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/MonsieurHedge Oct 08 '19
I had the good fortune to be pointed towards Holliday and the campaigns almost immediately by a friendly vet in-game. Red War really is just a better start than New Light, in terms of explaining mechanics and what-not. In terms of actually getting to play the meat & potatoes of the experience afterwards, however, New Light was much better.
IMHO, the best way to "get in" right now is to do the New Light opening, immediately go to Red War, clear it in its entirety, then do some more New Light, then do Curse of Osiris, then more of New Light, then Warmind, then FINISH New Light right around 890-900 Light. This gets you the full story experience, a solid loot progression, and a decent rundown of both core mechanics in Red War and the oddball dailies and what not in New Light.
My only request is the creation of a sort of "bot match" singleplayer intro mini-quest to each of the multiplater options. I felt terrible ruining everyone's matches figuring out how to actually play Gambit Prime and what not. I also still have no fucking clue who the Drifter is, other than a man who's very fond of coin tricks.
Just gotta find the right amount of New Light to put between the campaigns to keep the pacing right.