Welcome to the fictional county of Hope County, Montana. A land full of expansive plains, luscious forests, panoramic mountainsides, and home of the lunatic cult of Edensgate. The county is divided to three regions, each managed by a Seed family member. To help ease up their influence in their respective regions, you have to help the local resistance forces and leaders by methodically completing missions, liberating outposts, sabotaging various cult locations/ operations, rescuing prominent individuals like Specialists, and many more.
While the region is under Heavy influence of the cult, almost nowhere is safe, especially the main roads and the skies. As the cult’s grip on the land becomes weaker, the roads and skies will become a lot of safer, and more friendly (yet armed) faces will actively fight off cultist stragglers.
The game gives players the freedom to explore the land at their own pace but it’s recommended to start off with the “easiest” region, Holland Valley (John’s Region). Here, you’ll get access to easy outposts, missions, Prepper stashes, and very useful Specialists. These will also give you the much needed boost to unlock perks as well as buy/customize new weapons and vehicles that you can use to take on the tougher cultists you’ll face ahead.
Key locations in the game such as outposts usually contain printed maps of the surrounding area. Certain locations like residences, farms, or lodges may contain magazines that can reveal new Hunting or fishing spots. Picking up the maps and magazines once will permanently mark all nearby locations on your map (and clear the fog) or new undiscovered hunting/fishing grounds. You can sell these items later as scraps for extra cash.
Don’t let the sweet words and empty promises of the cult deceive you. Take back the land for its people!