Control Resonant Power Lines Walkthrough

Power Lines is the 5th main mission in the Contain the Crisis questline in Control Resonant. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Power Lines main quest.

Main Story: Contain the Crisis
Starting Location: Central > Field Office
Requirement: Complete Arish’s Briefing
Reward: 1 x Living Shard
Quest Description: The CFD needs a lot of power. A maintenance team was sent to reroute power from the city grid through the subway stations, but they disappeared, along with an entire subway station. Arish wants me to finish the job.

Objectives:

Reroute Perimeter Station
Reroute Factory Station
Reroute East Park Station
Head to the Surface / Help the Survivors
Reroute the Vanquished Station
Calibrate Platform A
Calibrate Platform B
Talk to Dr. Florez

All three of the Powerline Stations are located with the Central region, east of the Field Office area. You can reach this section of the map by going through the Level 1 Clearance door directly east of the south corner of the Field Office building.

Reroute Perimeter Station

Perimeter Station is the closest, located down the road east of the Field Office area.

The Perimeter Station entrance is along the road on the west side of the search area. Defeat the group of Hiss that appear then you can go down the stairs into the subway.

In the first part of the area you can pull an electrical charge to a second nearby box to allow you to enter a room with a Materials crate.

In this area you need to pick up the 3 small stations (visible as boxes on the minimap) and place them in the boxes around the large station in the middle of the area. The spots where you need to place them are shown with yellow tape on the ground, leading to square areas. The hint towards where to place them is in the notes nearby the central machine.

First before doing this, go back up and grab the charge you used before, and bring it down and to the end of the track to the north, where you can place it to open a shutter to one of the devices.

Now pick up and place the three devices. The first is in that room you just opened, placed near the stairs.

The second is at the other end of the tracks in the dead end, take it back up the stairs the way you entered. You need to grab the charge from the door where you picked up the first machine, and run it back to the original spot where you can now place this machine.

The third is up the stairs opposite where you entered into this area, placed in the spot immediately beside it.

You can now go back to the large machine in the center and interact with it. If you placed all the small machines correctly the light on the machine will turn green, and the number will change to a 1.

Reroute Factory Station

Factory Station is located to the northeast, behind the Patterned Factory area.

The Factory Station entrance is along the road on the north corner of the Patterned Factory. Defeat the group of Hiss and Mold that will be fighting here then you can go down the stairs into the subway.

As you are progressing down to the lower area, you can grab a small machine from a shop on the right, and bring it down into the subway area. Here you need to line up all three small machines with the larger machine, so place this first in in the spot directly at the bottom of the stairs.

The second can be found through the tunnels under the stairs where you entered, place it in the first spot in between the two benches.

The third can be found on the train to the left, pick up it and put it in the other spot between the two benches.

Then you can activate the big machine when everything is lined up.

Reroute East Park Station

East Park Station is located to the southeast, past the Perimeter Station.

The East Park Station entrance is at the intersection on the north end of the search area. Defeat the group of Hiss here then you can go down the stairs into the subway.

On the right side on the first station level, you can grab the first small device and bring it down to the platform. Drop it nearby because you need to clear some mold first.

On the platform, you can attack the three mold growths to destroy them, revealing the three spots to place the small machines.

Before placing anything, interact with the big machine in the middle. Do this until it teleports you to the room in the area above where the small machine was behind the gate. You can attack the panel on the left to open the gate, then bring the machine down.

Place all three machines in the spots, then you can activate the big machine to finish rerouting all power.

Head to the Surface/ Help the Survivors

After activating the machine, you’ll need to try and exit the station, but the door is now a wall. Go up the stairs and you can interact with the speaker on the wall, as well as the wall to explain to Zoe that you can’t exit.

Go back to the platform and you can now go down the subway tunnel where the spinning wall previously was. Defeat the Mold enemies that block your way in the first room, then keep going down the tunnel.

Reroute the Vanquished Station

The next area you need to calibrate two more stations. Before you can do anything with Platform B, go up the stairs near where you entered and you can follow the path up.

On the upper level, take the charge from the box powering the light, and use it on the one near the door.

In this room there is one small machine to grab, along with a Health Upgrade crate.

Before moving the small machine around, go to the opposite wall where there is a mold that you can break, which will allow you to reach the people who were talking on the radio, along with some more of the machines.

Carry two of the machines from this area back over to Platform B. If you hadn’t messed with it before, move the charge on this platform between the two platforms to grow all 4 mold spots, then take the charge and place it on the open spot on the platform above, so there is no more charge on Platform B.

Now break the mold that is on the two black platforms on the edge of the station, but not the two on top of the wires as you need them to conduct the electricity.

After you have placed both, interact with the large machine to calibrate it and be taken to Platform A.

Calibrate Platform A

On Platform A, follow the path to the south where you can break a panel to open the gate leading back to where the survivors were.

Take one of the charges and run it down to the spot on Platform A. This will allow you to grab the machine from the top of the opposite stairs where a gate is now open.

You can then grab both machines, take the charge from Platform A and put it back in the middle room. Break the Mold that will have grown, and place the two machines on the opposite sides of the main one, then use the Platform A machine.