Unlock hidden treasures and gain powerful gear by discovering every high security lockbox scattered across The Outer Worlds 2. This guide reveals their secret locations, helping you crack the toughest safes crafted by Obsidian Entertainment’s masterminds. Ready to boost your loot and dominate the new frontier?
How to open high security lockboxes in The Outer Worlds 2
In The Outer Worlds 2, opening high security lockboxes requires either a high lockpicking skill or finding the corresponding key. Players can improve their lockpicking ability by investing points in the Tech or Lockpicking skill trees or equipping gear that boosts these stats. Alternatively, exploring thoroughly and completing side quests can reward you with keys that unlock these secure chests, ensuring access to valuable loot and resources.
Before you can start looking for high security lockboxes,you should know that advanced decryption keys are required to open them. Advanced decryption keys are rare items, and you can obtain them from multiple sources. Some are sold by vendors in major cities. Others are hidden in locked rooms or just lying around on the floor of a Protectorate facility.
You want to acquire as many advanced decryption keys as you can because you’ll need multiple to open one lockbox. The lowest quantity required for one box is four, but there are some that you can only open if you have eight advanced decryption keys.
To open a lockbox, visit your ship, and check the station with all the boxes next to the exit gate. You can choose which one you will open by pressing the arrow buttons beside the lockbox.
Where to find high security lockboxes in The Outer Worlds 2
In The Outer Worlds 2, high security lockboxes are scattered throughout key locations such as corporate facilities, high-level enemy bases, and secret research labs. Players can often find them in restricted areas guarded by tougher enemies or hidden behind puzzles. Exploring these dangerous zones thoroughly and using hacking or lockpicking skills will grant access to valuable loot stored inside these lockboxes.
You can find lockboxes basically anywhere in the game, making the task of tracking all of them quite difficult. Once you find one, just interact with it, and it will be added to your inventory.
This is still a work in progress, and we will update the list once we find more boxes. Below you find a list of items you obtain by opening high security lockboxes and where to find them in The Outer Worlds 2.
- VALERIE’s Mod Kit (Paradise Island)
- Tactical Trajectile Defense-Dome (Paradise Island)
- Dead Man’s Jacket (Paradise Island)
- Manager’s Tasking Hat (Paradise Island)
- Remote Detonator (Paradise Island)
- Native Species (Paradise Island)
- Murder’s Best Friend (Paradise Island)
- Auto-Hacker 5,000 (Paradise Island)
- Bowlzerker (Golden Ridge)
- The Lonesome Ranger (Golden Ridge)
VALERIE’s Mod Kit (Paradise Island)
The first lockbox you receive in the game gives you VALERIE’s Mod Kit, which you need to upgrade your personal robot. It’s added to your inventory automatically, so you just need to be in your ship to find it waiting to be opened, which requires four keys.
Tactical Trajectile Defense-Dome (Paradise Island)
You need five keys to open the Tactical Trajectile Defense-Dome’s lockbox. To find it, you must explore the main building of the Ministry of Accuracy (west side of Paradise Island).
Once in the area, go west to find the tallest building, where you want to find the room further in the back and start climbing. Use the ladders and pipes to get to the top until eventually you can drop inside the room where the lockbox is located.
Dead Man’s Jacket (Paradise Island)
You must have five advanced decryption keys to open the Dead Man’s Jacket’s lockbox. This one is located inside the Euphoria Automech Center, a facility on the east side of Paradise Island.
You will find the box on a rack inside a locked room in the main hangar. You can hack the door to open it, but if you don’t have the level to do so, you can use the venting tube in the opened area and emerge right in front of the box.
While you can obtain this lockbox during the “Vanquishing the Vexing Vapors” side mission, you can go back and grab it later if you have access to the facility.
Manager’s Tasking Hat (Paradise Island)
You can only find the lockbox that gives you the Manager’s Tasking Hat after completing “The Mystifying Case of the Midnight Marauder” side quest in Fairfield. This quest is given by Officer Warren, who you find near the greenhouse. You need four keys to open this box.
Progress in the quest to unlock the hidden cellar where the lockbox is located.
Remote Detonator (Paradise Island)
The Remote Detonator is located inside a house on the northwest side of Westport. From the Westport fast travel, go northwest to find a house with the door blocked by crabble eggs. On the outside, you find a ramp on the left side of the building that gives you access to the upper floor, where you will find the lockbox. If you plan on opening this box, be prepared since it requires eight advanced decryption keys.
Native Species (Paradise Island)
If you go northwest of Westport, always heading upwards, you can find an area filled with red spores and Raptidons ready to devour you. Below a large rock – and guarded by a Raptidon Colossus – you find the Native Species lockbox, and opening it requires five keys. You can quickly find the place when completing “The Lab that Shouted Incoherently and Often” side quest.
Murder’s Best Friend (Paradise Island)
You must have seven keys to open this lockbox. On the north side of the island and northwest of the Vox Relay Station, you can find the Raptidon Matriarch’s cave. To find the entrance, you want to approach it from the northwest side.
Once inside, you want to make your way to the southern part of the cave, where you find the largest chamber. There’s a corpse illuminated by a yellow light, and the lockbox is right beside it.
Auto-Hacker 5,000 (Paradise Island)
Progressing in the “The Saboteur of Paradise” main quest will inevitably take you to the Vox Relay Station, where you can find the lockbox with the Auto-Hacker 5,000, and you need seven keys to unlock it. You must collect this lockbox before progressing the quest, since the place becomes inaccessible later on.
When you’re inside, after having spoken to Marshal Corbin, you need to acquire an unutilized keycard by going to a corridor on the east wing. The Auto-Hacker 5,000 will be waiting near the box with the keycard.
Bowlzerker (Golden Ridge)
The lockbox holding Bowlzerker is in the Guardian Estates area, which is west of the landing pad in Golden Ridge. The place is crowded with enemies, so be prepared to fight. With the place clear of enemies, you want to enter the room on the east side, where you will find the box on a shelf. The Bowlzerker lockbox requires four advanced decryption keys.
The Lonesome Ranger (Golden Ridge)
To find the Lonesome Ranger lockbox, which requires four keys, you need to explore the refugee camp on the west side of Golden Ridge. The quickest way is to use the Guardian Estates fast travel and head west.
You end up visiting the area during the “Arbitrary Measures” side quest, which you need to complete to recruit Tristan as a companion. The lockbox is inside the building on the south side of the camp, beside the camp terminal.
List all High Security Lockbox rewards and tiers
Here is a comprehensive list of all High Security Lockbox rewards in The Outer Worlds 2 with their tiers and notable details:
High Security Lockbox Rewards and Tiers
| Lockbox Name | Location/Area | Required Advanced Decryption Keys | Reward Type | Reward Description |
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| Auntie’s Acidic Dematerializer | Incognito (first encounter) | N/A | Gadget | Device that dissolves enemy corpses |
| Manager’s Tasking Hat | Sentinel Lorenz’s cellar, Paradise Island | Armor (Hat) | Unique hat, requires side quest completion | |
| Tactical Trajectile Defense-Dome | Ministry of Accuracy, Paradise Island | Armor | Defensive dome armor gear | |
| Native Species | Cliff northwest of Westport, Paradise Island | Weapon | Unique weapon | |
| Dead Man’s Jacket | Ehoria Autch Center, Paradise Island | Armor (Jacket) | Unique jacket armor | |
| Murder’s Best Friend | Raptidon Den, Paradise Island | Weapon | Companion quest related unique weapon | |
| Remote Detonator | House in flooded Westport area, Paradise Island | Weapon | High-powered detonator weapon | |
| Auto Hacker 5000 | Vox Relay, Paradise Island | Varies (missable) | Gadget | Hacking device |
| Bowlzerker | Guardian Estates tram station, Golden Ridge | Weapon | Unique weapon | |
| Scrutinizer’s Eyepiece | N-Ray Range, Golden Ridge | Gear | Unique eyepiece gear | |
| A New Point of View | Mantisaur Mountain, Golden Ridge | Weapon | Cliffside weapon | |
| The Lonesome Ranger | Refugee Camp, Golden Ridge | Weapon | Weapon tied to side quest | |
| Merciless Master | Second-floor room, Newton | Unknown | Weapon | Unique weapon |
| Gunners Mobile Turret Suit | Cold Storage, Cloister Underlands | Unknown | Armor (Suit) | Mobile turret armor suit |
| Shadow Hacker | Reward for collecting all audio logs | N/A | Gadget | Special hacking gadget |
| Bullet Blender | Scrapper Camp near Lightning Tower, Praetor | Unknown | Weapon | Weapon found in scrapper camp |
| Menacing Mask | Mantisaur Nest, Dorado | Unknown |
Which lockbox rewards are tied to companion quests
Lockbox rewards tied to companion quests in The Outer Worlds 2 include:
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Valerie’s Mod Kit: This upgrade for the companion Valerie is obtained by opening a High Security Lockbox aboard the Incognito. Unlocking this lockbox and acquiring the mod kit is part of Valerie’s companion quest “A Healthy Improvement”.
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Lockboxes found during Tristan’s companion recruitment quest: One High Security Lockbox can be found in the refugee settlement that you visit with Tristan on Golden Ridge. This lockbox contains The Lonesome Ranger, a unique weapon, and is accessed as part of his quest-related exploration.
Other companion quests involve finding keys or lockboxes but do not necessarily provide direct lockbox rewards tied to those quests based on currently available information.
Thus, the most concretely tied lockbox reward is Valerie’s Mod Kit from her quest, and The Lonesome Ranger lockbox encountered during Tristan’s quest-related exploration. These are the notable companion-linked lockbox rewards confirmed.
