Too many of my friends trying Destiny 2 haven’t a clue on how to start the campaigns

PunchyMalone · Oct 8, 2019

Yep. I teamed up with my buddy to show him the ropes and we had no idea how to even start his game. I couldn't see what he was seeing, and he didn't know what to look for exactly. We eventually tried the heroic daily on Earth in hopes I'll just carry him to some better gear, and even that didn't give us anything after we finished it.

Now I know you gotta go to the hanger. Lol. They put it in a place that has nothing in it, with an NPC that you'll never talk to. Nice.

Edit: Now that you don't have to do the story, how does leveling work? Is it Light Level right out the gate? And what about the abilities that used to be tied to story progression? They just all unlocked from the start?

astro · Oct 9, 2019

PunchyMalone said:
Yep. I teamed up with my buddy to show him the ropes and we had no idea how to even start his game. I couldn't see what he was seeing, and he didn't know what to look for exactly. We eventually tried the heroic daily on Earth in hopes I'll just carry him to some better gear, and even that didn't give us anything after we finished it.

Now I know you gotta go to the hanger. Lol. They put it in a place that has nothing in it, with an NPC that you'll never talk to. Nice.

Edit: Now that you don't have to do the story, how does leveling work? Is it Light Level right out the gate? And what about the abilities that used to be tied to story progression? They just all unlocked from the start?

Everything is unlocked right away. Now you need to level two things:

Your power level via gear.
Your artefact via XP.

Grimminski · Oct 10, 2019

Yeah, I think I'm done. There's no reason whatsoever to touch the "legacy" campaigns and that was the main reason I was looking forward to the new release.

Vic_Viper · Oct 10, 2019

Are there any good youtube videos that shows what its like for a new player now? Like what the game looks like when you first start?

Mcfrank · Oct 10, 2019

Grimminski said:
Yeah, I think I'm done. There's no reason whatsoever to touch the "legacy" campaigns and that was the main reason I was looking forward to the new release.

They are fun. Isn't that a good reason?

Grimminski · Oct 10, 2019

Mcfrank said:
They are fun. Isn't that a good reason?

No. I played through the Red War earlier this year and it was super meh, but at least I was rewarded with various exotics for doing so.

Now? Lemme just waste a dozen hours in a loot game for no reason at all.

astro · Oct 10, 2019

Vic_Viper said:
Are there any good youtube videos that shows what its like for a new player now? Like what the game looks like when you first start?

You playback slightly reworked version of the vmD1 tutorial mission, then you're put in the tower and told to speak with all the relevant NPCs and then expected the get on with it.

Some are finding it pretty confusing.

Grimminski said:
Yeah, I think I'm done. There's no reason whatsoever to touch the "legacy" campaigns and that was the main reason I was looking forward to the new release.

Sure it suxks they removed those, but you were only looking forward to the campaigns for the exotic items they removed?

You will still earn loot you can keep and level up to use in end game, and exotic drops rates and acquisition in general are very fair right now.

Mcfrank · Oct 10, 2019

Grimminski said:
No. I played through the Red War earlier this year and it was super meh, but at least I was rewarded with various exotics for doing so.

Now? Lemme just waste a dozen hours in a loot game for no reason at all.

those campaigns aren't part of the current loot progression. I don't get this complaint. If I play WoW and play through old content it doesn't give me new loot. Why would this?

astro · Oct 10, 2019

Mcfrank said:
those campaigns aren't part of the current loot progression. I don't get this complaint. If I play WoW and play through old content it doesn't give me new loot. Why would this?

I think it was a mistake to remove the exotic reward choices from the old campaigns.

Grimminski · Oct 10, 2019

Mcfrank said:
those campaigns aren't part of the current loot progression. I don't get this complaint. If I play WoW and play through old content it doesn't give me new loot. Why would this?

Because I never played Osiris or Warmind, but did get the exotics from the Red War on my Hunter, but can never get those again on my Titan the same way.

astro · Oct 10, 2019

Grimminski said:
Because I never played Osiris or Warmind, but did get the exotics from the Red War on my Hunter, but can never get those again on my Titan the same way.

They are account wide... but you did miss the choices sure.

Warmind is worth playing for fun.

Grimminski · Oct 10, 2019

astro said:
They are account wide... but you did miss the choices sure.

Warmind is worth playing for fun.

I'm sure Warmind is decent, but it is a loot game, and I'm missing out because I didn't buy the season pass and complete the content at launch.

astro · Oct 10, 2019

Grimminski said:
I'm sure Warmind is decent, but it is a loot game, and I'm missing out because I didn't buy the season pass and complete the content at launch.

You're not, you'll be earning loot you can use inncureent end-game while you play.

Evilmaus · Oct 12, 2019

Finally started playing last night. I got to the tower and went straight to Amanda. loaded up The Red War and have generally just been following that quest line.

It seems relatively straight forward just doing that, but it seems like I'm missing out on side-quests, in the form of bounties?
I haven't bothered with them yet because it looks like they cost glimmer to accept, which seems like the primary currency right now. Just seemed strange that I would have to pay to start a quest so I've left it for the moment as I only have like, 20k and didnt want to accidentally blow all my cash.

Bunga · Oct 17, 2019

So I've started on PC and holy hell is this game hard to understand. They have what at first glance seems a decent tutorial but then it just drops you into the hub area with 50 map icons and says nothing to you essentially.

Quests work in strange ways, the maps are obtuse, the terminology used for tasks is confusing (e.g. I had to Google what calibrating a gun meant, turns out it just means using it!), there is next to no story imparted to the player after the intro, the main quest line consists of simply get better gear. Also holy bounties (repeatable quests) batman. Every activity has loads of them then there are pursuits and god knows what else. My quest log is a godamn mess and I havent a clue how to complete half of it.

On the other hand the combat is really fun and particularly satisfying when you get some weapons you like.

I'm really torn on it basically.

Too many of my friends trying Destiny 2 haven’t a clue on how to start the campaigns

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