[2019] Big Broadcasts | Halo Community Update

You bet!

Currently it doesn't look like public flighting will begin prior to E3. The team has made a lot of progress on a number of areas but everything is just taking time (in some cases longer than initially anticipated)

Behind what schedule? We've never really had a date or a schedule other than a goal of getting flighting underway as soon as everything is ready. I had hoped that would be last month, it wasn't and now we're of course hesitant to make any guesstimates as to not further disappoint. The massive update blog two weeks back offered some good info on the status of the project and Postums is working on another large update for later this month.

Sure, if we could go back in time, knowing what we know now, we probably would've waited to make the announce. Heck, it would've made a cool announce for E3, yeah? But at the time, we had plans and estimates and goals - including a need to get the word out so we could allow ample time to build up a Halo Insider program. We all expected flighting to have started by now but unfortunately some areas of development have proven to be more time consuming than anticipated. Flighting MCC on PC has zero overlap and nothing in common with developing Halo Infinite. In fact, I'd argue it's more challenging dealing with decades old game code with multiple intertwined titles and systems than building a new experience on top of a new custom designed engine and toolset.

10 years, or 16 days if you count the 4,000+ words in the April update blog.