Welp, They Finally Broke Our Bud Datto

[u/lukelimbaugh]

He's so right. There's a suit at Bungo that got paid for this decision. More concerned with the next few months of $$ than the next few years of players.

https://youtu.be/mYSdTqwHM-k?si=bVw8T5yD2FZs5Zwj&t=1120

[u/bird_dog0347]

If you care about the story lines, I'd say once you're done with Strand and Lightfall, maybe go back and start the Shadowkeep campaign then Beyond Light campaign (assuming you bought them), then go to the HELM and start the seasonal story from the War Table (by the window) then once you finish all that rotate counter-clockwise around the HELM doing the seasonal stuff for each one to catch up to where we are today. There will still be a ton of the story missing for you from older seasons and the Red War (OG D2) that are gone now.

In the Cosmodrome you can get the New Light quest from Shaw Han and complete that to sorta kinda get an idea of what's going on. Then there's the guardian ranks (journey tab on the character menu) that can show you how to rank those up and what you need to work on if you want to.

[u/[deleted] → u/bird_dog0347]

So what is this game now if there is no story? Did they finally manage to add more than the handful strikes and raids?

[u/bird_dog0347 → u/[deleted]]

Ummmm, I didn't say or imply there is no story... there is in fact a rich deep story, the only problem is that some of it, specifically the beginnings of it have been "vaulted" and you can no longer access them or play them. Seasonal story lines only stick around for at most a year (starting with the most recent DLC launch) but in the case of this season that began this week the story line will disappear with the launch of The Final Shape. You can always go watch the cut scenes on YouTube though to see what you missed.

[u/[deleted] → u/bird_dog0347]

So there is no complete story, so there is no story.