Players diving into Remedy Entertainment’s latest expansion, Control Resonant, are encountering one of the game’s most persistent and confounding side objectives: the "Freeze Frame" quest. This challenging endeavor tasks players with tracking down a series of anomalous cameras scattered across the game’s various zones. True to their name, these devices will instantly freeze the player in place the moment they step into a lens’s field of view, presenting a unique traversal and stealth puzzle that requires careful planning, specific traversal abilities, and precise routing to solve.
To successfully navigate the quest and prevent these anomalous devices from wreaking havoc—and potentially endangering civilian NPCs caught in the crossfire—agents must learn how to approach the cameras from behind to safely shut off their lids. While the game provides instant photographs as rudimentary hints, these visual clues offer only a limited perspective on the exact whereabouts of each device. With two cameras hidden in every major zone of the game, players are strongly advised to acquire essential traversal abilities, specifically Shift and Reach, before attempting a complete sweep of the map.
Downtown "Freeze Frame" Camera Locations
The bustling urban environment of Downtown houses two distinct cameras, each testing a player’s mastery of the environment’s warped architecture. The first camera is located in the northwestern region of Downtown, positioned just east of the Dense Patterning area and south of the West Supply Route Station. Reaching this location requires the Shift ability, which players obtain from the Incursion Fault located within the West Incursion Zone. By following the road southwest from the West Supply Route Station, players will drop onto a lower street where an upside-down building hangs to the east, marked by a locked metal door. Utilizing Shift allows agents to scale the vertical wall to the left, drop onto the appropriate rooftop, and use the Crush ability to break open the door and access the camera.
The second camera in Downtown is situated in the southeast corner of the eastern region, an area that demands the Reach ability, acquired from the Subway Fault in the Evacuation Zone. Accessing this sector involves heading to Lookout Point and using Reach on an elevated metal platform. Below this vantage point lies a cluster of power cores. Navigating this section requires careful platforming between a green storage container building, a construction site, and a series of rooftop power cores to transfer a charge. Successfully routing the electricity through the local power grid unlocks a door on the street below, granting access to the hidden camera inside.
Central "Freeze Frame" Camera Locations
Moving into the Central zone, players encounter the Watchtower camera, which serves as the earliest possible camera discovery in the game. Located on the lowest floor of the Watchtower—one level below the elevator—this device is housed within an orange-red lit room. Players must scale the scaffolding in the eastern corner while exercising extreme caution; getting too close to the upper hallway will trigger the camera’s freezing effect. Instead, jumping into a hole in the ceiling and dropping through a subsequent hole places the player directly behind the device, allowing for a swift shutdown.
The second camera in Central rests on the top floor of a brick factory situated northeast of the parking garage. Players can reach it either by fighting through the parking garage and utilizing a Reach point or by making a daring rooftop jump. This particular camera introduces a unique mechanic: players must intentionally walk into its field of view to trigger its disappearance. Once the camera vanishes, players must navigate to the bottom floor of the building, defeat local hostiles, and open the red door leading outside. Stepping outside causes the camera to reappear, allowing the agent to retrace their steps back to the top and deactivate it from behind.
West Incursion Zone Camera Locations
The West Incursion Zone features two cameras that heavily rely on the Shift ability, making the completion of the Incursion Fault inside the Parking Garage a mandatory prerequisite. The first of these cameras is found immediately northeast of the Parking Garage on the roof of a sideways building, identifiable by a faint red light. Using Shift allows players to access the building, but they must bypass the direct approach, instead routing right and utilizing higher rooftops to drop down directly behind the camera’s housing.
The second camera is mounted on a suspended scaffolding platform in the southeastern corner of the zone, positioned northwest of the Museum of Curiosities. Players must navigate to the west street, use Shift to access the inverted ceiling road, and locate a floating platform of traffic cones and garbage cans. By walking straight off the edge without jumping—allowing the screen’s perspective to invert—players can leap across the floating debris and reach the higher suspended scaffolding platform positioned directly behind the camera.
Evacuation Zone Camera Locations
In the Evacuation Zone, the first camera is positioned on the eastern side of the sector, just southwest of the Main Street fast travel door and its corresponding map pylon. Deactivating this camera requires a complex, multi-stage electrical routing puzzle using power cores located south of the Evac Building. Players must charge a core, sprint down the street, transfer the charge through a series of intermediate cores and doors, and finally ascend a metal platform to a rooftop core. This sequence unlocks the fortified door housing the camera.
The second Evacuation Zone camera sits atop a building just south of the Railyard Street Station, an area requiring the Reach ability acquired from the Subway Fault. Similar to previous encounters, players must intentionally trigger the camera’s gaze to make it temporarily vanish, enter the building, exit through the ground-floor front door to respawn the device, and retrace their steps through the interior to approach the camera from behind.
The Park Camera Locations
The Park features two hidden cameras embedded within its sprawling terrain. The first is located on a suspended scaffolding platform outside the southern sewer entrance. Accessing this area requires traversing the northern sewer entrance and exiting southward. Players must then charge a power core located below a local elevator using a nearby charged core, ride the elevator to the top, and glide across to the upper platform to drop down behind the camera.
The second camera is housed deep within the Nomad Avenue Station in the southwest area of The Park. Descending the station stairs reveals the camera to the right, protected by a door covered in thick white mold. Utilizing the Ignite or Inferno combat abilities—unlocked by defeating The Deserter resonant in Central—clears the mold-webbed door and opens a clear path behind the camera’s position.
Underpass Camera Locations
The Underpass zone contains two cameras tied to its subterranean architecture. The first is found near the entrance along the line of glow sticks leading toward The Spire, positioned within a pillar illuminated by a bright yellow light and surrounded by frozen enemies. Players can utilize a Reach point located directly beneath the camera’s housing, clear the pathway ahead, and drop into a hole leading to a hallway where the camera is stationed.
The second camera is located on a pillar south of Tubes Island, near the Underpass Fault. Upon entering the blue-mold-infested area, players will find the camera inside an elevated opening. Rather than approaching from the front, players must take a right-hand corner, use Reach to latch onto the red-carpeted ceiling, and employ Shift to navigate along the wall toward a floor opening. Dropping through the subsequent layers of the structure places the agent safely behind the device.
Unknown Zone Camera Locations
The expansive Unknown zone conceals its final two cameras within its distinct island architecture. The first is situated on the upside-down portion of the central island within a construction site on the northern sector. After navigating to the second floor and heading down the stairs into the main room, players must clear out an influx of hostile entities before locating a large growth of blue mold on the eastern wall, right beside a set of stairs where the camera rests.
The second camera is located inside the Wear’Em & Wash’Em laundromat on Factory Island in the southwest sector of the Unknown zone. Players can access the island via Pope’s research balloon pylons from the central island or through the Factory Island fast travel door. Rather than approaching the vertical street directly—which triggers an immediate freeze—players must use Reach to access the right-hand building, traverse the rooftops, drop into the rear garage area, and enter through the interior doorway to reach the camera’s blind spot.
Containing the Cameras Outside the Oldest House
Once every individual camera across the zones has been disabled, Zoe contacts the player to report a final anomaly: a collective of cameras has gone haywire and assembled outside the Oldest House. Arriving at the location reveals a line of seven cameras standing in unison. This final encounter serves as a culmination of the quest mechanics, where turning off one camera causes the remainder to teleport away, and getting caught by any single lens resets the player to the previous phase of the containment sequence.
Approaching the assembly carefully from the eastern side avoids an immediate initial photograph. Deactivating the first camera forces the group to teleport to a northern rooftop, which players can infiltrate by utilizing an alleyway platform. Subsequent teleports move the cameras to a green building and a concrete wall in the southwest corner. By leveraging the surrounding brick buildings, utilizing the Reach ability to scale vertical obstacles, and consistently approaching each new formation from behind or via blind spots, players can methodically shut down every device in the sequence.
The final camera returns to its initial central position; shutting its lid concludes the "Freeze Frame" questline. Successfully completing this demanding containment operation rewards the player with the Shiny Pebble artifact recipe, a valuable item that gradually restores up to 50 percent of the player’s health while utilizing a gravity anomaly.
