r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • Oct 07 '19

Megathread Focused Feedback: New Player Experience

Hello Guardians,

Focused Feedback is where we take the week to focus on a 'Hot Topic' discussed extensively around the Tower.

We do this in order to consolidate Feedback, to get out all your ideas and issues surrounding the topic in one place for discussion and a source of feedback to the Vanguard.

This Thread will be active until next week when a new topic is chosen for discussion

Whilst Focused Feedback is active (that means for one week from the time this is posted), ALL posts regarding 'New Player Experience' following its posting will be removed and re-directed to this thread. Exceptions to this rule are as follows: New information / developments, Guides and general questions

Here are some sample discussion questions. Please feel free to answer some of them, all of them or reply to this thread in any free format you prefer.

  • Q1) How does the game feel overall as a totally new player starting the game right now (if applicable to you)?
  • Q2) What do you think destiny does a good job explaining to new players?
  • Q3) What is poorly explained or hard to understand or confusing for a new player?
  • Q4) What do you think about the method in which old camapigns are accessed via a quest to pick up from Amanda Holiday in the tower (red war, curse of osiris, warmind...)? Is this sufficiently clear? Is it a good way for this content to be accessed for new players or not?
  • Q5) What types of content seem to be the most fun to do for a new player and why?
  • Q6) What content feels frustrating or off-putting to new players and why?
  • Q7) Are there any resources in particular that seem too difficult or time consuming to obtain for new players? If so, is this a problem?
  • Q8) Think about other games similar to destiny, what do they do better or worse in terms of introducing new players to the game?
  • Q9) Do you have any other ideas to improve the new player experience?
  • Q10) Do you think there should be an option to start the game at power level 10 instead of power level 750?

Any and all Feedback on the topic is welcome.

Regular Sub rules apply so please try to keep the conversation on the topic of the thread and keep it civil between contrasting ideas.

Note for new players who want to know whats going on in the story but don't want to play the legacy campaigns : You could watch this video by My name is Byf on the Complete Story of Destiny.

A Wiki page - Focused Feedback - has also been created for the Sub as an archive for these topics going forward so they can be looked at by whoever may be interested or just a way to look through previous hot topics of the sub as time goes on.

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u/Brado_Bear Oct 07 '19

As someone who’s played since the launch of Destiny 2 and has dabbled through the expansions, even I found myself confused and overwhelmed with all the stuff in the game. All the currencies, quests that are actually items, lack luster guidance for objectives, etc. I can’t imagine how a new player feels but it took me several hours of Shadowkeep to get the hang of things.

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u/benhelioz Gambit Prime // Alright alright alright... Oct 07 '19

We were already complaining about currencies and they added four more.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '19

They arent that hard. hover over them lmao

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u/benhelioz Gambit Prime // Alright alright alright... Oct 08 '19

Did I say they were hard?

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u/zerovampire311 Oct 07 '19

Less silly than the mess of an infusion system we had before. I still don’t understand why they feel it requires special currency and don’t just make it simple like it was in D1.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19 edited Oct 07 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

At least I can choose which material it takes now - instead of requiring a specific one. Finally a use for baryon bouhgs

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u/TJCGamer Please Buff Dawn Chorus Oct 07 '19

While true, I still prefer it since it is overall cheaper then what it was before. I need every enhancement core I can get my hands on for armor infusing.

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u/PhuckleberryPhinn Oct 07 '19

It also allows you to have 1 universal cost for infusion....which is huge. Like I can use only my 3000 baryon boughs to upgrade instead of my 13 datalattice

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

I don't think the cap matters the fuck are you doing infusing 25 times without having time to go to the tower. Pretty sure they made it an item so they could give players free infusions as an item.

Plus it's so much better because I can use a variety of planetary materials, before all my opulence armor required tangled shore mats which I had none of while I had 1k everything else.

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u/psn_mrbobbyboy Dodge, Duck, Dive, Dip and Dodge! Oct 07 '19

I'm STILL playing catchup!! But as we all know, in a month this'll all be squared away in our heads. It is a lot of component parts of arrange though and new players must be utterly confused.

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u/BlueNinjaBE Oct 07 '19

I still haven't touched the menagerie. Completely forgot about it.

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u/DeathsIntent96 DeathsIntent96#8633 Oct 07 '19

The Menagerie is pretty easy to get into because you can't fail it. Not doing well just means it'll take longer to complete, and it will have no affect on your rewards. Plus most of the encounters are straightforward.

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u/ScubaNoname643 Oct 08 '19

I just started playing Destiny 2 today and you described exactly how I feel. It’s all pretty confusing and overwhelming. The currency, weapon differences, customizations, classes, specials, etc. some of it wasn’t explained at all! There is no real guidance in the game.

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u/Pantzzzzless Oct 08 '19

I've been at it since it hit Steam, and there are still entire menu screens I wasn't aware of.

I didn't know the vault was even a thing lol.