How can i lockpick?

maybe i am stupid but how can i lockpick?

 

1)Get yourself a set of lockpicks
2)Put them into one of the slots on your belt.
3)Click on them and see your pointer change to a "mechanical" thingy.
4)Click with the thingy on the chest/door which you want to unlock.
5)Repeat until success or until the lock jams. If it jams, there's nothing you can do.

 

thanks for quick reply you helped me mutch i was startin' to get desparate

 

There is one thing you can do if the door/chest .etc jams......you can always bash up the door or shoot it down:d

 

Alt + Attack = Bashing stuff

The key bindings are well hidden in the manual so I thought I'd tell you the most important one.

 

thanks... can you post more key shortcuts?

@everybody:
do you know where can i buy set of lockpicks in Tarant?

 

You can usully find one for free in the trash bin near the "hotel" of the guy who teaches expert pickpocket (next building up the street after the one with the Underground black market traders).

Myself, I normally buy my lockpicks at the very beginning of the game. Oh and I believe there's also a set of lockpicks in the cave with the wolves half-way from Dernholm to Black Root.

 

Nice bit of trivia: The reason you have to pickpocket the second skeleton is because the builders parked the thing right on top of blocking tiles. They keep you from getting close enough to treat the body like you would a chest.

 

A-10: Quick Keys
Arcanum GAME Hotkey List:
<Escape> -- MainMenu (or "Previous Window" *in* the mainmenu)
<F1> -- “Walkâ€￾ – Commands a Follower(s) to walk to a target location
<F2> -- “Attackâ€￾ – Commands a Follower(s) to attack the selected target
<F3> -- “Stay Closeâ€￾ – Commands a Follower(s) to follow at a lesser
<F4> -- “Spread Outâ€￾ – Commands a Follower(s) to follow at a greater
<F5> -- “Back Offâ€￾ - Commands a Follower(s) to stop fighting its target
<F7> -- Auto-save save game to a predetermined auto-save game slot.
<F8> -- Auto-load saved game from predetermined auto-save game slot.
<F12> -- Take a screenshot
<NUMLOCK> -- Toggles Run-Always
<SHIFT> -- Stand in place (don't walk when attacking, etc.)
<CTRL> -- Run instead of walk
<ALT> -- Force-Attack (to attack scenery, doors, etc.)
-- Drag a corpse (if not in combat mode)
<ENTER> -- Switch to the Chat rotating window (type messages seen as floaters)
<SPACE> -- Closes any interfaces (Inven/Char. Editor/etc.) and switches between
Turn-Based/Real-Time combat
<A> -- Do whatever hotkey action is on the last "Active" hotkey (the one
the lower-left, next to the rotating window)
<C> -- Character Editor Toggle On/Off
<F> -- Fate Point Window Toggle On/Off
<I> -- Inventory Toggle On/Off
<L> -- Log Book Toggle On/Off
<O> -- Bring up the Options menu
<R> -- Toggle Ready/Unready mode (Attack/Talk modes)
<S> -- Sleep UI Toggle On/Off
<T> -- Tech Schematic UI Toggle On/Off
<V> -- Display version info
<W> -- World Map UI Toggle On/Off
<,> -- Attacks will be called-shots to the Head (<Comma>)
<.> -- Attacks will be called-shots to the Arms (<Period>)
</> -- Attacks will be called-shots to the Legs (<Forward>)


Always nice to learn some new trivia, rroyo.

 

Why would you bother? Maybe to loot it without getting attacked?

 

Or get it out of the coppers' way? (For coppers, read any sort of semi-intelligent enemies.) If they don't see it, they don't blame you?

 

Once in a great while, you'll get two or even three bodies stacked on each other. The drag option comes in handy then.

 

I usually just keep clicking until the loot option opens up, but I can see how that might be useful for stubborn deaders.

 

Alt+F4 is an hot-key. The games ask you if you want to quit or not. A useless hot-key but it's still an hot-key.

 

i cannot find the barrels in tarant witch contans the lockpicks ca you be more specific where it is?

 

Dragging is good for role-play if you're a thief/assassin...

Kill someone...

Drag 'em into a dark alley...

Strip 'em naked...

Scamper off...

 

Hmm. This hadn't occurred to me. I'd always thought of it as a 100% useless feature.

 

Find Madam Lil's, go down the street to the psychic lady (whats her name?) and turn left at the trash can. Walk all the way down that street and right before you get to the bridge, its a single barrel to your left.

 

Although this is far more common in Car-Arcanum, I have run into it at T'sen-Ang and with the Molochean Hand. Thankfully, it is rare.