You're correct: I had the date 2014 pencilled into my notes on this for some reason (Peasant's Quest? System Shock remake? some mix up for sure), but apparently 2019 was launch on Patreon (pretty sure it was 2018 for earlier builds however). I'll retract some of the critique then. 2019 feels really close for this, I have saves from 0.4 builds (you can check the save in this thread, it's from 0.4.5 or so with 650+ saves into it and that's a new one from losing a prior laptop) and 2019 feels weirdly wrong. *shrug*
Still would only take a month to plot and complete 75% of these story-lines though. There's very little cross-over between stories that requires any real attention to detail, each story is barely 10k words long, everyone knows the real stoppage here is render time.
Yes, I noticed this too: you do it via selecting the armor in your inventory, you then select the augment tab. The new armors (Rogue, Orc) don't appear to take iron plates.