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'''WAR!''' is [[Perfect Dark]]'s 20th level, and third special mission.
'''WAR!''' is [[Perfect Dark]]'s 20th level, and third special mission. Chronologically, it takes place immediately after the conclusion of [[Skedar Ruins: Battle Shrine]].
===General advice===
You wait a little in the opening cinema for the smoke from the explosion to evaporate: it slows you down.
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It takes a lot of tries for the first door to be open for you... It's completely random, but especially necessary on Agent for the fastest possible run. On higher levels, doors are your worst enemy.
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A headshot to the Kings kills them, but often there are other Skedar in the way...
== Agent ==
== Agent ==
===History of this record===
"MODnike18" was the first to claim a time of 27 seconds on this level, on August 22, 2000. He was met with almost universal disbelief (many still do not believe he had actually obtained that time at the time he claimed it) but, if nothing else, the ''possibility'' of 0:27 War A was real; over a dozen other people later matched his time, and several of them provided video proof. It became the longest-standing non-[[Duel]] world record in [[Perfect Dark]].
On November 20, 2002, ''eight hundred and thirty days later'', [[Bryan Bosshardt]] obtained a time of 0:26, by pulling off a strategy which had long been discussed but never put into practice: repeatedly using the small explosions generated by the [[Phoenix]]'s explosive shots to [[boost]] himself forward. Boosts from explosions are less effective in PD than in [[GoldenEye 007]] but were still enough to cut a second off the [[WR]].
It was some time after this that [[Karl Jobst]] first claimed 0:25, a time since tied by surprise newcomer [[Rayan Isran]] and, many months later, by [[David Kovaz]]. WAR! Agent 0:25 is considered by many to be Perfect Dark's most impressive Agent record, and is also considered to be [[maxed]].
===Strategy===
The boosting technique that is used to get 25 requires a lot of skill, but a small amount of luck is also needed in order to clinch the time. You really shouldn’t attempt this record until you can at least repeat 26’s with relative ease (while I was going for 25, I would get anywhere from two to five 26’s per hour of play).
As an opening note, it’s not incredibly important when you cut the cinema, but generally it’s done right after you hear the explosion off in the distance, so that there won’t be any smoke around the hole when you reach it. If you wait even longer and cut the cinema after the camera cuts away from the two Callisto carrying Maians, you’ll experience a little bit more lag at the very beginning of the level. Now, on to the strat!
As an opening note, it’s not incredibly important when you cut the cinema, but generally it’s done right after you hear the explosion off in the distance, so that there won’t be any smoke around the hole when you reach it. If you wait even longer and cut the cinema after the camera cuts away from the two Callisto carrying Maians, you’ll experience a little bit more lag at the very beginning of the level. Now, on to the strat!