Control Resonant “Reach” Unlock Steps, Level 2, and Grapple Points

The Evacuation Zone and The Subway Fault are available early, but reaching Jesse at level 2 means facing higher-level enemies with skull icons beside their health bars. The opening fight is easier around level 4; at level 2, focus on the enemies blocking your route and dodge their attacks.

Find the Evacuation Zone entrance

Evacuation Zone 1 becomes accessible after Downtown, and The Subway Fault is within it. On the map, look east of Downtown 2 and south of Central 3, near Railyard Street Station. The Custom Marker 1 shown at the destination is a placed marker on the building.

How to unlock Reach early in Control Resonant

Start at the Evacuation Zone building and follow The Subway Fault until Jesse’s conversation awards Reach.

Find the Evacuation Zone building

Open the map, locate the Evacuation Zone, and head toward Railyard Street Station.

Enter the entrance building

Go inside the building ahead and drop into its flooded industrial interior.

Clear the building interior

Dodge claw attacks and projectile blasts as you move through the flooded chamber and warehouse corridors.

Take the wall passage

Go through the opened hole in the wall and continue through the cleared corridors.

Descend toward the station

Leave through the back, cross the rooftops toward the glowing intersection, and head down toward the subway entrance.

Start The Subway Fault

When New Quest / THE SUBWAY FAULT appears, descend the illuminated station stairs for Investigate the Subway in the Evacuation Zone.

Enter the subway tunnels

Continue through the tiled corridors and descend into the deeper tunnels, timing your movement around passing trains.

Enter the opening

Continue through the subway tunnels.

Take the left gate

Turn left, pass through the gate ahead, and follow the side passages.

Wait beneath the train

Stop for the train passing overhead, then advance once it has gone by.

Open the next subway passage

Target the heavy enemies in this tunnel encounter to open the route; smaller enemies can be left alone unless you need help.

Descend into the lower subway

Jump into the collapsed area below, passing through the hanging beams and scaffolding.

Fight along the lower ledges

Evade the lunges of the large fishlike flying creatures as you fight them on the elevated ledges.

Follow the reopened passage

Continue deeper through the damaged subway passages and into the lit circular tunnel leading toward the yellow-lit chamber.

Enter the Fault

Follow the Enter the Fault objective toward the portal and step onto the flower-covered platform.

Find Jesse

Under Find and Talk to Jesse, follow the floating railway pieces and grassy platforms beside the derailed train toward her isolated platform.

Speak with Jesse

Approach Jesse to begin the dialogue and cutscene.

Receive Reach

When the cutscene ends, Reach / Received appears and the objective advances to Help Jesse Complete the Ritual.

Clear the building and start The Subway Fault

Inside, the fight moves from the flooded chamber into warehouse corridors lined with shipping crates and scaffolding. Dodge the heavy creatures’ claws and projectiles; aerial strikes and club attacks are both demonstrated against the armored creatures as the fight continues through the chamber. Smaller enemies can supply health when you need it, so you can leave them alone otherwise.

Beyond the opening, the route passes concrete stairs and an exterior walkway before dropping toward the street intersection. The quest log places The Subway Fault beneath Search for Jesse; its first objective sends you into the subway.

Cross the subway tunnels and open the route

The tiled route descends through shafts to a lower railway corridor, then continues past metal doors and along the tracks. At the overhead train, wait for it to pass before moving forward. Farther in, a cracked wall opening drops into a train cavern with green vapor and heavy, tentacled creatures. Dodge their claw swipes and use melee attacks to clear that encounter before following the cavern passages and arched tracks onward.

Find Jesse inside the Fault

The lower fight takes place around elevated ledges. Past it, damaged subway passages lead to the long yellow-lit approach and the Fault entrance. Inside, yellow grass and suspended railway pieces lead past a derailed train toward Jesse’s platform.

The Subway Fault awards Reach after the conversation with Jesse. When Reach / Received appears, the unlock is complete even though Help Jesse Complete the Ritual is the next objective.

Use Reach on glowing grapple points

Reach pulls Dylan toward glowing grapple points around Manhattan, including points on rooftops, buildings and ledges. It helps you move between buildings, cross large gaps and reach difficult city areas; immediately after the unlock, you can use it to climb platforms and cross floating islands. Grapple pulls can also carry you up shafts toward the city.

Those glowing points have finally earned their place in the scenery.

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