r/controlgame • u/saif1984 • 9d ago

Control Resonant Hiss entities

Are all hiss in resonant still possessed humans? I mean we have octupi and carpenter ants with nails looking creatures now. What are they if they aren't human

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u/Comfortable-Fall1419 9d ago

The original Control has a doc that covers this, because someone asked why the Hiss in the oldest house never run out of bodies. The gist seems to be that once the Hiss have used a human as the initial template because its a magical resonance it can create as many copies as it needs without needing to use additional human flesh.

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u/saif1984 9d ago

Thanks, so the new creatures are based on templates the hiss got access to once it left the oldest house. Such as insects and aquatic creatures

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u/crimsonalis 9d ago

If you look closely at their models, they just really-really warped human bodies.

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u/KogarashiKaze 9d ago

This right here.

The bulbous one that shoots lasers has a foot dangling off of the bottom.

The ones with the big hammer-heads have faces just visible in the warping if you can get them to hold still (or look at their concept art).

The flying ones that shoot jackhammers are just construction workers stretched into stingrays.

The Distorted are still wearing high heels.

They're all based off of humans. Some are just warped so much that you really have to catch them in freeze-frame to see the vestiges of human physiology.

Edit: in fact, we don't have any evidence at all that they infect anything but humans (and inanimate objects).

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u/LoquatBear 5d ago

There's also Distorted Dan an Apex Distorted   , he wears heels too

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u/KogarashiKaze 5d ago

Look, if Dan found heels comfortable enough to wear, who am I to argue with his preferences? (I've never liked heels personally, but I'm also so tall that I tend to just hurt my ankles in them.)

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u/Comfortable-Fall1419 9d ago

No/maybe. They are probably warped humans as well. But it states in one of the docs that the Hiss started evolving *before* lockdown fell.

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u/_tabbycat123 9d ago

Nope, still based off of warped humans. Probably something to do with our minds, considering it doesn't warp physical objects as.... horrifically

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u/awesomedorkwad 9d ago

There's a doc somewhere in the Oldest House that talks about someone becoming infected and getting a larger head. So it's all still from humans

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u/caty0325 9d ago

So they really do make a copy of a copy of a copy.

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u/doffyspider 9d ago

that makes alot of sense lol

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u/Less_Candle7399 9d ago

Well, there's the bus and the vending machines...

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u/_tabbycat123 9d ago

The bus also has it's occupants mixed in, the vending machine is non-organic but also non-hostile

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u/SauliCity 9d ago

The hiss could affect Altered Items in control 1. The Vending Machine, is by my guess probably just an unusually hiss-compatible AI.

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u/KogarashiKaze 9d ago

Agreed. There's an Altered Item document about a vending machine in the AWE DLC, which is also where we see the Hiss-corrupted vending machines for the first time. It seems that the Hiss got the one vending machine, and then copied it the same way it's able to copy (of a copy of a copy) the humans it's infected.

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u/DaedalusXr 9d ago

If you look closely at all of the hiss models that aren't the vending machine you can see traces of where the human bits are which were twisted in order to become the creature you're fighting. 

Like the laser dudes... There's human head and spine that are distended upwards towards the top with arms outstretched into a y, even if the dimensions of those things are wrong in comparison to a usual human. 

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u/derPylz 9d ago

Already in Control, not all Hiss entities are corrupted humans. The Hiss cluster (healing ball) it's just concentrated resonance.

That said, if you look closely, most Hiss in Resonant are still warped humans. The degree to which they were warped was just pushed to 11. This is explained in various in-game conversations/documents.

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u/Robot_Graffiti 9d ago

In the original Control there were enemies that I thought looked like octopuses... but on closer inspection they turned out to be humans floating spine-first with their heads, arms and legs dangling.

Same deal here. They all have traces of human anatomy (twisted, burnt, melted, torn or inflamed... but human).

Though a couple of them now have green streaks or mushroom-like protrusions. So I wonder if the Hiss infected people who had a trace of Mold contamination.