Board Thread:Questions and Answers Forum/@comment-25389281-20140905205331/@comment-24370326-20140911153106

I had some issues with the vanguard pack not downloading. I purchased the full guardian edition from the PS store, but I believe it only auto-downloads the game and the update. Apparently, the vanguard pack is only install when the game is already installed and playable. For the pre-order folks, i think this caused a hiccup in that the vaguard pack would not correctly install. I think... anyhoo... this is what I heard and wound up doing to get it right:

here's the workaround and I'm going off of memory, so please forgive me: you want to manually access the DLC by highlighting destiny on your homepage and when it loads the news blocks and all that other stuff, go down to "related items" and make sure all of those have been downloaded and installed. Launch the game and head to the tower. I thought you'd get all this stuff automatically in your inventory... nope! The DLC may be installed, but you still have to actually acquire the items from various "spots" in the tower, such as the postmaster, special orders, and the vanguard quartermaster (near the shipwright).

Although the ship skin, emblems, ghost skin, etc are available right off the bat, the vanguard items are only available for PURCHASE and you'll have to be level 5 to get them. Honestly, they are mediocre at best, especially by the time you get to level 5.

So, if you still don't have the items available for some reason, there are other things to do, in various combinations and not necessarily in any particular order: Close/Relaunch game ... Standby/Wakeup PS4 ... Shut Down / Turn on PS4 and also resetting your licenses - this is done from the PS menu system under settings>PSN>reset licenses. I say "various combinations and no particular order" because you might have to close the game, reset licenses and then relaunch game to solve the issue. Or you might have to shut it completely down after resetting your licenses and then doing it again after you reboot and before you launch the game.... etc. People had mixed methods of solving the issue.

I did it a number of ways before I realized the items still had to be acquired from the locations in the tower.

Hope this helps.