In a way, Orbit was planned since 2012. (Destiny)

by Beorn , <End of Failed Timeline>, Monday, July 21, 2014, 12:25 (3778 days ago) @ scarab

I am surprised how clumsy some of this stuff is.
For example: when I pick a strike mission the UI says that the difficulty is normal. When I went to change it to hard I saw that my options were level 6 Normal and level 8 normal.
Which normal do I have by default?
When the UI says normal is that 6 normal or 8 normal?
To make sure that I get the harder difficulty I always specifically select 8.
It is possible that the default is 8 and I'm wasting my time, every time?

No, the second one is definitely the harder of the two. You get the Level 6 version by default. The difficulty setting options is one of the most dramatic changes from the Alpha, so I would expect that those UI elements are getting tweaked. I agree that two "Normal" settings are confusing, so I've chalked it up to Beta status. Sometimes the level of polish on this Beta is so remarkable that it's difficult to remember that this is pre-release!