3 hours ago, Riamus said:I think if they want to make it so you can unlock doors, they need to redo lockpicking. Right now, you can go through 10-20 lockpicks on one container of you have bad luck. I'm not about to waste time and lockpicks on a door the way it is now. It is far easier and generally faster to break down the door. And since noise doesn't matter for waking up zombies, there is no real value in lockpicking a door right now.
I have on my grump face on today so...I have no idea how "true" this is but I *feel* (in my observations, I know nothing about the internals of the game) that its almost as if the RNG for lockpicking "changes/updates" slowly. Meaning: if you have bad "luck" its because the RNG has chosen a low % of success at that moment... and it stays that way for (example) a minute or so. So if you keep trying, you keep most likely failing. Once I break about 3 picks, I go do something else (loot a room for a few minutes) and come back and it always seems to open in a few tries. A "total 0 evidence but it feels like it" thing.
But also: I agree: having it break over and over (and over, always at that last "15% or so" that you get once you get near the end) is quite annoying. I wish it felt better, maybe progressed differently or had "something" else I had to do to know it helped improve unlock success ( I don't know maybe "a set of tiered lockpick sets" so you just expect the lowest tier to break a lot. i mean: the timed charge/super pickaxe is "the top tier", why not have a middle tier that takes more resources to craft... or "buy/loot only"?). Additionally: sometimes with low lockpicking skill it just opens the first time and "yay!"... but also... it kinda feels wrong. I only want it to unlock on the first try when I'm super skilled or have super tools.