Help me decide which side to choose

[Sonny Fontaine]

!! BEWARE SPOILERS BELOW !!

I'm doing 'Wishful Thinking' main mission. I'm at this point where I'm speaking with Dufny and have to decide whether I'm siding with Noontide (former Monolith) or Ward.

I have seen some info that this choice might impact some of the crucial regions in game like 'Chemical Factory' and 'Malachite' - both, which I believe have some really good traders, technicians etc, and both are controlled by Ward. I want to side with Noontide but does that mean I loose access to the mentioned regions and main bases in those regions?

TL;DR: if during 'Wishful Thinking' mission, I side with Noontide, what are the consequences for it? What will be missable in game from that point on?

[Spiritfarer]

ChemPlant (with its fkin guide) and Wards as faction will be ur enemy, thats for sure.
I sided with noons, but i'm sure both sides are worth to try. Sadly, With locked Chem Plant guide you'll need run a lot more on foot in next part of the game. If that is not a problem for you, side with noons. If it is, well, your choice.

[Hashi23]

Actually just don't, since once you get to SIRCAA Noontide will cease to exist regardless of who you sided with, and Monolith will be back and the Ward will be hostile to you for nothing. Not to mention that the Ward's ending is the only good one.

[Sonny Fontaine]

Originally posted by Hashi23:

Actually just don't, since once you get to SIRCAA Noontide will cease to exist regardless of who you sided with, and Monolith will be back and the Ward will be hostile to you for nothing. Not to mention that the Ward's ending is the only good one.

More hostiles, more loot for me, hehe.
I don't care if Ward turns hostile against me, I just worry not being able to uses main bases in the game with missable characters like technicians, traders, guides, quest givers etc.

But I guess that don't matter now anyway, yesterday I went full berserk on Ward,

[Seath]

Dialogue with Strider will be much more... SAD, if you side with the Ward.
As for chemical plant and Malachite - yea, it's kinda a loss, but not that hard, because Yaniv and Pripyat will have even better technicians and traders anyway.
Losing fast travel points surely will be an inconvenience.

[Seath]

I went for Noontide. Even when I've learned that they are doomed either way, still no regrets.
It's just feels right thing to do.

Idk, I have issues siding with oppressive government force that wants complete total control over everything and anyone through brute force.