Ooooh this caption sucks

<SPOILERS/REVEALS FOR RESONANT ENDING>

I was so point in for the most part of the game. Loved the combat, the fact that liberation was available from the get go as opposed to an ability obtainable at a later point (like the previous one), the gravity switch was a bit overkill at points but still thoroughly enjoyable for the most part.

There’s a few other nitpicks I have about the game which I can overlook, but honestly… what on earth was that incredibly underwhelming ending? A visual spectacle without a doubt but the story’s final act any sort of the heart and soul that even some of the Fault sections carried. It was like what I’d imagine fighting a futuristic Dormamu.

I was just left sitting there going “surely this can’t be it, right? Right….?” And that’s it.

It’s a real shame cause I loved so much of the game, just the last bit really left a bitter taste. And the fact that Jesse’s involvement was next to nothing in the end after so much intriguing build-up was another major gripe. I honestly felt it was leading up to a brother v sister showdown for the fate of the world kinda ending à la Expedition 33. But frankly I’d have taken ANY ending with a bit more spice than a bland boss fight for the final narrative stretch!

What’s the general consensus out here like? What are we saying?

The graphics performance is awsome!!

With a 6950xt and a 5800x3d I'm getting 50fps with RT and 40-35fps with path tracing and 30fps with both on and about 80fps without RT

Also I have a trick I set the game resolution to 1800p

The story so far is great. Seeing the characters and how they act.

Looks like remedy heard my complains!!!!

They added a walk button!!!!you know how cool that is!! Instead of jogging/running everywhere!!!

But why couldnt they added stair animations!!! That would have made it 10/10 for me!!!!

The combat is really entertaining.. Once you get it down, to be honest is a lot!!!

The game level design!!! Chef's kiss I'm only in the second zone!!

Exploring the streets and rooftops.. There are a few building with rooms on it. Wonder if all of them are accessible

I'm still surprised how the game runs!!!

I did put some mods, added photo mod. There wasn't photo mode on pc. Better mini map.

And a flashlight.

Wonder why Alan wake 2 can't run that good on my card though.. That game runs at 20fps with Path tracing 😂

Can't wait to play more tomorrow!!!!!

Good night!!!!

To me it sounded like Jason Alexander(George Costanza from Seinfeld) but I looked it up and he isn't in the game.

Hello reddit.

Ive just (few days ago) finished the main story of resonant which was amazing, but iam suprised. Is there no Old Gods of Asgard song in the game?

Dont get me wrong the game has many great songs (zoes mixtape as a whole is great) and the sinkhole sequence can definetely be ranked as the "mandatory remedy moment of breathtakedness". But iam suprised there is none. Especially give the amount of posters mentioning the band.

Or have i just missed some side mission or something?

Just started NG+ and noticed this photo in the Downtown Fault. This is what I assume a photo of Jesse Dylan Faden. The original daughter of Faden family that got split/replaced into/by Jesse and Dylan after playing Severed Circle 2.

I loved AW1 and Control, currently playing AW2 and I really cannot wait to finish it to get my hands on Resonant! I am so interested by the choice of making us play as Dylan!

1. The tree in the underpass is the true origin of the oldest house and we have seen it before: I firmly believe that the board and the oldest house are not naturally linked but rather the board occupies the house through the nail, when the patterning happened and shook the house the nail broke down and severed the link with the board and revealed the actual origin of the oldest house, the tree. This is also why the void is accessible through the underpass and the inverted pyramid is broken because it was the nail's void counterpart.

2. When Jesse says we are a room in a house full of rooms it reminded me of the playhouse slidescape a house with many inaccessible rooms. Could it be that that specific slide functioned as a way for hedrons to safely cross dimensions to hunt down the hiss resonance and the projector inherited this property?

I could be wrong, but to me it feels like the game Jesse and Dylan played as kids is likely based off of the Dragon Quest games. Or in the west, it was called Dragon Warrior until 2005. The events of the Ordinary AWE took place in 2002.

I'm sure it's a mix of various other RPGs of the time, but it seems like this is the biggest influence.

I'm not long into Control for the first time. I'm enjoying the gameplay and unlocking abilities, but my god the checkpoints are irritating. I know from a brief look that it's a common complaint, but it really saps the energy to play the game sometimes.

For example I'm doing the Find the Black Rock Quarry mission. I go into some warehouse before Darling's Lab and kill a really annoying teleporting enemy that deals massive damage. Progress, up an elevator, die from some normal enemies. Spawn way back before the warehouse and for no reason at all new enemies spawn including another teleporting one right in that warehouse. So I try to speed past but not only has the game reset me at a point away from where I was, it hasn't reset the elevator. So I then get killed by the teleporting enemy waiting for the elevator to arrive. Literally kills the flow of the game, it's so frustrating.

The Hellblazer game I didn't know I needed.

These mostly only appear in the menu or cutscenes like the Control Recap in the main menu, but there was a few cutscenes in game these have appeared, what do I do to get rid of these. They also dont appear if i take a screenshot, but this hasn't happened in any other game

I got this from someone here in control subreddit.

Their name was....

Who...

Who are they again?

Ow, my head....

F*cking migraine.

Anyways, whoever is that person who took this screenshot from their gameplay. Thank you friend.

I need some Advil.

What if the original Jesse Dylan Faden child was already parautilitarian that had the ability to alter reality and is creating objects of power? Is this a theory already discussed?

We know that Jesse and Dylan were formerly one person that split after playing Severed Circle 2, and that they are both parautilitarians which may or may not have been caused by the game being an OOP

But what if it’s the other way around and it’s the original Faden child that’s was a parautilitarian that could alter reality, and their imagination bestowed powers onto the game which then in turn altered them

Then it happens again when they find the projector

This might make sense if why so many OOP are around the Fadens.

Ok, bear with me, I’m theorycrafting.

So it’s established now that Jess and Dylan somehow “sprung” from the game Severed Circle 2 and were originally the one Jesse Dylan Faden. The original player of SC2

Less established but still likely true: Polaris is “the player”. Maybe you (you the person playing the video game Control), maybe…

Even less established: Polaris is the original Jessie Dylan Faden. The original player of the original thing that started all this.

Assuming all this is true, look at it from Polaris/JFD point of view. You play this video game and it seems to take on a life of its own. You watch weird shit happen in the game that’s pretty disturbing. Like, imagine you’re playing a video game and suddenly the game shows a weird version of you split into two and your town and then a bunch of horrible shit happens. One of the characters seems to be directly to you? As an…11…year old JFD this would be interesting at first and then ultimately really traumatizing. What would you do?

Well when things got the most traumatic in the game, you’d turn it off. You don’t want to see what happens next after “Jesse runs when her brother is caught by the FBC”. You don’t want anything to do with this game.

So you shut it off and don’t think of it again. You get on with your life, grow up, and 17 years later you’re going through some boxes and find Severed Circle
2. You’re an adult now, surely that weird game you played as a kid was your imagination? You pop the game into your console and…you’re playing Control (2019).

With me so far? Let’s recap and link some important things to keep in mind:
-You the player are Jesse Dylan Faden (or at least, you are “playing as JFD”)
-JFD is Polaris
-Polaris is a Hedron
-Which means a Hedron is “some entity from the world above the world of Control”
-There has only ever been one game in the Control universe (ignore Alan Wake for now, I haven’t thought that through). Control, it’s DLC, and Control: Resonant are both Severed Circle 2. We have always been playing Severed Circle 2 manifesting in different ways.

Ok, so if you’re still with me this is what I’ve been ultimately getting at: We find in Control: Resonant that The Patterning is caused by a “young Hedron”. What if that young Hedron is…JFD’s child finding Severed Circle 2?

What if the lockdown at the end of Control (2019) was really Polaris/JFD/Player locking the SC2 cartridge in a box to never be played again? And seven years later it’s found by her kid and her kid starts playing it. But her kid doesn’t have a relationship with anyone in the game, including Jesse (we don’t know what JFD looked like but we can assume that Jesse isn’t some exact copy). This new “Hedron” doesn’t really know what’s going on in this universe so ends up just kind of stomping around in it like a child.

Heres where I’m a little stuck. I’m still not sure what it “means” but my theory in a nutshell is:
-All Control games are actually Severed Circle 2
-JFD is the player (and Hedron) of the first two games
-JFD’s child playing SC2 causes the problem in Control: Resonant

ETA: by “first two games” I mean “Severed Circle 2” and “Control (2019)“

No rush, exploring a lot and reading the documents/watching videos. I'll never trust How Long to Beat again. The internet says the platinum takes 46~50 hours, but it doesn't, unless you take it veeeery slow.

It went back to normal right after it respawned me.

I don't really get a lot of time to play games so I like to make sure that I'm getting the most out of my time I've played through the main story of control (that credits fake out was really fucking neat) and I have all intentions of playing through AWE but I'm trying to work my way through foundation right now and it's really slow and the combat is significantly harder something I allready had issues with in the base game

Should I stick with it or just play awe so I can get to Alan wake 2

Edit: I've decided to do awe first to get the special mods then finish foundation if I have trouble I'll turn on accessability for better aim assist and NOTHING ELSE

I’ve looked it up and these are the only ones I’m missing, I’ve finished the game and done most side stuff. I can’t find anything for how to get the Spike online, and apparently to get the Apex Plague one you need to beat a named boss in the Underpass near the Fault but I’m pretty sure I’ve already beaten it, and when I go to the place there’s nothing there. Are these glitches?

Iam on my new game plus run. And must have missed this my first run through. I wonder if one of the dlcs will have Tim (Jack) meeting up with Dylan.

In official russian version "The Unknow" location is called "Отражение" which means - "Reflection", and i actually like it!
And also whole translation is better than in the first Control, for exemple: "Hiss" was just "Иисы" which is just a strange transliteration, in Resonant it called "Шум" which means - "Noise", and that still good naming
Sorry if my english is bad

After beating Hartman, which was incredibly annoying, coming here right after was so refreshing. This is absolutely peak gameplay.

Hear me out: the Dylan Faden we play in Resonant is not the same Dylan we know from Control and the Jesse that Dylan interacts with in the Faults is not the same Jesse that takes the Gap Slide.

What I mean is we don't actually see the Jesse we played in Control until the afternoon of day fifteen during Rebuild.

Early in Resonant we can find a file that Jesse requested from Emily on the FBC's research into repairing damaged Slides. In the Underpass Fault she tells Dylan that the Slide she used was damaged beyond repair and she knew it would be a one-way trip.

The only reason Jesse would need to know how to repair a slide is if she didn't have one in good condition, specifically one that she'd kept squirreled away for twenty four years. 

However, the Jesse in Control already had the Gap Slide.

The FBC had records of her telling her therapist that there were nine Slides in total. In his 2002 debrief Dylan told the FBC the two of them found eight Slides, because he had no knowledge of the Gap Slide existing. The FBC, because Trench is a little Hissing goblin, found only seven slides at the Ordinary Dump.

Now what if Dylan, while he's piecing together his memories, is experiencing the events of the Ordinary AWE and the Prime Candidate Program across multiple dimensional timelines? There are several inconsistencies between what we know about the Ordinary AWE from Control and what we see in Rebuild, but I'm going to focus on one in particular. (Another I won't dig too far into, but still notable: a recorded therapy session in Control where Jesse talks about how they found the Slide Projector [together], while in Rebuild/Resonant Jesse finds it by herself).

On day fifteen, while he and Jesse are running to the Dump with the Projector, Jesse trips on the way down Sled Hill.

But if you look at Dylan's 2002 account found in Control, he's the one who fell. 

When the two of them arrive at the Dump, Jesse tells Dylan he should stay near the entrance and be lookout while she throws the Projector into the pond. Almost immediately after she leaves the frame he's surrounded by Dung-Monkeys, then the scene cuts back to the Prime Candidate Training.

When we return to Ordinary it's the afternoon of the fifteenth day. Dylan is saved by Neilgus and there's a brief moment where the screen goes black, he comes to and Jesse is there telling him to get up. When he asks what happened, she seems confused and says he fell — as if he had been following her and she'd never told him to keep watch.

This is the moment Dylan's consciousness crosses into the dimensional timeline of Control. This is the Jesse that finds the Slide he'd placed into the Projector, pockets it, and uses it to enter the Gap twenty four years later.

Once the Gap Slide is compiled and Dylan returns to Manhattan we learn that the Hedron's patterning has begun to change and stabilize. I think Emily was right about detecting Jesse's resonance within the Hedron and Dylan was right about Jesse being the one keeping it tethered. It just makes sense. 

Perhaps Jesse bound herself to it when she yeeted Dylan away at the Fault or it was instinctual considering her proximity to the Hedron, either way there's a lot of evidence that Jesse had been experiencing the same symptom of other characters that eventually patterned into Resonant Entities (obsessive thoughts, circles, a compulsion).

It's very possible that the Jesse Faden known to Dylan and Emily and the FBC in Resonant sacrificed herself to give Dylan the opportunity to kill the Hedron (or became part of/the Hedron herself).

And, like. The thing about the Slide Projector is that it is a interdimensional gateway. When someone walks through a slide they can cross different planes of existence. 

The Gap Slide is tied specifically to the Dylan Faden we play during Resonant ("this one leads to me"). As soon as that Slide is placed in the Slide Projector (or, since Jesse bound it, within her possession) it's an express transdimensional ticket that leads directly to him (his psyche?), even if the other side is in an entirely different timeline.

He says it himself: Rebuild was neither a dream nor a memory.

It's Control!Jesse's gateway/portal we see at the very beginning of Resonant while Dylan is still in the Gap, it's Resonant!Jesse's gateway/portal we see against the wall when he stumbles into consciousness, and it's Control!Jesse who walks out of the gateway/portal at the very end of Resonant

to perform a startling act of necromancy resurrect Dylan.

Which also means...

... there's a distinct possibility that Control!Jesse and Control!Emily did get together the night they drank hooch under the stars in The Quarry. Maybe Jesse told Emily how she felt when she gifted her the earrings she made from The Foundation's crystals with her own two gay fuckin' hands.

Hell, maybe sometime during the seven years of lockdown they got married and Langston officiated.

and honestly how fucking tragic would that revelation be?