Major tip ahead for anyone that's stuck because of a game progression bug! So far I'm enjoying Control. The first time I started the game up I noticed this learning curve and I wasn't always sure what to do or how to upgrade my character properly so I ended up being pretty underpowered and decided to start a new game. Why this game doesn't allow multiple savegames is beyond me for a game that came out so recently. Anyway, in the beginning the new game worked like it should, but as I progressed I noticed control points which where already claimed and upgrade boxes were already opened and missions I completed just wouldn't check off the list so I couldn't progress the game from beyond 45 minutes in. This made me start a new game yet again and the same thing happened again so I figured a fresh install might sort things out but it didn't. We're now a couple of days further and I'm getting reluctant to start a new game yet AGAIN, having to go through all the same boring hoops and story that's getting old by now but I did anyway. I think you can already see where this went? Right, the same friggin' problem. Googling my problem lead me nowhere so I started poking around my system to see where Control saves are stored because I found out saves are persistent on your system, even with cloud-save turned off and reinstalling the game from seemingly scratch. Here is where I solved the issue. !!!---!!! The solution: Turn off cloud saves and then navigate to your documents folder (for me I'ts c:\D:\Home\Documents\My games\Control\Saves\ and delete everything in there. You WILL lose all your progress but it's the only way to get a new game to work. !!!---!!! How this got through QC is beyond me. End-users shouldn't have to jump through these hoops and try to jury-rig their game for a solution that seems so extremely simple to solve for a developer. The game is fun, but the quality is lacking in some pretty basic stuff.
