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Please enable a toggle in settings for On-screen keyboard in Steam Big Picture Mode! I use a mini keyboard with my controller to type in games and the OSK is clunky for games where you could die from slow typing. I would love to be able to play in Big Picture Mode but I can’t stand the OSK!

I am still curious about the testing done by redditor Arfirst: I can replicate the SP, non-dedi and dedi tests, but it wouldn't help in comparing the numbers to official where I believe there's no floating damage text to gather the data. Also there is no way I could do this on official and I don't know anyone who plays it, and of course it's shutting down soon. But if official should match dedi servers, as per invisibleqc's statements, then how can the hard-coded nerfs not show in these results? I may have to test it myself anyway to see if the numbers really reflect Arfirst's conclusion. If I get the same results, is it possible all unofficial/dedi/non-dedi/SP is nerfed and official bosses really are almost 10x harder than anywhere else?

Cheers everyone for the responses! I have to agree with you both there -- whenever I'm searching for a technical answer about Ark I try to find one of invisibleqc's responses 😅 very knowledgeable and thorough! I did see that thread it's very interesting! I appreciate all the math in your response. And I never would have thought about dino torpidity fighting bosses at low levels!

I am simply curious because of the vague nature of the official difficulty values for bosses in ARK. Since I can't find a definitive answer, I am hoping someone can now share some insight. 1. Is it true that Singleplayer settings checkbox + 5x difficulty override do not affect the bosses in any way (it affects tamed dino stats/xp/breeding only)? 2. Is it true that there is no difference between official & unofficial (& PC dedicated) boss stat multipliers (so using Singleplayer settings checkbox on dedicated server with 5x difficulty override is the same as official for boss stat values)? 3. Is there a difference between official and singleplayer/non-dedicated bosses? I have seen invisibleqc's boss stat data figures mined from the game code: But still Ark players have anecdotal posts saying both yes & no for example: particularly intriguing is this reddit post which has extensive testing and found no difference in singleplayer/dedi: but also the last comment in this discussion with PFM saying he found no difference: This reddit post (although it may be wrong because they don't acknowledge the hard-coded resistance & damage multipliers given by invisibleqc) is curious as well because the patch notes are not clear and I wonder what the true interpretation of the following patch notes is when they write "multiplayer" (do these patch notes nerf SP then nerf dedi/official to match it?): Version: v254.3 Released - January 31, 2017 Singleplayer/non-dedicated bosses are reduced in damage and effective-HP by 67% Version: v261.0 Released - 7 July, 2017 Rebalanced all boss HP and damage to scale from 1x (Gamma) to 3x (Alpha) in singleplayer. This does not include The Center double boss arena, which has 35% less HP and damage than it's individual Island counterparts. Version: v264.2 Released - July 29, 2017 Fixed boss scaling for multiplayer sessions (approximately 67% easier) 4. If the difference is real, is Freespirit correct in applying his calculations to Singleplayer to match the official difficulty? Thanks for reading and I hope to get to the bottom of this once and for all.

Hi I just want to thank you for making this tool and supporting it for so many years! I launch it whenever I play Ark, it is so helpful to figure out what is going on with stats and mutations and all the configuration settings are awesome I love that I can enter my custom settings like “singleplayer” for example and then continue to adjust the stat values to match my game this tool is indispensable to anyone who plays ark! The best part for me is how you can just send the information to the app with the “export creature data” option in-game. Cheers!

Just wanted to say thanks for this tool and continuing to update it. This app is hands-down the most essential thing for running a server for friends, and it has saved so many headaches of lost dinos, items and players. Without it my friends would have given up the game day 1. Cheers!