Walkthrough

Note that much of the walkthrough is dedicated to pointing out the location of the Intelligence files that are hidden in the levels. We did miss a few of them in the last four levels, so feel free to use the Feedback link to point out where they are if you happen to find them!

York: Operation Deliverance The Gauntlet

This opening level of Resistance can be somewhat confusing, and we’re not just talking about the storyline introduction. What, the Americans managed to keep secret the fact that mutants were overrunning all of Europe? What did people think, that everyone in Europe and Russia had just gotten really busy and couldn’t telephone them for two years? The soldiers didn’t know what they were going to be facing - didn’t they think it was a little odd to be invading England then?

But whatevs, as the saying goes. No, it’s mostly confusing because you’re not going to be able to heal yourself here, which is initially somewhat offputting. You’ll take damage as you play, obviously - it’s not super easy to fire on the Chimera without doing so. But again, no way to heal yourself. When you die, though, you’ll respawn at the last checkpoint with your health intact and will be able to forge on ahead. So...yeah. You’ll need to die at least once, most likely, but you can die as often as you like without ending your game, so you can afford to be a bit reckless here.

Anyway. You’re going to drop with your squad into a hostile firezone. Take a moment to get used to your controls. For now, all you need to know is that R1 fires, Square reloads, Circle throws a grenade, and Triangle is a melee attack. More commands will be popped up via the help text as you play. Get started killing Chimera, then!

The Bulwark

Get used to using your M5 to fire on Hybrids from a long ways away.

After you move through the city streets for a while, you’ll come to a checkpoint where the Hybrids have barricaded themselves in front of a set of buildings. You can flank them to the left and work behind their defenses, if you wish. Your squadmates will quickly be finished off, so you’ll have to do the bulk of the killing yourself.

As you head into the building here, you’ll see a Hybrid walking up the stairs, but before you follow him, check the ground floor for a box of frags. When you do head upstairs, kill the Hybrids, move across the balcony where the snipers were located before, and kill the other Hybrids there. Before dropping down to the alleyway behind the houses, though, head back downstairs to find the first piece of Intel beside a body. This is the York: Guidelines piece of Intel. Finding Intel doesn’t have much of an immediate effect, but we’re betting that it’ll unlock skills for you later on.

Alleyway

When you face off against two or more Hybrids in open ground, use grenades!

When you’re ready to move on, drop into the alleyway near the dead soldiers. If you head down towards the end of the alley, near the quarantine sign, you can find a couple of M5A2 grenades in a corridor there. Down the opposite end of the alley, though, you’ll find a Bullseye weapon, which is the weapon of choice for the Hybrids. (Guess the other Hybrids that you’ve been facing have simply been disintegrating their weapons as they come along.) It doesn’t have a grenade launcher, but can instead fire tags at enemies, which will then let you fire at them from around corners. Niiiiice.

As you move forward, you’ll come across a few Hybrids that will crouch down next to a bus and fire on you. If you crouch down behind the barriers on the left side of the street and bank a grenade off of the bus back towards their position, you stand a good chance of unlocking the In For A Penny skill. As you head down the street towards the burning piles of rubble, check the left side of the alley for a small courtyard, where you can find the Intel: York: Infection.

Fight your way past the group of Hybrids in the next small yard (this would be a prime time to use a grenade or two) to find a couple more soldiers. Follow them to the end of the level.

A Lone Survivor

You have...changed. You will now regenerate damage that you take, up to one-quarter of your maximum life bar. You’re going to be harrassed by Crawlers on your way to the first checkpoint, but they shouldn’t be too troublesome if you stay mobile and shoot them from a distance. If they jump onto one of your friends, shoot above their heads quickly, or they’ll die.

When you reach the Hybrids that fire on you from atop the building, shoot them until they run off, then pursue them. You’ll apparently automatically obtain the Intel: York: Regeneration as you climb the stairs in pursuit of them. Head into the building at the top of the steps, but before heading up the stairs, check the ground floor to find the Intel: York: Isolationism.

Moving on, you’ll find plenty of Hybrids waiting for you at the top of the building. Tag them and take them down one by one. Keep moving until you drop back down to the street, then hop into the tank there.

Aw Yeah, Baby

It’s almost impossible to lose this driving section of the game.

The tank combat section of the game is almost unloseable, at least on Medium difficulty. You’ve got a tank...your enemies have rifles. Do the math. That’s not entirely true; your foes will have some anti-tank guns scattered in the streets, but they almost always will miss with their first shot. You can switch to the turret with the O button if you need to, but you probably won’t, unless a Hybrid gets so close that you can’t shoot it with the main cannon. When you clear the large archway after the main concentration of Hybrids, you’ll finish the level.

Spires

As soon as the level begins, head left along the building’s helipad, then hang a left down the stairs. Up the next flight of stairs, you’ll find the Intel: York: Landing document, right near the building where you started the level, where the general was screaming at everyone.

With that done, your goal now is to assault and defeat three enemy machinegun nests that are pinning your men inside the bus depot. This is more or less a straightforward fight; the nests are tough to crack, but you can use the buses for cover as you approach them. The area you’re fighting in is essentially a large square, with the bus depot in one corner, the fuel station (with the most well-defended nest) at the opposite corner, and two more lightly defended nests in the other corners. You’ll want to nab one of the lightly-defended nests first, using grenades or by tagging enemies and firing up into the air, then turn its machineguns on any enemies you see before sweeping through the rest of the area.

When the nests are down, you’ll have two counterattacks to deal with. You can stand atop the bus depot if you want a better view of the battlefield; your M5A2 can snipe with decent accuracy if you zoom in (click the right analog stick). Go ahead and use up your grenades to wipe out the Hybrids; these are some tough fights. When the second counterattack is finished, you move on to the next area of the game.

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