William Parks is a Game Rant editor specializing in puzzle-driven games, detailed walkthroughs, and collectible-focused strategy guides. After graduating from the University of Southern California’s ...

First off, you’ll need to make sure you’ve got lockpicks. You’re taught how to make these in the game’s tutorial, but if you’ve forgotten, you’ll need some ‘Scraps’ and ‘Cloth Rags.’ As long as you’ve ...

What kind of third-person adventure would Star War Outlaws be if it didn't have lockpicking? This is a mechanic as old as games themselves, and the one that Massive Entertainment has come up with is ...

In Starfield, locks come in four different levels: Novice, Advanced, Expert, and Master. By default, every player can attempt to pick a Novice-level lock, as that doesn’t require any skill to be ...

Erin Rice is a Contributor from the United States. She has a Master of Arts in Composition and Rhetoric and works as a professor and Academic Advisor. She has been writing about video games for a ...

Oblivion's lockpicking remains essentially in Bethesda's re-release, which means successfully completing Oblivion Remastered is a finicky and seemingly unpredictable process. At least, that's how it ...

A whimsical wordsmith at Game Rant, crafting pixelated odysseys from a lifelong love for gaming and a diet of 1UP mushrooms. With that out of the way, let’s take a look at how players can pick locks ...

Lock picking in games, especially Bethesda games, is always a fun little minigame. There is even a little bit of truth to how those games do it. Elex 2 breaks away from that slightly, so you need to ...

Another new function in this game is the lock picking mechanic. The characters will automatically have the ability and tools needed for a successful lock pick. The method first requires to slowly ...

If you’re going to stealthy infiltrate a place, you need to know how to pick a lock, even when the locks are computerized space-age systems. In the Star Wars universe, you won’t be wiggling a metal ...