I don't know Mevans meant by "soon" but, yeah... two months later without newer news, we look good to wait another year.
Do you think we get bamboozled?
PS: I'd particularly like three features to renewed.
A well-implemented ranged weapons system, because the elves shooting above the heads of the orcs because a messed up physics during the coding really annoyed me.
Specific shipwrecks to some factions in the belegaer, like elven ships in the north, gondorian, amroth and umbarian, haradric, corsairs ships in the south, with a more specific loot. Because the gameplay of the mod is very inlands, more features for the sea would be very nice.
I hope crossbows will keep their ranged damage but get this time reloading of vanilla crossbows (a bit slower than the vanilla crossbow though) to balance with the bows, weaker yet faster.