ark_bDisableFriendlyFire not working?

[TheInternetIsReal]

I have this in my instances/main.cfg: ark_bDisableFriendlyFire=true ...which should disable friendly fire in my pvp server. However, I can still hit friendly tribe mates and dinosaurs. Any idea how I can check to make sure my server picked up the option correctly or if arkmanager is the issue? Other common ark_ settings work fine.

Secondly, I have no idea how "using the Game.ini" file works with arkmanager (part of troubleshooting the above). Should I make a game.ini file in my ark shootergame config directory or should I make it in arkmanager folder? There are no instructions in how the config loading precedence or locations work in the readme. Does using a game.ini completely overwrite any game.ini settings in instances/main.cfg file or vice versa?

[klightspeed]

ark_bDisableFriendlyFire=true should add ?bDisableFriendlyFire=true to the server options string passed to the game server.

Looking at https://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration, bDisableFriendlyFire needs to be specified in Game.ini, not the command-line, so ark_bDisableFriendlyFire will not work.

If you don't already have any options in Game.ini, then you can add the following to either ShooterGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/Game.ini in the directory specified in the arkserverroot option, or to <instancename>.Game.ini in /etc/arkmanager/instances (which will overwrite ShooterGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/Game.ini):

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
bDisableFriendlyFire=true

[TheInternetIsReal]

Thanks. I had no idea from reading the documentation that game.ini settings were not handled by arkmanager "ark_" variables whereas the gamesettings.ini ones are.

[klightspeed]

Many settings specified on the command-line map to settings in the [ServerSettings] section of GameUserSettings.ini, and the game server will write many of these options as specified on the command-line into GameUserSettings.ini