As you progress through the game you would begin to find skeleton keys, there would be multiple types to find if you want o be able to open basically any lock with them.

When you first start out you have only the option of breaking locks, this can be a rather loud process so the mini game becomes about minimizing the amount of noise you make so that you dont alart the entire building that someone has broken into something. This is what you actually use when picking a lot, sound and feel, not sight.Īt this point even oblivion had a more realistic lockpicking system, and that game gave you a magical inside view of the lock.Ī far better system would actually be one that doesnt use lockpicks at all, but instead uses the two methods that were most common for the time. The increased shaking as you get near the end also doesnt fit at all, your hands dont just suddenly start shaking all over the place.Ī far more realistic and interesting system could be made, one where you use sound and maybe some visual cues (rumbling for controllers would work, but this would leave out PC players). The two main methods for opening a lock were breaking them and using skeleton keys. This is mainly because lockpicks only really worked on certain types of locks, and even then the other two main methods were far more effective and universal. Secon lockpicks were not even the main way of opening locks in this time period.

I to find the lockpicking to be very annoying, and tedious at best, but what truly annoys me is that the devs talk so much about how they want the game to be like real life and yet the lockpicking system is absolutely nothing like real life.įirst off lockpicking takes time, and patience, something the mini game does not allow you to have, you must be quick or you lose. I know the lockpicking is being looked into for being tweeked, but i kind of wish this particular mini game would be scrapped all together for a new one.

Kingdom come treasure lockpicking mod