While there’s plenty to look forward to in Destiny 2’s feature-packed Beyond Light update, those of us with ever-dwindling hard drive space also have something to be excited for. It’s been announced that the upcoming Beyond Light update for Destiny 2 will reduce the overall file size of the game, though it will also require a full reinstall.

The news comes by the folks over at Bungie, who recently announced that the studio has retooled the way its content building and patching pipeline system works to put a greater emphasis on increased speed and lowering install size. “With the tremendous size of Destiny, our complete shippable content builds were frequently taking north of 24 hours,” the blog post reads. “We made investments to bring that down to sub-12 hours, which resulted in a bunch of changes to our content and patching formats.”

We also took on work to allow us to cull content that we’ve upgraded or replaced – our previous patching system had limited capabilities here (due to trying to minimize patch sizes and other constraints), and the current Destiny 2 install has a significant amount of accreted ‘dead’ content (e.g. assets in the base install that were replaced in later patches).”

As a result of Bungie’s efforts, the install size for Destiny 2 will be reduced by 30-40%., which means that the overall size will drop down to between 59 and 71GB depending on the user’s platform. Bungie goes on to promise that these changes will enable them to better control install size more easily in the coming years.

Destiny 2: Beyond Light is slated to release on November 10, 2020.

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