Strange lockbox - how to open ?.

[Grimaldus]

Found this really strange random lockbox in space with 4 locks on it
in Black Hole Sun IV, but as soon as i try to shoot one of the locks, the lockbox gets shattered.
It's spinning rather fast, but even with marksmanskills, i still can't pop any of the locks.

Does anyone know how to claim what's inside?.

[Chara H Dreemurr]

Do you remember if the PV of the box is 100%
If not, try to repair with your spacesuit and then retry shooting lock :)

[eXisor]

It gets worse.There's round lockboxes that has 12 or more locks on them, and they spin quite fast. Only way to do it via spacesuit.

[NGMZeroX]

You have to hit the locks. with your real life bullseye skillzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... which is mostly impossible if it is spinning as fast as I think it was ....

I had one spinning really fast it was annoying, but to be fair, I scum-saved, it was spinning really fast after I reloaded. I thought it was a well-deserved punishment :D

[ImHelping]

Watch out for any lockbox with 8 locks.

Every 8 lock box I've seen has just been full of active tracker mines (and maybe a box of algae or something)

Originally posted by eXisor:

It gets worse.There's round lockboxes that has 12 or more locks on them, and they spin quite fast. Only way to do it via spacesuit.

How the HELL do you do it with the space suit laser?

Because lockbox locks have always been immune to the damage laser on my suit even after a solid minute of shooting a lock (but the crates themselves will happily be tickled for 1% health)

so I've always had to do it with my ship guns.

[Krapht]

If you have multiple weapons, disable all but one. You only need one shot to hit each lock.
Look at the dot that follow the mouse around, that is your hit indicator, where the shot will hit once you fire. Then, if possible, align yourself at such an angle so that the target lock - at some point in its rotation - be "exposed" with only space behind it. That way if you miss, you hopefully won't hit the box. Make sure you only fire one shot. Repeat for all the locks... Profit

[eXisor]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Watch out for any lockbox with 8 locks.

Every 8 lock box I've seen has just been full of active tracker mines (and maybe a box of algae or something)

Originally posted by eXisor:

It gets worse.There's round lockboxes that has 12 or more locks on them, and they spin quite fast. Only way to do it via spacesuit.

How the HELL do you do it with the space suit laser?

Because lockbox locks have always been immune to the damage laser on my suit even after a solid minute of shooting a lock (but the crates themselves will happily be tickled for 1% health)

so I've always had to do it with my ship guns.

You use the spacesuit hand laser, get really close, and try hit the lock coming and going as it zips by. After a few shots on the same lock, it'll break. Takes ages, but the plus side is you're unlikely to blow up the prize. Try it, it works.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by eXisor:

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Watch out for any lockbox with 8 locks.

Every 8 lock box I've seen has just been full of active tracker mines (and maybe a box of algae or something)


How the HELL do you do it with the space suit laser?

Because lockbox locks have always been immune to the damage laser on my suit even after a solid minute of shooting a lock (but the crates themselves will happily be tickled for 1% health)

so I've always had to do it with my ship guns.

You use the spacesuit hand laser, get really close, and try hit the lock coming and going as it zips by. After a few shots on the same lock, it'll break. Takes ages, but the plus side is you're unlikely to blow up the prize. Try it, it works.

Well, clearly something is buggy with my game because I've always stubbornly tried with my suit lasers and found the locks immune after literally 20 space laser shots. and no, it's not accidentally the repair laser. I'm not colorblind.

[eXisor]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Originally posted by eXisor:

You use the spacesuit hand laser, get really close, and try hit the lock coming and going as it zips by. After a few shots on the same lock, it'll break. Takes ages, but the plus side is you're unlikely to blow up the prize. Try it, it works.

Well, clearly something is buggy with my game because I've always stubbornly tried with my suit lasers and found the locks immune after literally 20 space laser shots. and no, it's not accidentally the repair laser. I'm not colorblind.

I kid you not. Try hitting them a bit away from the lock, on the two red arrows just below the lock. I spent 10+ minutes yesterday getting every lock on a 12+ lock sphere, so it definitely works.

Maybe you're not close enough?

Besides, with the chase a dot mechanic of ship weapons, how can one possibly hit a fast moving lock on a sphere? I gave up using ship weapons for all but the easiest lockboxes.

[HueftSteak]

Originally posted by Krapht:

If you have multiple weapons, disable all but one. You only need one shot to hit each lock.
Look at the dot that follow the mouse around, that is your hit indicator, where the shot will hit once you fire. Then, if possible, align yourself at such an angle so that the target lock - at some point in its rotation - be "exposed" with only space behind it. That way if you miss, you hopefully won't hit the box. Make sure you only fire one shot. Repeat for all the locks... Profit

^^
That's exactly how you do it.

[Colmaniac]

I found a sphere lock box with 12 or so lock`s, it was spinning quite fast, took about 20 mins blasting the locks off

[eXisor]

Here's a post by AdmiralTigerClaw in which he says he does the same spacesuit hand laser thing.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/392160/discussions/0/1744479698791509696/#c17444796987 91967447

[Minion of Speed]

You can bump the lock box with your ship to slow and change the rotaion. Don't worry about them flying off, they'll stop quick.

[Flippy]

These are fun and some of the many cool things to find in X4.

Just use the yellow space suit damage laser on the locks like everyone already said.

[Inchronoth]

Originally posted by Gosshawk:

You can bump the lock box with your ship to slow and change the rotaion. Don't worry about them flying off, they'll stop quick.

+1

[miister-spiice]

The most important thing is to watch the target reticle ie. the dot where the laser will hit.