Remedy has released a free content update for its Control Ultimate Edition.
The update – which includes access to Dr Yoshimi Tokui’s Guided Imagery Experience featuring a certain Hideo Kojima – is arriving first for those on PC (Steam and Epic Games Store, with GOG to follow later) today.
It will then be available to those who have Control Ultimate Edition on either PS5 or Xbox series X/S consoles. “We have a small team working on these updates so we want to space them out to give us time to fix potential issues that might come up,” the developer explained, saying it will update with dates as and when. “We appreciate your patience!”
Here’s everything included in today’s free content update for Control Ultimate Edition, as laid out by Remedy.
OUTFITS
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)
- Extradimensional Suit (formerly obtainable in the AWE DLC by finishing SHÜM)
MISSIONS
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.)
GRAPHICS
- Added HDR support
- Added new Ultra ray tracing preset, which gets you more rays per pixel and higher temporal stability
- 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
- 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
DLSS SUPPORT
- Added DLSS support for arbitrary resolutions
- Added DLAA support
- Updated DLSS to DLSS 3.7, 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.
GENERAL
- 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
As for what’s next for Remedy and its Control series, the world is set to expand this year with the developer’s multiplayer release, FBC: Firebreak.
FBC: Firebreak is scheduled to release later this year, across PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, Xbox Series X S and PlayStation 5. It will also be available across PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate, as well as day one onto the PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue, which is available for all Extra and Premium members.
Meanwhile, the launch of Alan Wake 2’s Lake House expansion last year provided what looks to be an intriguing tease for where Control 2’s story is headed.
