CONTROL Resonant: The Hedron Link Walkthrough (Full Quest)
Rescue Pope, cross into the Unknown, and take down Hedron Parallel to close out this main story mission.
Rescue Pope, cross into the Unknown, and take down Hedron Parallel to close out this main story mission.
by AllThingsHow Staff
Image: Remedy Entertainment
The Hedron Link is the main story mission that begins the moment you finish The House in Distress, casting Dylan Faden as the only person able to stop an extradimensional Hedron from Patterning the Oldest House and, eventually, all of reality. The mission moves in three clear beats: save Emily Pope, sever the Hedron’s link in the Unknown, and report your findings back to Central Executive.
Quick answer: Finish The House in Distress, rescue Pope in Prime Candidate Training, sever the link by defeating Hedron Parallel inside the Unknown, then return to Pope in Central Executive to earn the trophy The First Link.
Before you start: prerequisites and the Raw damage rule
The quest triggers automatically once The House in Distress is complete. You will see “Quest Completed: THE HOUSE IN DISTRESS” followed by “New Quest: THE HEDRON LINK” as Dylan starts walking through the Oldest House.
00:17Starting Area & TransitionThe mission opens as soon as The House in Distress wraps, swapping the on-screen quest banner over to The Hedron Link. Shown at 00:17 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment
The one combat fact that matters throughout this mission is enemy resistance. Hedron enemies are resistant to Raw damage, which is the damage type on Dylan’s basic Strike attack. Lean on your Hedron abilities and elemental options rather than relying on plain melee, or fights will drag out.
01:41Hedron Enemies TutorialA tooltip warns that Hedron enemies shrug off Raw damage, so favor Hedron and elemental attacks. Shown at 01:41 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment
Head out through the double doors into Downtown 3 and follow the overhead directional signs toward Prime Candidate Training. Zoe will radio in about disturbances in the sky as you approach the entrance.
Descend the stairwells and hallways toward the Main Test Chamber, then push through the reinforced airlock doors into the High Risk Chamber. Emily Pope’s automated PA warning about a hostile incursion plays along the way.
Drop into the central room around the FBC floor seal where the Rangers are pinned down. Clear every wave of Hedron Resonants fighting alongside them. When the area is cleared you receive +1 Talent Point and a Ranger points you toward Pope’s intercom.
Go to the shelter intercom at the far end of the chamber and speak with Pope, choosing “I’m in control.” The secure doors unlock and Pope steps out with her armed FBC security detail.
Go over the debrief with Pope. She says the Hedron and Hiss stand on opposite sides of a multiverse-wide conflict, while the Oldest House is trapped between them.
04:36Debriefing with PopeDuring the debrief you can probe the threat with lines like "This could wipe out Hiss?" before the objective updates. Shown at 04:36 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment
Once the conversation ends, the objective changes to Sever the Hedron Link and Pope directs you through the Main Test Chamber.
04:59Quest Objective UpdatedPope hands off the next objective with her security detail present, sending Dylan toward the Main Test Chamber. Shown at 04:59 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment
Enter the Main Test Chamber and climb the tall testing silo. Use wall-running and jumps along the central pillar, ledges, and vents to reach the upper facilities.
Follow the linear route through the flooded, shifting corridors and shattered offices. The Board sends cryptic messages and Zoe checks in on Pope’s status as you clear a few more Hedron targets.
Step out onto the exterior breach overlooking a fractured cityscape floating in an open sky.
07:04Void Breach OverlookThe route breaks out onto a floating ruin of the city, where the Board offers commentary before the platforming begins. Shown at 07:04 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment
Platform across the detached floating staircases and catwalks, then move through the tilted interior corridors. Walk through the glowing golden threshold to enter the zone marked UNKNOWN.
08:46Unknown Map InspectionOpening the map inside the Unknown reveals the uncharted region and a Map Kit you can grab to fill it in. Shown at 08:46 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment
Cross to the swirling golden aperture overlooking the mirrored skyline and interact with the vortex to enter the Hedron Link. You will traverse a white crystallized path, hear Jesse’s screams, and pass a giant projection of Jesse’s head before the boss arena opens.
How to beat Hedron Parallel
Hedron Parallel consists of golden structures shaped like jagged rings. You fight it across floating platforms blanketed in white grass, and its health bar shows up as soon as you fall into the arena.
Move between the floating platforms to dodge the rotating golden saw-blade rings and homing energy blasts.
Strike the exposed golden node clusters across the platforms whenever the core opens up.
Keep using Hedron abilities rather than plain Raw melee, since the same resistance rule applies here.
Depleting the health bar triggers the severance cutscene: Hedron Parallel collapses in an explosion and reality warps through mirrored skylines and red Hiss doors. Defeating it stabilizes the Oldest House, though two more Hedron Links remain tethered. The objective then updates to Report to Pope, and Zoe radios in, where you can confirm you suppressed the flare-up with “I controlled it.”
Find Pope at the anomaly analysis boards in Central Executive and start the conversation. Work through the dialogue about the severed link and what comes next.
Pope offers to remove Dylan’s Mobile Containment Device collar. He refuses, leaving it in place as protection from the Hiss within him. That ends their conversation.
You do not need to accept collar removal to progress. Keeping it on is the outcome shown at the end of this mission.
How to know it worked and what unlocks next
Completion is confirmed the instant the PS5 trophy The First Link unlocks, followed by the on-screen banner “Quest Completed: THE HEDRON LINK” and reward distribution. Checking the Quest Log afterward shows the new main quest Sever the Hedron Links and the side quest Pope’s Research.
Rewards handed out across the mission include the following.
Patterned Thought, Ordered Image, Living Shard, Source
New quests
Sever the Hedron Links, Pope’s Research
From here, the story continues in the Unknown, where you will chase down the two remaining links near the Patterned Evac Building and the Patterned Field Office, with Pope’s Research helping you navigate the zone as you go.
