I do hope that half orc make into the game and I share the concern that allowing a half species of anything (which has always existed if DMs allowed it) makes all species into humans with cosmetic differences.
What would be really great is if half orcs got a custom backgrounds - raised by humans or raised by orcs.
And yes, it's pretty clear that the game is already influenced by 6e - note the lack of alignment in the game. This was also the case in Solasta where 'alignment' was a set of personality traits and the Solasta devs made it clear that they wanted to make a Forgotten Realms game so they always checking to see if WotC was okay with their interpretation of the SRD
