Control Resonant: How to Clear the Supply Route in Welcome to Manhattan

Clear the Supply Route is the objective that finally gets Dylan out of the Federal Bureau of Control’s facilities and onto street level in Manhattan. It starts right after your conversation with Zoe at the Watchtower during Welcome to Manhattan, and it runs through a flooded maintenance level, a red-lit tunnel chamber, and a subway station before it ends. The path is mostly linear, but two upgrade points are easy to walk straight past.

Quick answer: Take the elevator one floor below the Watchtower, use the power boxes to open the flooded tunnel gates, destroy the red growth blocking the tunnel, then follow the FBC Field Office signs up through the subway to the street.

Before you head underground

The objective only appears once you have restored power to the Central Checkpoint, cleared the Hiss that show up afterward, and spoken to Zoe in the Watchtower. That same conversation opens the Defeating Resonants questline and starts the next mission, Evacuation Procedures, so you may see multiple entries appear in the Quest Log at once. Make sure Clear the Supply Route is the tracked objective before you move.

Activate the Fast Travel door inside the Watchtower before you leave. The tunnels are a one-way trip toward the street, and the door gives you a quick way back to Central later.

Route from the Watchtower to the flooded tunnels

Go down one floor from the Watchtower and follow the signs marked UNDERGROUND SUPPLY ROUTE through the FBC facility. The yellow diamond waypoint keeps pointing you toward the correct doors, so you can ignore the side rooms here.

Navigating FBC Facility — The Underground Supply Route signs inside the FBC facility point toward the elevator. Shown at 00:16 in Trophy Tom’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Step into the orange industrial elevator cage and press the button on the panel to descend. This is the only elevator on the route, and it drops you into the maintenance level below Central.

Taking the Elevator — The orange elevator cage below the Watchtower takes you down to the supply tunnels. Shown at 00:30 in Trophy Tom’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

When the doors open, run down the concrete corridors and drop to the flooded lower level. You end up in a tall room with several power boxes spread across different heights.

Entering the Tunnels — The concrete corridors past the elevator lead down into the flooded lower level. Shown at 00:58 in Trophy Tom’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Power box puzzle in the flooded room

The tunnel gates here run on the same charge-carrying mechanic you used at the Central Checkpoint. Hitting a live power box with your melee weapon stores its charge on the weapon, and that charge drains after a few seconds, so look at where you are going before you take it.

Drop to the lowest level of the room and strike the glowing orange power block to pick up the charge.

Destroying Power Blocks — The glowing orange power blocks in the flooded room hold the charge you need. Shown at 01:02 in Trophy Tom’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Take the charge one floor up to the power box and release it there. This unlocks a side room containing a crate with Power Upgrade Point 1/3. Finding all three during the game increases your Power.

Pick up the charge again, then bring it through the main room to the following box. Supplying that box raises the large metal gate and reveals the way farther into the tunnels.

Past the gate you find a dead Ranger on the floor. Interacting with the body lets Dylan report it to Zoe over the radio. It is optional dialogue and does not gate progress, but it costs you only a few seconds.

Finding the Ranger Corpse — The Ranger corpse in the green-lit tunnel can be reported to Zoe. Shown at 01:32 in Trophy Tom’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Destroy the red growth blocking the tunnel

Keep following the corridors, through the green and then red-lit stretches, until you reach a large chamber filled with Hiss. One of them is a named enemy, which works as a miniboss here with more health and altered attacks than the standard version.

A huge red growth blocks the tunnel on the opposite side. Use telekinesis against it or detonate explosive barrels beside it to clear the obstruction. Then find and enter the door labeled FBC FIELD OFFICE. The power box in the room behind you also unlocks a path toward an earlier area, but that route contains nothing worth picking up.

If you are only trying to get through, most of the fighting on this route can be avoided by running for the waypoint. Assist Mode options such as immortality or one-hit kills are available if the chamber fight is holding you up.

Subway station and the hidden Health Upgrade Point

The cleared tunnel opens onto a subway platform. Run along the platform, up the stairs, and into the hallway above, but stop before you head outside. The room on the left holds a crate with Health Upgrade Point 1/3 inside, hidden behind a wall poster reading QUALITY GAS FOR ANY VEHICLE. Break the poster to reveal the compartment.

After that, take the last set of stairs up and out of the station.

Upgrade points on the supply route

Collectible	Location	Effect
Power Upgrade Point 1/3	Side room in the flooded tunnel, opened by the mid-level power box	Collect 3 to improve Power
Health Upgrade Point 1/3	Room on the left at the top of the subway stairs, behind a gas poster	Collect 3 to increase maximum health

Both are worth the short detour. Upgrade points are finite, and the difficulty climbs quickly once the first Resonant Cycle brings defeated enemies back stronger.

How to confirm the objective is complete

Stepping out of the subway station onto the Manhattan streets closes out the objective. The Quest Log updates to Get a Security Keycard, with the waypoint now pointing northeast toward the FBC Field Office inside the VERCONN building.

On the way there a soldier at a security booth stops Dylan and asks what he is doing. The dialogue option you pick does not change anything, since Zoe talks him down regardless. Head up the steps into the Field Office and grab the Security Keycard from the desk inside to finish Welcome to Manhattan, along with a Living Shard and Level 1 Security Clearance for any door with a Level 1 panel.