Goldeneye 007 Tutorial: Dam Agent
This is a tutorial for Goldeneye 007. For an outline of the strategies used in this tutorial, see the main level page.
Walkthrough
It is recommended to use 1.1 CC or 1.2 for this level. start out in left strafe using lookdown when heading for the tunnel and hope for a boost. You can either play the beginning over and over again until you get a boost or hope for one later. Turn right, into the tunnel, still using look down, strafe just a little bit to the left to pass the guard to his left up ahead if he doesn't run out of your way.
After the next right turn adjust the aim horizontally again. For some reason you can not get a fast big gate if you use lookdown at this point. Make that right turn sharp so that you are close to the right side of the tunnel wall in the beginning, but start immediately strafing slightly to the left and strafe straight across the area. Be careful not to strafe too far to the left before the big gate in order to avoid getting stuck in boxes.
As you approach the gate, press the button to the right side of the gate and immediately take a sharp left turn to go to the left side of the gate where the gate starts to open. Hopefully it opens quickly, in which case you can get stuck for 2-3 tenths of a second and still have a chance at 0:53. Now comes the hardest part and the part where you can do most to win time.
Right strafe through the big gate, use lookdown and stay as close as possible to the wall, but try to avoid contact with it since you might get stuck on it, or even if you don't get stuck it can slow down your speed. Turn left after passing trough the big double gates and aim for the middle of the next gate, just before reaching it you should take a sharp right turn and at the same time press B to open the gate. Get through it smoothly without getting stuck at all by starting to turn right just before reaching it to open it from a distance so that when you reach its right side there will be a small enough opening for you to slip through without getting stuck at all.
Now strafe heading slightly to the right of the middle of the gate. If you go too far to the right of the lock shot you will lose time because You'll have to aim for the middle and then turn right for the lock shot and then go to the middle again. So go for almost the middle of the gate for the lock shot and press B at almost the same time as you shoot the lock to open it immediately after the shot and run trough it like there was no door at all, run through it like water, be like water.
Some players prefer to look up towards the end as this might cause less slowing down and makes it easier to stay as close as possible to the wall this way too than with lookdown (it's quite easy to differ the railing from the sky when looking up). So after the lock shot, just run almost straight ahead while looking up while you slowly get closer to the wall, you should be very close to it when the first corner appears. Then just stay close to it, learn when the next corner comes up and turn immediately when it does so that you're close to the wall, just be careful not to touch it since then you'll lose time. Know when the stairs are close and when you pass the last corner before the stairs don't turn close to the wall anymore but just let yourself a go a little bit away from it and use look down for the last part so that you can see when to turn into the stairs, make it a real fast turn and fall of the Dam.
All things must work together in one try for 0:53. Try to get at least one boost, but complete the run anyway even if you didn't if it went smoothly otherwise. Always get fast into the right strafe lines, take the shortest possible route but that should be quite obvious and logical, just use your mind and develop your own feeling for the level.
If you want 0:52 however it is almost mandatory to get three boosts and a quick gate, the boosts cut roughly 0.9 seconds, a good gate saves something like a tenth, so if you get these two parameters you should be able to get 0:52 even though it requires extreme luck to get everything you need in a single run.
