Albion Online has had a rough go of it the last few weeks, but the team is starting to come out the other side. After being hit with a barrage of DDoS attacks this past month, the team announced its compensation plans as well as its implementation of BattleEye anti-cheat software to combat the issue.
In two separate forum posts made today on the Albion Online forums, the developers announced that they would be compensating players for the time lost during the DDoS attacks from earlier in the month. While the team has made strides combating the issues by working with its server host, there are still attacks happening Talion on the forums admits. But, they say, the attacks now have "barely impacted" Albion's playability.
To compensate players for this downtime, the developers are granting characters who fit their parameters five days of Premium time on both the record-setting East and West servers.
"That then brings us to the topic that we promised to address in our last update, as soon as we felt it was reasonable to do so: compensation for the server instabilities of the past weeks.Sometime this week, probably starting Thursday, we will start to credit five (5) days of Premium to every character on Albion East and West created before July 18, 10:00 UTC and logged in at least once between June 18, 10:00 UTC and July 18, 10:00 UTC..
As this is a large number of characters, not every character will receive it at the same time. You do not have to do anything to receive these Premium days. In particular, there is no in-game command or anything that will accelerate delivery. It’s a “when it’s done, it’s done” kind of deal."
To help prevent further attacks, the Albion team has added BattleEye anti-cheat software to the MMO. However, because it's a new software being implemented into the game, there might be some issues, so the team started a new forum thread to help collect information to bring about fixes in the coming weeks.
Albion Online recently celebrated 6 years in operation, with the Sandbox Online team sharing some stats, recapping the year that was, as well as announcing Twitch drops and more to celebrate the anniversary.
