Power Lines is the 5th main mission in the Contain the Crisis questline in Control Resonant. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Power Lines main quest.
- Main Story: Contain the Crisis
- Starting Location: Central > Field Office
- Requirement: Complete Arish’s Briefing
- Reward: 1 x Living Shard
- Quest Description: The CFD needs a lot of power. A maintenance team was sent to reroute power from the city grid through the subway stations, but they disappeared, along with an entire subway station. Arish wants me to finish the job.
Objectives:
- Reroute Perimeter Station
- Reroute Factory Station
- Reroute East Park Station
- Head to the Surface / Help the Survivors
- Reroute the Vanished Station
- Calibrate Platform A
- Calibrate Platform B
- Talk to Dr. Florez
Video Guide
Reroute Perimeter Station
All three of the Powerline Stations are located with the Central region, east of the Field Office area. You can reach this section of the map by going through the Level 1 Clearance door directly east of the south corner of the Field Office building.
Perimeter Station is the closest, located down the road east of the Field Office area.
The Perimeter Station entrance is along the road on the west side of the search area. Defeat the group of Hiss that appear then you can go down the stairs into the subway.
In the first part of the area you can pull an electrical charge to a second nearby box to allow you to enter a room with a Materials crate.
In this area you need to pick up the 3 Calibration Units (visible as boxes on the minimap) and place them in the yellow squares (leylines) near the Tuning Device. The spots where you need to place them are shown with yellow tape on the ground. The hint towards where to place them is in the notes near the central machine.
First before doing this, go back up and grab the electric charge you used before, and bring it down and to the end of the track to the north, where you can place it to open a shutter to one of the calibration units.
Now pick up and place the three units. The first is in that room you just opened, placed near the stairs.
The second is at the other end of the tracks in the dead end, take it back up the stairs the way you entered. You need to grab the charge from the door where you picked up the first machine, and run it back to the original spot where you can now place this machine.
The third is up the stairs opposite where you entered into this area, placed in the spot immediately beside it.
You can now go back to the large machine in the center and interact with it. If you placed all the calibration devices correctly (1 in square closest to the machine, 2 in the squares furthest away), the light on the machine will turn green, and the number will change to a 1.
Reroute Factory Station
Factory Station is located to the north, behind the Patterned Factory area.
The Factory Station entrance is along the road on the north corner of the Patterned Factory. Defeat the group of Hiss and Mold that will be fighting here then you can go down the stairs into the subway.
As you are progressing down to the lower area, you can grab a calibration device from a shop on the right, and bring it down into the subway area. Here you need to line up all three calibration devices with the larger machine. Place this first in the spot directly at the bottom of the stairs.
The second can be found through the tunnels under the stairs where you entered, place it in the first spot in between the two benches.
The third can be found on the train to the left, pick it up and put it in the other spot between the two benches.
Then you can activate the big machine when everything is lined up (all 3 devices forming a straight line in front of the machine).
Reroute East Park Station
East Park Station is located to the southeast, past the Perimeter Station.
The East Park Station entrance is at the intersection on the north end of the search area. Defeat the group of Hiss here then you can go down the stairs into the subway.
On the right side on the first station level, you can grab the first calibration device and bring it down to the platform. Drop it nearby because you need to clear some mold first.
On the platform, you can attack the three mold growths to destroy them, revealing the three spots to place the calibration devices.
Before placing anything, interact with the big machine in the middle. Do this until it teleports you to the room in the area above where the calibration device was behind the gate. You can attack the panel on the left to open the gate, then bring the device down.
The third calibration device is already sitting next to the machine where you cleared the mold. Place all three devices in the yellow squares around the machine, then you can activate the machine to finish rerouting all power.
Head to the Surface/ Help the Survivors
After activating the machine, you’ll need to try and exit the station, but the door is now a wall. Go up the stairs and you can interact with the speaker on the wall, as well as the wall to explain to Zoe that you can’t exit.
Go back to the platform and you can now go down the subway tunnel where the spinning wall previously was. Defeat the Mold enemies that block your way in the first room, then keep going down the tunnel.
Reroute the Vanished Station
The next area you need to calibrate two more stations. Before you can do anything with Platform B, go up the stairs near where you entered and you can follow the path up.
On the upper level, take the charge from the box powering the light, and use it on the one near the door.
In this room there is a calibration device to grab, along with a Health Upgrade crate.
Before moving the calibration device, go to the opposite wall where there is a mold that you can break, which will allow you to reach the people who were talking on the radio, along with some more of the machines. (The power/light must be off so the mold doesn’t regrow)
Carry the two calibration devices from this area back over to Platform B. Also carry the electric charge to the power box on Platform B, make sure both boxes on Platform B have electricity. Then you can interact with the machine on Platform B and it will teleport you to Platform A.
Note: Platform A must be calibrated first before you can properly calibrate Platform B.
Calibrate Platform A
On Platform A, follow the path to the south where you can break a panel to open the gate leading back to where the survivors were.
Take one of the electric charges and run it down to the spot on Platform A. Placing the electricity here will open the gate up the stairs, allowing you to grab the third calibration device.
A fourth calibration device will have spawned in the room in the middle where the survivors are. Place two calibration devices around Platform A. One spot is below the mold, you must carry the electricity back to the middle room, then you can destroy the mold and it won’t grow back. After placing both calibration devices, interact with the machine on Platform A to calibrate it.
Basically: 1) Power on both electric boxes at Platform B to teleport to Platform A > 2) Power on electric box at Platform A to open gate upstairs for calibration device > 3) remove electricity at Platform A to destroy the mold > 4) place 2 calibration devices at Platform A.
Calibrate Platform B
Now run back to Platform B through the central area.
From before when you turned on the electricity here, 4 mold spots should have grown. The two mold spots in the middle fill the gap between the broken power wires on the ground (they conduct the electricity). If you accidentally destroyed the mold over the wires, you must again run around to grab the electricity and place it on the power boxes at Platform B.
Then make sure the power at Platform B is removed, you can carry it to the two power boxes in the middle room upstairs. Now break the mold that is on the two black platforms on the edge of the station, but not the two on top of the wires as you need them to conduct the electricity.
When both calibration devices are placed and two mold are in the middle, you can turn on the machine at Platform B.
Basically: 1) Turn on Power to grow mold in middle > 2) Remove Power to destroy Mold on sides (but keep Mold in Middle) > 3) Place 2 devices on the sides > 4) Interact with machine.
Talk to Dr. Florez
This will spawn a bunch more Mold enemies in this area.
Defeat them, then go back up to the central area to speak with Dr. Florez once more to complete the mission.
This finishes Power Lines in Control Resonant.
NEXT: Into the Sinkhole
For all other Quests refer to Control Resonant Walkthrough.
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