That sucks but as long as Redfall drops in June or July it's not the worst delay.

I really doubt Redfall is June as it's too soon after E3 and it has had next to zero marketing, unless Microsoft has an event before E3 which is unlikely, July is unlikely for a major release too, at least, in Microsoft's case, I think Redfall will be late August-Early September or even be delayed slightly.

With Redfall scheduled for Summer/Q3 release (July-September), E3 is too late to show it off, would be foolish to start the marketing for the game 3 months or less before release. Hopefully Xbox has something planned for before E3 to show off it's gameplay, even if it's just an Inside Xbox, rather than the game being delayed to October with a reveal at E3, that would suck.

Rumour that Stalker 2 is being delayed to Fall 2022.

They responded relatively quickly to those, but they pretty much had to as they were big glaring issues causing huge amounts of player drop-off. I think it's kind of an issue that they are just now back from Holiday. Why would a studio give almost it's entire workforce 3 weeks off when their game just released, especially since they had a gamebreaking issue with BTB that needed fixing, they couldn't even be bothered to temporarily server side remove the BTB challenges from the challenge randomization pool until BTB itself was fixed, instead forcing people to waste valuable challenge swaps to avoid BTB challenges (there is no way to get more challenge swaps without paying for them once you finish the season pass). They could have given their whole workforce a few days close to Christmas off and then divided them all up into 3 groups to decide which got which weeks off for their vacation instead of letting the whole studio off at once, but it felt like nearly every dev got 3 weeks in a row off except for the skeleton crew they left behind which tried and failed to fix the BTB issue.

Obviously fixing BTB is a priority, but that's not something that should take the whole darn multiplayer team to fix, seems like something that the QA (Quality Assurance) team and a handful of programmers should be able to fix between them. There should be other devs with specializations in things like map design, cosmetic design, weapon design, vehicle design, and gameplay balance who are working on those areas at the same time as the BTB issue is being fixed. Why cram everything they are working on into a February patch when 343 said they specifically designed the game to allow server side changes for smaller things like balance? There are balance issues with weapons like the Ravager and Commando, vehicles like the banshee and chopper, motion tracker range issues, and lots more that could and should be fixed with server side updates or via the January hotfix patch, instead of waiting on the February update. This game is still experiencing big player bleedoff, they can't afford to keep putting things off till later.

No new maps until Season 2 in May would be a colossal failure, I already see tons of people who are bored with the launch content and quitting now as a result. I myself have grown quite bored now that I have maxed the season 1 Battlepass and have no progression (aside from events) and no new maps, nothing but weekly challenge grind for the crappy weekly cosmetics they have done so far to keep me playing. They have lost like 4/5ths of their playerbase since launch on Steam at least (peak concurrent has dropped by nearly 20k just in the last 2 or so weeks, from about 62k to about 45k in about 2 weeks), I hate to think of how many more they will lose if they don't fix these underlying issues with progression, monetization, and balance, and add more maps soon.  By February when the next big patch drops they might lose another 20k peak concurrent players or more on Steam at the rate they have been bleeding players. 

I am honestly surprised people are still playing Halo? For what exactly? For the frustrating challenges with barely any good rewards at the end? For the same maps that we have for 2 months now? For MP modes that simply don't work? I feel we are now at a point many still force themself to play it but we also at a point when people will drop off.

We should now have being at a point when season 2 would get announced with 6 new maps, modes, a lot of changes and a PVE mode like firefight/Warzone. I honestly thinkg MS is so dependable on contractors that they simply don't have enough people to fix things fast.

I am honestly surprised people are still playing Halo? For what exactly? For the frustrating challenges with barely any good rewards at the end? For the same maps that we have for 2 months now? For MP modes that simply don't work? I feel we are now at a point many still force themself to play it but we also at a point when people will drop off.

We should now have being at a point when season 2 would get announced with 6 new maps, modes, a lot of changes and a PVE mode like firefight/Warzone. I honestly thinkg MS is so dependable on contractors that they simply don't have enough people to fix things fast.