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Control Resonant: The Factory Station Reroute in the Power Lines Quest, Explained

What the first stop of the Power Lines mission involves, where the station sits in Central, and how the reroute registers as complete.

What the first stop of the Power Lines mission involves, where the station sits in Central, and how the reroute registers as complete.

Image: Remedy Entertainment

Factory Station is one of the subway stops Dylan Faden brings back online during the “Power Lines” mission in Control Resonant, Remedy’s 2026 follow-up to Control. It works as the opening beat of a longer power-routing job that runs across Central, and the footage from the third playthrough segment shows exactly what the stop asks of you before the mission spreads out to the other stations.

Quick answer: Factory Station is a Power Lines objective where you carry the station’s loose power cores onto the marked yellow floor pads and activate the central console; the objective then updates to “Head to the Surface.”


What the Factory Station reroute is in Power Lines

“Power Lines” begins when Dylan speaks with security chief Simon Arish at Field Command in Central. Arish briefs him on the Cancellation Field Device, or CFD, built by Emily Pope to push back the Hiss. That device needs power, and the grid runs through a set of subway stations that have to be switched back on one at a time.

The mission tracks four separate reroute objectives under the same quest:

  • Reroute Factory Station
  • Reroute Perimeter Station
  • Reroute East Park Station
  • Reroute the Vanished Station

Factory Station is the first of these, and it sets the pattern for the ones that follow. Each stop uses the same idea of feeding loose power units into terminals to complete a circuit, so clearing Factory Station teaches the routine you repeat later at East Park, Perimeter, and the Mold-covered Vanished Station.


Where Factory Station sits in Central

The station marker appears in yellow on the Central map, near the Patterned Factory and the park checkpoint. The route runs out from the Field Office along the main road toward the industrial sector, past a street stretch flagged as a minefield with floating red explosive drones to avoid.

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The Central map marks Factory Station in yellow, the reroute objective for Power Lines. Shown at 00:05 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Rather than turning into the factory itself, the path continues alongside its wall toward a visible wall of Mold in the distance. The station entrance sits at the crossroads at the end of that wall, marked by a green-lit stairway down into the concourse.

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The stairways connect the street-level entrance with the platform where the reroute takes place. Shown at 00:15 in Gaming Fight Club’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

How the power reroute plays out

Inside the station, the reroute is a short power-routing task. Several loose power cores sit around the concourse and platform, and the platform floor is marked with yellow squares that act as receiver pads. One core waits in an open shop kiosk near the ticket barriers, while others are tucked around the platform and the train tracks.

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Dylan carries the loose power cores one at a time from the concourse down to the platform. Shown at 01:32 in Gaming Fight Club’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Dylan carries each core down to the platform and drops it onto one of the yellow pads. The goal is simply to fill every marked square so the circuit connects across the platform. Some cores are reached by vaulting over the parked train car or dropping onto the tracks.

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Each power core drops onto a marked yellow receiver square to build the circuit. Shown at 00:26 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

With every pad filled, Dylan uses the central console on the platform. Pulling the lever sends an energy surge through the grid that briefly drops him to his knees in pain as his handler, Zoe, speaks over the radio. That reaction is scripted and marks the reroute as done rather than a hazard to avoid.

Activating Perimeter Station Switch
Activating the platform console with the on-screen prompt sends the surge that reroutes the station. Image: Remedy Entertainment / via @JBGamingExp

The same console layout recurs at the other Power Lines stops, so the tall control terminal seen here is the piece you look for at every station.

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The reroute console repeats at the later stations, including East Park. Image: Remedy Entertainment / via @JBGamingExp

How you know the reroute worked

Once the console fires, the quest text changes to “Head to the Surface,” which confirms Factory Station is rerouted. Dr. Mia Florez also broadcasts a distress call over the station intercom, and it is worth answering the intercom before you leave, since her messages carry through the rest of Power Lines as she and the survivors wait to be reached.

The Mold that spreads through the later stations conducts electricity, so at those stops the circuit can route through Mold clusters as well as the floor pads. Factory Station is the clean, introductory version before that complication arrives at the Vanished Station.

With the surface objective active, the mission points you back up into Central toward the remaining reroutes, ending with the Vanished Station rescue that closes out Power Lines and hands Dylan a Living Shard.