Agent J

Loading card and lobby

The Agent badge, then a room that waits

Agent J opens on a loading card built around one word: Agent, set on a badge next to a purple skull mark, over a split view of the suited character and a yellow progress bar that runs along the bottom of the frame. While that bar moves there is nothing to press, and the game does not hand over to the lobby until it finishes.

Four buttons, one counter, one way in

The lobby is a single room: a framed world map on a red wall, a blue grid floor, and the agent in a black suit and sunglasses standing in front of it. Everything you can act on sits in the corners. A green counter in the top right reads 0, and the right-hand stack carries 4 buttons in this order: Sign daily, Lucky wheel, Switch agents, Armory. Along the bottom sits a single task card that begins with the word Sneaking and ends with into, with 1 yellow Move out! button under it.

In this capture the room stayed exactly there. Clicking around it moved nothing on, which is worth knowing before you start: Move out! is the launch control, and the four buttons beside it are lobby business rather than stages.

What the build runs

Stages, and a jump that takes one second

Behind the lobby the game runs a stage system rather than free play. The build keeps a stage configuration, a list of mission stages, a count of stages already passed, and a separate flag for supply stages, so progress is measured in completed stages instead of one endless map.

Health, armour and ammo are three separate counters

The agent carries current and maximum health plus a separate armour pool, and the field can hand health back: the build has an eat-health pick-up with its own count and a health recovery rate, so damage taken is not permanent within a stage. Ammunition is tracked per weapon, initialised per weapon and reset per weapon, which means swapping guns does not refill the one you left. Attacks run on a cooldown, enemies carry hit points and a running kill count, and each agent has an ultimate skill with its own cooldown icon.

Movement has one number worth remembering. The game's own config file sets PlayerJumpDistance to 18 and PlayerJumpSeconds to 1, so a jump covers 18 units and is over in a single second.

Between attempts

Spend the lobby before you spend the stage

Weapons upgrade for coins, and the lobby counter is the same currency. The build carries 2 upgrade routes for a weapon: one charges coins and the other runs from a video, and when neither is possible the dialog that appears is captioned with a coin shortage and the words Lack of money. A weapon already at its ceiling answers with Has reached the maximum level!, so a purchase that silently does nothing usually means the upgrade is finished rather than the tap missing.

Sign-in, skins and redeem codes

3 of the 4 lobby buttons are off-stage systems. Sign-in runs a day streak and answers a second claim on the same day with You have signed in today! ! !. Skins come out of the same rewards pool, with You already have this skin~ for a duplicate and Just take the skin! when the day's reward is a costume rather than currency. Redeem codes are checked against an easter-egg list, and a mistyped one answers The redemption code is entered incorrectly~ while a code for a role you already hold answers This Easter egg role has been obtained~~~.

None of that changes what happens once a stage starts, but it decides what you carry into it, which is why the lobby is worth a minute before the first Move out!.

Agent J lobby FAQ

The 0 counter, the four buttons and Move out!

These answers stay with what the loading card and the lobby actually show, plus the numbers the game's own files carry. The one habit worth forming first is simple: read the room before you press the yellow button, because the lobby is the only screen that explains what you own.