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man I think the biggest mindfuck of Control is how it's completely impossible to search any resources on it.
the game is called "control", it stores files in "packfiles", and the texture format is called "tex"

every one of these search terms is USELESS

Anyway here's the Avoid Modern Technology poster extracted from the datafiles.
In case you want to print it out and hang it up next to your 486

DO AS YOU'RE TOLD
DON'T EAT MOLD

I hate it when my office disappears

his life is in your hands

an interesting thing is that the propaganda posters all have mirrored versions. I don't know if this is a limitation of the engine, like they can't mirror textures by changing texture coords, but whatever. So most of them are just mirrored, except this one: the text is different

there's a set of images under uiresources/.../4k/.../outfits which I don't think are actually used in the game? they also seem to show versions of the outfits predating the ones seen in the game.
Like, this seems to be the janitor outfit:

compare that to how it actually looks in the game.
it's not just lit differently, there's fundamental texture/model differences.

here's a selection of outfits to compare to

here's the first one in this folder. You can tell which one it is, but the coloring is totally different!

the candidate suit.
looks pretty similar, but no numbers on this version

the office assistant looks basically the same, although the belt buckle is different

earlier version of the Civilian outfit?

I think this is a version of the Tactical Response Outfit? They heavily redesigned this one.

expedition gear

extradimensional suit is basically completely redrawn

I think what happened was that they redesigned how the outfit-picking system worked. In the released game you pick from a list, with a live 3D preview.

maybe in an earlier (or prototype) version, you selected from a list of pictures?
and when they switched away from that, they forgot to delete out the old textures for it, and then didn't keep them updated with outfit changes

textures/debug/death_row_e.tex

textures/helpers/notexturergb.tex
OH NO MY TEXTURE IS NOT STREAMED

laiha/batch01/danger_sign_large_hotline_warning_d.tex (cropped and rotated)

paper_poster_internet_usage_d.tex in the same folder.

FOLLOW THESE INTERNET RULES

cropped logo_screen_e.dds from textures/objects/screens.
in case you want a background

oh god it turns out dumping 850 images into paint .net to load at once is a bad idea

it hit 13gb of RAM in use before I killed it

the way textures only define pixels on the valid parts and stretch at the edges is only slightly creepy

picture_jessue_hedron_d.tex in textures/objects/props even has "placeholder" written right on it.

this text is so temp that it says it's temp and then just quotes the twilight zone

more propaganda posters!
picture_propaganda_poster_stabler_d.tex
(that's not a typo. it definitely is named "stabler")

don't let mold hitch a ride!
picture_propaganda_poster_mold_d.tex

the font matching here only slightly hurts me

picture_propaganda_poster_eyes_d.tex

man, the FBC employees should unionize.

picture_propaganda_poster_clock_d.tex

poster_med05_d.tex seems to just be an unaltered photo of nixon

textures/props/signs/identification_signs_stop_technology_d.tex (rotated and cropped)

another good sign to put near your retrocomputers

textures/props/papers has a couple missing person posters.
The first is Anton Nikolaienko, who is a technical director at Remedy.

The second is "Jane Farland", who is... Kamala Harris?

spotted by @Kumerish here: https://twitter.com/Kumerish/status/1300826328480899072

https://twitter.com/Kumerish/status/1300826328480899072

The next one is Steve Fair who is not anyone I can figure out. The name and picture don't bring anything up.

same goes for Mike Pennington

the Jesse Faden election poster

picture_shawshank_d.tex
This is referenced in the game but I didn't think this poster actually appeared anywhere?

paper_big_awe_bright_falls_02_d.tex

this is just a screenshot from Alan Wake.

videos are stored in .tex files too, but it's a different format and I don't know how to decode it yet.
they're "kb2" files from the header, but googling "kb2 movie" gives me a teen comedy called The Kissing Booth 2

AWWW YEAH WE'VE GOT FLOPPY_DISK_D.TEX (in textures\\dhruva\\batch11)

$AWWW YEAH WE'VE GOT FLOPPY_DISK_D.TEX (in textures\\dhruva\\batch11)$

I didn't that was the one that you get for Telekinesis Powers but looking closer it turns out it is, it's just lit weird.

ok the video files are Bink 2 video files, and play just fine in the RAD Video Tools.

I guess it makes sense: there's no audio in any of the videos.
They encode the audio and video in separate files, because localization (EXCEPT ITALIAN)

actually I think they use the same video for every Hotline call. They just change the audio

some good warning signs

ahh, placeholder credits.

so the reports seen in the game with the backed out words are generated at runtime, they're not static pictures, but... the text under the redactions are just "redacted" or "redacteeeed"

this is in locale\\en\\string_table.bin

AH-HA! not always!

here's how that looks in the game.
it plays footage of REDACTED except it turns out it's not redacted underneath. it says "Ahti"... like everyone expected anyway.

she "blanked" her "blank" into the item.
Turns out it's "placed her hand"

"an interrogation performed by agent Hewitt" is what it says.

the death of "32" agents

oh and Alice "WAKE" is what it says.

refer to file 1-04-0004

this one is just a fuckup.
The first line is supposed to say "The item belonged to [REDACTED REDACTED]" but they put the <em> in the wrong place.

The "Artic Queen" and the "Pink Flamingo"

As they investigated the noise, "dimensional rupturing" along the south side of the building caused it to collapse inward. Wooden creates in accelerated physical "movement resulting" from "the item" rendered...
The found AI63 at the original of the "lethal altered effect"

designed to identify and track "paranatural" entities

"NORTHMOOR" Sarcophagus Container

and that's all the redactions that have anything but misspellings of "REDACTED" behind them.

and that's enough datahackery for one day. maybe later I'll build a death generator for this

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