This will give the alien hunter new weapons and abilities, which means new fun and gruesome ways to kill things, but then, that’s why we go to see Predator movies.
It also will likely be part of the explanation as to why this Predator, while it looks a lot like the classic version we’re familiar with, isn’t perfectly identical.
We also learn that this Predator has been upgraded from the earlier ones we’ve seen as the species has begun to take aspects of other aliens that it finds useful and has incorporated that into itself.