The big claim made by 343 is that things are speeding up in development. But we are seeing otherwise. They initially stated Season 2 was their time to fix the game, make it stable, and give us co op campign & forge. They delivered on bug fixes that were extremely small in scope and made little progress towards overall improvement.
Now the new roadmap says we are getting what we should have gotten in season 2, during this winter update that lasts until March 7th. But of course that is subject to change as noted in the roadmap graphic.
They’re taking giant risks here that are jeopardizing the entire future of a billion dollar franchise. This is do or die for the entire studio now. They are going to be forced to ditch priority 0 and begin crunching or double, possibly triple their workforce to deliver a high quality build by these deadlines. There’s no way they can afford anymore delays.
The situation is dire.