Cool beans! I love Destiny. I think the feel of the gunplay is just about perfect. As for the content, the Taken King DLC informs the whole package whether you have it or not but it basically amounts to a second story campaign. Bungie introduced a lot of quality of life updates then as well, like being able to carry more bounties and turn them in as soon as you finished them (you used to have to return to the person who gave it to you and that was so much bother) and also the quest system. So though you're playing the content from the original Destiny right now, you're reaping some of those benefits from the Taken King. Are you playing on the Xbox One?
Going to orbit might be just disguising a load screen but I love how everything in the game stays "in narrative." It's not like Call of Duty, for instance, where you just pick separate modes from a menu. There's even a narrative explanation for PvP and I think that's really cool.
