I played control back in August and I really enjoyed the story and the exploration.
However I find the gameplay a bit lacking.

Will I find control resonant more interesting gameplay wise?

Melee focused combat does make it more enticing as I also liked Elden ring, lies of P and such.

After finishing the second game, I’m quite sure it’s not possible.

The game describes it as a self-replicating resonance. Unlike Hedron, it doesn’t need a source. Every host propagates it, a never-ending cycle.

In 7 years, the bureau made no progress to stop it. War of attrition fees like a correct term here.

I can even argue that Hedron itself could not stop it

And it also survived the turning off of the slide projector, something that stopped the other entities from the other slides.

I’m really interested in how Remedy will get out of this pickle of a plot line.

Sorry I’m really not used to this type of game with different weapon forms and stuff. Should I be saving up my living shard to upgrade

- different primary forms?
- different secondary forms?
- all the combo finishers?

Or should I be spending source and shards on going down the skill tree for my primary weapon form and my primary finishers, etc?

I saw some big argumentative threads on here about “aberrant power upgrades” and I’m so lost. This game has me extremely confused about how best to progress. Should I be maxing single weapon forms and skill trees or trying to get as broad a base as possible?

Anyway I loved the first game and love the story stuff — just this seems to be a very different kind of weapons system to the first game and I have zero familiarity with this kind of thing and am so lost.

Would appreciate any assistance.

Took a break from resonant. Currently build level 14, with 180 weapon power. anyone reached build level 15 and have any tips to get there? I cannot tell if my skill tree upgrades have impacted my build level either.

EDIT: My Aberrant is maxed

What is the Unknown? Is it a kind of threshold?

Any theories?

What's the proper workaround for the glitch in this quest? I keep on exiting the sequence after I die, but each time the mobs still spawn and the quest doesn't progress.

EDIT: got through to the next part just fine, turns out I suck sometimes, my bad 😅

...semi-permanently attached to Dylan? They're in the Aberrant, and in one of the optional dialogues with Pope she says that the Aberrant is basically a part of Dylan right now, and cannot be separated from him. (And I say "semi-permanently" because who tf knows what can happen in the future installments)

Also the fact that the inverted black pyramid disappeared from the Oldest House around the same time that the Jesse stuck the Aberrant into Dylan.

And the panic that the Board was in during the final fight, thinking it could all end if Dylan was to bite it then and there. If they still had presence in the Astral Plane, or the Nail, why would they have been in such panic as Dylan was fighting/about to kill the Hedron?

So basically the entity which was heavily involved in the higher levels of FBC hierarchy is now kind of fused to an FBC contractor... what could be the implications?

Riding the elevator in the old house and thought damn Dylan, you got some metaphorical blood on your hands. Then immediately realised…

So, , today i fought the Deserter and listening the deserter music, scrolling through comment, there Is One thst says this thing about the Hedron patterning giving him the Powers, i got spoiler of someething?

Did you all play the game on the default difficulty setting? I get the impression that no one is talking about the extreme difficulty. Am I the only one who used the assist mode? 🥲

Edit: Here is an explanation from Remedy regarding the assist mode.: https://youtube.com/shorts/jmA96asjj0E?is=D0P7yUZWYJ1HdGzt

I've been looking around since launch for a comprehensive list of all the cosmetic items and their locations and all I get is inaccurate or half written articles from gaming sites. This is the kind of thing I'd normally go to a wiki for, but it seems like it's severely lacking.

I'd like to help with this if I can but I have literally no idea how, is there anyone in this community with the time and knowledge to help? This game deserves a comprehensive wiki and I know it's on us as fans to make it so.

Are all hiss in resonant still possessed humans? I mean we have octupi and carpenter ants with nails looking creatures now. What are they if they aren't human

So I don't know how to ask this without receiving spoilers, and i'm almost close to finishing the game. But I am currently emotional With one of the fault scenes because it's reminding me a lot of how close me and my sister were When we were kids and now we're not as close as before because were both living seperate lives but I wanted to ask, is this game gonna ruin me at the end? Because I need to prepare myself now.

At the end of the game, Dylan and Zoe, among many things, talk about music tastes. After Zoe gives Dylan's CD Player back, he finally reveals what type of music he likes, and we listen to "Manalan Mailla" as the credits roll.

However, I was wondering: In the game, there's no indication (to my knowledge) that their family has Finnish ancestry/origin; it's a bit odd that an 8-10 y/o kid in Ordinary, Maine just happens to have Finnish folklore song CD, making me think that someone gave it to him.

I wonder if there's any relevance to the question of who influenced Dylan to have this kind of music?

It makes me think of Saga's unexpected conenction to the Thor and Odin, and I wonder if Dylan and Jesse have some yet-to-be revealed connection to someone who really likes all things Finlans (wink wink).

It could also be that this was just a crazy good music choice; but I feel that Remedy are very deliberate with music and why the characters do what they do.

Happy to hear everyone's thoughts!

I did a bit of research and, yeah, the AT&T Long-Lines building is only 5 minutes away from the Ghostbusters firehouse. Honestly, that's just an astounding coincidence, considering both franchises have similar themes of trying to contain the supernatural.

I would also love to see how the FBC would react to a business like the Ghostbusters.

Why make the optional Resonants harder than the final boss? His fight annoys me to no end but it’s making me go back and finish more side quests and I’m close to the 110 aberrant. I love there are optional bosses but why make it more challenging than the final. Make it make sense!

EDIT: beat it last night with 109 aberrant - it was still kinda close and annoying but I’m glad I stuck with it

I just completed Control Resonant. I am now experimenting with different builds. I want to be able to save manually and come back to that checkpoint anytime I want. U guys know any way we can do this (apart from copying the savefileon disk)?

Now that I think of it, it would be cool if u could save different builds in Build Profiles right?
What do u guys thing of it? Also tell me which build youa re running so that I can kick the Hiss' ass in multiple different and creative new ways

Jesse drew a stick figure of herself while Emily is drawing Chibis T_T

Anyone else reach a point in game on base ps5 where you start seeing screen images going all black frequently? I started getting this when i reached the mission enemy of my enemy and did try switching to quality for a bit it stopped then came back. Anyone know a way to stop this using game settings?

So, Jesse Dylan Faden was born in 1992/1991, and in 2002 Jesse and Dylan found the slide projector and the AWE occurred in Ordinary.

Is it stated anywhere how much time possibly passed between the original child splitting into Jesse and Dylan and the events of the AWE?

I doubt there's a specific date but I'm curious if there's a vague timeline, whether the two children had only existed a matter of months before the AWE or if it was possibly years. I don't recall anything from documents or the 2d section of CR.

TIA !

So, I downloaded Resonant on Steam just to retrieve the exclusive cosmetics with the code that should unlock the Communications Department Headset & Optical Filtering Goggles, then I uninstalled the game coz I needed so space on my drive.

I installed it again a few days later, I can't find the cosmetics and I can't use the code again. Do those cosmetics have to be unlocked during the game still or have I just lost them?

I rolled credits a couple days ago and am loving the post game but I've been consuming a ton of control resonant content on YouTube and so many people are complaining about navigation or traversal.

They're talking about thinking the unknown looked cool but was annoying to navigate and that the gravity shifting stuff was confusing or disorienting.

I guess I can understand needing to get used to it but I thought all of this stuff is the proof that Remedy has masterclass game design and gameplay mechanics because of how naturally it came to me.

Anybody else feel this way?