Into the Valley of Death is a side quest in Control Resonant. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Into the Valley of Death side mission.
- Starting Location: Downtown > Oldest House
- Requirement: Progress through Recursions and Iterations main quest
- Reward: Untapped Catnip Toy artifact
- Quest Description: Langston needs help with a mission that is clearly very important to him. Something about his apartment?
Objectives:
- Talk to Langston at the Field Office / Get the Key to Langston’s Apartment
- Get to Langston’s Apartment in the Sinkhole
- Search the Apartment for Alfred
- Take the Cat Carrier and Feeder
- Search for Alfred in the Sinkhole
- Find a Bedroom for the Carrier
- Lure Alfred Inside the Carrier
- Investigate the Screaming
- Follow Alfred’s Directions to the Monster
- Defeat Maria
- Help Alfred Fight Maria
- Leave Alfred Next to the Ranger’s Body
Starting Location: Into the Valley of Death
This side mission is automatically started during the main mission Recursions and Iterations when you speak with Pope in the Oldest House. She will prompt you to go speak with Langston.
Talk to Langston at the Field Office / Get the Key to Langston’s Apartment
You can head to the Field Office in Central where you can speak with Langston.
He will tell you that you need to rescue Alfred, and gives you the keys to his apartment. If you had talked to Dombrow during Recursions and Iterations this also completes the objective from him to find the apartment keys.
Get to Langston’s Apartment in the Sinkhole
You now need to head back into the Sinkhole in Evacuation Zone. You can enter the same way as before through the laundromat entrance.
In the sinkhole, jump down to the PERSONAL ACCESS platform and continue in the first large area with all of the apartment rooms. Jump up to the platform to the north where Dombrow is located, and follow the yellow tape through the area with the 3 beside it.
Follow the tape to the door with the 5 and interact with it to enter Langston’s apartment.
Search the Apartment for Alfred
Inside the apartment you can speak with Langston through the cat feeder, then need to look for Alfred.
Take the Cat Carrier and Feeder
Inspect the scratches on the wall, then the blood on the floor, and Langston will ask you to pick up the cat feeder. Take it into the bedroom to place it beside the cat carrier.
Search for Alfred in the Sinkhole
Interact with the carrier to put the feeder inside, then you can pick up the carrier.
Walk it back out of the apartment. You then need to follow the plants that are knocked over leading to the right (not the path back to the main sinkhole area).
Keep following the knocked over plants. If you are unsure where to go from a plant you can spot dirty cat footprints from each one that point toward the next one.
Find a Bedroom for the Carrier
When you reach the main sinkhole room where Dombrow is located, you need to place the cat carrier on a bed with a TV nearby. If you are standing beside Dombrow, look south to an apartment on the same level with a light visible in a room.
Then in the back of this apartment there is a bed you can place the carrier on.
Lure Alfred Inside the Carrier
In the bedroom, interact with the piano against the wall.
You now need to remove the plants from the room. There are four total, pick them up and drop them outside the bedroom.
After moving the plants you need to leave the room, you can walk back out to the main Sinkhole area, then Langston will call you back to the carrier. Wait for him to finish talking then pick it up.
Investigate the Screaming
After you pick up the carrier, walk back out to the main area. Jump back over to Dombrow and inspect his body.
Follow Alfred’s Directions to the Monster
You then need to carry around Alfred to have him lead you to what killed Dombrow. Langston will translate for you, based on the direction you are going. You can look for the blood splatters on the ground, so you first need to jump down into the middle of the area and go further into the Sinkhole.
Defeat Maria
After dropping into the hole go south where the red crack in the wall is. When you enter the room you will be attacked by the miniboss Maria. They are the same as the invisible Hiss that you have fought previously in this area.
Help Alfred Fight Maria
After defeating Maria, you need to pick up the carrier again and walk it over to the red crack in the wall and place it on the floor.
You then need to watch for which window the red light is coming out of, and interact with it to call Alfred to that location. The red-lit window moves around in the same route constantly but will start avoiding the path that Alfred is currently on. You need to watch which route it is currently taking and interact with a window in front of it on the same wall just before the red light reaches that window. You can Shift onto all of the walls in this room, so you can stand beside a window and wait for the Hiss to move there before calling Alfred.
Do this successfully three times, and it will force Maria to spawn in the room again, so you can defeat her.
You can then go back and interact with the carrier at the red crack in the wall.
Leave Alfred Next to the Ranger’s Body
You can then jump back up the hole, and back to where Dombrow was located. He is still marked with the Important Person icon on the minimap to make locating his body easier. Place the carrier in the spot in front of the TV to complete the mission.
To exit the Sinkhole area, you can drop down the central hole to the original bottom where the diving bell is and use the Fast Travel door there instead of trying to find the correct door to climb back out.
This finishes Into the Valley of Death side quest in Control Resonant.
For all other Quests refer to Control Resonant Walkthrough.
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