with everything you need to know to start playing Destiny 2.

Use our clickable sections below

to keep track of what step you're on during this tutorial.

Destiny 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer online shooter.

The main objective of this game

is to play through the activities

in order to increase your power level

and collect weapons and armor pieces.

The game will take you through many quests

and missions that span over several planets and moons,

like Earth, Mercury, Io, and more.

Destiny 2 has a wide array of weapons

that you can use to defeat enemies.

These include different rifles, pistols, bows, swords,

rocket launchers, and more.

Every weapon type has their own pros and cons,

and those are all dependent upon a player's preference

and what may work best for their play style.

Destiny 2 has a huge assortment of armor pieces

that you can acquire to make your character, or Guardian,

have the look and skills that you desire.

Some different armor pieces include helmets, gauntlets,

chest pieces, leg armor, and class armor pieces.

Destiny 2 has a ton of customization for how weapons, armor,

and abilities can function by using mods.

They can help provide you with more ammunition,

aid in recoil control,

lower ability-recovery times, and more.

In Destiny 2,

there are a ton of different currencies and materials

that will allow you to purchase weapons, armor,

mods, or other materials

for leveling up certain pieces of armor or weapons.

These various currencies and materials

can be found almost anywhere and will be given to you

for completing almost any activity in the game.

If you are looking for specific materials,

certain planets will have an abundance of a certain material

that you can farm at your own pace.

Having an abundance of materials

only makes it easier to upgrade equipment

when the time is right.

Player versus everyone, or PvE for short,

is when you and your team is playing against AI

and not actual other human players.

These activities consist of story missions;

strikes, which are practically extended missions;

dungeons, which are three-player activities

that involve challenging mechanics to complete;

and raids, which are similar to dungeons mechanic-wise

but practically require six players to complete.

Completing story missions will progress certain quests

and provide a player with more insight

into the lower-end narrative.

Completing strikes, dungeons, and raids

will give you your best opportunity

to acquire weapons and/or armor pieces.

Know that strikes have two other variations

that drastically increase the difficulty

but provide you with greater loot.

These are called a Nightfall

and a Grandmaster Nightfall, respectively,

with the Grandmaster Nightfall

being the most challenging of them all.

Player versus player, or PvP for short,

is when you fight against other actual players

instead of AI to see who is superior.

There are several different game modes

that you can play, like Control,

which is a battle over three capture points;

Elimination, which is a 3v3 heads-up battle;

and Rumble, which is a free-for-all game mode.

There also are game modes that come in and out of rotation

on a week-to-week basis, like Clash,

which is a traditional 6v6 fight

to see which team can defeat more players than the other,

and more.

There is also the competitive-endgame mode

called Trials of Osiris,

which is similar to Elimination

but with a structured system in play.

The goal is to win seven matches in a row

without losing one, in order to receive

some of the best weapons and armor in the game.

If you lose, you can reset your Trials card

and try again as many times as you'd like.

With that being said,

all game modes will provide you with loot no matter what.

Lastly, there is a game mode called Gambit

that is considered to be

player versus player versus everyone.

In this game mode, there are two teams of four,

and you all are competing to collect

these triangular objects called Motes

by defeating AI enemies and storing them.

The first team to store 100 Motes

summons a powerful enemy that they have to defeat.

The team that summons and defeats

their respective powerful enemy first is the winner.

The gimmick is that you can invade the other team's area

and disrupt them by defeating them

and causing them to lose Motes in the process.

Win or lose,

you can acquire some good loot in the process.