Albion Online News

The Disciples of Morgana have re-emerged from the shadows... and for the entire month of May, you can take the Morgana Challenge to collect fantastic rewards. Earn points for open-world activities, unlock chests to get valuable loot, and claim your very own Morgana Raven mount.
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MORGANA RAVEN: This month's Challenge brings back the popular Morgana Raven, a fearsome, fast-moving flying mount with an area-of-effect Fear spell. (Note: the Morgana Raven requires the same terrain pathing as all other mounts, and cannot fly over gaps or obstacles).

AVATAR RING: Adventurers who rack up enough total Challenge Points will also earn the Morgana Challenge Avatar Ring, a menacing, fiery frame that will give your avatar an aura of dread. This non-tradable item permanently unlocks this avatar ring for one character.

SEASONAL SPECIALS: All month long, reach weekly goals to unlock Morgana Challenge chests. These chests contain valuable rewards like Adventurer's Tomes and Silver bags, along with unique Morgana-themed furniture items.

As always, you can earn Challenge Points by gathering, fishing, farming, and killing monsters. Points count simultaneously toward a daily bonus, a weekly unlockable chest, and the monthly mount. So log in, head out into the open world, gather points, and claim your rewards!
 
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It's official: Albion Online will be launching this summer on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store! We'll have more news in the coming weeks, including the official launch date, but for now you can pre-register here to be notified once the official mobile versions are available. You’ll also get a special reward for cross-platform play on mobile launch.

Additionally, German users are in luck: to test the mobile version before the wider global release, we've already launched it in Germany! (Please note: this version is still under development, with more optimizations and usability improvements to come.)

Over the past year, we've been hard at work polishing, optimizing, and streamlining the mobile version for both iOS and Android, and we'll continue adding and improving features in the leadup to the official launch. Recent improvements and optimizations to the mobile version include:

• Introduction of fully customizable mobile-specific controls and HUD
• Two unique control schemes for mobile users
• Optimized UI for mobile users with customizable settings
• ...and much more

[h3]Get the New Chimera Skin for Cross-Platform Play[/h3]
We're very excited to announce a special reward for cross-platform play: the brand new Chimera Mount Skin! Once the official mobile version launches, any player who logs in to both the desktop and mobile version will receive this unique skin, which transforms any tier of Riding Horse base mount into a fierce mythological beast. As with past skins, unlocking the Chimera allows it to be used by all characters on your account, so sign up now to be notified once the official launch is live!
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Dress to raise the dead with the new Keeper of Souls Vanity Bundle! This premiere bundle is available in the ingame store, and includes a full costume set, a costume weapon, and a macabre, bone-chilling mount skin for your Giant Stag or Moose.

The bundle includes the Phylactery of Souls, a costume weapon in the form of a large lantern-topped staff that gives off an otherworldly blue-green light, plus necromancy-themed costume skins for your character's head, cape, armor, and shoe slots. And the full set is rounded out with a mount skin that transforms your Giant Stag into an eerie, undead mount sporting ragged robes and a deer skull topped with dark, jagged antlers. As with all Stag mount skins, it can be used on both the Giant Stag and Moose base mounts.

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The Keeper of Souls Bundle includes the following vanity skins:

• Keeper of Souls Cowl
• Keeper of Souls Armor
• Keeper of Souls Boots
• Keeper of Souls Cape
• Phylactery of Souls costume weapon
• Keeper of Souls mount skin for your Stag or Moose base mount

(As with past bundles, you can use all costume, weapon, and mount skins with all characters on your account, and they are never lost or destroyed. All items will be unlocked in the ingame "Appearance" menu after purchase.)

Get this premiere bundle today and let the souls of the dead surge through you!

The Call to Arms update in March brought a complete rework of Hellgates in Albion Online. Since then, we've been monitoring both player feedback and our own data, with the goal of making sure this system remains engaging, challenging, and fair for players of all levels. Today's patch brings numerous improvements and adjustments to Hellgate gameplay, including:

• Better 10v10 matchmaking
• Greatly improved matchmaking when chaining all Hellgate types
• Updated IP requirements and softcap, and mob behavior, for lethal 10v10 Hellgates
• Additional Tomes of Insight in chests after defeating an enemy team

To read more about these changes and the intent behind them, please see this forum post.


[h3]Also in Patch 3[/h3]

• Faction Warfare Changes: better reward progression, updated boss behavior, and improved notifications for Faction-related activities
• New chat commands for guild and party management
• Mobile improvements including increased maximum font size for chat
• Numerous bug fixes for both desktop and mobile

For a complete list of changes and fixes, check out the official patchnotes.

Territories will be reset this weekend - and we'll be covering it live on the AlbionTV Twitch channel starting Saturday at 17:30 UTC. Join our hosts Lewpac, Bogul, and Shozen as they cover the Invasion Day madness live! All fights are broadcast live with a 15-minute time delay.

Starting at 18:00 UTC, guilds will have new opportunities to claim territories and launch attacks. Those in the North and South American time zones can also tune in for the second round of territory resets on Sunday at 00:30 UTC with hosts Bogul, Shozen, and Robinhoodrs, with territories becoming claimable at 01:00 UTC.

Between the two reset broadcasts, we'll also be broadcasting Level 5-7 Crystal League fights with no delay at 20:30, 21:00, and 21:30 UTC.

For the complete Guild Season schedule, check out this forum post.