Destiny 2 newcomers bewildered as the story makes no sense to them BungieDestiny 2 newcomers are struggling with the looter shooter\u2019s onboarding experience, being left confused by who the characters are and what its story is even about. Bungie\u2019s looter shooter has an incredible amount of lore and narrative for players to get invested in. However, a lot of that story cannot be played in the live game. In fact, only five of the shooter\u2019s nine expansions are currently accessible. For the longest time, Destiny 2 deleted its older content in a controversial process called vaulting. This was done to keep the game reasonably sized for updating and maintenance purposes. The practice was discontinued in 2022. However, the damage has already been done with several expansions being removed from Destiny 2, and it\u2019s left newcomers completely lost. Vaulting has left Destiny 2 newbies baffled by the narrative A new player who just started Destiny 2 asked veterans why their opening experience with the game\u2019s campaign had been so confusing. The enquiring post reads: \u201cPicked up the game yesterday with what I hoped would be the latest expansion. But it\u2019s really different than any game I\u2019ve played, just got a series of cinematics with characters I don\u2019t know with little to no context. It seems like I\u2019m skipping all the story. Did I do something wrong?\u201d Looking to offer an explanation, one player responded: \u201cTo answer your question, Destiny is a 7-year-old game and LIghtfall is only part of the story. You can just listen to YouTube videos in your off time to learn about the rest. Think of Destiny like Marvel Avengers and Lightfall is you watching Age of Ultron as your first movie.\u201d Another fan elaborated: \u201cBungie removed all of the story content from the game. The earliest the game has is the Shadowkeep expansion, with the vanilla campaign and Forsaken expansion no longer playable. If you want to know what\u2019s going on in the story, you\u2019ve pretty much got to just go find a Youtube video.\u201d Others took the chance to criticize Destiny 2\u2019s onboarding process: \u201cLiterally the least beginner-friendly game I\u2019ve ever played. I picked it up last month and if I didn\u2019t have someone who\u2019s played since D1 holding my hand the entire way, I would never even know a quarter of the mechanics of the game.\u201d Destiny 2\u2019s complex build crafting and missing content can make it a challenging experience for newcomers. Thankfully, Bungie has confirmed plans to innovate the story with the arrival of The Final Shape which could help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 newcomers bewildered as the story makes no sense to them BungieDestiny 2 newcomers are struggling with the looter shooter\u2019s onboarding experience, being left confused by who the characters are and what its story is even about. Bungie\u2019s looter shooter has an incredible amount of lore and narrative for players to get invested in. […]<\/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-40209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209","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=40209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}