Albion Online midseason patch released, allowing you to re-spec some skills

The MMO Albion Online [Official Site] just got a midseason patch which contains a rather useful feature for those wanting to change their combat path.

Here's an overview of what's changed:

• Re-Spec Feature
• Rebalancing of Siphoned Energy and Battle Mounts
• Removal of the GvG bonus from Siphoning Mages
• Reduction of the Learning Point spending threshold to 20%
• Introduction of a GvG Training system
• Gear soft caps and other changes to Hellgates
• Various gear and balance tweaks

You can see the update in video form, featuring the always rather charasmatic Game Director, Robin Henkys:

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I do love the fact that they do actually bring players into the development process, with their "Albion Online Round Table" where they gather feedback and advice from players, since a lot of their time is spent buried in code. I just hope the group is diverse enough, or else their development feedback can end up with quite a tunnel-vision based on how that group plays it.

This new re-spec feature certainly seems interesting though, giving you the ability to switch up your equipment for whatever reason.

They're also still planning a Steam release, however they don't seem to have set a solid date yet.