Control: The Incursion Fault Walkthrough (Resonant Shift Ability)

The Incursion Fault is an early main mission in Control Resonant that hands Dylan the Shift ability, the traversal power you use to run across vertical roads and inverted surfaces all over Manhattan. It starts once you enter the West Incursion Zone, but you can only push through it after you reach the parking garage deep in the area. Finish it early, because Shift opens up shortcuts and secrets you cannot reach any other way.

Quick answer: Power the elevator at the parking garage, take the security key from the infected guard in the laundromat, ride the garage elevator to the roof, drop into the central pit, and interact with the TV to enter the Fault and unlock Shift.

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Reach the parking garage in the West Incursion Zone

The parking garage sits in the northwest corner of the West Incursion Zone, and visions of Jesse guide you toward it. You will eventually hit a road that climbs straight up, which you cannot walk yet. An elevator next to that road is your way around it, but it needs power first.

Map and Inventory Check — The West Incursion Zone map with the parking garage marked. Shown at 00:06 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Head into the House of Mirrors and strike the charged fuel cell inside with Dylan’s Aberrant to pick up the electricity.

Bring the charge to the core next to the lift where the patterned road begins, directly north of the House of Mirrors. Strike the core to activate the lift.

Ride the lift up to the road above, clear the Hiss waiting outside, and head into the parking garage to begin the mission properly.

Find the parking garage key

The garage doors are locked. A note on the floor by the doors, left by the parking garage security guard, sends you to the laundromat behind the building, where the guard went to clean his gear.

Parking Garage Security Note — The security guard's note directs you to the laundromat for the key. Shown at 01:26 in MetaGuide’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Follow the map marker to the laundromat, Wear ‘Em & Wash ‘Em, on the street behind the garage. The front doors are locked from the inside, so you need the back way in.

Laundromat Quest Marker — The marker points you toward the laundromat across the street. Shown at 00:41 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Enter the alley to the right of the laundromat. Use Elevate to float over the Hiss spikes and goo so Dylan does not take damage, and watch for the laser partway down.

Take the path on your left, drop to the ground when it is safe, and go through the open door. Inside you will find a resource chest and the laundromat’s back door.

Take the Parking Garage Security Key from the infected guard, unlock the front doors to shortcut back out, and return to the locked garage doors.

Drop into the Fault

Unlock the garage doors with the key. Before moving on, open the administrative office and grab the resource chest inside.

Step into the elevator and ride it to the rooftop parking level. You pick up a Talent Point along the way.

Riding the Garage Elevator — The garage elevator that carries you up to the rooftop level. Shown at 01:34 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Jump into the large pit in the center of the rooftop, the one Jesse’s head floats over and the cars pour from. Aim for the very bottom and ignore the fall damage.

Elevator to Zone 2 — The elevator ride grants a Talent Point as you go up. Shown at 02:59 in MetaGuide’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

After the long drop you land beside the Fault entrance. Float over to the CRT TV and interact with it to enter.

Meet Jesse and unlock Shift

Inside the Fault the layout works like the one from Orientation. Follow the floating street fragments a short way to find Jesse, then speak with her. When the conversation ends, you unlock Shift, the ability to move onto gravitational anomalies on the ground and in the air, run up walls, and stand on ceilings.

The stretch that follows is a straightforward Shift tutorial. Keep pushing forward across the warped roads and vertical surfaces, activating each ritual television you pass, until you reach the final TV on the golden island.

Confirm the mission is complete

Interacting with the final TV plays a memory cutscene with Jesse and returns Dylan to the real world. The Incursion Fault completes on screen, and your Quest Log updates with notes about the encounter and the closed Fault. Alongside Shift, you come away with a Talent Point and 600 XP for the West Incursion Zone.

To leave the warped garage afterward, use Shift on the wall behind the TV and follow the exit signs on the roads and walls, keeping the falling cars in view. With Shift in hand you can carry on with The West Incursion Zone mission toward the theater, or peel off to explore the new areas the ability now opens up.