Resle has made a post on our forum talking about how Ashes: Two Worlds Collide development has resumed. Here's a list of the features he discusses:

• A huge, seamless world
• Virtually unlimited models/textures
• Dynamic shadows and lights
• Scriptable events
• Weather [rain, thunders, snow, fog, wind - sound effects]
• Day/Night cycle
• Npc schedules (Npcs go to sleep, do chores, wander around and so on)

Oh yeah, and there's screenshots in the thread of the progress, as well as a smallish discussion on the subject.

Hopefully one of the three mystery features will be super deluxe tactical turn based combat!