Old Soldier: Frustrating start

[psanni]

I've restarted as an old soldier, And I absolutely love this character. My problem now is that I can't seem to find any backpacks anywhere. I've tried Bister Hill, Stack. The Hub, Squin, Rebirth, two different hive villages. No luck.

In Blister and Rerbirth they attack me on sight. It could be that they hate me now because I led their soldiers into an ambush one time and the whole squad got wiped ot. I don't know.

All I know is that I need a backpack so I can start building my base. But I've travelled almost the entire map now searching and I'm getting quite frustrated.

Any ideas anyone ?

[LazMon]

Old Soldier? Is that a mod or are you talking about The Retired Captain start? If so,the Retired Captain fought against the Holy Empire in a war hence their hatred towards you.

Backpack you can try Mongrel or World's End they are bound to have backpack sellers. Hive villages don't sell any backpacks. Stack has this sort of randomness when you start or import a game where the shops in Stack varies. I once had 5 bars,armourer,weapon shop,cloth shop,mechanic shop and trade goods but no boot shop which sells backpacks.

[psanni]

@SBasbvg. Thanks.

Yeah, sorry. It's the retired captain start, but the guy's name shows up as old soldier in-game.

Anyways, is Mongrel or Worlds End in the north or in the south. I'm in the far north at the moment, about to explore an old ruin north of rebirth.

[Shidan]

World's End is way up north, about in the top right corner, on top of a mountain. Mongrel is smack in the middle of the Fog Islands.

[LazMon]

Go to Mongrel, it's safe and easy to reach...no enemies whatsoever....yup..nah dah...totally safe...might get eaten..hmm..

[psanni]

Thanks Guys. I'll go check that out.

[MuthaF]

Originally posted by Shidan:

World's End is way up north, about in the top right corner, on top of a mountain. Mongrel is smack in the middle of the Fog Islands.

also Waystation on bottom right [south east] side of map sometimes have some.


I am sure u already know this, but u also might either arrange for an unfortunate accident to happen to a trader caravan, or trail one in dangerous zones and wait for one to happen...

Steal the unfortunate trader's backpack, heal or leave him for guards to heal afterwards, just watch out for not guard to see you stealing, then run fast and promptly away..

Yeah i know i know; it's probably not fitting your role-play and all that :)

[edit: if u can call it spelling..]

[psanni]

@ MuthaF

The caravan idea. I like it !

[MuthaF]

Originally posted by psanni:

@ MuthaF

The caravan idea. I like it !

Just one little issue: caravan guards tend to be rather on the strong side, so you probably would need to bait couple strong common squads to swarm them, which can be an issue if playing on low spawns..

Also, Faction Caravans mod is probably good idea, generally....[not implying anything *whistling*]

[[NAF]mbraxt]

Guys,

World's End has thieves backpacks, so try to make your way there. I always start as the retired captain because he can hold his own after a few fights with dogs and gorillos.

MB

[psanni]

I finally got my backpacks in Mongrel. Building my base now,

Retired captain is cool. He's a jack of all trades type of fella. He can do almost everything.

[sf]

the shops varies with game start/imports it seems.

In one game I started, Blister has nothing but Bars and a single Trade Goods Shop.

But after I imported once, it started to have a better mixture of shops (including a adventurer's shop that sells backpacks)