Hi everyone. After over a month studying in depth every level and grinding them, I've finally posted all of my Agent times and strats. One thing before I start my post, I want to thank Slevanas, DoctorDave5001, ShavedThrone10, Adam Miller, Stefan Mahrla, Dark Ayron, joey47, failurewarning, Fal and PDM (sorry if I forgot someone) for all the motivation, support, help, strats and goals that they have provided to me. I hope some of you remain active in the near future, I want to keep at speedrunning this game, and it would be great to have some competitors. Let's start!
I reached my goal (beating PDM and Fal in every mission) on the 1st of November 2017, when I finally got Nightclub Agent 1:25. As far as I know I currently hold 14/14 Untied World Records on Agent mode (15 if we count Temple glitchless). Of course, I have no means to actually know if my times are UWRs or not (sorry if they are not, let me know and I'll modify my post), but at least I've managed to beat all the times that I've found on The-Elite forums, on the German Gaming Elite forums, on speedrun.com, and on quite long searches in Google and YouTube, so I'll consider them as UWRs until better times are claimed and proven.
All of my posted times have links to captured video proofs on my YouTube channel, and later in this post I'll include even more (I'll set as "Public" my YouTube videos one of these days, until then, use the links in order to find them). Also, I've uploaded 3 guides:
- A guide describing how to manipulate the RNG on Agent (and Secret Agent).
- A guide on how to do the Out of Bounds glitches.
- A full speedrunning guide for Agent ILs describing all the strats that I use in each level (I tried to make it both as short as possible and as detailed as possible).
To end this post, by request of a friend, I'll write down every personal record that I've got on each level along these 2 months (I'm sorry, some of the times and videos are missing on the list, unfortunately). A time with "¤¤" after it means that even though I haven't uploaded the video to YouTube, I still have the video in my laptop, and I can upload it if anyone asks me to do it. For the times that I've uploaded to YouTube, I'll add direct links to their video proof. Also, I'll write which records were World Records or Untied World Records when set: Mission 0: Datacore | Demolition: 5:24, 5:09, 5:02¤¤, 4:59¤¤, 4:57 (UWR)
Mission 1: Nightclub | Stakeout: 1:35, 1:32¤¤, 1:31, 1:26 (WR), 1:25 (UWR)
Mission 2: Subway | Retrieval: 2:34, 2:27¤¤ (WR), 2:26 (UWR), 2:25 (UWR)
Mission 3: Rooftops | Escape: 4:19, 3:32¤¤ (UWR), 3:08 (UWR)
Mission 4: Mansion | Infilltration: 3:03¤¤, 2:49¤¤ (UWR), 2:48¤¤ (UWR), 2:30¤¤ (UWR), 2:28 (UWR)
Mission 5: Laboratory | Rescue: 2:45, 2:41, 2:16¤¤ (UWR), 2:15 (UWR)
Mission 6: River | Extraction: 4:21, 3:49 (UWR), 3:44 (UWR), 3:27 (UWR)
Mission 7: Trinity | Infiltration: 2:51¤¤, 2:41 (UWR)
Mission 8: Trinity | Escape: 4:06 (UWR), 3:50¤¤ (UWR), 3:46 (UWR), 3:42 (UWR)
Mission 9: Jungle | Storm: 2:56 (WR), 2:44 (UWR)
Mission 10: Temple | Surveillance, glitchless: 2:38, 2:29¤¤, 2:27 (UWR)
Mission 10: Temple | Surveillance, OoB glitch: 1:15 (UWR), 1:02 (UWR), 1:00¤¤ (UWR), 0:59 (UWR)
Mission 11: Outpost | Rescue: 1:46 (UWR), 1:44¤¤ (UWR), 1:43 (UWR)
Mission 12: Bridge | Assault: 4:28¤¤, 4:26¤¤, 4:18¤¤, 4:15¤¤, 4:09¤¤ (WR), 4:04¤¤ (UWR), 4:01¤¤ (UWR), 3:58 (UWR), 3:50 (UWR)
Mission 13: Arena | Showdown: 0:53¤¤, 0:52¤¤, 0:43 (UWR)
Total Agent time counting OoBs: 36:27 Total Agent time without counting OoBs: 37:55
That's all. I hope you like my strats and find interesting all the extra info. I'm mostly going to play harder difficulties now for some time. Please, leave here any feedback, comments, questions, suggestions, etc. you have and I'll try to reply as soon as I can :).
