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Slide Projector Slides: Confirmed Unnamed Slide Name Reveal

Edit- TL;DR: One of the 3 mystery unnamed Slidescapes is possibly called "The Void".

In both Control and Control: Resonant, we are given names for majority of the 9 Confirmed Slides that Jesse and Dylan found at the dump.

They are:

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The Temple, The Playhouse, The Meadow, The red slide (the one Trench took), and The Hand/Slidescape-36.

Out of the remaining 4: we now know that one of them is The Gap which is confirmed to be the 9th slide that was the conflicting information between Jesse and Dylan's stories.

That leaves 3 Unnamed slides that are still a mystery.

However, I believe I've discovered the name for one of the remaining slides!

I'v mostly been replaying all of the Faults looking for clues and information that we may have missed.

In the Faults, the landscape is made out of whatever it can use. Jesse and Dylan, being the only things of substance in there, means that it takes from their very essence, even repressed/suppressed memories, to create structures for them to traverse the Fault. I wanted to see what could be learned from this place that seems to be built based on both Jesse and Dylan.

The Oldest House Fault and the First Hedron Link​:

I found something interesting when traversing through final Fault at the Oldest House and more when reaching the first Hedron link to sever.

While going through this Fault, unlike the previous Faults, this one is now using images and structures from memories of the Oldest House.

One thing the Control games like to make a point of is that Signage is important for making your way around the maps. By following signs you have a higher chance to make it to where you want to go.

Interestingly, the Oldest House Fault also has signs, however, the signs aren't for leading you anywhere. They have interesting information hidden in them.

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As you're making your way to the "Source of the Patterning", the signs start pushing Dylan in an interesting way. The first sign you see, and the few following, point Dylan toward Ordinary and Home.

Reaching the end of the Fault it starts getting somewhat more interesting.

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Not only pushing Dylan towards memories of home, as well as possibly facing his trauma during P6 training, the signs are now starting to point towards Slidescapes.

After completing the Fault, Dylan's next task is to sever the Hedron link on the roof of the Oldest House.

When entering the Fault (is it a Fault?) we are still presented with Oldest House structures, with, guess what... MORE signs.

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This time the signs have Slidescape names!!!

While on the the way to the first Hedron boss we are given the names of some of the named Slidescapes.

But ONE caught my eye:

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THE VOID.

Could this be a reveal?! One of the 3 remaining unnamed Slidescapes is called "The Void"? Or is it referring to the Faults that they're in?

Naming convention would follow that this is the name of a Slidescape. Am I onto something?

Anyone else would like to chime in with thoughts?

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u/vAErJO — 3 days ago

I've beat Control for the first time and I have to say that Dr. Darling's acting is one of the best I've ever seen in games.

His acting is perfect, the way he explains things, his facial expressions and body language. I've never seen someone act better in a video game role, simple as that.

When I've been playing Control, this game didn't really click for me for the first two hours but every time he appeared and started talking about stuff, the more I enjoyed the game.

And here I am, Foundation DLC finished, clearing all the side quests I haven't done and jumping straight into Remedy Games Rabbit hole, I slept on this game way too much, such a masterpiece, crazy it was available for free few times.

Wonder if we learn about him more in the sequel.

u/margonxp — 6 days ago

When Control III reveals that Langston is also bad and runs OOP dog fights inside the Oldest House

u/montecarle — 6 days ago

I think I solved the blinking lamp puzzle

Outside Wake’s apartment!

Reposting this since my original post was removed for having a spoiler in the title.

I’ve seen a few threads about this lamp and people trying to make sense of the flashes, so I thought I’d share what I found.

I tried a few different approaches and tested several theories about how the flashes might be encoded. After comparing the patterns, I eventually landed on an interpretation that seems to fit both NG and NG+.

I'm not 100% sure these are the intended messages, but here's what I came up with:

Not sure if this has already been solved, but I think the two messages are:

NG: >!THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR!<

NG+: >!BARRY WHEELER WILL RETURN!<

The weird thing is that the lamp doesn’t send the Morse correctly. Each letter gets the right number of flashes, but it repeats the first symbol of that letter instead of using the full Morse pattern.

For example:

D should be -.., but becomes ---

A should be .-, but becomes ..

W should be .--, but becomes ...

Letters like H (....) and O (---) still come out correctly, since their symbols are all the same anyway. E and T work too. That’s why some parts look like normal Morse while others seem to go nowhere.

There also aren’t proper pauses between letters, so each word ends up as one continuous group.

Here’s the NG sequence, starting from THE:

THE -.....

DEATH ---...-....

OF ---....

THE -.....

AUTHOR .....-....---...

And NG+:

BARRY ----........----

WHEELER .................

WILL .............

RETURN ....-......--

That gives 46 flashes in NG and 59 in NG+. Depending on when you start watching, you’ll catch a different part of the loop first.

The NG+ message explains those really long runs of short flashes. Every letter in WHEELER starts with a dot in Morse, so the whole word turns into 17 short flashes. WILL becomes another 13.

One catch knowing this rule doesn’t let you uniquely decode everything. D, G, K and O all turn into ---, for example, and without letter gaps there are even more possible readings. So I wouldn’t claim these are the only sentences you could make fit the flashes. But applying the rule to both messages reproduces both sequences exactly.

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u/AcerN — 5 days ago

What is the likelihood any babies were born within The Oldest House during the 7 year lockdown?

First off, there could have easily been pregnant employees present the day the lockdown began.

And then there had to have been relationships that formed over that 7 year period. One thing could have led to another, people hook up, dofferent forms of birth control are either not available / fail, and then life, uh, finds a way.

I wonder if being born within The Oldest House would have any sort of impact on someone. Possibly increase the chances of them being a parautilitarian?

Alas, I should stop talking before I give Dr. Darling any crazy ideas.

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u/CapnBlanco95 — 5 days ago

This game deserves more attention

These numbers are just disappointing for such a unique game. 305k copies sold on PS5, and it's not even top 10 on Steam and Xbox, meaning it sold less than 300k on PC and less than 170k on Xbox.

Meanwhile look at the games on the top of the list. It's like gamers only want slop.

u/Chance_Drive_5906 — 5 days ago

Remedy: Make Better Merch

Remedy, please make better merch. The partnership with iam8bit is just so disrespectful to your artists who spent years on this game. The actual t-shirts in the game would be so easy to replicate (looking at you FBC New York Shirt). Get your shit together and take my money

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u/tkwondr — 5 days ago

I completely forgot about this lore bit from the first game, imagine what the Bureau would be like if Alan Wake did end up becoming a Prime Candidate and became Director

u/AceOfSpades532 — 5 days ago

It's honest work

I kept thinking this during my playthrough so I had to make it a reality

u/inmediasres1 — 5 days ago

Resonant's NG+ recontextualizes the name Control

It's no secret that the name Control is packed with multiple meanings. Several characters have used that word very deliberately in Remedyverse games since Control 1, and Remedy even jokingly calls attention to it (indirectly) in one of the book club notes:

> The title "Unless You" could refer to a bunch of things in the book, I guess, but I thought it was a little vague and stupid. The way the characters kept throwing it around almost like a catchphrase got real annoying real fast.

As a recap, a selection of the uses and interpretations of the name Control:

  • The game is about the Federal Bureau of Control. They control stuff. Duh.
  • It's a video game, you control Jesse. Duh duh.
  • It is also about Jesse taking and almost losing control, in many ways. Becoming the director, fighting against the Hiss, escaping from the nightmare sequence at the end, etc.
  • Similarly, Dylan is first controlled by the FBC, then by the Hiss.
  • Trench uses the word in most of his Hotlines, and it is implied that he is a bit of a control freak. In The Coming Storm he is worried about "losing control".
  • But perhaps most importantly: after Quantum Break where their publisher (Microsoft) controlled several aspects of the production (such as the entire TV series), Control was the first time in a long while where Remedy is in control of their own creative vision.

I just finished Resonant today, and then went to watch a compilation of the Dr. Darling cutscenes introduced in New Game+ (sorry, I'm not going to replay a 40-hour game for 10-15 minutes of new stuff). In one of the videos, Darling has a very important line:

> Dylan, P6, is the experiment and Jesse, P7, will be the control. We shape every element of one life, while another is left to fend for itself.

Jesse is, unbeknownst to her, the single-person control group of Darling's "science project".

So I think that's pretty neat.

u/simspelaaja — 5 days ago

Something I noticed

Probably mentioned before, but their beds in this section, Jesse has the bedframe and boxspring, Dylan has the mattress on the floor.

They spilt a full bed in half.

u/harlowemythic — 5 days ago

Do you think they would get along

Did Alfred faceless to keep him properly mysterious.

u/FoxJaeger77 — 5 days ago
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Photo [OC]

This is a Control inspired photo edit I made for my campaign set in the Remedy universe. I had a lot of fun making it, and I think it turned out awesome, hopefully my players will also like finding it in our sessions.

It's meant to be a sort of "Digital camera" vibe, but I'm still an amateur at image editing, so I couldn't replicate it the best.

u/Slight_Conclusion674 — 7 days ago
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9070 stabilty tips

I found that setting vsync to half, high settings and medium ray tracing is far more stable than other settings I've tried. It's stable without RT at all (much high FPS too), I just wanted to try it. I just have a 9700K CPU (old) which is why my CPU utilisation is so high I guess. How have your experiences been in this game with AMD graphics cards? My monitor is 165 Hz so I prefer higher FPS normally.

u/CorianderIsBad — 7 days ago
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Trick or treat came early

Love this time of the year, this is my favorite sketch Dylan drew

u/Lord9witdafye — 10 days ago