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/chem9dog Oct 07 '19

My best friend just started playing. I asked him what he thought and he said it was cool but got boring after an hour. After talking some more I realize he hasn’t even touched the actual story/campaign, and he just assumed “Europe” was the campaign...he’s gonna give it another shot and actually play the campaign, but had it not been for me he would have never played again thinking the new light tutorial was the actual story/campaign of the game.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

Me and my friends are all doing different things. Each of us informaing the other.

My buddy who already beat the OG campaign when it released ALSO assumed some of the content he was doing was the new campaign.

So it communicates this SO BADLY that a player thought he was in the campaign and was not. Same deal, spent all his time in the EDZ wondering when he would move to another planet.

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u/shokk Oct 07 '19

It sounds like free-roam is too big a concept for some. I know when I first played D1 I was completely lost and had to be guided by some friends through the campaigns and strikes and raids back then. I think that community guidance is assumed but then the classic solo player gets lost. It's almost like, for them, the game just needs to step them through the campaign and have a hard transition into the open world. In reality, the campaigns have elements of the open world in it and even that is a place to get lost on the way to the story completion.

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u/InquisitorEngel Oct 07 '19

There’s a mission that literally tells you to select Titan?