A New Home Walkthrough — 007 First Light (Chapter 5)

Chapter overview

• Chapter: 5 — A New Home
• Type: Main mission
• Location: Malta / London
• Length: ~15m
• Challenges: 12
• Collectibles: 4

A New Home settles Bond into his new life as a fresh Double-0 recruit. Living alongside fellow recruits Cressida Bright and Lennox Monroe, he splits his time between a shared apartment and a Malta training course, learning the trade through a pair of "steal the flag" stealth exercises. It's a low-stakes, tutorial-flavoured chapter that introduces the Q-Watch, the bluff mechanic, and the stealth-vs-combat playstyles you'll lean on for the rest of the campaign.

Walkthrough

This chapter alternates between quiet story beats at the apartment and two training runs out on the Malta course. Each training run is a self-contained sandbox where the goal is to reach a flag — you can do it stealthily, aggressively, or anything in between, and most of the chapter's challenges hang off how you choose to play.

1. Settle into the apartment (Home)

The chapter opens at the recruits' new place. Drop your bag, then explore before moving on — there are two pieces of intel to grab here (see Collectibles below). When you're ready, follow Monroe over to the TV and interact with it to trigger the next beat.

2. Monroe's memory game

Monroe shows you a card with a pair of symbols and asks you to remember them. Commit them to memory — when he quizzes you, pick the umbrella and the crown to clear the Mr Mnemonic challenge. Answer wrong and you simply miss the optional challenge; the story continues either way.

3. Advanced training — In at the Deep End

Head out to the Malta course for your first flag-steal exercise. The objective is to reach the flag at the far end of the level. How you get there decides several challenges:

• Quiet route (recommended for challenges). Drop down and shadow the patrols. Hold L1/LB for the Q-Watch to read enemy positions, and hack speakers and other environmental objects to pull guards out of your path. Use tall grass for cover, slip past everyone, and take the flag without being seen for Cressida's Way. Doing the run without knocking anyone down also clears Something to Prove.
• Loud route. If you'd rather fight, clear out the soldiers before grabbing the flag for Monroe's Way — use the Q-Watch to confirm the area is empty before you touch the flag.

Grab the Under of Acorns card here (see Collectibles) before finishing the section.

4. The polygraph (Spinning a Yarn)

Back inside, Bond is put through a lie detector interrogation. For the Spinning a Yarn challenge, choose the lie option on all three questions in a row — don't mix in a truthful answer. This is a dialogue sequence, so just pick the responses; there's no failure state for the story itself.

5. Search the Compound

The second training run is a larger flag-steal section down by the pier. Again, the goal is to reach the flag, and your approach drives the challenges:

• Pacifist route. Take the alternate path — work along the left ledge, move through tall grass, climb the blue pipe, and vault through windows — to reach the flag without fighting or alerting anyone. This clears White Flag and Always Do the Unexpected.
• Bluff past guards. When you're spotted by a single guard, use the bluff prompt to talk your way through instead of fighting. At one point you can follow a helmeted guard down the stairs, take him down for a key, and use a side doorway to bluff past a group of three.
• Combat route. Prefer to clear the area? Defeat all the guards before claiming the flag for the Party Crasher challenge.

Pick up the 7 of Roses card near the pier (see Collectibles) as you go.

6. Wrap up

After the compound run, follow the markers back to the apartment to close the chapter and roll into the next London beat. Completing the chapter's challenges unlocks the Malta Training Outfit.

Because nothing here is missable, you can replay A New Home from Chapter Select to mop up any challenge or collectible you skipped.

Collectibles in this chapter

Four collectibles. None are missable.

• Family Photo (Lennox Monroe) — Intel. In the apartment, on the living-room cupboard/chest of drawers against the right wall as you enter.
• Dress Box (Cressida Bright) — Intel. In the apartment, the gift box on Cressida's bed (grab it when she calls you into her room).
• Under of Acorns — Card. Advanced Training — on the ledge by the stairs after you get through the first gate.
• 7 of Roses — Card. Search the Compound — on the pallets past the double door near the pier.

Tip: hold L1/LB to use the Q-Watch (unlocked in Chapter 4) to highlight nearby collectibles in yellow.

Tips

• Lead with Focus and the Q-Watch. Tag patrols and read their routes before you move; both flag sections reward patience.
• Decide your playstyle early. The stealth and combat challenges are mutually exclusive on a single run, so pick one approach per playthrough and replay for the other.
• Use the bluff mechanic. Talking past a guard is often cleaner than a takedown and keeps a "no fighting" run intact.
• Sweep before you grab the flag. Touching the flag usually ends the section — collect cards and confirm challenge conditions first.
• Don't stress about missing anything. All collectibles and challenges can be cleaned up later via Chapter Select.