The new update was decent, I suppose, a little step for the main story, which is always welcomed
Windy Peaks is still the most pointless area right now, even more than the Valley. Frostwood has Kitsunes, Foothills has Orcs, Glacial Rift has the best quest line in the entire game, Old Forest has Convocation of Mirror, Undermountain is being prepared as the next major battlefield in the Siege of Khorminos and instead of developing these areas, we have a barebone Windy Peaks with its only attraction being a village without even a proper location and a few interactions with Agni