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Control Ultimate Edition: March 2025 Update Notes (PC) (controlgame.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This was certainly unexpected

Tap for spoilerOUTFITS The following outfits are now available to all players. The outfits can be accessed and equipped from the Control Point in the Central Executive Sector area.

• Astral Dive Suit (formerly a pre-order exclusive) • Tactical Response Gear (formerly a pre-order exclusive) • Urban Response Gear (formerly a pre-order exclusive)

MISSIONS All players will receive the mission Dr. Yoshimi Tokui’s Guided Imagery Experience, featuring voiceover by Hideo Kojima. The mission is playable when you pick up the Dr Tokui Tapes collectible in the Extrasensory Lab of the Research Sector. (This mission was previously exclusive to the PlayStation 4 Digital Deluxe version of Control.)

GRAPHICS • Added HDR support • Added new Ultra ray tracing preset, which gets you more rays per pixel and higher temporal stability • Added ultrawide monitor support for up to 48:9 monitors • Added an FOV scaling setting for the gameplay camera • Updated SDR to 10bit (from 8bit), which reduces visible color banding • Improved graphics adapter detection at startup, with automatic selection between DX11 and DX12 • Implemented screen aspect ratio fixes for ultrawide monitors • Your current monitor resolution can now reliably be selected from the screen resolution and rendering resolution menus • Added rendering resolution support beyond 4K • Implemented texture streaming fixes • Ray tracing bug fixes

DLSS SUPPORT • Added DLSS support for arbitrary resolutions • Added DLAA support • Updated DLSS to DLSS 3.7, with higher temporal stability • Film grain added back to DLSS SR • Fixed shadow resolution when DLSS is enabled • Added resolution dependent mip map bias for DLSS. This enhances texture quality, for example when applying the DLSS Performance setting.

GENERAL • Updated the audio on cinematics and end credits to remove unintended channel mixing. You will no longer hear anything that isn’t intended to be heard. (It wasn’t the Hiss, it was us. Sorry.) • Several bug and crash fixes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is any of this in the unofficial dev mod, or should that still be used?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the unofficial patch made official.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's really cool. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No idea. I have control but never played it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same here, acquired through Epic Games' giveaways. That was so bizarre to watch, haha: Dr. Yoshimi Tokui's Guided Imagery Experience / Secret Mission // CONTROL

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You really should play it. It's such a good SCP game. I wish they would make more like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

a sequel is in the works : https://www.remedygames.com/games/control-2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hell yes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hmm... Special Containment Procedures? What other games are good in this sub-genre?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Secure. Contain. Protect.

Other one I think is Prey. It sorta falls into the genre.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, yes, the new Prey was a terrifying, incredible title! It's almost too much for me to bear replaying, even, though it was incredibly gripping and is amazingly well-done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yea it was something I didn't touch for a while, as I thought it was something to do with another title called prey which wasn't that good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You didn't like Prey?!?! Did you maybe take it at too hard of a difficulty? It was incredible!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The original one, not the second SCP one. The scp one in space was incredible and I loved it. The first one from 2006 was terrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh, I was referring to the second one, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Prey is a great game regardless. Anyone not playing it is missing out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Added ultrawide monitor support for up to 48:9 monitors

had no idea such a thing even existed, jesus christ thats a big fucking monitor

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Currently playing through the game so that was unexpected. Spoilerfree The good:

  • (Really good) Faster loading times
  • More gfx options
  • Free outfits from founder edition
  • More missions apparently (still going through the base game so idk)

The bad:

  • Lip sync is still broken in engine cinematic

The ugly:

  • You now have to sign EULA
  • Menu ad for Alan Wake 2 and DLCs

I get it, it's 2025 but 2 days ago I was praising the game to a friend about how player friendly the game was and how it felt like a game and not an app.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Dude the ads on menu shit is horrific. I loaded up DOOM 2016 the other day and literally the menu, in the fucking game, is a selector between the game I installed and a selector for DOOM Dark Ages that I don't own. What the fuck. This is why I hate games being always online even if strictly multiplayer. That game is damn near a decade old and theyre shoving updates to it just in hopes of sales. /rant

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Take control!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I'll have too prepare for another playthrough at some point. I finished my first a few months ago and was really wanting more

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

GOG gets this update when?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I really couldn’t enjoy this game, it for some reason made me nauseous and tired.

Wanted to enjoy it, unfortunately couldn’t.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's just an effect of exposure to The Hiss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You are a worm through time.

The thunder song distorts you.

Happiness comes.

White pearls, but yellow and red in the eye.

Through a mirror, inverted is made right.

Leave your insides by the door.

Push the fingers through the surface into the wet.

You've always been the new you.

You don't want this to be true.

We stand around you while you dream.

You can almost hear our words but you forget.

This happens more and more now.

You gave us the permission in your regulations.

We wait in the stains.

The word that describes this is redacted.

Repeat the word.

The name of the sound.

It resonates in your house.

After the song, time for applause.

We build you till nothing remains.

The egg cracks and the truth will emerge out of you.

You are home.

You remind us of home.

You've taken your boss with your boss with you.

All hair must be eaten.

Under the conceptual reality behind this reality you must want these waves to drag you away.

After the song, time for applause.

The cliche is death out of time, breaking the first the second the third the fourth wall, the fifth wall, floor; no floor: you fall!

How do you say "insane"?

Hurts to be happy.

An ear worm is a tune you can't stop humming in a dream: "baby baby baby yeah".

Just plastic.

So, safe and nothing to worry about.

Ha ha, funny.

The last egg breaks now.

The hole in your room is a hole in you.

You came and we let you in through the hole in you.

You have always been here, the only child.

A copy of a copy of a copy.

Orange peel.

The picture is you holding the picture.

When you hear this you will know you're the new you.

You want to listen.

You want to dream.

You want to smile.

You want to hurt.

You don't want to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same here, I really did enjoy it for a bit, but the grind began to feel like work. Didn't help that my Xbox one would crash per consistently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It becomes a bit slog-ish around half way through but the final like 20ish% of the game was well worth it imo. The "Ashtray Maze" segment in particular was a highlight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I started this a while back, and while I enjoyed it, I never went back to it, looks like being patient paid off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Time for another playthrough I guess

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did they ever fix the inability to save the game?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Issues like that are usually related to windows security settings which block applications from modifying the contents of user specific folders.

If a game likes to write save files to those locations and you have enabled ransomware protection, you'll need to allow an exception for it:

Go to Windows Security -> Protection History -> Protected folder access blocked (look for the game's executable in this list) -> Actions -> Allow on Device

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info! I'll try reinstalling the game in the next few days and see if it works...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No problem. Unfortunately the prompt for an application being denied access usually only shows up when the game first creates a save point. So you might have to get just far enough until the game saves to trigger it.