I guess the next update will be at least next month, if there is one... Because the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and during the Chinese New Year, people will reunite with their families and no one will be developing games.
Let me take my volunteer moderator hat off for a second and speak as a fan.
If it gets pushed back to February, I'm going to be pissed. The communication so far has been that the issue that was causing so much frustration back in December was mostly fixed, and it was polish time for a January release.
I've sought clarification and have since been told that the new reason for the panic from TFG is because of a new feature that's being worked on as well as the previous feature. While I am sure the new feature is going to go down very well and people will be happy with it, the lack of communication from Henry about this has been terrible.
We've been steadily trying to keep a level of calm in here and on the Discord by placating fans with "It'll be soon!", but we're approaching the 7 week point from a regularly scheduled release... I don't know how much longer I can keep vaguely promising "soon!"
TFG isn't allowed to talk about it in public channels, nor will Henry make a Patreon post about it. As I've said to TFG, I've never seen a community manager so kneecapped in not being allowed to speak to the community about what's going on without first having to run things by Henry.