What I can I say... we continue to be perfectionists! Some of you were envisioning us copying and pasting CMSF1 stuff into the current Game Engine 4. Over and done with within a few months, right? I think we had a similar concept at first, though a few months was never a realistic timeframe in our minds.
Since digging into CMSF1 in detail we found there was a need to redo pretty much everything. Quite a bit from scratch. We even violated our original concept of "nothing new for CMSF2 b
The only time we can give a reliable shipping date is after the game is done and before it's been released. That's it. And even then sometimes unexpected problems come up. So I guess the only reliable date I can give is just after I've uploaded everything to the servers and just before I've posted it's available.
So again, I can either post rough timeframes which may/may not be met, or I can post nothing at all until the game is done. Those are the two options. There is no third option