007 First Light: A Complete Walkthrough for the Knightfall Mission

The Knightfall mission in 007 First Light is a masterclass in stealth and environmental puzzle-solving. Your primary objective is to infiltrate the impenetrable Web Industries headquarters and reach the data core known as 'the Perch'. Forget going in guns blazing; your most effective weapon here is the building's network of cleaning robots. By manipulating these glorified vacuum cleaners, you can bypass security, open locked doors, and create the diversions you need to proceed undetected.

This guide provides a direct, step-by-step walkthrough for every major puzzle and stealth section, from the executive lobby to the final laser grid, ensuring you and Greenway make it through in one piece.

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How do you get past the first locked door?tag

Your journey begins after a less-than-smooth elevator ride and conversation with Roger Finch, Web's chief legal officer. Once you gain control in the executive lobby, you'll find your path blocked by a door that requires executive clearance. Getting past it requires some lateral thinking and a bit of climbing.

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1. Enter the Side Office: As soon as you enter the main lobby area, ignore the locked door ahead and turn left. Go into the first accessible office.
2. Locate the Vent: Inside this office, you'll find various documents and a large whiteboard. The critical path is hidden directly behind this whiteboard—an air vent you can crawl through.
3. Navigate to the Upper Level: The vent will deposit you into an adjacent bathroom. Exit the bathroom and you'll be in a small room beyond the previously locked door. Head up the nearby staircase. You will now be on a catwalk above where your partner, Greenway, is waiting.
4. Shimmy Across the Ledges: Follow the catwalk, climb over the yellow barrier, and begin shimmying to the right across a series of ledges. You'll need to jump from one ledge to the next to cross the large open atrium. This path takes you above and behind the main security checkpoint.

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How do you use the robot vacuum to open the door for Greenway?tag

After successfully crossing the ledges, you'll drop down into a new corridor. Greenway is still stuck on the other side of a locked door. Your task is to get it open for him, and this is your first introduction to the mission's core mechanic: weaponizing the cleaning staff.

In this new area, you'll see a sign on the wall explaining how the cleaning robots have access to every room and can be redirected using control panels. Doors open automatically for the bots.

1. Open the Control Room: Walk around the corner to the left. You'll see a locked glass door. Use your watch's laser to zap the electronic panel next to it, sabotaging the lock and granting you access.
2. Call the Robot: Inside this small control room, there's a panel on the wall. Interact with it to 'Request Cleaning'.
3. Clear the Path: Activating the panel summons a robot vacuum. It will automatically travel from its docking station, and its path will take it directly through the locked door separating you from Greenway. As the bot approaches, the door will slide open, allowing him to join you.

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How do you get through the archives and past the sleeping guard?tag

With Greenway in tow, your next obstacle is another locked door leading to the archives. The direct route is a no-go, but a nearby maintenance room provides the solution. This section involves more vent crawling and a close encounter with a sleeping guard.

1. Enter the Maintenance Vent: Instead of trying to force the locked door, enter the maintenance room nearby. Kick the door open and look up. You'll see another vent panel. Use your watch laser to pop it open and climb inside.
2. Neutralize the Guard: The vent leads to an adjoining room where a guard is asleep in a chair. Greenway will warn you about him. You cannot sneak past. You must perform a silent takedown or use a tranquilizer dart to neutralize him before he wakes up.
3. Unlock the Path Forward: This next part is a bit tricky. You need to unlock a door in a lounge area that you can't yet reach. From the room with the neutralized guard, drop down onto a gangway and climb up onto another series of ledges. Shimmy along the edge until you have a clear line of sight through the windows of the locked lounge (the one with a pool table). Aim your watch laser through the window and zap the lock on the door on the far side of that room. This unlocks it for later.
4. Let Greenway In: Return to the room where you took down the guard. Look above the doorframe where Greenway is waiting. Zap the electronic panel with your watch to open it, reuniting with your partner.

04

How do you sneak past the guards in the open-plan office?tag

After a brief 'tactical pause' with Greenway, he'll suggest you proceed through the lounge with the pool table—the one you just unlocked remotely. This path leads into a large, open-plan office patrolled by several guards. Stealth is essential.

1. Enter the Lounge: Head through the now-unlocked door into the room with the pool table. As you leap over the back wall, a guard will confront you. You can either knock him out or bluff your way past him.
2. Use Cover and Distractions: Once in the main office area, immediately duck behind a low table to avoid being spotted by the guards further down the room. This area is a sandbox of distractions. You can zap a laptop to make it spark, shoot a fire extinguisher to create a smoke screen, or activate a robot vacuum to draw attention.
3. Reach the Vent: Your goal is an air vent on the right-hand side of the room. A reliable strategy is to use the vacuum in the small office behind the nearest guard as a distraction. While he investigates the noise, you can slip past him. Alternatively, a well-placed shot to the fire extinguisher can incapacitate one guard and create enough chaos for you to move.
4. Crawl to Safety: Once you reach the vent, crawl through it. You will emerge in the next corridor, having bypassed the main patrol.

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How do you get past the laser grid?tag

The final major puzzle of the Knightfall mission is a corridor protected by a grid of deadly lasers. Disabling it requires a multi-step process involving a hidden passage, another two-pathed vent, and one last clever use of a cleaning robot.

1. Find the Back Passage: In the corridor before the lasers, you'll see a large, movable storage unit. With Greenway's help, push it aside to reveal a hidden maintenance alcove with another vent.
2. Navigate the Two-Exit Vent: This vent has two exits. Take the left exit first. This will drop you into a small security office. From here, you can see the laser grid through a window.
3. The Remote Hack: Look through the office window, across the laser-filled corridor, into another office on the other side. Aim your watch and zap the electronic lock on that room's door to open it.
4. Take the Second Exit: Go back into the vent and now take the straight/second exit. This path leads directly into the office you just unlocked from afar.
5. The Final Robot Trick: Exit this office into a small side corridor. Go into the adjacent room where you'll find another cleaning robot control panel. Activate it. This summons a robot that will travel down the main, laser-filled corridor, automatically opening the locked security doors at the far end for you.
6. Disable the Lasers: As soon as you call the bot, run out of the room. With the security door now open, you can quickly access the main control panel on the wall. Use it to shut down the laser grid for good, clearing the path for Greenway and the final approach to the Perch.

The Final Pushtag

With the laser grid down, the path to the bridge leading to the Perch is finally clear. You've successfully outsmarted Web Industries' top-of-the-line security using little more than your wits and the building's own automated systems. The real challenge, however, is just beginning.