Other notable quality-of-life improvements coming to Destiny 2 alongside Beyond Light include a new scripting environment for missions.

Bungie did say that it intends to allow players to preload Beyond Light at least 10 hours before the expansion goes live - “sometime in the evening of November 9, Pacific Time.” The studio hopes that this way, even players with less-than-optimal internet speeds can be ready to go from minute one.

There’s a catch to this, though: All Destiny 2 players will have to re-download the entire game in order to play the new expansion when it launches Nov. (With the latest expansion, Shadowkeep, the game currently takes up 120 GB on PlayStation 4, 95 GB on Windows PC, and 111 GB on Xbox One.) All of this is allowing Bungie to shrink Destiny 2’s file size down to somewhere between 59 GB and 71 GB, depending on platform. Other factors are the previously announced retirement of many pieces of the game into the Destiny Content Vault, and the removal of “accreted ‘dead’ content,” assets that were later replaced in patches. Destiny 2’s upcoming Beyond Light expansion will make the game take up significantly less space on your console’s or computer’s hard drive - depending on the platform, the updates will result in a 30-40% reduction in the game’s installation size, developer Bungie announced Thursday in its weekly blog post.īungie said it took the expansion as an opportunity to do some fine-tuning of Destiny 2’s back end.

Instaling Destiny 2