Orientation is the 1st main mission in Control Resonant. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Orientation main quest.
- Main Story: Wake Up
- Starting Location: Downtown > Oldest House
- Requirement: None (start the game)
- Reward: 1000 x Source, 1 x Living Shard, 1 x Reset Item, Untapped Badge 11-60 Artifact
- Quest Description: Something’s gone wrong in the Oldest House. What did I wake up to?
Objectives:
- Leave the Oldest House
- Meet Zoe at the Hotel Building
- Investigate the Alley
- Search for Jesse
- Complete the Ritual
- Find a Vantage Point
- Reach the Source of the Patterning
- Defeat the Artist
Leave the Oldest House
From the start of the game after exiting Dylan’s cell, follow the path through the doors with green lights beside them. When you reach the locked security gate, enter the room to the left and hit the button with L1/LT to open the door to continue.
You can look around and pick up collectibles that give extra lore, but these aren’t required for any trophies/achievements so they are fully optional. Follow the path to the left through the large metal doors to the first elevator and use it. You’ll then encounter the first group of Hiss that you can defeat while being given some tutorial on basic combat.
Follow the stairs up and around the room, then head toward the hallway with the sign “Thomas Street Exit” to continue toward the exit.
Continue through the next elevator, then interact with the hole in the wall to exit outside.
Meet Zoe at the Hotel Building
Outside you don’t have access to the in-game map yet, but you need to make your way southwest to the Hotel which you are prompted to look at. Follow the street defeating enemies in your way, taking the path to the right then left down the alley.
After defeating the next group of enemies you’ll get to choose your first Secondary Melee form, then can continue after defeating the next group of enemies. Follow the path up and around the next set of buildings, using dodge to jump across the larger gaps.
Keep following the street to the end where you can speak with Zoe standing in front of the giant gap.
Investigate the Alley
After speaking with Zoe, follow her into the alley nearby.
Jumping across the building in the next area, following the trail of birds above you.
When you reach the building where they are flowing into the window, follow the path inside.
Search for Jesse
Inside the room, interact with the TV to be taken to a different area.
In this area you are just following a platforming path. Once you reach the building that looks like a parking lot, go up and interact with Jesse at the far railing.
Complete the Ritual
You now start to gain access to new platforming abilities, and must keep moving through the area. You will gain access to double jump and Elevate, which allows you hover in the air for a short time, along with Rush which allows you to sprint for a short duration. Use these powers to continue through the area until you reach the final TV, then interact with it to exit the ritual area.
Find a Vantage Point
Exit the interior area, and you will have a new path that you can progress along in front of you.
Reach the Source of the Patterning
Defeat the enemies in your way, then continue jumping across the buildings to the patterned area ahead. You’ll need to climb up the buildings to either the left or right, which will allow you to jump across to the gallery building at the top of the area.
Go inside and at the back, interact with the door to progress to the first boss fight.
Defeat the Artist
The Artist is the first Resonance boss, which you need to defeat to progress.
This boss primarily slides around the arena, alternating between throwing cars or waves of rocks at you. When you get up close to attack them, they will swing pairs of traffic lights either directly down on top of you, or across the front. You can dodge through both of these attack.
The boss has one main phase transition, which occurs when you reach the blue dot on the health bar (this also drops some healing pickups at the same time). They will then float up in the air in the middle of the arena. You need to jump up the platforms that appear, and hit the glowing spot underneath them to cause them to drop back to the ground.
After this the boss will return to doing largely the same attacks for the rest of the fight. The main new thing that occurs is that when they slide around rocks will drop from above onto the same path they slide on, so you want to move to the side before chasing after them.
Once they are defeated, you will appear in The Gap and receive a short tutorial on ability upgrades to complete the mission.
This finishes Orientation in Control Resonant.
For all other Quests refer to Control Resonant Walkthrough.
Leave a Reply