How to solve the Radio puzzle and Panopticon in Control Resonant

Langston runs the Panopticon and gives you the Service Request mission in Control Resonant — (Image credit: Remedy)

In Control Resonant the Panopticon Service Request and Radio puzzle are one of the game's earliest brain-busters, with Langston asking you to fix the Panopticon itself before sorting out a puzzle with the Cell IDs and storing the World's Fair Radio. For more help, there's a full walkthrough below for the Panopticon Service Request mission that will explain how to do everything easily.

Panopticon Service Request and Radio puzzle walkthrough in Control Resonant

The job of setting up the Panopticon for the World's Fair Radio in Control Resonant is broken up into several stages, as we'll explain below.

Fixing the Panopticon Security Terminal in Control Resonant — (Image credit: Remedy)

Repair the Security Terminal. Here the goal is bring several pieces to the terminal marked in the North side of the Panopticon. There's a piece right besides it, another next to the entrance that slots into the main terminal, and a radar dish next to cell C-03 that has to be installed high up on the antenna next to the alcove that the radio is kept in, as shown above. After that, use the terminal to start up the Panopticon systems properly.

Giving the correct Containment Cell ID in Control Resonant — (Image credit: Remedy)

Give Langston the Correct Containment Cell ID. Langston offers to open the Cell, but an error in the labelling system means that numbers are on them wrong. A nearby note reveals that Langston got clockwise and counter-clockwise mixed up, meaning that the correct Cell ID code to give him is D-04. This should open the cell with the Radio in.

Putting the World's Fair Radio in the Panopticon in Control Resonant — (Image credit: Remedy)

Find and Contain the World's Fair Radio. Pick up the World's Fair Radio in cell B-02 and take it to cell E-05. This is a bit weird and fiddly, but you want to put the radio down while the broadcaster is talking about the World's Fair specifically. If you put it down at the wrong moment, you're reset back and the Radio starts up from a random point. To some extent you can brute force this bit by just repeatedly slamming the radio down over and over until it works, but for us it worked while the Broadcaster was talking about the World's Fair.

Completing this mission will give you the Aramid Work Clothes (an outfit option), and the Untapped Feeding Bottle, an Artifact that you can awaken back in the Gap and use for the rest of Control Resonant.

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