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 ...

To become a master thief in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is to know how to lockpick. Lockpicking in Oblivion can be a challenging thing for new players, especially with this creative system involved, ...

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 ...

Lockpicking in Starfield is a lot different than what we’ve previously seen in the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series. Even once you’ve gotten the hang of novice locks, higher difficulties like expert ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...