I've played a little bit and the game seems to be performing well (I maxed out my settings and recorded a test video no audio since it de-synced after conversion (Ryzen 5 2600X & RTX 2060 Super). With V-sync off the game was running in the 90 fps range (with dips into 70fps).

I haven't played it long enough to give a thorough answer but from the little bit that I've seen it's like, a shooter with the writing of Max Payne (the first one), set in an episode of the X-files.

Mystified as well. Anyone played it for a whole and give their impressions?. and it was one of those games which was Epic timed exclusive for 12 months?? (Maybe Outer Worlds will come here later as well.....)

The system requirements for this game are rather high. Yet when I went to check out a couple of youtube gameplay videos, it doesn't quite seem to warrant it.

Wasn't Blizzard's Warcraft III recently made "online-only" somehow? I have no direct knowledge of this, just something I read. Like... if you play W3 it will "phone home" and DRMify your game? I don't know what would happen if you disabled your ethernet/wifi first... maybe W3 always required a sign-in?

I know others chimed-in with some examples, this just popped to mind.

That's mostly because of all those reflections going on. The game is quite demanding if you have those reflections turned on and nearly everything in Control is reflecting something. Also the particle effects are amazing. nearly everything is destructable but not just in a simple way, wenn you destroy a table with papers on it all papers will fly around andf the table will break, glass is shattering in small pieces ect. Just going into any room and destroyimng whatever you want is really fun.

How??

dx11 you mean i guess

there's no way your hitting 70 fps low with all and everything enabled and maxed
and do not forget your able to enable DLSS which is a huge resource need decreaser for the system, you do need to own a nvidia card for that to enable, i belief a 1000 series and up will do
because it is a big deal, story, powers/action, puzzles are all very enjoyable

To be clear, the game can be played in a more then enjoyable fashion with for example a ryzen 6 2600 and a 1060 combination on 1080p since the game allows switching between dx 11 and dx 12 and as always you are able to adjust a whole lot of performance graphics settings

I guess I have played most of the main game by now so maybe I can help a bit.

The story so far is nothing to write home about and it is also not the focus of the game (quite in opposite to Alan Wake and those other Remedy games). The game is a pure metroidvania with everything you would expect here (unlocking areas, aquiring and improving abilities, fast travel, control points when you die ect.). The complete game plays in one building (so far but I doubt it will change) and the people working there are basically those who examine strange events and objects - you could say, they are like the men in black. You will find videos, audio and many things to read that flesh out what they do in the Federal Bureau of Control and a bit of what happened. It's up to you if you want to take the time to read all those stuff or not ... the general "story" can be experienced as well without reading or watching them at all. The focus of the game are the great combat mechanics. You will have one supernatural ability right from the start and you will aquire others over the course of the game. Since you can destroy everything every combat is a blast. Imagine grapping some random PC monitor with your powers, throwing them on the enemy who is tumbling and falling into some table which is now also crashing and then fire some shots afterwards to finally finish him. Combat seems dynamic and fast without you losing Control since most of the areas are rather big, so you can (and should) run and hide as well (don't forget though that enemys can break stuff as well).

When I first heard about the game all that mattered to me is that it is from the guys that made Alan Wake and I was hoping to get a story based game like this one. When I saw first videos I noticed that this is more of a combat game and now after several hours of playtime I don't miss a thing because combat is so much fun and watching at all those details is also really great ... and I don't even use raytracing.

While Control can make use of DLSS, I was entirely unimpressed by this early version. It looked quite good at first glance, but I quickly found out some very noticeable artifact-ghosting when in motion where I keep seeing faint echoes of some items as I turn, and other more detailed features such as broken glass become completely blurry messes when moving. DLSS 2.0 is supposed to have fixed most of such issues, but I doubt it'll ever be patched into the game - I'm not even sure how big of a task it would be to replace the older with the newer system.

That said, even without the shiny ray-tracing/DLSS feature it still looks quite lovely, and it allows me to play in crisp smooth native resolution. :) All that fancy stuff is also quickly lost in the heat of the action.

Isn't that already in?

Well, if it is it looks bad in motion. Really bad.

The player character just being thrown into this with no explanation or introductory exposition at all is one of the strongest points, imo. "Here's all this weird shit happening around and to you, enjoy figuring it out on your own."

Also props to Remedy for the exemplary UI-costumizability. You can literally turn EVERYTHING off (as far as I can see), for the ultimate immersive experience. Only thing I have left on is the crosshair.

DLSS 2.0 is pretty enjoyable

don't forget that you can choose the quality of the dlss by changing between the three available resolution settings under render resolution, i belief for 1080p you have 3 choices with the highest being i belief 1280 x 720 which is pretty much very oke

my first experience with dlss was with anthem which only provides the first version but remains all in all more then oke

EDIT:

and maybe you do need an rtx card for the full enjoyment since i don't had any trouble with moving or other fast paced actions with dlss enabled

No, the downside is that in case the DRM is added after I have bought the game and either have not yet got around installing and backing it up or there are major bugs left in the DRM-free version that the later DRM'ed patches will fix, the EGS is not obliged to offer me a refund as there were no official claims about that game being sold as DRM-free.

But not officially and that is all that matters to me personally as I already have enough DRM-free games to last me multiple lifetimes, so I may as well only increase my collection of games with releases that don't rely on someone in the forums claiming that there was no DRM in them at least the last time they checked...

Actually it launched DRM free, then they added DRM when the first expansion came out, then they removed it again. Either way, at this point in time with both DLCs out and presumably no more patches coming you can backup the game and have a DRM free copy.

Game has a lovely look and feel, though I found the combat quite irritating for some reason.

That's something I actually hated. Hard to relate to a character you know nothing about ... same with the FBC itself. It's just strange to be/feel strange - no sense or reason. Regarding the narrative this one is for me the least enjoyable of Remedy's games - in opposite to the gameplay which I think is excellent. Story in Alan Wake or Quantum Break was in the first hour more complex than Control. But imo the game is not focused on the story. The story is just a way to send you to your next area.
Didn't know this - thank you for the correction.