“With this patch, the base game has received a substantial balancing overhaul of Normal/Veteran and Elite difficulties, over 1800 database records in all! We felt that, over time, the base game’s difficulty has waned significantly relative to the power growth of player characters, and even compared to the Ashes of Malmouth and Forgotten Gods expansions. Notably, there’s been a bit of a difficulty balancing pass too, though Crate Entertainment says not to expect an easier ride.
Fans of the optionally multiplayer OARPG will find tweaks for monster health bars, merging of partial components, auto-looting for multiple types of drops, improved game options, crafting and stash searching, rendering tweaks, and an absolute ton of item balancing, some of which are the result of player modding contributions. It’s not an expansion and it’s free, but it’s big enough that you might think otherwise had it been given a fancier name: Grim Dawn’s 1.1.40 update is live this week, and it’s mighty indeed.
