Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems [BUG] lock picking stopped working

I noticed today that lock picking has stopped working in SOME of my save games. it works fine in others but in my most recent saves the dexterity check screen stopped popping up.

I can click on a locked chest or door and select examine and disarm and they both work fine. disarm will pull of the dice to roll and everything but if i select lock pick than the character will move to the item, give me one of their audio cues but the dice screen doesn't pop up to roll to use a slight of hand/dexterity check to unlock it.

anyone know a workaround or how to fix this?
if not does anyone know what could cause this so when I go back to a working save and replay to the point i am now i don't end up in this same position?

It will sound like stupid question ... but do you have lockpicks?

lol i do. i almost added that in my original post because it was one of the first things i checked but yup, ive got dozens of them and in each characters inventory too

It happened to me when i had them on different character that was too far away, so i thought it might be simmilar misstake.
But okey.

I would recomend to send them all to your lockpicker anyway, just so game dont try to get it from someone else ... but if you believe this is not the case, sadly that is the only suggestion i have. :-/

found work around. larian responded to a bug report! Its odd but it works! I just had to talk to gale while attempting to lock pick. you go to the container and attempt the pick. nothing will happen then have the lock picking character go to gale and start dialogue. the dex check will pop up and then the dialogue options. exit the conversation and roll. then wash rinse repeat for future locks. not ideal but it works till they can patch it.

I will say that Larian are actually very good at responding to formal bug reports when you use their official bug form; I might speak harshly about their communication in other ways, but I've never had a complaint with their bug report handling - it's very attentive.

I found that if I go up to the locked item and open my inventory then select/use my thieving toolkit while in my inventory it will initiate the lock pick attempt