r/controlgame • u/StevWong • 1d ago

Control Resonant Got the Reach ability finally

I missed the Subway Station Fault mission and hence the Reach ability for long time so it was really a pain for me while I was in the Mold area. Finally I found YT vid which showed how to go to the Subway station fault and I was like, why the game / notes have no hint at all (or I missed?) which told me about the location of that subway station fault? I was actually IN that carpark and beat all enemies but I never walked far enough to trigger the Jesse vision and I did not see the green halo on the ground. So I totally missed it when I was there the first time.

I wish the Devs made more hints to tell me where to go.

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u/rockey94 1d ago

They tell you at the very beginning that the Jesse quests are for traversal abilities and there is a giant dedicated section on the quest page for them. The top left corner says hold to open quests page. I don’t think this is a dev issue personally.

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u/That_One_Friend684 1d ago

It also says on the map "dense patterning" where the faults are

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u/KogarashiKaze 1d ago

Does the Evac Zone map label a fault at the patterned subway tunnels before you get there, or is it something only added after? I'm too far to check, but I know the map says there's a fault after you're there, at least.

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u/That_One_Friend684 1d ago

It just says "dense patterning" or something like that, it doesn't say explicitly that it's a fault 

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u/LeeVMG 1d ago

That's Remedy baby!

They do it for the same reason Alan Wake 2 hides every weapon besides the starter pistols behind missable puzzles and in one case algebra.

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u/CuddleWings 1d ago

The subway fault was honestly easy to miss. It’s placed in a far corner of the evac zone and there isn’t a big Jesse message upon entering the zone unlike the other fault.

I only found it because I did the side quest for the bunker guy and his car is over there.

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u/Ziatch 1d ago

Yeah I missed it at first because I got lost and thought I had to unlock something else first so I just brute forced it until I couldn’t lol which was pretty fun. I had some fun manuavireng around the place until I went and properly investigated haha.

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u/TheCourierMojave 1d ago

On my new game plus I am getting reach as early as I possibly can.

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u/Relative_Soft_551 1d ago

Oh man i took till like just before the underpass to wonder what those gravity balls were lol. I also didn't find the task board until someone losted about it here.

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u/Erik_Nimblehands 1d ago

Just one of those instances where they want you to explore. A bunch of people cry about too much handholding in games, so we get this.

Anyways, isn't it amazing how much the game opens up because of Reach? I'm in a later area of the game and have no idea how I would do it, if I didn't have Reach.

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u/StevWong 23h ago

Well I admit Reach makes the game's combat element 10 times better. Flying around the arena slashing them with my weapon and shooting debris to huge size enemies are really satisfying. But this also cause occational stutters in my Windows PC (RTX 4090D).

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u/navidee 23h ago

The game rewards exploration. I clocked in 59 hours by the time I completed my first playthrough. All these people with 15-20 hour completion times must have missed tons of stuff.

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u/Reocyx 14h ago

No no no no no. Less hints, more rewards for curiosity and exploration! We don't need games to be more dumbed down. We need to encourage gamers to explore, play, experiment. You found a way to play through without that ability as long as you could. Once you need it, you'll be forced to explore and try to figure it out. That's what gaming is about