Control Resonant Painting Puzzle: How to Solve the Könstig Art Gallery

The Könstig gallery in the Evacuation Zone hides one of the six Secret Hideouts. The Paintings Sold receipt on the front desk lists Journey, Windows, Thunder and Tides. Light the matching painting in each of the four groups.

Which paintings to light (the four solutions)

Face each trio and leave the spotlight on the painting below.

Paintings Sold: the four target keywords

Positions are as you face that trio. From the front desk, Journey is the group on your left; the other three continue clockwise.

Visual descriptions: how to identify the four correct paintings

• Journey, middle. A road leading toward a tree.
• Windows, left. Branches curling into loops.
• Thunder, left. A lone tree in a green field.
• Tides, middle. A fallen tree lying over water.

The road is the journey, the looped branches are the windows, the lone tree in the open field is thunder, and the fallen tree in the water is tides.

Where is the Könstig art gallery in the Evacuation Zone?

Fast travel route and the Echo exhibition entrance

1. Take the Fast Travel Door in the Evacuation Zone and continue past it to the gallery.
2. Clear the enemies outside.
3. Step in. The wall behind the front desk reads Echo, the exhibition by Charlie Meecham, with the Könstig name under it.

How the painting puzzle and spotlight switches work

Four groups of three paintings fill the room. Each group has a switch on a nearby column. Press the switch and that group's spotlight moves to the next painting. Leave it on the painting that matches the sold word.

Why you should match the painting instead of counting clicks

Match the lit painting. Do not follow a fixed count such as 2-1-1-2. That count fits one starting arrangement. If a switch has already been pressed, keep cycling until the target painting is the one in the light. When all four are right, every exhibition light in the room turns on.

Gallery layout: from the front desk to the hidden passage

Clockwise room sequence: Journey, Windows, Thunder, Tides

Start at the front desk. The Journey group is on your left. Windows, Thunder and Tides continue clockwise.

Where the secret doorway opens (Journey wall right corner)

When the room lights up, go back to the Journey wall. Facing that trio, the passage opens at the wall's right corner. A panel slides away, and stairs lead down to a storage room.

Why won't the hidden passage open? (Troubleshooting)

Confirming the room-wide lighting cue

When all four paintings are right, every exhibition light turns on at once. If the room stays dim, one group is still on the wrong painting.

Checking each individual spotlight

Walk Journey, then Windows, Thunder and Tides. The spotlight has to sit on the target painting in each group. Use the column switches. A hand flashlight does not move the exhibit spotlights.

Rewards and Secret Hideout progress

Three collectible documents and Health Upgrade Point

The storage room downstairs holds three documents — Workshop Journal Entries, Proposed Enforcement and After-Action Summary — and a chest with a Health Upgrade Point. Three points raise your maximum health.

Backroom Espionage trophy progression

This hideout is one of the six Secret Hideouts. The Backroom Espionage trophy tracks all six, so this puzzle is one of them. For the full set, see all Secret Hideout locations; for the other hideout puzzles, see the laundry puzzle and the Urban Fresh Mart register puzzle.