First lets start off with the fact that I love this new character screen, where you see what sparrow and ghost shell you have equipped. Last night Shadowkeep launched as well as the New Light experience, and there were a lot of problems. That is not to say that the problems did not resolve themselves eventually. However we were stuck in the weirdest queue that would start at 16,000 jump up to 22,000… back down to 8,000… back up to 22,000 and then eventually at some point let me through.
I say at some point… because I had some real life stuff pull me away from the screen and about an hour later when I got back home I was sitting in game. All told according to Steam I played about 4 hours last night, which involved very little progress in the main story and a lot of faffing about on the moon. Because of the way that Steam tracks time in a game… I am guessing the entire time I was sitting in queue it was counting me as playing because I most definitely feel like I didn’t make 4 hours worth of progress.
The Moon is doing something that I not so secretly hope that we see a lot more of. It is revisiting an area from Destiny 1, expanding upon it and showing us what has happened since we last visited. If I am correct the above screenshot is roughly where we originally zone into the Moon in Destiny 1. I spent a lot of my time roaming around and revisiting destinations from the first game, because I spent an awful lot of time on the moon grinding random stuff, and knew it extremely well.
The only initial annoyance is that you start with effectively all of your gear at 750, and the moon is significantly higher level than that. I managed to get my light up to 770 and this area that I used to farm in Destiny 1 is still showing with all of the mobs having a Skull symbol, which I believe means they are higher light than I am. Everything hits really freaking hard right now so it is going to take some time to get my feet back under me. I am wondering about maybe grinding out some strikes to see if I can get my light level up a bit before doing much more of the sort of thing I really enjoy… wandering aimlessly.
One thing I am noticing on the lunar surface is that I am finding a bunch of chests that look like this that are currently unopenable. I am guessing that something at some point will give us access to these through some sort of a minigame like have existed in other areas. There were so many intricate farms on the Dreadnaught that I am really hoping that this is the sign of those existing here. I remember farming chest keys and then going through the process of tracking down how to find the chests. I’ve taken screenshots of two of these, and they have the same symbols on the front, which I assume will mean something at some point.
The only real frustration that I have is that there appears to be no way to play through that first mission of the New Light experience. It has me contemplating sacrificing my Warlock… which I have done nothing on since before Forsaken… in order to play it through the new starter experience. I am also completely confused about how content unlocks work in this new area of the game. I logged into my PS4 copy and I had access to all of the areas and was flagged for showing that I had access to the seasonal path. However it also prompted me upon logging in to buy Shadowkeep. So I am deeply confused as to if I do or do not have to buy it on multiple platforms. I don’t have much of an opinion yet other than the game as a whole is going to take some adjusting to.
I just bought Shadowkeep so logged in to make sure it “took” and I didn’t have anything else to download.
Turns out the next step is to talk to Halloway who offers you ‘legacy’ content: Red War, Osiris and Warmind. So if you are new and want to play that old content, that’s where you go to do that.
I did sacrifice my Warlock, in fact. First mission has you in the Cosmodrome waking up, same as the start of Destiny 1 as far as I remember that. Then you run into the earth zone and the group content is that first spider-bot that we all remember from those days.
From there you head to the Tower and it is the Destiny 2 tower, at which point the ‘golden path’ has you talk to the gunsmith (who gives you a gun) then Zavala, who gives you two Quests, one is to do a Strike and the other, I believe, was to go talk to Ikora or someone. I chose the Strike (which was hella fun since, based on our ships flying in, we were all brand new characters) and after that it was time for me to quit for the night.