Cannot Fire Cannons!

[Green Hand]

For the life of me I cannot fire my ships cannons! Just got to the portion of Peter Bloods story where you get on the ship to fight. I try left click and nothing... I read somewhere that changing the key helps so I did... Worked once and has never worked again. I send the men to reload the cannons and after 5 mins of waiting I still cannot fire! Cannon balls and gunpowder above 200 qty. Any help???

[russmiller4445]

Hi, sounds like you have what you need. Ship cannons have different ranges of fire. You may simply not be in range.

[Green Hand]

Originally posted by russmiller4445:

Hi, sounds like you have what you need. Ship cannons have different ranges of fire. You may simply not be in range.

I thought that might be the case too but no matter what distance I was they wouldn’t fire

[russmiller4445]

Well, maybe its what your using. Cannon balls have the longest range over grapeshot & chain. LMB should fire if your within range. Have you tried going on deck and lining up your shot. Still, LMB should allow you to fire. Are you sure you have cannons installed on your ship. Pull up the ship window, double click on cannons at bottom, a window showing your cannons, type, numbers, there positions on your ship should come up. You can remove & fix the cannons placement. Do you have cannons in your inventory. Buy cannons from the shipwright. This might be the problem. Sale your cannons at dock before selling the ship for additional money.

[Green Hand]

Originally posted by russmiller4445:

Well, maybe its what your using. Cannon balls have the longest range over grapeshot & chain. LMB should fire if your within range. Have you tried going on deck and lining up your shot. Still, LMB should allow you to fire. Are you sure you have cannons installed on your ship. Pull up the ship window, double click on cannons at bottom, a window showing your cannons, type, numbers, there positions on your ship should come up. You can remove & fix the cannons placement. Do you have cannons in your inventory. Buy cannons from the shipwright. This might be the problem. Sale your cannons at dock before selling the ship for additional money.

Just attempted everything you recommended. Still to no avail :( . Idk if its a bug or what but its the starter ship you get with Peter Blood during the first “tutorial” ship fight. Got it to work once, like I said, when I changed the key binding to fire. But since then... nothing.

[russmiller4445]

I don't believe it's a bug, Try to reset your key bindings. Go capture another ship. Not hard to do. Load up your crew, Stay by a fort & go to world map, an enemy will come to you. Let the fort weaken the enemy, then go in to capture. You can swap ships or if you have an officer on board, assign him to ship. I'll go play Peter Blood to see if his ship is bugged.

[russmiller4445]

I talked to a friend that's more familiar with Captain Blood. There's a quest line where you find out that the ship was damage by the sea. You have to find a guy that can repair the wicks in the cannons since the ship that there selling you was salvage from the sea. Easiest way is to buy new cannons or capture another ship. So no bug in game on the cannons, just part of the quest.