Haven’t played since Warmind and I’m trying to understand the story now by going through every expansion in order, but I read about the seasonal content being gone and it seems like I’m about to miss out on a lot of story and cutscenes.
Haven’t played since Warmind and I’m trying to understand the story now by going through every expansion in order, but I read about the seasonal content being gone and it seems like I’m about to miss out on a lot of story and cutscenes.
Yes, best bet is to go on YouTube and watch the cutscenes.
more of the game has been deleted than there is left
It’s honestly crazy and annoying to think that this isn’t even an exaggeration lol
It’s so weird that with the portal they now have a way to keep the old seasonal stuff - but the reclamation “story” is a still vaulted
if anything they coulda made it a solo ops
lorewise im coming to realise the writers can rly do whatever they want, so why not make it so that the vanguard wants to think about fortification of the tower to prevent a maya invasion so they use a simulated version of the tower vendor space, same way shaxx uses simulations for crucible maps for the lost planets/moons
Isn’t that what it was? Data pads in solo ops?
Yes. But no worries brother pretty much 60% or more of the story is gone and no one can understand it without watching a 10+ hour video on YouTube. Its pathetic I know but the small indiestudio is not to blame
You don't play Destiny for the story unless youve been here the whole time.
Even if you've been here the whole time, you still don't play Destiny for that reason 🤣
So why do you play?
You will miss out on a ton but people put a lot more weight onto that than there needs to be (not defending Bungie, just saying it's not as bad as some paint it out to be) - for example, what's happening currently with the Nine and Renegades, it doesn't matter that Osiris was in a coma and Mithrax fixed him up by drinking Nez juice that made him crazy.
It's all pretty contained for the most part.
Yeah, I treat most of the seasonal stuff as what they do with comic books do when someone mentions something and on the panel they will say "See issue #45 of Completely different comic for more info." not to mention most expansions for the most part have someone doing a "As you may know" exposition dump like they did with the Conductor in EoF.
It matters that xivu sacked torobotl, and all the caitl/zavala stuff - since that’s why the imperious exist
But I guess it’s not really that big of a deal
It can probably get reduced to - hive conquered cabal capital - new empress is buddies with sol instead of conquering it
For some seasons that's the case, sure, but then you get seasons like Echoes that end up being hugely important to the next expansion's antagonist. Or Eris becoming a god and gaining a throne world.
I agree that not every season matters, but on the whole I don't think people make too much of it.
You are missing out on the sleeping osiris beauty darkness oolong tea cure
I wish that was a joke
Considering that you missed a whole expansion cycle (Forsaken and it's 'seasons') on top of the entirety of the seasonal model from Shadowkeep until Final Shape, yeah, you're missing a lot that won't be properly explained or given context for and even the built in timeline will barely help because one paragraph summaries alongside it including a cutscene labelled as being introductory to everything, but relies on playing Witch Queen at a minimum to even understand the barest of bare minimums just doesn't cut it for telling the half decade of removed and varyingly important story and context
Yes, a HUGE amount of story is in the deleted seasonal content
Yes, you are missing a lot and like other have said you best bet is to look at YT to catch you to speed.
Not played for 8 years and want to understand the story? Ohhhh boy good luck 😬
With the way the episodes and seasons work even missing just 1 year can leave some pretty big confusing holes in the story lol
Yes, you can watch them all on YouTube. Grab a lot of popcorn.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd4COL1ReBDz9qn5nW02hQ9mIlI9nhij3
Wouldn't worry, I've played them all and watch everything in game. 90% of what anyone talks about sounds like a fanfic as its not in the actually story you see and play haha
Yes. I made a recap document for clanmates and friends you can look through if you want, it's not as comprehensive as YT videos but way quicker:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uWHSGrb8wbjBfDkUWoLeKlNr6d6ttnHL1zAZzrZzu1w/edit?tab=t.0
ngl , playing d2 at the same time as each of its campaigns/seasons were releasing right through the TFS campaign until episodes, was probably the best way to experience the game
if you missed out on that, you'll only get to experience extremely thin slice of magic this game used to have...which is extremely unfortunate
fomo really defined the game in the end i guess
You miss 90% yes.
Yes if you haven't played in a long time there is literally nothing in the game that will help you catch up on wtf is going on in the games story the ONLY way to actually understand the story either if you are brand new or a returning player is literally watching a full story video on YT
honestly you could watch a youtube video and catch up completely... alot of the seasons are kinda like side mission stories about the characters
If you go into the world map, upper right hand corner there’s a timeline showing what happen. Some of the early ones have small cinematics and beginning opening missions to help catch you up.
Whole Lotta story missing, you can watch it on YouTube. If you buy EoF or renegades you'll be "Who TF? When TF? Why TF?" like a lot of story
Do people whine about deleted Fortnite seasons, cutscenes and content the way they do with Destiny?
Fortnite has far less of a story focus, and is free.
Probably best to look for a youtube video. Exp3ct full video to be relatively long.
Youtube
I just gave up trying to understand the lore in this game so it doesn't matter to me.
YouTube is your friend. You would think that Bungie would have some sort of in-game archive of cutscenes or a "what-you-missed" collection to catch people up.
Reading the in-game timeline tells you everything important.
it rly doesnt
I played it all and didn't understand the story nearly as well as this guy . I did shoot all the things and collect most of the things, but... this is the best place for story and lore
https://www.youtube.com/@MynameisByf
or.. just go play the current Star Wars content. You can just have fun and not worry about that sort of "story" lead to you having a lightsaber.
Just find a "story so far" vid from my name is byf and you will understand far better than anyone who just watched the cutscenes.