As of this week’s Albion Online dev update, we’re getting a much clearer picture of the philosophy behind the game’s latest quarterly content drop. It’s called Horizons, and it promises to bring “new features to the Outlands, introduces more challenging PvE, and brings long-awaited quality-of-life improvements” – like full UI customization. The first video focuses entirely on the game’s open world strategy.
For starters, Sandbox Interactive game director Robin Henkys explains, the team is working on making the Outlands area appealing to both soloers and small groups without ruining its potency for guild competition. The key fix is to add random portals into the Outlands, both to help lone players access them quickly and to ensure players dropping in are spread out over the whole territory rather than bottlenecked in one spot. The Outlands will also see the addition of randomly spawning camps, new roaming mobs for groups, and new rewards, all with the goal of establishing the area for …