Albion Online Dev Tracker

Hello!

As I’m sure some of you are wondering, we do intend on converting Faction Standing from the old Faction Warfare to the new Faction Warfare.

This conversion process is as follows:

• When enlisting with a Faction for the first time, your standing with that Faction will be converted without the normal conversion penalty. This means that there will be absolutely no loss of your old Faction Standing’s contribution to your progress in the new Faction Warfare.
  
  • HOWEVER: This complete conversion can only be used once. When enlisting with a Faction, standing with other Factions will be set to zero. Please be certain when making your choice about which Faction to enlist with as this decision can’t be undone without any loss of Faction Standing.
    
  • As the Caerleon faction is new, players have no Faction Standing with there. If a player joins Caerleon they must start fro...

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Hello everyone,

With the launch of the Call to Arms update, we've upgraded the underlying Albion Online game engine version. In addition to providing a more optimized development process, this update should greatly improve some aspects of the game's performance, particularly a reduction of micro-stutters during gameplay. At the same time, there are potential new issues which come with any new technology.

We will continue to monitor the game's post-update performance and make any necessary adjustments. Please let us know if you notice any improvements or notice any new issues.

We wish you all lots of fun with the Call to Arms Update!

- Robin 'Eltharyon' Henkys

Call to Arms Update - Version 18.000.1 - March 17, 2021

Version Numbers Simplified

With this update, the version numbers we assign to all updates, patches, and hotfixes have been simplified. These will now appear in the form XX.XXX.X and will increase incrementally and chronologically. As in the past, patches will frequently have names (e.g. "Call to Arms Patch 6", "Brimstone and Mist", etc.) in addition to their version numbers.

Island Move

As Faction Warfare has received a major rework, player and guild islands are eligible for a single free one-time move between cities. This move is available via the Island Merchant, and must be completed prior to maintenance on April 17, 2021.

Update Features

FACTION WARFARE REVAMP

Faction Warfare has been completely reworked and updated:

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Hello players of Albion,

I would like to introduce you to all the upcoming changes currently in development for Season 12.

This season we want to make ownership of territories more important for the season win and also create incentives for more activity in the Outlands outside of large battles. And we will are also making improvements to the newly introduced 20v20 Crystal League.

Large Scale Fights
Season Point Values
For Season 12 we will flatten the Season Point progression curve between the "Outer Circle" and "Inner Circle" of the Outlands to some degree.

This is intended to increase the importance of guild objectives like Territories and Castles globally as an important source of Season Point and Siphoned Energy generation. While these changes will flatten the progression curve, we are also increasing the overall output on the higher end:

Season 12 (New)
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Rise of Avalon Patch 15 (Season 12 Patch) - Ver. 1.17.410 / REV 186806 - 3 March 2021

For full details of these changes and the reasoning behind them, see this forum post: forum.albiononline.com/index.p…nges-for-Guild-Season-12/

Season Point Changes

Territory Season Points (amounts given daily for owned territories):

• 240 → 300
  
• 200 → 260
  
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Rise of Avalon Patch 14 - Ver. 1.17.410 / REV 185092 - 10 February 2021

Barbarian Bundle Now Available

The new Barbarian and War Beast skin bundle is now available in the ingame shop. Transform your character into a mighty barbarian, and your Direwolf mount into the fearsome new War Beast! This bundle also includes a matching avatar and avatar ring; for a preview, click here: albiononline.com/en/news/barbarian-skin-bundle-is-here

Crystal League Changes

• Level 1 and 2 20v20 Crystal League matches now happen 6 times a day at the following times:...

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Good day to you all,
With Call to Arms we are introducing Faction Warfare 2.0 and the reworked Hellgates, for both features we had to rework the Royal Continent, redesigned Caerleon and remove all static Hellgate locations from the Royal Continent, Outlands and Roads of Avalon.
Therefore we will have a Player Migration with Call to Arms where players will be moved to cities or to the exit of their current Zone.

Balltevault Migration - Royal Cities
Battlesvaults in all Conquerors' Hall Lvl 3 have been removed, items from these Battlevaults will be moved to the recovery tab of the corresponding City Bank and can be claimed immediately and without a fee.

Caerleon Rework
All building plots remain in the same position, but we will need to remove all furniture placed in Caerleon as a lot of the main structure was changed to better reflect the new Caerleon Fa... Read more

Rise of Avalon Patch 13 (Balance Patch) - Ver. 1.17.410 / REV 184451 - 02 February 2021

Use-All Button Added

Consumable items that commonly collect in large stacks can now be used in a single click via the new Use All Button in the item UI.

• Stacks of Silver Bags will be consumed instantly and grant you the full amount of Silver
  
• Tomes of Insight and chests use a channeled spell, meaning the items are still consumed individually and the channel can be canceled at any point.
  
• The following items now have a "Use All" option:
  
  • All Silver Bags
    
  • All Tomes of Insight
    
  • All Reward Chests (will display an additional window showing accumulated loot): Adventurer's Challenge Chests, Crystal League Chests, etc.
    

Avalonian Changes
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Fixes

• [WINDOWS] Fixed an issue where the Female Mage's Ponytail hairstyle would cause the character mesh to not render properly
  

NOTE: The fix for this issue on other platforms will be implemented with the next full patch.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the cooldown reduction for Razor Cut (Bear Paws) was 100%, resulting in no cooldown
  

NOTE: This hotfix has temporarily removed the cooldown reduction effect from the spell. The correct cooldown reduction of 40% will be reinstated with the next full patch.

Rise of Avalon Patch 12 - Ver. 1.17.406 / REV 182620 - 13 January 2021

Changes

Silver

• Lowered global amount of Silver generated by the Black Market by 15%
  
• Increased Silver drops from all non-Expedition mobs by 15%
  

Satchels of Insight, Tomes of Insight, and Respec

• Increased cost per Respec Fame Credit from 0.75 to 0.9 Silver
  
• Decreased the Silver cost of Fame from Satchels of Insight across all tiers by 30%
  
• Decreased the amount of Tomes of Insight dropped by mobs by 10%
  
• Increased Fame gain from Satchels of Insight by 10%
  

Corrupted Dungeons

• Increased amount of rare and legendary loot chests appearing in Corrupted Dungeons, but reduced number of rare and legendary book chests accordingly
  
• Decreased value of ...

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Hello players of Albion,

I am excited to announce the upcoming changes currently in development for Season 11. There are quite a lot of cool changes to look forward to.

20v20 Crystal League
With Season 11 we will introduce a completely new tier of Crystal League: The 20v20 Crystal League.
These high stakes 20v20 fights follow a similar structure to our current 5v5 Crystal League, but with the gameplay of the current city fights.

forum.albiononline.com/index.p…fde09ad4adf3c3155c265d237

Some details:

• 20v20 tokens can be bought at the Energy Manipulator for Level 1 and Level 2
  
• The sign-up process and match schedule follow a similar pattern to the 5v5 League (see...

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Hello Albion Community,

As you know we recently reworked Disarray to have its effect applied based on the difference between team sizes.

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 damage and Crowd Control Duration when attacking a smaller group
  
• The Disarray has different levels; the bigger your alliance, the higher the Disarray Level
  
• Players who are in the Queue for that cluster count for your Disarray too
  
• The more players the alliance has in the cluster the stronger the Disarray debuff becomes
  
• The debuff only applies to guilds / alliances - groups of blue players in Royal Continent zones or faction flagged players are not affected.
  

Disarray Effect
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Hello Albion Community,
Here is a more detailed breakdown of how the skipping of Overcrowded clusters works. Just to make sure all guilds know all the details before the start of Season 11.
When a cluster is overcrowded, the Smart Cluster Queue activates for that cluster. Players who attempt to enter the overcrowded cluster get a popup menu with the following options:

• Queue for the cluster (See ...

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Hello everyone,

It's time for another update regarding the ongoing latency issues we’re experiencing.

Since Monday, we’ve finally made some progress on finding out what is behind these disruptions.
It appears that we are not actually the target of the attacks, but instead the attacks are directed against our datacenter in general and we ar... Read more