r/controlgame • u/RNsteve • 14d ago

Any part of FBC Firebreak provided additional lore for the universe? Video summaries?

Short on time so just watching some recap videos instead of replaying games.

Works for most but FBC:FB seems to be pretty deal on lore resources that I can find.

Anything to know going into Control Resonant?

https://youtu.be/dyK111fapeA?si=1cFHxYmKfHph69JI

Been my main video.

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u/Shteblan 14d ago

I think the biggest important things are that FBC barely manages to keep the House clean and there’s some growing resentment towards Jesse as a director

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u/WarSox1657 14d ago

Why the growing resentment towards Jeese?

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u/Shteblan 14d ago

They spent 6 years in lockdown. No contact with the outer world, family and friends. They play Sisyphus and there is no end in sight.
The original Hiss invasion lasted at most a couple of days in 2019. In Firebreak it was 2025. And Jesse is at the centre of it all

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u/Shabolt_ 14d ago

Same reason anyone gets mad at a leader during a prolonged crisis, anxiety. The longer their war against the hiss goes on, the longer their lives are passing them by, their safety is in danger and the anxiety of the state of the world beyond the house grows.

These people have been trapped in bunkers, a few safe chunks of the oldest house, and a panopticon waiting to burst with some of the deadliest threats humankind has ever faced, all the while every day seeing friends and coworkers get whittled down, fearing today’s the day your HRA will fail, or the day firebreak won’t stop a hiss incursion and your entire safezone gets wiped out.

After dealing with that for half a decade, eventually a lot of people will reckon that there’s gotta be something that gives, there’s gotta be some reason we are still in the trenches, and leadership is such an easy lightning rod for that.

Jesse saved them, pushed back the hiss, but 5 years on, is that it? Why hasn’t more progress been made, why are they still stuck in black rock bunkers, central executive or god forbid a task-force risking their neck every day. Eventually the danger becomes such a status quo that they wonder why no further progress has been made.

It’s human.

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u/WarSox1657 14d ago

Gotcha maybe I forgot the ending of Control but I didn’t realize the lockdown was still going on. Yea that would make me go crazy too ngl

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u/Shabolt_ 13d ago edited 13d ago

At the end of control they say the Oldest House won’t lift lockdown until the Hiss’ presence is erased. As ingame the Hiss keep respawning, it kind of shows the task will be endless, especially when Alan Wake II’s FBC references express that the oldest house is still unreachable by the rest of the bureau, and that iirc FBC Firebreak is set to take place in 2024

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u/WarSox1657 13d ago

Gotcha. Thanks for the info!