Albion Online Dev Tracker

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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With Albion’s sixth anniversary just around the corner, the celebrations continue apace. Decorations adorn the cities, adventurers enjoy some birthday cake, and the statues of Conquerors’ Hall are back out in the open world! For the next two weeks, you can fight these living monuments to Albion’s history in the Living Legacy event.

And to mark this special occasion, we’ve created a brand-new trailer:



Rich Rewards

In ad... Read more

It might seem hard to believe, but today Albion Online marks six years since its official launch in 2017! The last twelve months have been truly momentous, with a new server added, record player numbers reached, and the gameworld further expanded and improved. While we celebrate this with a special event and ... Read more

Today’s the day: after much anticipation, Albion East is now publicly accessible to all players!

Following a successful Closed Beta phase, and an early access period for Founder Pack owners, anyone can now play on Albion’s new, Singapore-based server as this entirely fresh version of Albion develops from the ground up. Players are pouring into the Royal Continent and Outlands, gathering, crafting, building the economy, and progressing their characters as they gain Fame and form guilds. It’s a truly momentous occasion!

Read more here: ... Read more

Living Legacy - Ver. 22.110.1 - July 13, 2023

Schedule (Albion East):

• Wednesday July 12 at 23 UTC - Wednesday July 26 at 23 UTC
  

Schedule (Albion West):

• Thursday July 13 at 10 UTC - Thursday July 27 at 10 UTC
  

Albion's Living Legacy returns! On the eve of Albion Online's sixth anniversary, statues of seasons past have awakened and can be found throughout the world. As these statues are tributes to conquerors, they are hostile and will employ a wide range of weapons and magic. They can also drop unique, limited rewards when defeated (details below).

To ensure the same variety of enemies on Albion East and Albion West, the statues from Albion West will appear on both servers. In addition to the enemy statues from the fifth anniversary event in 2022, three new statues will appear:

• Season 16...

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Hello Adventurers,

This was quite an intense weekend. A weekend that, unfortunately, was nowhere near as smooth as anyone would have hoped and that fell short of the frictionless experience we want to deliver for our players.

The DDoS Situation
Let’s start with the most obvious thing: the ongoing DDoS attacks. Throughout the weekend, we saw a number of DDoS attacks against several parts of our infrastructure. The good news is that we, in cooperation with our server host, could react quickly each time and managed to stop individual attacks. The bad news is that, since the attacker is extremely dedicated and creative in their efforts, it is likely to take some more time to fully prevent them from having any impact on Albion Online’s systems. We and our server host are working tirelessly on proper solutions for healing the frustrating situation. We are committed to overcoming this problem as soon as we can.
However, we are still in for a bit of a b... Read more

It’s Invasion Day this weekend, with territories reset on both Albion East and Albion West - and we’ll be broadcasting live on AlbionTV!

At 13:45 UTC on Saturday 15 July you can join hosts Robinhoodrs, Shozen, and Bogul for coverage of the final round of the day’s invasions on Albion East. Then, at 17:55 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 16 July, Robinhoo... Read more

Fellow Adventurers,

For this update, we are not coming to you with new numbers, but instead a general update and some context.

As you may have noticed, the number of bots found in the game is, at least for now, on a significantly lower level than it was in the majority of the past few weeks. That’s good. We’re seeing it too.
That means that a combination of our efforts has yielded tangible results. We have gotten a large number of bot accounts out of the game, and found ways to make it harder for them to get new accounts back up and running.
You are seeing the results, we are seeing the results - the person(s) running the bot farms are also seeing the results. And while you, adventurers, and us are very happy about the results, the people running their bot business are not. Very much so, apparently.

The server instabilities that we have suffered in the past 1 ½ days were results of large scale DDoS attacks against our server infrastructure. Th... Read more

The Anniversary Vanity Sale is now on! For the next two weeks you can enjoy discounts of up to 33% on a different vanity product each day, beginning today with the Keeper of Souls which you can pick up for only $19.95.

These offers are available through the ... Read more