Difficulty 6 not working

[BlurryDogs]

Difficulty 6 not working

So I had a recent problem where ark uninstalled and reinstalled, and that automatically reset all of my settings. I’m playing SP and I previously had SP settings on AND had difficulty 6 (180 dinos). When I reconfigured the settings to how I wanted them, the max level was 120. Why is this? I’ve changed my ini and put in “OverrideOfficialDifficulty=6” and it still doesn’t work. I don’t want to turn SP settings off because my dinos will have very different stats (when ark uninstalled, I lost everything so to replicate my previous save, SP settings needed to be on). Any help or feedback would be appreciated.

Edit: after a bit of fiddling I have realised that my ini settings are not being applied to the game. My S+ settings are also not working. This is the problem and not the SP settings

[Zhandroid]

If you are trying to apply settings via the config, be sure to edit the config files in the "Saved" folder. Those are the active configs. 

Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini

Also, you'll want to make sure Difficultyoffset=1 is set as well.

[BlurryDogs]

Thanks for replying. I’ve realised that the problem was me and not ark or the pc. I thought I renamed the “ShooterGame” to ark and instead it must have somehow duplicated the file. So I’ve been editing the wrong file the whole time. I fixed it earlier today though. Sorry for the hassle

[Zhandroid]

Glad you figured it out. it's not a hastle at all @BlurryDogs. That's what the forums are for!

[Northseeker]

So i did this but the change keeps being erased ever time i start the game I recheck the ini file and the lines are gone.  i have removed any mods or options that would interfere.  I've been working on this for 2 hours and have made no progress.