This digipick lock system was awful, I immediately installed a mod to skip this crap when I played Starfield.
I actually liked the lockpick minigame but it has a couple issues. First as others mentioned, the sheer usage of the digipicks is kind of ridiculous.
However the real issue comes down to the nature of the skill in the first place. Leveling up makes you able to access higher difficulty locks but I don't understand why your skill doesn't also make the action easier to do.
I feel like a modified version where lower skill makes the lock difficult and higher skill makes the lock easy. If I invested all the way into lockpicking then I'd be fine with blasting through the easy ones, but instead I invested just to waste more time trying to open something inevitably worth 500 credits. But then of course that's its own issue in itself I guess.
It kinda does make it easier, though, as you can auto flip to the best pips to slot, and the more you level up the more of these you can bank. The only problem there is banking the necessary things to be able to do this takes manually opening multiple locks. :/
My preferred method is the highlight and deduce.
If there's 8 picks on a master lock and 5 highlight, look for the 1 inner ring that will match. Then you can just go through all the highlighted rings and align them freely without wasting lockpicks. Takes a sec longer, but I get them in one go this way,
That's all probably nonsensical, it's super late and I'm tired, haha!
Haven't played Starfield, but this seems like something that would be fun for a few minutes, and then you never want to play it again.
I watched a friend stream Starfield. This minigame looked godawful.
Whenever I go to play it I’ll probably mod the minigame out entirely.
It's a bit more engaging than the previous lock picking system (though, still not unique; this is how Deus Ex: Invisible War lockpicking was too), but it does get just as tedious after a while. Plus you use up a lockpick every single time, and can't just rely on not breaking them to conserve them.
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