Albion Online Dev Tracker

It’s Invasion Day this weekend, with territories reset on both servers - and we’ll be broadcasting the action live on AlbionTV!

At 13:45 UTC on Saturday 21 October you can join hosts Nazori, Shozen, and Bogul for coverage of the final round of the day’s invasions on Albion East. Then, at 17:55 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 22 October... Read more

Wild Blood Hotfix #2

The following fixes will be deployed on East and West during their respective maintenance periods, and will not require updating the game client:

Fixes

• Faction Warfare "City Heart" transport quests now correctly lead to zones close to their respective cities
  
• Marketplace Quick Sell fixes:
  
  • Fixed issue where Quick Sell did not always use highest bid
    
  • Added tax display to Quick Sell
    
  • Fixed untranslated title in Quick Sell UI
    
• Mobs will no longer cast and re-cast spells too quickly
  
  • Removed magic cast time reduction and magic cooldown reduction from mobs
    
• Fixed issue where T4 Poison Potion scaled in damage
  
• Fixed issues where Power Vortices did not appear on world map
  
• Added Tracking Toolkits and Shapeshifte...

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Wild Blood is now live! This update introduces some major new additions and improvements to Albion’s gameworld, with Shapeshifter Weapons, Tracking, Awakened Weapons, new and reworked potions, and much more.

And, as always, we’ve produced a new trailer to mark the release - watch it here:



Check out the official update page here: albiononline.com/update/wild-blood

And for the full update patchno... Read more

Wild Blood Hotfix #1

Note: This Hotfix will be deployed respectively on East and West during the first maintenance after the update goes live, and will not require updating the game client.

Tracking Changes

• For the additional trackable creatures added with this launch that do not drop artifacts or rare ingredients, Silver dropped has been increased by 300%.
  

Fixes
Shapeshifter Weapons:

• Fixed issue where zone change did not trigger proper cooldowns when transformed via Shapeshifter Weapons
  

Tracking:

• Fixed issue where tracking creatures sometimes disengaged too early
  
• Fixed rare issue during final Tracking stage where target could escape too early
  
• Fixed party size threshold that causes Tracking targets to flee:
  
  • Small group h...

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With the Wild Blood update arriving October 16, it’s time to take an in-depth look some of its major features. In this Dev Talk, Game Director Robin Henkys and Environment Artist Johannes Geier talk us through the improvements to personal islands and farming that are on the way.



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Wild Blood is nearby, and you’ll be able to hunt some down for yourself when the update launches. In this Dev Talk, Game Director Robin Henkys looks at Tracking, a new feature where you pursue creatures across the open world.



Click here for a written summary: albiononline.com/news/dev-talk-tracking-potions

The Wild Blood update launches October 16, and at its heart is a brand-new weapon line: Shapeshifter Weapons. In this Dev Talk, Game Director Robin Henkys and Combat Designer Michael Schwahn take an in-depth look at this significant expansion to Albion’s ‘you are what you wear’ system.



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Out in the vast world of Albion, great dangers await. But some fearsome adventurers seek these out, prowling the lands in pursuit of precious prizes.

A new vanity set launches next week, and you too can join the hunt. Stay tuned for more…

A new Referral Season has arrived, and there’s another chance to get the Snow Leopard when you refer just one friend!

Read more here: albiononline.com/news/referral-october-2023

Hi everyone,

After collecting about a month of data on the new Gold market purchase fee, we have to say it was unsuccessful in bringing down the costs of Premium the way we had anticipated. We're still figuring out where exactly our predictions failed, but at this point we have to admit that the fee simply isn't achieving what we wanted it to do.

^{However, the data we collected (and still are collecting) contains lots of valueable insights into how this fee affects the Gold market.}

For this reason, and also because we want to avoid market shock, we'll be adjusting the fee downwards in multiple steps, each time measuring its impact, until we reach a point we're happy with.

Our goal is to adjust it to a point where it remains active as a relevant silver sink to help stabilise the silver economy, but does not affect the gold market trade behaviour negatively.

In the first step we'll take the fee down from 30% to 10% and the... Read more

Fall has come to the world of Albion... the shadows are growing longer... and the Harvest Challenge is back! For the entire month of October, earn points for open-world activities, unlock chests to get spooky loot, and claim your very own Spectral Bat.

Learn more here: albiononline.com/news/harvest-challenge-2023

Following our recent introduction to the Island and Farming Rework coming with the Wild Blood update, Game Director Robin Henkys takes a closer look at a massive addition to Albion’s sandbox world: Awakened Weapons.

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



To read a written summary, click ... Read more