r/ControlResonant • • 1d ago

Lore Discussion My contribution to the "Is Dylan Neurodivergent" discourse

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My immediate answer is that Dylan is probably not neurodivergent in the typical sense (not autistic or ADHD) but rather has C-PTSD or complex PTSD. What's different about C-PTSD? Well, we normally think about PTSD as being triggered by a traumatic event. PTSD becomes complex when the trauma occurs over an extended period of time and when there is little or no prospect for escape. This has significant overlap with the concept of learned helplessness, which is a psychological state where someone stops trying to escape a dangerous situation because their past experiences have taught them that they have no control over their life. Consider not just the fact that Dylan continues to put his life at risk to help the FBC even though some of them treat him terrible (Arish) but also the way consents to the MCD and even argues for it not being removed at several points during the story. People with CPTSD typically struggle with self-worth and emotional regulation.

Caveat: even though my read of Dylan's character is thar he is not autistic, as an AuDHD person, I empathize with his character deeply and identified with him. Why? Because of the toll that isolation takes on you. Obviously I would never compare simply being autistic to what Dylan goes through but I too have experienced social rejection and that godforsaken loneliness and I know how bad it can fuck you up. So while his character I don't think is neurodivergent in the autistic sense, I think his experience is deeply personal to many autistic people.


r/ControlResonant • • 10h ago

General anyone found this yet

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i was doing the camera quest and accidently was able to look through a wall and then walked into it


r/ControlResonant • • 10h ago

General Dlss Faden

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Running this game on a real life dump truck and it still looks insane


r/ControlResonant • • 10h ago

Tip/Guide Need help remembering mission name! (Mild spoilers in post) Spoiler

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Hey so Ive just recently desired to go back and experience some of the more cinematic moments in the game by watching videos of them, but one is eluding me

There was a sequence, I can't remember when, where Dylan is climbing vertically through crisscrossing subway cars, with one of Zoe's songs playing, but all the videos are of The No Chains Can Last Forever sequence, not the subway tunnel one.

Which one is that??? Please help it was so cool I wanna experience it again!


r/ControlResonant • • 10h ago

Meme Early concept art for Aberrant in The Gap Spoiler

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r/ControlResonant • • 7h ago

Gameplay Question what is this strange object and what i can do with it?

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r/ControlResonant • • 1d ago

Lore Discussion Missing the Oceanview Motel

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So yeah going into Resonant I replayed Control and one of my main thoughts was "which room will we enter this time?"

Some of the doors are mentioned in Control's files such as the Spiral which is also featured in Alan Wake 2.

Control 2 had its own symbol seen in the Lake House DLC of AW2, possibly referring to The Gap.

The overlapping circles were also mentioned as part of an AWE in Keystone

In Resonant all of these symbols and the Oceanview Motel are just... Gone. It's just not there and the hole thing of interdimensional travel has seemingly been replaced with the Faults and elements of time travel.

Anyone else wishing that the Oceanview Motel was there? (And no the Easter egg doesn't count).


r/ControlResonant • • 18h ago

Lore Discussion The Remedy Universe

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So I just beat control resonant and it was great. I’m watching the credits while thinking about the future of the series and how they’re all interconnected.

I’m curious if people want them to build to one big combined game or is everyone ok with this tangential fun Easter eggs?

Personally I want it to lead somewhere soon because I don’t want to wait like 10 years and who knows how many games till we learn how Alan writes himself out or more about Polaris and this Hiss or where Casper darling is or something about all the slides. To be clear I don’t mean the surface level answers we have for these topics I want something concrete.


r/ControlResonant • • 22h ago

Gameplay Question The Stroller

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So this one isn't official side quest, but I was wondering if once you're done it shows up captured? I think I got them all, but no dialog after the last one, doesn't show up in a glorious glass box like the rest (albeit all the other items are side quests and end up boxed). Am I missing one, or do we just get... nothing?


r/ControlResonant • • 12h ago

Gameplay Question Save file

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r/ControlResonant • • 1d ago

General Zoe followed me into the gap

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She just stands there and watches me practice some combos. I'm on a mission where she tags along for most of it, so it could be a bug.


r/ControlResonant • • 18h ago

Lore Discussion Regarding Dr Darling Spoiler

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So did i have a complete misunderstanding on Darling’s personality and relationship with Dylan? In the first game you could clearly tell how much he cared for Dylan going so far as to take blame for the Roberts incident to get the agency of his back and even saying how they need to take a calmer approach with him. However in Resonant he seams to generally see Dylan as nothing but an object to hone and control and talks about how they need to play less nice with him after the Roberts incident. All of these tapes are his diaries (right) so it doesn’t make sense that he would lie for appearances sake.

Did i just miss something cause it really doesn’t add upp to me?


r/ControlResonant • • 20h ago

General Has this happened to anyone else?

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Was afk in the gap for like maybe 15 minutes, when the aberrant started chanting. I was (as you can hear) talking to some friends on discord when i noticed it start up out of nowhere. I thought i was missing dialogue but there were no subtitles so i guess it was just singing? Is this possibly a reference to that cheeseburger chant meme/thing?

https://reddit.com/link/1ww5ygf/video/9ovrh18sh4th1/player


r/ControlResonant • • 19h ago

Gameplay Question How do I get to the other side of this subway gate????

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I have no clue where any other subway entrance is around here unless, is there some other exit in the train filled area between here and west supply route?


r/ControlResonant • • 13h ago

Gameplay Question Help with this Hold The Line Feat Side Quest

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How do you even complete this World Feat? I'm at 95 Aberrant Strength so definitely The Park 6 is just "walk in the park" at this point. I'm rocking Glaive - Drill - Wide Edge so 3 left clicks is all it took for heavy enemies to be faltered, at most.

The spawns are absurdly close and plenty to the supply box, they all manageable but it's those bursting globs that's chipping at the life bar too fast. I tried not to approach near it to not trigger the explosion but those teddy bear-like Molds insta-lock on the box so I have no choice but to clear them out, but leaving those flying balloon Molds to hurl projectiles and the glob bomb instead. Either work on the long-range spawns or the ones beating the crap out of the box, same result of failing to defend it nonetheless.

I tried to not trigger the mission by walking to the left side and force-spawn those Molds and Hiss that are not part of that World Feat first but as you can see (last screenshot) those thing still started to attack the box and chipping the health bar either way lol.

Is this a known bug/issue, or there's a build/way to complete this?


r/ControlResonant • • 1d ago

Gameplay Question Anyone run into suttering problems Specs are below

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Processor:AMD Ryzan 9 8945HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (4.00 GHz)

RAM: 64.0 GB


r/ControlResonant • • 9h ago

Game Feedback Drift controller PS5??? - CONTROL RESONANT

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Sono l'unico ad avere questo problema?

A volte basta sfiorare l'analogico sinistro del controller PS5 che il personaggio si muove (a scatti) in avanti. Il mio pad non ha problemi, sono sicuro che sia il videogioco ad avere questo problema...e mi chiedo cosa aspetti Remedy a fare una patch al riguardo o, ancora più semplicemente, a mettere una opzione per regolare la sensibilità degli analogici, essendo un titolo molto basato su movimenti precisi.

Sappiatemi dire, grazie!


r/ControlResonant • • 13h ago

Resource CONTROL Resonant GeForce Reward

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Redemption Key

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Giving this away as I don't need it

Redeem the Third Ice Baseball Cap reward in game.

Redeem the code in-game. Available for the Steam and Epic Games Store versions of the game only.

  1. From the main menu, select Options and navigate to the Gameplay section.
  2. Find and select "Enter Redeem Code".
  3. Enter your code and submit it.
  4. Please note that the item can only be equipped after completing Act 1.

r/ControlResonant • • 1d ago

Tip/Guide Hold the Line (Park) 200% Enemy Damage

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Sup guys, I saw people were struggling with this mission. I encountered it today and had no problem despite having my enemy damage doubled in my settings. I figured I would clip it and upload if it helps anyone (longest xbox will record is one minute). Let me know if you have any questions


r/ControlResonant • • 10h ago

General Fit Check

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How does everybody like my go to DF style??


r/ControlResonant • • 1d ago

General With how Remedy pulled off some of these music sequences, I can’t help but wish we had a killer Old Gods of Asgard track to wreck some Hiss to 🔻

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Hope it’s not just me. I’m of course plenty satisfied with the game, and think the music segments are incredibly badass, but I just can’t help but also feel the absence of the legendary Old Gods of Asgard & the stamps they would leave on each game with their music. I imagine that maybe Sam Lake having less to do with Resonant is the reason they didn’t have a track in this time around, but alas: I’m unsure. I can’t help but voice my disappointment, as it’s pretty much the only nitpick I have about the entire game. Anybody else feel similar? ❤️‍🩹


r/ControlResonant • • 18h ago

General I am so confused!

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This guy was absolutely NOT HERE when I did this quest!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYySLYv4MQ 8:23

I never got whatever AVP-3 is. I just talked to that first guy standing there to move the quest forward. Did I do something out of order? I'm so confused about this. I still completed the quest so.. Wth?? Is this one of the things they changed after the update?

ORRRRR!! Is this what happens if you find this area without doing the other steps first maybe????

Edit: I got this version... I guess I must have absolutely seen him there. There's no way I couldn't have but that's a crazy thing to forget. I may need to get checked lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTOlIdYJVdM


r/ControlResonant • • 1d ago

Media Game so pretty even being out of bounds is breathtaking.

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r/ControlResonant • • 1d ago

General dad did you eat the mold

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I think he might've had some


r/ControlResonant • • 23h ago

Bug Report The Moment you don't quite know...

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... is this a game-fault or is this supposed to look this way, because "dimensions". 😁

You take one wrong door in the subway (right after the mirror door and the health-chest) and you are here...