Gothic 2: picking locks
Erik Seligman
going on. I usually end up with a pile of broken lockpicks and nothing
to show for it.
Is there some strategy/skill here? Or do I just need to press the
directional buttons at random and hope to get lucky? Or maybe I need
to increase my DEX?
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Morgan Sales
> OK, I've 'learned' to pick locks, but I'm not sure I understand what's
> going on. I usually end up with a pile of broken lockpicks and
> nothing to show for it.
>
> Is there some strategy/skill here?
Nope. it's down to luck. I got flamed last time I said that though by a
couple of fanboys.
> Or do I just need to press the
> directional buttons at random and hope to get lucky? Or maybe I need
> to increase my DEX?
Increasing dexterity will reduce to amout of broken picks.
Basically each lock has a predefined random sequence of lefts and rights.
Your best bet is to save the game, work out the sequence through trial and
error, then reload and open it once you know the sequence.
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Mike Noren
> OK, I've 'learned' to pick locks, but I'm not sure I understand what's
> going on. I usually end up with a pile of broken lockpicks and nothing
> to show for it.
I was going to say RTFM, but... Each chest requires a unique
combination of left/right presses to open. If you press a wrong key,
the lock is reset, and you have to start again from the beginning.
High DEX/skill just means that the pick isn't broken when you press
the wrong key.
The way most do it is to save before attempting to open, figure out
the combination of keypresses by trial and error, restore the game,
and open the chest. Later on in the game, as I said, you don't have
to, as you then rarely break your lockpicks.
Lemongrass
wrote:
>OK, I've 'learned' to pick locks, but I'm not sure I understand what's
>going on. I usually end up with a pile of broken lockpicks and nothing
>to show for it.
>
>Is there some strategy/skill here? Or do I just need to press the
>directional buttons at random and hope to get lucky? Or maybe I need
>to increase my DEX?
Each lock has a different pattern, so unlocking chests comes down to
memorisation and luck. Note that there is an option you can alter in
the INI file that makes the pattern for every lock change whenever you
reload a game, so cheaters have to play properly instead of writing
down solutions and reloading.
Despite the "figure out the pattern and reload" advice, I don't think
there's really much reason to do that, given that A) lockpicks are
cheap, and easy to come by, and B) saving and reloading to save
lockpicks is pointless if you're never actually going to use any of
the tens of picks that you'll end up acquiring.
If all else fails, increasing your dexterity will reduce the amount of
broken picks, as opposed to buying levels of lockpicking skill in the
original Gothic.