From this summary we can see that the Winter Update will take place between the end of Season 2 and the start of Season 3, which will eventually begin on March 7, 2023, and end on June 27 of the same year. Scheduled for November 8, 2022, the winter update will mainly include an online co-op campaign and the possibility to replay the aforementioned campaign missions, a beta version of Forge mode, two new maps (separate and Argyle), new game modes (covert flag) and 30 free Battle Pass rewards.
To learn more, we’ve also been told that Season 3 will specifically include two new maps (arena and big team fight), new weapons (M392 Bandit), new device (round screen) and 100 new Battle Pass rewards.If a split-screen co-op campaign is still missing from all of this, it’s because it was simply removed from the roadmap, even with the possibility of local play is a goal Microsoft set for all Halo games.
“In order to improve and accelerate the development of the current live streaming service and better respond to player feedback and game updates, we have reallocated studio resources and no longer collaborated on shared screens for events“, announcing 343 Industries. Reasons that are hard for some fans to accept, especially since Microsoft has called in reinforcements (specifically certain Affinities) to avoid any kind of disillusionment.