NDA Balance Playtests
Like you all know from our latest Dev Talk, we are currently busy working on various new items and other changes. However we still want to make a couple of adjustments in the next patch to improve some items & spells that are currently not used a lot and toning down some items that currently provide too much value. And we are also removing the ability to mount up in 5v5 Crystal League & Crystal Arena, to make it less safe to backcap the enemy team. All these changes are still in testing and may …
Kompensasi Untuk Downtime Server
Halo semuanya, Seperti yang mungkin telah kalian rasakan, Albion Timur mengalami beberapa kali gangguan server sejak Jumat, 24 Maret. Kami telah meneliti situasinya dan dengan optimis melihat bahwa kondisinya telah membaik serta Albion Timur akan tetap online. Akan tetapi, kami terus menyelidiki masalah yang mendasar dan memantau kondisi server dengan hati-hati. Karena masalah tersebut nampaknya cukup kompleks, mungkin dibutuhkan waktu sampai kami yakin telah mengatasi sepenuhnya. Jadi, untuk sa…
サーバーダウンタイム補償
皆さん、こんにちは。 おそらく多くの方が気づいていると思いますが、3月24日（金曜日）以降、アルビオンイーストではサーバーのクラッシュが数多く発生しています。私たちはこの問題を調査し、状況を改善した上で、サーバーがオンライン状態を保つことを慎重に楽観しています。 ただし、根本的な問題を調査し続きながら、サーバーの状態を注意深く監視しています。問題がかなり複雑であるため、完全に対処するまでには時間がかかる場合があります。安定性を向上させるために一部の対策は講じましたが、まだ完全に保証することはできません。 これらのクラッシュが非常に迷惑であったことを理解し、お詫び申し上げます。ある程度の補償として、アルビオンイーストのすべてのキャラクターに1日の無料プレミアムが付与されます。 私たちは、この問題をできるだけ早く解決するために最善を尽くします。 敬具、 Talion
서버 다운타임 보상
안녕하세요 여러분, 아마 여러분도 대부분 알고 계시겠지만, 3월 24일 금요일 이후 알비온 동부 서버에는 여러 차례 서버 장애가 발생했습니다. 상황을 조사해보았으며 현재는 개선을 마쳐, 조심스럽게 낙관해보자면 알비온 동부 서버가 온라인 상태를 유지할 수 있을 것으로 보입니다. 하지만 문제의 근본적인 원인을 조사하고 서버 상태를 주의 깊게 모니터링하고 있습니다. 해당 문제는 상당히 복잡할 것으로 보이며, 완전히 해결되기까지는 시간이 다소 소요될 수 있습니다. 그에 따라 안정성을 향상시키기 위한 몇 가지 조치를 취했지만, 아직 완전히 보장되지는 않는 상태입니다. 그렇다고 해도 이러한 서버 장애가 여러분에게 매우 성가신 일이라는 것은 이해하고 있으며, 이로 인해 불편을 끼쳐드려 죄송합니다. 그에 대한 보상으로 알비온 동부 서버의 모든 캐릭터에게 무료로 프리미엄 1일이 지급됩니다. 더 많은 내용이 파악되는 대로 계속해서 공지해드릴 예정이며, 가능한 빨리 해당 문제를 해결하기 위해 최선을 다…
伺服器停機補償
大家好， 許多玩家可能已經注意到，「Albion East」伺服器自3月24日（五）以來發生了多次崩潰。我們已經調查了這種情況，並審慎樂觀的認為情況已經有所改善，足以維持「Albion East」穩定上線。儘管如此，我們仍在調查問題的根本肇因，並仔細地監控伺服器的狀態。由於表面之下的問題似乎相當複雜，這個過程可能需要一些時間。雖然我們已採取一些措施來提高穩定性，但我們尚無法完全保證這一點。 我們知道這種打擾您遊戲體驗的意外非常惱人，並為此帶來的不便致上萬分歉意。作為補償，「Albion East」伺服器上的每個遊戲角色都將免費獲得一天的高級會員。 一旦有更多資訊可以與您分享時，我們會立即公告，並保證會盡最大努力解決這個問題。 此致， Talion
服务器停机补偿
大家好， 许多玩家可能已经注意到，Albion East 服务器自3月24日（五）以来发生了多次崩溃。我们已经调查了这种情况，并审慎乐观的认为情况已经有所改善，足以维持 Albion East 稳定在线。目前，我们仍在调查问题的根本肇因，同时仔细地监控服务器的状态。由于表面之下的问题似乎相当复杂，这个过程可能需要一些时间。虽然我们已采取一些措施来提高稳定性，但我们尚无法完全保证这一点。 我们知道这种打扰您游戏体验的意外非常恼人，并为此带来的不便致上万分歉意。作为补偿， Albion East 服务器上的每个游戏角色都将免费获得一天的尊享特权。 一旦有更多信息可以与您分享时，我们会立即公告，并保证会尽最大努力解决这个问题。 此致， Talion
Premium Compensation for Server Outages
Hello everyone, As most of you have likely noticed, Albion East has suffered from a number of server crashes since Friday, March 24. We have looked into the situation and are now cautiously optimistic that things have improved and that Albion East will stay online. Nevertheless, we are continuing to investigate the underlying issue and monitor the status of the server carefully. As the issue appears to be quite complex, it may take some time until we are satisfied that we have fully addressed it…
Extra Maintenance on Albion East, 29 March 2023
Reminder that this will happen in an hour. -Talion.
Give me a good reason why SBI shouldn't be compensating our Premium for your Incompetence?
Hello, Your unhappiness with the server stability is totally understandable and warranted. We're in the same boat as you. Compensation will happen beginning next week, see this thread: [26 March] [Resolved] Issue with Albion East [Update 12:44 UTC] Best, Talion
[26 March] [Resolved] Issue with Albion East [Update 12:44 UTC]
Hello everyone, Albion East is currently suffering stability issues and is currently offline. We're working on having it back online ASAP. Updates as soon as we have em. We're sorry for the inconvenience. -Talion Update 12:38 UTC: The server is back online. We'll continue to monitor the situation. Update 12:44 UTC: For now the server is running. Every character on Albion East will be given one day of Premium sometime beginning next week.
Basic Builds: Battleaxe
49ddad47e545c1594ec44f3811914c5debe2cdcf.jpeg This is the first of our Basic Builds series of guides for beginner-to-intermediate players. Each guide presents a suggested build and describes how its abilities work in tandem. You can try these out as-is, or use them as a starting point to create new builds of your own. Characteristics This build is based around the Battleaxe, which is characterized by a self-sustaining ability called Blood Bandit that lets you throw your axe twice, dealing damage…
PURCHASE PENDING! GOOGLE ACCOUNT!
Hey there, please contact [email protected] so they can check that out.
After maintenance -getting bug Incorrect Client Version, reinstall no fix
Thanks for the updates. Is either of you able to try logging into the game via a VPN connection to rule out connection issues? -Talion
Knight Adventurer + Gold + Premium for $4.95
Quote from SireFurtif: “I don't remember, it is possible to buy more that one starter bundle for one account ? ” Hello, You can buy more than one Starter Bundle as long as: - They're of a different type - You don't already own the vanity included in it. -Talion
After maintenance -getting bug Incorrect Client Version, reinstall no fix
Quote from jFaide: “my platform : Pc windows : 10 ” Quote from MsEli: “I'm playing on Windows 10 (PC) ” Hello, This reads like your client did not get the soft patch changes we did today for some reason. We're giving our Content Delivery Network a good, old "percussion maintenance" (aka: a nudge to do as its told). Could you please restart your client, ideally restart device for good measure, and then start the client again? Would appreciate a report back once done to see if this fixed the issue…
After maintenance -getting bug Incorrect Client Version, reinstall no fix
Hello, for everyone who still has this issue, could you please list the plattform you're playing on, plus type of device if mobile, and Windows version (10/11) if PC? -Talion
[UPDATE March 24, 11:30 UTC][Resolved] Albion West Outage, March 22
Hello everyone, As you are very likely aware, Albion West was offline for some time. The datacenter it’s hosted in suffered an outage. The server is now back online and all services should function normally again. We continue to closely monitor the situation, though. To compensate for this outage, we will credit one (1) day of Premium to every Character that had Premium Status active during the outage. This will happen with the server maintenance on March 23 at 10:00 UTC Sometime throughout the …
Knight Adventurer + Gold + Premium for $4.95
forum.albiononline.com/index.p…e2786a77a219e4b378b507792 In honor of the launch of Albion East, we're offering huge savings on Starter Bundles, as well as a limited-time bundle featuring the Knight Adventurer for only $4.95! The Knight Adventurer Vanity Bundle includes regular and guild versions of four costume items, two unique vanity spells, and regular/guild Knight skins for any Armored Horse mount. This bundle normally costs $29.95 on its own, so make sure to take advantage of this offer whi…
New Player Video Guide
New to Albion, and wondering what your first steps should be in this vast and exciting world? We’ve created a brand-new video guide in collaboration with AOFAQ to help navigate these early stages and make your mark! Whether you’re just starting on Albion West or awaiting the launch of Albion East on March 20, this video will set you in good stead as you begin your adventures. (Note: This video includes subtitles for all our supported languages.) youtube.com/watch?v=UZ0Tqq4mV-o And don’t forget, …
New Player Video Guide
New to Albion, and wondering what your first steps should be in this vast and exciting world? We’ve created a brand-new video guide in collaboration with AOFAQ to help navigate these early stages and make your mark! Whether you’re just starting on Albion West or awaiting the launch of Albion East on March 20, this video will set you in good stead as you begin your adventures. (Note: This video includes subtitles for all our supported languages.) youtube.com/watch?v=UZ0Tqq4mV-o And don’t forget, …
Last Chance for Early Access
5c4e88c18fd5a74277da4e53ebb513bd48a8e7d4.jpeg With the Albion East Closed Beta over, the new server is ready to launch on March 20. Some are already making their way in this fresh version of Albion, gathering resources and building up their characters. You can also get a head start with an Albion East Founder Pack! youtube.com/watch?v=DBMEDZnsyjY Access dates differ depending on tier of Founder Pack, with Crystal and Gold Founders able to join the new server already. The different Founder Pack a…
Testserver Patch Notes - Beyond the Veil Patch 7
Beyond the Veil Patch 7 Changes and Improvements - Minimap can now be collapsed and re-expanded in main HUD - "Select / Unselect All" button added to Marketplace UI - "Dying" in non-lethal instances now no longer overwrites Last Equipment Loadout (Arena/Crystal Arena, Nonlethal Crystal League, Expeditions) - Streamlined and improved guild logo creation - Added item icons to tooltips of harvestables - [MOBILE] Map tooltips now offset from point of touch - [ALBION EAST] System-provided Carrot Soup…
No founder status?
Quote from Daeo: “its cool, i originally knew it was 11UTC but daylight savings happened in the US. i guess that's what screwed with the counter. i just wanted to make sure my founder status was gonna apply when the servers did come up. thx for the response ” Nah, you should be gucci* -Talion *if you're not gucci after 11 UTC, please come back here, screaming for help.
No founder status?
Quote from Gromrakz: “Same for me too. I noticed the countdown on the website has just increased by another hour too so hopefully all is well soon. ” Yeah ... Most communication pointed towards 11:00 UTC. Except for the countdown. It may possibly be that someone confused local German time with UTC when originally setting up the actual countdown. I can promise they've already been shot at with nerf guns and will be on the receiving end of ridicule for a while. Really sorry about that. -Talion
Upcoming Changes to the Referral System
Quote from Takaro: “Hi, the mounts too? I mean giant frog? ” I actually forgot that we had a non-skin in between there. I don't see a reason why it should not be included in re-runs. -Talion
SIAM Wins the Beta Guild Season
cce8b5e9ab7439b9ba58a0be0f6be676744087ce.jpeg The one-of-a-kind Albion East Beta Guild Season ran from February 20-March 13, concurrent with the Closed Beta. And after the dust settled, the winners were declared: congratulations to SIAM on their decisive victory! Along with second-place winners SINAG and third-place winners Kamikaze, they will be commemorated in the first-ever Season Winner Statues on the Albion East server, which will be placed in the open world for all to see. Additionally, th…
Albion East is Launching Soon
The new Albion East server will open to everyone on March 20. And you can get up to five days early access if you purchase an Albion East Founder Pack. The new server will offer a fully untouched version of the world, and those who arrive first will have a head start on gathering, crafting, and developing their characters. youtube.com/watch?v=DBMEDZnsyjY The gameworld will be somewhat smaller than Albion West at first, in order to maintain a healthy competition for territory and resources. But a…
Upcoming Changes to the Referral System
Hello everyone! There are some changes coming to our Referral system which will come into effect from April 1, after the launch of Albion East. We want to keep the system easy to use, but at the same time allow for our Adventurers flocking to Albion to also be able to acquire older referral skins on that server, while still providing interesting skins for those on Albion West. Starting April 1, 2023 we’re making two big changes: 1.) We will run referral seasons every month. 2.) We will start run…
[13. March 2023] Beyond the Veil Patch 6
Beyond the Veil Patch 6 - Ver. 22.060.1 - March 13, 2023 This patch contains preparatory changes for the launch of the Albion East server on March 20, 2023. Fixes - Fixed rare issue where failed spell casts did not properly reset spell cooldowns
Hacked account.
Hey there, since you reached out to Support already, please wait until they get to your ticket. Please do not create new tickets as that will just extend the period until they can take care of this issue.
[7. March 2023] Beyond the Veil Patch 5
Beyond the Veil Patch 5 - Ver. 22.050.1 - March 7, 2023 New Twitch Drops This patch expands our available Twitch Drop rewards, with 19 new wardrobe skins and 2 new mount skins. These can now appear in all Community Chests and be purchased at the Vanity Merchant. Crystal League and Crystal Arena Crystal League match rules are changing next season. Runestones now score less frequently, but successfully scored Runestones reset each round. This stops teams from simply getting a Runestone advantage, …
Guild Season Schedules: Albion West Season 19 / Albion East Season 1
Guild Season Schedules: Albion West Season 19 / Albion East Season 1 Normally, Guild Seasons on Albion West (Washington, DC server) and Albion East (Singapore server) will start and end on the same date. However, as the Albion East server launch takes place after the regular season start date, the first Albion East season will begin several weeks later and be slightly shorter. Both seasons will end on the same date. Season Schedule: Albion West Season 19 - Starts 11 March at 11:00 UTC * Date * W…
Testserver Patch Notes - Beyond the Veil Patch 5
Beyond the Veil Patch 5 New Twitch Drops This patch expands our available Twitch Drop rewards, with 19 new wardrobe skins and 2 new mount skins. These can now appear in all Community Chests and be purchased at the Vanity Merchant. Crystal League and Crystal Arena Crystal League match rules are changing from next season. Runestones will now score less frequently, but scoring Runestones will then reset each round. This is to stop teams simply getting a Runestone advantage, playing defensively, and…
[21. February 2023] Beyond the Veil Hotfix 4.32
Fixes - Fixed issue where audio would cut out when game window was not in focus Older client versions remain compatible. Hotfix 4.31 was a server-side hotfix that only affected Beta players: [21. February 2023] Beyond the Veil Hotfix 4.31 (Beta server)
[21. February 2023] Beyond the Veil Hotfix 4.31 (Beta server)
Fixes - [BETA] Fixed issue where the Carry Weight reduction buff (part of the overall Beta Accelerated Progress buff) was deactivated upon player knockdown - [BETA] Fixed issue where server access was blocked despite having an active Albion East Founder Pack This is a server-side hotfix and older client versions remain compatible.
Try to buy the founder pack but after 60+ attempts, the payment still ended up failed. HELP.
Hey there, please contact [email protected] so they can check that out.
Unable to login using existing account on steam
Hey, please have a look at the announcement here: No Founder Status error - workaround (February 20, 2023) We're currently working on resolving this issue.
The Albion East Closed Beta is Here!
f87cdb7837971e989e053ae80fa96acbe002eab7.png The Albion East Closed Beta is now underway! This special, one-of-a-kind event offers a fresh version of the world of Albion with a reduced world size, where all participants can earn unique, valuable rewards. Learn more here: albiononline.com/news/closed-beta-is-here
[20. February 2023] Beyond the Veil Hotfix 4.2
Beyond the Veil Hotfix 4.2 Fixes - Fixed issue where server status was not updated for guest accounts - Added missing chat shortcuts for Indonesian and Traditional Chinese - Spinning Blades (Dual Swords): Auto-attack buff duration is now 3 seconds again - [STEAM] Fixed issue where server selection would sometimes become locked
Developers nerf the loot
Hi there, First off, we have to admit the video creator has a point and there’s been an oversight in the patch notes in two cases: - Guild creation costs were increased in the context of the asia server launch. The purpose of this change was to ensure that any shenanigans involving guild creation become a little harder- the new amount is still completely achievable for a few players within a short time and Guild creation costs are still irrelevant as an overall silver sink to the game. Unfortuna…
Dev Talk: Albion East
Ahead of the launch of the new Albion East server, Game Director Robin Henkys sat down to take a look at what this means for Albion, the Closed Beta, and what the playing experience will be like. youtube.com/watch?v=efCTzcsH1aQ Read a written summary here: albiononline.com/news/devtalk-albion-east Learn more about the server and get a Founder Pack here: albiononline.com/asia
NDA Balance Playtests
Next patch focuses mainly on improving various underused and outdated abilities. Additionally we overhaul the Quarterstaff PvE experience for new players, as well as more visual overhauls, to further improve the game-feel and readability. We also tone down some items that have been too oppressive in certain content types. All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Arcane Staffs Chain Missile still puts out a lot of sustain damage in 5v5 Crystal League. To ma…
Join the Closed Beta on February 20 and Claim the Arcanist
af4098133439787114c5fe7113e75d2d5152ef17.jpeg The Albion East Closed Beta starts February 20. In addition to a fresh version of Albion's game world and unique rewards, the beta gives the forthcoming Arcanist Wardrobe and Mount Skin Bundle free to all characters on your account, before its official release! This bundle not only makes you stand out during beta, but can be used on Albion West immediately and Albion East after launch - so you can stand out on both servers. With its vivid colors that…
[14. February 2023] Beyond the Veil Hotfix 4.1
Beyond the Veil Hotfix 4.1 Fixes - Fixed issue where equipped vanity items were reset upon login (affected players will need to re-equip desired vanity items) - Fixed issue where Albion East server asked for device validation despite login not being possible - [STEAM] Fixed issue where login was blocked if inactive Albion East server was selected Note for iOS users: these fixes will be included in an upcoming patch; the current iOS version remains compatible and does not require a client update.
Unable to Play Albion Online
Please check: "Chose the wrong server" issue on Steam [February 13]
Can't change server back to west albion server!!!!
Please check: "Chose the wrong server" issue on Steam [February 13]
[13. February 2023] Beyond the Veil Patch 4
Beyond the Veil Patch 4 - Ver. 22.040.1 - February 13, 2023 Traditional Chinese and Indonesian Added Albion Online now offers full language support for Traditional Chinese and Indonesian. - These languages are selectable from within the launcher or via the in-game Settings menu - Dedicated chat channels have been added to the game for these languages - Forthcoming news articles will appear in these languages as well - Dedicated forums have been added: - Traditional Chinese: forum.albiononline.co…
"No Founder Status" still showing on Test Server
Hey there, the Staging Asia Server is still in an internal testphase and does not display any accurate data regarding the actual Release dates for the Asia Server. Also, whatever you do on Live (like buying a Founder Pack) has no impact on Staging (unless we copy the Live Database to Staging like we do occasionally).
Trapped on my Personal Island
Hey there, could you check if this still happens after restarting the game? Otherwise I've moved this thread to the Bugs section so QA can have a look
Volans, was sonst!
Heyo, letztens wurde bei mir bei Vermintide 2 in einem Dialog jemand namens "Volans" erwähnt. Ist euer Name von Warhammer inspiriert?^^
Lost all skins on test server
Thanks for the report- we investigated this and in the current version this doesn't happen for us. Can you tell us if this is still the case for you on the test server?
No Money Shrines or "Candy Store" on Test Server???
Quote from Talion: “Hello, The Candy Store cheat stones are not always available. It depends on what our current focus for the testing on staging is. For the current test cycle they're not available. -Talion ”
Unable to purchase monthly membership issues(Chinese)
嘿， 如有任何付款問題，請聯繫 [email protected]。 編輯：目前付款似乎存在一般性問題，我們正在努力修復。 _______________________ Hey there, please contact [email protected] for any payment issues. Edit: there seems to be a general issue with Payments at the moment, we are working on a fix.
Roland quest bug !!!
Hey there, could you provide some further details? Which quest is that exactly, what are the quest steps? What are you stuck on exactly? Maybe some screenshots of the quest could help already.
My equipment didn't gain fame for a big kill in a corrupted dungeon
Hey there, only PvE fame is used to advance Equipment masteries, not PvP fame.
NDA Balance Playtests
In the next patch we mainly focus on improving the feeling and audio- / visual feedback of many early game items. To improve the first impression of the game and bring some older items up to our modern standards. So many changes are not primarily intended to address the current end game meta, but rather meant to improve the foundation of our gameplay. All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Arcane Staffs Time Freeze was a very dominant item across mid- an…
Beyond the Veil Patch #3 - Dev Update
Dear Albion Community, Today we released Patch #3 for ‘Beyond the Veil’, which brings some pretty big changes to the Roads of Avalon and is a direct reaction to the feedback we’ve received from many of you, asking us to return high value solo PvE opportunities (i.e. green chests) to the Roads of Avalon. Patch #3 returns those marked chest locations to the game and generally tries to return elements from the previous system (mobs in a camp spawning together with the chest) and combine them with t…
Bought the Ranger outfit pack in the store, says it was redeemed and not showing up in my wardrobe? The mount is still locked?
Hey there, all the Vanity Bundle content redeems correctly for me. Could you contact [email protected] so they can check that out? They should also be able to unlock the skin for you.
NDA Balance Playtests
In the next patch we will improve some of the currently underperforming items and abilities like Dual Swords or Dagger Pair. And other adjustments aimed at the 5v5 Crystal League meta. Improving options to potentially break through very defensive strategies like Iron Breaker being able to break shields and blinks protecting against purges to pair with offensive builds like regular bows. While toning down some of the strongest defensive options like Iron-clads and Druid Staffs. In the next patch …
Objetos De mi cofre
Hey there, if you are missing any items, please check with [email protected] so they can have a look.
I sold three Avalon knife of IV level,but only took one's silver of them.
What noxmortus wrote is correct. If you want further details about how the Market Mails work, check out this post: Explanation of Updated Marketplace Notifications
Unable to open Group dungeon on Avalon HO road
Quote from Balladur: “Is there a new bug following this patch, regarding not being able to pop group dungeon maps in BZ? I report it separately. ” Yup. That'll be fixed asap, very likely tomorrow.
Resource gathering quest "move deeper into the area" bug (workaround included)
Yes, we released a Patch today which should fix this issue.
Testserver Patch Notes - Beyond the Veil Patch 2
Quote from Karasins: “Quote from Obelis: “Quote from PrintsKaspian: “If you Fast Travel to a Royal City (or Portal City) from a Rest or Hideout you will receive a debuff that causes you to lose your Home location if you enter the Black Zone Teleporting back to the Rest or Hideout will cause you to lose this debuff, allowing you to again enter the Black Zone freely Entering a Royal City on foot (not via Fast Travel) does not apply this debuff and will not result in you losing your Home ” Apologie…
NDA Balance Playtests
We are working right now on balance changes which are intended to go live in the the Off Season after the CLC, between S17 and S18. The aim is to tone a few items down that are very dominant in certain content types, like Great Arcane. Further tone down some mobility outliers in the Mists, Royal Jacket and Claymore. While bringing some new options for the meta, like a new Holy Staff passive and a new effect for Gigantify Potions and some improvements for items that are currently underused or out…
Mists Balance Changes Day 2
Quite note on the mystical creature amounts: We identified an issue with them which is going to be addressed in the next hotfix (likely due tomorrow). The result will be that they will become around 5 times as frequent as they are right now. Details to follow shortly.
The Fundamental Reason for "Lack of Content" in Albion
Quote from EANjshdusda: “The fundamental reason for "Lack of Content" in Albion is it's economic system. It's gonna be long, but hear me out. Loot in the entire game are allocated from a loot pool. Corrputed gets 5%, Group dungeon 10%, Hell gate 5% and so on. Therefore for example, To increase loot in Mist, the same amount of loot has to be removed from other areas of the game. Because loot is content(resouce note, chest, core), the game only has as much content to offer as it's loot pool. ” Hi …
Mists Balance Changes Day 2
Quote from Vivusvici: “While it's great you're jumping on tweaking / fixing the mists. Please also do the same to the roads as you seem to just be flat ignoring it at the moment and there's barely any objectives spawning. ” Hey there, the roads are on our immediate agenda as well, we are already in the process of discussing and implementing changes here, to be released quickly.
NDA Balance Playtests
These changes are intended to go live with the first patch of Beyond the Veil. This will not be a big balance patch but a couple of adjustments to react to the current meta on the game. The main goal is to tone down the biggest mobility outliers and have a few adjustments and buffs for currently underused abilities. All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Axes - Razor Cut (Bearpaws) - Range: 12m -> 10m - Energycost: 20 -> 16 Bows - Frost Shot (all Bows) -…
Mists Balance Changes Day 1
Quote from Khladraven: “Just remove death skulls for any solo kill, not just in the mists, but open world too. ” The death skull range in the mists will be reduced to nametag range - that's the only thing we could do on short notice, however, it should largely address the issue.
New Update is Awful
Quote from Trial_hard: “ my feedback in one sentence: If i want a reasonable pvp solo experience, CD is with all the problems 1000 times better. If the idea was to create something for solo pvp it is a complete fail The thing that might be too radical but as a thought to remove the stallment - ” This is indeed a very relevant point. The mists goal is to provide an open world experience for solo/duo players - think of it as open world Outland gameplay, but without the zergs. They are not intended…
Beyond the Veil Feedback. (18 hours in Solid)
Hey @Nazori thanks for your feedback. I also managed to watch a bit of your stream yesterday. We agree that the mists have a solid foundation, however, the balance, frequency/distribution of rewards and objectives are currently not yet where they should be. This is being looked into right now, with adjustments being made fast. Also, we share your concern about the skulls on the map and the zerg bubble. FFA stand-offs/ratting can of course never be fully prevented in an open world setting, howeve…
New Update is Awful
Hey there and thanks for the feedback. We are collecting all the information and player input thus far and will aim to address the problems and concerns as quickly as possible. We'll keep you posted and share a more detailed assessment over the coming days.
Prestacking unsolved - very disappointing
If certain mobs are too good to pre-stack on. We can additionally iterate on those mobs, to make sure there is a certain cost associated if you use them for pre-stacking, i.e. guaranteed damage. But we don't intend to rework the entire Sword mechanic. i.e. stacking on an enemy target. Swords stacking a speed buff on themselves is part of their identity and we would like to keep that and just reduce the advantage of pre-stacking in Corrupted Dungeons. From our perspective the non-hostile mobs are…
Fey Armor
Updates on the new Fey Armor abilities: This is the latest list of changes (not on Staging yet): - Wild Magic (Fey Cloth Armor) - Full Spell Rotations before the selection times out: 2 -> 4 -> 5 - (i.e. the amount of times the spell selection cycles through all spells before going on cooldown) - Ring of Fire - Fear Duration: 0.5s -> 0.75s -> 1s - Etherial Form (Feyscale Sandals) - Damage Reduction per Stack: 15% -> 10% - Removed the CC Effect Duration Reduction on the caster - Immortal (Mistwalk…
Prestacking unsolved - very disappointing
For pre-stacking we have a change in our pipeline that non hostile mobs won't give stacks anymore. (i.e. mobs that don't fight back like crystals, traps or the watcher) However for this change we need a new feature, so player spells can react differently on non-hostile mobs. But to finish this update in time, we had to delay this code change and focus the majority of the team on the completion of the new features for this update. The pre-stacking adjustment will likely happen in a patch after th…
Lag/jitter issue ONLY IN ALBION
Hi all, we have investigated this matter, it's a routing issue affecting Comcast, our server host company is trying to arrange a workaround.
Price Changes for Premium and Gold on Nov 28th
Quote from Abydon: “Quote from Eltharyon: “Note: if you have an existing auto-renewing subscription bought through our website or the native client or get Premium before November 28 through the website or native client, your premium prices will continue to renew at the old, cheaper prices as long as they remain active. ” Does this mean if we maintain active premium the gold price for premium doesn't go up in the native client? This wording isn't clear. ” Hey there, auto-renewing premium subscrip…
Price Increases with Next Update
Here you can find the details about the price changes: Forthcoming Price Changes for Premium and Gold
Price Changes for Premium and Gold on Nov 28th
Hey everyone, As recently announced, the price of Premium will soon be increasing, and the amount of Gold included in each Gold pack will be decreasing. These changes will come into effect on November 28 at 10:00 UTC. How to keep the old price for premium If you have an existing auto-renewing subscription bought for real money through our website or the native client or get a new real money Premium subscription before November 28 through the website or native client, your premium prices will con…
Price Increases with Next Update
How to Switch your Android/iOS sub to a native one: As mentioned above, switching to a subscription bought via our website or the native client allows you to lock in the current lower Premium cost for as long as your subscription remains active. Doing this requires a few simple steps: 1. Cancel your iOS or Android sub directly via the Apple App Store or Google Play Store 2. Immediately buy a new sub on AlbionOnline.com via credit card or PayPal 3. This new subscription will trigger an initial pa…
Price Increases with Next Update
Update (20th October 2022): Details the price changes can be found here: Forthcoming Price Changes for Premium and Gold --------------------- Hey everyone, We've now pre-announced our next update, and given details of some of the major features coming to the world of Albion, including the Mists, updated Roads of Avalon, and new artifacts and armors. Our entire team is working to make this update our best yet, and we're very excited to share more details with you in the coming weeks. Along with t…
Dev Talk: Roads of Avalon Revisited
Quote from Noreaga: “how will the log-out mechanic work in relation to the disconnects/drops/black screens? Especially on mobile, I have disconnect issues, not a new thing in the game but the first thought I had was "how are they going to mitigate that". Scenario: 1 hour into a road roam, I go back into the house and my phone connects to wifi. I then lose connection. It says I'm already logged in and eventually I get back in. Will I now be hit with the new mechanic? ” As long as you log in fast …
Dev Talk: Roads of Avalon Revisited
Quote from totalwar235: “Hi, we are located in the roads of Avalon and I have a related questions with this change to maps will hideouts already placed be allowed to relocate within their zone? will road portals still spawn with a preference to a single portal and fill in a certain order for an Avalon rest? (ours is north east, to north west to south west in that order) will existing Avalon rests have their tier changed? ” - there will be no relocation for existing hideouts in the Roads - most o…
NDA Balance Playtests
We have been very busy working on the next update. But apart from all the new content we have also tried to get some balance adjustments into the works to tone down and change some items and abiliteis that are too good in certain situations and also giving some improvements to a few skills, which are currently under performing. As a bigger meta shift we intend to make Cleanses in the game more broadly available for players to have more possible options to defend against CC. All these changes are…
How to become an NDA tester
Hello Albion Community, We are currently looking again for more new playtesters, who are interested in providing constructive feedback for upcoming new items and ability changes. If you are interested please read about the requirements and application process in the post above. Cheers, Retro
Testserver Patch Notes - Into the Fray Patch 6
Quote from BluesJD: “Quote from PrintsKaspian: “Economy Adjustments Recent updates and patches have substantially increased the amount of Silver generated by Albion’s economy each day. This led to a substantial increase of the in-game price of Gold and Premium. Our economic modeling shows that this increase will continue unless we rebalance the Silver economy in such a way that sinks and faucets are brought back to a balanced state. Hence, we have implemented the following changes: - Increased S…
NDA Balance Playtests
Just as a heads up for everyone waiting for the next round of adjustments. The next Patch with Balance Changes will be Patch 7. Since Patch 6 has a lot of changes to a wide range of features in the game, we will first focus on finsihing patch 6. Among various other changes, you can also expect changes to Evensong and Chain Missile's total damage output in group fights. Arcane Staffs Arcane Staffs have become very popular after the latest reworks, but also introduced a few problems that we want t…
NDA Balance Playtests
Siince the last patches had a short turn around for the balance changes and the chages directly went to the staging server, there was no need for a NDA change because it was public information at that point. However since many players seem to use this thread as a quick reference for the latest Balance Changes. I also added the latest changes for Patch 5 in here. Arcane Staffs - Enigma Blade (all Arcane Staffs) - Damage: 200 → 180 - Dark Sphere (Evensong) - Base Cooldown: 48s → 42s - Cooldown Red…
Testserver Patch Notes - Into the Fray Patch 4
Hey everyone, thanks for all your feedback through the various feedback channels. Here are a set of changes to the magic staff reworks: - Chain Missile (all Arcane Staffs) - Projectile Bounce Range: 6m -> 8m - Mimic (all Arcane Staffs) - Cast Range: 11m -> 15m - Mimimicked Ability: - Axes: Raging Blades -> Adrenaline Boost -> Battle Rush - Frost Staffs: Frost Nova -> Glacial Obelisk - Maces: Snare Charge -> Guard Rune - Arcane Orb (one-handed Arcane Staff) - Projectile Speed: 14.4 m/s -> 17.7 m/…
Albion Online Avatars & Rings
Quote from Criscrissy: “So many new avatars and borders left! It would be so cool if this thread had them updated. ” Thanks for the bump - updated the list now.
The Living Legacy Starts Today!
Quote from Inusaa: “Are rewards and skins bound on account or characters ? ” The unlock items you receive via mail (Avatar & Ring) are bound to character but every character receives the mail. The unlock items dropped from statues are all tradable. Once used they are unlocked for your whole account.
[RESOLVED] Extraordinary Maintenance July 6th, 2022
Hi everyone, apologies for the unexpected downtime. It looks like we'll be able to bring the game back at the end of the regular downtime period at around 11 UTC. We'll keep you posted if there are any updates.
Testserver Patch Notes - Into the Fray Patch 2
Quote from Kanra.zip: “the dps UI popups for the training dummies are AMAZING unknown.png ” This is unfortunatelly not completely finished yet and will not launch with patch 2. Consider it a sneak preview for an upcoming change, which likely goes live in patch 3. Cheers, Retro
Changes for Guild Season 16 - Castles & Crystals
Hey everone, we recieved a lot of feedback from the players and we will make some adjustments to the Crystal League Tokens and Time Slots. The main goal is to split the experienced from the inexperienced players more in the 5v5 League by synchronizing the lethal and non-lethal timers and allowing to directly buy level 2 and level 3 tokens again. Additionally we change 20v20 timers to not overlap with ZvZ timers and make low level matches abit more fequent, so it is less confusing when matches ar…
NDA Balance Playtests
The listed changes are intended to go live with Into The Fray Patch 2. The focus of the changes is to improve some of the reworked Magic Staff abilities and improve the Corrupted Dungeons meta by making the reset bats more effective at punishing enemies for kiting too much, as well as toning down some of the most successful items in this content This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests. Very Important: All these changes are still in testing and may vastl…
It's been 2 months since last Dev Talk
Hey, thanks for all the feedback. I've read this thread when it was originally posted, but wanted to wait until we're done with all the devtalks & trailers to write up a proper response. As you may have noticed, the videos align with our update cycles, we do this for a couple of reasons: - building up hype right before the release of the update - managing player expectations - there can be content that is being worked on that changes drastically during the development or content that doesn't end…
Into The Fray - Portal Towns
Hey Joey, This is a known issue and will be fixed in a patch following Uther Hope you are having a great day, Seldom
Into The Fray - Portal Towns
Hey Albion Community, Here you will find everything you need to know about the new Portal Towns. forum.albiononline.com/index.p…487c7e014bc8a9bed8c36cae8 Going adventuring in the Outlands presents numerous challenges and until now it was even harder for those who were based in a Royal city. These adventurers had to move long distances from the Marketplace to the Bank, to the Realmgate and finally into the Outlands, hoping that there were no Portal gankers waiting. To improve on all that, we are …
Into the Fray - Crystal Arena
Quote from Lockemup: “very cool and thanks for more details. only real question i have is can groups of 1, 2 or 3 players queing be placed against full 5 man premades? ideally 5 mans would only play other 5 man teams like with current arena, but at a minimum there should be some kind of scaling factor in the win / loss ranking points so that if you random que and lose to a 5 man premade you lose less rank points than if you lost to another random team, and the 5 man should get less points for be…
'Into The Fray' Teaser
youtube.com/watch?v=iPQzeVF6VkQ The teaser for our upcoming content update is here! Into The Fray goes live on June 8th, find out all about it at: albiononline.com/en/update/into-the-fray
[RESOLVED] Extended Maintenance
Hey everyone, The maintenance on the 31st of May will last longer than usual; it will begin at 10:00 UTC and is expected to run until 13:00 UTC. The website and the forum will remain online for the duration of the maintenance. Thank you for bearing with us! ~ Elsa & Dev Team
Into the Fray - Crystal Arena
Hello Albion Community, Let me introduce you to one of our cool new features in detail: The Crystal Arena The Crystal Arena is intended as a way to introduce as many players as possible to the exciting gameplay of competitive 5v5 Crystal League. It is a full ranked Arena game mode directly available from the in-game menu, like with the current arena. You can queue up solo or with a party and you will automatically end in a 5v5 scenario with Skill Based Matchmaking. You will also Rank Up and Rank…
Balance Changes - Into The Fray
Made the new smite smoother and faster to play, with less downtime between casts. - Smite (all Holy Staffs) - Cast Time: 0.6s -> 0.5s - Hitdelay: 0.2s -> 0s - Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s - Cooldown: 3s -> 2s - Instant Damage: 120 -> 100 - Mark Damage: 40 -> 30 - Mark Duration: 5s -> 3s Cheers, Retro
What has SBI been doing?
Quote from Reef: “You forgot about skins. New skins dude that is the key. ” Hi there, skins production does not compete with game updates as it is done by different groups of people. (artists and not game designers). In general, it's a minor part of what we are doing and also a very minor part of our business model, which is heavily centered on the premium status and always has been.
Town Portal - QoL Suggestion (-> see new thread)
Hi all, please see a more concise summary of the feature here: Journey Back (Town Portal) - Additional Information and Background Please continue the discussion the new thread. Thanks
Journey Back (Town Portal) - Additional Information and Background
Hi all, following up on our recent dev talk about the upcoming Into the Fray expansion, we would like to provide you with more information about the so-called “Journey Back” Ability that will be added to mounts. Design Goals & Constraints The main reason why we are introducing this change is to combat zone camping. This is a strategy used by gank groups who camp at a static location near the portals in order to catch solo or small group players when they return from the Outlands to the Royal Con…
Town Portal - QoL Suggestion (-> see new thread)
@Oshien please see my assessment from the other thread below, it also gives you some background info on our thinking here. In short, what we want to achieve is more active Outlands and hence more genuine ganking opportunities while nerfing camping. (with the exception of transports from A to B, which can still be camped just as before). Quote from Korn: “Hey there and thanks for the feedback so far. First of all, note that the concept above does not help people who want to transport gear from a …
Dev Talk: Into the Fray Introduction
Quote from hyllyh: “this "recall button" will be a BZ killer. so with this, i can farm all my soul, put it in a HO then OX it all and wait 10 sec to secure my goods in a city? if i feel cornered at a moment in ZvZ, just found a spot and 10 sec later, safe? Dove in a dungeon? just tp out then 10 sec and safe again? the way back full of goods is one of the more exciting part of gathering/farming cause it let a chance to lose all and how many enjoyed to pass throught gankers to finally access the m…
Town Portal - QoL Suggestion (-> see new thread)
Quote from Akuti: “Here are a few scenarios where i think this is the worst idea I have heard for Albion to date: scenario 1: Person A and B have a hideout in a central blackzone person A fills their inventory to the brimm with gather materials and zones out of the hideout person B waits there (person B has come all the way from town) person A suicides person B loots and teleports to town. Scenario 2: Large scale ZvZ fight in the central zones Gear up for ratting zvz loot, fill your inventory te…
Town Portal - QoL Suggestion (-> see new thread)
Quote from MythicDragon: “ I believe there are much simpler ways to solve this. The simpler the solution the better. The more complex it gets = more ways for it to be abused, and more headache in the long run for the game developers and player base. My thoughts: Either do nothing and leave the game as it is, OR For the traveling concerns: - add much faster mounts to the game, as was suggested by people earlier For the 8 no-skill ganker concern: - Increase trash rate of victim's items depending o…
I have a question about the land auction system.
Hi Hanul, I am not sure if I fully understand your question, but I'll try to give an answer. - If you buy the plot outside of the auction period (i.e. directly from the current owner) you immediately become the owner of the land. (until the next auction cycle) - If you are the owner and an auction period starts, you get the "owner's advantage". This means that your bids count double. (meaning that if you bid 500 silver, it counts as 1000 silver, for example) - If you win the auction as the curre…
muting information
Quote from notthinkingaboutit: “i dont agree but i can indeed now at least understand how they could interpret what i said as a reason for the mute thanks for that ” This was a surprisingly positive conclusion - normally I’d expect this kind of thread to end in a rant. You are absolutely correct in that you deserve to know the reason for your mute and we try to provide that in the best and most efficient way possible. When you do receive a mute, you will see the reason and duration whenever you …
[March 9th | Network Issue] Albion Online server is currently offline
Hey everyone, Our Server host is currently experiencing networking issues, for now the servers are still unstable. We are currently still looking into the source of the problems and are working with our partners to prevent these situations in the future. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. We have made some adjustments and the servers seem to be stable now. We will continue to monitor the situation and will keep you updated if anything happens. Thank you for your patience! Elsa, Nesnes & De…
Stack/Sort in the Inventory
Hi everyone, with today's patch we have updated the Stack/ Sort Buttons to display as text rather than as Icons on PC. Additionally, you can now configure Hotkeys for both Stacking and Sorting of your inventory as long as the Inventory is open. I hope this helps with the issues you have been having. Cheers, -Mo DedbhQ6N49gAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==
The Forums Could Use a Night Mode Theme
Quote from Fusionbomb: “Please add a border (or line of some sort) to separate a user's text from their signature. ” Added.
Stack/Sort in the Inventory
Hi everyone, Sorry for keeping quiet on the topic for so long. I have to be honest here, this blew up way bigger than I or anyone here would have expected. First of all, I want to make it absolutely clear that we would NEVER make a change that we believe to be bad for the game or just to annoy anyone. Any change, no matter how big or small they may appear, gets discussed internally and, of course, pros and cons get weighed against each other. When we were planning these specific changes, we did …
Albion Online Bug
Thank you very much for reporting but none of the above are bugs but actually intended. Randomized Dungeon Maps: portals from higher tier maps can now appear in lower tier zones since the update from Wednesday. Roads of Avalon: the zone itself has a tier that determines what tier of mobs you can between those marked pockets. the pockets on the other hand have tier that is different from the one of the zone. Best regards, Thorn
Bosses in solo randomized dungeons drop piles of silver with 0 silver.
What @Amoebius76 is basically correct. That they currently drop piles of 0 silver is a bug and will be fixed in an upcoming patch. Best regards, Thorn
Gathering Changes following the Treasure Rework
Quote from Piddle: “Is this for ALL resources or just T7/T8. I hope you say all of them. ” Sorry to crush your hopes. The randomization is limited to Tier 7 and Tier 8.
Muted players limit
Quote from ViniciusSanctus: “Plus I found no way to access the list so i could remove not present beggars and add the current ones. ” Typing /showmuted in chat will list your currently muted players. Then you can use /unmute name to remove individual players from the list.
[Update] HCE Ninja Changes and Some Thoughts
Hello everyone, busy week so my reply is a little late. I am very sorry that wasn't able to answer your concerns earlier. The changes to hardcore expeditions will part of the next version of the patch notes. I'll will post them here as well: Quote: “Hardcore Expeditions In order to ensure Hardcore Expeditions are properly aligned with other features, a reduction to the overall rewards was necessary. We also increased how much power the enemies in Expeditions gain per level to compensate for the …
Discussion about Testserver Patch Notes - Lands Awakened Update
Quote from PeePan: “I heard about HCE being patched as well. Is it missing from the list (unless the roll changes)? ” The changes to Hardcore Expeditions will be part of the next version of the patch notes. We also adjusted the values after everyones feedback. Quick Preview of what will be in the patch notes: Quote from Albion Online: “Hardcore Expeditions In order to ensure Hardcore Expeditions are properly aligned with other features, a reduction to the overall rewards was necessary. We also i…
Discussion about Testserver Patch Notes - Lands Awakened Update
Quote from Volite: “From what I've tested, the opening rules seem to be reversed, is this a bug, please? - Dungeon Maps (Solo, Group, and Elite) : - Maps opened in Outlands: - T5 maps: T5-8 zones - T6 maps: T6-8 zones - T7 maps: T5-8 zones The main conflict is here - T8 maps: T6-8 zones The main conflict is here ” This was a misunderstanding. We since fixed the patch notes. What it should have said is just as you mentioned the reversed logic. For example tier 8 Randomized Dungeons created by map…
Gathering Changes following the Treasure Rework
Hi everyone, In this post, I want to introduce the changes coming to resources. forum.albiononline.com/index.p…5e56622fbcd5029ce05cd4926 Treasure Resources With Lands Awakened we will introduce so-called Treasure Resources. Those treasures will replace the old Tier 7 and Tier 8 Big Nodes. Treasure resources will also be available on Tier 5 and Tier 6. They will always spawn with a full 30 resources per resource node and not only that but their chances of being enchanted are highly increased. But…
Treasure Rework
Hi everyone, Here I want to talk a little bit about how and why we changed Treasure Sites and what you can expect from them when Lands Awakened launches. Old vs New The old Treasure Sites hadn’t been touched for a long time. We weren’t happy with the gameplay surrounding their static location and fixed spawn times. In this Update, all of these old areas will be gone from the game. No more static locations besides Castles and Castle Outposts. Instead, you will be able to find Treasures that appea…
Open World Mob Changes
Hi everyone, In this post, I want to introduce you to the changes we made to enemy creatures you can find while roaming around the open world. forum.albiononline.com/index.p…5e56622fbcd5029ce05cd4926 Many of you might already know that there were already some mobs in the game that were able to upgrade from normal creatures to more rare versions the longer they are alive which includes e.g. Crystal Spiders. We built upon this idea and also expanded the diversity of enemies you can encounter for a…
Marketplace Loadouts
Hi everyone! This Feature Dive will go into detail about the Loadout integration to the Marketplace. With the “Call to Arms”-Update we introduced Loadouts as a way of saving sets of equipment together with additional inventory items into bundles, which can then be equipped from Banks or Chests with the click of a button. If you need further information on what Loadouts are and how to create them, you can check out our Dev-Talk on the topic here. With “Lands Awakened”, we are expanding this funct…
BBCode in forum signature is not working
Hey there, You should be able to use BB code once you have enabled it under your signature settings: NginmeV.png
What happened to the quick buy feature???
It's planned to be released with the next content update.
The Forums Could Use a Night Mode Theme
Quote from The_Support_God: “Very nice very nice thanks to who ever upgraded the night mode ” I'll keep making changes to it - and as said above, will keep an eye out on this thread for suggestions.
The Forums Could Use a Night Mode Theme
Good suggestion - added a quick and dirty Dark Mode theme that you should now be able to choose from your forum profile settings. If we see people are using it, we can keep improving the theme (or if you have any specific suggestions or notice bugs, feel free to post in this thread).
Earning an HQ Hideout in the Energy Surge Season
Quote from FriendlyFoe: “Again they screwed small guilds, all content is for the big guilds, small guilds and solo players please quit the game right now because SBI don't care 85% of its players, meaning small guilds and solo players. They only make content for big guilds. Big alliances. Does not matter that big guilds already have their maps and territorys, almost all the content in the game is for them. Now they make HQ hideouts also for the big guilds. If you there in SBI want to make HQ hid…
In-Game Music Missing?
We do have original in-game music. Make sure music is enabled under Game Settings -> Audio -> Music You can also listen to the soundtrack playlist here
Will we drop untradeable items when we die in red or black zone?
No, untradable items stay on you when you die and respawn.
Dev Update: Outland Power Balance, Next Season and Update Progress
Hi everyone, I’m here to provide a quick update on our development progress and what you can look forward to in the coming weeks and months! In our last roadmap update we gave you a first insight into our plans for Albion’s next Content Update. We announced that we’re planning to renew Open World gameplay in Albion Online, and since then, we’ve been working hard on making those plans become a reality. Soon we’ll be ready to begin sharing our progress in a new set of devtalks! Next to these plann…
Testserver Patch Notes - Call to Arms Patch 8
Quote from decand: “Quote from PrintsKaspian: “ - PvE Rewards in Lethal Hellgates increased: - 2v2: +10% - 5v5: +20% - 10v10: +30% ” for clarity, is this referring to empty gate chests, mob fame, or both? ” This is loot only. Most chests had their loot increased as mentioned. Since the loot in the Chest you get after a PvP fight consists of a PvE reward and a PvP reward its increase was slightly lower since only the PvE part got increased.
My cat died last night :(
Sorry to hear... we had to put a family cat to sleep last week... it's always heartbreaking.
Spider
Quote from Zynthia: “whilst fighting the new OW spider, anytime anyone new rides up theres a chance for aggro switch without no atk or use of taunt, then person in question rides out of range and reset, still being naked without taunt ” We will fix this as soon as possible.
Massively increasing Hellgate Rewards in Patch 4!
Hi everyone, apologies for the late follow up, last week was a busy week! As many of you will have seen, we've included significant additional changes to Hellgates in Patch 4 as a result of this discussion. If you haven't seen them, Patch 4 patchnotes have been released for the Testserver including the additional changes: Testserver Patch Notes - Call to Arms Patch 4 In addition to the planned significant loot boosts, this patch now includes a guaranteed chest at the end of each gate , to ensure…
Massively increasing Hellgate Rewards in Patch 4!
Hey everyone, thanks for your thoughts and feedback on these changes! We've taken a very close look at what you've written here today to see how we can improve. Some of the improvements you suggested are actually already part of our next patch, such as resetting cooldowns when entering a new Hellgate or when being invaded. Other suggestions, such as a guaranteed reward chest at the end of the Hellgate, we've evaluated closely and are now trying to find a way to get them into a patch as soon as p…
Massively increasing Hellgate Rewards in Patch 4!
Greetings everyone, As a follow up to the changes you saw in Patch 3, the Hellgate Team has made even more changes coming in Patch 4. For this next patch, we’ve massively increased rewards. Fame will be increased by the following amounts: - Non-lethal 2v2: +26% - Non-lethal 5v5: +22% - Non-lethal 10v10: +52% - Lethal 2v2: +42% - Lethal 5v5: +34% - Lethal 10v10: +56% Loot will be increased by the following amounts: - Non-lethal 2v2: +6% - Non-lethal 5v5: +44% - Non-lethal 10v10: +101% - Lethal 2v…
Hellgate Adjustments in Patch 3
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 f…
Unity Version Upgrade with Call to Arms
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 adjust…
an open letter to SBI about the HG rework.
The loot and fame in our reworked Hellgates should be better than comparable activities. But of course those values have been balanced with Infamy in mind. Since everyone on the test servers starts out at 0 infamy for Hellgates all rewards may seem lower than they are actually going to be at average infamy levels. Just like in Corrupted Dungeons infamy can increase your rewards by up to 100%! Thank you very much for your time testing Hellgates and giving feedback. It really helps us collecting d…
[03. March 2021] Rise of Avalon Patch 15
Sorry about my phrasing here. The new fame buff only applies to static dungeons, world bosses and elite mobs in the Black Zone just like the buff before the patch. Elite mobs are mobs intended for larger groups. Their location are shown on the world map by their World Boss (Harvester for Undead, Earthmother for Keeper and Demon Prince for Morgana). Best Regards, Thorn Delwyn
Loadout Feedback
Hi @Vocandin, thanks a lot for your feedback. Quote from Vocandin: “Decent amount of slots (30 for personal, 60 for guild?) ” Guilds actually have 100 Loadout slots . Quote from Vocandin: “Cannot select different food / potion amounts unless done by inventory or starting a loadout from equipped items ” This is not in the current staging version, however we have already fixed it and it will be in very soon. You will be able to use the amount selection (1,10,Full Stack) AND be able to stack items …
[February 26th] Faction Warfare Playtest Challenge - Rewards Inside!
Hi everyone, its really hard to estimate how many people will be responding to playtests like this- we were far more successful than anticipated in mobilizing the Albion playerbase. Thank you for that! We've already collected lots of interesting technical data that helps us fix bugs before a release. We're also considering running another test once those issues have been adressed, and we'll be sure to boost up the test servers even further to allow for more players if we do.
Essentials Improvements for Hellgate to be perfect
Quote from KyGho: “Hello, for those who do not know me I am KyGho, I have been living Hellgates for almost 2 years, and I would like to pass on my vision on updating this content. With a lot of experiences in Hellgates / builds / comps, I feel that I have to express myself to bring considerable improvements to this content. The start of the fight - Since the purpose of a Hellgate is to provide a fair PvP experience, it is not certain that a fight will start with my mana / cape / pot / life in ha…
Are the 2v2s in its final state? I really hope not...
I like the way you are thinking, and we are thinking in the same-ish direction. Always keep in mind that these numbers are there to be tested for now on the test server. Basically what we are taking into consideration is the difference in the difficulty of creating a 5v5 or a 10v10 team compared to a 2v2 team. As it is quite a bit harder to create a 5v5 team and even harder to create a 10v10 team the incentive must give an edge to 5v5 and 10v10. Additionally, the skillsets are also hard to compa…
Are the 2v2s in its final state? I really hope not...
@Vocandin is perfectly right, all nonlethal Hellgates are T5 Lethal 2v2 Hellgates are T6 Lethal 5v5 Hellgates are T7 Lethal 10v10 Hellgates are T8 which means both the tier of the map and the tier of the mobs you can find in the Hellgate. Edit: I just saw the copy paste mistake I made in my post above, I adjusted it so now it shows the right values and number, sorry for the confusion
Are the 2v2s in its final state? I really hope not...
We are currently testing with an 80% cap in lethal 2v2 and 5v5. The idea is to get the balance just right, to get good fights and not make the entry-level too high for newer players. Below you find the current setup, but as always this is all something we will tinker with according to player feedback and the data that we can collect Ip requirement, caps, scaling, mob tier - Nonlethal - Hellgate 2v2 Nonlethal: 800ip requirement, 900ip cap, 90% scaling, T5 mobs - Hellgate 5v5 Nonlethal: 800ip requ…
Hellgate Feedback:
Hey there, - The distance is still a matter of balancing, we still would love to have players roam the open world before they go into a Hellgate chaining spree. The new Hellgate iteration should still cut down the time spent outside in the open world by quite a bit. - The Ip is going to be raised from 1000 to 1100 on Friday - And we are still collecting data, how much fame can actually be achieved in the Hellgate Hope that helps a bit Cheers, Dom
Are the 2v2s in its final state? I really hope not...
Good morning everyone, The requirement to enter a Hellgate is 900 IP, but the actual current IP cap is at 1000, which will be set to 1100 on the 26th of February, this Friday. We are trying to find the right balance, we want a high enough IP cap so our veterans can enjoy Hellgates, but also low enough for new players not to be alienated by the daunting IP cap. In the end, all we want is PVP, right? And that heavily depends on the number of players participating in Hellgates This is why we are ve…
Royal Continent Rework and Hellgate Location removal - Migration List
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…
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Sorry to disappoint you, but this is complete nonsense. None of these parameters exists in Albion Online. This will do nothing. USEALLAVAILABLECORES and NOTEXTURESTREAMING seem to be Unreal Engine parameters, but Albion Online does not use Unreal. The last time I played a game with the IPX protocol was in 1995. And I don't think we have a jetpack in the game. Brilliant trolling, though.
API Update - Rendering Guild Logos
Quote from shoo7ter: “HTTP ERROR 500 Problem accessing /api/gameinfo/guilds/logo.png. Reason: Request failed i have this error when i try ! why ? ” There was a temporary issue with the service which has been resolved by now.
Sandbox Interactive joins Stillfront
Dear Albion Community, As you might have read in the news, Sandbox Interactive will be joining Stillfront in January 2021. Stillfront consists of a family of game studios that largely work independently, while sharing knowledge and expertise between them to support each other. For the past eight years, we have been building Albion Online up completely on our own - everything from development, to marketing, translations, customer support has been built up by ourselves. Now that Albion is growing …
Guild Season 11 Schedule
Quote from Gouloute: “Hello, can someone explain me why the world bosses T8 give 90 guild points instead of 15 ? 90.png ” Black zones have a level (from 1 to 6) which usually increases the closer a zone is to the center of the Outlands. Zones with a higher level have a higher enchantment rate for resources (of Tier 6+) and their level is multiplied to any season points. So killing a world boss that rewards 15 points in a level 6 zone will gain you 15 * 6 = 90 season points. You can find more inf…
API Update - Rendering Guild Logos
Quote from shoo7ter: “looks like all the links dont work for me !! ” Do you mean the ones in Mythercerias post or the ones you try to build for your guild logo? Mythercerias links are all find and should work without issues, especially since your DNS seams to work as you can access the forum. For URLs for guild logos it may throw you errors if you are trying to generate a guild logo that cannot be generated ingame. There are very hard requirements on the parameters but they are all properly docu…
[2. December 2020] Rise of Avalon Patch 10
Quote from CynicalEntity: “Quote from PrintsKaspian: “Defeating a major World Boss (Demon Prince, Earthmother, Harvester) now grants an hour-long buff that increases Fame for killing mobs within the same zone by 20%. Buff is limited to 20 allies and is lost upon dying, leaving the zone, or logging out. ” Took down Keeper Earthmother in Inis Mon a couple of hours ago and the group did not notice a fame buff. Is it a hidden buff that does not have an icon to indicate that it is active?Our group si…
[2. December 2020] Rise of Avalon Patch 10
Quote from Robinhoodrs: “Question; The Raid Zone section talks about the fame rewards being improved greatly, but no mention of the loot being changed? Is this overlooked in the patch notes or has the loot not changed? Also, have the T8 chests that spawn in the zone that are protected by mobs be reverted back to their old loot table? (This was changed because people could rat them as they were guarded by lower tier mobs) ” Loot for open world encounters has been balanced around their availabilit…
Please instead of removing siege camps totally turn them into the new banks.
Quote from Trial_hard: “Whats a "black market bank"?? ” Well, those are the Outland Banks that can be found all over the Black Zone. They are managed by the Black Market Trade Organization under the Don of Caerleon. There you can buy some safe bank space for little silver to store your loot in the Black Zone even without access to a Hideout. You can find their location on the World-map.
Dev Talk: Development Update November 2020
Quote from Robinhoodrs: “9b05ef71d3caa0247bbfcbfafbaf8b33.png So I see Thetford is flagged as a RED ZONE, shouldn't it be a BLUE ZONE? Unless the cities can be launched on via the Faction Warfare system by another faction? Also Nightcreek Marsh currently is a Yellow Zone, but on the map it's showing as Red. Is this the Royal Zone rework you were talking about Robin? ” Hi @Robinhoodrs, what you see in this image is my VERY WIP visual Mockup for the Faction Warfare worldmap that I am currently wor…
Forum Vulnerability Discussion Thread
Quote from VLAN: “Also, this does not just affect the forums, passwords are linked to both game accounts and website. This needs to be directed as a full DB breach, and not downplayed as a "small forum data breach". Shame. ” Hi there, we're not trying to downplay this incident in any way. However, we feel it is important to note that only users registered in the forum are affected by this breach. That number is only roughly 5% of the total number of Albion Online users. 95% of Albion Online user…
Forum Vulnerability Discussion Thread
Quote from Cessari: “Quote from VLAN: “Quote from Wydoyolo: “1. What was the cause of the breach? 2. Do you monitor 0days? For 3rd party software. 3. Do you have cybersecurity officer at SBI or you using outsourcing services? 4. What are your plans to avoid situations like this in the future? ( Forum software should be updated immediately after CVE/hotfix release) 5. When can we expect 2FA (tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238) commonly used solution to be implemented? ” I'm going to second this line of …
Forum Vulnerability Discussion Thread
Quote from SkylighterHK: “I found that I have to change the game password as well. Am I correct? ” Yes- please update your Albion account password by scrolling to the bottom of albiononline.com/en/profile/.
Forum Vulnerability Discussion Thread
Quote from Robinhoodrs: “Aren't the forum passwords the same as the log-in passwords for the game though? ” Yes- please update your Albion account password by scrolling to the bottom of albiononline.com/en/profile/.
Forum Vulnerability Discussion Thread
Quote from Cessari: “Quote from Wydoyolo: “Please implement 2FA. ” This. 2FA (Two-Factor Auth) is already used on a lot of platforms, and is (in my experience) not that intensive to implement. Having 2FA on all of your services going forward would be a huge boost in the communities trust of SBI and Albion Online as a game. EDIT: the security code message you get when you log on to an account in-game for the first time doesn't count as full 2FA. ” Hi Cessari, thanks for your feedback. We will inv…
Did they lower drop rates in dungeons?
Hey everyone, we did not consciously make any changes to dungeon loot. The introduction of corrupted dungeons should not make a difference, since loot from the black market is not reserved for a particular kind of content. Instead it is dropped wherever people are active (obviously scaled to the value of the activity). Please note that this question gets asked after every update we make. This is due to perception bias: out of hundreds of thousands of players, it is normal that a certain percenta…
First Look: The Rogue Adventurer Bundle
Hi @Hyrkali, The bundle will be permanently available, until you have either purchased the bundle itself or all individual pieces with gold. Once they become available for gold ingame, the individual skins will not be tradeable and will unlock directly to your account when purchased. Hope that answers any questions. Cheers!
Interface improvement
Hi @DaLi, I like your suggestions! Unfortunatly, dealing with these nametags can have a pretty serious performance impact, especially in large ZvZ situations. We always have to be really careful with changes like these. I'll discuss them with the coders to see how much of an impact this would have and think of potential workarounds for performance issues. Thanks for your feedback! Cheers!
Update on API - New Endpoints
Quote from cuatro: “it seems only the example in the wiki is working. Everything else i get a 502 Bad Gateway error. render.albiononline.com/v1/item/T4_OFF_SHIELD.png these do not seem to work: render.albiononline.com/v1/item/T5_OFF_SHIELD.png render.albiononline.com/v1/item/T6_OFF_SHIELD.png ” There was an issue with the database behind this. We applied a workaround for now and API should be back up in a few minutes. Thanks for reporting this.
Cityplots 3rd party programm to see the Bids beeing placed
No, such a tool is not possible. When you bid on a plot that is between you and the server. No other client can see that communication. Also, the server will never send information about other players bids to a player. The highest bid is only revealed after bidding is over. As some of you have pointed out, any information sent to a client by the game server can be extracted from client computers memory with the help of 3rd party tools. Therefore it is an important online game design principle to…
Anti Portal-Ganking Measures with Patch 7
Good day everyone, With Queen Patch 7 (planned for Wednesday March 11) we will be making changes to Outland Portal Zones. These changes are intended to make it safer for players to travel to and from the Outlands. The "what": Invisibility Shrines have been added to the immediate area around Outland portals, as well as at each exit of a zone containing a portal. We have also added connections between these zones and neighboring ones, so that now each portal zone has four total exits. These shrine…
Crystal League - Upcoming Additional Time Slots
Good day everyone, The Crystal League has been running on both the Staging and Live Servers for some time now. After looking at the numbers and reading through your feedback we have decided to increase the amount of Crystal League time slots for Levels 1-3 during the Guild Season. We want to give you the chance to play more than one game each day, and still retain the benefits of overlapping time slots, which should keep high-end teams away from the lower levels. Therefore we are adding 3 more t…
Vanity: Avatars, Wardrobe, Emotes
Quote from Equart: “I imagine how people will abuse this frogs via druid robe/Q stacks on swords etc. @GrayMo ” Frogs, Bats, Foxes, Rabbits, etc that can be summoned by vanity gear are not targetable and are also unaffected by AOE's. So this should not be possible. - Mo
Vanity: Avatars, Wardrobe, Emotes
Quote from Equart: “Yeap, i got question. Are you planning to add alternative visual animations of weapon/armor spells, for $ or in-game currency? ” Currently there are no plans to do this. I am also not sure if this really makes sense. Do you have a specific Idea? - Mo
Vanity: Avatars, Wardrobe, Emotes
Hi folks! Queen is approaching rapidly, so I thought I would take some time to explain the new vanity features coming up. The update will contain multiple additions to the "Appearance" section of the Player Menu (accessible by clicking your character Avatar or name in the top left corner of the screen): 1. Avatar Selection 2. Wardrobe 3. Emotes 4. Misc. Avatar Selection As the "old" avatar selection screen was running out of space to display all of the avatars and rings, we decided to integrate …
Adjustments to the Crystal League
Thank you all for your feedback and happy new year! We have put a lot of thought into your replies and went over all of them. There were many great ideas that we will keep in mind. Crystal League will develop over the coming seasons, as participation and demand will show us how to adapt. Here are the final adjustments: Time Slot Adjustments: The NA time slot has been moved forward by one hour to 2 UTC to avoid overlap with the prime time slot. Time slots for Levels 1-4 are now: - 02 UTC - 13 UTC…
Dev Talk: Crystal League
Hey everyone and @Norgannon Amusingly enough this is exactly what we are doing, we will be raising the ip floor. Here is a link to the new adjustments, please continue giving feedback as we are always happy to hear your guys thoughts. Link: Here. Happy Holidays!
Adjustments to the Crystal League
Please see Crystal League - Rewards and Schedule for more information. Good day everyone! We have been collecting a lot of feedback over the last few days regarding the crystal league and are adjusting softcap progression and itempower progression. Softcap and Itempower We have increased the starting Itempower to 900 and added a scaling to the itempower softcap. This way we can have one fight with 1100 itempower daily but keep the cap harder to ensure that lower levels are not purely dictated by…
Crystal League - Rewards and Schedule
Crystal League - Rewards and Schedule As a follow up to the recent Dev Talk, this post will show the rewards and planned schedules in more detail. During the Guild Season Rewards The rewards will be split according to the outcome of the match. For example: - If it was a close match, both teams will get something, with the winning team receiving the bigger share. - If the match was a landslide win, the winning team will get the whole prize pool. These are the prize pools per player (updated winte…
Upcoming Feature: Laborer Contracts
Hey folks, with our next major feature update Queen coming up soon, we will be making extensive changes to the Outlands. To make the transition for everyone easier, we will be adding a new feature that allows you to move and transfer your laborers. Laborer Contracts forum.albiononline.com/index.p…4a7dbed04deaf9fa315519367 Simply put, these let you pick up any placed laborer and transfer them to your inventory, as you would with furniture items. To do this, we have added a "Pick Up" button to the…
Fame API seems to have stalled again
Quote from Ethan02: “@Dero: You wrote "Rest assured no data is lost on that end". Any chance of getting an export of the player statistics between 14.08. until today? ” Depends on what kind of data you need from this. If it's the daily thing for each player then we may be able to generate a json dump of the data for you. I just have to consult our legal team if we can give this data out to you in this form. If you mean the aggregations then it will be hard to do as we would manually need to calc…
Fame API seems to have stalled again
I'm happy to announce that we're almost up to date again. Processing takes probably an hour or two until all piled up data is handled and then you should see current data again. Aggretations (this week, last week, ...) may take some more time to be updated as we don't compute them too often, but over the weekend those should be fine as well. If you see any inconsistencies in data please don't hesitate to write me here.
Updated Guild Logs
Hey everyone, we have been getting a lot of feedback over the last couple of months regarding the lack of a way to get information about leaving/joining guild members. With an upcoming update, we will be adding features to the existing Member Logs UI to make this information easily accessible. On first glance you will see that we have visually updated the Guild Logs UI (formerly Member Details UI) to make it more aesthetically pleasing and allow for displaying longer lists. This change has been …
Fame API seems to have stalled again
Just to keep you updated: We implemented a change that will reduce the amount of data coming in for processing. This should ensure that we will eventually catch up with the current state. That said it first will get worst until it get's better as we still have a lot of data to process before reaching the point where started to reduce the amount. I cannot say how long this will take since processing rates are hard to predict here.
Fame API seems to have stalled again
We do not yet have a fix ready and we also cannot say when data will be up to date again. I know that this is inconvenient for many players. What I can say is that processing of new data is happening, just in a much slower rate then needed to keep up with the data coming in.
Fame API seems to have stalled again
Hi @cuatro, we have indeed some performance problems with player statistics. Rest assured no data is lost on that end. Only processing the data to be available via API is delayed. We are working on a solution for this so you can see current data as soon as possible. Besides of this data will generally be updated once per day.
Wardrobe & Today's Patch Changes
Hey folks, In the leadup to our latest update “Percival”, @H4n1baL announced the introduction of our Vanity & Customization feature. As I am now in charge of the feature, I thought I’d give you some information about what is coming next and explain today’s patch to you. Now that we have rolled out mount skins & character customization we want to expand on that system by adding a “Wardrobe” section to the Appearance UI. Here you will be able to select a visual appearance for your character’s equi…
Market Volume (chart/indicator)
Hey @Woohoodathird! A chart with volume measures is in the game already. You can open it via the little arrow in a market details window. AuBurnGG's proposal was only the addition of the actual average value for the volume. The chart's been there before that. forum.albiononline.com/index.p…f252977d51b1c3aa861bc8f6a - Lino
cant trade on auction
@Dc1a0 And to clarify - I did not leave SBI because of that rounding behaviour I wasn't even involved with the UI team anymore since I started working on the Vanity features roughly 6 months ago. - Lino
Who is in charge of the UI changes?
Hi @KCyanide, I am the one you suggest should be fired Even though I personally had no hand in the sorting changes, I believe the intended way this is supposed to work is much better than it previously was. For Reference: * Old Sorting: * New Sorting: * 1. Equipment items (main AND offhand) 2. Equipment items (rest) 3. Mounts 4. Consumables 5. Farmables 6. Simple items 7. Furniture items 8. Journal items 9. Unknown itemtype items * 1. Equipment items (main hand) 2. Equipment items (off hand) 3. …
H4n1baL says goodbye
Again, thanks everyone for the kind words! I'm really overwhelmed with the responses. @Shozen I'm on a festival from tomorrow on, so I'll drop you a message at the beginning of next week. But something general about the UI team: roughly for the past 3 years, there's always been a dedicated UI team, consisting of artists, programmers and designers. I was just leading this team for the most part, so I left this team behind when I started to work on the Customization features. They are still exclus…
H4n1baL says goodbye
Thanks for the kind words everyone! This means a lot to me. @Fusionbomb Thanks for the endless supply of gif reactions whatever the topic is. @Shozen I'm happy to say that there's actually a few more small Guild QoL things coming soonish that I managed to push in. Leaving behind a little something one might say. And I'd be happy to join for an interview some time. @Finalhecate Thanks for that fantastic song. I did enjoy that a lot - Lino
H4n1baL says goodbye
Hey everyone! It's hard to write this, but the Percival update marks the end of my time at Sandbox Interactive. Quite some time ago I decided it's time for me to move on to new challenges and therefore I have to say goodbye today. I joined the Albion development team three and a half years ago in February 2016 as a Level Designer, fresh from university and went on to become the UI Designer, an amazing opportunity for me personally, as I became the head of a multi disciplinary team of 5 people. E…
Please BEWARE this SCAM tactic
Hi @Ravenar, So do I understand you correctly that you would prefer to have "130 m" there instead of "130,000,000"? I would argue that this would make the situation worse, see example: 130,450,000 = 130 m 130,000,000 = 130 m The only way to actually read out the real amount would be via a tooltip, which I would clearly argue is worse. A player could put the correct amount in at first, then pull the same scam mentioned above and there wouldnt even be a change of the number displayed. What are you…
New wallpaper added!
Hey everyone! We've added the official Percival art to our growing collection of Albion Online wallpapers! You can view the whole collection here - right click and "Save As" to download the full-size images: albiononline.com/en/news/new-albion-online-wallpapers - Lino
Arena Horse and Swift Claw
Hey @Phenix0415! You will be able to purchase the horse and cougar skin unlock items from the arena shop. Existing mounts will be converted into these as well. Hope that helps? - Lino
Vanity & Customization
@Allison1 No, there is currently no close-up with armor included. That may change in the future, but there are no concrete plans right now. - Lino
Percival Update - Gender Reassignment
Hey @HumbleHokage! Thanks for your feedback. As I've mentioned before, gender change is not off the table. It's just way more complicated to implement than a simple hair model change for example. This has nothing to do with transphobia. If we easily could, we would have already implemented it. It's possible that gender change is coming with the following content update, but I can't make promises. - Lino
Vanity & Customization
@Rindex Concerning the current "Grandmaster's Warhorse": As was said before "You'll be able to salvage the current mounts for their original gold cost." So you didn't lose anything by buying one. You can get the gold back. But it's NOT being converted into a permanent skin. - Lino
Vanity & Customization
@Medardo_Sempai As @Elsa said, the stag skin you see there was an idea we had that didn't make it into the final version. @outfit The people that were working on new models and customization options are not the ones that would fix an issue with hellgates. If you feel like we need to adjust the hellgate system, don't use this thread, but create a new one in the feedback section of the forum. @Donger304 We're not taking any gold for old mounts. They are not sold by us, you need the unlock-item. We…
Claymore E is still way underpowered
I have nothing to do with combat design. Tag @Retroman for combat related things in the future. - Lino
Vanity & Customization
@Drift No, only the new skins we produced and the armored guild horses will be purchasable for gold. For the other ones you'll need the unlock-items. @CaptainCheesy No, the guild warhorses are NOT converted into skin-unlock items. You will be able to unlock a permanent skin for gold once Percival goes live and you'll be able to salvage the current mounts for their original gold cost. - Lino
The Percival Update Arrives July 10!
@Sixnations @Goldorack Please see my post here: Vanity & Customization It contains all the info that's necessary. The mounts will be converted into skin-unlock items that you can consume to permanently unlock the respective skin for your account. If you have 10 morgana mares, you'll get 10 skin-unlock items. You can use one to unlock the skin and sell the other 9 to other players. All skin-unlock items are tradable. - Lino
Vanity & Customization
@Lanyday As the text says: the mounts will be converted with Percival. Not the ingredients. You will be able to use the ingredients to craft a skin-unlock item for the Morgana Mare/Bonehorse at the Vanity Merchant. @Ravenar Only mounts on that list are gonna be affected. The rams and bat etc. are not mentioned because they aren't being touched. - Lino
Sound is still severely lacking
Hey @Chersk! If you send me the spells&attacks that you feel are lacking a proper sound, I'll definitely forward it to our sound department so they can take a look. - Lino
Can we get Siphoned Energy bank separated from the main guild bank?
@Vindrax No, it won't make it for Percival. It's almost in the pipeline though. - Lino
Changing Appearance (Skins)
Hey @ShiroTagachi! As @Circe1872 already said: We're releasing the first batch of customization options with out next content update Percival. There's no release date yet. Please see my post from today for more info: Vanity & Customization - Lino
Travel Planer typing bug
Hi @kamilasd1, this is already fixed on our side and will be patched ASAP. Cheers, -Mo
Evoque: A fond farewell
M’ladies, m’lords, The timing is never ideal for such an announcement, and unfortunately time waits for no-one - which is one of the very reasons, with a heavy heart, I have decided to start a new chapter, seek new challenges and for that I have to bid you adieu. Writing this is pretty difficult, please bear with me, it’s been roughly 2 years since I started here at Sandbox Interactive managing AlbionTV. Lots changed during that time, and roughly 1 year ago took up the position as community lead…
Upcoming changes to the Land Auction System
Hey everyone, There have been several ongoing discussions on the monopolization of the city plots and we appreciate all of your feedback on this topic. After evaluating the situation, we plan to make a set of changes in Oberon Patch #4 to address this. You can expect the patch to go live in the coming days, prior to the next auction cycle. The main change is that we are moving to a so called "blind" auction system, meaning that players won't see each others' bids until the winner is determined. …
Shotcaller Interview: Sucks
While the armies of Albion sharpen their weapons and refill their stocks in preparation for Season 6, we chatted with one of Blue Army's lead shotcallers about his approach to guild warfare. As a player since the early betas, Sucks (real name: Chris) has extensive experience in group PvP, and has played a big part in every winning guild's #1 place from season 1 to 5. Currently one of the lead shotcallers for Season 5 winners Blue Army, he also plays numerous other roles within the guild, which …
Island Favourites Teaser
Quote from solventh: “@Evoque can you please use a different image hosting site? some people like me are only able to see the image only via vpn. ” Apologies @solventh, I have attached the image now to the post, is that accessible and a better format for you? - Evoque
Island Favourites Teaser
Hey again, Quote from Zarf: “Great addition, thank you. Besides making favorites, can we forget / erase islands from the list, that we no longer wish to visit? ” We're pleased you guys like it, and I will pass on your suggestion and see what the status is! Quote from kilawok: “The life bar looks entirely different too, can we also expect a facelift on names/health bars? ” This is just a concept template used by the artists, but if you have more suggestions in that direction we would be happy to …
Island Favourites Teaser
Hey all, I come bearing good news! We know this has been high up on many lists, and we have seen it come up frequently here on the forum, reddit and in our 2018 survey. Therefore, we wanted to let you know that our UI artist is currently working on this feature and here is a sneak peak on its progress: rDrDrLg.png I currently do not have an ETA on exactly when it will arrive, but that will become clearer as move towards our upcoming updates and the news surrounding that. Once again, thank you fo…
Daily Maintenance (Reminder)
Hey everyone, Since we see a fresh influx of new players joining our community, we wanted to give you an extra reminder that each day we carry out a scheduled maintenance. The daily maintenance begins at 10:00 UTC, and usually lasts between 30-60 minutes. The maintenance is for: - Performing database backups - Deploying server-side updates and fixes - Working on hardware (adding new machines, updating operating system, changing routing and network configuration) - Also, certain things in the gam…
[Resolved] Gold Market Issue
Hey everyone, Today we performed an emergency maintenance to resolve an exploit that affected our in-game gold market. We identified the severity of the problem, and fortunately there was no need for a rollback. Here is what we are currently doing to resolve this problem: 1. The accounts involved in gold creation will be suspended temporarily and investigated by us. 2. Accounts that bought lots of gold cheaply as a result of the gold exploit will not be suspended. However, we'll be treating this…
Raid/Party Interface
Quote from DildoSwaggings: “Hello, I think the Party/Raid interface could use with the ability to personalize it according to the specific player, For example: 1. I would like to be able to size the health bars either smaller or bigger 2. I would like to be able to to see certain debuffs/buffs via interface (Nature Q stacks for ex) 3. I would like to be able to see a % total life or the exact number of HP current/total What do you guys think? Lots of love ” Heyo! So far I have to tell you that f…
Target Markers for Party
Hey @Hristov, You can mark yourself if you follow these steps: 1. Start a party 2. Right click your own portrait/avatar 3. Click ''Mark'' 4. Choose a mark symbol Hope this helps! - Evoque
Free-to-Play FAQ
Quote from Skitted: “And for our veteran players, we have an exclusive thank-you gift: the incredible Specter Wolf mount. The Specter Wolf has all the stats of a Direwolf with a unique ghostly appearance, and only accounts that have a Founder or Starter Pack redeemed and active on April 10 at 10:00 UTC will qualify for this. Can somebody tell me what 'active' defines as for this case @Evoque ” Hey there @Skitted, It just means that, you need to both purchase and 'redeem' the corresponding pack. …
More deco for Islands
Hey there, Thanks for this big list of item suggestions, will pass it along! We do hope to bring you more and more furniture items for your island through the Adventurers Challenge.. and if I heard correctly.. more statues and carpets could be quite close on the horizon... Also, we know that pretty much every player spends at least some time on their island/s, so I also think the option to theme them could be a very suitable change and would help with getting immersed in the world. We can add th…
Gimmie Season 6 Schedule !!!
Hey guys, What I can tell you already so that you can start your planning, is that Season 6 will not begin on the weekend after the F2P launch, but actually on the 20th of April. A more detailed schedule will follow next week once Season 5 is fully concluded. - Evoque
[27.03.19] Webserver Maintenance
Hi everyone, Tomorrow, the 27th of March, during our routine downtime starting at 10:00 UTC, the official website, forum and wiki will undergo technical maintenance. During this time these services may also be unreachable, however we don't expect this to last longer than an hour. - Evoque
Testserver Patch Notes - Oberon Patch#1
Oberon Patch #1 - Ver. 1.14.379 / REV 139249 - 25 March 2019 Changes - The winners' statue to honor Blue Army's victory in the 4th season was removed from the Portal area in order to prepare the monument for the upcoming winner of Season 5. It will remain in Conqueror’s Hall for eternity. - Deactivated Trial Key purchase option in the Invite-a-Friend menu - Set default quality to Ultra Settings for desktop clients - Self-healing now applies a healing sickness effect, just like being healed by an…
Free-to-Play FAQ
Hey folks, Will try to shed some light on your questions and concerns. Quote from SHARKY: “While I'm happy with the bonus rewards the current pay-to-play players will be getting, one thing I would REALLY like is a unique Avatar Border, that sets us apart from the F2P players. I'm thinking of a border similar in presence to the ones that the Legendary and Epic Founders got. ” Thanks for the suggestions, will see what we can do! Quote from Equartus: “Are you ready guys? xD One question - your serv…
The Albion Online Wiki
Quote from Cathair: “@Dero Amazing job with the leaflet and with the tile server! Applied the tile layers from the wiki to the AO2D map (Steal like an artist, or so they say whistling.png ) ” I thought that you might be interrested in those tiles
The Albion Online Wiki
Hello fellow editors, I'm glad to announce that we just released a new feature to the Wiki. An interactive map of the world of Abion. You can open up wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Widget:World_map to see how to integrate this map. Furthermore we introduced a new template which can be integrated onto Cluster pages to summarize certain information of a cluster with the map for it included. Check out wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Caerleon to see an example of this on the right side. On the map you have z…
Free-to-Play FAQ
When will Albion Online go free-to-play? Albion Online will go free-to-play on April 10, 2019 at 10:00 UTC. What exactly does this change mean? Starting at 10:00 UTC on April 10, you will no longer need to buy the game in order to play. After this point, you can simply download the game client from the website, create a free account, and join the action. Will there be changes to Albion Online’s business model? Albion Online’s business model has always been based on two pillars: Premium status, w…
Feedback on the Oberon new tutorial
Hey Tilden, You make a really good point here, and it is important for sure that there is a smooth transition from the tutorial to where you begin your own story in Albion. Thank you for your sharing your personal experience, it's very much appreciated and I am sure the devs will be thrilled to hear your feedback when we drop it by them! - Evoque
Make it so Right Click Only Moves
Hey guys, Thank you for coming forward to show your support for this suggestion, it really helps us see who else would benefit from such a change and how we should prioritize it. Will bring this forward to the dev team and see if something can be done here. - Evoque
Adventure Challenges now lack excitement
Hey @Meleodus, Quote from Meleodus: “(1) Part of the reason why rewards are not considered special, and why I believe I am receiving an in-game stipend rather than a reward for my efforts is that I can receive the daily point bonus in 10 minutes. I can do a single HCE, hop into a zone for a quick gathering session, or just go kill a few mobs-- something the average player does anyways. I think it would be cool to actually have to earn the reward-- either by completing a list of tasks that take y…
A New Battle Mount - The Support Cart
Hey @Tahsim, Thanks for sharing your idea with us! It would be great to hear what others think about each of these abilities you mentioned. Also what are you ideas in terms of stats, if it should be relatively easy to destroy or not? What should its speed be? In the meantime, I will drop it by the developers for future inspiration - Evoque
The Albion Online Wiki
Quote from mNote: “Just a heads up, the background images used in the wiki lags my chrome browser when viewing it. I removed the 2 images with the developer console and that fixed my issue. Maybe it's a personal problem, but I'd like to believe that if I have issues viewing the wiki, I'm sure others will too. ” Hi @mNote, when writing the code for the layout I was afraid that something like that may happen. The images are pretty big in size which can cause slow loading and performance issues on …
Something broken with Character Builder at albiononline.com
Hi @gmatagmis, I had a look into the issue and was rather suprised it even exists. We have not changed anything on the Character Builder besides providing it with updated data in recent times. That said we noticed a bug in the framework used for it which, in combination with increased usage of the service, caused a critical error in the application. A simple 'turn it off and on again' fixed this for now so you will see the filters again. Also we will monitor this during our search for a permanen…
Arena Que number
Hi Wadefu, we would like to give you more information on the state of the queue, but since we have far lower numbers compared to huge MMOs a queue position could often be misleading in regards to actual waiting times. For example you could be at the beginning of the list to find a match but if the queue simply doesn't have enough player in your elo range, it could take much longer than you would expect. And yes, the tolerance in terms of skill we match players with/against increases with time an…
UPDATED: Get a Sled Dog in the New Referral Season
We're sorry for the inconvenience. The issue will be solved within the next few minutes. For those of you who received a wrong item already - please contact Customer Support. They will exchange it for the proper one. --- Update: --- All fixed now.
Testserver Patch Notes - Nimue Patch #3
Nimue Patch #3 - Ver. 1.13.369 - 12 13 December 2018 The Yuletide season has come to Albion! Presents and decorated trees can now be seen throughout Albion's cities and towns. Beyond that a new building is being constructed next to the Realmgate. Rumors say that it will honor the most powerful guilds in Albion. Changes and Improvements - Adjusted the Realmgate area to make space for an upcoming building - Added the option to use Shift + Mousewheel to rotate items during placement - Changed build…
A Brief Guide to Crystal Realm Battles
Quote from Desriel: “Quote from Kumquat: “I see from your message that you are aware of the royal exception. Wouldn't it be more fair to just keep all territories' energy generation as they are, like you are doing for royals, and just accept a higher net volume of energy and season points, rather than implement the unequal nerfs currently planned? ” Especially if you plan on removing all t8 from territories slashing the energy they generate as well makes no sense if you want to have GvGs remain …
A Brief Guide to Crystal Realm Battles
I know that it doesn't feel good to see a smaller number after the update. But the problem here is that rewards from season points all have a certain value and are balanced in a way that we give a fixed value per point. Now If we drastically increase season points available, we would give out far more of these rewards (which will have a bad impact on the economy). If it would be all about 'perceiving' the higher number we could multiply everything by 10 but in the end the relative relation of th…
A Brief Guide to Crystal Realm Battles
Quote from Funstealer: “last 2 questions I got that I don't see coverd 1) are we able to merc into a crystal gvg 2) can we par take in both EU and NA time zone crystal gvg on the same char ” 1) yes, merc is an option and will be shown separately in your stats 2) yes, the two time windows are not exclusive
A Brief Guide to Crystal Realm Battles
Quote from Funstealer: “Does doing a crystal realm gvg lock u from regular GvGs ” No, you will be able to participate in a Crystal Battle and later on fight a regular GvG also for the same territory. The only exception is a regular GvG that takes place at the exact same time as the Crystal Battle.
A Brief Guide to Crystal Realm Battles
Hi there, Thanks again for your thoughts. Here is a quick update and some of our reasoning. First of all we will change the first time to 02:00 UTC (for 14:00, 13:00, 12:00, 05:00, 04:00, 03:00, 02:00, 01:00, and 00:00). We made this change based on our total CCU numbers and therefore hope that most of you have a comfortable time window. But we also know that we cannot find the right time for everyone with this current system and we will hopefully be able to offer a better solution for this in a…
A Brief Guide to Crystal Realm Battles
Hi there and thanks already for your feedback. We are currently not able to set dynamic spawn times, only one static time per time zone. This is why we moved the time window after the siege camps. So while that would be a cool feature, we can't set this up for the Nimue release
Crystal Realm Battles - Share Your Feedback
Hi there, thanks so much for all of your feedback, it’s as always very appreciated! Time frame And as already mentioned, will change the time frame in the next version (right now we consider 19 and 4 UTC) but we’re quite flexible here. Yes, a territory with a regular fight in these time frames has to manage to have both teams ready at that point in time. But as already described, the crystal team will be able to join their match from everywhere in the cluster. Season Points Regarding the total b…
Crystal Realm Battles - Share Your Feedback
Hi there, we're flexible regarding the Crystal Realm time windows so having them between warcamp timers is def. an option. And regarding the resource territories that have regular GvGs at that time: these Crystal Realm fights can still take place since the current owners crystal team has to be only in the cluster surrounding the territory to take part in the Crystal Battle as of right now. However the battle vault should be filled beforehand.
Season 4 Patch Brings Essential Guild Updates
Quote from Captainrussia: “can you take the skin part of it off? Or is it permanent once applied? ” Once an Armored Horse is crafted to a Warhorse - it becomes permanent. Quote from Raithe: “And the warhorse when looted shows the guild of whoever is wearing it I would assume? Just like a cape? ” Exactly - works the same way as capes.
The Albion Online Wiki
Quote from Grimhawke-EB: “Quote from Dero: “Quote from Grimhawke-EB: “Is something wrong with the <aoitem> and <aospell> tags? They're not working for me today. The warlock page I've been working on no longer shows those icons. wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Warlock ” It looks like you edited the page using the visual editor. When your write tags in this it will encapsulate them with <nowiki/> Tags as it expects that you wanna show the actual code of this. I removed those from the page and now icons…
The Albion Online Wiki
Quote from Grimhawke-EB: “Is something wrong with the <aoitem> and <aospell> tags? They're not working for me today. The warlock page I've been working on no longer shows those icons. wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Warlock ” It looks like you edited the page using the visual editor. When your write tags in this it will encapsulate them with <nowiki/> Tags as it expects that you wanna show the actual code of this. I removed those from the page and now icons are displayed as expected (though there is …
The Albion Online Wiki
Quote from ZaZii: “Yo, next time you get bored, can you take a look at the layers of those fancy new pictures? It seems like the enchantment is layered above the quality (in-game the quality is on top of enchantment) Edit: Oh, and those links are a bit too broken for your forums^^ Can't use those as images in here, or even as actual links gameinfo.albiononline.com/api/gameinfo/items/Elder's Blazing [email protected]?quality=4 ” Hi @ZaZii, thanks for the info on the rendering. I put it into our backlog…
The Albion Online Wiki
Hi @Unii, as it turned out there was an issue with Items/Skills that contained no spaces in their localized name. The code would then think that it is a unique item name and wouldn't start to search for the item by localized name. I fixed this not so that unique names are better distinguished from localized names. You can see that all images on wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Hammers are now loading propertly. Regarding the icon for 'Earth Shatter' you will probably still need to switch over to the u…
The Albion Online Wiki
Quote from Unii: “@Dero Thanks for the fix ! I added some images, but i got some that are not showing. Some image in the Hammers page aren't showing at all : wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Hammers . I checked in game to see if the name of those skill were wrong but it's not And the image for the 1H hammer E, Earth Shatter is the Command mamoth Earth Shatter. If you can see why i got those issues it would be great Thanks ! ” Hi Unii, I did a really quick analysis for now on those spells. 1) Knockout …
The Albion Online Wiki
Quote from Unii: “Quote from Dero: “Hey Guys, as I got sick of my usual task yesterday evening I put in a couple of minutes to improve the way you can retrieve item icons from our services. Now you don't need to know our internal item names anymore but can use the ingame item name for it. For the "T4_ARMOR_LEATHER_SET2" this would be <aoitem>Adept's Hunter Jacket</aoitem>. By default those item names will be interpreted as english. If you do now know the english item name you can use it from any…
The Albion Online Wiki
Hey Guys, as I got sick of my usual task yesterday evening I put in a couple of minutes to improve the way you can retrieve item icons from our services. Now you don't need to know our internal item names anymore but can use the ingame item name for it. For the "T4_ARMOR_LEATHER_SET2" this would be <aoitem>Adept's Hunter Jacket</aoitem>. By default those item names will be interpreted as english. If you do now know the english item name you can use it from any other language by specifying the la…
The Albion Online Wiki
Quote from Mondmann: “You guys should delete this Wiki: albiononline.gamepedia.com/Albion_Online_Wiki if you moved to this one: wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Albion_Online_Wiki Because it is really confusing. If you google albion Wiki, the gamepedia one will be first. I didnt Not find the other one even on google unless i checked this thread. Looking forward to contribute to the new Wiki. Cheers, Mondmann /edit: and you should link the Wiki somewhere in the Navigation bar on the Main Page so that e…
Testserver Patch Notes - Merlyn Patch #3
Merlyn Patch 3 - Ver. 1.12.365 / REV 124291 - 22 August 2018 Changes - Upgrading, repairing and construction of buildings is now much faster and is the same speed throughout all tiers of resources. - Marketplace buy amount can now be set in the Options-Interface, 1 or maximum. The default value has been set back to 1. (Not in the current version) - Known issue: The description for this setting is only in english at the moment. - Added various tooltips - Destiny Board Tracker tooltip displays now…
New Horse Gallop Sounds
Quote from foxon: “Quote from dagother: “Those gallop sounds will be disabled in cities in patch #1 soon! ” oh nice:) what about ox?in market is crazy...but now horses is lauther then ox.. i think to lauth is galop sounds.when enemy around i dont see him but i hear hes horse galoop its like cheat i hope bugs will be fixed to.what i can say,daggers now is slowly for fight,when i not use skill i can move from anemy fast.like was before pach.so what to do?maby i need remove daggers and take frostst…
Norton Issue?
This is only a "heuristic" detection, given away by the ".Heur." in the threat name. (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_analysis) I.e. the virus scanner has absolutely no idea what this is, but thinks it's suspicious anyway. Probably because Albion connects to the internet or something. Anyway, you can safely ignore this. Personally, I do not recommend that you use any 3rd party anti virus programs at all. Windows Defender and Windows firewall will protect your system adequately. Especially Sy…
Testserver Patch Notes - Merlyn Update
Quote from AcOrP: “Quote from Evoque: “Hey everyone, An update for those who are currently active on the staging server. We will increase the amount of faction points needed to buy a city heart from 1500 to 3000. We decided to make this change to ensure that the market value of hearts and raw resources in the refinement process will remain at a healthy level. Combined with the latest outpost encounter tweaks, we believe the time invested in faction warfare will remain valuable. Thank you for all…
Pen Garn - T4 map outpost missing?
Hey LordSilva, This is by design, so all biome cities have the same amount of outposts and the same amount of outposts in the same travel distance.
A Brief Guide to Faction Warfare
Quote from banshi: “faction champion don't scale down in blue and yellow zones. yet players IP are severely capped. this makes the champions much much harder to take down in blue zones. Is this done on purpose or is that something that needs fixing? ” Hi there, we’re still in the process of setting up the final balancing and the faction bosses will scale to a degree with the cluster tier they are in. Quote from Bogul: “do the bosses have a black market loot table? if not, why not? ” They def. sh…
Some faction war feedback
The resource runs will prob receive some number tweaking before the final update. We see this in a similar way as the outposts: Your income will of course vary with the amount of pvp / gankers so we're careful not to have this as the single most efficient way to get points. That said, these trade runs need to offer a good reward, especially in the case a player picked a smart resource flip, since this is also a form of transmutation where you can exchanging a cheaper resource against a more valu…
Some faction war feedback
"Another thing, how will the defensive bonus for high standard rep apply?. Seems to me that you will get this bonus in faction pvp?" We're still working on changing this to NOT apply the defensive bonus as long as players are flagged for faction warfare. We don't want players with high rep. to have an advantage against players with low rep. while participating in this activity. "I think you might be right on the gathering estimate but that you mught vastly underestimate the outpost capture situa…
Some faction war feedback
Quote from Sinatra.SUN: “ Points: 4500 for capturing point and 1000 for killing boss in a 3 man group. fine baseline kill a t6 mob and get18 rep harvest a t6 node and get 70 rep. Seems to me that gathering is incredibly overpowered compared to mob killing and outpost capturing in terms of rep gains. getting rep by gathering is probably 5-8 times faster than even with successfully capturing outposts ” Hi Frank, Thank you for all your feedback. Regarding factions points: our current numbers sugges…
[Update 21.06.18] Issues with GvGs
We are deploying a fix for the mentioned issue with today's maintenance. It's a server fix so you won't need to update the game. Cheers flyn
PING 400+ INCREASE 150 PING AFTER STEAM RELEASE
The game has not yet been released on Steam. We're looking into it - but all servers and traffic seems fine from our side.
Welcome All Steam Players
Also a big welcome from the developers to all new Steam players. Good luck not getting ganked! Cheers flyn
[UPDATE] Testserver Patch Notes - Kay Patch #5
Kay Patch #5 / Ver. 1.10.351 - REV 112152 / 23 February 2018 Fixes - Fixed an issue where the Fury spell was not timing out normally after mounting up. - Fixed an issue where Smoke Bomb triggered invisibility on caster every time anybody walked into the smoke cloud. - Fixed an issue where aggro reduction spells would aggro a mob in the first place. - Fixed an issue where threat bonus buffs gave you outlaw status or were resisted because they were seen as hostile acts by the game.
Do all Swedish pple sleep a minimum 15 hours a day?
Can confirm that if it's winter and nothing urgent on the agenda then I like a nice 15h hibernation.
YoloMouse 3rd party mouse cursor allowed?
Hey guys, we do not see a problem with this kind of software. It only changes the mouse cursor on a driver level and does not interfere with the game client in any way. I don't see an unfair advantage either. Your request of customizable mouse cursors has been noted David
Time to go Home & Icy Battleground Schedule
We're sorry for blocking players with low reputation during the 'Time to go home' event. We'll make sure that during the opening on Wednesday the 24th of January this restriction won't apply anymore.
Clearing Travel Menu From Spammy Personal Islands
My peaceful level design life has been shattered. *Insert 'I've made a huge mistake' meme* On a more serious note: I asked @H4n1baL and it is already planned and being worked on just not highest prio currently.
Clearing Travel Menu From Spammy Personal Islands
This is a task more suited for @H4n1baL, passing it on.
[06.01.18] Testserver Patch Notes - Kay Patch #2
Improvements - Added Hotkey to toggle AutoRun on and off (Default: NumLock). Autorun stops with any new (non-UI) input. - Added no-show protection to GvG fights: attacks on home territories and watchtowers now cost 2,000,000 silver (formerly 100,000), and attacks on cities now cost 10,000,000 silver. 90% of this amount is returned if the attacker manages to score at least 1 point. Additionally, 5% of the silver is awarded to the winner of the fight. If the initiator of the attack participates in…
[14.11.17] Testserver Patch Notes - Joseph Patch #4
Joseph Patch #4 Changes - Halloween is over. Pumpkin Pips and spoooOOOoooky decorations will be back next year. - New rewards for the new referral season. - Added more sound variations for castle guards. Fixed - Fixed sound effect issues for the Three Sisters Expedition boss. - Various UI improvements. - Various landscape fixes.
Access to Staging iOS Version
From now on we'll try to provide the iOS Version also for the test version before it goes on live: We are deploying a new ios version 1.0.331.97698 which is connecting to our TestServer (Staging) and not the LiveServer, for playing on live install the previous version 1.0.327.97446 (in testflight under Previous Builds).
Map timezone bug or intended?
Quote from TenBaRosh: “@Monochrome @Korn Could i get your reply on that please? ” Yes, that is unintended and will be fixed, thank you for the report!
Lag issues (Update 8/27/17 15:05 PM)
We're close to get the lag situation under control. But it's getting delayed over and over. This is frustrating for us - and even more for you. As we stated in the previous posts - the problem is that we have to deal with third parties. The estimations we gave you - were honest - but even if all of us would be working day and night (which many of us do at the moment) we cannot speed it up any further. Often we just have to wait for the third party to reply and prepare configurations. Also please…
Lag issues (Update 8/27/17 15:05 PM)
We're still working hard on a solution. It's still the issue with the third party service that makes it hard for us to deal with it faster. (Which we stated earlier this week.) We're giving our best to implement a solution before the weekend. It involves a lot of communication with third parties that we can only speed up to certain degree. We just have to ask for your patience and understanding. We're doing everything in our power. Sorry for all the inconvenience and trouble!!!
Lag issues (Update 8/27/17 15:05 PM)
We know how annoying the lag is for you folks. But the issue is caused due to an external service that we have to use. This means no matter how hard we push it, it's not only up to us. We're continuously working on improving the situation but it will take a few days until we have a final solution. We're sorry for all the deaths to players and mobs that were caused by lags. Be careful in the OW and don't use your top gear in HGs if you care to loose it too much.
Lag issues (Update 8/27/17 15:05 PM)
Update 08/20/2017 5:10 PM Lags are still an ongoing issue that we know about. Unfortunately due to the weekend we cannot quickly fix that problem. We're sorry for you inconvenience.
Lag issues (Update 8/27/17 15:05 PM)
The issues were partially related to a minor DDOS attack that is already over. Please keep reporting in case you encounter lags/dcs or issues like that.
Lag issues (Update 8/27/17 15:05 PM)
After some adjustments we're not getting any more lag issues. I'm opening this thread so you can report here.
Teleport hacking has begun
Quote from PugthePanda: “if only my Nvidia Shadowplay would let me record video's like it does with other games . maybe this game is not supported by Shadowplay yet .. ” There is a workaround for that, in GeForce Experience go to settings -> privacy control -> "Turn on desktop capture for Instant Replay, Record, Broadcast and Screenshot?", check that and you should now be able to record everything (including your desktop).
Game Launcher Crashes [SOLVED]
Nice that this workaround fixes it but it is really strange, normally that should not be a problem (must be an issue under win7). Thanks for the hint, we will investigate.
Game Launcher Crashes [SOLVED]
Do you have a version of Qt installed on your PC? If yes try to uninstall it, it could interfere with the used and shipped one with the launcher. If it's the case we will work on a fix for the launcher.
[SOLVED] Game don't start from launcher
Please be sure to have SDL installed. (on debian/ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libsdl2-2.0) Its needed for WWise Audio Engine in Albion. wiki.libsdl.org/Installation
Black Error
It's back online now. Please have a little patience with our poor old test server, it was never meant for the rush of player we are experiencing now.
No premium - Test server
Hi, thanks for reporting this. The issue is already known and we are working on it. David
Test Server Download Speeds any Indication, you have problems for Monday.
Hey guys, don't worry. The test server is... just a small, humble test server. There is no CDN and no serious bandwidth. We are surprised and overwhelmed by the "sudden" interest in it. Rest assures that the live server is an entirely different beast. And yes, you will be able to download the live client over the weekend already. David
[Feedback Wanted!] New Hector Dungeons
Quote from Blodvaerd: “I have only played Undead and Keepers (tiers IV and V) but it would be nice if there was all factions available at each tier (IV - VIII) ” Hi @Blodvaerd ! Thank you for asking! We've decided to separate Factions by Tiers to create a sense of progression from tier to tier. Currently there're no plans to change that. But we're trying to bring more variety to the mobs inside the same tier to compensate that.
[Feedback Wanted!] New Hector Dungeons
Quote from Mathieu94P: “Quote from Foximmilian: “Thank you guys, again, for your time and feedback! We're really grateful for this. ” Hi @Foximmilian In view of the answers, many players would like more diversity in the dungeons. Knowing that many dungeon cards are already drawn (beta cards 1 & beta 2), do you plan to diversify the dungeons of third-party equivalent? Today all the T5, T6 or T7 dungeons are copied pasted from their pair and this lack of diversity. ” Hi @Mathieu94P We know the iss…
[Feedback Wanted!] New Hector Dungeons
Thank you guys, again, for your time and feedback! We're really grateful for this.
[Feedback Wanted!] New Hector Dungeons
Thank you guys! Really appreciate your feedback! Keep it on!
[Feedback Wanted!] New Hector Dungeons
Hello! With Hector, we introduced a few dungeons, with some additional changes introduced in Hector Patch #2 to make then more fun and interesting. We would like to know what you think of them! Here is the list of maps where you can find the new dungeons (entrances are in the middle of the mob camps): Undead (T4): Blackthorn Quarry, Smoothfloor Cleft, Curlew Fen, Mawar Gorge, Russerdell, Ferndell, Windripple Fen, Pen Uchaf Keeper (T5): Sleetwater Basin, Splinterbranch Basin, Corpsewash Basin, Bl…
[Not Urgent] Auction House Completed "Take All"
update on that bug: the fix that will deploy with patch 3 unfortunately won't fix all problems with the take-all button we keep on working on that.
[Not Urgent] Auction House Completed "Take All"
thank you for reporting this bug. A fix will probably be deployed in Patch 3 for Hector.
Guild tab bugs
thanks for reporting this bug! the fix will be deployed with an upcoming patch a workaround for now when this bug appears is to move up the scrollbar to the top (you can click and drag the scrollbar), then switch to another tab and finally switch back to the previously bugged tab
Is it allowed to scan your internet trafic and pick up logs
Hey guys, first of all thank you for asking before actually doing anything. Our position is quite simple. As long as you just look and analyze we are ok with it. The moment you modify or manipulate something or somehow interfere with our services we will react (e.g. perma-ban, take legal action, whatever). As some of you have already pointed out, using WireShark or silimar tools to analyze network traffic is undetectable from our end and we therefore do not consider it an offense. The network pa…
Keyboard glitch after inviting someone
There is a known bug with the invitation ui (e.g. for guild/party). if you type a name and press "Enter" to submit your invitation (instead of clicking "OK") the keyboard gets disabled for people that have window animations disabled in the options. This will be fixed in an upcoming patch. A workaround for now is to click in the chat window, this re-enables the keyboard. I could not reproduce this error with pressing the "OK" button though.
Bug with "Royal set"
Thank you for reporting this bug! The fix will very likely be deployed in Patch #3 for Galahad.
Bug with "Royal set"
Thank you for reporting this bug! The fix will very likely be deployed in Patch #3 for Galahad.
Can't install on drive other than C:/
Right now you'll either need to make 4GB room on C: or configure your windows to put the temp folders on D: (you can google how to do this or let a friend help you). We are trying to find a better solution in the very near future.
REQEUST: Albion Launcher changes!
Well, this causes a bit of a discussion between me and Korn. We'll see what we can do about this. The solution will be something automatic such as using the install drive if the temp folder is full, so no fiddling with ini files.
REQEUST: Albion Launcher changes!
Apparently your temp folder is still on drive C. If you absolutely cannot free space on C, you need to change the temp folder locations. Do this at your own risk! My recommendation is to free space on C instead and leave your system settings intact. For the local temp folders, edit your system enviroment variables TMP and TEMP. See computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm For the system temp folders see answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…e1-404c-aa27-a76c0b450818
My MacBook Pro blew up
Dear ereke, I am really sorry about your MacBook. Still, I highly doubt that it was "fried" by a "hacker". That is just not how these things work. Do you have any proof for your claim?
Lag since today
Hi guys, the issue does not seem to be on our side. Could you do a "tracert albiononline.com" just to confirm?
Concerns about acount safety
If I may add one more thing: the way to go is of course two-factor-authentication, since you would have to break into two devices instead of just one. We already have a light version of that - if you log in from a new device, you will have to do an email verification. Account theft is way down since we have introduced this. The only people who still get their accounts stolen are those who use the same password for Albion and their email account (or the email account is otherwise compromised).
Concerns about acount safety
Hi HyunMi, you are not wrong, but there is no way for us to make this secure. If you are afraid of malicious software on your machine (and that is a completely valid concern), you should never save a password in any application. Not in Albion, not in your web browser, not anywhere else. Encryption does not help here, because the game needs to be able to decrypt and send the password on login, so the encryption key needs to be stored somewhere as well and can be stolen in the same way... As an ex…
Constant disconnects and lag
Hi, The bad news first: I cannot comment on individual disconnects. This does not seem be a general problem; we have multiple machines running Albion 24/7 and almost never see any disconnects. The likely reasons for disconnects are your internet provider (e.g. 24-hour-disconnect), your Wifi (lots of wireless networds in the building = unstable) etc. This may not be a very satifying answer, but - if you get a lot of disconnects, the problem is somewhere on "your" side, it's not our server. The go…
Full Client Will Be Available For Download From Official Website?
We can do that if it helps. I would still like to know what the issue with the auto-update process is - is it because your company "cracks" SSL connections? David
FINSTACK bribing the devs!!
Quote from The_Nosferatu: “What.. are those. ” Delicious solidified delight.
Favorite music and why?
Mostly metal but sometimes other stuff as well. Example of great other stuff: youtube.com/watch?v=S_e49ZVnNVo
What Book Are You Reading?
What Bercilak said. Especially the books by Abercrombie is something everyone should read, the stand alone books after the first law trilogy most of all. Currently listening to 'Tower Lord' book two in the Ravens shadow trilogy (Blood song), third book will be out really soon as well (7th of july). Once I finish that I will be off to read 'The Autumn Republic', by Brian McClellan.
All the guilds in Albion and what they are.
Haha really neat! @Blackthron EDIT: This reminds me of fighting Russian clans in Lineage 2 as well. Usually ended about the same.
is there pve?
The destiny board is something that allows you to grow as a character, it just is different progression system than Tibia. When I was younger I played a lot of Tibia and I still play it for a week every year due to nostalgia, the world has a bit of the same feel to it as you had when you first left Rook.
Item that prevents you from dropping all ur loot?
Quote from Gwandir: “Quote from Vomk: “A really rare item that prevents you from dropping ur items? Or maybe just an rare item that can make it impossible to drop a certain item. When you die the item u had in ur bag or something dissapears? What do you guys think? It must be a hard to find item though so not everyone has one.” There was such an item in Tibia which was a even more hardcore full loot pvp game and it completely destroyed all the fun in pvp. I think this item was removed after abou…
Snapphanar ( Swedish guild only )
Sure you don't mean Danish guild? "A snapphane was a member of a 17th-century pro-Danish guerrilla organization that fought against the Swedes in the Second Northern and Scanian Wars." Source: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapphane[/url] Anyway, good luck.
What does your Screen Name mean?
From Norse mythology, the jötunn Surtr who fights Freya in Ragnarök. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtr
What other games do Sandbox Interactive employees (and forum members) like to play?
Mostly CS GO but have started to grow tired of it yet again (mainly due to 3rd party programs ruining the scene) and have since started playing Dota 2 again.
have to download the game every day
@AbunA ok i got the impression you mean just letting the launcher download the game again after the "error waiting for xdelta tool" comes up. as i said, i had the error and it went away after a complete uninstall and new download of the webinstaller. but if u tried that already then just ignore what i said
have to download the game every day
its strange because i had the same error, did u guys really uninstall it via windows -> programms until the whole directoy is gone and reinstall it from albiononline.com/en/download ? thats what i did, worked for me.
Username Bug
is it only wrong in the chat or in the guild member list as well? is it also wrong within the world (your name label) ?