This STALKER 2 No Honor Among Thieves walkthrough will help you out on your journey to talk with the Brood Bandits, as this task is not as straightforward as it seems. Along the way you'll encounter several locked doors that don't have a key handy to open, so instead you'll need to navigate around them through some climbing sequences while also fighting off bandits along the way.
As with much of STALKER 2 Heart of Chornobyl, the solution is sort of obtuse and obvious in equal measure and, yes, it does involve the digger you may have noticed is conspicuously crashed into the side of the house. With that in mind, here's what you need to do to complete the STALKER 2 No Honor Among Thieves mission and gain a pretty decent stash.
How to get inside the house in No Honor Among Thieves for STALKER 2
When you get to the house indicated by the mission marker for No Honor Among Thieves, you'll find a digger has been crashed into the side of it. Unfortunately, the door is locked and there's no sign of the key. If you look through the windows you'll see there are bodies and signs of a fight inside, so it definitely feels like that's where you want to be to investigate further.
The locked door is basically a red herring, however, and getting inside has everything to do with that digger helpfully touching the roof. You won't be able to get on top of the digger alone, though, which is where the confusion comes in. Like the Journalist Stash in the roof in STALKER 2 – where it looks like you should just be able to hop on the truck but can't – the digger cannot be climbed even though it has a ladder on the side!
The trick, then, is to go around the back of the red shipping crates you find just past the digger and poke around until you find you can get inside one of these containers:
You might have to bat a few boxes and crates around to clear space, but you'll be able to go inside the container and then climb out of a hole in the roof to get out on top:
From here you'll be able to jump to the other red container, and from there to the digger. Once on the digger you'll need to jump on to the roof of the driver's cab, to then jump on the arm as you can't just walk or jump up the arm alone. Once you're on that, you can then walk across carefully to the roof of the house. After that, you can get in through the hole the tree is growing out of.
Inside the house you'll find a bunch of bodies you can search and loot, but you'll need to find Edik the Dome and loot his PDA to progress the mission.
Once you have the PDA it will advance the mission to the next objective, which is to 'Pick up the Brood Shipment from Docent'. That will highlight a new location on your map to check out.
When you get there you'll have to fight all of the bandits to carry on but the warehouse itself is locked, a theme for this mission. To get in you can either use the blue van with the crates by it to climb up and reach a gantry to a balcony, or you can climb a ladder by a large chimney, that will get you on to the roof and from there you can drop down to the balconies.
Inside you'll find, wait for it, A LOCKED DOOR. This time it's easy to get past though, as you just need to climb the stairs to the upper level and drop through the hole in the floor to get in.
Inside you'll find Docent who offers a deal for you not to kill him: you can have the missing shipment and the coordinates for a stash with a special gun belonging to the Shah. It's best to take the deal as you won't get the stash if you kill him – it's got a pristine AKM-74S with a drum magazine. So, if you want an SMG with endless fire, it's a good get. Just watch who sees it, as Docent warns you not to show it in the Brood bar in case it's recognised.
Whatever you choose to do, take the shipment back once you have it to finish the mission.
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