How to play the DLC?

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

I bought this on sale, with season pass (nice of them to not include all DLC, lovely job), and I found a terminal on the carrier where I can scroll through a list of the game missions. But when I click on any of them, it makes kind of a "bonk" noise, and the minikit icon at the bottom flashes.
What's going on? Am I looking in the wrong place or something?
I'm at the fight with Loki and his army (end of avengers 1 movie), so I would think I should be able to go back and play the missions I have already played as well, but they do the same thing.

Also, how do I get to the hub area? Every time I start I start in a mission and can only go to the hub after a mission. Do I have to shut the game every time between missions? Because there has been a couple of times where the whole hub hasn't been open to me, like getting onto the runway and stuff, only came open when I got hawkeye back at the start of this mission.

And help appreciated, I'm sure it's something stupid and simple and I just overlooked it or something.

[Christopher Columbus]

To answer the hub question, the main hub area actually is where you are between missions, there's just small things you have to do that make it seem like it's not. Once you beat all the main levels you unlock free play in the hub where you can play as any character etc. OR (I think haven't tested this) you can go to one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. terminals in between the missions and activate free play through that (like I said I'm not sure, that's just what I read on one of the loading screen tips.

To go into past missions you have to be in the main hub and go into the menu and press the "Go To Space" button, which will take you to this game's "level select" screen. Here you can choose the DLC and past levels you have played.

Let me know if this answered or didn't, I'd love to help more!

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Yes that helps, thanks.

It sure was easier and made more sense when they did it in the original lego star wars games. Where you started your save and you were in the cantina, and chose levels by going through whichever door, and you could view all your collectibles there as well.

Having a hub for each mission seems over-complicated to me.
I just got to hawkeye farm and it's just silly, having this huge area with little to do and no reason for it to be there other than filler to make missions seem longer than they really are.
And they don't need to do that as the missions are plenty long enough without those hub sections.
By the time I have finished the hub area to actually unlock the mission I find I have lost interest and end up saving and quitting at the start of the actual mission just because the hub area killed my enthusiasm to play the game.

[Christopher Columbus]

Originally posted by wobbler:

Yes that helps, thanks.

It sure was easier and made more sense when they did it in the original lego star wars games. Where you started your save and you were in the cantina, and chose levels by going through whichever door, and you could view all your collectibles there as well.

Having a hub for each mission seems over-complicated to me.
I just got to hawkeye farm and it's just silly, having this huge area with little to do and no reason for it to be there other than filler to make missions seem longer than they really are.
And they don't need to do that as the missions are plenty long enough without those hub sections.
By the time I have finished the hub area to actually unlock the mission I find I have lost interest and end up saving and quitting at the start of the actual mission just because the hub area killed my enthusiasm to play the game.

I agree that was definitely the worst part of this game, just the different hubs for different missions, but trust me, if you have all the DLC, once you beat the game it's totally worth it!

Also LOVE LEGO Star Wars! First LEGO game I played was LEGO Star Wars 2, which was the bomb, and has led me not only to play more LEGO games but discover different movies to watch (such as Indiana Jones and Harry Potter), if I had never played those games I probably would've never wanted to watch those movies!

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Having played almost all of the lego games since the first lego star wars, I have to say they haven't come close to matching that level of quality of the saga edition.
That was lego gaming at it's peak.
The combat was better, simple but with a nice little timing mechanic to deflect and even reflect blaster bolts with the lightsaber, the stories were better without the dubbed-on movie audio with the actors that sounds like someone recorded it in an alley with a 1980's tape recorder.
Having the characters just make burbling mumbling noises was excellent, because you knew what was going on that was plenty and endeared you to the little lego folk even more.

I have enjoyed most lego games since star wars. But I haven't strictly loved any of them. Not like I did those. Even the clone wars was really good fun.