MAIN QUEST: need buy weapons, but contraband?

[WilsonKingofPrussia]

Its making me buy 50 weapons, but its contraband in both settlements playing as the fresh guy in Martinique.... ReallY?

[Thiccolas Cage]

some settlements are like that but in every tavern there is a smuggler who will meat you at a cove just be careful i am now hostile with the french since they had faster ships waiting for me smuggling is highly illigal another thing is find a city where they are legal i believe port royal is one or kill a pirate ship i have yet to have to buy weapons myself

[WilsonKingofPrussia]

i understand what you are saying, i played seadogs in the past, but the game wont let you leave to go to main map view until you reach a certain part of the main quest, and this part needs you to buy weapons in Martinique, which are contraband

[StormRangerX]

You can still buy them, you just can't sell them.

[WilsonKingofPrussia]

are you really supposed to spend 500+ per weapon to progress this? Im also getting a "you were interupted, something is going to happen here" message when i try and fast travel to the store, but only if im in a different building

[StormRangerX]

Not sure why that's happening, you will be interrupted a little later on though. But yeah you're supposed to buy the weapons.

[Olter]

weapons cost slightly above 100 at the store so you are expected to spend 5k on guns

Altogether you spend
17k on the ship
5k on weapons
couple thousand on rum and food
couple thousand to get enough gunpowder cannonballs and whatnots

Personally, I didnt have enough moeny so I had to start robbing chests of random houses in the town

[StormRangerX]

There's one quest you should make sure you do before buying the ship, that you pick up at the fort outside of St. Pierre. It will double your money. Ideally if you can get up to 30k through the tutorial quests, that fort quest will double it to 60k.

[WilsonKingofPrussia]

Storm thats good to know! and gotcha, good to know its normal to cost that much. I was worried there was a bug or something and you were supposed to get an interaction where you get them a different way or something. Thanks guys

[wereboar]

I've run into that too. This is so stupid. At first I thought that weapons got contraband assignment at the start of the game due to RNG, but after restarting and checking the store it seems that they always get it. This stupid price increase makes the tutorial softlock if you don't do the european wine quest BEFORE buying the ship. Which is not unthinkable for new players to do, considering that the fort is out of the way.

I've heard that the original release of this game had stupid quest structure that makes you fail and softlock constantly during quests. I thought "How bad can it be in an improved re-release?" Turns out, it is easy to softlock yourself in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tutorial.

Definitely not risking to waste my time on the story going forward. Just going to enjoy the Sandbox mode.

[djinnxy]

I made the mistake of loading up on goods only to find out i need the space for the main quest to continue. Then I find out I need 50 weapons at over 900 each. I'm sailing manually across the sea to sell the good because it won't progress to open sea. It is either that or start over.

[StormRangerX]

It's start over, you messed it up and locked yourself.

[djinnxy]

Originally posted by StormRangerX:

It's start over, you messed it up and locked yourself.

The problem is I never had enough for all the weapons to begin with. The cargo mistake just added to the problem. Janky.

[StormRangerX]

Gotta do the bottleneck commodity, that gets you up to 60k pesos.

[titanopteryx]

Is it possible to buy weapons from other ships in the harbor? You can take a longboat to merchant ships and trade with the captain?