Power weapons are stronger weapons with rarer ammo. Energy weapons do significantly increased damage to shields, and slightly less damage to enemies without shields. Weapons (This is the worst one for not having an explanation): Kinetic weapons do standard damage to everything. The white part of the health bar shows how much shield is left. Red bar enemies are normal, orange bar enemies are tougher and yellow bar enemies are bosses. Health bar colours denote how strong an enemy is. You have to be level 20 to actually get the rewards from factions, so don’t worry about turning those tokens in for now. When you turn in enough tokens, you get an engram. There are tokens for each planet, and tokens for some characters in the Farm. Tokens are for increasing your reputation with different factions. Here’s a quick breakdown of what you mentioned in your post:Ĭurrencies: Glimmer is money. Destiny 2 does a good job of teaching you about equipping gear and starting missions in the open world, but it leaves out alot of the gameplay basics. It’s possible that you didn’t see these if you played on your sister’s account, since they might not appear after the first time they activate on that account. I think the most you get is some popup text in the opening mission. So while I spend my time looking all this stuff up, was I just given a quicker intro/all the UI help turned off because my sister had a main character and the game knew it was just a second character? Or is this just how the game starts? I still don’t understand what any of these currencies I keep getting are, I don’t know what the different life-bar colours mean, and the three weapon classes (normal, energy, power) weren’t explained at all (I don’t know why sometimes one is better than the other). The closest thing to a tutorial that occurred was at the start of the next mission, the woman on the radio was impatient with me slowly figuring out the UI and told me to crawl under a car. I even got stuck in the turbine room because I didn’t understand how the jump worked (I wish it told me the Warlock default jump had a glide-like double-jump to it). I actually had to look up whatever “Super charge” meant by the time I got through the next mission to get the Light back. Admittedly I don’t play first person shooters often so there were some genre hurdles to get past, but I feel like I played through what must be the tutorial to this game and at no point were the UI or controls explained.

Having just played for about 2 hours, it was a real struggle to understand what to do in it. She set it up for me so I could just create a new character. This is going to sound remarkably stupid but… does this game have a tutorial? My sister has been playing the game and allowed me to try it tonight while she slept.

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