| Description | Currently, auto lock picking is punishing towards the player, because it requires at least two failed attempts per pin.
It seems more like a prank setting than something genuine.
The default "tdm_lp_autopick_attempts" value is 3, which means it will succeed on the fourth failed attempt per pin.
Changing the "tdm_lp_autopick_attempts" value to 1 will succeed on the second failed attempt.
Given several pins per lock, that's a long time to wait.
Why is this a problem?
1. Players who are hard of hearing may have trouble playing the lock picking mini-game.
2. Players who have trouble with auditory memory will have trouble with the mini-game.
3. Players who don't want to play the mini-game are forced to play it.
4. Players who want the lock picking behavior to match Thief are forced to play it.
Thief players complained about it: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152006&page=2
New Horizon replied to them: "Unfortunately it's not setup to allow only playing the cycle once. Not sure why. I would request having it default to only playing the cycle once on auto because it's really punishing the player to sit through a bunch of cycles just because they prefer not to use the mini-game version."
So, I propose changing the auto lock picking behavior to succeed on the first attempt by default.
Also, I propose that the "tdm_lp_pick_timeout" value match the expert value of "300", because the player needs an auditory cue for when to change lock picks. A longer timeout doesn't provide that cue well enough. |
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