Hello, Director! It's time for our monthly virtual photography showcase.

March has indeed been special for Control. We released a free update for PC which included HDR, graphical improvements, and unlocked some previously released content, such as outfits for Jesse, to all owners of Control on Steam.

Thank you to everyone who has sent us positive feedback about this update, and thank you all for the patience as the update took a bit of time to release on all the platforms mentioned above. There's a very small, but hardworking and dedicated team working on this update at Remedy, so your feedback is always heard and appreciated.

And of course, as we debuted the gameplay trailer for FBC: Firebreak this month, which heavily features sticky notes, we simply had to feature a virtual photograph with sticky notes at the top of this blog. Unlocking all the outfits for Jesse to more players also resulted in them featuring in some of the Faden Friday submissions this month.

Check out our favourites: https://controlgame.com/faden-friday-march-2025/


Credit: dogtorwho.bsky.social

Hey everyone! This is Julius, Community Manager on FBC: Firebreak and boy do I have a treat for you today! I’m happy to share with you our second Community Look video where the FBC: Firebreak dev team gives you a closer look on how Jobs in the game work and what was the driving philosophy behind the gameplay of FBC: Firebreak. Have a look below to get a behind-the-scenes look on FBC: Firebreak!




If you’re not familiar with FBC: Firebreak, it’s a 3-player cooperative first-person shooter set within the enigmatic Federal Bureau of Control (FBC). As the Bureau’s headquarters faces a deadly and prolonged siege by otherworldly forces, only Firebreak—its most adaptable response unit—has the skills and courage to restore order.

FBC: Firebreak is coming to Steam in Summer 2025 so Wishlist it now!

IT’S TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2272540/FBC_Firebreak/

Hello everyone! This is Julius, Community Manager, on FBC: Firebreak. Today I’m very excited to reveal to you one of the Jobs in FBC: Firebreak – Paper Chase!




In Paper Chase you descend deep into The Oldest House, the Executive Sector to be more precise, where endlessly replicating Sticky Notes have run amok. However, these Sticky Notes won’t go down without a fight, and the Hiss are of course there to hinder you every step of the way. Quite the mess.

As you make your way deeper into The Executive Sector, you’ll face the biggest Sticky Note creature of them all: Sticky Ricky. Complete your objectives and get the hell out of there in one piece, or risk getting left behind by your crewmates. A job completed is what The Federal Bureau of Control prioritizes after all.



If you’re not familiar with FBC: Firebreak, it’s a 3-player cooperative first-person shooter set within the enigmatic Federal Bureau of Control (FBC). As the Bureau’s headquarters faces a deadly and prolonged siege by otherworldly forces, only Firebreak—its most adaptable response unit—has the skills and courage to restore order.

FBC: Firebreak is coming to Steam in Summer 2025 so Wishlist it now!

IT’S TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2272540/FBC_Firebreak/

Hello, Director!

We're happy to announce that all owners of Control Ultimate Edition will be receiving a free content update. This includes three outfits, a previously platform-exclusive mission, HDR, DLSS 4, and several other improvements. Read on for the full update notes!


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)

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.)

• Added HDR support
  
• Added new Ultra ray tracing preset, which gets you more rays per pixel and higher temporal stability
  
• Fixed shadow flickering on new NVIDIA Series 5000 GPUs
  
• Added Super Sampling support. The game can now render at resolutions higher than your output resolution.
  
• Added a new High Quality Post Process setting. All post processes should now look better – depth of field, bloom, Hiss effects…
  
• Added a new higher quality Anisotropic Filtering setting
  
• 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
  
• Improved the quality of our own in-house TAA solution. This results in less ghosting and better textures.
  
• 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

• Added DLSS support for arbitrary resolutions
  
• Added DLAA support
  
• Updated DLSS to DLSS 4, 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.

• 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

Welcome to our #FadenFriday November community blog! Once again we’ve been overwhelmed by your incredible virtual photography, so thank you! Take a look at some of the most creative Control captures we’ve seen throughout the month.

Want to be in with a chance of getting featured on our website? Upload your photos here or tag us using #FadenFriday on X. We’ll keep a close eye on submissions and showcase our favourites at the end of every month.

Check out our favourite submissions from November 2024 below.

https://505.games/FadenFridayNov24

(Photo credit: StefanieMcMaken)

FADEN FRIDAY - OCTOBER 2024

Welcome to our #FadenFriday October community blog! Once again we’ve been overwhelmed by your incredible virtual photography, so thank you! Take a look at some of the most creative Control captures we’ve seen throughout the month.

Want to be in with a chance of getting featured on our website? Upload your photos here or tag us using #FadenFriday on X. We’ll keep a close eye on submissions and showcase our favourites at the end of every month.

Check out our favourite submissions from October 2024 below.

https://505.games/FadenFridayoOct24

(Photo credit: MasterSteve8848)

FADEN FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 2024

A little later than planned, but our #FadenFriday September community blog is now LIVE! Take a look at 40 of the most creative Control captures we've seen throughout the month.

Want to be in with a chance of getting featured on our website? Upload your photos and tag us using #FadenFriday on X. We’ll keep a close eye on submissions and showcase our favourites at the end of every month. Alternatively, link us up to your best captures below and we'll include our favourites in our next blog at the end of October.

Check out our favourite submissions from September 2024 below.

https://505.games/FadenFridayOct24

(Photo credit: MichBorg98)

FADEN FRIDAY - AUGUST 2024

Our #FadenFriday August community blog is now LIVE! Take a look at some of the most creative Control captures we’ve seen this month.

Want to be in with a chance of getting featured on our website? Upload your photos and tag us using #FadenFriday on X. We’ll keep a close eye on submissions and showcase our favourites at the end of every month. Alternatively, link us up to your best captures below and we'll include our favourites in our next blog at the end of September.

Check out our favourite submissions from August 2024 below.

https://505.games/FadenFridayAugust24


(Photo credit: thebigbad_V)

Today is World Photo Day and what better way to celebrate than by pointing our virtual lenses to focus on the incredible virtual photographers in the Control community. The virtual photography community is so special, welcoming and supportive of one another. Last month, we asked existing players if they had any advice for newcomers to Control’s photo mode tools. And of course, you didn’t hiss-appoint with your responses.

Take a look at some of the best advice we found.

Happy World Photo Day, Director!

https://505.games/ControlPhotoDay24


(Photo credit: @coalabr14 on X)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control_Ultimate_Edition/

FADEN FRIDAY - JULY 2024

Our #FadenFriday July community blog is now LIVE! It's been almost 5 years since we first launched Control and you continue to blow us away with your talents! Thank you so much for the love.

Want to be in with a chance of getting featured on our website? Upload your photos and tag us using #FadenFriday on X. Alternatively, link us up to your best captures below and we'll include our favourites in our next blog at the end of August.

Check out our favourite submissions from July 2024 below.

https://505.games/FadenFridayJuly24


(Photo credit: CaptureControl)