Yes, normally this is the case, per the wiki, however, something is wrong. the GameUserSettings.ini appears but Game.ini does not, ok so i create it myself, gave it the same owner and permissions as the GUS file, nothing works.. any idea why the Game.ini is nonfunctional in this container? Is there an extra setting that I am missing to enable it?
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****fixed this myself, didnt notice the /mnt/cache/appdata/ark-sa "default" location, this is incompatible with my build. so even though Game.ini is there on my ZFS cache, the container cant see it because its not located at /mnt/user/appdata/ark-sa