for someone claiming to not care about combat you sure make every single thing about the combat system.
to clarify, the game is a year away, and its been in development for what? how long has it been since OS2?
over a year right? And then it was in development before that.
Chances are, most of the features are down. And stuff like combat system and generaly game systems get decided early on, because the rest of the game must be made to fit that.
Chances are, they are producing content right now and introducing art assets.