While Shadowkeep’s New Light experience taught the basics of the controls, it failed to guide players much beyond that.
So they constructed a new player experience in New Light that mimicked Destiny 1, first waking up in Old Russia, going through the wall of the Cosmodrome, and finding a ship to bring the new guardian back to the Tower. The state of the game had moved beyond Ghaul’s conquering of the Traveler, and if Bungie wanted to balance out players jumping right in and joining their friends, they didn’t want to require they complete the whole Red War campaign first.
