Destiny's Community Is Way Nicer Than I Could Have Expected

thegamer.com:

Last week I wrote about my current struggles as a lapsed Destiny player. As someone who hasn’t played for several expansions I’ve been struggling to savour Strikes and other such missions because veteran Guardians rush through them in a matter of minutes. Combat arenas, puzzles, and boss encounters are over before I’ve even had a chance to comprehend them. It’s frustrating, but now I know the community has my back.

I threw that article into ether, not expecting the community to engage with or reach out about my determination to love a game that has so much going for it. Destiny has a content vault, meaning that full campaigns and raids are made unavailable for the entire player base until Bungie decides to put them back into rotation. It’s an inevitable consequence of live-service titles, especially one that continues to grow and evolve like Destiny does. Because of this it has become harder and harder for newcomers to play, and that’s where I come in.

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For the past couple of weeks I’ve been dabbling in the Beyond Light and Witch Queen campaigns while running my daily Vanguard duties to earn experience points and ranks I can exchange for loot and other goodies. I’m yet to reach my maximum Light level, so the consistency of new weapons, armour, and surprises has been more than adequate. Unfortunately all the new Strikes and Dungeons I was seeing melded into a single homogenous mass because I was loading in, sprinting after my fireteam, and just trying to keep up. I was free to kill mobs and revive my squad, but beyond that I felt useless.

I vented my frustration, and instead of being met by the usual deluge of harassment and death threats my emails