i am not going to rehash the things i have read in the other threads that say the lockpicking is too hard.
i just want to point out something that many people are not aware of. and i hope the devs can take this into consideration.
the difficulty of the lockpicking minigame is quite dependent on the responsiveness of your analog sticks.
i have a ps4 controller that is only a few days old. using that controller, i attempted to open miller peshek’s “easy” chest for three hours without succeeding once. granted, my lockpicking level was at o. but after switching to a different, older controller, i was able to open the chest without much trouble. returning to the first controller, i am once again unable to open the chest.
so, is my new controller mildly defective? perhaps. but i have played several other games with that controller and i have not had the slightest problem in any other game.
i imagine that some of the people who are complaining about lockpicking being “impossible” at low levels are running into a similar issue.
before anyone else says it, yes, you can level up your lockpicking skill and then it doesn’t matter as much. but that is besides the point i am trying to make here.