Where to Find Health Upgrade Points in Control Resonant

Every pin on the Control Resonant map of Manhattan comes from Vlad Susanu’s own run as Map Master’s owner, right down to the arcade prize he won after the credits. That adds up to nine full upgrades, more than twice the four that the Personal Development trophy asks for, so you can skip the awkward ones and still earn the trophy.

How Health Upgrade Points Work in Control Resonant

Every third point fills a bar and raises Dylan’s maximum health, so a single point does nothing until two more join it. Points never expire, and none of them lock out as the story moves on. Your first full upgrade unlocks Core Competency, which Power Upgrade Points can trigger too, and the Core Competency and Personal Development trophies spell out both requirements.

Personal Development asks for 12 Health Upgrade Points, or four bars. Power Upgrade Points come out of the same Large Resource Crates, and with 30 of those in the game against 27 for health, you’ll open plenty of crates that raise the other bar. Check what a pin rewards before you plan a long detour around it.

How to Get 12 Health Upgrade Points Fast: Vendors and Secret Hideouts

Each of the seven regular Vendors has a Large Resource Crate with a Health Upgrade Point next to the van. You’ll visit every van anyway to spend Source, which makes these the easiest points in the game, and the Vendor van locations by zone take you to every van. The hidden Vendor on the Evac Building’s 15th floor has no crate of its own.

Six Secret Hideouts add one point each, below a Downtown cafe, a Central dry cleaner, Charlie Meecham’s gallery, a West Incursion Zone grocery, a Park cafe, and the Unknown’s Pulse Gym. With the Vendor crates, that makes 13, though two are in the Unknown, so the basement puzzles behind each Secret Hideout get you to 11 before the final zone.

Free Health Upgrade Point Locations in Downtown and Central

Three crates need nothing more than a short walk. Downtown has one in the Urban Fresh Mart outside the Oldest House and another on a low rooftop southeast of the building, and the Central map west of the Field Office leads you to the third, in Central’s own Urban Fresh Mart. Add them to your 11 and you’ll reach Personal Development long before the Unknown.

Downtown’s fifth point needs Reach, which you earn during The Subway Fault in the Evacuation Zone. Once you have it, head back to the suspended plaza in southeastern Downtown, where the crate is right at the edge. That gives Downtown and Central five points each, the most of any zone, so clear both early and the first two bars come quickly.

Health Upgrade Points Along Story and Side Quests

Story missions walk you past three more. You’ll pass one on the Evac Building’s 14th floor during Evacuation Procedures, one in Jumpin’ Joe’s on the way to the Theater Hall, and one in the Parking Garage as you leave after The Incursion Fault. The West Incursion Zone map of Jumpin’ Joe’s in Empire Avenue Station marks the shop along the Theater Hall route.

Central’s two hardest crates come with quests. During Power Lines, power the core outside a locked room on Vanished Station Platform B, and the crate is in the same room as Subway Recording #9. The other is past the sixth Orientation Point in the Patterned Factory tunnel, once you clear the pipes during The Central Resonant, so you can’t get it before that quest starts.

Where to Find Health Upgrade Points in The Park and the Underpass

Two of The Park’s four points are underground. One is in the tunnel past the Mold Gate, which you’ll go through during The Park Resonant. You reach the other from the Evacuation Zone, through the tunnels beside the Patterned Metro Tunnels Fast Travel Door, and the Park map of the Mold Gate tunnel places the first.

The Underpass makes you work for two of its three. One is in an office halfway up the central stone block, which you reach by finding the Mysterious Dog’s toy and inverting the block. The other is in the Astral Plane, along a line of platforms east of the first Orientation Point, and the Underpass map of the central stone block office is the easiest way to find the office.

Missing a Health Upgrade Point? The Last Ones to Check

The arcade prize is the only point you can’t get early. You win it for placing second on the Severed Circle 2 scoreboard in the Unknown, a prize that only unlocks after The End and the Hedron fight, and the Severed Circle arcade challenges cover the cabinet’s other prizes. The Unknown map of the Apartment Island Vendor van shows one of the zone’s other two, and the Pulse Gym’s hidden basement has the last.

If your count comes up short, check zone by zone. Downtown and Central have five each, The Park and the West Incursion Zone four, and the Evacuation Zone, the Underpass, and the Unknown three, with none in the Watchtower. In the Evacuation Zone, look for the Vendor crate, Meecham’s gallery, and the Evac Building crate, and the Evacuation Zone map of the 14th-floor corridor has the last of them.