The cursor is going to jitter all over the place, and you’re going to break every lockpick you own. If you try to be precious or exact during the process, it’s going to take forever. How to pick a lock in Kingdom Come: Deliverance That means coordinating both thumbsticks at the same time. You have to rotate the entire lock mechanism counterclockwise while keeping the cursor in the same r elative position.You move the cursor around until you find the right place (the sweet spot) for the lockpick.The central conceit of lockpicking is simple enough: Lockpicking basics Warhorse Studios via Polygon Nothing beats practice, but our advice should get you rotating in the right direction. (You’ll also be able to learn pickpocketing from them.)Įven with practice, though, using a lockpick is more often frustrating than it is successful. Later, you’ll be able to interact with millers - who, apparently, are tapped into medieval Bohemia’s seedy underbelly - and they can teach you more and help you practice.
As with many things, you’ll get a tutorial wall-of-text the first time you try it, but you won’t have much time to practice. You’ll bump into this notably difficult minigame relatively early.
This leads to a lot of unexpected (and unexpectedly complex) mechanics like lockpicking. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an ambitious game built around being as realistic as possible.
