Why do you say its a joke now?
For starters; the bugs and glitches, there has been nothing but minimal content between 6+ and now 9+ months of any updates, the animations are reminiscent some GIFs from the mid 90s. Not to mention the game is almost 6 years old, and the game may have progressed about a whole 10 minutes in 2 years.
They are claiming March, after supposedly Covid and now website issues, so we'll see if it happens.
I ain't holding my breath for anything spectacular and ground breaking.
Man. What sucks is that I got into Reluctant Archon a while back knowing full well that it was abandoned, I figured that I probably wouldn't find it interesting anyways.
I was so very wrong and wish I didn't play it because it's actually really interesting AND to make matters worse, left off on such a cliffhanger!