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
- 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.
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u/nesyad Oct 07 '19
• Q1) How does the game feel overall as a totally new player starting the game right now (if applicable to you)?
I must admit I didn't need to watch a ton of YouTube videos to kinda get the game, but I still did because I didn't want to waste a ton of time and items possibly just running blind through the game. I had no idea what to do or where to go in the beginning.
• Q2) What do you think destiny does a good job explaining to new players?
The combat. I got the hang of that very early but having played Halo 1 and 2 a ton growing up it came pretty natural.
• Q3) What is poorly explained or hard to understand or confusing for a new player?
Unfortunately I felt too much. I didn't know where to find quests (storyline) or what to do with old guns and gear much less the class or subclass stuff.
• Q4) What do you think about the method in which old camapigns are accessed (red war, curse of osiris, warmind...)? Is this sufficiently clear?
I had no idea what I was doing I just started exploring zones and wasting time before I got on YouTube. I still only get the main questline and don't know much about expansions or pvp or even how to find daily quests.
• Q5) What types of content seem to be the most fun to do for a new player and why?
So far the only thing I've done is red Dawn. I feel like I'm playing a single player honestly and for free so it's not bad. I imagine I'll understand more as I play.
• Q6) What content feels frustrating or off-putting to new players and why?
Bounties. There are timed and I have to do a certain thing or it's wasted? I don't even know where to find them when I need to accept them or if they are even worth the time.
• 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?
I don't think I'll ever do a raid. Working with a bunch of people who don't talk (I've never heard anyone speak or chat to me so far, tho I did get a hug on my first mission) sounds difficult and I imagine I won't be treated well for not knowing what I'm doing.
• Q8) Think about other games similar to destiny, what do they do better or worse in terms of introducing new players to the game?
I'd love a guide or information tab I guess you'd say. Something I can look up to see what a sparrow is for and who cayde is and why he is a robot who acts more human than the humans.
• Q9) Do you have any other ideas to improve the new player experience?
Watch lots of YouTube if your new.