Tricks to opening Lockboxes like in X3?

[BroncoGuy82]

Has any one had success in stopping the lockbox from spinning as much? used to stop it from moving at all in X3 by bumping it with the ship lightly. have tried it an nothing seems to slow it or affect it in any way.

any ideas would be much appreciated by all.

[Keris]

You can use SpaceSuit. It does minimal damage so tou need to hit one lock multiple times. So risk of destroying box is minimal. Yet i dont know about the ones with bombs. Also it have repair laser.

Only las lock i open wirh ship weapons... in case of mines when i need to run fast .

[PreSpawn]

One time, I tried bumping it multiple times, but it never completely stopped spinning. I haven't had luck to open one single lock with the suit laser ... how many times you have to shoot it?!
The only advice i can give is, wait for the right moment to shoot. And more importantly wait for alignment of the white dot with your reticle.
I recorded one very calm 5 minute approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnt344zQI4w

[fcth]

I've never seen one spin? Is this something new in 1.20? I thought I had done some since then?

[MutantDwarf]

I've never seen one spin? Is this something new in 1.20? I thought I had done some since then?

Some spin; others don't. Same with the number of locks - can be one, can be at least six, probably up to eight or more. Random.

[radcapricorn]

Err, there weren't "lockboxes" in X3. You meant Rebirth, of course

[Tyrant597]

Place your ship in "front" of the container, so it runs into you, counteracting its rotation. I was able to slow one down enough, at least.
Or fire a beam weapon constantly just outside where one of the locks will pass by it, and slowly move it towards the crate til it hits the lock.
Or use Ion weapons that do very little hull damage, so less chance of blowing it up if you miss the lock.

[GCU Grey Area]

Have found mining laser is quite effective for shooting the locks.
Damage output is minimal, which good thing in those cases where I'm not quite as accurate as I'd like to be (i.e. most of the time).
Was pretty hopeless at opening the spinning boxes with conventional weapons, the mining laser however gives much more margin for error.

[karjak]

i found a really fast spinning lockbox with 8 locks on it and it was on 8% health, first used my repair laser to repair it to 100% and then the space suit gun to shoot the locks off. It just takes patience....