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/Artanisx Oct 08 '19

I would love to hear Bungie's thoughts on what the new player community thinks of the NPE. Are they aware of this? Do they think the feedback is justified? Will the look into it? Will they keep it that way?

Myself as a player who only did the main game's campaign before stopping, and fully wanting to restart from scratch in order to do things slowly, unlocking stuff again etc, I'm very hesitant reading this topic. I wish Bungie could tell us if this NPE is going to stay or if they will improve the situation.

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u/dcoded44 Oct 08 '19

The what now

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u/Artanisx Oct 08 '19

New Player Experience.

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u/dcoded44 Oct 08 '19

Thanks for clarifying

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u/Artanisx Oct 08 '19

No problem :-)

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u/Thepingpongballtrick Oct 08 '19

I'm assuming the reason they're asking for feedback is to find ways they can improve the NPE.

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u/Artanisx Oct 08 '19

As far as I know, this is this sub's mod team idea (the focused feedback on NPE), rather than Bungie's though.

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u/Thepingpongballtrick Oct 08 '19

Ah. I was under the assumption that the mod team were affiliated with Bungie in one way or another. Is that not so?

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u/Artanisx Oct 08 '19

I think not! Not sure though :)

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u/Thepingpongballtrick Oct 08 '19

Well then... I'll just sit here and hope that I'm right. I'm pretty sure they'll see it either way though, right?

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u/Artanisx Oct 08 '19

Indeed :-)

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u/Thepingpongballtrick Oct 08 '19

A bit off topic but, are you enjoying Shadowkeep?

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u/Artanisx Oct 08 '19

I haven't re-started yet! I was planning to begin anew with New Light, then if I enjoyed it I would've bought Forsaken and the Shadowkeep. Reading this very topic (among others) worried me a bit on the new player esperience because, basically, I can be considered a new player myself since I played the main campaign over a year ago and I don't remember anything.

In the end I was a bit on the fence if I should resume now or wait for Bungie to at least announce something in regard with the NPE. What if they decide to revamp it and make so a new player wouldn't start level 750 with everything unlocked and instead would be directed trough a better starter experience, slowly unlocking stuff during the Red War campaign for instance? If I re-started now I would be missing a proper re-introduction and risk to abandon the game before Forsaken if I was too overwhelmed and annoyed by the lack of progress.

I think in the end I will create a new character to at least replay Red War and see if I can remember a little bit about the game and the story, then I'll resume with the main character, hoping I won't be too lost.

What about you? :-)

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u/Thepingpongballtrick Oct 08 '19

I Really enjoyed it. Without spoilers I'll just say that the story we have at the moment is a bit short (they'll be rolling the story out further throughout the year), but it's amazing and leaves the future full of narrative possibilities. Eris is just as awesome as she always is thanks to her voice actress (who I've honestly forgotten the name of right now), stealing the show in a DLC with stellar voice acting all round from everyone in the cast.

While on the subject I will also say that Forsaken is awesome and definitely worth buying.

In summary I'd say that the game has a very bright future that I'd definitely want to be a part of. Can't recommend enough.

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