ExperiencePointsForLevel[67]=22780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[68]=23460,ExperiencePointsForLevel[69]=24150,ExperiencePointsForLevel[70]=24850,ExperiencePointsForLevel[71]=25560,ExperiencePointsForLevel[72]=26280,ExperiencePointsForLevel[73]=27010,ExperiencePointsForLevel[74]=27750,ExperiencePointsForLevel[75]=28500,ExperiencePointsForLevel[76]=29260,ExperiencePointsForLevel[77]=30030,ExperiencePointsForLevel[78]=30810,ExperiencePointsForLevel[79]=31600,ExperiencePointsForLevel[80]=32400,ExperiencePointsForLevel[81]=33210,ExperiencePointsForLevel[82]=34030,ExperiencePointsForLevel[83]=34860,ExperiencePointsForLevel[84]=35700,ExperiencePointsForLevel[85]=36550,ExperiencePointsForLevel[86]=37410,ExperiencePointsForLevel[87]=38280,ExperiencePointsForLevel[88]=39160,ExperiencePointsForLevel[89]=40050,ExperiencePointsForLevel[90]=40950,ExperiencePointsForLevel[91]=41860,ExperiencePointsForLevel[92]=42780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[93]=43710,ExperiencePointsForLevel[94]=44650,ExperiencePointsForLevel[95]=45600,ExperiencePointsForLevel[96]=46560,ExperiencePointsForLevel[97]=47530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[98]=48510,ExperiencePointsForLevel[99]=49500,ExperiencePointsForLevel[100]=50500,ExperiencePointsForLevel[101]=51510,ExperiencePointsForLevel[102]=52530,ExperiencePointsForLevel[103]=53560,ExperiencePointsForLevel[104]=54600,ExperiencePointsForLevel[105]=55650,ExperiencePointsForLevel[106]=56710,ExperiencePointsForLevel[107]=57780,ExperiencePointsForLevel[108]=58860,ExperiencePointsForLevel[109]=59950,ExperiencePointsForLevel[110]=61050,ExperiencePointsForLevel[111]=62160,ExperiencePointsForLevel[112]=63280,ExperiencePointsForLevel[113]=64410,ExperiencePointsForLevel[114]=65550,ExperiencePointsForLevel[115]=66700,ExperiencePointsForLevel[116]=67860,ExperiencePointsForLevel[117]=69030,ExperiencePointsForLevel[118]=70210,ExperiencePointsForLevel[119]=71400)
 

 

I hope this helps, in adjusting global difficulty.