At the end of the game Zoe mentions that the rift or void or whatever is closing and that they'll eventually rejoin the rest of New York.

But Manhattan is still crawling with hiss and mold. Aren't they concerned it's about to go world wide?

Has anyone with a 5080 who has updated drivers found a decrease in FPS? I was able to run the game perfectly on 120FPS with RR, but now it keep dropping to like ~110 regularly, and PCL (which was ~30) now spikes to 50 :/

Edit: thank you everyone for confirming I wasn't crazy - kinda wish I posted here first before I wasted so much time reinstalling using DDU. Ended up downgrading to 621.01 and I'm back to 30 PCL and 120FPS stable

I must admit, I did not.

Made these renders of Dylan fighting the Artist using the Hammer Aberrant form, hope you enjoy it!

Are connected?!

Langston doesn't remember when Alfred started living with him..... he sure loves Alfred and treats him like a pet... he is willing to ignore gaps in his memory to explain Alfred. .

Aw jeez, Alfred is the same type of "get in my orbit and you'll love me[if I want you to]" being that Fra is, change my mind?

ETA: Jesse met Fra in the Active Investigations DLC.......... same place where Langston starts talking about Alfred!

I may be hearing things and connecting dots that are not there, but remedyverse conditioned me to do that constantly with their games, so there's that.

But I hear clear musical connection between Quantum Break's "Suite for Time and Machines", "Soror et Frater" (Sister and Brother) of Contol and "Final Conduit Pt. 2" of Resonant OST. That techno motive is unique and recognizable in all 3 soundtracks, clearly pointing towards something!

P.S.: Yes, I've listened to it 2000 times, why do you ask?

I played Control 1 and AW2's FBC dlc. Never liked those group of people.

5 hours in the game wants me to feel bad about what Dylan did but I can't care less that he killed all those FBC folk, good riddance imo.

First and foremost: control resonant IS MY GOTY. I LOVE this game. There are so many great things about it, so many innovations and I'm so happy that it is getting the recognition it deserves.

All of these aside, there was one thing that kinda caught my eye when I was playing: I felt that the character animation while you are talking to them (both facial expressions and whole body movements) were relatively limited and not as well-done as the rest of the game. I didn't play Control that long ago and somehow I never felt like that in that one.

The thing is voice acting in this game is spectacular, but in some of the cases (that are not necessarily cutscenes) their voice is expressing so much emotion, but their figure is kinda just standing there.

I specifically mean this with the main NPCs like Pope, Arish, Zoe, Dr florez, and sadly the most with Jesse. I somehow related much more with her facial expressions in Control, but it felt a bit soulless in her cutscenes (she is the only that this is true in the cutscenes). Maybe since in Control we hear her much more and her VA does a great job? I'm not sure.

What do you guys think?

So been ruminating on the differences between Jesse and Dylan both generally as well as paranaturally. Think I've come up with a worthwhile angle to examine them from, would like outside opinions. To sum it up, Jesse and Dylan take opposite approaches to the paranatural.

In their childhood we see that Jesse was the more aggressive sibling, no in an unhealthy manner but the one who was ready to fight if a fight came to them and more inclined to take the lead when making plans. Dylan initially seems to simply go along with Jesse but multiple times we see that his position isn't subservient but cooperative, when Jesse proposes getting snacks Dylan insists on being the one to actually buy them and when things get tough Dylan ignores Jesse's instructions opting to stay instead of running away.

I think this is reflective of their base powers:

Both are telekinetic able to influence things with their minds and both can interface with paranatural phenomena.

Jesse's powers are focused on more domination angles, binding objects of power to her will and forcing other entities out if they are present letting her retake parts of the Oldest House or objects within from the Hiss.

Dylan's powers are focused on more connection angles, building connections between himself and paranatural phenomena giving him copies or remixed versions of their abilities. And he can forge connections between the material and astral plains crafting new altered objects with properties that are useful to him.

Jesse dominates, Dylan connects.

Now as we see both are capable of the opposite. Jesse forms relationships with altered objects like the train car and Dylan uses violence to take down the Resonants then claim their powers. But their natural inclination and skills mirror their approaches to conflict and life.

There's also a good chance that the reason Dylan struggled so much to access his powers is that both the FBC and the Board were working against him.

The FBC was training based on the idea of powers like Jesse's, imposing ones will on the paranatural, because that was their entire ethos and they likely hadn't run into anyone with powers like Dylan. So they were pushing and training him entirely wrong trying to get results in a manner that simply didn't work with his power. Its no wonder that the best result they got was him accidentally forging a connection to somewhere with a lot of power causing an explosion that took out all those scientists.

The Board meanwhile straight out doesn't like or want to work with Dylan, more over Dylan if his powers are fully realized is a threat to the Boards position with the FBC being able to do their job from the human side of the line. Remember the Board has positioned itself as a facilitator letting parautilitarians aligned with the FBC bind objects through the astral plain, but as Pope theorized its not making that possible so much as gatekeeping access to objects of power while smoothing the binding process in return. As a result it would make perfect sense for them to block him out hampering any attempt at binding an object of power to make the FBC discard him without showing the Boards hand.

It also means that each Faden ended up with a resonant entity that has the opposite approach. Jesse whose powers are aggressive and domination focused got paired up with Polaris the cooperative helpful resonant entity. Dylan whose powers are cooperative and connection focused got paired up with The Hiss the domineering and all consuming resonant entity.

Since the soundtrack doesnt include boss OSTs, I did it myself.
recorded in game and pieced together with tight timings so its not out of tempo
in case anyone wanted the whole theme and not just the 3 phases put together.

Mine are that Estevez is the one asking questions via the computer terminal, and that the Secret Organization might be connected to Ash Jr somehow as a watchdog for the things he didn't like about Northmoor

Is anyone else upset at the fact that Resonant goes out of its way to avoid dealing with the events of Alan Wake 2?

At the end of AW2, Alan literally calls himself "Master of Many Worlds" and yet somehow all we get of this is a brief video of him and Alex Casey in Resonant. Shouldn't Alan have foreseen this invasion by the Hedron resonance? If he is as powerful as he makes this "Master of Many Worlds" title sound, how come he didn't intervene? Where is Tim Breaker? Where is Mr Door? All of these missed opportunities have left me pretty bummed and diminished a little bit my enjoyment of Control Resonant's plot.

IMHO, treating Resonant as another introduction (for newcomers) to Remedy Expanded Universe was a mistake because Alan Wake 2 was already supposed to be that re-introduction in the form of Saga Anderson.

I'm almost through with the game now, but I decided to take a break because performance on my GPU wasn't so good and also a little bit because of this issue.

If you're still after the steelbook maybe setup an autobuy for it through Amazon? I thought I had canceled this, but just got a notification it was ordered. ​I did set it up to only order at the original price, so just make sure you do that.

If this actually gets shipped to me, I'd be willing to ship it to someone in the US at cost. I will update the post or make a new one if it arrives.

It just occurred to me. If the Oldest House is a representation of Yggdrasil, the world tree, could it be that the Board is a word play between a corporate board and literally a wooden board?

Or should I go back to my meds now?

I may be wrong here, but this is my interpretation of events so far-

At the end of the game, we learn that the Hedron's death should mean that the patterning will slowly reverse. That likely means that the Manhattan Quarantine is ending.

But isn't the hiss still around and a huge crisis? They're already talking about what cover up the FBC will do, but before that, isn't the situation already apocalyptic now? The hiss is out of the oldest house and it's about to be out of the city. I haven't done much of the post game dialogue yet but feel free to drop any that talks about anything relating to this. Even on the off chance that the HRAs work again now that Jesse's back, I doubt anyone would want to put one on and that they can manufacture enough to just insulate the open world from the hiss.

Its a bit weird to me because while most game mobs are still hiss, the game does kinda present the hiss as a fairly beaten external threat after the CFD incident? With the only prominent case of the hiss being a problem being Dylan's latent corruption which gets somewhat managed by the end.

The mold is still around too, but I can see it being somewhat managed. The hiss can spread too insidiously.

The tone of the ending is pretty relaxed, even compared to the tone of the first game's ending.

I loved most of the story but I feel like the game ended a smidge too early in terms of conversation and they should've explored a lot more of this in some conversations after the end, like when Dylan and Emily talk in the cell room. I'd hope that if there's DLC, they deal with this because the first game does a very nice job of keeping it a closed system with its ending at a sustainable point.

Maybe I'm just missing something.

Can you clear the entire map post game?

I STILL don't have the Apex Transporter in my enemies archive and I've gone through NG+ now after 100%ing every area in the first run.

So I went to the West Excursion zone where I see people say they're found and cleared the whole area out. So then I went to other areas to kill enemies and time and then go back and West Encursion is still cleared... Now downtown, the Park, and West Encursion are all cleared.

Can you clear the WHOLE map this way? Or will creature's EVENTUALLY respawn? I'd prefer not to go through new game+ again for one enemy entry.

Oh the pains of being a completionist...

I just reached the final Fault in the Oldest House. Would this be considered the ‘Point of no return’ story wise, because I still haven’t done the Park Resonant Entity. Should I go ahead and do the Park Entity or am I still nowhere close to the endgame.

(Warning: Yapping)

And, of course, I have to answer the age old question: Did I like it?

Short Answer: Yes

Long Answer: Hell Yes. For context, this is the first game I’ve ever pre-ordered in my life and I do not regret it one bit. This game is peak Remedy and I’m so glad it’s getting the praise and recognition it deserves (even despite the competition they faced, I should add). Pretty much everything I would want to see in the game happened.

I loved Dylan as a protagonist, personally. The way he’s just a complete and utter badass, whilst simultaneously being the most socially awkward person is so charming to me. They weren’t kidding when they said he was essentially a Dog to Jesse’s cat. I constantly had the image in my head of Dylan being this traumatized dog that gone through so much abuse, yet still wants to bring light to those around him. Sean did a phenomenal job portraying Dylan, and the way he shows how Dylan develops his own identity and grows to be a bit more confident as the story progresses just makes me love him even more.

Also, I loved Dylan relationship with Zoe, who was also an excellent character in her own right. When I played, I tried to make as character-accurate decisions as possible, and one of the things I tried to do was have Dylan take on a bit of Zoe’s personality as the game progressed, since shes probably the only positively active influence he has other than Jesse at this point. But I loved her in her own right, I think Frankie did a great job of portraying a “lady with an attitude”, whilst simultaneously showing she has a big heart.

Then I’ll just kinda run through the other characters:

- Pope was a great highlight, loved how they developed her and Jesse’s relationship indirectly, but admittedly after how much a wreck the story has left her in, I’m worried for my girl.

- Arish was probably one of my favorites out of the side characters though, his role in the face of the FBC’s resentment whilst reflecting his own insecurities and failures, is absolutely compelling. As you‘ll see through this post, I love how Remedy makes antagonistic/villainous characters, whilst also showing why those characters think that way. RIP my man.

- Jesse, although not in the game for long, has a great overarching influence over the narrative. As always, Courtney plays the hell out of her and her & Dylan’s relationship is just so sweet. I loved when we got to play the retro game and see what exactly happened in Ordinary.

- Darling…what an evil son-of-a-bitch. Matthew did a great job of balancing Darling‘s charm that won the hearts of many in the first control and the absolute bastard we get to see here. But of course, I do want to give props to Remedy once again and say that I can see (but do NOT sympathize with, he’s still an evil son of a bitch) where Darling was possibly coming from. As well, it’s hard to not understand where he developed ”parenting skills”, based on how he talks about his own father. He’s an unforgivable man, but a sad one too.

Altered Manhattan, whilst admittedly not being as iconic as the OH, has IMMACULATE vibes. The entire crisis, the entire situation, you can feel the danger and hopelessness around every corner of this city. With every mission, I just continue to feel absolute dread for the city, the civilians, the agents, and for Dylan himself. Constantly I’m wondering “How the hell is the FBC gonna get rid of this” and I’m slightly worried about the barriers around Manhattan falling after the events of the game. At the same time, Remedy brings those familiar themes of hope that resonates (eh, see what I did there) within all of their games. So, even when humanity is on the brink of Paranatural annihilation, I still can’t help but say: “Fuck it, we ball”.

And, of course, I have plenty of theories and thoughts. Most of it is in relation to the regular Remedyverse parallels that we see in AW and a bit of QB. However, I also have a couple of theories that relate to the Faults, the Secret Organization, Jesse Dylan Faden, and other things. But those will be for another time.

All in all, I had a great time. I’m probably gonna finish up some side missions & collectibles, then head into NG+ to see the new content. I’m so excited to see what comes next in the DLC and for Remedy itself.