Lockpicking Deus Ex 1

Lockpicking is a Deus Ex 1 skill in Ion Storm's cRPG of 2000, Deus Ex 1. Lockpicking is a useful utility skill in Deus Ex 1 but there is no need to increase the skill above Advanced since lockpicks are generously itemized.

Lockpicking Description

Lockpicking is as much an art as it is a skill, and with intense study lockpicking can be mastered by any agent with patience and a set of lockpicks.

Lockpicking Ranks

Lockpicking Untrained: 10%, 1x Lockpick. An agent can pick locks (0.10).
Lockpicking Trained (1,800 skillpoints): 25%, 1x Lockpick. The efficiency with which an agent picks locks is increases slightly (0.25).
Lockpicking Advanced (3,600 skillpoints): 40%, 1x Lockpick. The efficiency with which an agent picks locks is increases moderately (0.40).
Lockpicking Master (6,000 skillpoints): 75%, 1x Lockpick. An agent can defeat almost any mechanical lock (0.75).

Lockpick Deus Ex 1

A disposable lockpick. The tension wrench is steel, but appropriate needles are formed from fast congealing polymers.

Here's what they don't tell you: despite the product literature, you can use a standard lockpick to bypass all but the most high-class nanolocks. -- Alex Jacobson.

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