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STALKER 2 Heart of Chornobyl

Should You Side with Ward or Sparkers?

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Stalker 2 Should You Side with Ward or Sparkers

Siding with the Ward or Sparkers during the Extreme Simplicity main mission does not affect your playthrough regardless of the choice you make in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Read on to learn the outcomes of siding with the Ward or Sparkers.

Side With Ward or Sparkers Choice Outcomes

Side With Ward or Sparkers?

Choice Outcome
Side With Ward
(Eliminate Spark Troops)
Kill the Sparkers
・8,000 Coupons (depending on difficulty)
Side With Sparkers
(Fight Off the Ward Assault)
Kill the Ward soldiers
・8,000 (depending on difficulty) Coupons

This choice occurs during the Extreme Simplicity main mission, where you are given the option to kill either the Ward soldiers or the Sparkers. Both choices will net you 8000 Coupons on completion (as well as the death of the faction you chose to fight).

Extreme Simplicity Walkthrough

Should You Side With Ward or Sparkers?

Choose to Help the Faction You Want to Side With

Siding With the Ward

The choice that you make here will not really affect future missions in a big way. Extreme Simplicity will proceed as normal regardless of who you chose to side with (the Ward will still welcome you in SIRCAA after all), and the option to side with or forsake the Ward will occur during Wishful Thinking instead.

Since the choice you make does not affect the main story, you can simply choose to help whichever faction you want to side with to better suit the narrative that you are building up for Skif.

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