Story Missions Out of Order?

[Hera]

So, the game kinda stars off with a cinematic that doesn't explain, why I am risen from the dead or why I am shooting aliens and robots.

After said cut scene, it kinda just introduces you to repeatable activities, but I kinda lost the story missions at that point.

Worse yet, probably a bug, but upon two logins I got two separate random story missions - but not from beginning. One was witch some white haired chick and some dude becoming frozen / crystalizing and the other is getting dropped on a frozen planet to save an alien dude. And its like "pay for this" - but I am like, I don't know what this is.

I mean that's cool and all... cinematic quality is good and in game cut scenes are cool, but do I need to get all DLCs for the game to guide me through the story? Or??

[DeadRabbit]

Scene with the "white haired chick" and "dude becoming frozen" are from the current season, while the frozen planet mission is from Beyond Light.

The Forsaken story goes free to play in December, if you want a more linear experience. Being a New Light is awful rn.

[Hera]

Wait, has the main story been removed?

[Nice]

Originally posted by Hera:

Wait, has the main story been removed?

Yeah , But that Arc isnt the Original Main Arc of the game , It was The Red War , They "Vaulted" it , In other word Remove it , if you want to learn More about Destiny Story i suggest you watch My Name is Byf Video on Destiny Lore

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Hera:

So, the game kinda stars off with a cinematic that doesn't explain, why I am risen from the dead or why I am shooting aliens and robots.

After said cut scene, it kinda just introduces you to repeatable activities, but I kinda lost the story missions at that point.

Worse yet, probably a bug, but upon two logins I got two separate random story missions - but not from beginning. One was witch some white haired chick and some dude becoming frozen / crystalizing and the other is getting dropped on a frozen planet to save an alien dude. And its like "pay for this" - but I am like, I don't know what this is.

I mean that's cool and all... cinematic quality is good and in game cut scenes are cool, but do I need to get all DLCs for the game to guide me through the story? Or??

As for who you are, you're a deathless revenant, chosen by a god-like being who might be an AI, or might actually be a god. Your job is to protect the last remnants of humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXDmX5rJC8E

The intro story mission is the New Light one, which is done in the Cosmodrome area. If you start that, you need to complete it (or it locks some progression).

Each new season has an intro mission. That mission starts automatically. The purpose of the mission is to give you the Seasonal Artifact (which is pretty important for your power level), it also teases the story.

The missions which follow the intro mission are only available to Season Pass holders. FTP player cannot continue those mission chains. For the most part, FTP players only get the basic bounties and basic playlists.

The mission on the frozen world (Europa) is the main Beyond Light campaign. The alien guy is Variks, who's the main quest giver for Europa. Everyone can do his basic bounties. Expansion owners can work with his expanded quest system (called Sabotage) and also with the Exo Stranger (who has more Stasis related quests).

The white haired woman is Mara Sov, the Queen of the Awoken (basically, the queen of the elves). The guy she imprisioned was Osiris ... except, it wasn't REALLY Osiris (who is a major friendly NPC), really it was Savathun, a Hive Queen (of lies), who was pretending to be Osiris to study humanity and guardians more closely.

Mara Sov is incredibly smart and is a long term planner. However, she has the critical flaw of Pride. She pretty much always thinks she's the only adult in the room. She's nominally an ally of humanity and of guardians, but ... she is playing her own game.

Savathun on the other hand pretty much always lies, but despite lying, she tends to treat everyone around her as equals.

S15 is about trying to help Mara Sov, who in turn is trying to help Savathun, but mostly to try to save her people, and disadvantage the Hive. This will end up backfiring on her (which we can tell from the Witch Queen trailers). The odds are pretty good Mara Sov will blame us for whatever happens.

[Optimistic NißßA]

Originally posted by Nice:

Originally posted by Hera:

Wait, has the main story been removed?

if you want to learn More about Destiny Story i suggest you watch My Name is Byf Video on Destiny Lore

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate the fact that thousands new players like Hera are told by veteran players to go
"YouTube" and watch the whole story just to understand what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on.

The story content could've been still here (just like in D1 since it never vaulted any content), but got vaulted away cuz...Reasons. I feel sorry for you Hera & new players.

[Nice]

Originally posted by Optimistic NißßA:

Originally posted by Nice:

if you want to learn More about Destiny Story i suggest you watch My Name is Byf Video on Destiny Lore

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate the fact that thousands new players like Hera are told by veteran players to go
"YouTube" and watch the whole story just to understand what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on.

The story content could've been still here (just like in D1 since it never vaulted any content), but got vaulted away cuz...Reasons. I feel sorry for you Hera & new players.

Originally posted by Optimistic NißßA:

Originally posted by Nice:

if you want to learn More about Destiny Story i suggest you watch My Name is Byf Video on Destiny Lore

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate the fact that thousands new players like Hera are told by veteran players to go
"YouTube" and watch the whole story just to understand what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on.

The story content could've been still here (just like in D1 since it never vaulted any content), but got vaulted away cuz...Reasons. I feel sorry for you Hera & new players.

Yeah I hate it too man , like vaulting content for the sake of memory in your pc are bs , I rather buy new hardrive for the game then losing the content that I paid for, like the whole point of me getting forsaken is the story , just like bungie previous game

[Loganithm]

Yes D2 has two different components of story: yearly expansions (current one, Year 4: Beyond Light) and quarterly seasons (current one, Season 15: Season of the Lost). The frozen moon with saving the bug guy Variks from other bug guys with ice powers is the intro for Beyond Light. The white haired regal lady on the mystical Lord-of-the-Rings-with-big-crystals lookin place is Queen Mara Sov. D2 is free to play but they do encourage players to buy yearly expansions and season passes. You get access to more story content, weapons and armor, and rewards.

Currently Bungie is pushing for the next DLC expansion: Witch Queen, so it's likely Beyond Light (Year 4) and Shadowkeep (Year 3) will be discounted, and Forsaken (Year 2) is probably quite cheap and will be free starting sometime in December.

The original story (Red War, Year 1) was vaulted, and the Forsaken story is soon to be vaulted (in February with the release of Witch Queen), hence why it will be free in a month and a half.

I would experience it a while before buying anything and see how you like it. Watching a couple (short) Destiny lore videos on YouTube may help fill in story gaps.

[Avalanche]

I personally think what they should do is import Destiny 1 into Destiny 2 and update the missions and strikes to be solo friendly, because well, i have been playing Destiny 1 on the PS5 recently and i never get into a group for a strike....tried over 10 times in different times to make sure it wasn't the wrong time for it......there just isn't enough players.

So i suggest they combine the games, the 'new light' experience could be in the Destiny 1 timeline, where you do what you did in Destiny 1, but the story is more....coherent, when it sends you into a strike for the final part of a story arc, it gives a mini-strike version for the sake of the story, minus the loot obviously.

As you go through the content, you unlock more stuff and when you complete the story content of destiny 1, you get this new destination, which is the destiny 2 timeline, where it utilises the red war story.

they can do so much with this, but they just don't do it, not sure why....

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Optimistic NißßA:

Originally posted by Nice:

if you want to learn More about Destiny Story i suggest you watch My Name is Byf Video on Destiny Lore

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate the fact that thousands new players like Hera are told by veteran players to go
"YouTube" and watch the whole story just to understand what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on.

The story content could've been still here (just like in D1 since it never vaulted any content), but got vaulted away cuz...Reasons. I feel sorry for you Hera & new players.

The campaigns were never deep with story in the first place and we'd still need Byf for explanation. The best example is probably the forsaken campaign where most players just accept that Uldren and the barons get out and don't question how the barons are undead fallen or why Uldren can command fallen in the edz, what the loss of cadye means for the vanguard, and most probably don't know about riven unless they've done the lady wish raid and even then don't know that she created the scorn and started the curse.

[Ser Hexenkartothek]

Originally posted by Hera:

So, the game kinda stars off with a cinematic that doesn't explain, why I am risen from the dead or why I am shooting aliens and robots.

After said cut scene, it kinda just introduces you to repeatable activities, but I kinda lost the story missions at that point.

Worse yet, probably a bug, but upon two logins I got two separate random story missions - but not from beginning. One was witch some white haired chick and some dude becoming frozen / crystalizing and the other is getting dropped on a frozen planet to save an alien dude. And its like "pay for this" - but I am like, I don't know what this is.

I mean that's cool and all... cinematic quality is good and in game cut scenes are cool, but do I need to get all DLCs for the game to guide me through the story? Or??

You’re seriously trying to understand the story of a game that has removed years worth of content and story? Of course you won’t get the story, no one who comes in ever will because you’ve missed years of the story and they removed your ability to play it.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Hexenkartothek:

Originally posted by Hera:

So, the game kinda stars off with a cinematic that doesn't explain, why I am risen from the dead or why I am shooting aliens and robots.

After said cut scene, it kinda just introduces you to repeatable activities, but I kinda lost the story missions at that point.

Worse yet, probably a bug, but upon two logins I got two separate random story missions - but not from beginning. One was witch some white haired chick and some dude becoming frozen / crystalizing and the other is getting dropped on a frozen planet to save an alien dude. And its like "pay for this" - but I am like, I don't know what this is.

I mean that's cool and all... cinematic quality is good and in game cut scenes are cool, but do I need to get all DLCs for the game to guide me through the story? Or??

You’re seriously trying to understand the story of a game that has removed years worth of content and story? Of course you won’t get the story, no one who comes in ever will because you’ve missed years of the story and they removed your ability to play it.

And being a sequel to a console exclusive.

[Maxine]

Why they can't make Legend tab downloadable and people you know, can download content they want like with MCC and Warzone?

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Rayz:

Why they can't make Legend tab downloadable and people you know, can download content they want like with MCC and Warzone?

Because the content would still need to be updated to not break in the current version of the game, its not a storage issue or at least its not anymore.

[Maxine]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Originally posted by Rayz:

Why they can't make Legend tab downloadable and people you know, can download content they want like with MCC and Warzone?

Because the content would still need to be updated to not break in the current version of the game, its not a storage issue or at least its not anymore.

I think it's not gonna need that much fixes, at least they should fix if something is game breaking. Don't remember much patches before DCV to this activities.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Rayz:

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Because the content would still need to be updated to not break in the current version of the game, its not a storage issue or at least its not anymore.

I think it's not gonna need that much fixes, at least they should fix if something is game breaking. Don't remember much patches before DCV to this activities.

The game engine was updated when Beyond Light launched and you had to redownload the entire game. That is the biggest reason of why so much was removed because they just didn't have the resources to recode everything and why stuff gets cycled in and out.