cough open source it when it gets retired cough
I’m gonna kind of miss people finding out weird quirks with the GD engine. Even if most of them just gave you an headache.
Don’t think that will happen as Crate has a license to use the engine, they don’t own it.
See: Why did you buy the old TQ engine? - #3 by medea_fleecestealer
Don’t worry! The new engine will have new quirks to find! 
I loved this news, by the way 3, GD1 will be unique and forever remembered, 2; new engine announced 3; GD2 is already on paper being worked on, even though it may take a little while, guys this is wonderful news.
Yeah, it sucks to wait. But I’ve enjoyed every thing Grim Dawn this far. I’m sure this is worth the wait and I’m content to let the chefs cook up the masterpiece. Thanks for the update!
" This is the first time in the company’s history where we are concurrently developing 4 different projects" to me is huge news, but i don’t look at the forum very often. other than farthest frontier I’m wondering what else they’re working on. new engine and assets?
I would assume these are Farthest Frontier, Unnamed RTS, Grim Dawn 1 and Grim Dawn 2.
As you said, Farthest Frontier, the Grim Dawn expansion Fangs of Asterkarn, and also an RTS (think Starcraft) set in the past world of Grim Dawn, prior to the apocalypse, and a mysterious survival horror that we know the least about.
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This can get them good traction amongst Let’s Players and VTubers. Small time devs like Chilla’s Art blew up because of their horror games being played by the likes of Jacksepticeye, and by all/most top HoloLive VTubers.
If you dont bother playing all three difficulties, you dont get to max level and you dont get BIS equipment.
For BIS equipment, which I assume means best in slot, you need to play on at least Elite as I don’t think Legendary equipment even drops on Normal. Moreover though, all other equipment drops equally on all difficulty levels, it’s just that the higher difficulties have higher level caps so you get higher level items, as well as a higher chance for legendary and epic items. Also, you get so much more experience on every next difficulty from the last, that you can easily get max level just playing Ultimate.
I also don’t use them, but I think the forgotten gods items that make you skip difficulties even include the bonus attribute and skill points from quests. So no, you can in fact max out your character on Ultimate difficulty alone.
But every addon gave more shrines and now i feel like its just to easy to complete it.
Again, it’s not just that every DLC gave more shrines, they quite literally increased the amount you get in the base areas on higher difficulties, that is the areas that don’t require you to own the DLC. They want everyone no matter their playstyle and DLC to get max devotion. That does mean that for completionists who want to discover the entire map per character on every difficulty, that you don’t have that rewarding grind of capping your devotion very late into the game, you are right on that account. But again, you need to consider that the replay value in the game isn’t that your second and third play-troughs are all about the discovery process again, but about optimising your build. This is not my opinion by the way, I am just listing the reason the developers changed it, as far as I understand it.
legendaries drop on Normal, including lvl 94 stuff
Only thing you can’t get is certain boss uniques/legendary MIs that got deliberately gated off to be Ult exclusive recently (94 alkamos rings/ravager helm etc, vanquisher set, +lokar/crate Ult exclusive encounters)
everything else you can get on Normal, and normal areas past act 4 + side areas in A1-3 will scale to lvl 100 (aside from SR loot ofc)
Did they change that then? Because I would have bet a lot of money on the fact you couldn’t get legendaries on Normal a few years ago, but good correction nonetheless. The level cap I genuinely forgot, but you’re right they changed that too, for the very reason I gave even (that all types of players should be able to max out their character).
You would have lost a lot of money, because legendaries were always dropping on normal. As long as your character is at least level 50 they can drop from containers, and quest rewards can become legendaries (like the reward you get from Creed after beating Log). Monsters that are level 50+ can drop them too, so even if you char is a little bit under level 50 there’s a chance to see a legendary drop since monster levels are usually a bit higher than the character level.
That said, the chance to drop is a lot lower than on Elite and Ultimate.
Almost always. Since Christmas 2015 at any rate - a little bit before the end of Early Access. The first Legendary drop I got was just before they surprise released the almost final build to the public build. It included, finally, higher difficulties and legendaries etc. I was somewhere on late normal and mine dropped from a breakable.
And FYI - you don’t have to be level 50. It is actually the mobs you are ganking (and the area they reside in I suppose) that must be level 50. You can actually be under 50 and legs will drop from them.
Ok I didn’t know that, I only started playing for real after the official release. The only char I played during EA made it to level 25 or so 
thats what I tried to say here^^
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What is this LG Proton? I’ve never heard of it and can’t find it, but I am certainly curious…
Oh yeah, I was misremembering. Good thing there’s no Grim Dawn patch betting. I clearly remembered that my first legendary dropped at a certain milestone, but that must have been near instantly after level 50, not after going to the next difficulty.
I probably got it confused because they start dropping so much more often after you go up in difficulty, that I thought “oh this doesn’t feel special anymore compared to that first time”.
Fuck bro I’m only 25 how is my memory already cheating me like this.
Same here, but 60 is the new 40.
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To be fair, the droprate skyrockets after switching to Elite. Even if you keep playing on Normal after level 50 (which I usually only do to grab some shrines), the chance to find a leg is really low. Best chance to get one is from totem farming, and of course certain quest rewards.
I remember getting my first legendary as a reward from Creed, in fact most of my first legs where aquired that way.
Back in the day when I just had a few low level characters and not many items in my stash, I always made sure to be at least level 50 before I turned in the quest to kill Log, just to get that legendary item reward. But of course the item was never really usable for any of my builds, so I simply started the next toon just to get the reward again 
I ended up with a dozen level 50 chars before I ever switched to Elite with any of them…