Breakpont - What is the best sequence of Missions in the game?

Got into the game yesterday and I am having a blast playing immersive clearing outposts stealthily and getting the weapons and clothing I like, but inbetween these, I was wondering what is the best set of missions in the game that I should follow for enjoyment and some narrative?

  • I know the main story is considered to not be that good, but is it still horrid gameplay-wise? Should I play those or operation Motherland is something more appealing? How do they differentiate between each other in quality terms.

I just don’t want to invest myself in a story that is so crap, feeling like I should’ve been playing the other one.

Also some random additional questions if anybody would like to weight in:

  1. I’ve seen someone mention that turning on Resistance mode will make the game feel way more alive, how will this happen? I know about the random encounters but will they spawn like every second? Every 10mins or so? Once a day in-game? And will they mess up most of my outpost clearings?

  2. What DLC’s are really worth getting? Because I’m loving spending time in this game, the animations and the grounded-ness really do it for me.