Stalker 2 The Lost Boys walkthrough and should you side with Dew or the Ninth?

2024-11-20

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Stalker 2 Lost Boys Dew or the Ninth

Jump to:Mastiff’s group’s locationFind MastiffChoosing the NinthChoosing DewCan you stop Dew from attacking?

This STALKER 2 The Lost Boys walkthrough should help you decide between the Ninth, a Monolith soldier, or Dew and his men, a gang of hired guns. However, this side mission begins with you tracking down a gang of diggers who have gone missing - not reporting back to technician, Lens. Eventually, you’ll come across the Ninth, who helped Mastiff, one of the missing men, and Dew, who is convinced that any member of the Monolith cult inSTALKER 2can’t be trusted. Dew believes he has to kill the Ninth before he can turn Mastiff into a zombie mutant. So, you’re either attacking the Ninth, or defending him from Dew and his mercenaries.

Mastiff’s group last location in Stalker 2

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Stalker 2 The Lost Boys bunker where Mastiff’s group last were

Firstly, you need to find where Mastiff and his gang went missing. The blue waypoint will guide you there, but you essentially need tohead south of Zalissya for a few hundred meters until you find a concrete bunker-like entrance. Head inside and you’ll now need to figure out what happened to the gang.

Find Mastiff in Stalker 2

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Stalker 2 The Lost Boys locked house that Mastiff is in and the shack with the underground tunnel that links the buildings

Now you need to find Mastiff, which means you’ve got tohead southeast of the facility you were just in for several hundred meters, following the blue waypoint. You’ll eventually reach a small collection of buildings, one of which is a house which Mastiff is in as you can hear him groaning in pain. However, the door inside is locked and there’s no way to open it.

To get inside,head to the smaller shack next to the house(it’s to the right of the front door)break the yellow padlock to get insidethe shack. You’ll notice a large hole in the floor which leads into an underground tunnel that conveniently ends on the other side of that locked door in the house, and you’ll also find Mastiff lying on a bed here.

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Stalker 2 The Lost Boys approaching the Ninth in the house attic

Choosing the Ninth in Stalker 2 The Lost Boys

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Stalker 2 Lost Boys Dew or the Ninth

If you side with the Ninth and defend him from Dew’s forces,you’ll have to kill the mercenaries outside, though the Ninth will help you do this. This isn’t an easy fight - there are several of them with strong weapons, though if the fight goes inside, the Ninth should help you (though he risks getting killed in the process).

After the shootout, speak with the Ninth again to get a little information about him and his faction, as well as theRubber Layer blueprint,an upgrade you can apply to improve certain equipment at any Technician (the merchants where you go torepair weapons in STALKER 2).

Once you go back to Lens,he’ll still pay you 500 couponsfor finding Mastiff, though warn you that the average character in STALKER 2 won’t even be as tolerant towards Monolithians as he is (and he gets off some nasty words about them along the way).

Choosing Dew in Stalker 2 The Lost Boys

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Stalker 2 Lost Boys Dew or the Ninth

If you choose Dew, you’ll have tofight the Ninth.He’s only one man, but he has notably more health than any of Dew’s forces, acting as a kind of tank. Still, once you bring him down, you’ll see that he doesn’t have much in the way of loot.

Instead, the value to this choice comes when yougo back to Lens, who will give you 1000 coupons for completing the quest, double what he gives you otherwise.Still, this choice means you don’t get the blueprint, so there are pros and cons to doing so.

Can you stop Dew from attacking the Ninth?

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Stalker 2 Lost Boys Dew or the Ninth

Trying to get a non-violent route through the Lost Boys quest where you talk down Dew from attacking the Ninth is impossible, despite the Ninth suggesting that you could try doing so.If you try to tell him the house is empty, he searches it anyway (leading to a firefight where he attacks the Ninth) and if you tell him the Monolithian is telling the truth, he decides you’re a traitor and begins combat.It means that going the dialogue route won’t save anybody - one way or another, either Dew and his team or the Ninth have to die.

Want more choices laid out? See if you shouldhelp or kill Squint in STALKER 2, orwho should you give the religious icon to in STALKER 2.© GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.

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