Footlocker bug (5 smugglers quest)

[Lady Cockroach]

Hello!
Im currently doing the 5 smugglers quest. I have talked to every rat and gotten 3/5 smugglers names and followed a tutorial on how to get the last two smugglers.
Apparently you need to steal the key from the guard patrolling the furthest bridge in the harbor (I did that) and steal the key from the rat you stole instructions to Faustus from. This guy didn't have a key on him, but I found another rat and stole his footlocker key (the guard in the commisary/kitchen however you spell it).

Now, that is an issue as well (that the rat that was supposed to have a key didn't have it), but the real problem is this:
When I go to open the remaining footlockers, I cant even touch some of the footlockers. I get no button action and no text indicating I can even interact with them. One footlocker in the smaller sleeping room is already opened (and empty). I CAN however use one of my keys on this, already opened and emptied, footlocker, and doing so tells me that it's already empty. I have a printscreen but I cant really figure out how to upload because steam is weird and I am tired and frustrated.
(EDIT: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1957770133 I'm smart)

I have one smuggler left to identify (number 4) but there is no other key for me to steal.

Is this a bug which prevents me from finishing this quest, or am I just stupid and is doing something completely wrong?

[Lady Cockroach]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1957775893
This is the only footlocker I have left to open, and I have one footlocker key left in my inventory. I feel like they should be a perfect match but the game refuses me to play matchmaker.

[cuss]

Originally posted by The Bosinator:

Hello!
Im currently doing the 5 smugglers quest. I have talked to every rat and gotten 3/5 smugglers names and followed a tutorial on how to get the last two smugglers.
Apparently you need to steal the key from the guard patrolling the furthest bridge in the harbor (I did that) and steal the key from the rat you stole instructions to Faustus from. This guy didn't have a key on him, but I found another rat and stole his footlocker key (the guard in the commisary/kitchen however you spell it).

Now, that is an issue as well (that the rat that was supposed to have a key didn't have it), but the real problem is this:
When I go to open the remaining footlockers, I cant even touch some of the footlockers. I get no button action and no text indicating I can even interact with them. One footlocker in the smaller sleeping room is already opened (and empty). I CAN however use one of my keys on this, already opened and emptied, footlocker, and doing so tells me that it's already empty. I have a printscreen but I cant really figure out how to upload because steam is weird and I am tired and frustrated.
(EDIT: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1957770133 I'm smart)

I have one smuggler left to identify (number 4) but there is no other key for me to steal.

Is this a bug which prevents me from finishing this quest, or am I just stupid and is doing something completely wrong?

i thought #4 was the guy down at the docks. no matter. did you get the 'lost' key? it's in a lock box in the kitchen pantry.

[Lady Cockroach]

Originally posted by cuss:

i thought #4 was the guy down at the docks. no matter. did you get the 'lost' key? it's in a lock box in the kitchen pantry.

No I never figured this out and suddenly I had progressed too far in the mainstory to finish it (also something the game should hint about, did the same thing with the two mice). How do you get the key to the lockbox in the pantry?

[Darketta]

this is the same footlocker i cannot open nor can i find a guard who has a key in order to open it, i have looked at the walkthru/hints n the rampart guard doesn't have one nor does the one by the harbour. i even checked the one you are talking about in the kitchen no key either. I have talked w/ all the guards and I only need the last marker. I already know who the master is but i cannot trigger the game to go any further to finish this or short order/a change of pace quest either.

[cuss]

Originally posted by The Bosinator:

Originally posted by cuss:

i thought #4 was the guy down at the docks. no matter. did you get the 'lost' key? it's in a lock box in the kitchen pantry.

No I never figured this out and suddenly I had progressed too far in the mainstory to finish it (also something the game should hint about, did the same thing with the two mice). How do you get the key to the lockbox in the pantry?

talk to cook about guards lost key

[Darketta]

so turns out that the slave ship had already left i had to reload an older save in order to finish the game..

[HoT]

I experienced a similar problem two times. One time I was not able to speak to Gusto and Fatale (no button appeared). Another time I was not able to open guard's chests (no button again, exactly the same problem the OP describes). Both times it was solved by quitting the game completely (aka shutting it down to Windows), starting it again and reloading the most recent save. Maybe OP should try this as well.