Albion Online Refreshes the Outlands With More--and More Varied--Challenges in Today's Horizon's Update
The open-world just got some new things to do in Albion Online as the Horizons update is now live. Designed to expand the options in the open world, add PvE offerings like dungeon changes and mob camps, and make venturing out to even further-out corners more rewarding.
The update introduces Tier 5 Blue and Tier 6 Yellow zones in the Royal Continent, Designed to offer valuable content a little more advanced but not quite at the level of the deadlier regions. Another option for heading out into the Outlands cones in the form of S.A.F.E Portals. These transport a solo player from a portal town into a random, less-populated place deep in the Outlands.
The portal lets you bypass manual travel and the risk of heading to far-flung corners and offers you an open timed return portal too, so the shield for travel goes both ways. This will benefit solo players, particularly if you don’t always have a group ready to take on travel risks with, and also get the Outlands more use and expanded populations out there.
The Outlands do have some new inhabitants to increase the population of a different type. New Crystal Creatures are out there. The Crystal Beetle and Crystal Cobra are out there joining the Crystal Spider, and offering some challenges for prepared groups who want to tangle for valuable loot.
Dynamic Encampments also present some challenges, as limited-time mob camp spawns that offer loot, Favor, and Might for completion. Dynamic Resource Hotspots Are also out there and offer an abundance of resources for a short period of time. Also to be found are Coffers, which give you rewards if you find them, and Lair Maps to you the way to a hidden boss lair. Two new Albion Journal categories also arrive, with fresh rewards to earn too.
The update also features a big customization update,including a new HUD editor, custom layouts and quick settings presets that let you switch between your custom settings.
There’s a lot to explore in Horizons. All of these are intended to
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