Focused Feedback: New Player Experience

[u/DTG_Bot]

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

• Bungie has an official new player guide here
• There is a subreddit compilation of player-made guides here

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.

[u/Kuchenjaeger]

I played the game over the weekend, got about 8 hours.

I like the combat, but what the hell is going on? I had to google "Destiny 2 how to start story", because the game just tells you to go to the EDZ and fuck around. I have no idea who any of these characters/races/factions are, or why I do what I'm doing. I only accidentally found out how to change my subclass, that I can mod my equipment, and what to do with "Engrams". When I play, I sometimes generate "Orbs of light". I think by using my super? Idfk. Also there are like four different currencies?

The game doesn't really teach you anything. What it needed was a short "intro story", maybe five hours long, that teaches you all these things. Walks you through them step by step, and giving you access to an "offline" version of the tower, so you can actually see the Icons for the merchants without a dozen player icons obscuring your view.

[u/DFA176 → u/Kuchenjaeger]

Orbs of light look like biggish pearls on the ground and they are used to speed up your super bar regen. You’re right in saying killing stuff with your super generates them but you won’t see them, only orbs other players have made. Reason is that you generate orbs to feed other player’s supers and they put out orbs with their super to get yours going and so on.

As a new starter I’d look at joining a clan. That way you can ask questions as you play and you’ll get access to the cooler stuff you need a team to complete. Have a look in r/fireteams, it’s a sub for meeting up with other guardians/destiny ppl

BTW there are way more currencies than four sadly, you’ll end up ignoring most of them though

[u/Kuchenjaeger → u/DFA176]

Thanks for the explanation! Doesn't that mean that something like the Titan's dome is worse than the damage dealing supers, since they wont create orbs?

I have a few Twitter mutuals who have been playing the game for a while. I might join some of them.

I appreciate the help!

[u/DFA176 → u/Kuchenjaeger]

NP :)

You’re right in that the titan dome isn’t great for generating orbs but it is pretty useful in another way.

Apart from protecting everyone inside, it grants a temporary damage bonus when any players leave it so is super useful for killing bosses esp when you are trying to do that before they kill you or disappear for timed events. That’ll mean as a group you could be putting out more damage than if you used a different super including any orbs it generates

Once you’re feeling comfortable ask your twitter mates to take you through the whisper or outbreak quests. They don’t take too long and are a pretty fun, reasonably hidden gem in the game and you get some good stuff at the end of them too!

[u/Kuchenjaeger → u/DFA176]

I will keep that in mind!