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Fallout 76 lockpicking: How to pick locks and upgrade the skillEverything you need to know about increasing and upgrading your lockpicking skill
Everything you need to know about increasing and upgrading your lockpicking skill
How does lockpicking work in Fallout 76?Before the bombs dropped, people would stash stuff they didn’t want other people to get their hands on in their safes, or behind locked doors. It’s a sensible security measure, but the sad truth for the region of Appalachia inFallout 76is that almost everyone is either dead, an irradiated husk, stuck in a vault, or roaming the countryside and shooting everyone else.
They won’t need their stuff anymore, and that’s where lockpicking comes in. It’s a little different than previousFalloutgames, but only in how the skill is obtained. In this guide we will go through how to upgrade yourFallout 76 lockpickingskills and how to pick locks.
If you need a hand getting started, make sure you check out ourFallout 76 guidefor beginners as well. It’s ideal if you’re only just getting into the Fallout games after watching the hitTV showthat’s available on Amazon Prime Video.
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Upgrading your Fallout 76 lockpicking skill
There are a couple of things, however, that you do need to be aware of about using these perk cards. All three only have one rank, meaning that you’ll only be able to equip them rather than upgrade their ranks like many other perk cards. This means that should you get a duplicate of the Picklock card, you can’t combine them to make a “Picklock rank 2” card. You also can’t equip more than one of the same type of card to improve the rank as they need to be the individually named cards. The only way to improve your skills at picking locks is to find one of each of the three perk cards and equip them at the same time.
How to pick locks in Fallout 76
Now that you have a start on how lockpicking works, you may wish to learn more about that other bit of thievery: Hacking. You can find out more about the changes that have been implemented in ourFallout 76 terminal hackingguide. If you need more help with Fallout 76, we’ve got plenty of other guides including our pages on thePower Armor locations,Treasure map locations,weaponsandMagazine locations.
