Dinoposse 0 Report post Posted August 11, 2015 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor14150 0 Report post Posted August 13, 2015 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=0.000000NewMaxStructuresInRange=6000.000000DayCycleSpeedScale=1.000000DayTimeSpeedScale=1.000000NightTimeSpeedScale=1.000000DinoDamageMultiplier=1.000000PlayerDamageMultiplier=1.000000StructureDamageMultiplier=1.000000PlayerResistanceMultiplier=1.000000DinoResistanceMultiplier=1.000000StructureResistanceMultiplier=1.000000XPMultiplier=1.000000TamingSpeedMultiplier=3.000000HarvestAmountMultiplier=7.000000PlayerCharacterWaterDrainMultiplier=0.500000PlayerCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=0.500000DinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=0.800000PlayerCharacterStaminaDrainMultiplier=1.000000DinoCharacterStaminaDrainMultiplier=1.000000PlayerCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=3.000000DinoCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=3.000000DinoCountMultiplier=1.500000HarvestHealthMultiplier=1.000000PvEStructureDecayPeriodMultiplier=0.200000ResourcesRespawnPeriodMultiplier=7.000000ServerCrosshair=TrueNoTributeDownloads=TrueAllowThirdPersonPlayer=TrueShowMapPlayerLocation=TrueNPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRaptor_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaCarno_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRex_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="") Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darR3Ke 3 Report post Posted August 14, 2015 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="") Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsso 5 Report post Posted August 16, 2015 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor14150 0 Report post Posted August 16, 2015 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darR3Ke 3 Report post Posted August 17, 2015 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. Ryan Pennington 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor14150 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2015 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darR3Ke 3 Report post Posted August 18, 2015 Could be that typo snuk in there and that's why it was resetting. Can you post the content of your GUS.ini ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffry 8 Report post Posted August 20, 2015 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfly187 1 Report post Posted September 5, 2015 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. 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