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Tomorrow, Albion Online is Holding a Public Playtest for the Horizons Update

Christina Gonzalez Updated: Posted:
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Tomorrow, Albion Online will hold a public playtest for the upcoming Horizons update. The update is set to make some big changes to expand offerings in the open world, new quality of life changes, new Albion Journal missions, and more.

There are many new features. S.A.F.E. Portals will drop you in a random, less populated corner of the Outlands,  where challenges will also increase rewards for being in those risky areas. Dynamic Encampments are limited-time challenges to complete a mission, defeat the mob camp and relieve them of their treasure. Other things in the update include group randomized dungeons, dynamic resource hotspots, new Crystal Creatures to challenge, and a slate of new settings, including the new HUD editor.

If you’re on PC or Android, you can help the Albion Online team test out the update and try out some of these new features before the launch on October 28th. The Sandbox Interactive team has shared full access details here.

The public playtest is intended to let a large number of players in to give the team some feedback in time for them to make any necessary changes before launch. There will be two phases of the playtest, beginning tomorrow at 14:00 UTC /  10:00 a.m. Eastern when they’ll hold the solo phase of the playtest. This will last for two hours, and be followed at 16:00 UTC/  12:00 p.m. Eastern with the group phase of the test. That will also run for two hours. For both the solo and group phases, they will be divided into categories focusing on particular tasks or areas that the team wants feedback on of about 15 to 30 minutes each.

As an incentive for helping them test out the update,  and filling out the feedback survey, they'll raffle off a number of gold prizes. 


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Christina Gonzalez

Christina is MMORPG.COM’s News Editor and a contributor since 2011. Always a fan of great community and wondering if the same sort of magic that was her first guild exists anymore.