Hello Director, welcome back to Control. When we last left off
We were just about to cleanse the Hiss corrupted agent who I believe is the one right over there
Is the noise coming from her?
My god, her eyes are open and everything
Oh
I was trying to cleanse her, but she died
Hiss agent, again
Ordered by me, compiled by Emily Pope, even though she's standing right there
I don't know if this is more like a game thing or does it really matter that
We somehow have this report before she even knows about it
I'm not sure
(Welonz reads the document)
When attacked, Hiss agents disappear
Is that what we did just now? Because we did try attacking them before, but they seem to have been
Protected by some kind of shield
The Hiss resonance
By the way, these two guys
Were these the only two guys with you? In the shelter?
My god
Is that the Hotline?
The only place where we can make sense of what we're seeing and it's been trashed
Thank you
So the thing she's wearing is called the HRA. I think the guards outside were wearing that too
And that's what protected them, somehow
I know that she said Trench had many years of experience
So when we saw him pointing a gun at himself
That's not like him picking up the gun for the first time and then he got killed because he didn't pass a test
Like I don't know if you have to get tested regularly again, and he failed the second one or something
But he's been in this position for a long time
Yeah, let's learn
So as far as I know, Remedy games usually don't have this kind of conversation system
I think Control is gonna have a bit of a RPG or Metroidvania component
where we got to go back and forth between places
Hmmm
Pfft
(laughs)
That's really morbid
Everyone seems to be really adapting well to me being here, although I'm completely a newbie
Probably because I have the gun, the gun's accepted me. So everybody else naturally has to accept me, too
What?
(Wheeze)
(laughs)
She's a researcher, not the receptionist
(laughs)
Wow
Doesn't the timing seem suspicious
Ohhh
And we gotta find him, don't we?
Yeah, what are you guys gonna do in the meantime? Why don't we all travel together?
I don't know
Are these the previous directors?
I don't know
Important people all the same
House memory
I didn't notice, we have some kind of counter here for materials
Okay, no clearance level
Loadout
Just got a gun for now, but it seems like I got a mod
Health recovery
Health recovery on element pick up +20%
Okay, cool
Collectibles
Portrait of director
Zachariah Trench
(Welonz reads the quote)
Sounds like a person with a strong sense of responsibility
But I don't really want to be told that by a person who killed themselves
(Welonz reads the quote)
Exactly
Missions
So we gotta go find the Hotline in the Communications Department
All right
If we look here
Uh, it looks like it's somewhere in the north?
Okay, let's head off then
Thank you for all your help Emily
I'll be back in no time
Right, so this guy's wearing the HRA too and so is this guy. Kind of a shame we can't talk
Ohhh, okay, cool
Outfits? No, I'm fine like this
Usually for this kind of thing, I like the default outfit. It's usually the one that fits the atmosphere the most
Oh
Okay, if we wanna go north
Well it's kind of weird because if you look on the map, it doesn't really show the levels of the places, so
If I wanna go north
Oh god, oh god
This is where we jumped down from?
Right, so we were here already
And then here
That's a lot of sticky notes
I don't have clearance level four
Even though I'm the director, I don't have clearance level to everything. Why?
Uhh
I don't feel like we'll get anywhere by going back here
The body's gone
Which I guess we should have expected anyway, because why would the body still be here?
Hello
What is this?
Just a box of secret information?
I can't read that yet
Undefined reading
All right
We haven't checked these rooms yet
Have we?
Technological restrictions
By Karla Vaughn and Dr. Hubert Tan, Research Specialists, by order of Casper Darling, Head of Research
(Welonz reads the document)
Oh
Right, so back in the beginning, before we entered here, they mentioned that we can't bring smart devices in here
so the timeline is that I think it's the current year 2019, but when we look around, it doesn't feel that way because
Those things aren't really allowed here
That's not creepy at all
(Welonz reads middle poster)
(Welonz reads left poster)
Oh wow
(Welonz reads right poster)
Okay
Oh, I hear Hiss around here
Someone's talking somewhere
Shifted bathroom complaint
(Welonz reads the document)
I wonder if these shifts happen randomly or at certain points in the story
Health boost, another mod?
But I only have room for one
This one increases my health by 18%, the other one increases my health recovery on element pick up
Hm, I guess I'll go with this one for now
We haven't done any combat yet, so it's hard to tell which one's better
Preferably we wouldn't get hurt at all to begin with
Hold on
Let me just check this room, too
I'm very thankful that these things seem to be pretty easy to find
You don't have to walk super close to it for them to show up
And that seems to be pretty much it
That's back in the board room
Now here
I feel like we should be looking up in the ceiling once in a while, cuz we don't know what's plastered on there
Trench and somebody else
Well
Nobody here
Oh?
Is there another agent?
Beneath me?
Oh, that's probably how we get out of here
Yeaaah
Shatter projectile boost
No, that's a weapon mod
Projectiles fired +2, but it's exclusive to Shatter
Is that like a skill? Is that like a type of person? A type of gun? Or...
Whatever it is, I can't use it for now
No?
Clearance level one
Is one the highest or the lowest?
Oh
My god
Okay
Oddly enough, it actually shows that this is green
Whoa, okay
Got to be careful here
Ooh
I think somebody noted to me that the recharge goes a lot faster if I don't use up all the ammo at the same time
So I'll be trying to do that
Travel costs
(Welonz reads the document)
The little asterisk:
(Welonz reads the sentence after asterisk)
(laughs)
They routinely have agents going all over the place just to look for new altered items and then presumably
They bring it all back here
So it's actually quite a big deal that there has been a containment breach in this specific building
Because that means that everything we've been collecting is now loose
Lord
Hmm?
What is that?
This isn't where we need to be
Oh-ho, oh
Ohh
Oh okay, red means bad, got it
Do they have faces?
Oh god, wait
Aren't they the ones that were levitating that are becoming the ones attacking me?
Or are they coming from elsewhere?
I can't tell
Here we go
I wonder if the kinds of people levitating are related to the job roles too
Because they seem to be non-combat personnel so far, right?
And-and the ones who attack me with guns are the security personnel
Which is something that was mentioned in the his guard report earlier
No reports here, this is the cafeteria
Unstable area notice
(Welonz reads the document)
Where do we check the status of each place though?
Is it by the little light here?
May be
No, no, I don't think so. That just means locked or unlocked, right?
Another shelter?
What are they saying? They sound angrier and angrier
Whoa, what the hell?
Havana summary
(Welonz reads the document)
This was
September 23rd, 2017. Yeah, so this is really recent
Event response:
(Welonz reads the document)
Even that censored, really?
(Welonz reads the document)
Ooh, would be really handy if we could learn this formula, too
A single cowboy boot began resonating
Uhh, are we allowed to walk in there?
No
Not really
I can kind of brave past it, but it'll hurt
So for now, this is a place that we can't really do anything with
Okay, fine, fine
Where can we go then? Where do you want me to go?
Whoa, okay
Dead letters
Yes
Whoa
Wait, they have a shield
Oh my god. What do I do?
Oh frick
I just have to shoot them more I guess
There's more
I'll get the one closer first
I'm waiting
Whooa
Their faces
I want to see what's really going on, but I don't want to get shot up either
Gotta get some health back
Lord
There was something here
Yeah at this point, maybe it's better for me to have the more health recovery
Yeah, I'll give it a try but what did we pick up just now?
Energy recovery speed
Hmm
How do I unlock more slots for...
Equipping?
Not sure just yet
Nothing here
Maybe something across?
Was that me?
I guess so
It's so dark here, I can't even see what I'm picking up
Bartwell to Trench. Department Approval
(Welonz reads the document)
What's the thinking behind this though?
Like, people encounter paranormal events, and then they write a letter about it?
But it doesn't get delivered to anywhere... nice
Are there people here?
I thought I heard the music ramp up a little bit again
I actually can't see where I'm walking
Singing Fish
Mr Governor - Oh, this might be one of the letters
(Welonz reads the document)
Hey, I have one of those fish too. Don't scare me like that
This person wrote to their governor cuz the police ignored them. It could be a thing, who really knows
I imagine if the Bureau found multiple letters talking about the same thing then they would start looking into it
I feel like I hear things coming at me
Oh, I just want to get out of here
I'm so uncomfortable
What?
Was that?
Hey, since they can throw grenades at me
When do I get to throw grenades at them?
Oh god
I gotta really watch out
They never taught me but I think it's possible to crouch. Yeah. I'm not sure if it's possible to evade though
Here's our thing
Health
It almost feels like we're doing some kind of exorcism
All right, well, I feel better already
(Welonz reads the prompt)
This is locked
Alright, alright
Ahh, so these tubes
This is some kind of retro technology too, right? Sending messages like this, because we don't really have emails
No Wi-Fi, no internet
Communications Department
Oh lord, what's this?
Introduction to paranatural topics, presentation 11.15, Dr. Casper Darling
It's huge
O-kay?
But it really can be anything huh, even a random floppy disk
Kind of reminds me of the mimics in Prey 2017 a little bit
Oh
Machine God
(Welonz reads the document)
One of the letters here
Now that we actually get to look at this place
Central Executive
Even though we cleansed the area, there's still people floating around here
Ok
Well here we go
Ohhh
Reassuring
Do we want to go upstairs?
If we tried to listen to what the Hiss is saying, would we actually learn anything?
Internet usage rules:
(Welonz reads the poster)
Oh, wow, so there's actually internet here
(Welonz reads the poster)
T-d-d-d...
(Welonz reads the poster)
Hm
So level five clearance I'm guessing is pretty high, which means level one clearance is the first step
Which means I don't have any level of clearance right now, despite being the director
I gotta get it all somehow
Comms Department
Wow, we can actually read every single thing if we zoom in, that's kind of cool
No dogs, no dogs allowed in the office, because some people have allergies
Not because it's dangerous for your dog or anything
Whoa
What?
This guy was alive
Whoa
That's... okay?
Shelter here
An empty one?
Headshot Boost
Headshot damage plus 30%. Heck yeah, that'll be really useful
Book Club: Samson
(Welonz reads the document)
Uhh
Isn't that exactly what happened to this guy here?
