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This November, unleash the Steelplate Cougar, a predator born of darkness and the sheen of polished steel. With bared fangs and gleaming eyes, this Swiftclaw skin combines deadly grace with the strength of plate armor to pounce at a moment’s notice. Unlock this fearsome kitten on any server and it will be available to all your characters there.

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Form a pack of terrifying mounts with your friends, and you'll not only dominate the battlefield, but also earn Fame and Gold. Here’s what’s available with each friend you invite:

• Refer 1 Friend: Steelplate Cougar mount skin
• Refer 3 Friends: A T7 Pile of Tomes worth 100,000 Fame
• Refer 5 Friends: A T8 Pile of Tomes worth 200,000 Fame
• Bonus for your first-ever referral: A T8 Pile of Tomes worth 200,000 Fame
• Additionally, for each friend you refer, you'll receive 500 Gold!

Getting your friends in on the action is as simple as following these steps:

• Step 1: Share your referral link with a friend, which you can find here when logged into the website with your game account.
• Step 2: Your friend signs up to Albion Online.
• Step 3: Your friend purchases at least 30 days of Premium status, unlocking your rewards.

Don’t miss your chance to claim the Steelplate Cougar: This Referral Season ends on November 30 at 23꞉59꞉59 UTC, so pounce on it before it’s too late!

The Grim Challenge has risen, and with it a dark presence flickers its tongue, searching for its next victim – the poisonous Pest Lizard is slithering from its tomb, leaving a trail of venom in its wake! By earning Challenge Points through open-world activities, you can claim this toxic mount and other sinister rewards. Rise to the challenge and claim them before they crawl back into their crypt!

[h3]Pestilential Prizes For Intrepid Adventurers[/h3]


PEST LIZARD: This month's Challenge offers another chance to claim the popular Pest Lizard. This sleek, slithery mount comes with a Toxic Cloud ability that causes enemies who touch it to become temporarily disoriented, and can be used to disrupt enemy players in numerous situations.



AVATAR RING: Adventurers who rack up enough total Challenge Points will also earn the Grim Challenge Avatar Ring, featuring a spooky skull-topped iron frame. This non-tradable item permanently unlocks this avatar border for one character, or can be traded to the Vanity Merchant for one Adventurer's Token.



SEASONAL SPECIALS: All month long, reach weekly point totals to unlock Grim Challenge Chests. Along with valuable rewards like Adventurer's Tomes, Silver, resources, and other loot, you'll also have a chance to unlock four furniture items: the Empty Coffin, Grim Gravestone, Grim Lantern, and Weeping Woman Statue.

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[h3]How to participate in the Adventurer's Challenge[/h3]
The Adventurer's Challenge is a monthly event where you can earn exclusive rewards such as mounts, Tomes of Insight, bags of Silver, and more. By gathering, fishing, farming, and defeating monsters, you'll earn Challenge Points that fill daily, weekly, and monthly progress bars. To track your progress, open the Adventurer's Challenge UI by clicking on the Activities menu.



While only Premium players can unlock the Monthly Rewards (Avatar Ring, Mount) and Weekly Rewards (Challenge Chests), anyone can claim the Daily Rewards, which include 10 Learning Points and a Tier 4 Tome of Insight. Non-Premium players also make progress on all reward tracks, so when you’re ready to unlock Premium, your earned rewards will be waiting for you!

Season 25 starts Saturday, and this time there’s a special treat in store, as the AlbionTV crew will be broadcasting live from the Sandbox Interactive studio!

Starting at 14:00 UTC on November 2, hosts Shozen and Bogul will bring you live coverage of the invasions on Albion Asia and Albion Europe on https://www.twitch.tv/albiononline. Who knows, maybe they’ll even have a special guest or two? Then later, at 01:00 UTC on November 3, Robinhoodrs and Nazori will introduce the invasions on Albion Americas.

The schedule for each server is:

• 14:00 UTC on November 2: Albion Asia live from Albion HQ
• 18:00 UTC on November 2: Albion Europe live from Albion HQ
• 01:00 UTC on November 3: Albion Americas

This season sees some important changes to Territory Raiding and Fortifications, along with the brand-new Crystal Beetle and Crystal Cobra roaming the world. If last season is anything to go by, it promises to be a dramatic one. So mark your calendars for this very special occasion!

The Horizons are open! Today sees Albion’s latest update arrive, bringing with it improved open-world gameplay, some huge new UI features, new Albion Journal categories, and much more. And, as always, there’s a fresh trailer to boot. Check it out here:

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[h3]Unexpected Encounters[/h3]
Horizons brings some brand-new features to Albion’s open world. Dynamic Encampments are mob camps which appear in random locations for a limited time, offering loot, Might, and Favor to those who can complete them. And other shifting, unexpected objectives are appearing too: Dynamic Resource Hotspots which offer a wealth of resources for a short time, Coffers which offer rewards to those who find them, and Lair Maps which provide access to a hidden Boss Lair. With these unpredictable objectives springing up, exploring the open world has new layers of depth, interest, and chance.



[h3]S.A.F.E. Travels[/h3]
Albion’s inventors have been hard at work, and by reverse-engineering Avalonian technology have developed the new S.A.F.E Portal. This transports solo players from Portal Towns into unpredictable Outlands locations, offering a means to venture into Albion’s deepest regions. At the same time, the Outlands now increase in difficulty and rewards the higher the region quality, encouraging exploration of their less-trodden areas. New Crystal Creatures – the Crystal Beetle and Crystal Cobra – roam the Outlands, providing frightening new objectives for groups. And the Royal Continent now has Tier 5 Blue Zones and Tier 6 Yellow Zones, proving more valuable content before players enter the deadlier regions.



[h3]Freedom at your Fingertips[/h3]
The HUD Editor provides players with unprecedented control over their display, with the ability to adjust the size, scale and opacity of different elements, and move them around freely. These custom layouts can be saved and shared, and Quick Settings Presets allow them to be assigned to a hotkey and switched for different gameplay scenarios. Inventories now have adjustable icon sizes, a collapsible equipment display, and new sorting options, allowing far greater flexibility. And Banks and Chests have improved UIs, too, with optimizations like the ability to repair items from within Banks.



With all this and more – like two brand-new Albion Journal categories – there’s so much to explore across the Horizons. For the full patchnotes, click here.

And if you want to see what’s new as soon as the update launches, our AOCP Ambassadors are exploring the new content on Twitch today! For more information, click here.