Albion Online Dev Tracker

Who says chivalry is dead? For the entire month of June, take the Knight Challenge to collect fantastic rewards. Earn points for open-world activities, unlock chests to get valuable loot, and claim the powerful and imposing Gallant Horse mount.

More here: albiononline.com/news/knight-challenge-2022

The teaser for our upcoming content update is here! Into The Fray goes live on June 8th, find out all about it at: albiononline.com/en/update/into-the-fray

Albion's sixteenth Guild Season kicks off June 11, with big changes to Castles and Castle Outposts, a new Crystal League mode, Might Level adjustments, and more.

Read the article here: albiononline.com/news/season-16
Check out the full Season 16 Schedule here: ... Read more

Hey everyone,

The maintenance on the 31st of May will last longer than usual; it will begin at 10:00 UTC and is expected to run until 13:00 UTC.
The website and the forum will remain online for the duration of the maintenance.

Thank you for bearing with us!


~ Elsa & Dev Team

Hello players of Albion,

I would like to introduce you to all the upcoming changes for Season 16. We are completely overhauling castles, with new layouts and treasure chests spawning through the entire week. And we are also adding an additional 5v5 non-lethal Crystal League, which in conjunction with the new Crystal Arena should lower the entry barrier for Crystal League and bring in more players.

Castle / Castle Outpost Overhaul
For Season 16 we overhauled Castles completely, and vastly improved the Castle visuals in two entirely new layouts. And Castles now spawn high value chests throughout the entire week. Every 3 hours, every Castle and Castle Outpost has a chance to spawn a chest. This chest has a random value, which is broadcast globally one hour before it can be opened. Since all these spawns still stay synchronized, the largest power blocks can’t contest all chests without splitting up, which also allows mid-sized guilds to contes... Read more

Hello, busy Season Point collectors!

There is some good news concerning the requirements for HQ qualification.

The following will apply With Patch 1 of the Lands Awakened Update (Patch 1 will go live approximately 2-3 weeks after the Launch of the actual Lands Awakened Update, specifics will be announced as we approach that date more closely):

With this Patch there will be two major changes to the Headquarters qualification requirements:

• The Top 600 Season rank requirement is removed
  
• A Headquarters can now be declared immediately after the necessary Season Point requirement has been reached
  

That means that there are now two ways to qualify for HQ placements rights:

• Your guild qualifies for HQ placement rights in the current Season by achieving the requir...

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Accessibility to high-level content is one of the cornerstones of the upcoming Into the Fray update, both in terms of the open-world experience and Albion’s 5v5 play. In this Dev Talk, Game Director Robin Henkys takes an in-depth look at some of the ways this will be addressed - with new Portal Towns, a Journey Back ability, new Arena and Crystal League modes, and more.



NOTE: This video includes subtitles for all our supported languages.

For a written summary, click here: ... Read more

Romondoto Morocco is a veteran Moroccan ZvZ guild focused on community, large-scale fights, and fun. Read more and watch them in action here: albiononline.com/en/news/guild-spotlight-romondoto-morocco

In our last Dev Talk, Game Director Robin Henkys introduced the upcoming Into the Fray update and gave an overview of its major features, including a major Magic Staff Overhaul. In today's video, he is joined by Combat Designer Michael Schwahn to give more details of this massive, from-the-ground-up rework of this entire weapon line.



Note: This video includes subtitles for all our supported languages.

Read a written summary here: albiononline.com/news/devtalk-magic-staff

Read the full Into the Fray Staging Patchnotes here: ... Read more

With the Into The Fray update around the corner, it’s time to saddle up and get ready to join the fight. And as luck would have it, for the next ten days you can enjoy a big discount on the fast, fearsome Darkfang in the in-game store!

More here: ... Read more

Hello everyone,


If you have started the test server since the new update got deployed there, you might be unable to enter yellow, red, or black zones on the live server.

This bug happens if you disabled the popup notifications for the respective zone types on staging.


How to fix it:

Go to your settings (on live) -> Notifications

1. Find the "Entering a (type) Zone" notification for the respective zone and click on the x next to it

2. If that doesn't fix it for you, then reset your notifications settings. You can find that option at the bottom right.

forum.albiononline.com/index.p…5ac5c5880f7c78e2be94e5f23

This issue is being looked into and we will fix it as soon as possible.


We apologize for the inconvenience!

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Our last Dev Talk introduced some of the new features and improvements coming to Albion Online in 2022. In this video, Game Director Robin Henkys announces the arrival of many of these features in our next content update: Into the Fray.

(NOTE: This video includes subtitles for all our supported languages.)



Click here for a written summary: https://albiononline.com/news/devtalk-into-the-fray

The Reaver has arrived! Available now from the in-game store, this premium vanity bundle will strike fear into even the most hardened souls in Albion.

More here: albiononline.com/news/reaver-vanity

forum.albiononline.com/index.p…16d6460b988ce2fac6d2ce428

Hi everyone,

As announced in our latest Dev Talk, the Into the Fray update is coming soon, bringing an overhaul of Magic Staffs, new Portal Towns, big changes to Castles, a new Crystal Arena and knockdown Crystal League, and much more. And now you can try it out for yourself on the Albion Online Staging Server! In order to help us get feedback about this release and see how the new features perform with larger player numbers, we encourage you to log into the Staging server and try out the new features.

NOTE: As is always the case with Staging releases, all features should be considered "In Progress" and may be altered, reworked, or removed with the actual update launch.

Patchnotes for the current Staging release: ... Read more

While 2021 was Albion Online's biggest year yet, there's tons more in store for 2022. In our first Dev Talk of the year, Game Director Robin Henkys takes a look back at the past year, before looking forward to some major changes, improvements, and updates coming to the world of Albion in 2022.

(NOTE: This video includes subtitles for all our supported languages.)



Click here for a written summary: albiononline.com/news/devtalk-2022-roadmap

New Thread: Journey Back (Town Portal) - Additional Information and Background

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Hi all,

Having the ability to fast travel via teleport, or at least teleport back to a location that you are bound to or have recently visited is commonplace in almost all MMORPGs. It is a great quality of life feature as it gets rid of unnecessary travel times (people sometimes refer to this as a “horse riding” or “walking simulator”.)

Now, as many of you know, the reason why Albion does not have such a feature has to do with it’s risk vs reward design, in particular when it comes to transporta... Read more

Hi all,

Having the ability to fast travel via teleport, or at least teleport back to a location that you are bound to or have recently visited is commonplace in almost all MMORPGs. It is a great quality of life feature as it gets rid of unnecessary travel times (people sometimes refer to this as a “horse riding” or “walking simulator”.)

Now, as many of you know, the reason why Albion does not have such a feature has to do with it’s risk vs reward design, in particular when it comes to transportation of items and material being a major part of its game economy.

We have thought about this time and time again and believe that we might have found a concept for a new feature we want to present to you here and gain your feedback.

Here is how it would work:

• When entering a city or hideout, you get the ability to teleport back to the said city or hideout until you enter another. There is no way to manually influence t...

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Albion Online Content Creator Youey is a veteran player, and produces video guides to impart his knowledge on all aspects of the game’s content, from beginner to high-level.

In this video, he runs down how to profitably craft and sell items in Albion’s economy, so you’ll never be struggling for Silver again. Check it out and show it to your guildmates, and we’ll see you at the Marketplace!


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Hello Albion Community,

Many of you probably already know about our NDA playtests, where we test upcoming changes with players of the community before they get deployed to the staging server. These playtests are a valuable source of information and provide a chance for us to get in direct contact with experienced players to get their feedback on planned changes. Check out this thread for more information about these tests:
NDA Balance Playtests

Currently ... Read more

With the upcoming standalone season, we will introduce Disarray, a Zerg Debuff mechanic. The idea here is to create a trade-off for bringing massive amounts of players. This way we want to encourage players to have more fights with smaller and better organized groups, instead of over-emphasising the sheer amount of players alone.

How this works

• If 25 players or more of the same alliance are in the same cluster they all get a debuff: Disarray
  
• This debuff reduces: Bonus Damage vs Players & Bonus Defense vs Players
  
• The more players the alliance has in the cluster the stronger becomes the Disarray debuff
  
• This feature will be launched with the upcoming event season
  
• The debuff only applies to guilds / alliances. Groups of blue players on Royals or faction flagged players are not affected.
  

Debuff Thresholds
The ... Read more