story is told more through show than tell, like the dark souls games, Combat will punish you until you learn to adapt( polearms and parrying are your friends), and there are some big difficulty spikes when transitioning to new biomes- swamp and mistlands are notable here. There are still 2-3 major biomes left to fill in, and the devs seem to take ~9 months or so per biome if the addition of mistlands was any indication. soooo, maaaybe august 2024? depends on how hard they go into updating the oceans and how much they intend to add/change after ashlands and deep north.