[2021] Lock picking needs a buff *edit

Originally posted by ProxyJames:

Originally posted by De Espirit: Of course you can say lockpicks are useless when you already have a top shelf pickaxe and auger. Lockpicks are there as an alternative for the people that don't have points in Strength and mining.

my dude all you need is a iron pick axe and you can get that right at the start by putting one point into advanced engineering and one into miner 69er and at that lever it takes a HELL of ALOT longer to pick a lock then to just bash it with a pick axe because of how much it brakes, I ♥♥♥♥ you not once me and a friend went though 20 lock picks EACH before going...OK ♥♥♥♥ IT and bashing it open

That sounds exceptionally unlucky or else like a bug. I’d say it takes me 4 lockpicks on average with no enhancement from skills.

I don’t need any encouragement to use lockpicks. I’ll always use them if I have them, unless I just forget that I have some.

Originally posted by ProxyJames:

Originally posted by Crater Creator:
That sounds exceptionally unlucky or else like a bug. I’d say it takes me 4 lockpicks on average with no enhancement from skills.

I don’t need any encouragement to use lockpicks. I’ll always use them if I have them, unless I just forget that I have some.

it still takes 20 seconds and with more than one player with iron picks it takes like 5 seconds to crack a safe so honestly picks are only useful for like 5 seconds at the start of the game then they are just scrap

Those safes have 7000 HP. The multiple players aspect adds an interesting wrinkle, but if you’re busting through them in 5 seconds, you’ve invested significantly into tools/skills/mods/candy that improve block damage, and/or you have block damage turned up in the settings. You could’ve just as easily invested in stuff that improves lock picking. Play how you want, but your specialization does not imply that there’s an imbalance.