Today, Remedy wrapped up their livestream of Control, successfully holding off the Hiss invasion... at least for now. After completing the main game, and side missions, the team also explored The Foundation and AWE, finishing the former* today. After two and a half months, the play through has now officially wrapped up after nine broadcasts and twenty-seven hours.
For the final stream, Clay Murphy (Principal Writer) joined Julius Fondem (Community Manager & Publishing Coordinator) and Vida Starčević (Senior Community Manager) as they headed into the depths of The Oldest House.
The anniversary livestreams have been longer than previous streams, lasting approximately three hours, with a mid-way break. Throughout the stream, the devs talked about a range of topics, favourite Studio Ghibli films, how to approach working in games narrative, work-life balance, creating fictional languages, lesbian psi powers, a Brian & Casey crossover, and favourite game stories.
The Foundation was the first expansion to Control, Set after the main game, Jesse is summoned by The Board to handle a new immediate threat that has emerged for the Oldest House. To restore the Nail, a monument acting as a conduit between the Oldest House and Astral Plan, the new director must secure its four nodes in order to repair the structure. But that's not all, as Jesse arrives on site, she receives Hotline messages from the FBC'S Head of Operations, Helen Marshall, indicating something more sinister.
Throughout their adventure, the developers have stepped into the FBC with Juha Vainio (Executive Producer) and Miro Vesterinen (Lead Environment Artist). Helped sort out the Hiss situation in Maintenance with Teemu Huhtiniemi (Principal Level Designer), and Victor Sermin (Build Engineer). And most recently, they took over Fridge Duty and declogged those pesky mould growths with Lucile Dolbeau (Senior QA Tester) and Ilmari Timonen (Senior Rigging Artist).
As they dived deeper into the story, they learnt the truth about how the Federal Bureau of Control assigns its Directors, with James Tottman (Principal VFX Artist) and Anna Mellor Meecham (Senior Cinematic Designer). Before the gremlins, they tackled The Ashtray Maze with Anne-Marie Grönroos (Lead Level Designer) and Petri Alanko (Composer). They began their expansion adventure with AWE, talking to Juha Vainio and Brooke Maggs (Principal Narrative Designer) as they tracked down The Third Thing. before concluding the expansion with Ville Sorsa.
Next year, Remedy will be returning to Bright Falls in a new dev stream, with Alan Wake 2.
