Lockpicking Is DRIVING ME INSANE In This Wasteland Challenge - 7 Days To Die (Episode #4)

[@famijher]

Prebuilt, in his Neverending battle to try and actually get Good Content that doesn't completely bore him to tears.

[@shannonmanning6166]

I've been picking locks for almost ten years (legally, mind) and, oddly enough, I've never ever broken a lockpick. I understand the mechanic, and the need for a limiting factor, but I've always disagreed with the whole "let the lockpicks break; that'll slow 'em down" crap. If you suck, it takes longer. If you're really good, it's faster. Easily solved. Edit: I have worn out one pick, to the point that it didn't work correctly. Just clarifying.

[@KJOokami]

Lockpicking might actually be the easiest fix that TFP refuse to fix for no good reason. Literally just get rid of whatever mechanic resets the lock timer to a certain point if you break a lockpick when it's below 25% (or whatever the exact number is), and delay the first check until after .5 seconds or even 1 second so you don't get lockpicks that break before the timer is even shown on the screen. The fact it's been like this for literal years is honestly crazy.

[@somerandomdudeOG]

Or you they can put a real lockpicking system like many other games (Skyrim, Dying Light you get the idea)

[@liamjohnson8514]

Or just use the lockpicking system the DF has :shrug:

[@KJOokami]

@@somerandomdudeOG for sure. That'd be ideal, obviously, but if they won't even make minor alterations to their current code, I doubt they have any plans to rebuild the whole system from the ground up

[@somerandomdudeOG]

@@KJOokami Mods already exist and it won't be the first case of a developer adding something that was a mod as official But because TFP is the type of company that wants the game one way that is completely different from what the community wants, lockpicking will never get reworked and will remain useless like 40% of the perks in the game

[@bsebire]

If higher levels of the skill let you lock pick doors and shutters, that would be great

[@huff3782]

Honestly I feel like the "hide on a POI roof" method is closer to how TFP want us to play than building an actual horde base is. Which is dumb for so many reasons.

[@Sneeky930]

I tend to think they intended a "Blood moon a-comin'...we need to defend our home" kind of thing. That, or OH SHIT *dies*

[@mistymoonshine897]

one should be able to throw raw meet and lure zombies with it since they now go for dead animals.

[@DahakaProd]

what do you mean performance mods? Don't you like clicking zombie heads with 18 fps?

[@Anglostar]

Of all the game faults, and there are many, the lock picking is up there as one of the most frustrating. I'm sure I've broken 20+ on one container before.

[@MbBadd]

I would like something a little more engaging, but it's what we got so we work with it... also... i don't know if it's in the code, if you wait a few seconds after you break one, it can reset the chain breaking of picks.

[@UnluckMonk]

An even better mechanic, would be to have one lockpick tool. It loses durability like all the other tools as the timer runs down. It loses less durability the better you are with lockpicking. Make more lockpicks to increase its durability.

[@emperorpalpatine2957]

"You should lockpick everything instead of breaking into them! It's the new Meta!" Lockpicking: *Literally breaks everything on a single thing* It's like a freaking Master lock in an Elder Scrolls game. It's so much simpler and less annoying to just break into it. I seriously don't get why all the 7 days youtubers are simping so hard for it these days. :/

[@Wanderinpaladin]

Guns Nerds and Steels Weather mod helps. especially in the wasteland.

[@darkcode99]

I can’t play this game anymore without tweaking the head shot modifiers. I up the infection and debuff chances and such to compensate, but I hate how they get bullet spongy at certain points

[@wolfy049]

18:04 the cut right after made me 😅

[@weison383]

Has anyone observed that the lockpick minigame included with the wasteland mod only seems to work once and then it reverts back to the normal vanilla 7 Days to Die format?

[@monkey6616]

In console if you type "gfx pp enable" that'll turn off fog and will slightly help with lag

[@bryanlonger8646]

Good job

[@yelleryoung5870]

Lockpicking needs a massive rework.

[@Akrodancer]

Would be really fun to see demolition zombies on the second hord night

[@burning_cities]

oh lockpicking, the pain :)

[@deceivedonegaming6105]

So ur telling us the hardest dificulty is to play game as intended to build a hordebase hahaha nice 😂😂 So prebuilt when do u start the extra building simulator

[@mykelmarlow6942]

Fire

[@z6a99c]

Wish 7 dtd lock picking like fallout 4s or 76s.

[@LukeChicken]

btw which cpu you have?

[@slavsamulaattori998]

why aren't you going for an intellect build like you once did and said how OP it was?

[@ManuR-l4m]

Why are you skipping all the oil shale in a playthrough without desert biome?

[@IzPrebuilt]

The amount i'll find is so low it'll only save me a couple thousand dukes across the series. Money is just an easier way to get gas.

[@ManuR-l4m]

@@IzPrebuilt I see. Really enjoying the series btw 😃

[@maggi98mw]

Why does the visual quality look so bad? This looks more like a 720p video at 1080p

[@IzPrebuilt]

KZbins compression is turned up to 11 when you have very dark footage like the wasteland, combined with the fact that the game was using dynamic resolution to try and keep fps up, AND the game looks like ass anyway... the series is not a pretty one.

[@kjmagnon]