Cant find Montalbans Hideout

lolo · Powder Monkey Posts: 1 **26 Gold** -

I tried to find the stone to start with buttt that didnt work. Anyone that can Help me pls

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8193 **206350 Gold** -

Montalban's hideout can be typically anywhere in (modern day) Mexico or Panama

Monty is usually located in one of these places (in order of probability):
1) North of Vera Cruz,
2) near Villa Hermosa,
3) On the south or southwest coast of Bay of Honduras,
4) the East Coast of Mexico south of modern day Cancun or in Belize.

look for seamarks on the coast
The game often has several landmarks with the same name

Even though they're not on the map they will guide you to Lost Cities and Montalban's Hideout.

It's trial and error when there are more than one in the area. Drop anchor, head inland a bit, and if you see an Arch Rock, Deserted Cabin, Stone Head or Indian Totem you're in the right area. If all you see are geysers and dead trees you're not in the right area. This works well with 1 or 2 map pieces as well.

Another trick is to try to walk through the geysers and dead trees. If you can walk right through them, you are not in the area represented by the map.

Geysers are randomly spread around so not reliable as markers.
Use telescope both while sailing and on land.

Sid Meiers Pirates! Map
https://www.trueachievements.com/customimages/011431.jpg

coastlines in purple are the likely culprits for Lost Cities &
often Montalban's hideout

waters highlighted in red are the most frequent areas to find named pirates.

Map uses the Traditional Nation colors

Dutch - Orange
England - Red
France - Blue
Spain - yellow

Generic help for where is any of the Lost cities or Named pirates
located.

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8193 **206350 Gold** -

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3920/discussions/0/2791619883085462427/#c4803603197601869924

realist1003

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some general ideas for treasure maps that I've found helpful:

(1) When the treasure maps don't show any sort of seamark (the named rocks and reefs) or settlement, it usually helps to realize that there should be one nearby. It's like the treasure map is zoomed in and that reference is just off the map. This point has often helped me when Lost Cities or Montalban's hideout are "north of Veracruz" without any seamarks visible on the map. It also helps to realize that "north of Gran Granada" - without any visible seamark or settlement - will be a location just south of the stretch of east-west shoreline north of Gran Granada (that has many settlements, havens, Indian villages, and missions).

(2) As a general point looking for treasures and landmarks, I turn on the telescope and keep it straight ahead of me at all times as I walk around searching on land. It's a technique that I stumbled onto over time and that I find helpful especially at the higher levels, where the overhead doesn't show a very big area when you're on land. It often helps me see landmarks that I otherwise would have missed.

(3) Building on point (2), it's also often useful to go up on top of a hill or mountain and take advantage of that good line of sight by using the telescope to look around. Montalban's Hideout and Lost Cities are usually visible from quite some distance, so that often works as a way to find them once in the generally correct area. Also, the treasure maps - especially at the higher levels - are usually "correct" but not "complete". In other words, the landmarks on the treasure map are all there, but there will be some landmarks (the Inca Temples, stone heads, etc.) that aren't on the treasure map. A key to being sure of landmarks is therefore looking at the pattern of where two or more of them are located, and the good view from on top of a mountain helps *a lot* for doing so.

(4) For the pirate treasure maps, I've learned never to buy the first piece of one in Campeche, Villa Hermosa, Vera Cruz, or any of the settlements / pirate havens that are toward that side of the map. Pirate treasures are generated in locations close to where you buy the first piece of a map. When buying the first piece of a pirate treasure map in or near those cities, the pirate treasures can therefore be generated in tough to locate spots with maps similarly difficult to the maps for Montalban's hideout and the Lost Cities. Even worse, the pirate treasures are smaller on the screen, meaning tougher to see from a distance (with the telescope) than Montalban's Hideout or Lost Cities.

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8193 **206350 Gold** -