Any news about update progress?
Hard to say, even the dev doesn't really know. We've seen some preview renders and animations in his discord and the script is starting to go out to the editor. So progress is being made. We've also see some story teases which I am super excited about. Something to keep in mind is that .07 has a lot going on. The school is getting fleshed out with events and character development for it's students and faculty. This will be a big improvement to the game world as Ryan's house has been the focus of most of the content thus far. Having the school be a event hub will most welcome.
considering the devs pacing not coming this year..
This is the classic problem of h-game development.
If a dev has longer release cycle people complain it takes to long.
If they have a short release cycle people complain there isn't enough content in each release.
Waifu Academy and Midnight Paradise being examples of both.
WA's last update took almost 8 months but had over six hours of content. People whined an moaned that it took so long to come out.
MP's has monthly releases most of the time and each release is around 30min of content. You see complaints every release that there was almost no content in the update.
A dev really can't win, someone's always going to find a reason to be unhappy.
Personally I like the bigger releases. AFV .06 may have taken awhile to come out but it had a ton of content in it.
My advise for any game is keep your exceptions on a release date low and just be happy when you see an update comes out. More so if you're getting the game without supporting it's development. There are lots of games on F95. I'm sure you can find something to occupy your time till Will has .07 ready to go.
(hopefully it will be the finished version and not the bugfix beta test that get leaked this time)