Devious Devices Escape Overhaul 0.6.3

This is an in-development mod. Please, read the notes section.

I've never quite liked the way DD framework handled escaping from devices. It puts me out of controls as a player. Then I had my time playing with the mod "Devious Lore" which provided a good alternative, putting me back in control. However, I didn't feel fully satisfied with it so I've decided to create a mod that would handle escaping (and escaping only).

Current features:

• By pressing a configurable hotkey you can open an escape menu. There you can choose what device you want to escape from.

• Three supported ways of escaping from a device: unlocking with a key, struggling out of a device, or picking its lock.

• To unlock a device, you must succeed in a minigame. You have to balance a key in order to unlock a device via a minigame.

• Struggling is implemented as a minigame where you are supposed to guess in which direction you should move your body to weaken the device by pressing W, A, S, and D. Each attempt to guess costs you a bit of stamina. Failing or succeeding to struggle out of a device exhausts your character (configurable).

• Picking the lock is implemented as an actual Skyrim's lockpicking minigame! Beware that you have only one shot at picking a lock before failing. Breaking the lockpick may jam the lock.

• Lock repairing minigame.

• Difficulty and availability of all escape methods are based on DD's settings as well as various settings provided by this mod.

• Wrist restraints (also known as heavy bondage) can be configured to prevent certain ways of escaping from them. They can also block ALL lockpicking.

• Blindfolds and bondage mittens can make it harder (or even impossible) to escape in certain ways.

• NPCs can assist player in escaping from a device (not fully finished).

Requirements

Devious devices 5.0 and its requirements.

Notes

• The mod is currently in a relatively early stage of its development. Expect bugs to happen. Escaping from devices may feel too easy or too hard because I didn't spend a lot of time balancing the difficulty. Try adjusting DD's difficulty levels to your liking and see if it helps.
• Although the mod is called an overhaul, it doesn't modify DD framework itself (almost). The standard way of escaping devices is still there.
• The mod supports only generic devices. Non-generic and quest devices aren't properly supported for obvious reasons (you can enable a setting to bypass them, but it is recommended to do so only if a mod explicitly suggest that you have to struggle out of a device).

Known issues

• Devices with lock shields aren't normally supported. Unfortunately, it is a limitation cause by DD framework.
• Lock timers aren't supported. This means that if a timer elapses, this mod won't recognise it. Unfortunately, it is a limitation cause by DD framework.

Planned features (these are supposed to be added at some point of time in the future, priority order)

• Finish NPC support
• Possibly add magical means of escape

Credits

@S.MayLeR - Russian translation