As you travel through Hope County, helping people out, making connections, and taking down members of the Seed family, the inhabitants begin to resist the cult’s oppression. The Resistance Meter indicates how well staffed and organized the growing resistance is.
There are three regions in Hope County: Holland Valley, Whitetail Mountains, and Henbane River. Each region has its own Resistance Meter. You must completely fill the meter for that region to liberate it from cult control. This culminates in a fight against a Seed family member.
There are several ways to earn Resistance Points and raise the Resistance Meter. These include completing missions, rescuing hostages, killing elite cultists, and destroying cult properties.
We discuss completing missions, rescuing hostages, and killing elite cultists in the Missions section of this guide. Some of the cult properties you can destroy include silos, wolf beacons, and shrines. The best way to do this is to use explosives or heavy weapons mounted on vehicles and aircraft. You can also blow up the cult’s Bliss-carrying gas trucks and reaping trucks to put a kink in their plans and give the normal inhabitants a boost of hope.
As the Resistance level rises, the variety of enemies you encounter and their strength increase. You’ll see tougher roadside blockades and better armed and armored enemies, and they start hunting you with planes and heavily armed vehicle convoys. Even though the enemies are tougher, you’ll also see more Resistance members fighting off cultists in different locations. You also unlock better weapons.