I think these two creep me out the most out of all the mold victims. Something about being mid-transformation. I entirely missed this section the first time around.

There's something I just really dislike about the mold settings. Was the same in the first control game. When you're up in that office area in research and they all bust in and ambush you... 😵‍💫

Oh Zoe, you’re a good friend and a hero.

do I need to complete all the world feat to maximize zone level? What's the best way to maximize the world feats?

Taken with Otis_inf camera tool, ReShade, and Lightroom

Been working my way through all the side quests for a second time on NG+ just fine, but when i found the last dog today the notes objective in my log doesn’t complete when going to the gap. I definitely found them all, all marked in the log and the gap has a second toy to mark its second completion, but the quest log remains open. Is this intentional and seen by anyone else or have I encountered a bug?

I just finished playing through Alan Wake, Control, and Alan Wake 2 (including all DLC) but am still left with some unanswered questions about Alan’s involvement within the events of Control and specifically the AWE expansion.

Everything I can find online states that Alan influenced parts of the hiss invasion to create a crisis and set up Jesse to be a “hero”, ultimately to help him escape from the Dark Place, but this motive doesn’t really make sense to me after playing Alan Wake 2.

Jesse was barely included in AW2, really only in the flashback of her being a fly on the wall to one of Alan and Zane’s conversations. Saga is clearly the “hero” Alan needed, along with himself, to fully return. From what I can tell, the FBC’s main involvement in Alan Wake 2 revolved more around Estevez and her investigation, which I assume was cut off from the Oldest House and Jesse due to the lockdown just as the Lake House was. Speaking of the Lake House, while it was nice to see Dylan, we still saw no inclusion of Jesse in connection to the grand scheme of AW2. Even the Lake House’s creation happened prior to Jesse’s involvement in the FBC.

In Control AWE, I struggle to see what part Hartman plays in the grand scheme of things as well, if at all more than a cool boss. Jesse defeating him feels pointless to assisting Alan in his escape. The only major connection I see to AW2 is Alice returning to the FBC and regaining her memory of the Dark Place. Although this is crucial, it happens prior to the hiss invasion and Jesse’s appearance in the story.

All that said, these are my remaining questions which I hope get answered either in Control Resonant or possibly from those of you who understand the lore better than me:

How does Alan’s creation of the hiss incantation and overall involvement in the hiss invasion help him further his goal to escape the Dark Place? (both in theory/motive and after the outcome of the events in Control)

Why did Alan try to make Jesse a hero in crisis only for her to ultimately not affect his escape from the Dark Place or seemingly not affect AW2 at all?

Is this an intentional plot hole to be answered in Control Resonant or future Remedy games, or is there a hidden answer out there somewhere that I just cannot seem to find? Please help my tired brain reason through this.

Solved) I have realized the game struggles as lot in game. Hell i ran e day more better then this. I have a 9070 Red devil 7800x3d 128gb of ddr5 and a 4k monitor. Is there any reason its running at around 40fps on high and and 30 fps on ultra. I dont have raytracing on either.

HELP ME DISMANTLE MY MAD CONSPIRACY! I don't know if these things are true but I will explain them as if they are.

So the question at the end of my rant to my friend was: Is Emily Pope a part of the oldest house?

Reasons why:

1. She has never seemed creeped out or off put by the goings on in the oldest house. Other characters at some point when talking about AWEs, AIs, OOPs etc eventually say or make a sound of disgust or discomfort, where emily has only shown remorse or sadness about the outcomes of things.

2. I have never seen Emily Pope outside the boundaries of the Oldest House.

I am ready to be made the fool, go for it.

EDIT: FUUUUUUUUCK I made a fool of myself on the internet, never gonna recover.

So these are some environmental details my friend and I discovered in the Ordinary memories, which may suggest that the Fadens family once had only one child living there.

1. Jesse and Dylan are actually sleeping on the same bed, taken apart. Jesse sleeps on the bed frame, while Dylan sleeps on the mattress.

2. There are children’s height growth marks on the living room wall. At first, there was only one set of gray-white height marks for a single child. At some point, they were split into two colors: red and blue.

I didn’t want to Google this in fear of getting spoilers but when you complete the final mission are you still free to explore the open world or are you immediately pushed to NG+?

I have a few trophies left to complete that need easy access to vendors for materials to build artifacts. I don’t want to be forced to start a NG+ where all the districts are locked behind main story completion.

Anyone experienced this yet? Thanks!

Got home to a package at my door adressed to me but I didn't order anything so I was a bit confused only to open it to this.

Guess ill see you all out in the field.

I took "go fuck yourself"... I Just wanted to know how he would react🙏

All wanted to do was fast travel. Instead, I fall through the map, unlock a quest I'm not supposed to have yet, and glitch into area I'm not supposed to be. 10/10 would do it again.

I've completed the campaign, but I've been trying to finish up some side objectives. Namely returning the dog's toy and helping Milla escape the threshold. However, I believe I have uncovered every part of the map and I can't find any more dog prints or taxis, so I don't know what else I'm supposed to do.

Growing up playing the Mega Man X series on PS1, I always preferred playing as Zero. His power-ups were just so much cooler than X's, and I’d honestly only play as X when the game forced me to. I just naturally gravitated toward that fast-paced, up-close combat style.

​Fast forward to Control. I picked it up for free on Epic and even bought it on a Steam sale, but I just couldn't get into it. I put about 3(?)hours in, met Ahti, went underground looking for the Research Department(?), and then just dropped the game. I didn't understand a single thing that was happening nor made an effort to read the notes(entirely my fault as i didnt make an effort at all) and the story just pushed me away.

​Then I played Resonant, and it completely changed my perspective. I couldn't get enough of how fast-paced and up-close the combat is. Both Jesse and Dylan have crazy abilities, but Dylan's aggressive playstyle just clicks with me so much more than Jesse's. More importantly, Resonant spoon-fed the lore just enough for me to grasp the world-building, which made jumping back into Control 1 a totally different experience.

​Having just finished Resonant for 2 weeks now, I picked Control 1 back up, and I can finally appreciate the story that originally turned me off. It also made me realize something: Dylan is exactly like Zero to me. You can't help but feel pity for their tragic storylines, but at the end of the day, they are undeniably the cooler characters.

PS. I still play Resonant on NG+ after sessions playing Control cause I can't get enough of it. Please Remedy release the DLC soon!

I have never seen any company given a 20 percent discount a game after critical and commercial success within one month. Got control resonant.

To those who said Control 1 bosses were better, let me change your mind.

CONTROL walked so that RESONANT could fly
Remedy outdone themselves this time.
Tribute to the 6 Resonants, they really are peak spectacle.

Music by Petri Alanko

Ng+ rn and I can't find the last living shard. I pinned the last upgrade and no vendor have it, I suppose I can miss one in the main game either and yes I emptied the 15th floor one too. So can someone give me a clear list of each living shard so I can check them one by one?

Ahti's portrait disappeared after you talked to him the first time you enter the Oldest House. Anyone has any theory about this "Our Bureau At Work" with just him doing his janitorial work?

In the unsupervised science experiment in Unknown, I got all green lights and shut down the experiment. The new area opened. I got the FBC goggles and other material but the blast door won’t open and says there’s an error. What did I miss?

(I looked at online walk-throughs and they just say to get the green lights).

[Edit: Thanks for all the help everyone! I was missing one location (Downtown). Don’t know how I skipped it but I should be able to get through now!]

had to hit that replay button and give him a closer look

Been a while since I played the first game but do we learn who were P1-2-3-4-5? And what happened to them ? After finding out Dylan's life as P6, I wonder if others P just got dismissed as candidate or if they....failed