 | For the game, see FBC: Firebreak.
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Jesse Faden crosses a Firebreak.
| “ | The Oldest House does not only shift and change, it also has other peculiarities. Firebreaks, for example. They are vast chasms that separate two areas, sometimes two sectors from one another. | ” |
— Control on Twitter [1] | ||
Firebreaks are a topographic feature of the Oldest House. They are vast chasms that separate two areas, sometimes two sectors entirely from one another. They function similarly to ordinary firebreaks, serving to prevent the spread of catastrophic paranatural phenomena into different sectors of the Oldest House.
Firebreaks mostly separate important or restricted locations from normal locations. For example, the firebreak that separates the Research Sector from the Ashtray Maze.
Helpful Tips
- Some missions require you to traverse across the chasms to other walkways. Make this easier (and safer) by upgrading your Levitate ability.
Trivia
- If you look closely, many of the bridges have a literal physical break separating them into two beams.
- At one point in development, it was intended for the Firebreaks to reach down into the Foundation, where one could find piles of lost items, but time constraints led to to the concept being scrapped.
Gallery
Concept art by Stuart Macdonald.
Concept art by Stuart Macdonald.
From The Art and Making of Control.
Walkway into the Panopticon.
Walkway near the Collapsed Dept. Note the lack of physical break.
Near the NSC cooling pumps.