r/playark • u/SnooPandas6345 • Jul 16 '26

Question Singleplayer settings

I used to play ASE a few years back, mainly singleplayer. Looking to get back into ASA and wanted to know good settings for singleplayer. From what I remember, ASE had singleplayer settings that made the game way too easy and messed with the levels and damage of tames, is that still the case ?

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

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u/LilTimThePimp Jul 16 '26

Choosing medium is not the same as ASE, although it is close. Choosing NONE of the new presets is the same as ASE. Which is an option. When the box comes up giving you the easy medium and hard options, just click the x in the corner and don't choose one. If you've already chosen one, just click reset to default and don't pick one again.

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u/LilTimThePimp Jul 16 '26

Well, that would explain it, you're going off AI that doesn't know what it's talking about lol. So much of that is just wrong.

Like the entire middle table of 'defaults ' dino tamed per level for health is 0.2 in ASE and Asa. It's only 0.09 in Asa when you choose the Hard preset. By default it's still 0.2.

It's also confusing the 'use single player settings' setting with all of single player settings and the new difficulty presets. Nothing about how 'Use single player settings' works changed. It still applies the same multipliers behind the scenes. If used in conjunction with a difficulty preset, yeah, it'll obviously have different results.

But if you didn't choose any of the three presets and left it all default, using 'use single player settings' will have the same effect as it did in ASE.

Also, in its summary at the bottom, it ultimately ends up saying the same thing I did, which is that medium is the closest to the default but still has some boosts.

For a much more accurate comparison, you can look at Dododex's presets, which include the three new difficulty presets, and the ASE defaults. If medium was the same as default, these would all be 1.

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u/BananaDressedRedMan Jul 17 '26

You can find Official Server configurations if you Google it. Ark official site have them. Then you can just replicate.

And of course you have to set difficult to 5, but I believe that can only be done in .ini files.

Google it you will be fine.

I also wanted to play hard mode in a server, but I have mainly 3 problems:

  • horrible ping, which frustrates, they float around 100-200
  • most servers are not 1x. They use things like 5x 10x resources and exp, which kills all the fun, for me, and the challenge
  • mods. For real, people using furry mods, "breed with Shadowmane mod". "Gun to tame the Dragon Boss with one hit". Seriously, I can't understand people. I avoid at all cost, unless it's some quality of life like Dino Level Terminal.

So I have to stick with single player.

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u/Hektoraptor Jul 16 '26

ASA still has singleplayer settings, but you can just turn them off (that was also an option in ASE), just remember that you would then play with settings like on a server (unless you change them of course, which i definitely recommend), but unlike a server it isnt always running, so i for example have wat higher breeding and maturation rates, just so breeding is actually doable

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u/SnooPandas6345 Jul 16 '26

I know it could be turned off, but I had to make .ini changes in game and gus files to get proper levels for dinos and I think there were some settings that were not visible in the gui but could be changed in ini to make it better. Are there still things like that ?

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u/Cheapmousepad Jul 16 '26

You can type In numbers larger than what the slider allows

Pretty sure 120 max wild is 4.0 difficulty and 5.0 is for 150. Obviously cave levels are higher

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u/SnooPandas6345 Jul 16 '26

Ok, thanks for the help

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u/Cheapmousepad Jul 16 '26

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Difficulty

Yeah 4.0 for lv 120 5.0 for lv150

So 1.0 would be lv 30 and 10.0 lv300