Albion Online’s seventh anniversary event is happening, and the team reflected on the past year in a special anniversary update.
It has been a year of lots of change for Albion Online. The Wild Blood content update in the fall added some new features, including Tracking, Shapeshifter weapons, Awakened items, and more, including reworks to islands. Now you could find a target and learn how to track it until you found and confronted your target. This added new dimension and gameplay options in addition to continuing the developers’ stated goals of getting people to explore more.
After this, the team announced a pivot to a seasonal update model with big content updates and smaller updates in between, starting with Crystal Raiders this January. This one also brought new changes like territory raiding, and the introduction of Crystal weapons. There were also a number of changes that changed Guild Warfare.
The year's second update, Foundations, also shook up guild warfare and offerings for the competitive players some more, with its additions to territory sieges. The update introduced things like fortifications and Siege banners, that would let guilds fortify their territories, adding different upgradable layers of protection and also enabling ways to both attack and defend when a siege happened.
The next big seasonal update, Paths to Glory, will be out next week on July 22nd.
The team focuses on a couple of other changes, including the introduction of a new server, Albion Europe. Adding the third server meant even more players would have events and things like prime time happening at relative times in their own regions. This growth happened due to the strength of the community. They announce here that Albion Online’s player number record was broken again in May, hitting 350,000 daily active players.
The seventh anniversary celebration brings back the Living Legacy event through the end of the month.
