diff --git a/R/updateParVals.R b/R/updateParVals.R
index 077c04c5..b6dab6f2 100644
--- a/R/updateParVals.R
+++ b/R/updateParVals.R
@@ -18,27 +18,52 @@ updateParVals = function(par.set, old.par.vals, new.par.vals, warn = FALSE) {
   assertList(old.par.vals, names = "named")
   assertList(new.par.vals, names = "named")
   assertClass(par.set, "ParamSet")
-  
-  #we might want to check requires with defaults that are not overwritten by new.par.vals
-  usable.defaults = getDefaults(par.set)
-  usable.defaults = usable.defaults[names(usable.defaults) %nin% names(new.par.vals)]
+  assertFlag(warn)
+  default.par.vals = getDefaults(par.set)
+  # First we extend both par.vals lists with the defaults to get the fully requirements meeting par.vals lists
+  old.with.defaults = updateParVals2(par.set = par.set, old.par.vals = default.par.vals, new.par.vals = old.par.vals)
+  updated.old = attr(old.with.defaults, "updated")
+  new.with.defaults = updateParVals2(par.set = par.set, old.par.vals = default.par.vals, new.par.vals = new.par.vals)
+  updated.new = attr(new.with.defaults, "updated")
+  # new.candidates are the par.vals we want to use from new.with.defaults.
+  # These exclude those values where the defaults got updated by the old.par.vals but the update is not present in the new.par.vals but still we want to keep this update.
+  #
+  # updated.old | updated.new | use
+  #           T |           T | new 
+  #           T |           F | old
+  #           F |           T | new
+  #           F |           F | new(default)
+  new.candidates = names(new.with.defaults) %nin% setdiff(names(updated.old)[updated.old], names(updated.new)[updated.new])
+  updated.par.vals = updateParVals2(par.set = par.set, old.par.vals = old.with.defaults, new.par.vals = new.with.defaults[new.candidates])
+  # Find out which parmam names were kept in both update processes
+  # this indicates that this was a default and we don't need it, as it is still a valid default.
+  both.updated = union(names(updated.new)[updated.new], names(updated.old)[updated.old])
+  result = updated.par.vals[names(updated.par.vals) %in% both.updated]
+  # order as in par.set
+  # result = result[match(names(result), getParamIds(par.set))]
+  if (warn) {
+    # detect dropped param settings:
+    warningf("ParamSettings (%s) were dropped.", convertToShortString(old.par.vals[names(old.par.vals) %nin% names(result)]))
+  }
+  return(result)
+}
+
+updateParVals2 = function(par.set, old.par.vals, new.par.vals) {
+  updated = setNames(rep(TRUE, length(new.par.vals)), names(new.par.vals))
   repeat {
-    # we repeat to include parameters which depend on each other by requirements
-    # candidates are params of the old par.vals we might still need.
+    # we include parameters of the old.par.vals if they meet the requirements
+    # we repeat because some parameters of old.par.vals might only meet the requirements after we added others. (chained requirements)
     candidate.par.names = setdiff(names(old.par.vals), names(new.par.vals))
     for (pn in candidate.par.names) {
       # If all requirement parameters for the candidate are in the new.par.vals and if the requirements are met
-      if (all(getRequiredParamNames(par.set$pars[[pn]]) %in% names(new.par.vals)) && requiresOk(par.set$pars[[pn]], new.par.vals)) {
-        new.par.vals[pn] = old.par.vals[pn] # keep old.par.val in new.par.vals as it meets the requirements
-      } else if (all(getRequiredParamNames(par.set$pars[[pn]]) %in% names(usable.defaults)) && requiresOk(par.set$pars[[pn]], usable.defaults)) {
-        new.par.vals[pn] = old.par.vals[pn] # keep old.par.val as it meets requirement via defaults
-      } else if (warn){
-        # otherwise we can drop the old par.val because it does not meet the requirements.
-        warningf("ParamSetting %s was dropped.", convertToShortString(old.par.vals[pn]))
+      if (isTRUE(try(requiresOk(par.set$pars[[pn]], c(new.par.vals, old.par.vals[pn])), silent = TRUE))) {
+        # keep old.par.val in new.par.vals as it meets the requirements
+        new.par.vals[pn] = old.par.vals[pn] 
+        updated[pn] = FALSE
       }
     }
     # break if no changes were made
     if (identical(candidate.par.names, setdiff(names(old.par.vals), names(new.par.vals)))) break
   }
-  return(new.par.vals)
-}
+  setAttribute(new.par.vals, "updated", updated)
+}
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diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_updateParVals.R b/tests/testthat/test_updateParVals.R
index 8c50341c..041a5088 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_updateParVals.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_updateParVals.R
@@ -13,7 +13,11 @@ test_that("updateParVals works", {
     makeLogicalParam("f", default = TRUE))
   pc = updateParVals(ps, pa, pb)
   expect_equal(pc, list(a = 0, c = 3, d = 4, e = 5))
-  expect_warning(updateParVals(ps, pa, pb, warn = TRUE), "ParamSetting b=2")
+  expect_warning(updateParVals(ps, pa, pb, warn = TRUE), "ParamSettings \\(b=2\\)")
+
+  pb2 = list(a = 0, f = FALSE)
+  pc2 = updateParVals(ps, pa, pb2)
+  expect_equal(pc2, list(a = 0, f = FALSE, d = 4))
 
   pb2 = list(a = 0, f = FALSE)
   pc2 = updateParVals(ps, pa, pb2)
@@ -44,4 +48,28 @@ test_that("updateParVals works", {
   pb = list(b = 3)
   pc = updateParVals(ps, pa, pb)
   expect_equal(pc, list(b = 3, c = TRUE))
+  
+  #more complicated stuff
+  ps = makeParamSet(
+    makeDiscreteLearnerParam(id = "a", default = "a2",
+                             values = c("a1", "a2",  "a3"),
+                             requires = quote(!a %in% c("a2") || b == TRUE)),
+    makeLogicalLearnerParam(id = "b", default = FALSE, tunable = FALSE)
+  )
+  pa = list(a = "a1")
+  pb = list()
+  pc = updateParVals(ps, pa, pb)
+  expect_equal(pc, pa)
+
+  ps = makeParamSet(
+    makeIntegerParam("a", default = 10L)
+  )
+  pa = list(a = 0L)
+  pb = list()
+  pc = updateParVals(ps, pa, pb)
+  expect_equal(pc, pa)
+  pb2 = list(a = 5L)
+  pc2 = updateParVals(ps, pa, pb2)
+  expect_equal(pc2, pb2)
+
 })