About This File
Armor benches throughout the Commonwealth now include an automated lockpicking function that can remove restraints from Devious Devices, Kziitd Fetish Toolset, and Real Handcuffs.
Devious Devices Armorbench Unlocker
Why would I want this?
I find myself cheating out of DD restraints a lot. There, I said it. After many many (many) hours spent struggling free of yokes or hopping back to Goodneighbor to buy a new key, I find I often just add a key to my inventory via console and go on my way. Boring? Yes, but better than spending a long, grueling hour sneaking across the map, only to have my new keys stolen again in short order. I want the sudden, non-consensual application of DD to have a notable effect on my gameplay... but my upper threshold for that effect is lower than it used to be.
Enter DDBU, a compromise with myself. The Commonwealth sports a large number of pre-built armor benches in towns, dungeons, and abandoned buildings. With the right perks and a working settlement, you can scatter your own armor benches throughout the map as well. Finding your way to the nearest armor bench is a much more balanced proposition than the alternative, especially if you've been paying attention to your surroundings. Those random armor benches inside buildings and dungeons are no longer useless; they're a safety point to free yourself from bad situations. As an added feature, I find it gives me a new reason to build up settlement locations that I might otherwise ignore.
Isn't there another mod with a similar effect?
Sort of but not entirely. Real Handcuffs lets you use an owned workshop to cut open handcuffs (which, let's be honest, is where I got the idea in the first place). A couple other mods like Sexual Harassment and Boston Devious Helper use NPCs to unlock your devious devices. Plus of course Sex Attributes lets you spend an internal stat (willpower) to open DD restraints.
Features and Other Gritty Details
You can unlock your restraints at both owned and unowned armor benches. Owned benches are those appearing in settlements you control. Unowned benches are those in towns, dungeons, or the open world. Owned benches are free to use and have no restrictions. Unowned benches cost caps for every device you unlock. If you find yourself short of caps, you can try giving the machine a little “percussive maintenance”. With luck, you might bypass the collection routine and unlock your restraints for free! Or you might trigger the anti-tampering measures. Choose wisely!
Both types of armor bench can unlock all Devious Devices and Kziitd Fetish Toolset restraints, as well as handcuffs from Real Handcuffs. However, shock collars from Real Handcuffs use an electronic locking mechanism that cannot be picked via mechanical means; thus, shock collars cannot be unlocked at armor benches.
DDBU includes the following MCM settings:
Mod On/Off: Master switch that will disable armor bench unlocking entirely.
Bench Ownership Fee Behavior: Affects the relationship between bench ownership and fees. The options are Original (i.e. standard behavior, where owned benches are free but unowned benches charge), All Benches Charge, and All Benches Free.
Unlocking Fee Structure: Pricing structure for unlocking items at unowned bench. Options include Flat Fee (fixed amount of caps per item), Scaled To Level (amount of caps multiplied by player level), and Percentage Rate (portion of player's total caps or minimum fee, whichever is greater).
Fees at Unowned Bench: Price (in caps) for unlocking each device at an unowned armor bench. This is a fixed amount for Flat Fee, caps per level for Scaled To Level, and minimum fee for Percentage Rate.
Percent of Total Caps: Portion of player's caps that will be charged per item when Percentage Rate fee structure is chosen.
Bypass Success Mult.: The percent chance of bypassing unlock fees at an unowned bench is calculated from player strength multiplied by this MCM value.
Anti-Tampering Chance: When the player is trying to bypass the unlocking fee at an unowned bench, this value is the percent chance of triggering anti-tampering measures.
Percent HP Anti-Tampering Damage: Percentage of player's max health dealt by anti-tampering measures.
Lethal Anti-Tampering: Allow or prevent anti-tampering damage from killing the player.
Arousal Penalty: Anti-tampering measures will cause an increase in arousal stat. Requires Sex Attributes mod.
Submissiveness Penalty: Anti-tampering measures will cause a decrease in dom/sub stat. Requires Sex Attributes mod.
Photo Chance: Percent chance that anti-tampering measures will capture a photo of the “vandal”, and then transmit that photo (of you, in bondage) to the “local constabulary”. Where will the photo actually end up?? Requires Sexual Harassment mod.
Hard Requirements
-Vanilla Fallout 4 (no DLCs needed)
-Devious Devices (hard requirement)
-MCM, for mod settings and overall function.
Optional Requirements
-Kziitd Fetish Toolset (KFT DD Compatability Patch recommended). If installed, KFT devices can be removed in the same manner as other DD devices.
-Real Handcuffs. If installed, handcuffs can be removed in the same manner as DD wrist cuffs.
-Sex Attributes. If installed, certain stat penalties can occur after percussive maintenance failure.
-Sexual Harassment. If installed, “nude” photos of you might end up in circulation after percussive maintenance failure.
Known Issues
-Ownership of an armor bench requires a linked, player-controlled workshop. Many “player housing” additions lack a workshop, which means pre-existing armor benches in these areas will probably be treated as unowned. In these cases, I suggest temporarily turning the unlock fees to zero.
-Unlock fees for KFT items with multiple locks (e.g. wrists and ankles simultaneously) will include a charge for each lock when using “Unlock All”.
-Individual KFT locks cannot be opened without the KFT DD Compatability Patch. “Unlock All” still works though.
My Thanks To
-Kimy for making Devious Devices, and Kharos for making Real Handcuffs: the two gold standards of FO4 playtime toys.
-Egoballistic and kziitd for the astonishing and amazing Kziitd Fetish Toolset.
-Nexus CK/Modder forums, whose search functions answered basically all of my latest questions without having to actually post any new threads.
-Special thanks to the AAF Help discord for their assistance past, present, and future.
-Honorable mention to Saya_Scarlett for the often thankless work of maintaining the AAF Fucking Manual.
Permissions
Feel free to re-post, re-host, patch, translate, and/or incorporate into your own mods as long as the result is freely available and not paywalled. Just give credit back to me and the original LL post. No support offered for sites outside of LL.
Edited by spicydoritos
Version 1.08 update
What's New in Version 1.08
Released
v. 1.08
-Added support for unlocking Kziitd Fetish Toolset devices.
v. 1.07
-Improved handling of restraints when Real Handcuffs is installed without the DD Compatibility plugin.
-DD mittens, straitjackets, and similar will no longer prevent the armor bench from being used to unlock restraints.
v. 1.06
-NOTICE: This version is ESL-flagged, and may be safely used to update version 1.04 or higher. This warning will not appear on future versions; all will be ESL-flagged.
-Added an MCM toggle that affects the relationship between bench ownership and fees. The options are Original (i.e. standard behavior, where owned benches are free but unowned benches charge), All Benches Charge, and All Benches Free.
v. 1.05
-NOTICE: This version is ESL-flagged, and may be safely used to update version 1.04 or higher.
-Added new unlocking fee options for unowned benches. There are now three choices: flat fee, scaled to level, and percentage rate. Flat Fee works the same as before, where unlocking one item costs a fixed amount of caps. Scaled To Level is similar except the selected fee is multiplied by player's level. Percentage Rate takes a portion of your total caps (or minimum fixed fee, whichever is larger) for each item.
-Damage dealt by percussive maintenance failure is now a percentage of total health, which may be set in the MCM menu.
-Percussive maintenance failure has new optional integration with Sex Attributes and Sexual Harassment. Failure might increase your arousal, decrease your dom/sub orientation, and/or cause the machine to distribute indecent photos. Note: these mods are not required unless you wish to use the integration features.
-Increased max slider value for Bypass Success Mult. (i.e. chance of bypassing unlock fee with percussive maintenance).
v. 1.04
-Converted to ESL-flagged ESP
-Packed into FOMOD for correct version display in modern mod managers
WARNING: I advise installing on a new game, or at least a game that had no DDBU version before 1.04. Otherwise there will be remnants from the non-ESL DDBU version and its effects may not work correctly.
v. 1.03
-Added a kick idle to “percussive maintenance” attempts. This tacks on a bit of flavor while also tamping down the ability to spam the PM option endlessly.
-Cleaned up masters (thanks for catching that oversight, @Nebuchadnezzer2!).
V. 1.02
-Fixed a minor script error that would not properly check for RH collar keyword at unowned bench when wearing other items.
