Can't say I've noticed anything, but I wonder if there's some sort of caching going on, that needs re-cached since some of the content has changed? Either that, or there's just more stuff to load now.

I've noticed these pauses a lot more since I got my upgraded Stealth Drive sparrow. Venus, the Moon, and Earth all have them in spades. I haven't noticed them as often on Mars, but that may simply be a result of me not spending much time there.

I've rarely noticed any pauses in Destiny except in one spot, when zigzagging through the buildings on my way from the Divide to the Rocketyards, where there would consistently be a short pause and a loading message.

I get that, and between the landing point on Venus and the Ash Wastes, and when going to the big land tank on Mars.

-- Steve's internet was blazingly fast a decade ago... but hasn't gotten any faster since. Sigh.

I get the one between The Divide and Rocketyard a lot too. My theory is it's more network related than the game having to load in new content though since sometimes I cross just fine while others I sit there for several seconds. I think it's trying to find you an available instance of the next zone and sometimes that takes a bit longer than it takes you to actually reach that new area.

I've noticed its worse with mine since the update too. I was getting alot of new errors and boots this week, can't tell if its from the update, xbox live, or just my connection, but there was def a difference.