The game may be free, but it's not friendly. As for how loot and item systems work, sheesh, good luck figuring that out. It certainly does not help that the campaign (which is soon to be removed anyway, along with a lot of the game) is hidden on an NPC in a rarely-visited corner. After a short mission with little explanation, you're dropped into the main social hub with little clue who you are, who anyone else is, or what's happened. With the Beyond Light expansion now barely a month away, launching November 10th, Bungie detailed more of its changes in their latest This Week At Bungie post last night.ĭestiny 2's new player experience is awful right now. So it's good to hear more of Bungie's plans for a friendlier new player experience in the zone where Destiny began, the Cosmodrome.īungie have (mostly) good news for veteran players too, revealing plans to overhaul armour mod slots to be less of a faffy mess. New players are dropped in at the deep end, and it's not fun.
While Destiny 2 welcomed a whole lot of new players when it went free-to-play last October, it didn't do much more than open the door and gesture broadly in the direction of a 100-person party raging across every room of the house.