Starfield Lockpicking is Easy: Guide on How to Use Digipicks

[@BiGG_X]

I like the lock picking a lot. However i dont like when i crack a master lock and all i get is a pack of ammo and juice pack. Who is going to put those items in a safe like that 🤣

[@P-dub978]

Bro I unblocked a master lock only to get a Pack of ramen 🤣🤣

[@BiGG_X]

@P-dub978 lol that person must have really loved their ramen. The feeling of cracking those complex locks and get trash items. I do like the lockpicing though. Very fun until you see the contents

[@JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

Who is going to, ya say? Easy answer: "Trolls". Even in the future, it's of course gonna be too much to ask for no one to ever be a Troll. 🙄

[@danieljayasiri7739]

You should change gameplay mode to hardest, loot generation has a higher frequency of legendary items 😊

[@andreasauke5724]

Npc: "nobody's stealing my juice now"

[@mrwarr]

Ngl, last night I skipped a master lock because I was so tired I didn’t have the patience. Luke to the rescue.

[@coredfu8488]

For anyone else looking for a bit more basic explanation, on PC, hit A/D to rotate the hashes until they line up with the gaps. You'll need to account for them all, but not all at once. For example, for a novice lock, L click to select a likely candidate, line it up, hit E and then select another, line the next up, hit E again and that should remove the outer layer, then repeat for the inner layer.

[@stevemechamoo9475]

Thank you!

[@JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

0:00ish... I've self-invented the strategy of selecting Keys and 'dry-fitting them' to the Keyholes and getting satisfied i've found the right solution before I ever even start ploppin them in. Seems to be workin for me this far. :) 2:40ish... Ahh, once again, a case of "Great Minds think alike!"! :D End of Vid: Honestly, I totally dig this Lockpicking System... especially the part where time is frozen during it so ya can chill your way through it all ya want. :)

[@ravenheartwraith]

after 150 hours of play, getting the first three levels and getting annoyed with the higher level locks, there were at least 3-4 things in this video I did NOT know(I got the achievement for 50 locks, so I've done a bunch). Great video.

[@mikeyswift2010]

I'm sorry but the fact that so many people need this video, and the fact that there's so many videos like this on KZbin in general, shows that this is not a good design choice. Utterly convoluted.

[@skyriminspace]

Locks are supposed to be hard to open without the key.... The harder the better infact! What planet are you from? Denebola IV-b?

[@BleedingUranium]

8:48 Oh wow. I passed off the "eliminate decoys" skill as just being a simple nice-to-have time saver, but it hadn't occured to me that only having the usable patterns left means that if it says it can only be used on a certain layer, it WILL be used on that layer. That's super handy. And yeah, only slotting things after you've solved the ENTIRE pattern is one of the best pieces of advice in the game in general.

[@charlieharrison6074]

Still have no idea. I miss lockicking when it made sense. Didn't pick up the picks enough initially and every mission made me want to break my controller as they all end with lockpicking

[@RealThrax]

Right I hate it

[@CrystalDSmith]

I absolutely loath lock picking in this game lol. I just stopped doing it unless I have to

[@jordansmith4040]

I find it annoying when there are multiple master difficulty locks in the same room. The amount of time to pick these is the most annoying part.

[@DirtCobaine]

It’s super important to buy and pick up every digi pick. Way more important than it was in previous BGS games. Because before lock picks and Bobby pins weren’t destroyed as long as you didn’t break it and unlocked it successfully. Digipicks get used up the second you start the solve. Meaning if you have a single digi pick and solve the puzzle with no issues, it still gets used up in your inventory no matter what. It’s as if they break regardless. So you couldn’t unlock a whole room filled with locked containers with a single pick whereas you could in previous games. So that’s why you need to buy them and pick them up consistently. Because you burn right through them probably faster than med packs and ammo depending on how much you like to open locked containers. I know I always have around 30 and never more because I can never save up enough to get more than 30 of them lol

[@egyptwns89_26]

I've never used the auto slot but I start aligning my picks from the inner ring and I work my way out. I used far fewer picks and I got through the levels really quick doing this.

[@Dinzanel]

You should statt aligning from the very inside layer to the most external, also, always using the more complex patterns., Once aligned, just start to open the lock.

[@mikeyswift2010]

How do you know which layer you are on? I stg this shit still makes no sense to me after so many videos. I must just be an idiot

[@SaftonYT]

@@mikeyswift2010 I don't get it either. I only see two layers: one I'm currently picking plus the "next" one. This works fine, more or less, until I get to the last two layers at which point it's all guesswork for me.

[@BleedingUranium]

You can only slot from the outside in, but you shouldn't actually physically slot ANY patterns until you've placed every single pattern in your head. That's the key to this, line every single pattern up FIRST, and only then commit to it.

[@SaftonYT]

@@BleedingUranium I can't see any pattern except the layer I'm on and the next one, which is what has me so confused. Also the way I describe the lockpicking process sounds totally different from what my brother who also plays appears to see when he plays. I don't know what the disconnect is.

[@brianmr1986]

I... missed the part in the skill tree where it says the ring turns blue with a compatible layer for level 2 Security... Wow... >_> Well, that makes it... much. much. much easier. XD

[@dralberthofmann]

Very helpful video. I hadn’t progressed past novice locks yet but I think I will invest some skill points in it now. Keep the great content coming!👍🙂🚀

[@Patrick462]

Lockpicks? I can barely figure out how to walk at the speed I want. Caps? Caps Lock? Resets when I stop? Toggles? Which me luck!

[@caiooca5793]

Which luck?

[@mikeyswift2010]

First bethesda game?

[@Patrick462]

@@mikeyswift2010 Morrowind on Xbox and Skyrim on PC. Hundreds of hours. Don't remember any problems walking. Maybe I'm just getting old or stupid. Or both.

[@magickmynd1296]

I'm actually kind of disappointed in the lockpicking in this game. The mini game is interesting, but the loot that you typically get from expert and master level locks just, so far, doesn't seem to be worth the effort spent to unlock them in most cases. I've gotten some basic equipment/weapons/ammo from them, but rarely anything really good. Typically the only use I have found for being able to unlock more difficult locks is anything mission based where you might be able to unlock a shortcut or disable some kind of security, but for just day to day looting it seems like it's not worth wasting a digipick in most circumstances for just random high tier locks.

[@josephpeters7076]

Fallout 4 was the exact same, wish the locked loot was more like Fallout 3!

[@michealnelsonauthor]

You need to change to Very Hard when dropping onto the landing, when loading the POI zone, when going thru every door, before touching a body or chest… Check you’re on hard mode. It upgrades all the loots. You can flip to easy 5 seconds later, to fight the now existing mobs. Just flip back to hard once there’s no red dots on your radar & start looting!

[@michealnelsonauthor]

Also you can save-scum, they call it. Save before doing the thing, and if it’s a weak item or nothing, reload & redo… looking for the Legendary, AND the good features on that legendary that make it worth your time. Save & reloading is probably less time than running a new mission…

[@ladyicewolf]

Thank you for the explanation made it so much easier.

[@darkbrick77]

This is my least favorite lock picking in any game I’ve ever played

[@jobuscuswafer1716]

I really like it. I like having to actually use my brain and do something so I feel like I'm actually the one picking the lock

[@nek729]

Because you suck at it

[@Mark-ed5pu]

It’s the best I’ve ever experienced

[@BloodDrenched-y6i]

Getting good at it and figuring one out quickly and clicking away unlocking with the sounds it makes is pure dopamine lol

[@pandagonerogue.140]

Master locks are actually easy asf… not everyone’s brain will work for this one because there’s more then just simply slotting whatever fits. Look at the blue and grey coloring. Look at the different layers. Great lock picking

[@Jakobe_Beef]

It's one of my favorite mini games of Starfield, other than. Persuasion. I can't help but pick every lock I find!

[@dralberthofmann]

One of the reasons I didn’t invest in the skill is I thought it might upset companions. Is this true?

[@lasko24]

There have been times where I would try to slot a lock with a pattern that should work but wouldn't but when I go the other way it suddenly works. So if you are going clockwise and can't get it to fit go counter clockwise..

[@majicMix911]

This was an excellent vidio and gave me the tips I needed to no longer hate this mini game.

[@ryvyr]

Just like Antiquities in TESO, no wonder locking here is so fun :> Cheers for the clarity on some parts I was a tad confused on ^^

[@danjoshuabocoboc9960]

This game is fantastic but if you have a low specs just like me is so frustrating. My pc is ryzen 3200g 16gb ram and graphics card 1660ti is trash men, even in the low settings it was lag. So it is best to play this game if you have a high specs. But the game is fantastic.

[@chraanakhxattanach1639]

after initial frustration i got it.

[@rich9128]

Can we send our own personal in game screen shot to pixel so they can make a poster out of it? If not that’s an idea for them

[@starfieldsignal]

That would probably be a better fit for something like shutterfly or a custom print site like that.

[@Beanieville]

Oops, you forgot to mention that with the advanced lock picking skill it is not possible to lock pick using digipicks. In Starfield you can only succeed with the Novice lock picking skill.

[@anaximander66]

If you are buying a lot of digipicks you are an innocent angel that can resist save scumming. I will be sinking hundreds of hours into this game so I try to avoid these kinds of mini games as often as possible.

[@ericeatmon7676]

Hello would you consider doing a tutorial on the freestar rangers mission surgacal strike im stuck in the abandonded bonner=eklund excavation site cl25 AFTER RECIEVING ENCRIPTED SLATE and cant get back out of the mind

[@cjones1262]

This is definitely a worth while video. Thank you.

[@jeffzlatkin469]

How the hell do you choose which key to use? Im on PC, but can never change which key is highlighted, it's alwasy the first upper-left. When I click my mouse on a different key, nothing happens, I can never choose a different key! Made me stop playing for now anyway

[@spencerbell4597]

Love the beginning take the confusion out and just leave the fun. What fun? I'm not having any fun I'm 80 hours in trying to force myself to keep playing. One of the worst games and this stupid mini game was one of the first things I ran into that took the fun out of the game.

[@dralberthofmann]

I find the lock picking to be viscerally satisfying!👍🙂

[@SaftonYT]

I find it to be viscerally frustrating :-/

[@thelegend6083]

@@SaftonYT same i fucking hate it

[@codyeungard]

Thank you

[@The115fan]

Thanks for the info but I hate this mechanic it’s the worst lockpicking mechanic I’ve ever used it totally takes you out of the game

[@bunnywarren]

I don't understand how something can fit but still be a decoy.

[@JETWTF]

"If you enjoy lockpicking" is a cry for help if you do lol. I am going to do like I did with Skyrim and FO4, unlock everything that doesn't require a key in the CK then use a mod that automatically unlocks things for mods that have locked stuff. Other news I discovered the alien looking player character shown in a screenshot well before the games release... my nose is still burning from the beer I squirted out of it.

[@Ennio444]

Yeah but why do my locks sometimes have shapes I have no patterns for?

[@lasko24]

You may have slotted a lock wrong at the beginning.

[@dralberthofmann]

Now isn’t there hacking in Starfield? I haven’t seen it yet. Does it use digipicks too?

[@michealnelsonauthor]

Hacking is for computers.

[@brandonellison143]

Best lockpicking mini game? Cmon man- read the forums- 90% of the community thinks it’s terrible. On expert it literally wastes so much time most people give up- not fun at all.

[@pdtv007]

I can't figure this out at all. Blew through all my digipicks on my first novice lock, Can't stand this at all, give ma a screw driver and bobby pin any time. might just quit Starfield just to frustrated.

[@wolfe1970]

I amazed people are struggling with this, i think by the second lock i had it sussed out, and im not a clever fella 🤣

[@rich9128]

Agree

[@darkbrick77]

I’m 2 days and 19 hours into the game and don’t understand it whatsoever. I’ve failed a lock 9 times in a row once

[@darkbrick77]

They quite literally don’t explain a single thing or mechanic

[@nek729]

​@@darkbrick77this is literally like a babies first shape puzzle

[@CriticalJ]

I actually think the biggest difficulty for some people is spacial memory and these tips don't actually help them. The problem is, trying to align all the picks is hard when you have to remember which slots are still open because the pick you aligned disappears from alignment view as soon as you switch to another pick. Therefore, they can't even utilize the strategy in this video because you could align two patterns in the same field but not realize they shared one of the openings.

[@HOBBYSOLDIERSTUDIO]

I think somebody deserves a BIIIIIIG beat at the developers. This lockpicking is not fun, it shit. I have to remember where did I put a code piece

[@froggies6316]

I swear I'm not a criminal, ok

[@Party_Doll]

Let me know when theres a mod that negates this silliness...just not my thing but there are people that like Tetris / Candy Crush and I dont care for them either...I have bought, played, and loved every Bethesda / Obsidian game since Morrowind and in every one I have nullified the pointless time wasting lock pick mini game ( maxing out the skill to justify it )

[@CrystalDSmith]

It feels like filler. It isn't necessary. I found it a bit silly they made them so time consuming

[@Party_Doll]

I am also aware of the console commands ( on PC only ) that you can use for most everything including opening any locked thing...I cant cheat myself like that but would use it for emergencies only ( like game breaking bugs, etc )@@CrystalDSmith

[@GreenLeefMusic]

Easy Digipick Nexus Mods

[@SupertoastGT]

I'd actually call this the WORST lockpicking system in gaming other than maybe Kingdom Come Deliverance's Parkinson's picking. I hate them both with a passion.

[@lordstingray2382]

I cannot stand this new mini game. I have rank 2 and I just don't get it. Everytime I think I do, nope. I can't wait for mods to get rid of this. Until then I just don't mess with this anymore, it's taken the fun out. Also you move too fast, maybe do a in depth video because every single "how to" video the person is moving so damn fast.

[@promnightdumpsterbaby9553]

Oh yeah...."best"... this is dumb

[@thatcanadianguy4795]

is someone able to explain to me why starfield is so damn buggy and laggy?

[@Frame-313]

Told me nothing

[@Crazy-Chicken-Media]

Wait people are having issues with this? It's almost as easy as Skyrim.

[@nek729]

It requires a bit more thought but it's easy

[@JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

Honestly I like this one way more than the Skyrim Version.

[@CrystalDSmith]

Yes. I'm having an extremely difficult time with them. I just stopped doing them unless I have to

[@CDoss83]

First

[@spencerbell4597]

Sorry but this is not easy and I don't understand how to play this stupid game.

[@veryniceindeed]

It would not need any explanation if it was a good minigame. Waste of time.