I am playing a Rogue, and while Lockpicking is theoretically one of the skills I'm supposed to be using, I'm basically ignoring it. It's not just because Lockpicking is bugged in this version and is harder to use.
It's not just because there are essentially ZERO lockpicks in the game after the Tutorial dungeon. It's because it seems like everything in the world which is locked has a key somewhere, usually nearby.
When I come across a locked thing I can't open, my instinct is not "I should lockpick this", it's "The key must be nearby". Because of this, even if I do ever come across chests or doors that actually need to be lockpicked, I'll probably ignore trying to lockpick them, and keep on thinking that there's a key I must have missed. If Lockpicking is to have any value at all, there has to be enough stuff around that is locked and has no key to pick up.
Spoiler-ridden feedback for the Church area quests:
- The church immaculates namedrop Thelyron when the Source Hunters show up... and when you go to the Gravediggers hut and read Thelyron' diary, the Source Hunters are so shocked that Thelyron is a bad guy. Uh... they kinda said so in the Church. There can't be that many people called Thelyron in Cyseal.
- The gravedigger's hut is suffering from the same thing that Evelyn's house used to: Alt-Highlighting spoilers. Early on you can go by there and see Thelyron's name plastered on a few things, which tells that he has a secret, plus there's also a letter addressed to the Conduit, which you know from Evelyn's similar letter is the bad guy group. Put that stuff into chests or on shelves, please, so that isn't given away until you reach the church.
- There seems to be a series of journal entries missing from this questline. There's nothing telling you to go under the altar, nothing telling you to go talk to Thelyron (aside from the characters out-loud prompts. I went to Thelyron's home and found the back door open, a suspicious grave with an unreadable tombstone. Digging the tombstone up comes with two warnings and blows you up if you ignore them. So I didn't dig, but searching the house seemed to find nothing. I am now out of leads, and I have no journal entries hinting at what I should do. Maybe I missed something or didn't search enough. I can try again tomorrow.
