Control: Resonant – All Bosses, Locations, and Combat Ability Rewards

Control: Resonant has several bosses dwelling in different locations, defeating whom will unlock cool combat ability rewards. Dylan starts with barely anything, and you can get unprepared in fights. The best upgrades in Control: Resonant are connected to the game's boss fights. Below is a complete list of all Control: Resonant bosses, their locations, and rewards.

What Are Resonant Bosses in Control: Resonant

Resonants are the game's major bosses. Each one sits inside its own zone, has its own quest line separate from the main story, and drops a Combat Ability when it dies.

Only a couple of them are required to finish the campaign. The rest are optional in the strictest sense, but skipping them means going through the late game with two or three abilities while enemies keep scaling up. The Quest Log labels these objectives by region, so you'll see "The Central Resonant" in your log while the boss health bar says The Deserter.

Where to Find Control Resonant Bosses - Locations and Rewards

There are six Resonants or bosses in Control: Resonant in the set, plus Hedron, which is a story boss rather than a member of the group:

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1. The Artist (Downtown)

This Resonant boss shows up during Orientation, and beating it is mandatory to move the story along. The projectile spam and explosive attacks will kill you if you treat it like a normal enemy, so be careful.

Killing it sends Dylan to the Gap and gives you your first ability choice, which is the only three-option pick in the game.

2. The Deserter (Central)

Head north from the Central Field Office toward the Factory marker. Dylan will notice the patterned pipes outside, which adds the quest to your log. Inside the Patterned Factory, you'll need power cores to open the doors, then take the elevator down. Clear the red growth off the pipes, and the path to the boss opens up.

Clearing The Deserter will give you two options:

3. The Dancer (West Incursion Zone)

The Theater is visible from the street in West Incursion Zone, but the gravity-wrecked layout blocks every route. You actually need the Shift traversal ability first to reach the Dancer's location. This comes from the fault in the Parking Garage quest during the Jesse sequence. Once you have Shift, the path into the Theater Hall works fine.

The combat ability reward options are:

4. The Collective (The Park)

You'll find a Mold Gateway near the bottom of the pit in the middle of the zone here, with a mold sample sitting right beside it. You need four samples total:

Eat all four, and the gateway opens. You'll also want Shift and Reach for the tentacles inside. The combat ability reward options are:

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5. The Physicist (Underpass)

Start at The Spire to reach the Physicist location in Control: Resonant. Use Shift to get onto the red carpeted wall and follow it upward, clearing enemies to open the path into the Astral Plane. From there, you're hunting three Astral Keys (placed east, north, and south) on separate floating branches. Open all three, and the arena is straight ahead.

The Underpass has a lot going on at once, including the research team and Power Core objectives. Only switch to this route when the active quest specifically says The Underpass Resonant.

The combat ability reward options are:

6. The Co-Director (The Unknown)

While you're exploring the shifting terrain of The Unknown, Zoe picks up a distress call from Rangers near the Field Office. Use the Gravity Wells to travel there and work through the puzzle steps, which involve disrupting the pattern and carrying a charge to the Power Core. The elevator at the Field Office takes you down to the fight.

The combat ability reward is:

7. Hedron (The Unknown)

Hedron is the final boss, sitting to the west of the zone. You can only reach it after severing every Hedron Link and sitting through a long backstory sequence. Fall straight down in the arena and avoid clipping the sides on the way. Winning gives you an extra Combat Ability point rather than a new power.

How to Reset Combat Abilities in Control Resonant

Yes, you can actually reset your choices at the Gap. Here are the steps:

That's all the information you need to know about all the Resonant Bosses in Control: Resonant, including their locations and the combat ability reward options.

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