Control Resonant the Unknown Resonant Quest Guide: Requirements, Gates, and Rewards

You start The Unknown Resonant side quest with Answer the Distress Call in the Unknown. From the floating buildings, you’ll head to a warehouse, through blocked streets, and finally to a rooftop helipad. The Co-Director is the boss you’re up against. The fight isn’t the finish: select Command, then cleanse the dormant entity to complete the mission.

Reach the distress call and join the FBC Rangers

To activate the gravity wells in the Unknown, complete Pope’s Research. You’ll also need Shift from the Incursion Fault and Reach from the Subway Fault for the later traversal. Shift steadies you on rotated surfaces, while Reach pulls you toward traversal points across gaps.

The quest begins with Answer the Distress Call in the Unknown. Zoe radios about Rangers in distress and a possible Resonant near the Field Office. Use a gravity well to cross the floating buildings in the Unknown.

Launch through the gravity well

Cross the floating buildings in the Unknown until the objective changes to Get to the Rangers.

Help the Rangers in the warehouse

Enter the warehouse and defeat the hostile entities attacking the FBC squad.

Speak to the squad

Talk to the Rangers beside the locked door. Afterward, the objective becomes Advance with the Rangers.

Clear the street obstruction

When Disrupt the Pattern appears, interact with the rotating pattern mechanism to remove the barrier.

Open the first gate

At the closed security gate, follow Open the Gate for the Rangers: climb the adjacent platforms, enter the upper control area, and operate the gate switches.

Rejoin the Rangers

Once the gates open, return to the squad and continue under Advance with the Rangers.

Bypass the next gate

When another blocked gate triggers Look for a Way Around the Gate, climb the exterior walls and cross the rooftops and water towers.

Survive the courtyard ambush

Drop into the courtyard outside the building. The ambush begins there, and the objective changes to Survive the Ambush.

Take the elevator

Enter the main building’s lobby and ride the elevator upward under Advance with the Rangers.

Defeat The Co-Director

The encounter starts on the rooftop helipad, changing the objective to Kill the Resonant. Defeat The Co-Director to open Combat Ability Selection.

Select Command

On the demonstrated selection screen, choose Command with Choose this ability. Command takes over an enemy’s mind and turns that enemy into an ally.

Disrupt the street barrier and open the first security gate

At the pattern obstruction, four illuminated security booths block the route. Three remain still, while one moves differently from the others. Once the obstruction clears, the Rangers can continue through the checkpoint.

Bypass the second gate and survive the courtyard ambush

Beyond the earlier gate, you clear the next wave of enemies after another shockwave before the road ends at the next obstruction. The raised plaza farther along the bypass is marked by yellow hot air balloons.

Finish the rooftop encounter and collect the mission rewards

The Co-Director keeps its distance and fires ranged projectiles. Its glowing purple beam is the attack to watch most closely: it drains health faster than its other attacks. Closing in draws the surrounding Ranger ring inward before the boss spins it outward for heavy damage. The boss can also slam that ring into the ground.

As the fight continues, The Co-Director turns more Rangers against you. A later phase brings a charging attack with a rapidly spinning ring; when its health reaches half, more Rangers arrive and the outer ring begins firing rockets.

A cutscene follows. On PlayStation, the Honorable Discharge trophy notification appears, followed by The Unknown Resonant completion screen.

Rewards shown at mission completion

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