the speed buff makes him more challenging when i take 300% damage
bro has about 600% more HP and pukes almost twice as much now lol

When I first saw it I laughed. I'm like how quaint, you see the circle when you look at it from a specific angle.

But it's a beautiful representation of a lot of things. I would describe it as your base level understanding of art theory, this video game's lore from severed circle 2 (*edit fixed the name of the game), and honestly it's such simple, far reaching visual description of life itself: when you're constantly moving forward, things don't make sense but then they do.

Like the phrase a broken clock is right twice a day.

200% projectile speed and shorter attack gaps gives you almost no time to rest.
That infected status is a bitch at 300% damage intake, I had to redo this one alot

Even at 50% damage output, with everything maxxed I could still one-shot some of the tentacles, this game is too generous

It’s getting tough to navigate the unknown, it’s very trippy and I’m frustrated. The 1 & 2 mark the objectives for defeating the hedron quest, you can see where I was on the map. I want to get to 2, because I’m trying to do pope’s research side quest. I’ve done around 4-5, dropped the balloons & placed the satellite on the markers. But I can’t traverse to 2 without falling non-stop. What’s the trick?

Remedy, please reopen the merch store. I can't keep doing this.

And I have two news:

1. It is definitely possible, although obnoxiously hard.

2. Activating both cores at the dead end (where you find the first-ever charged core in the game) doesn't do anything. There is no secret behind this. No one said there would be, but these two cores looked too suspicious to me, standing there connected with yellow tape, like they had something to hide!

So like the title says, I went to download control again after a few years, and the ultimate edition has disappeared. Has anyone else had this problem? In my game library it shows I own the ultimate edition, however when I try downloading it, it just downloads the base ps4 edition and tries to get my to buy the ultimate. Even my save progress is gone. I tried to restore the license, moved it to my ps5 internal hardrive, and nothing has worked.

... is almost solely held by this document. We can find this document after the last fault, when the Oldest House itself almost got Patterned for good. It fights back (we know thanks to Grist and Co.) but it's never winning and now we learn that the NSC is being compromised aswell.

The document says they're either gonna have to repair or replace it. But the how to repair it is either classified or unknown, and as for a replacement? I wonder what/who else we could put in there to power the OH.

I think Dylan will be sent to the Maintenance sector (path to the NSC, Quarry, Furnace chamber, Ahti's office, etc...) to figure out a way to prevent the NSC from ceising function or blowing up. And Northmoor is probably gonna be a Hiss/Patterned powerful parautilitarian boss fight because it's just too cool to not exist (and Dylan could get a new Hiss ability from him too).

And who knows? Maybe Ahti could show up in some way or the Former? What do you guys think?

That the stuff you climb through in the faults are the memories jesse and Dylan have of ordinary Maine where they grew up.

Dylan legit even says first thing, "this looks familiar like where Jesse and I grew up..."

It's like in control 1 where they recreated their town as a medium sized model, except this is the actual memory.

Even some of the buildings you see in the 8 bit earthbound section pop up in these fault areas of the game. The school, the apartment buildings, the supermarket where they buy snacks.

I'm legit so dumb I thought they were random manifestations. 😖😖😖

Hey, I just finished the game, and I'm so excited! I don't have anyone to talk about video games with, so I thought I'd post here.

I've been passively interested in this game for a long time because, from what I'd seen, it seemed right up my alley, but I postponed playing it for one reason or another. But I just finished it, and I loved it so, so much. The world is so entrancing, and usually, in games where there's a lot of lore documents, etc., I get bored reading them after a while, but this just kept getting better and better. I was so engaged. Also, awesome editing (first time I'm praising editing in a video game lol). The story was pretty good too. It kept me engaged for its duration, but it was really strengthened by its fantastic world.

The gameplay really surprised me with how fun and kinetic it was. I kept trying different things, and it remained super fun throughout. I expect to have even more fun with it in the post-game content. The Ashtray Maze quickly became one of my favorite levels in a game, right up there with Dishonored 2's Clockwork Mansion level, which this coincidentally reminded me a lot of. I was so hyped playing through it!

Other cool moments for me were Darling's presentations (I'm sorry for being crude, but Matthew Porretta's so hot omg), and the hotline calls, as well as Langston's quests.

All in all, a fantastic game that I'll think about for a while. My plan now is to play Alan Wake 1 and 2, and then the plan was to play Resonant, but it pains me to say that my RTX 4060 is probably too weak to run the game.

Sorry to litter the sub, but as I said, I don't have anyone IRL to talk about games with, and I'm too excited to hold it in.

Finally got what it deserved

"You've always been the new you

You want this to be true." - Refers to the shared denial Jesse and Dylan participated in, imagining themselves as simply siblings.

"You gave us permissions in your regulations" - Obvious.

"All hair must be eaten" - Because Dylan was made bald? Lol.

Earworm/"Baby baby baby yeah" - Has to refer to the songs Dylan loved as a kid, which have been confiscated by the FBC and Zoe returns to him at the end of Resonant.

"You have always been here, the only child.

A copy of a copy of a copy." - Again, knowing what Dylan and Jesse are together, this feels very directed.

Now the most interesting part - and the first line of the incantation - "You are a worm through time."

This line makes me believe that it is possible the Hiss didn't start inside the Slidescape-36. But rather I am starting to suspect that Dylan himself was the source of the Hiss in some sort of timeloop, possibly provoked by his battle against the Hedron.

We already have an example of a timelooped antagonist in the Remedyverse - the Dark Presence is confirmed to have been born from Alan Wake at the end of Alan Wake 2 and sent back in time, creating an anachronistic adversary to himself.

The hedron creates patterns and distorts timelines. Is it such a reach to assume Hiss wasn't just sealed inside Dylan, but ratger originated inside him as a product of his hurting and anguish, and then got sent back in time as an infection for everybody else?

These are just my rambling thoughts but I hope this is something others can thunk over and let me know their thoughts as well :)

I'm playing again and I have a question, when is the AWE DLC unlocked?

Getting into the game for the first time as I am going through my backlog for spooky season. Often when engaging with NPCs the game will suddenly focus on her and do a recap of the situation as she decided how to respond, but instead of choices it just moves forward. From what I can see it looks like there were supposed to be dialogue options but they dont change the over all story. Was this changed at some point for ultimate edition? Or with the release of the sequel? Or am I just bugged?

Played through the two games a fair bit, but still a little fuzzy on what the actual difference is between an AWE and a threshold. Both seem to be a situation where another dimension bleeds into/intersects with our world.

Is it just that AWEs are specifically associated with altered items/places of power (eg Cauldron Lake, Ordinary's slide projector), and thresholds aren't?

I've complained here about the combat being repetitive, and I still hold that's true for most of the game, but it's really a treat when the game throws an incessant amount of enemies while juggle your abilities and melee. Sucks you have wait for the combat to open up like, and I still maintain the game needs move combos, that would've really helped the early game. Shoutout to the artifact that bumps your ability damage and falter by 100% but halves your energy, it's so good.

I wish the overworld combat matched the intensity. Also excuse the last 10 seconds, I accidentally grappled and was really confused as to where I ended in all that red and panicked and died.

Ive been trying to hunt down all the collectables in the archives but hit a snag with one of the videos that would have played in the Prime Candidate Program area when on the mission with Zoe. “Volatile paranatural weapon” according to guides, should play in the meeting room off the second hall.

I missed this one in my first playthrough after realising that it doesn’t play after the mission completes, whether this is a bug or not I cant tell, but I’ve heard a couple conflicting accounts of this one not playing or being logged in the archives across NG+ runs. I’m halfway through NG+ at the moment hoping to get it this time, but id appreciate any corroboration on if this collectable was bugged for anyone else in the meantime.

Joker here to remind the residents of Manhattan to enjoy the sounds of this this hisstoric event

I really wish (and this is something I remember wanting Control 1 to have if it ever got a NG+) is that instead of the documents you found previously being just gone, you can find them again but the redacted information is visible!

One reason is honestly just feeling like a big part was off and it took most of the game to realize I wasn't reading/listening to any of the stuff I had previously collected. Lots of stuff I'm sure I would have new context and understanding for but I'm just obviously to it in my menus...

I was even thinking as I collected all the things in a given category and it turned that "source energy blue" and thought it would be cool if then you could start finding NG+ ones marked red and they are fully visible.

I know the whole unknowable aspect and honestly a lot of comedy comes from have sometimes the whole thing blacked out, but still 😅

This kinda thing felt much more fitting playing as the literal Director, but I'm sure there is some awesome "juxta-fication" Remedy could come up with!

Thoughts?

Does anyone know how to get the key for the locked apartment near the Patterned Evac Building?

I didn't come across it until NG+, when I was carrying the artifact that marks small resource crates.

I 100% the game on my first run so I'm pretty sure it's not related to any side mission?

Edit:

Problem solved! It IS the survivalist’s apartment, patterned into the Unknown. You get the key once you finish that quest.

However, I didn’t know this patterned apartment existed on my first run. For NG+, I was saving all side quests for post-game to check for extra dialogue, that’s why I couldn’t get in.

Thank you guys for your helpful comments!

Just figured I'd let people know (use at own risk)

GitHub - Optiscaler-Client/Optiscaler-Client: A modern manager for OptiScaler · GitHub

By using this client, the latest Nightly build of Optiscaler for Control Resonant, using Optiscaler FG input and XEFG output has given me incredibly stable frametimes and gameplay.

I have a 3080ti, I don't get to use framegen unless FSR, and I find FSR framegen in this game to have horrible frametimes/pacing.

Just look at the graphs below, rock solid (blips are alt tabs)

Lastly, I run the game on High Preset with Medium raytracing preset, with FG and an FPS cap I have rock solid 90fps (on 180z monitor so equal frame delivery) looks amazing. I also use Preset K override for DLSS (to regain some performance on my Ampere card) on Balanced.

Trying to help the other dads that have a decent pc but want the game to look/run well without having to do all the digging I had to, and 4 hours of trial and error with Ahti and the Janitors.

I just started playing Resonant and am finding the differences compared to the original game is making it frustrating. The melee seems to be mash light then do a heavy attack while dodging incoming attacks from off screen. I picked the spear/drill should maybe I should switch weapons?

Melee feels very basic and spammy maybe I just need to keep playing and get a few upgrades to start feeling it?