Earlier this month, Remedy released Update 1.30 for the Steam and Epic Game Store editions of Control and Control Ultimate Edition. The update saw a number of PlayStation pre-order cosmetics, and the exclusive mission starring fellow developer, Hideo Kojima.
Today, the team was back with another mini-update for some of the reported bugs, and providing some general fixes for the Ultimate Edition.
Writing on social media, the developer explained that the “Update 1.33 for Control Ultimate Edition has been released on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The GOG update is coming too! This update contains a number of very minor graphical and other fixes.”
In their previous 1.30 update post, Remedy's Community Manager, Vida Starčević wrote about the challenges the team has faced rolling out the new update to their older game, “While this has always been the plan, it’s taking us a while to ensure that the update propagates (correctly!) across multiple stores and editions of our six-year-old game. We thank you for your understanding, as we’ve had some… surprising things happen now that the patch is live.”
The post goes on to explain the team's plans to bring the upgrade to console editions too; “In the near future we will release this same update for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S platforms. We have a small team working on these updates so we want to space them out to give us time to fix potential issues that might come up. We appreciate your patience!”
While the game was released six years ago (a year feeling both like it was almost yesterday and a pandemic ago), Remedy has double-down its commitment to the Control and Alan Wake IPs in their recent Annual Report 2024 with plans to expand both. Plus, with FBC: Firebreak and Control 2 on the horizon, it's the perfect time to revisit the original title and get it back in the news.
As previously mentioned, you've not loaded up the game this month, you might want to fix that. On March 10th, the developers began rolling out a new update which included a number of new additions for PC owners. Check out the full patch notes below:
[Previously Released] March 2025 PC 1.30 Patch Notes
Outfits
The following outfits are now available to all players. The outfits can be accessed and equipped from the Control Point in the Central Executive Sector area.
• Astral Dive Suit (formerly a pre-order exclusive)
• Tactical Response Gear (formerly a pre-order exclusive)
• Urban Response Gear (formerly a pre-order exclusive)
Missions
All players will receive the mission Dr. Yoshimi Tokui’s Guided Imagery Experience, featuring voiceover by Hideo Kojima. The mission is playable when you pick up the Dr Tokui Tapes collectible in the Extrasensory Lab of the Research Sector. (This mission was previously exclusive to the PlayStation 4 Digital Deluxe version of Control.)
Graphics
• Added HDR support
• Added new Ultra ray tracing preset, which gets you more rays per pixel and higher temporal stability
• Fixed shadow flickering on new NVIDIA Series 5000 GPUs
• Added Super Sampling support. The game can now render at resolutions higher than your output resolution.
• Added a new High Quality Post Process setting. All post processes should now look better – depth of field, bloom, Hiss effects…
• Added a new higher quality Anisotropic Filtering setting
• Added ultrawide monitor support for up to 48:9 monitors
• Added an FOV scaling setting for the gameplay camera
• Updated SDR to 10bit (from 8bit), which reduces visible color banding
• Improved graphics adapter detection at startup, with automatic selection between DX11 and DX12
• Improved the quality of our own in-house TAA solution. This results in less ghosting and better textures.*
• Implemented screen aspect ratio fixes for ultrawide monitors
• Your current monitor resolution can now reliably be selected from the screen resolution and rendering resolution menus
• Added rendering resolution support beyond 4K
• Implemented texture streaming fixes
• Ray tracing bug fixes
DLSS Support
• Added DLSS support for arbitrary resolutions
• Added DLAA support
• Updated DLSS to DLSS 3.7, with higher temporal stability
• Film grain added back to DLSS SR
• Fixed shadow resolution when DLSS is enabled
• Added resolution dependent mip map bias for DLSS. This enhances texture quality, for example when applying the DLSS Performance setting.
General
• Updated the audio on cinematics and end credits to remove unintended channel mixing. You will no longer hear anything that isn’t intended to be heard. (It wasn’t the Hiss, it was us. Sorry.)
• Several bug and crash fixes
