Devs Please Explain Secrets to Lockpicking!

[Serenity]

It is true that lying down, eating sugar or having your metabolism goals at 100% will make lockpicking easier? Can we have official facts from you guys? :)

[Gwei]

Eating sugar makes everything you do faster. Moving the lockpick tool becomes quicker when you have 200% sugar intake. Having metabolism goals at 100%? eh mine werent since I am starving off some out of control body fat and Sat fat. Just dont have any illness or a low dex. Dexterity directly affects Lockpicking and driving. Low dex caps your skill at 1/4 or 1/2 pie depending on how low your Dex is. High dex and low skill can turn that jerky stalling drive into a smooth drive and mean the difference between a pile of broken picks and a pile of loot.

[SeemsLikeChris]

Originally posted by Asopa:

Eating sugar makes everything you do faster.

I've heard a dev calling BS on this

[Driblus]

Originally posted by Serenity:

It is true that lying down

Has no effect on lockpicking.

Originally posted by Serenity:

eating sugar

Has no effect on lockpicking.

Originally posted by Serenity:

having your metabolism goals at 100%

The important part is to not have too much storage fat as you then will lose dexterity. As far as I know, losing dex can potentially decrease your skill potential temporarily, and perhaps result in giving you less time to lockpick. But I'm almost 100% sure that it will have no effect on the actual movement of the lockpick or the screwdriver.

[Driblus]

Originally posted by CastiG8:

Originally posted by Asopa:

Eating sugar makes everything you do faster.

I've heard a dev calling BS on this

It is BS.

[Gwei]

Originally posted by CastiG8:

Originally posted by Asopa:

Eating sugar makes everything you do faster.

I've heard a dev calling BS on this

ok, go for a run with 0% sugar, then go for a run with 200% sugar. You will get farther faster. Do the same with reloading...time it. :)

[SeemsLikeChris]

Originally posted by Asopa:

Originally posted by CastiG8:

I've heard a dev calling BS on this

ok, go for a run with 0% sugar, then go for a run with 200% sugar. You will get farther faster. Do the same with reloading...time it. :)

Right ok, then I suppose you know more than the guys who actually coded the game.

[Gwei]

Originally posted by CastiG8:

Originally posted by Asopa:

ok, go for a run with 0% sugar, then go for a run with 200% sugar. You will get farther faster. Do the same with reloading...time it. :)

Right ok, then I suppose you know more than the guys who actually coded the game.

Straw man agrument as I claimed nothing of the sorts. I simply said do anything in SCUM with full sugar vesus zero and look at the differences. When you metabolism gets off keel Whatever is depleted, the skills that use that for fuel seem to suffer. You could always LINK the Dev statement of simply wait for them to chime in like the OP requested.

[SeemsLikeChris]

Originally posted by Asopa:

Originally posted by CastiG8:

Right ok, then I suppose you know more than the guys who actually coded the game.

Straw man agrument as I claimed nothing of the sorts. I simply said do anything in SCUM with full sugar vesus zero and look at the differences. When you metabolism gets off keel Whatever is depleted, the skills that use that for fuel seem to suffer. You could always LINK the Dev statement of simply wait for them to chime in like the OP requested.

It was during a live stream.

You said this: Moving the lockpick tool becomes quicker when you have 200% sugar intake.

I dispute that based on the fact that a dev said sugar levels had no effect on lock picking functionality. Also you can set the mouse sensitivity for lock picking separately, so it makes no sense for your characters nutrition values to play any part of that, if you can simply over ride it anyway

[Bunny]

Mythbusters would enjoy this one. In any case - that's all a lie since the only thing that affects the lockpicking is your character's thievery skill level.

[Sweatington]

Originally posted by Bunny:

Mythbusters would enjoy this one. In any case - that's all a lie since the only thing that affects the lockpicking is your character's thievery skill level.

Bunny, there is a bug with theivery. If you have advanced thievery, and then go negative value on theivery, so that you drop down to medium (1 mill / 1mill). When you get your dexterity back, and return skill level to advanced, the game calculates the 1mill out of 1mill to count towards your progression in advanced, so 1mill out of 10mil.

[Serenity]

Originally posted by Bunny:

Mythbusters would enjoy this one. In any case - that's all a lie since the only thing that affects the lockpicking is your character's thievery skill level.

Now that I have your attention. The higher the Thievery skill the more time I get for picking the lock or is it getting easier to pick the lock too?

[Driblus]

Originally posted by Serenity:

Originally posted by Bunny:

Mythbusters would enjoy this one. In any case - that's all a lie since the only thing that affects the lockpicking is your character's thievery skill level.

Now that I have your attention. The higher the Thievery skill the more time I get for picking the lock or is it getting easier to pick the lock too?

You just get extra time. Thats all.

[Bunny]

Originally posted by Monty Delaney:

Originally posted by Bunny:

Mythbusters would enjoy this one. In any case - that's all a lie since the only thing that affects the lockpicking is your character's thievery skill level.

Bunny, there is a bug with theivery. If you have advanced thievery, and then go negative value on theivery, so that you drop down to medium (1 mill / 1mill). When you get your dexterity back, and return skill level to advanced, the game calculates the 1mill out of 1mill to count towards your progression in advanced, so 1mill out of 10mil.

Thanks for letting me know ! In the future, please create a new thread in the bug reports section of the forum, our guys are lurking there all the time so it will be added on the " to do " list ASAP.

Originally posted by Driblus:

Originally posted by Serenity:

Now that I have your attention. The higher the Thievery skill the more time I get for picking the lock or is it getting easier to pick the lock too?

You just get extra time. Thats all.

This is true.