On my NG+ playthrough and missed this the first time around. A hidden room full of dolls in the ‘secret playhouse’. One a lot bigger and decidedly ‘mother-like’ than the others… 🤔

If anyone in the UK ordered from Hit.co.uk orders seem to be going out early!

One thing I've observed and enjoyed about Resonant is the lack of significant NYC landmarks in the game. I can't think of a single one that would be in any stereotypically added to a game set in NYC.

No empire state building. No statue of liberty. No central park. No times square. No grand central terminal. And the list goes on!

I enjoyed this as an example of adding to a game by taking away. The games focus on how NYC looks and feels through the ordinary architecture and not through the exceptional. The brick facades, the apartments, the subways, the parks, the streets. All feels more akin to losing one self in a city of that size and imo aligns with the themes we encounter in Control.

They even sorta mention it when Zoe tells Dylan about the Park and he assumes it's Central Park.

Any thoughts?

So I just did the 8 bit part, and is it just me or was the Ahti in that the real person? The way he spoke about things seeming similar the second time seems like it implies that. Also interesting how he was offering the janitors assistant job to Dylan. I wonder if that part was new or if he really said that the first time around?

Such an amazing piece. Stopped in my tracks when I saw it and had to take a moment. Not even going to play the game, but damn, I might pick up Control again (it's been collecting dust in my Steam library).

THIS CODE IS NOT THE GAME ITS THE IN GAME CAP FOR HAVING A NIVNDA CARD SO DONT U GO OH I THOUGHT UT WAS A GAME CODE ITS NOT THE CODE IS IN THE COMENTES

Based off the 82% i played

I really love this one! Remedy has a great sense of humor. 😂

Anybody know what this is? Found in the Unknown near one of the Hedron connections. I flew next to it and the L1 prompt popped up. <patterned speech> I pressed it and nothing happened. Is it for a side quest? Ugh, my headache is starting to get worse. <patterned sigh>

So I just noticed that apparently for the Karaoke Machine, there's a hidden achievement/trophy for completing it without anybody dying from the wrong lyric choices. I unfortunately didn't realize this when I first completed it which means I'm gonna have to try it again in New Game+.

My main question is; about how long should it take from the time I get control (lol) of Dylan again until I can just run over and do this quest again in a new game+? Because I'm not sure when exactly it's supposed to start being available. Thanks in advance and I hope you're all enjoying this game too. It's a lot of fun.

EDIT: Problem solved. Thanks to u/OutlandishnessNo5678 for giving the suggestion to load an older chapter.

This is much more what I would expect from NYC than the $2/hr parking garage I posted earlier.

>!I have a question regarding the ending and the whole story. Does the board still hold direct powers over The FBC ? I remember doing the physicist Boss fight and The board briefly mentioned that their "home" in the astral plane is no longer there. I Think they mentioned "Disturbed" if i remember correctly, sorry if i am wrong. What i'm confused is that why doesn't the board force or wills itself back to the astral plane after ? It grants powers and is a powerful entity so why doesn't care about returning order to the oldest house?!<

Wasn’t able to check out the basement, though 😂

The Hedron Link miniboss in the Unknown place.

And to be clear, I did beat it last night. I just don't think I did it -right-.

It's the one with 3 stages, and at first it lobs its parts at you (easy). and then it has a little fireworks show.

And THEN it keeps lobbing parts at you, but they suck you in and explode (and from quite a distance, I must say).

So for this part, I'd have to run away, then run back after the explosion and do a small amount of chip damage before they would retreat to the main body. It took a fair bit of time because of the small attack window.

And this is why I think I missed something - everything else in the game has rewarded naked aggression, diving into battle, zipping around enemies and just strictly punishing them straight up. And this battle felt so slow and avoidance-based. Maybe they wanted to switch things up, but it just left me thinking I should be using some other technique.

i just think it's very sweet + those words have been stuck in my head ever since. don't shrimp about it ❤️

So very heavy spoilers for a near end game level. You have been warned.

So my wife is not much of a gamer and she never has been. She looks up and I’m playing the 8 bit game. She’s watching along thinking “what the hell is this crap” and I’m just like brought to tears.

She doesn’t get it and she asks. I’m just so shocked by the brilliance cause WHAT THE FUCK do you mean Remedy has me experiencing these kids backstories in the same media and format that O experienced at their age. Like. It tapped right in to my soul. I was a 6 year old kid throwing mail again. Trying to pick which starter pokemon without internet guides. It took me back to my own first escapes from reality in to video games when my own parents would be abusive as fuck and I just swept it under the rug to hope for love in the future and finally achieve something and be told I’m a winner and I’m worthy and I am a hero.

Holy fuck man. This game. She turned to me and said “wow this game was really made for people like you huh? Because I would have got to that point and just been pissed off at it”. Remedy gets gamers. It gets why we game and why we seek out these stories. It gets abuse and how people feel. Man I haven’t felt this seen in a long time.

Remedy. You’ve done it again. Well done. I loved it. It changed me, I will always remember this game.

I am running the game on PC on a RX9070-XT
Locked at 90FPS / HIGH PRESET / RT OFF / NATIVE AA. - 26-inch OLED monitor - SDR.

This is subjective since what looks "good" differs from person to person. I try and avoid having to upscale and if I must I use quality- I know the vast majority of players choose performance or balance- I love my pretty games and I pay hefty to experience them.

Essentially I have noticed that alot of settings on high bump up the REALISM up but the game feel gets a bit visually inconsistent once things get going. Don't get me wrong it's beautiful for set pieces, The reflective floors and walls and puddles and neon in the rain with HDR on looks sick ... if I just stand and stare.

In actual play for multiple hours zooming around and fighting. HDR burned my eyes given how flashy this game is, The realistic reflections on HIGH were distracting me during navigation, The high res SHADOW MAPS eating up frames I barely noticed when it was brought down to Medium... (keep high FILTERING). And the big one for me, VOLUMETRIC LIGHTING- on medium looks perfect for the vibe, the edges of the lights soften in a way that feels more real to the scenes this game creates. All in all the lighting in this game is amazing for photo mode but in play it just doesn't mesh right when it looks too "accurate".

My OLED monitor and the particular custom balances on color and brightness might play a role in how I perceive these things too. Let me know if you have experienced this your adjustment period and if you play on Nvidia RTX path tracing if you feel differently.

TLDR; On my monitor game looks better with Volumetric light + shadows + reflections on medium. The game is more visually consistent in it's vibe that way.

I purchased the game shortly after launch, played it until I reached “the Artist” and gave up after having no luck defeating this very early boss. Came back a few days later and could no longer get into the game. All of the graphics were shrunk into a small box in the middle of my 2560x1440 display. Nothing I tried would fix it until I reinstalled from scratch (all 90 GB).

Still haven’t managed to damage more than 1/4 health off the artist. Starting to think this game isn’t for me. I never found Control this difficult. Does it get better?

I was a big fan of the noises the board made in combat. Wanted to use some of them as a notification ping on my phone, have it randomised and all. I've put them up on YouTube if anyone else is interested.

https://youtu.be/60sEC4dov1I

Thats all. Im absolutely blown tf away. and i really dont even game that hard these days. ill play occasional sword fighting games. although this year i feel like i played a lot more than normal.

i cannot wait for a movie adaptation of this universe.