Control Resonant power upgrade point locations

Power upgrade points increase your maximum power in Control Resonant, allowing you to cast more combat abilities whenever the white power bar is full. They do not directly increase ability damage.

Most points are hidden inside large concrete resource crates, while others are awarded for achieving the second-highest score on arcade-machine challenges. This guide brings together the currently identified locations across Downtown, Central, West Incursion Zone, Evacuation Zone, The Park and Underpass.

This guide is a work in progress and may receive further location updates.

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How power upgrade points work

You gain one maximum-power increase for every three power upgrade points collected. The items are usually found in large concrete-block crates, although arcade machines can also award them.

Some crates are inside testing facilities and require puzzles, combat encounters or other challenges before they can be opened. Increasing a zone’s level should reveal the positions of its large resource crates, but the contents remain unknown until you reach them. A few are still difficult to locate even after their map positions are unlocked.

Arcade rewards require the second-highest score. These challenges can be demanding early in the game, but Assist Mode can help you achieve the required score.

Downtown power upgrade points

Downtown currently contains four known points. Two are accessible without traversal abilities; the other two require Reach, obtained in the Evacuation Zone.

Resonant Ruins

Return to the Resonant Ruins arena where you fought the Artist resonant during the prologue. The concrete crate is near the arena’s centre.

Southeast construction site

Dylan standing in front of a crate made of cinderblocks in Control Resonant.

A under construction building in the southwest corner of Downtown in Control Resonant.

Travel southeast of the vendor to the unfinished building. Enter from the southern side, defeat the enemies and search the ground-floor room.

Testing Facility Reade

Use Reach at Lookout Point to access southeast Downtown. Enter the construction site and take the ground-floor sewer entrance. At the end, move each item into a soda dispenser and place the dispensers on the yellow square. The opened room contains the point.

Downtown arcade machine

Dylan standing in front of a Wear'Em & Wash'Em laundromat in the Downtown zone in Control Resonant.

Raise Downtown to zone level 8. In the southeast, use Reach to cross the rooftops and floating platforms made from traffic pylons and rubbish bins. Follow them to the laundromat, then earn the second-highest score on the arcade machine.

Central power upgrade points

Central has five known points. Complete the Contain the Crisis main story line and raise the zone to level 4 to unlock every location.

Underground Supply Route

Dylan standing in front of a locked door underground in Control Resonant.

After taking the lift down from the Watchtower, enter the large room containing a power block. Two blocks are unpowered, one north and one west. Transfer power to the western block and enter the room behind it.

R&C Storage

Complete the Evacuation Procedures quest in Evacuation Zone to obtain the level 2 security keycard. Return to the Field Office fast-travel door and go to the lowest level to access R&C Storage.

Patterned Factory, second floor

Dylan standing in front of a power block and a room that contains a power upgrade point in Control Resonant.

Use a power block to enter the Patterned Factory and climb to the second floor. Charge the block to the south, then quickly carry it back to the locked room and open the door.

FBC Testing Facility

Dylan standing at a sewer entrance in the Central zone in Control Resonant.

Go northeast from the vendor to the construction site and enter the sewer. In the facility, transfer charge between the blue cores and blinking red cores. The faster a core blinks, the less power it has. Keep every core alive for 60 seconds, then activate the switch to open the reward room.

Central arcade machine

Dylan standing outside an Urban Fresh Mart in the Central zone in Control Resonant.

Central must reach zone level 4. Travel east from the Patterned Factory to Urban Fresh Mart and achieve the second-highest score in the parkour challenge.

West Incursion Zone power upgrade points

Four points are currently known here. Three require Shift, unlocked through the Parking Garage fault.

House of Mirrors

Enter the House of Mirrors and check the southern corner.

Test Facility Broadway

Use Shift to reach the sewer entrance on the second-southernmost road. Follow it to the end, move each item into a soda dispenser and place them on the yellow squares. Enter the unlocked room.

West Supply Route Station

Dylan standing in front of a subway entrance that leads Downtown in Control Resonant.

In the zone’s southeast corner, enter the subway station leading to Downtown. Follow the left-hand tracks, use Shift to climb the wall and continue until you reach the point.

West Incursion Zone arcade machine

Dylan standing on top of a car in front of an Atlantis Cafe in the West Incursion Zone in Control Resonant.

Raise the zone to level 3. Find the Atlantis Cafe just east of the Empire Avenue fast-travel door.

Evacuation Zone power upgrade points

Four points are currently identified. The final two require further main-story progress.

Testing Facility Pearl

Dylan standing in front of a sewer hole in the Evacuation Zone in Control Resonant.

At the southern tip of the zone, enter the sewer and follow it to the testing facility. Solve the puzzle by turning every item into a soda dispenser and placing the dispensers on the yellow squares.

Evac Building arcade machine

Dylan standing in front of a wooden door in a red area in Control Resonant.

Evacuation Zone must be zone level 6. Obtain the level 2 security keycard during Evacuation Procedures, then find the machine in the ground-floor room of the Evac Building that requires the card. Achieve the second-highest score.

Laundromat path to sinkhole

Dylan standing inside a refurbished landromat that has been taken over by the FBC in Control Resonant.

Progress to the Recursions and Iterations main story quest to unlock the laundromat route to the sinkhole. Enter the building and look to the left.

Bottom of sinkhole

Dylan standing in an orange-lit room in Control Resonant.

During Recursions and Iterations, descend to the bottom of the sinkhole. The point is in the southern corner.

The Park power upgrade points

The Park currently has two known locations.

Security checkpoint

Dylan standing in front of an elevator button in Control Resonant.

Reach the southwest corner and take the lift into the mould-covered security checkpoint. Follow the route inside to find the point.

The Park arcade machine

Dylan standing in front of a webbed door in Control Resonant.

Raise The Park to zone level 4. In the northern section, go to the building northeast of the power cores. Burn the mouldy door on its eastern side, enter and achieve the second-highest score.