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11 Gravity Anomalies are paranatural distortions that warp the physical geometry of Manhattan in Control Resonant. Where a Gravity Anomaly is active, the rules that govern up, down, walls, and floors stop applying. Streets twist upside-down, roofs tilt sideways into vertical bridges, and stretches of streetscape rotate so that what was a wall becomes a walkable surface. For wider context, see the Overview and the Manhattan world page.
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33 Quick Profile
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55 FieldDetailTypeParanatural spatial distortionLocationAcross multiple Manhattan zones, including the West Incursion ZoneEffectTwists physical geometry; reorients gravity and surfacesNavigationDylan's Reach and Shift abilities, plus the Aberrant's grounded combatCombat roleForces engagements onto vertical, rotating, or inverted ground
66 How an Anomaly Reshapes a Space
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88 An Anomaly is a localised event rather than a global rule. Inside the affected area, the player can find:
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1212 Inverted streets where the road sits above the player and ordinary buildings hang downward.Tilted skylines where rooftops become vertical bridges to traverse.Rotated stretches of urban geometry where walls behave as floors.Localised zones where orientation shifts as the player moves, rather than staying constant for the duration of the encounter.
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1414 The Anomalies are a visual departure from the first game's brutalist interior corridors. The Northlight engine has been retuned for the outdoor scope they require, with broader draw distance and a lighting palette built around vertical sightlines.
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1617 Traversal Through an Anomaly
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1819 Dylan crosses Gravity Anomalies using two paranatural traversal abilities introduced for Resonant.
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2223 AbilityFunctionReachGravity-defying movement skill that carries Dylan across paranaturally warped architecture. The basic traversal tool for hopping between inverted or tilted surfaces.ShiftRedirects Dylan's momentum through the Anomaly itself. Used to swing through rotating geometry and to convert a fall into a directional dash.
2324 Both abilities arrive early in the campaign. They are not gated behind late-game unlocks, since the world starts asking the player to use them as soon as the West Incursion Zone opens up.
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2526 Combat Inside an Anomaly
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2728 Fights do not pause for the geometry. Encounters spill across vertical surfaces, rotating platforms, and broken sightlines, and the player is expected to keep moving with the Aberrant in hand. Reach and Shift double as repositioning tools, letting Dylan close distance on enemies who would otherwise be on a different orientation entirely.
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2930 The combat loop is unchanged inside an Anomaly. Melee strings still build resources, abilities still stun and open enemies up for executions, and executions still grant the temporary damage buff that carries momentum into the next exchange. The added cost is awareness: keeping track of where the floor is and where enemies are coming from when those answers shift.
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3132 One consequence of that is worth stating plainly, because it changes what an arena is. Shifting gravity does not only redirect a jump; it lets Dylan settle onto a vertical surface and move along it on foot. Two separate public showings, one hands-on in June 2026 and one on the show floor in August, both had him walk a wall for long enough to fight from it. An Anomaly therefore does not just decorate an encounter space, it enlarges it: surfaces that would otherwise be backdrop become standing room, and targets placed out of reach of the floor are the reason to go up there. The Melee Combat loop runs unchanged while he is up there.
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3334 Story Trigger
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3536 Anomalies are a direct consequence of the lockdown failure at the Oldest House. Paranatural forces previously contained inside the building have spilled into Manhattan, and the Anomalies are one of the most visible signs of that leak. The Federal Bureau of Control has deployed Dylan into the affected zones because regular agents cannot operate where geometry no longer obeys ordinary rules.
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3738 Unconfirmed Details
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3940 The full catalog of zones that include a Gravity Anomaly.Whether Anomalies have on/off states tied to story beats, or remain active throughout the campaign.Mechanical interactions between Anomalies and specific enemy types beyond the publicly shown West Incursion Zone footage.Whether the player can disable, redirect, or close an Anomaly during the campaign.Map-side accessibility options for players sensitive to rotating perspectives.
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4142 This page will be updated as more is revealed.
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4344 Where Shift Comes In
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4546 Gravity Anomalies are the in-world hook for one of Dylan's specific paranatural abilities. Shift, as Remedy describes it, redirects momentum through a Gravity Anomaly rather than fighting against the field's pull. The practical effect is that an anomaly that initially reads as an obstacle becomes a traversal tool once Dylan can use Shift to ride its physics. The interaction is part of why Resonant's traversal layer (covered on Dylan Faden's page alongside Reach) is built on more than just running, jumping, and dashing.