PC Is there any quick way to deal with the safes in a post office?
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Khalagar
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This. Auger beats out lockpicks extremely badly to the point where lockpicks are near totally pointless honestly. My friend likes to try and race me with lock picks vs my auger, and I almost always just break the safe before he can pick it.
Noise doesn't matter in A18 after the sleeper zombie change, zombies only aggro if you enter the rooms they are in, and 1 or 2 random straggler zombies shambling into the PoI just means more exp
Deadalready
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I use a stapler on my left mouse button with a pick/sledge aimed at the safe. It's not fun but gets the job done and is cost effective, it's actually a good way to spend the nights in early game when going out would normally be a death sentence and most players just AFK till morning.
pApA^LeGBa
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@meganoth In that water works quest where i mined a couple of hours before, right next to it with none showing up, i had one banging on the wall pretty much every time i went in the next room. It´s always like that, not that bad like in that case but still. One wouldn´t bother me either. It´s just never only one unless in smaller POI´s. It´s like the game calls them all in as soon as i do anything in a POI. Could be nitrogen and the tight city layout tough. But i don´t think that this increases the number of zombies, there are as few as always when i am outside.
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Did you have an argument with an evil witch? You probably are cursed
Generally it is as it should be, the zombies are in the game to harass the players. And if this makes lockpicks look like the best deal for you, that's fine as well, everyone here seems to have a different prefered method to open safes.
The logfiles should be able to tell you why that zombie was spawned, it could be just POI sleepers (inside or outside), it could be heat-induced zombies or wandering hordes.
pApA^LeGBa
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I am pretty sure it´s the evil witch. It´s single zombies mostly. Ofc a wandering horde crosses my way once in a while, during raiding a POI. Can´t be the heat, i currently do bow/knife mostly (this rocks btw, i just had two of them dying side by side with the same animation due to bleeding out, nearly died to the next zombie due to laughing), only using guns in emergencies. And i loot. That´s it.
Icarus Incognito
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None of you have tried the breaching rounds for the shotgun! I will beat all of you into any safe every day of the week with those. Small safes take one round and large safes take 3. They are a little resource intensive as they take steel to make, but time is loot!
Ti2xGr
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Icarus Incognito
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Tahaan
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Worrun
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This, this, this, x1000! This is how it should be.
Unless they rework the entire lockpicking system? Would be nice to actually be able to be good at it, rather than just solid RNG
Crater Creator
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Destroy the wall behind a wall safe, which typically has less HP than the safe itself. Then the safe will crash into the ground and disintegrate, no matter how strong it was. Problem solved!
...Wait, you wanted what was IN the safe? Well, picky, picky, picky.
...Wait, you wanted what was IN the safe? Well, picky, picky, picky.
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Late to the thread, but was just about to say this exact thing. Was shocked to get to page 2 before the breaching rounds were mentioned - especially after someone said they were clearing POIs with a shotgun!
I'm running a brawler build and carrying an AK-47 for backup, but lockpicking ticked me off so bad I started carrying a shotgun purely for opening safes.
Honestly never occurred to me to use a rocket launcher although from an immersion perspective I can't help but think it would be serious overkill.
In-character, I would expect the results would be disappointing (ie: completely demolish the safe and its contents, or destroy the room without actually breaking the safe open).
As for the resource cost comparison - sure, 4 steel per breaching round is costly especially when you're using 3 rounds to get into a gun safe - but is that any worse than the gasoline/lead cost of a single rocket launcher round?
Stranded_Napkin
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It's entirely random for me. Until my current playthrough I'd never spec'ed into the skill. Just didn't see the need. I'd collect more than I'd ever use, and it rarely took more than 3 to actually open a safe. Then in my current playthrough I went through 21 lockpicks on a single safe. That drove me nuts especially since that was all of the lockpicks I'd had at the time. Not sure why that safe was so stubborn but it did open when I beat it senseless with my stone axe...love how that works. Sometimes I feel like the caveman mindset really works for this game.