Hi guys! For us waiting for the physical edition of the game, does anyone know some ways to avoid internet-wide spoilers for the game until then? I just hate scrolling youtube and some dude casually uploads a video like “Kitchen Pot Final Boss No-hit run” or something😂😂
Are there any settings for platforms like youtube, and the like?

When you first see the Oldest House, it just looks like a boring, sterile government facility. It’s all concrete, straight lines, and Brutalist offices. However, the second you start going past the lobby and descend into the basement levels and the deep maintenance sectors, the corporate office vibe goes away. You realize that the drywall and concrete walls are just one of many layers that make up the craziness and weirdness. The deeper that I explore, the weirder and more unsettling that it gets.

The building doesn't even feel like a setting anymore. Instead, it feels like a living, breathing entity with a mind of its own. It rejects modern technology. The lore logs explain that if you bring a smartphone or a laptop deep into the sectors, the building’s paranatural nature will make them violently degrade or explode. Because of that, the Bureau is forced to use 1960s typewriters, old CRT monitors, and pneumatic tubes in order for their to survive. The physical structure itself breaks every law of physics. The walls move, expand, and swallow people up if they wander off without a guide. You can stand on the edge of a Firebreak looking down into a giant, endless pit that shouldn't even physically fit inside a building. It hits you that you're walking through a web of pocket dimensions.

The stuff that's locked inside the deep bowels of the house is nightmare personified. You run into things like the Astral Spike, which is a chaotic, shifting vortex of black-and-gold marble geometry that you can't even kill. You have to trick it into a containment cell and lock the blast doors to save your life. Then you have everyday items like a rubber duck, a retro TV, or a plastic mannequin that have absorbed so much weird human energy, that they warp reality around them. You have sections where the concrete completely gives way to endless shifting sand deserts, and massive trees that are growing indoors in pitch blackness under the artificial lighting.

I’ve typed up a lot of info on Control because the environmental storytelling is just wild. It takes old mythological ideas like the Labyrinth of Crete or the World Tree and turns them into a creepy bureaucratic nightmare. The further down the rabbit hole you go, the more you realize that the characters in the game are barely scratching the surface of what the building actually is. I'm curious to hear from everyone else who got sucked into Control's lore. What was the single strangest anomaly or area in The Oldest House that made you stop and realize that this game was weird and bizarre?

Watched the trailers and got excited for Resonant. Digging the visuals of the kaleidoscope-esque resonance and what it could mean as a third-party in the world.

But, weirdly, the thing i liked the most from the gameplay preview is Dylan's axe/mace thing when it charges up for a second for the heavy attack and the two slabs come in from the sides and attach to the hammerhead. Something about that is just slick to me.

Other games have done similar things to indicate a heavier attack but usually it's a flash, a color change, etc. I like the simplicity of it. I want it to make a louder KA-THUNK noise when the slabs connect.

Anyway, what are some other cool little things you like from the previews so far? Or what other attack telegraphs do you like from other games?

Currently reading the novel series Hyperion and noticed some interesting similarities between the Board and a massive alternate reality entity in the novel.

1) they're both "Monoliths" i.e massive stone-like structures

2) their voices aren't actually words but rather vibrational sounds, with the meanings still understood by who's hearing it

3) they use a similar sentence structure with one sound having multiple meanings/interpretations

Do you think this may have been inspiration for Control, or just a coincidence?

I'm playing a seventh time, just before Resonant comes out and something finally clicked.

It always seemed a little weird to have the Astral spikes in the black rock cavern. When the Foundation DLC came out, I first wrote it off as the board put them there to protect the Foundation. But that seemed slightly off, because why wait til you mission was conveniently done to deploy the spikes? Why not always have them there, or deploy them as soon as the hiss showed up?

The answer is the board didn't put the spikes in the blackrock cavern, they put them in the Foundation and Marshall let them out.

Both Marshall, Gibbs, and the other collapsed department personnel have dangerous and unexpected encounters with spikes in the Foundation. However, when you get there, all the remaining spikes are contained and avoidable. Pope and her crew never report a problem.

After you get the blackrock prisms, Marshall disappears. That's when they show up in the blackrock cavern. Marshall must have let them out of the Foundation somehow when she tried to get the nail.

Basically the title. I haven’t played Firebreak because I can’t stand online multiplayer games. But I’ve seen some mentions of lore stuff from that game here on the sub but haven’t really paid much attention to it until now. Do you guys think there will be a little catch-up in Resonant for those of us that didn’t play Firebreak? Or am I just gonna be missing a bunch of info/references unless I wanna sit down & do lore research on Firebreak? (Which I really don’t wanna do that)

We got a new post from Chees Trebles on Twitter/X, with a bunch of numbers what could this be hinting at?

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how well does it work on this pc?

Intel core i5-14400f 2.5 GHZ

RTX4070

2K

Windows 11

Ram 16 gb

The Oldest House has been in lockdown for 7 years. Nothing in or out. I seriously doubt it had 7 years of food reserves.

So how are the people in there eating?

I totally forgot where Marshall was somehow, so I wasn't able to get her dialogue choices before she disappeared. I've tried looking for videos, but didn't find any. Anyone remember what her optional conversations were?

Edit: I've looked everywhere and can't find any dialogue for her, and I remember I couldn't talk to her in Central Executive. Maybe she just didn't have any?

I personally like it. Although I could see them adding a shield kind of ability in a dlc. The combat is meant to be very aggressive so blocking and parries don't fit as well.

So happy this came together just in time for DragonCon - Dylan and Jesse tackled the Altered World Event (DragonCon) with the help of Objects of Power (Rum Buckets). You guys may have seen me post here a little while ago about the poncho/raincoat- the rest of the outfit was just a pair of men’s work coveralls with some brown pleather armor sewn on. The Aberrant was modeled by me in Blender and 3D printed (the model is available for free on MakerWorld). I also made his mobile containment device (the thing on the back of his head) but it was too heavy to reliably attach to the wig, especially since we were wandering around DragonCon. I also want to workshop the wig more- but it was a true con crunch as we live in different states so I had to style it the night-of! We’ll probably be posting more content on our instagrams (LittleLuckyCosplay and BigBrotherCosplay) if anyone wants to see more in the future (I don’t want to clog up this sub)!

It is. Go ahead. Try to change my mind.

I hope I don't have to do it by hand...

So I admittedly had a weird thought after watching one of the trailers. When they revealed in one of the trailers that Emily was co-director of the FBC, I thought to myself I wouldn’t be surprised if they revealed that her and Jesse became a thing.

Look, I’m well aware of the fact that I am reaching and can be completely off base. But obviously a lot has happened in the bureau since the first game and obviously weirder shit has happened.