KathleenHartnett
Control (Part ii of Mission 7: Cuba) is the sixteenth level in GoldenEye 007. The formal name of this level is Control Centre. With the long protect sequence, Control has traditionally been the longest level in the game.
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| Difficulty | Time | First achieved by |
| Agent | 3:55 | Rayan Isran on 2019-10-11 |
| Secret Agent | 4:01 | Rayan Isran on 2019-10-24 |
| 00 Agent | 4:02 | Rayan Isran on 2019-10-26 |
| LTK | 4:16 | Blake Carroll on 2021-01-11 |
| DLTK | 8:35 | Bryan Bosshardt on 2016-01-26 |
Overview
Control is primarily a knowledge-based level (more so than other levels at least) and in order to get a good time, you need to know how Natalya works.
Objectives
All Difficulties
- a. Protect Natalya
- b. Disable Goldeneye satellite
- c. Destroy armored mainframes
Facts
Guard Spawns
Once the alarm goes off, 2 black-hatted guards instantly start spawning. What you might not now is that their spawning is actually dependent on Bond having killed 2 guards in the very beginning. Of course, you are required to kill those guys anyway so there's no way to utilize this fact.
Each guard has 7 separate spawning points, shown below:
Red points belong to one of the guards, blue to the other. The probability for each location is #2-6: 15.625%, #1: 16%, #7: 9.765%.
Normally the games does regular "Have any of the guards died?" checks at 60 frame (1 second) intervals, and if so, respawns the guard(s). This interval actually changes once Natalya says "Good luck, James, I'll be waiting for you" and starts running towards the elevator. What's the new interval you ask? 40 seconds. So killing the black hat guards just after Natalya's message means no more black hat guards for 40 seconds.
There's one exception though, and that is if you enter the final big room where Trev is. If you do this, the game starts doing 1 second checks again. (if you go back and leave the room, it's back to 40).
Tutorials
Agent
Secret Agent
00 Agent
LTK
- Tutorial Video: - Adam Bozon - Control LTK Tutorial (turn captions on)
- Tutorial Video: - Icy - Control LTK Tutorial (turn captions on)
DLTK
Misconceptions
Faster initial Natalya
The idea that Natalya can have faster reaction by turning earlier is simply wrong. Her "I'm coming, James" message can differ by a few frames but not in any significant or manipulatable manner. Even though the message can seem to come up faster when watching in real time, a frame-by-frame analysis shows that there's no difference whatsoever, no matter which method you use (look up, down, turn right, left, early, late etc etc...).