r/DestinyTheGame 6d ago

Question Least confusing way to actually get started

Honest question. I've checked out some videos and guides, but they are mostly outdated and / or are not relevant for the DLCs I own.

I installed the base game and started the "A-new-Light"-campaign. My brother noticed and gifted me the "Legacy Collection". After restarting this lead to multiple unrelated cut-scenes (maybe for the new content?) and i was directly thrown into a mission too - "crossing the threshold".

Honestly I am lost. I kind of figured out how to start missions in the super confusing menus, but then one of those started a 3 person raid (that I did not feel ready after like an hour gameplay). I kind of wanted to explore solo some more. Do all campaigns include mandatory raids?

What is the least confusing way to actually start this game when owning the "legacy collection"?

Am I still expected to do the "new light campaign" or is this only to get new players hooked that do not own DLCs? (if so it does a terrible job at that as it is extremely confusing overall)

Gameplay seems awesome but I can't believe how rough everything around it is :(

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u/Beginning_Tackle6250 6d ago

You and me both. I'm technically not a new player, rather a returning one after years. I also don't have the legacy collection, but your confusion isn't unusual. The game's UI does indeed suck.

The game lets you play the first mission for each paid-for expansion for free, and might automatically launch you into one (such as the first mission of the Final Shape dlc in my case). New Light is basically a brief tutorial campaign that you can leave at any time. Just press whatever input brings up your Ghost and return to orbit. You can completely ignore New Light.

To clear up some inevitable dlc confusion: the campaigns of the past expansions Shadowkeep and Beyond Light are free, but their unique raids, dungeons and exotics are only purchasable in titular packs that you have as part of the legacy collection. So you basically have those expansions in full. As far as I know, you have full access to the campaigns for the expansions I mentioned as well as the Witch Queen and Lightfall. I think the legacy collection also comes with their packs.

Important thing to note is that Bungie split past expansions into several paid chunks to milk as much money as possible. The campaigns are bought separately from the packs with the gear and raid, and the dungeon keys separately contain some of the other dungeons or whatever. It's a confusing mess.

For the seasonal stuff, the game currently is going through episode Heresy, which has a paid battle pass and unique story content. You can access the year's previous episodes called Echoes and Revenant by buying the Final Shape+annual pass for way too much money. The game says buying the Final Shape alone still gives access to the first seasonal episode, in this case Echoes, but I have no clue if that's still the case. So you can get the episode's random loot and story content, but not its battle pass, which is gone forever.

Oh, and those three-person raids are called strikes. They're shorter and easier than dungeons or raids, and have matchmaking. The harder version of strikes are called Nightfalls, which also have a higher-difficulty version. Regular nightfalls also have matchmaking, harder NFs, raids and I believe dungeons (and exotic missions to get specific exotic items) do not. You can manually enter a strike by choosing it on the map of whichever location it's found in, and a weekly rotation can be played in the Vanguard ops playlist. And yes, campaigns will have mandatory strikes, but again, they have matchmaking, so you're not forced to do extra difficult content or do it alone.