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The Maintenance Protocol door in Control Resonant opens with the Morse code for “in”: short, short, long. Inside, follow the alarm to the projector room, complete the three bulb repairs in any order, then choose “Break the bulb” during the slide sequence to escape and finish the quest.
Enter the Underpass with the door code
- At the locked door to the old Oldest House in the Underpass, use the intercom.
- Enter Morse code for “in”: short, short, long. One walkthrough describes the rhythm as “Hmm Hmm Hmmmmmm.” Walkthrough instructions.
Start the Maintenance Protocol
- Follow the alarm objective through the Underpass to the projector room.
- Watch the maintenance briefing.
- Use the switchboard in the adjacent room to reveal the three bulb objectives. Walkthroughs report that you can complete them in any order, so follow whichever objective is most convenient. Bulb walkthrough.
Repair the three bulbs
Volatile Bulb
Find the bulb near Halfway Trail. Choose reassuring dialogue responses, then defeat the enemy wave that appears. When the encounter is over, interact with the bulb and tighten it three times clockwise, following the briefing’s “righty-tighty” instruction. Bulb walkthrough.
Botanophobic Bulb
In the mold-covered area, destroy the nearby mold and fungal growth to clear access to the bulb. Interact with it and tighten it three times clockwise. Bulb walkthrough.
Electrosensitive Bulb
Find this bulb near the Research Stations area. Throw all three nearby battery generators away from it, then interact with the bulb and tighten it three times clockwise. Bulb walkthrough.
Quick Recap
Rank #3
- The action RPG sequel to Control, developed and published by Remedy Entertainment.
#1 Best Overall
- STEP INTO A WARPED REALITY: Explore multiple areas of a ravaged Manhattan in an expansive, unfamiliar, and exciting world. Traverse perception-bending locations and grapple with gravity anomalies that distort the vertical and horizontal plane, adding additional dimensions to puzzles and new tactical decisions to combat. Meet faces old and new on a path fraught with risk but rich in opportunity as the cityscape is reshaped and reality is redefined by a godlike force.
- MASTER THE PARANATURAL: Channel the raw experiences of Dylan’s past to help understand his present and dig deeper into the inner workings of the FBC and reveal the horrors threatening humankind. Tap into power he must learn to master and take choices to shape how his abilities manifest and grow. Explore a deep progression system to define how Dylan adapts to emerging dangers. Forge connections crucial to Dylan’s fight to retain his humanity as he journeys from former test subject to paranatural superweapon
- THE FIGHT SHIFTS. YOUR WEAPON SHIFTS WITH IT: Meet constantly evolving threats head-on, utilising the environment, deploying elemental abilities and using the raw force Dylan’s shapeshifting melee weapon, the Aberrant. Wield the Aberrant in its many deadly forms. Deliver bone-crunching blows with a two-handed hammer and flow seamlessly into the swift precision of dual-wielded blades as this paranatural weapon morphs on demand to meet each new challenge.
- SHARED LEGACY. NEW THREAT: FBC Director Jesse Faden's lockdown is no longer holding. A paranatural catastrophe has spilled beyond the Oldest House and onto the streets of Manhattan, and the Bureau's grip on containment is failing. Jesse Faden walked into the Oldest House to confront the threat within. Now Dylan must walk out of it to contain the threat beyond.
Escape the projector slide
- After all three bulb objectives are complete, return to the projector room.
- Interact with the final bulb in the projection. Dylan will be pulled into the slide.
- Continue the dialogue until “Break the bulb” appears, then select it to exit the slide and complete the quest. Walkthrough sources report the Standard Issue Coverall outfit as the reward. Quest walkthrough.
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