Difficulty treasure chests harder?

Ibura

Is the difficulty of opening chests harder now? I seem to be unable to open intermediate chests, I had no problem before when I found them.

The lockpicks break a lot, mostly can put two out of the five thingies in place, but unable to open even after several tries.

Anyone experiencing the same?

Tremulous

I think they broke something with them. The tumbers seem to be out of sync with their animations.

nerevarine1138

I'm not, but my understanding is that people who were using their other mouse button to click instead of releasing the held button are having issues.

vyndral13preub18_ESO

Well they took all the difficulty out of the VR zones, it had to go somewhere.

Ibura

Ah, I will test that tomorrow if I find one, Nerevarine, thanks for the tip!

moxiesauce

didn't notice any changes, IMO they are all extremely simple and need to be a challenge. WTB more master chests.

theyancey

I've had more difficulty as well. More broken picks too.

UrQuan

Based on my own experience (and what others have said in a different thread), clicking the right mouse button to release the pick no longer works properly - there is a significant lag (often enough for your pick to break). I've also noticed some lag when releasing the pick by releasing the left mouse button, but far less.

Either way, picking locks is much harder now because the controls no longer allow for precise timing, making it require more luck than it did before.

UrQuan

moxiesauce wrote: »

didn't notice any changes, IMO they are all extremely simple and need to be a challenge. WTB more master chests.

The problem is that it's not "more of a challenge" it's "let's hope that I don't get lag." Making it randomly decide how soon after you release the button to actually release the pick doesn't add any element of challenge, it adds an element of pure luck.

Chuggernaut

I've haven't noticed a difficulty change, but I too would also like to find higher difficulty chest. Aside from one Intermediate chest last night, they have all been simple for weeks now.

Royalroacho

Tremulous wrote: »

I think they broke something with them. The tumbers seem to be out of sync with their animations.

I think thats the case. It seems like the window of opportunity is just before the animation now

Surliman

The only one I've run into prior to patch was an "advanced". All I've seen so far (Only level 10) are simples. Haven't had any problem with those.

Humor

Ibura wrote: »

Is the difficulty of opening chests harder now? I seem to be unable to open intermediate chests, I had no problem before when I found them.

The lockpicks break a lot, mostly can put two out of the five thingies in place, but unable to open even after several tries.

Anyone experiencing the same?

Put the "bottle" down, it might help.

Nestor

There are animation issues with the lock picks, it is definitely harder to set the pin, and when the pin does not set, the pick pops into place not over the pin in question, but to the side. I barely got a Simple Chest open last night, and those I have been able to do before with half the timer bar left.

UrQuan

I was picking a few locks before work this morning, and paying closer attention, and I think I now understand what the post-update issue is. The animations aren't synced properly. If you listen and release the picks based on the sound, you'll still be able to pick the locks just fine, but the tumbler animations aren't synced up properly and lag by varying degrees, along with the pick animations. So when it seemed like there was lag between when I released the pick and when the pick actually released, there wasn't really any lag in the game recognizing it - just in the animation. Likewise, when I released the pick based on the animation I was actually releasing it too late, because it wasn't synced up. By releasing based on sound only, I'm able to pick locks basically as easily as before the the update.

istateres

On a side note (well chest releated), is anyone getting Advanced or higher chests? If so, are the items better than Intermediate level chests? Seems to me the loot is worse in Advanced than Intermediate chests.

nerevarine1138

istateres wrote: »

On a side note (well chest releated), is anyone getting Advanced or higher chests? If so, are the items better than Intermediate level chests? Seems to me the loot is worse in Advanced than Intermediate chests.

Higher difficulty chests just have a better chance of dropping blue/purple loot. It doesn't mean they will.

Cody

if you click the mouse button, instead of releasing the left, its harder. I have more trouble picking simple level chests than I use to.

UrQuan

NookyZooky wrote: »

if you click the mouse button, instead of releasing the left, its harder. I have more trouble picking simple level chests than I use to.

Yeah, I'm no longer able to get clicking the right mouse button to work accurately (that's what I always did pre-update), but I haven't tried that method while only paying attention to the sound and ignoring the animation. Maybe my timing was just badly off with it because I was looking at the animation.

Reiterpallasch

I didn't even know clicking the right mouse button instead of releasing the left was a thing.

UrQuan

Reiterpallasch wrote: »

I didn't even know clicking the right mouse button instead of releasing the left was a thing.

Pre-update it was a much more accurate way of getting the pick to release exactly when you wanted it to (at least I found it much more precise). Now, not so much.

SirAndy

A lot of people are complaining since the update but for me it seems to work just as it did before the update.

Not sure what is going on ...

Ibura

I have found a couple of intermediate again today and i can confirm that only using the left mouse button to open the chests makes it possible to do so. Before I used the left mouse button to activate and the right mouse button to lock the seperate mechanisms. I have to get used to this

SirAndy

That would indeed explain this since i have never used the right mouse button at all when lockpicking.