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Lands Awakened is live now for Albion Online, big open-world improvements

Albion Online, the free to play MMO that has native Linux support, has been upgraded with some massive improvements landing in the Lands Awakened update.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/lands-awakened-is-live-now-for-albion-online-big-open-world-improvements

The Lands Awakened Update is Here!



The massive Lands Awakened update is now live! This update brings a new era of open-world gameplay to Albion with reworked dungeons, mobs, and treasure sites, new open-world PvP objectives for groups of all sizes, hugely improved visuals and layouts for all five biomes, War Gloves, reworked Guild Seasons, numerous quality-of-life improvements, and much more.

To celebrate the occasion, we've created a brand-new trailer:

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[h3]Reinvigorating Albion's Open World[/h3]
Lands Awakened brings a completely overhauled open-world experience, including massively improved visuals and layouts in all five biomes, mobs that become stronger and more rewarding over time, reworked static dungeons, and treasure sites that spawn randomly throughout the world. Whether you're a brand-new player or a seasoned veteran, Albion's lands are home to countless new opportunities awaiting discovery.

[h3]New Weapons, Elite Levels, Faster Fame[/h3]
The all-new War Gloves offer thrilling brawler-style combat for small-, medium-, and large-scale fights, along with numerous options for PvE. Elite Levels add twenty additional mastery levels to each weapon and armor piece, with corresponding medals to let you show off your accomplishments. And the amount of Fame granted for nearly all activities has been boosted significantly, shortening the time needed to unlock new skills and rewarding perseverant players.


[h3]Reworked Guild Seasons[/h3]
Power Cores and Energy Crystals introduce open-world capture-the-flag gameplay with huge rewards. Headquarters Hideouts offer protected bases for dedicated guilds. And the Conqueror's Challenge allows all players to earn Might and Favor for a wide range of activities, unlocking rewards for themselves and their guilds. Overall, Lands Awakened shifts the focus of Guild Seasons from passive territory control to active personal progress, offering dedicated players and guilds a chance at massive rewards.


[h3]The Druid Vanity Bundle is Here[/h3]
The Lands Awakened update also brings the new Druid Vanity Bundle. This premiere bundle is available in the in-game store, and includes a full costume set plus a matching Stag mount skin. The costume skins feature a thick, forest-green cape and a crown of antlers, and both the costume and mount skins are decorated with a glowing aura of fireflies.

The Druid Bundle includes the following vanity skins, which work on male and female characters alike:
  • Druid's Horns
  • Druid's Garments
  • Druid's Shoes
  • Druid's Cape
  • Druid's Stag

[h3]Additional Improvements[/h3]
  • Loadouts can now be purchased directly from the Marketplace
  • Large resource nodes now spawn as treasure sites, appearing on the map to those nearby
  • Improvements to farming, rerolling, building fees, and party commands
  • Numerous combat balance changes
  • Massively expanded soundtrack with 17 new tracks
  • Real estate plots added to Outlands towns
  • New Artifact resources
  • Bug fixes, mobile optimizations, new icons and achievements, and much more


For more details, check out the official update page or the update patchnotes.

Lands Awakened Streamer Showcase



The Lands Awakened update releases tomorrow, November 24, and you can watch it streamed live! Check out the following channels during the day to see the cool new features in action:

Streamer Name
Estimated Starting Time
Language
14:00 UTC
English, Russian, Korean
14:00 UTC
English, Russian, Ukrainian
20:00 UTC
English, German
11:00 UTC
English, Finnish
20:00 UTC
English, Polish
11:00 UTC
English
13:45 UTC
English
November 25, 03:00 UTC
English
10:30 UTC
English
17:00 UTC
English
19:00 UTC
English
20:00 UTC
English
18:00 UTC
English
November 25, 04:00 UTC
English
13:00 UTC
Russian, Ukrainian
13:45 UTC
Russian
16:00 UTC
Russian
November 24, 25, 26, 15:00-21:00 UTC
Russian
13:00 UTC
Spanish

For a rundown of all the new features coming with the Lands Awakened update, check out the update page.

Dev Talk: War Gloves and Elite Levels

The Lands Awakened update on November 24 brings exciting developments to combat in Albion Online. In this Dev Talk, Combat Designer Michael Schwahn and Game Director Robin Henkys introduce two major new features: the War Gloves weapon line and Elite Levels.

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Read on for a written summary...
[h3]War Gloves[/h3]
  • An entirely new brawler weapon line on the Warrior Weapons tree
  • Three new base weapons
  • Four new artifact weapons
  • Allow various attack combos
War Gloves have a great deal of build versatility, giving players a variety of outplay possibilities and interesting decisions to make. They have one more Q slot ability than other weapons, allowing build flexibility for different situations.



Here’s a look at just some of their abilities:
  • Triple Kick
    • W-ability
    • Fly towards the enemy, performing three kicks in the air
    • Can be aimed close, or at a distance for extra mobility
    • Can drag one enemy player with you
  • Blazing Geyser
    • E-ability of Battle Bracers
    • An explosion in front of you, dealing damage and knocking enemies into the air
    • Hitting one enemy resets Q-slot cooldown
    • Well-suited to building combos
  • Purifying Combination
    • Three-part combo
      • Roundhouse Kick knocks enemies away
      • Dive Kick with jump knocks enemies into the air
      • Purifying Fist deals massive damage
      • Can be combined with other abilities between each attack
  • Some other new abilities:
    • Cross Step and Aggressive Burst suited to an auto-attack style
    • Infernal Boulder
      • Combined with Triple Kick, can make all three Boulder hits land on one player
New weapon lines for Hunter and Mage are also being worked on for future updates, so stay tuned.


[h3]Elite Levels[/h3]
Lands Awakened brings significantly increased Fame rewards across the game, which players can use to progress with their weapon specializations. As a further Fame objective for veteran players, the Destiny Board has also been expanded with Elite Levels:
  • These allow combat specializations to reach level 120
  • Can be unlocked with Fame credits and Silver
  • Increase maximum possible specialization bonuses by 60 points of Item Power
  • New badges appear on equipped items, indicating the level of specialization achieved


Remember, Lands Awakened launches on November 24, and soon after that we’ll have a final Dev Talk where we show some big UI improvements to Loadouts, farming, and party invites.

Thanks for watching!

Dev Talk: Power Cores and HQ Hideouts

Lands Awakened arrives November 24, bringing major open-world features, Guild Season changes, and more. In our newest Dev Talk, Robin Henkys discusses Hideout Power Cores and Headquarters Hideouts, two related features that will shake up guild warfare and open-world PvP.

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Prefer a written summary? Read on...
[h3]Hideout Power Cores[/h3]
  • New capturable open-world objective
  • Spawn anywhere in the Outlands in shielded state
  • While shielded, marked on local map but cannot be interacted with
  • After a short period, the shielding ends, allowing players on foot to pick up and carry the Power Core
  • If player is killed or drops the core, it remains for several minutes before dissipating
  • Capturing Power Cores:
    • Can be captured at a Hideout owned by the capturing player's guild
    • Increases the Hideout’s power level, which increases its crafting bonuses


Additionally, entering owned Hideouts set as "Home" grants temporary Fame buff (based on Hideout power level) in the Outlands
[h3]Further Details[/h3]
  • Beyond Hideout rewards, players in parties capturing Power Cores receive significant Might and Favor
  • Cores spawn in varying strengths:
    • Weaker: unlock sooner, less Power
    • Stronger: visible further, longer shielding times, significant power boosts
  • Overall, Power Cores appear more frequently and with less warning than Energy Vortices, allowing smaller groups to claim them easier

[h3]Headquarters Hideouts[/h3]
  • Qualifying guilds can declare a Hideout "Headquarters" (HQ)
  • Invulnerable to attack if properly powered
  • Two downsides:
    • Only accessible by owning guild
    • Must be maintained
[h3]Establishing HQ Hideouts[/h3]
  • Must earn sufficient Season Points in previous season to qualify
  • Higher points earned unlocks better region Tier / Quality (e.g. 40,000 Energy Surge Season Points unlocks up to Tier 7 / Quality 3)
  • (Full qualification requirements: https://forum.albiononline.com/index.php/Thread/156756)
  • Once per season, a Hideout construction site can be protected:
    • Site placement follows usual restrictions
    • After 20 minutes (NOTE: the video states 15 minutes, which is incorrect), it can be made invulnerable for the remainder of construction, turning it into an HQ
    • Boost also provides some starting Power

[h3]Maintenance[/h3]
  • If HQ's Power falls below required amount at start of battle time, it becomes vulnerable
  • Preventable if owning guild captures Power Cores
  • Power required depends on zone Quality
  • High Power drains quicker, making it harder to maintain HQs in high-Quality regions
  • To assist maintenance, Power from cores is increased by 50% in HQs
  • Hideouts lose HQ status if the owners don't meet region requirements at season's end
  • Damaged HQs are vulnerable until fully restored

[h3]Conclusion[/h3]
Earning and maintaining HQ Hideouts is no easy task, but being protected from attack allows guilds to make their own choices and forge their own destiny in Albion. (Note: HQs will be added to the Roads of Avalon in a later update; until then, Power Cores cannot be taken through the Roads.)

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