Kingdom Come Deliverance - opening locks, lockpicks
As befits an extensive role-playing game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance offers many different types of activities. One of them is the ability to pick locks, which is especially useful if you prefer a quiet style of play and focus more on silently solving problems than using force.
However, lockpicking skills, even at a basic level, can be useful to any hero. In this way, we can reach inaccessible places or break into chests with valuable items. In this way, you can get rich quickly and even solve some tasks.
You'll get basic burglary skills already during the first mission called An Unexpected Visit, as long as you agree with the guys who give you the lockpicks. The second such possibility appears if you talk to the miller Peszek in one of the next main quests.
In order to effectively use the possibility of breaking into locks, you must have a lockpick, and preferably several lockpicks. Each failed attempt to open the lock ends with breaking the lockpick, and you can't do anything without it.
How to pick locks in Kingdom Come Deliverance
After obtaining a lockpick (first from Fritz or Peszek the miller, then you can buy them from traders or even find them in chests) approach the door or chest to which you want to hack.
When you do this, in the lower right corner (picture above) you will see information about how difficult it is to break a given lock. If it turns out that the trial is too difficult, the hero will not even be able to start it.
So in the beginning try to only break into locks marked as very easy or easy. Thanks to this, over time, you will develop your character's Break-in skill, thanks to which opening subsequent locks will gradually become easier.
When you start breaking into the castle, a mini-game will start automatically. If you complete it, the lock will be opened. Otherwise, you will break the lockpick.
What should you do during the lockpicking mini-game?
Start moving the cursor (1 in the picture above) with the mouse or the right analog stick (the goal is to reach the yellow point - see point 3).
Note that the closer you get to the yellow spot, the larger the point in the center of the indicator (2 in the image above).
Locate where the cursor will become the yellow point (3 in the image above).
Press and hold the key (4 in the picture above) responsible for the movement of the lock (in the case of consoles, start moving the left analog stick - preferably from 11 o'clock counterclockwise).
At the same time, move the pointer (mouse or right analog stick) in a smooth motion so that it is always on the yellow field (5 in the picture above).
When you complete almost the entire turn in this way, the lock will open.
What is the difficulty? On a continuous, smooth cursor movement so that it is constantly on the yellow field. If you move to the side, the cursor will turn gray and start shaking, making it difficult to return to the path with the yellow point. If this situation continues for too long, the lockpick will break. You can save him by releasing the key responsible for the movement of the lock, but then you have to start the whole attempt all over again.
Although the whole thing may seem quite simple, in practice it is often quite different. The mini-game requires a lot of skill, and learning will surely end up with a lot of broken lockpicks. How can you make your life easier? Even if you follow a few tips.
Tips for picking locks in Kingdom Come Deliverance
With all this, remember that breaking locks is a crime and if you are caught doing so by a witness or witnesses, they will try to interrupt the hero or run for the guards. Of course, this will also negatively affect the reputation in a given place.
Brecking in without a mini-game (Easy Lockpicking mod)
If the lockpicking mini-game seems too difficult and you want to skip it, there's the option. For this purpose, you can download a mod for the game called Easy Lockpiking.
Installing the above modification does not mean that you will open every lock in the game. This will be possible only in the case of those for which the hero has properly developed the Break-in skill. It is worth noting that opening locks appropriate to the player's level provides experience points and the development of this trait. Thanks to this, over time, we can break into more and more difficult mechanisms.
Below are the levels and the locks that can be opened with them (according to the mod's author):
To install the above mod, which will prevent the mini-game from appearing when you try to pick locks, follow these steps:
- Go to the Easy Lockpicking mod page.
- Download the file - click Manual Download (1 in the picture above).
- Save the archive to the game directory marked as Data (default path C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\KingdomComeDeliverance\- where C: is the partition designation) - 2 in the image above.
- Extract the file zzz_dubh_EasyLockpicking.pak (3 in the picture above) to the Data folder (4 in the picture above).
Keep in mind that such a modification may not only damage your save state of the game, but may also work in the next game update.
