Albion Online Dev Tracker

The chill of fall is beginning to creep into the air... and the Heretic Challenge is back! For the entire month of September, earn points for open-world activities, unlock chests to get valuable loot, and claim your very own Heretic Combat Mule.

Read more here: albiononline.com/news/heretic-challenge-2023

Beyond the Veil Patch 12 - Ver. 22.120.1 - August 14, 2023

Gold Market Purchase Fees

This patch introduces a new mechanism to the Gold market: Purchase Fees. These are additional fees when buying Gold with Silver, calculated as a percentage of the Silver cost and added on at the moment of purchase. The purpose of these fees is to discourage the hoarding of Gold for expected price rises, while consequently increasing the amount of Gold in circulation. Importantly, however, these fees will not apply to purchases of Premium for Gold or Silver. This will ultimately have the effect of reducing the cost of buying Premium with Silver, for players who wish to do so.

The percentage fee can be seen on the Gold Market screen, and, when purchasing Gold directly or setting up a Buy Order, the exact Silver fee will be displayed in the confirmation popups.

This mechanism means ... Read more

Following our recent Dev Talks on Shapeshifter Weapons, Tracking, and ... Read more

As great armies and titanic warriors clash across Albion’s battlefields, few pay attention to its quieter corners. Yet here lurks a hunter, more deadly than most, awaiting its moment to strike…

A new vanity set launches next week, for Albion’s most cold-blooded killers. Stay tuned to find out more.

The Assassin Vanity Bundle is here! This brand-new premiere bundle is available to buy now, and includes a full costume set along with the Assassin’s Panther Mount Skin for your Swiftclaw base mount.

Read more here: albiononline.com/news/assassin-vanity-bundle

Click here to pick one up now: ... Read more

Summer is in full swing, and the Divine Challenge is back! For the entire month of August, earn points for open-world activities, unlock chests to get valuable loot, and claim your very own Divine Owl.

Click here for more info: albiononline.com/news/divine-challenge-2023

Beyond the Veil Patch 11 - Ver. 22.110.1 - July 5, 2023

Hide Casting and Channeling Bars

This patch adds the option to hide casting and channeling bars of other players, which can be beneficial during crowded fights. This can be set for allied players, enemy players, or both.
These options can be set in Settings → Interface.

General Changes and Improvements

• [MOBILE] Login interface now supports autofill via Password Managers
  
• Faction Warfare:
  
  • When a zone becomes a backline, all Outposts now automatically change ownership to the zone owner
    
  • An attacking Faction that becomes cut off can no longer progress the capture of a zone, even if that Faction holds the majority of Outposts in the zone
    
• Crystal Arena / 5v5 Crystal League match duration: 25 minutes → 24 minutes
  
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Guild Season Schedules: Albion West Season 20 / Albion East Season 2

Beginning with these Guild Seasons, the seasons on the two servers (Albion West in Washington, DC and Albion East in Singapore) now start and end on the same dates. The times UTC for start, end, and prime times are optimized for each server.

Schedule: Albion West Season 20 - Starts 17 June at 11:00 UTC

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Date	Weekday	Event	Portal Binding Removal	Day of Season
17.06.2023	Saturday	Season start: reset, invasion, all the trimmings	Disabled (11 UTC)	1
18.06.2023	Sunday	Scoring starts (by time zone)		2
19.06.2023	Monday	Territory Battles Start	Enabled (11 UTC)	3

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This Saturday is the final Invasion Day of the season - points will be doubled, and we’ll be showing the action live on AlbionTV!

At 13:45 UTC on Saturday 12 August you can join hosts Robinhoodrs, Shozen, and Bogul for coverage of the final round of the day’s invasions on Albion East. Then, at 17:45 UTC, Shozen, Lewpac, and Bogul will bring you coverage of the first round of territory resets on Albion West. Finally, at 00:45 UTC on Sunday 13 August, Robi... Read more

Following our recent guides to Zone Types & Flagging and the Destiny Board, our latest takes a look at one of Albion's central activities: ... Read more

Beyond the Veil Hotfix 11.2

Fixes

• [DESKTOP] Fixed issue where descriptions of various consumables were not displaying
  

A new referral season is here, and from now until the end of August you can get the Alpaca mount skin with a single referral!

Find more info here: albiononline.com/news/referral-august-2023

Over the past few months, we've seen a marked increase in in-game bots. While this has been most pronounced on Albion East, both servers have been affected, making the overall gameplay experience less fun and rewarding for legitimate players. We have already implemented measures of our own, leading to a significant number of accounts responsible for these bots already being ... Read more

We recently kicked off a series of Dev Talks which take a look at a number of new features coming soon to Albion Online, starting with the all-new Shapeshifter weapons. In the next of these videos, Game Director Robin Henkys takes a look at Tracking, a new open-world activity.



Read a summary here: albiononline.com/news/devtalk-tracking

Fellow Adventurers,

We’re back with a new update on the stability of the Albion Online servers, as well as the topic of compensation.

The good news first: it seems as if the work our server host and we have done to mitigate attacks on our infrastructure has yielded results. There have still been a number of attacks since our last update, but those have barely impacted your ability to play. This is despite the attacker(s) constantly shifting attack patterns, methods, and targets.
While this does not mean that further attacks may not have some impact on our servers, we are at the moment cautiously optimistic.

That then brings us to the topic that we promised to ... Read more

New to the game, or haven't played in awhile? Check out our updated guide to Zone Types and Flagging in Albion, covering zone colors, Faction Warfare, special areas, and more: albiononline.com/news/guide-zone-types-flagging

Stay tuned for more guides in the coming weeks!

For those wondering what’s coming next for Albion Online, we’re excited to bring you a new Dev Talk - the first of a series showing off some new features we‘re currently working on and how they fit into our long-term plans. In the first of these videos, Game Director Robin Henkys introduces Shapeshifter Weapons, Albion’s next major weapon line. (Note: subtitles are available for all supported languages.)



You can also read a written summary here: albiononline.com/news/devtalk-shapeshifter

Fellow Adventurers,

We’re back with a new update on the stability of the Albion Online servers, as well as the topic of compensation.

The good news first: it seems as if the work our server host and we have done to mitigate attacks on our infrastructure has yielded results. There have still been a number of attacks since our last update, but those have barely impacted your ability to play. This is despite the attacker(s) constantly shifting attack patterns, methods, and targets.
While this does not mean that further attacks may not have some impact on our servers, we are at the moment cautiously optimistic.

That then brings us to the topic that we promised to ... Read more

Beyond the Veil Hotfix 11.1

Changes

• [DESKTOP] Added BattlEye anti-cheat software to the client for increased security and anti-bot measures. After this patch is downloaded, BattlEye will run automatically and does not require any further setup or login.
  

Note: Mobile clients remain compatible with this version.

Hello everyone,

Beginning today, we have updated how the Black Market buffers items before transferring them to the open world.

Here's how it works:

• In order to prevent issues where high value chests would receive less than the intended value, we've improved the Black Market algorithm to buffer drops more effectively and thus always retain enough items to fill high-value chests effectively.
  
• To prevent shock in the system as we start to buffer items, the buffers will fill slowly, so this entire change will happen slowly over the coming days and weeks.
  
• During the adjustment phase, it is possible you may see slightly reduced drop chances for some items, as these are filling the buffer. However, fill rates have been chosen to keep this effect minimal.
  
• No changes have been made to the overall drop rate of items, and Black Market demand will continue to be generated as normal.
  

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