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11 The Mold is the second hostile faction in Control Resonant, reframed from its appearance in the first Control as a fully other-dimensional threat. In Resonant, the Mold operates at street level across Manhattan alongside the Hiss. For wider context, see the Overview.
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33 Quick Profile
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55 FieldDetailTypeParanatural hostile factionReturning fromControl (2019); reframed in ResonantCurrent habitatOutdoor Manhattan zonesFraming changeFully other-dimensional threat in Resonant, rather than post-apocalyptic flora as in the previous appearanceOperational styleInvasive, parasitic, spreading across surfaces and entities
66 Reframing for Resonant
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88 The Mold's earlier framing inside the agency's catalog leaned on biological imagery: spores, fruiting bodies, and an environmental presence that grew like wild flora left to spread. Resonant changes that framing. The Mold is now presented as a fully other-dimensional threat, with the visual and behavioural language pulled toward the alien rather than the botanical.
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1010 The change matters because the Mold no longer reads as a static environmental hazard. In Resonant, it is an active hostile faction with its own attack patterns and roles, sharing the open-air engagement space with the Hiss.
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1212 Combat Identity
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1414 Public combat material has shown two distinct sides of how the Mold interacts with the player.
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1616 AspectDetailDirect hostilityMold-aligned enemies engage Dylan at street level with their own attack patterns. The combat loop is the standard one: melee strings build resources, abilities stun and open targets up, executions grant the damage buff that carries momentum.Mold TurretsA Mold-tied tool that Dylan can deploy. Mold Turrets attack independently and apply harmful status effects, slotting into the wider build crafting around the Aberrant and combat abilities.
1717 The turret interaction is the most concrete public mechanical detail tying the Mold to Dylan's own toolkit. It points at the wider design pattern: paranatural threats that were once purely problems to contain are now also resources the operative can leverage. See the Melee Combat page for how deployable tools fit the rest of the combat loop.
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1919 Spread Across Manhattan
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2121 The Mold is loose in Manhattan because the lockdown at the Oldest House failed. Both the Hiss and the Mold were previously contained inside or beneath the agency's headquarters; both have now spilled into the city.
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2525 The Mold's outdoor presence is the more dramatic visual change of the two factions. Where the Hiss is recognisable as a hostile group with attack patterns, the Mold reshapes the spaces it occupies. The visual style stays consistent with its other-dimensional framing, and the affected zones feel different from neighbouring areas even before the player encounters a hostile.
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2727 Differences from the Hiss
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2929 Both factions share Manhattan, but they read differently in play. The Hiss is the familiar problem reframed: same identity, harder behaviour, broader roster. The Mold is the unfamiliar problem foregrounded: a faction that operated mostly as setting in the first game is now an active combatant, with its own enemy types, its own visual language, and its own tool interactions (the Mold Turrets) that Dylan can leverage.
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3131 Unconfirmed Details
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3333 The full roster of Mold enemy types.Specific moves, tells, and counterplay for individual Mold variants.Whether the Mold has boss-class encounters separate from the Resonant boss class.How Mold-affected geometry interacts with Gravity Anomalies and other environmental mechanics.Whether the Mold's reframing extends beyond the visual style to a deeper lore retcon of its previous incarnation.
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3535 This page will be updated as more is revealed.
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3737 Reframed as Extradimensional
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3939 In Control (2019) the Mold read primarily as a post-apocalyptic biological hazard. Remedy's framing for Resonant explicitly pushes the Mold further than that. The studio has stated on the record that the Mold is being positioned in the sequel as a paranatural threat from another dimension rather than as ordinary contaminated flora. That reframing is meant to be visible in how the Mold spreads through warped Manhattan, how its presence interacts with the Pattern, and how the faction's combat roles read against the Hiss alongside it.
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4141 Mold Turrets
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4343 Mold Turrets are one of the named combat abilities Dylan can equip from his arsenal. They function as summoned constructs that fire on their own and apply harmful status effects to enemies in range. The same ability category includes a throwable variant where a turret can be tossed into a knot of enemies as a temporary bomb rather than left to fire from a fixed point. They sit in a more tactical close-and-stand build option compared with the heavier melee-pressure routes through the Aberrant.
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45+Underground Presence
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47+Gameplay footage released in August 2026 puts the Mold underground. The Metro Fault mission takes Dylan into the Manhattan subway, and the fungal growth is the opposition throughout that descent rather than the Hiss. The tunnels themselves have stopped behaving, with loose trains drifting through the dark, so the Mold encounters there are fought around a moving environmental hazard as well as the enemies.
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49+Dylan also hears his sister’s voice while he is down there. Whether that is Jesse reaching him, the Mold using her voice, or something else has not been confirmed, and the game has not explained it in the material shown so far.