Lockpicking & Hotwiring

These features provide a unique way of breaking into private vehicles with minimum usage of chat commands. Both systems have a help text that appears on the screen if H is pressed as described during the process.

Instructions

Rotate the lockpick and probe for a solution by holding the left mouse button and inspecting the stiffness and resistance of your lockpick.

Once close to a solution, your lockpick will twitch less and you will hear fewer sounds of resistance from inside of the cylinder. Once this is the case, hold the left

mouse button even longer, to drive the lockpick in and loosen the internal pin.

Continue the procedure, until all pins inside the cylinder have lost their tension (circular progress).

Be careful with your lockpick, pressing for too long against too much resistance will break it.

Anti-theft

Of course, better locks and anti-theft hardware provide a more difficult experience for the lockpicker.

The lockpick will be prone to taking damage on quality locks and in general finding the pin will be more difficult as the width of the spot for a solution will decrease.

More advanced alarm systems trigger once someone or something touches their lock mechanism, so be wary of highly secured vehicles.

Breaking your pin and letting the mechanism fall back will likely (random chance based event) result in setting off the alarm as well.

Commands

/vbreakin - To start lockpicking a vehicle door.

/hotwire - To start lockpicking the engine-ignition

A-Key & D-Key - To rotate the lockpick.

Left Mouse Button - To stick the lockpick in and try to rotate the Cylinder.

F4 - To abort the lockpicking.