WHY IS LOCKPICKING SO HARD?

[AbYsS😈]

Why is Henry's Hand shaking so much? It's the closer I'm to unlocking the lock the more shaky Henry is, this is way too annoying man, The Fall already gave Henry Brain Damage loosing all of his skills but now his hands are Rattling like crazy the moment I try to pick lock, the first game's lockpicking was miles better then whatever this is. Whoever re-designed lockpicking needs to get his one month salary redistributed to charity.

[alka]

Go to the Mill in Semine. You can boost your Thieving level by about 3 levels doing the lockpicking training. It gets much easier much quicker that way.

In game, the millers are sketchy thieves and fences. Your character should learn from them if you want to learn 'the art'.

Or keep fumbling about randomly. You'll get there eventually, but it'll be slower and more frustrating than the first option.

[AbYsS😈]

Originally posted by alka:

Go to the Mill in Semine. You can boost your Thieving level by about 3 levels doing the lockpicking training. It gets much easier much quicker that way.

In game, the millers are sketchy thieves and fences. Your character should learn from them if you want to learn 'the art'.

Or keep fumbling about randomly. You'll get there eventually, but it'll be slower and more frustrating than the first option.

Already on level 10 in thieving and still I find this annoying I honestly think this rattling was unnecessary, brittle lockpicks would be fine but this COD sniper crap is bad, in COD the moment you let go of your held breath on sniper your sniper scope would go around the globe and come back and the same is happening here

[alka]

OK. I guess it depends what level lock you're picking. I'm at level 10,11 or something, easy and medium locks are quite doable for me. Haven't tried anything tougher yet.

[The92Ghost]

I have the same experience but with the bow. His hands are shaking too much. Might have to visit the hunter's boy for more archery training.

[Fox Tail]

As other said just need level up your skill more level 10 not really that high, most can do is medium and even then that bare med for medium. Need around 14 for Hard and not sure for very hard yet. Also fact that picking pocket is tied to lockpicking helps level skill up so best way level skill up is go around town at night and just lockpick everything and pick everyone's pocket at night.

[Ongen]

Originally posted by The92Ghost:

I have the same experience but with the bow. His hands are shaking too much. Might have to visit the hunter's boy for more archery training.

You can do the competitions aswell, just do the beginner ones and youll gain archery experience and money (if you win).

[AbYsS😈]

Originally posted by The92Ghost:

I have the same experience but with the bow. His hands are shaking too much. Might have to visit the hunter's boy for more archery training.

Man I have been running around participating in archery contest and trying to pick locks and doing alchemy to lvl up my skills, I took a quest and there where 4 bandits, and I was getting bonked every time I reloaded and tried them after 3~4 hours of grinding was I able to Kill them at remaining 10% health or so, Some Minor bugs are inconveniences, and Is it me or the footsteps are way too quite? I mean wearing a plate armor walking on wooden floor should make decent noise but All i hear is Chain mall ringing, plus I don't know how to put it Horse riding feels sort of Off?

[Rottentomatoe]

Originally posted by alka:

OK. I guess it depends what level lock you're picking. I'm at level 10,11 or something, easy and medium locks are quite doable for me. Haven't tried anything tougher yet.

Then why bother answering? Jesus, so you dont find easy locks too hard? Well clearly its not the easy locks thats the problem

[-I-]

I'd sooner pull a gourd from a horse.

[dreadloxley]

Agreed.

I've not come across anything as unintuitive or just badly executed for a lock picking minigame for a while.

Why not just lock the floating thing in place while the lock rotates and just make it more precise to find the sweet spot before it locks.

Add 2 or 3 layers of it as the locs get harder.

But at the moment it's the most infuriating part of this game so far.

[alka]

Originally posted by Rottentomatoe:

Then why bother answering? Jesus, so you dont find easy locks too hard? Well clearly its not the easy locks thats the problem

OP didn't mention the level of lock. And while we're nitpicking other people's posts, what's the point of yours?

[Kona]

I'm level 16 in thievery and vh locks are pretty easy now. Learn the mechanics and bail out of the lockpick minigame if it is going badly to preserve lockpicks.

[ErbBetaPatched]

Its hard so it doesn't become broken, like in every other game where you can pick every lock all the time

[Отдыхатор]

Originally posted by ErbBetaPatched:

Its hard so it doesn't become broken, like in every other game where you can pick every lock all the time

That's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. After the wedding i get 3 picklocks and i already broke about 30. That's insane ♥♥♥♥

[Arden]

Just need to level it up a bit or craft henry quality quickfinger potion. Unlike KCD 1 you don't need to pick locks in order to level up. Pickpocketing is way faster and safer. Buy the clothes from the miller and use only those and other stealth items you have and you are all set. By the time you pickpocket the mill and some of the inns (areas in which you are allowed to enter without suspicion) you will be able to pick any lock without problems. Takes around 30 minutes to get there.