Just bought Destiny....newbie tips please!

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Merry New Year's Eve everyone :)

So I've just bought Destiny for PS4 from the US PSN store while the Flash Sale was still on. I havent seen/read up on much about the game as I've been trying to make my through my backlog for the last few months, but I think I'll have a pretty good time with Destiny.

What tips would you give to a complete Destiny novice? Anything is welcome. Things to do first? Best weapons? Armour? Etc. That sort of thing.

Thanks! (First ever thread too!)
 
first post nailed it, except you like repetitive shooters with a story that's not even a story, competitive multiplayer is not bad, but it feels more like an add on.
 
The "real" game starts at 20, but I'd say it really starts at 28-30.

It's a co-op game. Embrace that. Use your mic.

There's a lot of stuff that goes into learning how to play super well. It was so weird watching my siblings play it when they were here; I thought they had no concept of how to play, then remembered that I've got like 350 hours in the game, so how I play's... quite a bit different.

And don't get mad at RNG.

It's one of the best games of the year. It's ALSO one of the worst. They recycle too much, which sucks, because it's got the best gunplay ever, and raids are on another level entirely.
 
Ignoring all the shit posts a tip I have is to tackle the side content before tackling the main campaign, that means bounties, pvp or just exploring around.
 
Hard to really give some advice right now. It all depends on your ability to have fun when the grind starts, at level 22-24. If you find the grind tedious, do yourself a favor, drop the game right away, IT WON'T GET BETTER.

Before that, no advice really, as leveling-up is pretty natural during the campaign and/or during the crucible. Try to make a few friends with whom you can play regularly. For all its flaws, playing Destiny with friends is damn fun.
 
If you want to talk about Destiny you must go to the OT in the community section. Here you will only get people hating on the game. Yes Gaf is bad sometimes.
 
Take it back if you still can. Biggest waste of time ever, and not even that fun (horrible writing, voice acting, no story, endless grinding, RNG...)
 
Join a faction buy their class item play crucible upgrade your weapons play strikes with freinds or gaf. Enjoy it then defend it in the next one of these threads :p
 
Doomshroom said:
If you want to talk about Destiny you must go to the OT in the community section. Here you will only get people hating on the game. Yes Gaf is bad sometimes.
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By bad you mean good?

OP, don't listen to Destiny adepts, they are worse than Jehovah witnesses, I am telling you as a person who finally escaped this cult after 300-350 hours sinked into this shitty game.
 
Go to the community thread, build up a big friends list. Read Hawkian(?)'s guides in the first post.

Don't spend any money (glimmer) until you reach level 20. Everything under level 20 is worthless.

Do bounties for XP when you unlock them.

At level20 prioritise getting high level (ledgendary) armour above everything else.

Enjoy the deep and meaningful story and the excellent use of top tier Hollywood voice actors.

Laugh at how the 'expansion' patch turned most of the base game endgame raid rewards into junk.
 
Don't buy it unless you have friends willing to play or you'll be consistently scanning LFG.
I haven't found many people I can play this game with, at least on PS3.
I wish I could exchange it for Xrd.
 
If you avoided the Destiny backlash, then you've avoided news on every game.

I will warn you: Return it if you expect something amazing. If you want to have some pvp fun, that's available, but god damned if everything but the one raid in PvE wasn't a snoozefest.

Oh and that one raid where things get interesting? You need to be level 28 to be decent in, and it requires you to have 5 other people at level 28 on your friends list to play. No matchmaking. Oh and it takes like 40 hours to get there, maybe more depending on RNG. It takes weeks of hitting mark caps if you try to avoid RNG. Yeah, there are weekly caps to how much special currency you can get.

Game is filled with terrible ideas, I'd get out while you can.
 
Thanks everyone so far. I will take a look through Hawkian's tips.
As I've not paid much attention to Destiny talk previously, I didn't realise it was so polarising haha!
 
Definitely go to the OT and read Hawkian's guides - everyone in there is friendly and helpful.

Good luck with the game - after 150+ hours I decided I had Stockholm syndrome just before Christmas and I can't find any motivation to pick it up again - this is especially after being poorly treated as a player for not buying the 'expansion'. As others have said its the best game of the year, but its also the worst game of the year!
 
Don't trust this guy:
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Game is great, ignore the haters. Cool to hate.

I'd start with a Hunter because you get a good mix of speed and combat. Try different weapons. I prefer auto-rifles. After you finish the campaign, make some friends either here (tons of people still play this daily) and try some strikes. When you're around level 26, do Vault of Glass (the first raid). That's the meat of the original game. You can only benefit from it once a week but totally worth it the first several times.

If you're going to buy the expansions, you may want to know that it's very content light. The new raid is amazing, but the other stuff is just meh. However, you're going to miss out on a lot of stuff by not getting it. Just make sure you're not skipping out on games to buy the expansion. And if you have the money, get both so you save a couple of dimes. But also make sure it's your type of game.
 
Find a group to play with. You will be playing the same levels over and over again, Destiny will naturally turn into a Voice Chat app at some point. Might as well talk to the same people.
 
DryvBy said:
Game is great, ignore the haters. Cool to hate.
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It's called opinions. It's not like we never played it, I gave up after level 23 or 24 since I hadn't acquired a Legendary or Exotic by then, and after trying to save up for them by grinding bounties and playing PvP I just had to give up out of sheer boredom.

The reason I made it that far is that admittedly the gunplay is fun while it lasts.

But someone here mentioning "deep and meaningful story and the excellent use of top tier Hollywood voice actors." - to me that sound like pure sarcasm. It has neither of that. I never heard so much nonsense delivered in such a flat manner...
 
Lvl 1 - 24: Play through the missions/strikes and most importantly do bounties to bring up your vanguard reputation to level 2 as soon as possible. Also start playing Vanguard Tiger strikes/Daily lvl 24/Weekly Strike as soon as you can for the Vanguard marks, Ascendant Materials and Strange Coins.

Road to 31: Keep doing the above on the highest level you can manage an make some friends in the Destiny OT and see if people want to do the VoG on normal (you want the Ascendant Shards mainly, don't worry too much about the armour that may/may not drop), with you. Buy a piece of legendary Vanguard armour every week (gloves, boots, chest) as soon as you can, upgrade it with Shards and use your strange coins to get a exotic helm.


This is of course assuming the game grabs you, it's not for everyone... I would say try to play the Raid at least, with a nice group of like-minded gamers it's a very fun co-op experience.
 
Do you have an addictive personality? Can't quit smoking or drinking, find yourself spending cash you shouldn't be on gambling, unhealthily over eat, or just generally find yourself getting fixated on things, so much so that you simply can't stop yourself from thinking about them?

If so, DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. It is built entirely around time sinks and a irregular drip feeding of rewards to get people hooked on it to the point where people are spending hundreds of hours just grinding away to get a slightly better version of an item they already have, just to be able to do more grinding.

It is fun, it's got great gameplay and lovely art design, inspite of the total lack of real story or acknowledgement of progression in such games in the industry at large, to the point where I could believe it were made by Nintendo's evil twin frankly, but it is one of the most cynically designed, personality flaw exploiting games I have ever seen. It's almost as bad as stuff like Dungeon Master Mobile for it's utter contempt for your free time and wallet.

If you're the kind of person that can sink a good 40 hours in over a few months, get up to level 28+, try everything the game has to offer at least once, and then still go 'yeah, that was fun, time to move on', and just walk away, go for it. It's bloody fun, and you'll likely just regret that it wasn't better but have fond memories.

If not, if you start getting obsessed with the grind, and playing the same levels over, and over, and over just in the vague hope random luck will give you a slightly better pair of trousers, then take it back and get Diablo 3 or something instead. At least then you'd be addicted to something that respects you.
 
kurisu1974 said:
It's called opinions. It's not like we never played it, I gave up after level 23 or 24 since I hadn't acquired a Legendary or Exotic by then, and after trying to save up for them by grinding bounties and playing PvP I just had to give up out of sheer boredom.

The reason I made it that far is that admittedly the gunplay is fun while it lasts.

But someone here mentioning "deep and meaningful story and the excellent use of top tier Hollywood voice actors." - to me that sound like pure sarcasm. It has neither of that. I never heard so much nonsense delivered in such a flat manner...
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Indeed.

I grinded it out to 29 before the DLC hit ... fuck that game. It's all I really have to say. I will never go back to it.

If the true sequel to the game changes and gets good word of mouth I'll jump back in ... but never Day 1 again.

Sooooooo overhyped.
 
My condolences friend. Welcome to the fruitless grind.

In all seriousness though:

Play hard or go home: Not really, but by playing the early missions on a harder difficulty you get a lot more XP so can level up faster.

Bounties: They are one of the most important things in the game. They earn you tons of XP and level up your equipment and weapons. Do as many as you can once you reach level 4.

Resources: Don't waste too many upgrading low level gear unless 100% necessary. Better weapons and armor are always one roll away and you'll regret wasting your shards etc...

Multiplayer: It's actually one of the best parts of the game. less bullshit and RNG, more fly around and shoot people in the head. Get a Shingen C or Cyradonia if you can to be able to compete in Crucible early.

Don't Stress: Try not to concern yourself with getting the best stuff early on (or late on for that matter). It's a complete lottery, if RNG favors you then great, If not just earn glimmer/resources and buy some kick ass stuff yourself.

Weapons of power: Once you reach level 20 and get to wield exotic weapons look at getting one of the A grade ones if you can. Icebreaker, Gjallarhorn, Suros Regime etc...

Try and ignore all the negative stuff posted about the game. It's actually great fun to play but personally (after 170 hours) I hit the wall hard with it and I'm taking a bit of a break. I will be back though. Bigger, stronger and probably many levels behind everyone else.
 
Stilton Disco said:
Do you have an addictive personality? Can't quit smoking or drinking, find yourself spending cash you shouldn't be on gambling, unhealthily over eat, or just generally find yourself getting fixated on things, so much so that you simply can't stop yourself from thinking about them?

If so, DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. It is built entirely around time sinks and a irregular drip feeding of rewards to get people hooked on it to the point where people are spending hundreds of hours just grinding away to get a slightly better version of an item they already have, just to be able to do more grinding.

It is fun, it's got great gameplay and lovely art design, inspite of the total lack of real story or acknowledgement of progression in such games in the industry at large, to the point where I could believe it were made by Nintendo's evil twin frankly, but it is one of the most cynically designed, personality flaw exploiting games I have ever seen. It's almost as bad as stuff like Dungeon Master Mobile for it's utter contempt for your free time and wallet.

If you're the kind of person that can sink a good 40 hours in over a few months, get up to level 28+, try everything the game has to offer at least once, and then still go 'yeah, that was fun, time to move on', and just walk away, go for it. It's bloody fun, and you'll likely just regret that it wasn't better but have fond memories.

If not, if you start getting obsessed with the grind, and playing the same levels over, and over, and over just in the vague hope random luck will give you sown thing good, then take it back and get Diablo 3 or something instead. At least then you'd be addicted to something that respects you.
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Amen brother. Amen.
 
Steel said:
Return it if you expect something amazing.
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My co-op GOTY.

So much backlash, but the OT is almost on 13 (and even if you removed all the lfg posts we'd still be at least half that) and there are many, many people who love playing the game despite its glaring flaws.

Bungie nailed the shoot bangs, and the raid (VoG is amazing, CE is good) content is the best FPS co-op content I've played.

Grindy, baffling, frustrating, stunted, convoluted, yet it's so much fun to play despite all of that.

I wish it weren't, The Dark Below expansion is atrociously light on content and fixes hardly any of the issues that many have raised, yet it didn't stop me playing. The shoot bangs and co-op are just that good.

Damn it.
 
Best tip it to play it with friends, without it you'll be soon cynical of the games lack of content and repetative nature like the people here in this thread, even if it does have one of the best shooting mechanics ever.
 
Doomshroom said:
Nah i mean predictable children who got nothing better to do then ignoring OP's question and spewing thier hate in every thread about the game.
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That's an interesting take. I guess nobody has actually had a negative experience while playing Destiny, or if so, they should sit quietly by and never relate their experiences to anyone?
 
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