lockpicking is a pain

[soundzen]

ive unlocked thousands of chests in Skyrim without a mod and it wasnt as frustrating as in this oblivion game which i never played before... will there be nexus mods to help me? lol

[nattphilia]

It’s bugged for sure. I played the original oblivion and it wasn’t this hard. They don’t have the visuals and timing worked out. Hopefully they’ll tidy it up in a patch. Otherwise, I’ll just quick save and keep reloading until an autopick does the job.

[Timedye]

I HATE the lock picking mini-game in Oblivion. I always have, and it seems exactly the same to me here. It just eats through my lock picks. I need the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ skeleton key, pronto.

[Ted]

Originally posted by soundzen:

PS im trying to avoid cheating with skeleton key because skyrim unlocking was challenging but esy after a while even though i managed to receive the specil key with thief quest so i will pratice until i join that guild.

I am not familiar with skeleton key as I always played the OG completely vanilla. I am guessing this is a mod?

I may get it if so, as this is just annoying at this point

[Karam]

Somethings wrong with the picking? It feels exactly like oblivion, i'm noticing no difference. Just wait for when is does the slow jump and then click it into place, don't attempt on the faster jumps unless your reaction time is good enough.

[Timedye]

Originally posted by Ted:

I am not familiar with skeleton key as I always played the OG completely vanilla. I am guessing this is a mod?

Not a mod, there is an unbreakable skeleton key in the game. I can't remember where you get it, but I think it's tied to a quest.

[Ted]

Originally posted by Timedye:

Originally posted by Ted:

I am not familiar with skeleton key as I always played the OG completely vanilla. I am guessing this is a mod?

Not a mod, there is an unbreakable skeleton key in the game. I can't remember where you get it, but I think it's tied to a quest.

Hmm okay, guess I missed that somehow. I joined the thieves guild just to get access to lockpicks smh. Shady Sam doesn't seem to restock regularly now so cant even buy lockpicks otherwise

[soundzen]

im up for mods but on my first run of this Oblivion im trying to do it clean (because of achievments) without using "bypass" cheats ...although i use console command to get myself 1K lockpicks and pratice the unlocking LOL (squeleton key i believe its with thief guild quest not sure)

[Karam]

Originally posted by Ted:

Originally posted by soundzen:

PS im trying to avoid cheating with skeleton key because skyrim unlocking was challenging but esy after a while even though i managed to receive the specil key with thief quest so i will pratice until i join that guild.

I am not familiar with skeleton key as I always played the OG completely vanilla. I am guessing this is a mod?

I may get it if so, as this is just annoying at this point

Skeleton key is a quest item you get during the thieves guild questline and it never breaks. It's not a key you keep forever as it's a quest item and you have to give it up at a certain point in the questline and never see it again. The trick is to never finish the quest after getting it, but that means you can't finish the thieves guild questline.

[Timedye]

Originally posted by Ted:

Hmm okay, guess I missed that somehow.

I just went and looked: the skeleton key is a Daedric artifact. It's the reward for completing Nocturnal's Daedric quest. Find the shrine of Nocturnal, complete the quest, never break your lock pick again.

[Drimon]

Originally posted by Karam:

Originally posted by Ted:

I am not familiar with skeleton key as I always played the OG completely vanilla. I am guessing this is a mod?

I may get it if so, as this is just annoying at this point

Skeleton key is a quest item you get during the thieves guild questline and it never breaks. It's not a key you keep forever as it's a quest item and you have to give it up at a certain point in the questline and never see it again. The trick is to never finish the quest after getting it, but that means you can't finish the thieves guild questline.

No you get It from the Nocturnal Quest

[karmazyn1]

Lockpicking is broken bro. It worked perfectly fine on xbox 360.

[Haywood Jablomi]

Just spam the auto try button on lower level locks and grind your life away like a normal person.

[joevandal]

It's easy honestly.

[Timedye]

Originally posted by Karam:

Skeleton key is a quest item you get during the thieves guild questline and it never breaks. It's not a key you keep forever as it's a quest item and you have to give it up at a certain point in the questline and never see it again. The trick is to never finish the quest after getting it, but that means you can't finish the thieves guild questline.

This... is totally wrong. You get it from Nocturnal, and the only way to lose it is to get thrown in jail (the guards will strip it from you).

Maybe you're thinking of the Thieves Guild quest line in one of the other games?

[Riiakhan]

The lockpicking in Oblivion was never good.
It should have been tweaked for the remaster.