Hacking & Lock Picking Tips--- Picking A Lock ---To successfully pick a lock the character must have a high enough skill for the difficulty of the lock and you must have one or more bobby pins in your inventory. When you start to pick the lock you insert the bobby pin and a screwdriver ( a screw driver is ALWAYS with you even though it doesn't appear in your inventory ) into the keyhole. The rotating motion of the bobby pin is to trigger the tumblers in the lock and the screwdriver is to turn the lock as a key would. If the bobby pin is in wrong position and you move the screwdriver the bobby pin may snap - causing you to try again.
Strategies for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3The position of the bobby pin is completely controlled by one sitcks on the controller and the screw driver with the other. If the controller starts to vibrate the bobby pin is about to break - the more the controller vibrates the closer the pin is to breaking. If you want to save bobby pins just exit the lock and re-try before the pin
--- Hacking Terminals ---One way you can get past locked terminal is:
- the terminal is hackable
- your Science skill is high enough to hack the terminal (which can range from very easy to very hard)
You can get a Vault 101 Lab Jumpsuit which adds +5 to your Scienece Levels or Lesko's Lab Coat adds +10 to your science skills. Keep one of these in your inventory and when you need something of a higher difficulty hacked put this on and it boosts your Science skills. Successfully hacking terminals can get your character a good number of Experience so you can hack for fun to level faster.
When you go to hack you will be shown a list of words with the same character length mixed with random letters, one of the words is the correct password. You can simply select a word at random and it will tell you the amount of letters you got correct - that means lets say the pass word is "WAR" and you chose "FAR" you would get 2/3 letters correct because both words contain the letters " A and R ". You have 4 attempts to succesffully hack a terminal and higher the difficulty the longer the word. Before your last try of hacking the terminal you can just exit the terminal and re-try.
Strategies For Successful HackingChoose the first word on the screen and count the letters, go down the list and select the word that has the same number of letters in common, then just compare common letters with other words and you will eventually get it.
Just randomly pick words and make sure you don't lock your self out of the terminal
Just like the random just pay attention to the letters that correct and match it up instead of randomly guessing.
Note: There are other methods out there but from experience I find these the most efficient way to get the job done.Source and more in-depth information:
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