# How Remedy designed Control Resonant’s wildest mission: ‘Anything kind of goes’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/how-remedy-designed-control-resonants-wildest-mission-anything-kind-of-goes/
- Published: 2026-11-06T13:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T13:19:54+00:00
- Original publisher: The Verge
- Original article: https://www.theverge.com/games/1028159/control-resonant-recursions-and-iterations-mission-design-time-travel
- Topics: Culture, Research, Science, Travel

## Key points

- Remedy built timeline uncertainty into a standout Control Resonant mission.
- Three stations use different states of disrepair to show what happened.
- A late combat idea drew inspiration from Titanfall 2.

## Summary

Remedy designed “Recursions and Iterations”, a mission in the upcoming game Control Resonant, to leave players unsettled about how its timelines fit together. The uncertainty is part of the experience: even the developers were unsure whether the researchers’ fate was definitively resolved, while suggesting that ambiguity may have been intentional.

Players visit three research stations in the Underpass, where timeline anomalies repeatedly lead to the researchers’ deaths. The stations share a layout but differ in their visible state of disrepair, helping communicate what happened in each. A late combat sequence, inspired by Titanfall 2’s “Effect and Cause”, has glitching versions of Dylan join the fight, using animations already made for the game.

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