Albion Online Dev Tracker

Faction Rank Changes

• Removed Faction Standing Upkeep for Ranks 13-16
  
• Reduced Faction Standing Upkeep for Ranks 17-21 from 10% to 5%
  
• All characters received additional Faction Standing to reverse this week's Faction Standing Upkeep. You can read more about these changes here.
  

Note: We are aware that there are issues with for Android players with this hotfix. Our d... Read more

Hey everyone,

In response to your feedback about the Faction Standing Upkeep, we’ve reviewed this mechanic and made some of the requested changes.

Firstly, it’s important to communicate what the intention behind this mechanic is: We want high prestige ranks to remain meaningful and prestigious for the long term. If there is no upkeep, eventually everyone will be maximum rank and it will no longer mean anything. It was aggressively tuned to protect the prestige of the higher ranks, as we’d prefer to relax the mechanic over time rather than make it stricter if we end up having too many people at the maximum rank.

However, we’ve reviewed your feedback as well as the data we’ve collected since the Call to Arms release, and have made the following adjustments:

• This no longer affects ranks 13-16. All rewards have already been unlocked by rank 16, so once a reward is unlocked it remains unlocked unless a character changes Fa...

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Call to Arms Patch 3 - Version 18.030.1 - April 19, 2021

Hellgate Changes

We've made various changes and improvements to Hellgates based on early data as well as community feedback. You can read about these changes more in depth here: https://forum.albiononline.com/index.php/Thread/147730

• Further reduced selectivity of Hellgate matchmaking in 10v10 Hellgates to broaden the ra...

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Hello there,

I'm Shakul57, a new game designer, who recently joined SBI.

One issue you brought up from time to time is the state of our ability tooltips. So I’m happy to announce, we are finally in the process of overhauling them. For this we try to have a more consistent and clear style. During this process we will also fill in the information that might be missing from some tooltips.

We created a first draft of examples for these overhauled tooltips and are now looking for feedback if you think the new versions are an improvement in terms of readability compared to the old descriptions.

Raging Storm - Bow of Badon

Old:

Shoots a Lightning Arrow, which creates a stormcloud on impact with an enemy. The cloud lasts for Xs and constantly hits
enemies within its Xm radius with lightning. This lightning interrupts enemy casting, and deals X magical damage, every Xs.
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Greetings everyone,

We’ve been reading through feedback about the new 10v10 Hellgates released in Call to Arms, as well as watching a lot of great videos players have shared on various social platforms.
We’re definitely happy with the response to the PvP content when it happens but would like to incorporate some of the feedback for improving the accessibility and matchmaking of the feature in Patch 3.
To start, we’ve reduced the Base IP Requirement 1100 to 1000, as well as changed the soft cap from 1300 to 1200 and a scaling factor change from 0.5 to 0.35.
This should significantly decrease the barrier of entry so more of you can experience the content without breaking your banks.
In addition to this, we’ve also reduced the selectivity of the matchmaking progress even further, so teams more readily match with each other. It’s our hope that these changes will increase the frequency of PvP in 10v10 Hellgates significantly. We’ve also made some changes to th... Read more