What's your favorite way of opening things ?

It actually depends on in wich mood I am and with wich character I play at the moment of the opening... But the axe-thing is what I use, mostly.

 

I just learned that the Tesla Rod is a silent and effective way of destroying containers...even though the manual says it is loud :^)

-Matt

 

Doesn't matter what charecter I'm playing, smashing things with axes is always cool!

 

I normally pick the lock, but I tend to open PEOPLE up with dynamite. It's best to go solo when you do that, so your party doesn't rush up to attack the recently-made-explosive victim, and become hamburger.

 

Before I realized I can smash anything with Alt+click, I used to put a charcoal or saltpeter in the "hotkey item bank" (or whatever, I don't feel like opening a dictionary), clicked on it, then threw it at the object. My companions immediately started to crush it.

 

That's exactly what I did (twice through the game) before I stumbled on force attack completely by accident.
The manual definitely needed a shortcut card.

 

Before I learned of force attacking, I usually ignored the chest or had Virgil try to lockpick it. Once I learned it though, the pyrotechnic axe and chests get along very, very well. Usually, I play the music you hear when you get the hammer from Super Smash Brothers Melee...no, not really.

 

I completely forgot about force attacking. That makes shooting things much more fun.

 

Actually, that's quite a good way of getting an advantage of your enemies, taking out the light and all. I mean, if you're better than them in the combat skills, or at least equal, then your percentage could be higher (on hitting) and therefore you gain advantage.

Or you just beat/shoot/harm the crap outta everybody as usual.

 

I know... But it would be cool if there was a differance. Like if you had "night vision" and your enemies didn't, and the place where you took out the lights went pitch black.

 

Hmmmm..... Sounds good to me. I wonder if that can be scripted....

 

Well, it probably could. If you just adjusted the penalties to darkness and stuff like that.

 

Yeah, see perfect in the dark, suffer the vision penalties in lightor during the day. Really not all that useful.

 

It all depends on the mood I'm in and if the kids have annoyed me or not. Most of the time I pick locks, but when I'm in an aggressive mood .... Dynamite everytime.

 

Picking locks usually for me. Though if one of my followers has been particularly useless in the last encounter, I strip them of their weapons and force them to beat it open or faint.