Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines: How to Lockpick

Lockpicking in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines allows you to enter places that maybe you shouldn’t. We’ll break down how this works and tell you how to make your character better at it.

How to Lockpick in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines

Lockpicking in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is fairly simple. Unlike in other games, there’s no minigame or anything like that for lockpicking. Lockpicking is entirely a stat check in this game.

To lockpick, you’ll require a lockpick first of all. You get a free one from the tutorial. If you skip the tutorial, you can buy a lockpick from Trip’s Pawnshop in Santa Monica. It costs $90 to buy.

When you finally have a lockpick, though, you just have to approach whatever you wish to lockpick. Interact with what you want to lockpick and your character will start lockpicking it automatically. If your character is skilled enough for the lock, they will successfully pick the lock. Be careful that you aren’t caught by other characters when attempting to lockpick, however.

Making your Character Better at Lockpicking

Your character’s lockpicking ability is governed by their Dexterity Attribute and Security Ability. Basically, your lockpicking ability is a combination of both stats. For example, 3 Dexterity and 3 Security combine to give you a lockpicking skill of 6. They both also carry the same weight, so 5 Dexterity and 1 Security would also give you a lockpicking skill of 6. You can increase these stats by leveling up or finding manuals across the game world.