The new creator should allow for 'more player customization options in the future,' but in the short-term, it may make your character's face look slightly different (assuming you have helmets disabled in social spaces). Visually, the most noticeable changes will be tweaks to the game's character creator and destination lighting. 'These tech improvements should give us 1-2 more weeks of flexibility on a seasonal scale, helping us pivot more quickly in some cases.' 'Historically each of our seasons has had to get deep into production before the preceding season launched, preventing us from reacting to learnings from that preceding season,' Aldridge says. By expediting patches, Bungie also hopes to better respond to seasonal feedback (and avoid repeated mistakes) in the future. The good news is that the game's install size will be 30-40% smaller by Aldridge's estimate, and to help offset the heavy download, Bungie will open preloading 10 hours ahead of the Beyond Light launch. As a result of this change, all of Destiny 2 will need to be re-downloaded when Beyond Light is released.
Destiny 2's patching methods, meanwhile, have been refined to make it easier to push fixes to the live game.