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'''Archives''' (Part ii of Mission 6: St. Petersburg) is the eleventh level in [[GoldenEye 007]]. The formal name of this level is Military Archives.
  
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'''Archives''' (Part ii of Mission 6: St. Petersburg) is the eleventh level in [[GoldenEye 007]]. The formal name of this level is Military Archives
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{|class="wikitable" style="float:right;"
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!colspan="3"|Archives
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| colspan="3" style="text-align: center;"| [[Image:Archives.png|150px]]
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!colspan="3"|World Records
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|Difficulty || Time || First achieved by
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|Agent || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2l994szq3Y 0:15] || Karl Jobst on 2017-12-17
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|Secret Agent || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X8dBRNuW2I 0:53] || Gus Riolo on 2017-12-21
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|00 Agent || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlnwe8bqZTA 0:53] || Gus Riolo on 2017-12-19
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|LTK || [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQFCWdFI9Vk 0:55] || Rayan Isran on 2010-05-23
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|DLTK || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbfsIy2PmZ0 1:02] || David Klos on 2021-01-15
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|}
  
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== Agent ==
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== Objectives ==
  
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'''World Record - 0:16'''
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=== Agent ===
  
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Start in left strafe, and quickly switch to right as soon as you're around the table. Start your slap as soon as possible and move quickly after slapping the guard, switching to left strafe, opening the door and pulling out the Dostovei at the same time, and exiting in right strafe. Go down the hall without getting stuck on the crates. Go up the stairs in right strafe. Halfway up, begin firing the Dostovei, and fire all eight bullets. Strafe past the Klobb guard and hope that when the Soviet guard opens the door for you, he isn't in the way.
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; a. Escape from interrogation room
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; b. Find Natalya
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; c. Escape with Natalya
  
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Stay in right strafe as you go through and quickly turn towards the double doors. If you're lucky, you'll get a boost here (Bryan does in that video right there). Open the doors continuing in right strafe. This is where so many runs of mine get screwed. You've gotta get through so as to not get stuck on the double doors when turning right, but not too far or you'll hit the bookcase. You wanna go in between the two. You also want to use lookdown in this area; it helps a lot. Turn left after passing the end of the first bookcase. Aim for an angle so that you miss all the bookcases and just barely miss the corner of the railing.
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=== Secret Agent / 00 Agent ===
  
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Open Natalya's door and immediately switch to left strafe. Hopefully Natalya will see you. Stay in left strafe all the way back through the double doors. Strafe next to the railing (don't rub against it). As soon as you can see the glass, stop strafing (just run normally), fire frantically until the glass is destroyed, then strafe out. Once again, if you're lucky, you'll get boosted during the exit.
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; a. Escape from interrogation room
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; b. Find Natalya
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; c. Recover helicopter black box
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; d. Escape with Natalya
  
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*World Record Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjK0nlFH67M Bryan Bosshardt - Archives Agent - 0:16]
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== Technical Details ==
  
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== Secret Agent ==
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=== Mishkin ===
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Mishkin starts his speeches when you're within 30 units of him. The objective completes 30s after talking to him, which is 5s after Bond says "Yes, it proves that Janus was involved in the Severnaya incident.". Mishkin stops talking if you are 40 units or more away from him. <ref name="function explorer misc facts">{{cite web | url=https://forums.the-elite.net/index.php?topic=18518.msg455830#msg455830|title=the-elite Goldeneye facts topic post on miscellaneous function explorer facts|author=Icy|access-date=July 16, 2021}}</ref>
  
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'''World Record - 0:54'''
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=== Guards ===
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There are 7 [[Guards#Patrolling Guard|patrolling guards]]. One of them (nearest to the start) is the messenger who has slightly complicated AI if you wait in the room for the conversation to finish. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://forums.the-elite.net/index.php?topic=18518.msg456102#msg456102|title=the-elite forum Goldeneye facts post on guard AI|author=Icy|access-date=July 16, 2021}}</ref>
  
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This strat assumes you know how the level looks like and atleast have 57
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The two interrogation guards become normal after they're triggered to attack.
  
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Cut or watch cinemas, doesnt really matter since the Klobb guard barely ruins a run for you
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=== Ghost Door ===
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anyways. Start in left strafe and turn your stick slightly to the left and up so you get a nice
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Ghost door refers to the phenomenon that the second to last door before Mishkin on Archives can open seemingly by itself, right in front of the player, with no guards nearby<ref>{{cite web | url=https://forums.the-elite.net/index.php?topic=18518.msg467651#msg467651|title=the-elite forum Goldeneye facts post on Archives ghost door|author=Wyst3r|access-date=July 16, 2021}}</ref>. For more background and example videos (most notably, Ryan Koch's video), see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF2BwyTU5-g this speedlore episode] (starting around 1:32:33).
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45% lookdown or so, though it isnt really needed right away. You may want to hold Z-button
 
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right away when you start for the fastest possible slap. Once past the table switch to rightstrafe
 
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and go towards the guard with the key, when bond is about to slap change to leftstrafe again and  
 
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try to get the slap on the guards rightside (his rightside yes). Right when thats done press B so you
 
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open the door and try to exit as soon as possible. Once youre past the door change to
 
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rightstrafe and start using lookdown if you already dont and press A to bring out the
 
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Dostovei.
 
  
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Dodge all boxes here, for a 55 you dont want to get stuck on those, the guard here is never
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While Ghost Door usually refers to the aforementioned door before Mishkin, there are actually other instances of it. A few years ago I explained one of these, seen in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWV9L3-qDo Ace's DLTK 1:06].
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a problem so ignore him. Change to leftstrafe when you arrive to the stairs (you can keep
 
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it in rightstrafe but its harder to do the turn in the stairs) and change to rightstrafe, once
 
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you have passed the first set start shooting with the Dostovei to alert the "doorguard", you
 
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can empty the whole clip, it doesnt really matter if you do it somewhat fast:P. Now inbetwen
 
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the shooting try to get a good line to the door and hope the guards that opens it isnt in the way,
 
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if he is you might get boosted through him or you get a lucky warp but if you get stuck for
 
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more than a few tenths restart.
 
  
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Once past him make a nice left turn to the door and open it from far away so you dont get stuck
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What happens in this case is that the patrolling guard collides with Natalya, which causes him to load, which in turn can make him open the nearby door leading to the window. However, despite knowing this, it still wasn't obvious how the door before Mishkin could open. The main difference is that the door opens right in front of the player, so you'd expect to see the guard somewhere nearby. A reasonable assumption would be that the guard gets stuck behind the door, and while this is indeed possible and might explain some of these occurences, it doesn't explain Ryan Koch's video, since he almost immediately looks back.
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on the doors, now you might want to change to rightstrafe while you open the double door or you
 
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can wait to change strafe in the library, its up to you whats best for you, no way is the better way.
 
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Also you may get boosted here and get everything fucked up but you know what to do if that
 
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happens. Get through all bookcases nice with no stucks and open Nat's door and hope the bitch
 
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get her sight on you, if not you may want to restart or continue for some practise. Now change
 
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back to rightstrafe and get a good line to the other double door, aim for its rightside. Try to open
 
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it from far away and change to leftstrafe and back to right to get through fast and clean. If you miss
 
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open the door the pauseout should say 16 (though it should be around mid dec but thats something
 
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you cant know), 15 pauseout is very good.
 
  
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Go down the staris and dont brake strafe cus thats probably slower, and try to get the turn as good
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So how could this possibly be? Well... *drumroll*
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as possible when the railing ends. Once down the stairs change to leftstrafe so you face the wall.
 
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now you kinda want to run with about a 5% angle when facing the wall so you get a good line to
 
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the door. This door is easy, just press B when you know you can open it and get past it, change to
 
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rightsrafe to get through and back to left. Try to have Bonds back to the wall here and open the far
 
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door from some distance so you dont get stuck on it. Now once past that door turn left and open the
 
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famous Mishkin door on its leftside, try to get through it as quickly as possible. Once you have made
 
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it this far with good speed and no stucks 55 is pretty much yours, atleast 56. If you do miss open
 
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the door your pauseout should say 21 if you had 55 pace up to this part.
 
  
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Walk over to Mishkin so you start the conversation with him, warp him or whatever and strafe him
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As it turns out, it was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v671QIEi0Xg a guard after all]. The reason we couldn't see him was because he opened the door from outside. This seems strange, given that the door isn't on his path, but when you think about it, the same thing happened in the Ghost Door #3 video above. The moment the guard loads, for some reason they can open (seemingly) any nearby door. Some reverse-engineering by Whiteted suggests this might be a 1/10 phenomenon, but more runs are needed to verify this. With all this information, we can know put together the whole chain of events:
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towards the door you exit this room later on. You can almost open this door right away when you
 
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have strafed him far enough. Now strafe him back towards the safe a bit. Now place yourself (or
 
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whatever place you prefer) against those boxes and wait for a guard with kf7 to arrive. But beware,
 
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guards know when you have a wr run going on and doesnt hesitate to throw a grenade at their boss
 
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just to spite you. Ah well, it might happen no guard arrive at all so use your Dostovei for the
 
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end instead. When Mishkin says "A costly lesson" start to strafe him to the front the safe and
 
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get rid of any gay guard that might still be in this room.
 
  
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Place Bond on the left side of the safe and bring out your kf7 if you got it (pretty obvious anyways)
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# In the beginning of the level, we lure a guard to get the 2nd door open, this noise is also likely to alert the guard patrolling around Mishkin's room who will be out in the courtyard (though if you watch cinema this might differ).
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and when bond says "Yes, it proves that Janus was involved in Severnaya incident" start walking
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# When we enter the room with the ghost door, the guard is still unloaded, and has just "warped" through the ghost door and is now headed towards the big room. However, since unloaded guards don't actually move, but rather "teleport" whenever they finish a segment, his real body is essentially standing still outside the ghost door.
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against the safe to prepare fullspeed. Listen carefully and smash B like mad and once you hear the
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# As the player turns toward the ghost door, the guard is loaded, and since the door is nearby, there's a small chance he will open it. Since he still hasn't seen Bond, he continues running toward big room in pursuit, meaning any left-strafing player will fail to notice him (and he will fail to notice them since he's facing the opposite direction).
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"beep" sound leave the safe in rightstrafe hoping you got the "fr" from the safe (wich you usually get
 
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if you opened it). Get out of the room and take a nice turn around the box and change to
 
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leftstrafe here. Run towards the left side of the door infront of you and open it and get through. You
 
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can either shoot the glas right away or keep in leftstrafe and shoot it when you are closer to the
 
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glas, the later option is probably the fastest if you do it good.
 
  
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Now if everything went like it should a 55 will pop out on the status menu, these are easy wr's once
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In Ryan Koch's video, we can hear a door opening shortly after the ghost door, and as he looks outside, we can see what appears to be an open door to the big room. Since the guard is running (and started outside the ghost door), and Ryan waited a few secs before looking outside, he was simply too slow to actually spot him.
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you know how to do it, just practise doors and such if you have problems, thats the key to 55's; doors.
 
  
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Good luck.
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So there you go. Mystery solved.
  
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== Tutorials ==
  
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*World Record Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X8dBRNuW2I Jimmy Bauer - Archives Secret Agent - 0:54]
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=== Agent ===
  
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== 00 Agent ==
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* [[Goldeneye 007 Tutorial: Archives Agent|Archives Agent]]
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Archives 00 Agent 0:55 Strategy
 
  
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This strat assumes you know how the level looks like and atleast have 57
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5U2PCEruE video tutorial target 0:16 by Wodahs]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fETOXc-YHA video tutorial target 0:16 by Alex]
  
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Cut or watch cinemas, doesnt really matter since the Klobb guard barely ruins a run for you
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=== Secret Agent / 00 Agent ===
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anyways. Start in left strafe and turn your stick slightly to the left and up so you get a nice
 
−
45% lookdown or so, though it isnt really needed right away. You may want to hold Z-button
 
−
right away when you start for the fastest possible slap. once past the table switch to rightstrafe
 
−
and go towards the guard with the key, when bond is about to slap change to leftstrafe again and
 
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try to get the slap on the guards rightside (his rightside yes). Right when thats done press B so you
 
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open the door and try to exit as soon as possible. Once youre past the door change to
 
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rightstrafe and start using lookdown if you already dont and press A to bring out the
 
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Dostovei.
 
  
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Dodge all boxes here, for a 55 you dont want to get stuck on those, the guard here is never
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; General Tips
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a problem so ignore him. Change to leftstrafe when you arrive to the stairs (you can keep
 
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it in rightstrafe but its harder to do the turn in the stairs) and change to rightstrafe, once
 
−
you have passed the first set start shooting with the Dostovei to alert the "doorguard", you
 
−
can empty the whole clip, it doesnt really matter if you do it somewhat fast:P. Now inbetwen
 
−
the shooting try to get a good line to the door and hope the guards that opens it isnt in the way,
 
−
if he is you might get boosted through him or you get a lucky warp but if you get stuck for
 
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more than a few tenths restart.
 
  
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Once past him make a nice left turn to the door and open it from far away so you dont get stuck
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* Take a wide line on the first single door after the spiral stairs since it lets you get around the door quicker. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://forums.the-elite.net/index.php?topic=21944.msg448373#msg448373|title=the-elite forum post "Post Runs For Critique Here!"|author=Grav|access-date=July 19, 2021}}</ref>
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on the doors, now you might want to change to rightstrafe while you open the double door or you
 
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can wait to change strafe in the library, its up to you whats best for you, no way is the better way.
 
−
Also you may get boosted here and get everything fucked up but you know what to do if that
 
−
happens. Get through all bookcases nice with no stucks and open Nat's door and hope the bitch
 
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get her sight on you, if not you may want to restart or continue for some practise. Now change
 
−
back to rightstrafe and get a good line to the other double door, aim for its rightside. Try to open
 
−
it from far away and change to leftstrafe and back to right to get through fast and clean. If you miss
 
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open the door the pauseout should say 16 (though it should be around mid dec but thats something
 
−
you cant know), 15 pauseout is very good.
 
  
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Go down the staris and dont brake strafe cus thats probably slower, and try to get the turn as good
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* The limiting factor for how fast you can open the second door to the safe room is pretty much only your look angle, not your position. Therefore, focus on turning towards the second door as soon as possible.
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as possible when the railing ends. Once down the stairs change to leftstrafe so you face the wall.
 
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now you kinda want to run with about a 5% angle when facing the wall so you get a good line to
 
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the door. This door is easy, just press B when you know you can open it and get past it, change to
 
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rightsrafe to get through and back to left. Try to have Bonds back to the wall here and open the far
 
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door from some distance so you dont get stuck on it. Now once past that door turn left and open the
 
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famous Mishkin door on its leftside, try to get through it as quickly as possible. Once you have made
 
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it this far with good speed and no stucks 55 is pretty much yours, atleast 56. If you do miss open
 
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the door your pauseout should say 21 if you had 55 pace up to this part.
 
  
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Walk over to Mishkin so you start the conversation with him, warp him or whatever and strafe him
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; Tutorials
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towards the door you exit this room later on. You can almost open this door right away when you
 
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have strafed him far enough. Now strafe him back towards the safe a bit. Now place yourself (or
 
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whatever place you prefer) against those boxes and wait for a guard with kf7 to arrive. But beware,
 
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guards know when you have a wr run going on and doesnt hesitate to throw a grenade at their boss
 
−
just to spite you. Ah well, it might happen no guard arrive at all, just hope you have 4 bullets in the
 
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Dostovei when you play on 00A. When Mishkin says "A costly lesson" start to strafe him to the front
 
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the safe and get rid of any gay guard that might still be in this room.
 
  
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Place Bond on the left side of the safe and bring out your kf7 if you got it (pretty obvious anyways)
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* [[Goldeneye 007 Tutorial: Archives Secret Agent|Archives SA / 00A]]
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and when bond says "Yes, it proves that Janus was involved in Severnaya incident" start walking
 
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against the safe to prepare fullspeed. Listen carefully and smash B like mad and once you hear the
 
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"beep" sound leave the safe in rightstrafe hoping you got the "fr" from the safe (wich you usually get
 
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if you opened it). Get out of the room and take a nice turn around the box and change to
 
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leftstrafe here. Run towards the left side of the door infront of you and open it and get through. You
 
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can either shoot the glas right away or keep in leftstrafe and shoot it when you are closer to the
 
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glas, the later option is probably the fastest if you do it good.
 
  
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Now if everything went like it should a 55 will pop out on the status menu, these are easy wr's once
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OzoSskVYjw video tutorial target 0:54 by Alex A]
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you know how to do it, just practise doors and such if you have problems, thats the key to 55's; doors.
 
  
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Good luck.
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=== LTK ===
  
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*World Record Video: [http://www.thengamer.com/GE/11-Archives/Michael%20Kirkness%20-%20Archives%2000A%20-%20055.avi Michael Kirkness - Archives 00 Agent - 0:55]
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* [[Goldeneye 007 Tutorial: Archives LTK|Archives LTK]]
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* Tutorial Video: [https://videos.huzip.net/tutorials/goldeneye/ltk-dltk/Adam-Bozon/annotated/Archives%20LTK%20Tutorial.html - Adam Bozon - Archives LTK Tutorial (turn captions on)]
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* Tutorial Video: [https://videos.huzip.net/tutorials/perfect-dark/ltk-dltk/Eric-Liikala/annotated/Archives%20LTK%20Tutorial.html - Icy - Archives LTK Tutorial (turn captions on)]
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=== DLTK ===
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* [[Goldeneye 007 Tutorial: Archives DLTK|Archives DLTK]]
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* Tutorial Video: [https://videos.huzip.net/tutorials/goldeneye/ltk-dltk/Adam-Bozon/annotated/Archives%20DLTK%20Tutorial.html - Adam Bozon - Archives LTK Tutorial (turn captions on)]
  
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
  
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* [http://www.the-elite.net/GE/stage11.htm Archives World Rankings]
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* [https://rankings.the-elite.net/goldeneye/stage/archives Archives World Rankings]
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* [https://rankings.the-elite.net/goldeneye/ltk/stage/archives Archives LTK/DLTK Rankings]
 
* [http://thengamer.com/GE/11-Archives/ Archives Videos]
 
* [http://thengamer.com/GE/11-Archives/ Archives Videos]
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==References==
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{{Reflist}}
  
 
[[Category:GE Strats]]
 
[[Category:GE Strats]]
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[[Category:GoldenEye 007]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 06:29, 19 July 2021

Archives (Part ii of Mission 6: St. Petersburg) is the eleventh level in GoldenEye 007. The formal name of this level is Military Archives.

Archives
Archives.png
World Records
Difficulty Time First achieved by
Agent 0:15 Karl Jobst on 2017-12-17
Secret Agent 0:53 Gus Riolo on 2017-12-21
00 Agent 0:53 Gus Riolo on 2017-12-19
LTK 0:55 Rayan Isran on 2010-05-23
DLTK 1:02 David Klos on 2021-01-15

Objectives

Agent

a. Escape from interrogation room
b. Find Natalya
c. Escape with Natalya

Secret Agent / 00 Agent

a. Escape from interrogation room
b. Find Natalya
c. Recover helicopter black box
d. Escape with Natalya

Technical Details

Mishkin

Mishkin starts his speeches when you're within 30 units of him. The objective completes 30s after talking to him, which is 5s after Bond says "Yes, it proves that Janus was involved in the Severnaya incident.". Mishkin stops talking if you are 40 units or more away from him. [1]

Guards

There are 7 patrolling guards. One of them (nearest to the start) is the messenger who has slightly complicated AI if you wait in the room for the conversation to finish. [2]

The two interrogation guards become normal after they're triggered to attack.

Ghost Door

Ghost door refers to the phenomenon that the second to last door before Mishkin on Archives can open seemingly by itself, right in front of the player, with no guards nearby[3]. For more background and example videos (most notably, Ryan Koch's video), see this speedlore episode (starting around 1:32:33).

While Ghost Door usually refers to the aforementioned door before Mishkin, there are actually other instances of it. A few years ago I explained one of these, seen in Ace's DLTK 1:06.

What happens in this case is that the patrolling guard collides with Natalya, which causes him to load, which in turn can make him open the nearby door leading to the window. However, despite knowing this, it still wasn't obvious how the door before Mishkin could open. The main difference is that the door opens right in front of the player, so you'd expect to see the guard somewhere nearby. A reasonable assumption would be that the guard gets stuck behind the door, and while this is indeed possible and might explain some of these occurences, it doesn't explain Ryan Koch's video, since he almost immediately looks back.

So how could this possibly be? Well... *drumroll*

As it turns out, it was a guard after all. The reason we couldn't see him was because he opened the door from outside. This seems strange, given that the door isn't on his path, but when you think about it, the same thing happened in the Ghost Door #3 video above. The moment the guard loads, for some reason they can open (seemingly) any nearby door. Some reverse-engineering by Whiteted suggests this might be a 1/10 phenomenon, but more runs are needed to verify this. With all this information, we can know put together the whole chain of events:

  1. In the beginning of the level, we lure a guard to get the 2nd door open, this noise is also likely to alert the guard patrolling around Mishkin's room who will be out in the courtyard (though if you watch cinema this might differ).
  2. When we enter the room with the ghost door, the guard is still unloaded, and has just "warped" through the ghost door and is now headed towards the big room. However, since unloaded guards don't actually move, but rather "teleport" whenever they finish a segment, his real body is essentially standing still outside the ghost door.
  3. As the player turns toward the ghost door, the guard is loaded, and since the door is nearby, there's a small chance he will open it. Since he still hasn't seen Bond, he continues running toward big room in pursuit, meaning any left-strafing player will fail to notice him (and he will fail to notice them since he's facing the opposite direction).

In Ryan Koch's video, we can hear a door opening shortly after the ghost door, and as he looks outside, we can see what appears to be an open door to the big room. Since the guard is running (and started outside the ghost door), and Ryan waited a few secs before looking outside, he was simply too slow to actually spot him.

So there you go. Mystery solved.

Tutorials

Agent

Secret Agent / 00 Agent

General Tips
  • Take a wide line on the first single door after the spiral stairs since it lets you get around the door quicker. [4]
  • The limiting factor for how fast you can open the second door to the safe room is pretty much only your look angle, not your position. Therefore, focus on turning towards the second door as soon as possible.
Tutorials

LTK

DLTK

External Links

References

  1. ↑ Icy. "the-elite Goldeneye facts topic post on miscellaneous function explorer facts". Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  2. ↑ Icy. "the-elite forum Goldeneye facts post on guard AI". Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  3. ↑ Wyst3r. "the-elite forum Goldeneye facts post on Archives ghost door". Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  4. ↑ Grav. "the-elite forum post "Post Runs For Critique Here!"". Retrieved July 19, 2021.
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