Fallout 4 – Simple Lockpicking Guide

Simple and consistent lockpicking.

Lockpicking Quadrants

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This guide is for people who play vanilla and may not have the intuition to quickly and reliably lock pick.

First consider viewing the lockpick screen in quadrants:

Follow These Steps:

• Start in the middle i.e. line #3 and try to turn. We start in the middle to get information on lock softness in the middle. Extremely stiff mids might mean solution is on far ends.
• Move to either position 2 or 4 and turn, either are equally reasonable. If you get immediate resistance flip to the mirror side and repeat.
• Keep halving your quadrants until you get the sweet spot.

Try to lightly tap, if you crank hard you will loose a lot of pin life and sit there waiting for animations.