Control Resonant Freeze Frame Walkthrough: All 14 Camera Locations

The Freeze Frame side story sends Dylan Faden after a rogue Altered Item: a tripod-mounted camera that freezes anything caught in its lens. Fourteen of these cameras are scattered across Manhattan, two per zone, and each one temporarily locks you in place and vanishes the moment it sees you. The only way to contain one is to sneak up on it from behind and shut its lid.

Quick answer: Track down all 14 Altered Cameras across the seven zones, approach each one out of its line of sight, and press the prompt to shut its lid. Then return to Downtown to clear the final cluster.

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How the Freeze Frame quest works

The side story starts automatically the first time any of these cameras snaps you. Each camera hides behind a short traversal puzzle. You locate its position, then work out a route that lets you reach it from behind without stepping into its view. Walking into the lens freezes you and makes the camera disappear, after which it respawns in the same spot so you can try again.

You will need most of Dylan’s movement kit to reach them, including Shift, Reach, Levitate, and a fire ability such as Ignite or Inferno for one blocked path. Several cameras sit behind locked doors that require rerouting power through charge cubes before the timer on each charge runs out.

Finishing Freeze Frame gives you the Shiny Pebble artifact. During a Gravity Anomaly, it gradually replenishes health to a maximum of 50%. It also counts toward the Panopticon Intern trophy, which requires completing all Altered Item side stories.

Downtown camera locations

Camera 1 – upside-down building at Dense Patterning

From the Gravity Town Fast Travel Door, head to the left of where the door faces and use Shift to drop down. You will land on a surface covered in Hiss Spikes.

Look to your left, then use Shift to move onto the building’s side. On the roof beneath you, find an entrance you can break through.

Smash the hatch open with a heavy attack or weapon, drop through, and you will come out behind the camera. Shut the lid.

Camera 2 – FBC office near The Chasm

This camera sits in eastern Downtown, reached through the Lookout Point entryway using Reach to grapple across. It is inside a portable FBC office just down the street past The Chasm Fast Travel Door, and the door is locked, so you need to charge a power cube to open it.

Stand facing the office entrance and turn left toward the alley teeming with Hiss Spikes. Follow it, make two right turns, and fight through the enemies to the office’s sealed rear entrance.

Head back to the Power Core Station down the road. Grab the charge from atop the green crate, then dash toward the back alleys, using the three Reach grapple points along the way.

Deposit the charge in the rooftop cube past the third Reach point, then hit that cube to carry the power to the locked back door. Enter and shut the lid from behind.

Central camera locations

Camera 1 – inside the Watchtower

After meeting Zoe, find this camera on the floor beneath her office. Starting at the Watchtower Fast Travel Door, go straight to the sign marking the Underground Supply Route.

Take the first flight of stairs down, then turn right and go down another flight. Turn right into the room lit by an orange glow and climb the platforms in the corner to reach the camera’s landing.

Do not walk into its view. Turn around, Levitate up through the hole in the floor above, then take the rear of the two holes ahead so you drop into the corridor behind the camera. Grab it.

Camera 2 – warehouse rooftop

Look for this camera on a rooftop southwest of here, near Central Supply, atop a brick building. Enter the neighboring white building and climb its multi-storey parking lot to the top. Jump toward the blue double doors; they burst open and expose the camera.

Once it freezes you and vanishes, enter the doorway, head downstairs into the warehouse, and drop to the lower floor. Moving toward the red door exit triggers a fight that traps you inside.

Clear the waves of enemies, exit the building, then re-enter and climb back up the way you came. The camera will be back in place looking out the doorway, so approach it and shut the lid.

Evacuation Zone camera locations

Camera 1 – rooftop south of the Sinkhole

This is the quest’s most difficult charge relay. The camera peers out from a small rooftop building. Before each charge runs out, redirect power through multiple cubes to unlock the door behind the camera.

Grab a charge from the Charge Cube marker on the map and deposit it in the cube on the nearby rooftop you can parkour to.

Take that charge, drop to street level, follow the left side of the road toward the camera, and add it to the next cube.

Grab the charge again and rush past the double doors to the cube sitting between two operated platforms. It is a long run, so move quickly.

Take the final charge, climb the truck down the road, hop onto the platform near the building, and deposit it in the last cube beside the door. The door opens so you can walk in and disable the camera.

Camera 2 – rooftop billboard on Railyard Street

On Railyard Street, locate the camera on a roof beside a billboard, next to the Mold-covered wall blocking the street. Allow it to spot you, then go inside the building.

Take the elevator to the lowest floor. First, look in the room nearby for the “Master of Many Minds” TV recording; then summon the elevator and ride it down.

Collect the chest nearby and leave through the door. A click and flash indicate the camera has returned; ride the elevator up again and use the stairs to disable it.

West Incursion Zone camera locations

Camera 1 – gravity wall north of the Parking Garage

Find the route north of the Parking Garage, where a large rooftop is tilted onto its side. Shift across its surface.

Go right at the small building ahead to find a Reach grapple point and pull yourself across.

Reach the far end of the rooftop, look below to spot the camera, then drop straight down behind it to disable it.

Camera 2 – window-cleaning platform by Pulse Fitness

Head to the southern area near the Pulse Fitness location, down the road from the Museum of Curiosities. Look up to find a Reach grapple point.

Grapple up, then use the floating platforms to climb to the window-washing platform. The camera is on the vantage point above to the left, so leap up behind it and shut the lid.

The Park camera locations

Camera 1 – Nomad Avenue Station subway

On the street near Nomad Avenue Station, head down into the subway and pass through the security point ahead, then turn right into the underground area.

Climb the stairs, take a right, and keep going straight until a web blocks your way. Burn through it with a fire element, for example Ignite or Inferno.

Turn right, head through the red door, and follow the path to its end to reach the camera from behind.

Camera 2 – eastern rooftop platforms

In the eastern part of the map, grab the charge from the nearby cube and rush it to the source ahead to activate the elevator.

Ride the elevator to the top and look right toward street level for a platform at the same rooftop height. Glide and dash across to it.

Glide to the next platform below, which holds the camera, and be sure to land behind it before shutting the lid.

Underpass camera locations

Camera 1 – island east of the Underpass Vendor

In the yellow-lit area, find the camera with two flying enemies frozen in front of it. Go around to the structure’s left side and jump.

When the prompt appears, use Reach to latch onto the underside of the structure, then move forward to find a hole on the left.

Drop through the hole. Gravity flips again as you fall, dropping you behind the camera so you can grab it.

Camera 2 – island south of Tubes Island

At this moldy area south of Tubes Island, the camera sits in a hole to your left. Look ahead for a floating platform in mid-air.

Get onto the platform, then glide and dash toward the hole; mid-air attack combos can add to your dash if necessary. Or follow the red path to the hole in front of the camera, then use Shift to drop through.

Unknown camera locations

The two Unknown cameras unlock once your story progress is sufficient to open the region’s Resonant. It is tied to a mission on the Field Office island to the north.

Camera 1 – the laundromat

Find this camera inside the “Wear ‘Em and Wash ‘Em” laundromat, in a shop south of the Fast Travel Door. Let it spot you so you can enter.

Activate the garage door at the back, wait for the camera to respawn, then walk back in through the rear to shut the lid.

Camera 2 – Mold-covered construction site

Grapple to the construction site far northeast of the laundromat and explore the ground floor. Look for a health pickup in the distance with a lit staircase to its right leading down.

Follow the stairs down to a hole in the ground and drop through. In the moldy area ahead, look left to reach the final camera from behind.

Freeze Frame finale in Downtown

Once all 14 cameras are contained, head back to Downtown, where a new search area opens up at the central plaza. Frozen FBC agents stand surrounded by a ring of active cameras placed on balconies, walls, and raised platforms.

Work your way around the plaza and shut every camera lid from behind. If any camera spots you, the objective resets and the layout changes, so the camera positions differ on each attempt. Shutting the last lid breaks the freeze, and the agents wake up.

You will know the side story is done when the “Quest Completed: Freeze Frame” message appears, Dylan reports the camera contained, and the Shiny Pebble artifact drops into your rewards alongside the completed Instant Photos. Every contained camera also hands over crafting materials such as Instant Photo and Undefined Reading, and any photos you missed will turn up in Dylan’s apartment after the main story wraps.