Destiny 2 New Lights left \u201cutterly lost\u201d by lackluster newbie experience BungieDestiny 2 has proven unapproachable for one player who had considered revisiting the franchise and their experience has triggered renewed debate over the new player experience. A major contributor to Destiny 2\u2019s inaccessibility for newbies \u2013 or New Lights, as they\u2019re officially named \u2013 has frequently been attributed to Bungie\u2019s vaulting of content, obtuse user interface, and a general lack of guidance. That being the case, it\u2019s hardly surprising that potential New Lights often fail to stick around. \u201cAs a new player, I am utterly lost,\u201d read the opening statement of one lapsed Destiny fan on Reddit. Stating they had played the original game up to and including The Taken King and had decided to give its sequel a bash, they added \u201cI was hoping to play through the DLCs in order to get caught up with the story, but the menus are so confusing and poorly explained that I cannot tell what order to do what. \u201cI tried to follow the quests as they were given to me, but then I immediately got thrust into The Pale Heart, talking to characters I never met or knew anything about,\u201d they continued. Responses to the OP were mixed. Some claimed that narrative flow would naturally make little sense to someone having to play seven years of catch-up. \u201cThese posts are getting a little ridiculous. OP stopped playing around Taken King. It\u2019s a whopping seven years and then they ask \u2018Did I miss something?\u2019 Yeah, like no sh*t Sherlock, you missed seven years of the story unfolding.\u201d Others used contemporary games to point out that New Lights should have the chance to experience everything instead of missing out on key story beats as a result of removed content. \u201cHere\u2019s the thing, though. If I jump into Final Fantasy 14 today, ALL of it is still there. I can play it from start to finish. It\u2019s a big time commitment, but if I don\u2019t want to be lost, I can get to where everybody else is in a way that isn\u2019t possible with D2.\u201d Bungie has improved the new player experience during Destiny 2\u2019s lifespan but whether further changes are on the cards remains to be seen. A returning player yourself? If you\u2019ve reached The Final Shape\u2019s campaign, check out our mission breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 New Lights left \u201cutterly lost\u201d by lackluster newbie experience BungieDestiny 2 has proven unapproachable for one player who had considered revisiting the franchise and their experience has triggered renewed debate over the new player experience. A major contributor to Destiny 2\u2019s inaccessibility for newbies \u2013 or New Lights, as they\u2019re officially named \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}