Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-14909251-20161212004839

I saw it posted in the spoiler thread that Tyrian's voice actor suggested there would be another episode next week. That would have surprised me before, but it does make sense given the cliffhanger ending. He later said he wasn't sure, so he could be mistaken or confusing it with a World of Remnant episode. Looking at RT's Thanksgiving post, they did not specifically say whether RWBY would go on a Winter hiatus after this episode, only that we would be halfway through at this point.

Calendar-wise it makes sense as in Volume 3 we only had two weeks in Winter with no RWBY, not including the World of Remnant, and the Volume ended on February 13th. However, the calendar this year would mean stopping now results in three weeks without RWBY, excepting World of Remnant, and the Volume ending on February 18th. If they do another episode before Winter hiatus then it means the Volume ends on February 11th. That's because the third week after this is New Year's Eve and the previous week is Christmas Eve. Unlikely they would release new episodes on either of those days, particularly because the free member releases would be on Christmas and New Year's respectively.

Another reason to suspect another episode is coming next week is because this one was short for a mid-Volume finisher. Typically those are longer and around the length of the opening episode, which was 19 minutes. Episode 6 this time was right around the standard length not the extended length.