Hello all. I just discovered something. I tried to pick the chest in the armory in Talmberg and failed. I had saved manually right beforehand, so I loaded that save only to find out that the chest had become unavailable, i.e no prompt to pick it appeared. I then loaded an earlier autosave only to find the same issue. So it seems like chests that one has tried to pick sometimes becomes permanently disabled if one loads a previous save, and rolling back further doesn’t seem to help. I am on PS4, btw. Does anyone know of a workaround? I really hope this gets patched.
yo u have to restart the system
I had the same problem so I eventually gave up and jumped of the bridge to escape. I was hoping that this was just a one off issue but I had the same issue when I was trying to unlock the practice chest for the miller. I hope it gets fixed because lockpicking on the PS4 is pretty freaking hard. I know people say “Get Gud” but I’ve broken 27 lockpicks and I’ve only opened up one very easy door. I am now level 2 in lockpicking and it hasn’t gotten any easier and at level 9 overall with Henry it still seems that lockpicks are rare and when you do find them they are expensive so they really have to fix this.
Okay, thanks. I ended up knocking out a guard and nicking his gear to get out that way. I might reload the save after restarting the system like fang3412 says just to see if it works.
I read another thread discussing the same problem, and someone suggested there that it has something to do with manual saves overwriting previous saves or somesuch. Anyway, annoying problem, needs fixing. Hope WH gets around to it.
Trust me, it gets easier, especially after level 3.
My first playthrough I broke over 30 picks to 1 unlocked chest until after level 3. Don’t get discouraged!
Search the forum for lots of good tips on lockpicking.
Thanks man, I wasn’t planning on giving up but it does get a little frustrating to fail at something that seems so basic.
I have a bug with Treasure Map XII, it won’t allow me to pick the lock.
Those are the screenshots of what the screen shows.
Could it be my lockpicking level?
Cbg, I find that “quick and dirty” works best on very easy locks when you’re unskilled. That is, you try to do it without taking to much time to fiddle around, because then you’ll almost certainly break all of your picks. You’ll still break a lot of picks before you’ve built up your lockpicking skill though. Also, sometimes you might get lucky and have the sweet spot close to the center, which means you’ll not have to move the right stick quite as much. It gets a little bit easier that way.
I actually messed around with lockpicking a bit more last night and I think I finally have a better handle on it now. I still don’t find it enjoyable but it is doable. I still wish these chests wouldn’t lock me out, for lack of a better term, like this post implies.
I think it’s an intresting mechanic, but really frustrating to begin with. Picking Kunesh’s chest should be a piece of cake right? It’s the tutorial section so the game should go easy on us right? Ehehehe… Nope! :-p
Yeah, even if there’s a way around it like fang said it’s still annoying.