Exiting apartments

[eternalmist4269]

Can we plz change the need for a key to exit an apartment? I just finished the tutorial and I find the need for a key both unrealistic to how locks usually work and just annoying to random apartment u might pop into from vents. Oh noes I popped into an innocent person's apartment and they are home... must crush their skull in so I can have time to find time to find where they have their house key. I wish I could just run to their front door but both sides needs a key or be a picked... not your average door handle from Home Depot here!

[Slippery Williams]

You can barge down doors by sprinting at them and right clicking if you need to get through a locked door. A door being locked from both sides is totally logical and should be expected. If they've seen you just barge it down

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Dragonkick:

You can barge down doors by sprinting at them and right clicking if you need to get through a locked door. A door being locked from both sides is totally logical and should be expected. If they've seen you just barge it down

Or, yknow, just go back into the vent you came in.

But I agree that you should be able to right click unlock doors from the in-side even if you don't have the key. Pretty much lock I've ever seen has a key required on the out-side and a turnable knob of some sort on the in-side.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Originally posted by Dragonkick:

You can barge down doors by sprinting at them and right clicking if you need to get through a locked door. A door being locked from both sides is totally logical and should be expected. If they've seen you just barge it down

Or, yknow, just go back into the vent you came in.

But I agree that you should be able to right click unlock doors from the in-side even if you don't have the key. Pretty much lock I've ever seen has a key required on the out-side and a turnable knob of some sort on the in-side.

Newer doors maybe, but old ones? Any door I have seen older than about 15 years needs to be unlocked from the inside. Actually until I got my own flat I had never encountered a door that could be opened from the inside without a key that wasn't a special door (e.g. firedoor).

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Or, yknow, just go back into the vent you came in.

But I agree that you should be able to right click unlock doors from the in-side even if you don't have the key. Pretty much lock I've ever seen has a key required on the out-side and a turnable knob of some sort on the in-side.

Newer doors maybe, but old ones? Any door I have seen older than about 15 years needs to be unlocked from the inside. Actually until I got my own flat I had never encountered a door that could be opened from the inside without a key that wasn't a special door (e.g. firedoor).

Almost every door in my house is.. Gosh, close to 70 years old at this point? And prior to replacing the locks on the front/back door after a break-in they both had turnable knob to control a locking dead bolt. Definitely not just a newer door thing.. Might be less common in the area you live though.

[Graknorke]

i think it's an american thing, i've never seen an exterior door that only has a keyhole on one side but apparently it's common/standard in the States.

[whit]

I think, it would be safer to say..it's a UK thing, to lock yourself into your house. Your other commonwealth nations don't even do it.

[Isabelle]

apparently this is a regional thing, actually, not a bug or oversight. The dev clearly is not american

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by Graknorke:

i think it's an american thing, i've never seen an exterior door that only has a keyhole on one side but apparently it's common/standard in the States.

conversely i have never once seen a door with keyholes on both sides

the idea generally is that anybody on the inside of the building already has access so a key is redundant (also fire safety codes dictate this)

[Sky Wizard]

Come to my country (the UK). I'd say upwards of external doors 70% have keyholes on both sides. My house does!

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by Sky Wizard:

Come to my country (the UK). I'd say upwards of external doors 70% have keyholes on both sides. My house does!

sounds incredibly frustrating to get anywhere.

[Sky Wizard]

not really