I'm a bit confused about the recent status update. Was the teaser supposed to be surprising or encouraging? It's just a picture showing that the new episode will have 18 scenes. Is that supposed to be impressive? It's been a year since episode 8 came out, will probably end up being 13 months when released, and that's it? Even going by the Interlude, it took 9 months to develop, which is 2 months longer than episode 8 and I'm pretty sure episode 8 also had around 18 scenes. Hell, one of the previous episodes had 19.
I'm not even disappointed, I'm sure he put a lot of work into the story, Halloween party, and branching events, I'm just confused why he put this post out acting like the teaser was gonna be exciting.