STALKER 2: Should You Help Vitya or the Stalker with the Pigsty Cache?
In STALKER 2's Garbage region, players encounter a choice between helping bandits led by Vitya or assisting a wounded stalker near a pigsty cache. Here's what you need to know to make the best decision:
Best Choice: Help the Stalker
Why Choose the Stalker:
- Bandits will attack you regardless of your cooperation
- Helping the stalker builds positive faction relations
- The stalker freely shares the cache location after being healed
- Only costs one medkit to help the stalker
Finding the Cache Location:
- Enter the pigsty building
- Go to the left side compartments
- Break or jump over wooden boxes
- Look for a room blocked by wooden planks
- Break planks with knife or melee attack
- Search trash in back room for a satchel containing loot
Man wearing gas mask in wasteland
Important Note: If you try cooperating with Vitya and the bandits, they'll betray you after finding the cache, forcing you into combat. This encounter serves as an important lesson about trust in the Zone and how your choices affect faction relationships throughout the game.
The wounded stalker's gratitude and willingness to share the cache location without demanding a split makes this the clearly superior choice, both for immediate rewards and long-term gameplay benefits.
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