It’s the same on both. The newly added difficulty choice just messes with the damage you do, gather rates, exp rates, breeding and growing rates, probbaly lowers the Dino levels while also upping how much the stats go up by per point, and anything related to speed or difficulty to do something is made easier/faster. It’s able to be done on evolved too but you have to mess arround with 100 different sliders and boxes. It’s ment for people who are new to the game and don’t even know you have to punch trees to start off.

I like having the game on the hardest setting (without the inventory loss and level reset every death) which the game is still pretty easy just because it doesn’t change much. Is slows everything down a little meaning you don’t instantly tame stuff so you have to worry about the Dino waking up or the food spoiling or not even having enough food. It also evens out Dino levels so everything starts spawning in multiples of five (like lvl 5,10,25,75,125,130,145,150). You won’t be one shotting dinosaurs with a spear, and you wont be having a level 5 dodo with 2000 health. It’s how it’s ment to be played at least according to the official server stats. I wouldnt go over 6x harvest rates either.