To Kill or Not to Kill is a Side Mission (Side Quest) in Dying Light 2. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the To Kill or Not to Kill side mission.
Region: Central Loop
Sub-Region: New Dawn Park (guy sitting at bar)
Quest Giver: Paul
Requirement: Have NOT activated Metro: Newalls Crossing (in New Dawn Park) & finished Main Quest 11: A Place to Call Home – if you activated the Metro the quest will be missed. This would also make you miss the quest-related Collectible – Memento #75: Avery’s Map. For some players it is there as soon as they arrive at the Fish Eye Canteen (after Main Quest 11), for others it has appeared after the story when assigning the VNC Tower to Frank during Main Quest 16: Broadcast, and for some the quest simply never appears. This may be buggy. It’s recommended you keep checking for this quest after every main mission after having arrived at Fish Eye Canteen in the story. If you never get the quest you can join other people’s co-op game until you find someone who has the quest available.
Reward: +2250 Combat XP, +750 Parkour XP, +1000 Money
Mission Info: Some particularly nasty bandits, Avery and Francis, had been terrorizing a group of salvagers in a bid to take over their territory. The salvagers’ leader, Paul, asked me for help finding his missing team, which was led by Daisy and her son, Paul.
Objectives:
- Go to the Incubate building to find the salvage team
- Search the meeting location
- Look for Fitz in Francis’s camp
- Eliminate the Bandits
- Talk to Francis
- Look for Fitz at Avery’s camp
- Kill Avery and his guard
- Search the body
- Report back to Francis
- Kill Francis and his men
- Return to Paul
Starting Location: To Kill or Not to Kill
This quest starts in Central Loop > New Dawn Park, given by Paul who is sitting at the bar.
Missable Warning: This quest is missable! If you activated Metro: Newalls Crossing (in New Dawn Park) it will no longer be available! For some players it is there as soon as they arrive at the Fish Eye Canteen, for others it has appeared after the story when assigning the VNC Tower to Frank during Main Quest 16: Broadcast, and for some the quest simply never appears. This may be buggy. It’s recommended you keep checking for this quest after every main mission after having arrived at Fish Eye Canteen in the story. If you never get the quest you can join other people’s co-op game until you find someone who has the quest available.
Go to the Incubate building to find the salvage team
The building you need to go to is 200 meters west of the quest giver.
Go upstairs and enter the door. You can press 
to scan for red footprints inside the building, they lead you to the door. It should also get marked with a precise waypoint marker. Behind the door talk to the woman.
Search the meeting location
Head to the meeting location marked on the map, seen in the image below:
Head inside the skyscraper, you can climb into one of the lower floors. There you find a corpse. Pressing will highlight a red item under the corpse and some red footprints nearby.
Interacting with the corpse unlocks Collectible – Memento #75: Avery’s Map. You will automatically pick it up here as part of the quest, no way to miss it.
Look for Fitz in Francis’s camp
Head to Francis’s camp in Downtown, enter the skyscraper there. You will encounter some bandits, kill all of them.
Eliminate the Bandits
Defeat all Bandits at Francis’s camp, inside the skyscraper. In one of the upper floors you can find Collectible – Tape #32: For Alice #3. It’s one floor below where you find Francis. Go upstairs to locate Francis.
Talk to Francis
After defeating all bandits, go to the top floor to find Francis and talk to him. When you get to pick dialogues choose “I don’t believe you” > “If he’s dead, you’re next”.
Look for Fitz at Avery’s camp
Avery’s camp is also in Downtown, just 100 meters east. You can glide over there from where you talked to Francis. Alternatively you can climb up the red parts on the outer wall of the building. Be warned, there are lots of human enemies at this location!
You need to get further upstairs. Climb the red walls in the north of the camp.
Up there you can enter a door to find Avery. Choose dialogue “No deal [Fight]”. Defeat him!
Kill Avery and his guard
Kill both of them.
Search the body
Search the body after the fight.
Report back to Francis
Return to Francis where you met him earlier and talk to him.
Kill Francis and his men
After your talk you get attacked by Francis. Defeat him and his 2 bodyguards.
Return to Paul
Return to the quest giver where the quest started to complete the quest.
This finishes To Kill or Not to Kill Side Quest in Dying Light 2.
For all other Side Quests and Main Missions, check out the complete Dying Light 2 Walkthrough.
Feesh says
This quest did not show up in my first playthrough, but managed to get it in New Game Plus. I read on Reddit that some players got the quest to appear by following these steps: 1. Talk to the (first) Carrier in Metro (Old Villedor) 2. Proceed to Central Loop 3. DO NOT take the Downtown Thugs Bandit Camp (it is later part of the questline) 4. DO NOT take the subway under the Fish Eye (important for 6 to spawn) 5. Talk to the (second) Carrier in the Ship (during Story: Welcome aboard) 6. Go directly to the fish eye and take “Rats in the House” –> complete the quest 7. After completion the Questgiver spawns.
I was in the process of doing those steps, I was on step 6 and waited for night and headed to the Metro to do “Rats in the House” once it was night and that is when the questgiver for “Kill or Not to Kill’ spawned for me, before I had activated the Metro.
Scr3am83 says
Confirmed, I followed these steps and managed to complete the mission. I have the Reloaded version for PS5.