

If you try to be precious or exact during the process, it’s going to take forever. How to pick a lock in Kingdom Come: Deliverance That means coordinating both thumbsticks at the same time. You have to rotate the entire lock mechanism counterclockwise while keeping the cursor in the same r elative position.You move the cursor around until you find the right place (the sweet spot) for the lockpick.The central conceit of lockpicking is simple enough: Lockpicking basics Warhorse Studios via Polygon Nothing beats practice, but our advice should get you rotating in the right direction. (You’ll also be able to learn pickpocketing from them.)Įven with practice, though, using a lockpick is more often frustrating than it is successful. Later, you’ll be able to interact with millers - who, apparently, are tapped into medieval Bohemia’s seedy underbelly - and they can teach you more and help you practice. As with many things, you’ll get a tutorial wall-of-text the first time you try it, but you won’t have much time to practice. You’ll bump into this notably difficult minigame relatively early. This leads to a lot of unexpected (and unexpectedly complex) mechanics like lockpicking. You can unlock easier locks automatically.Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an ambitious game built around being as realistic as possible. If you lockpick breaks you'll have a 10% chance of opening the lock instantly.


Your sixth sense will warn you if someone is about to catch you in the act of lockpicking, so you'll have more time to escape. The noise a snapping lockpick makes is reduced by 90%. You're able to work almost silently with a lockpick, even if the lockpicking isn't going well. It'll be 30% easier to open locks when drunk, but it will also be 30% noisier.

The starting position when lockpicking will be closer to the end of the lock, making it easier to open. Your lockpicks will be more durable and last twice as long.Īfter successfully picking a lock, you have a 20% chance of any broken lockpicks returning to your inventory. Very Hard locks can be accessed sooner with the use of the Luck of the Drunk perk of the Lockpicking tree, and it is for that reason that it is considered one of the best perks in the tree. Players will find that there are four categories of locks, here are the thresholds of level one must have, in order to unlock said locks: Any damage to the lockpick will produce a noise, which canĭraw unwanted attention, and breaking it will cause an even louder snap. Which will damage the lockpick or even break it. If you try to turn the mechanism without having the lockpick in the correct position, the mechanism will stick,
