Should you kill the Shah or Roosevelt?

STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has many difficult choices to commit to, many of which will wrack players' minds with indecision. One of the choices players need to make happens when completing the King Of The Hill quest in Stalker 2.

Players will be asked to kill two of the Kingpings of the Garbage Zone for the Item, during the A Deal With The Devil quest. But the question remains whether they should do so kill the Shah or Roosevelt? Here's what players should take into account.

Should players kill Roosevelt in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl?

Killing Roosevelt can prove quite complicated, as players cannot access the base where he is hiding unless they launch a frontal attack (like we did). But there is another option: to use Stealth, by accessing the back door of the base through the firing line.

If players kill Roosevelt, they must pick up his PDA to complete the mission objective and deliver it to Varan. When they do, the location of Roosevelt's Stash will be revealed on the map.

Killing Roosevelt has no immediate consequences, just the elimination of a deranged and dangerous bandit who is using the commissioner for his own selfish purposes. And, of course: there's plenty of loot to be gained from sweeping out the entire base. But if players come and go unnoticed and just kill the Kingping and its guards, then the rest of the Commissaire gang won't attack them.

Should players kill the Shah in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl?

As with Roosevelt, killing the Shah is not so easy. This time there is no secret entrance, and there are only two ways to do this seamlessly. The first is located in the Secondary Mission No Honor Among Thieves, if players choose to kill the Docent and reveal the location of Shah's first Stash, they will notice that when they bring Shah's friend to doormanit will let them in.

The bar is exclusive to Brood Bandits, so if players try to enter by any other means, they will be attacked. Which brings us to our second option: create a bloody path to reach the Shah. If players do it this way, they will have to deal with a lot of bouncers before they can target Shah, who is hidden on the second floor of the bar.

When Shah is dead, pick the PDA from his body and it will reveal the location of yet another Stash for the Shah, which is located northwest of the Brood Bar, on the roof of a Ward base. It contains a modified UDP and a silencer, so it might be worth raiding.

Killing Shah won't have any immediate plot consequences, but after killing him, Garbage will be at the mercy of either Roosevelt or Varan, so it's up to the players to decide who to kill. There is yet another option.

What happens if players kill both Shah and Roosevelt in STALKER 2?

If players decide to clear the debris of dangerous gangsters, they can go after both Roosevelt and Shah, but they must do so before returning to Varan. This will not have any additional consequences but guarantees players access to both the Shah and Roosevelt's Stashes, which has some nice loot.

Don't forget to pick up both PDAs from the corpses to reveal the location of the Stashes, otherwise they will be locked out and players will miss out on the weapons and ammo they contain.

But this mission has yet another option for players to resolve things more quickly: Killing the Thing.

What happens if players kill the Thing in STALKER 2?

To complete the deal with the devil, there are two other options players can take if they don't want to go through the trouble of killing both Kingpings, and they want to do things faster.

The first is to pay Varan 20,000 coupons for the information, which is excessive, but if players have used the money usage bug, they should have plenty of money to spare.

The other is To kill the Thing and his goons (there are about 10 of them, so watch out), which is the faster way to complete this mission. Since Varan plans to betray us from the start, this will bypass the other objectives and interrupt the King of The Hill Quest.

After doing that, simply loot the garage key from Varan's corpse, drop to the lower level, open the deposit door and loot both corpses there to complete the mission objective.

Regardless of what the players choose, when they return to the Slag Heap, the players will find that the Ward soldiers have taken over it, and a new Quest will start.

Players can still come back to Garbage and kill both Shah and Roosevelt if they want to raid their bases, even if they choose to kill Varan before completing King of the Hill.