If you want the best legendary gear in The Outer Worlds 2, then High-Security Lockboxes are what you should be looking at. These special containers are scattered across different planets and regions, each hiding powerful weapons, armor, or unique gadgets. In this guide, we will show you all 17 High-Security Lockbox locations and what legendary gear you will find inside.
All 17 High Security Lockbox Locations (Legendary Gear)
Every time you pick up a lockbox, it’s automatically sent to the hangar of your ship, The Incognito. To open them, you will need Advanced Decryption Keys. You can buy a few of these keys from vendors, but most are found by exploring thoroughly and checking hidden spots. It’s worth the effort these containers often hold valuable loot like powerful weapons and armor pieces, many of which come with unique mods and special perks. Read our guide on “All Advanced Decryption Keys Location in The Outer Worlds 2” to know more.
Manager’s Tasking Hat
In Fairfield, there’s a lockbox hidden in the basement you will visit during The Mystifying Case of the Midnight Marauder quest. After wrapping up the investigation near the greenhouse where you will spot an Auntie’s Choice trooper in a cowboy hat go inside the building and grab the note that’s fallen off the fridge. Use it with the computer to unseal the basement door.
Downstairs, you will find the Manager’s Tasking Hat, which grants Inspiring Authority marking enemies you hit so your companions focus their attacks on them, while also reducing the damage those enemies deal to your team. The effect scales with your Speech skill.
Tactical-Trajectile Defense-Dome
Head west across Paradise Island to find the Ministry of Accuracy. Explore the entire facility until you reach a sealed room near the end. There’s a lockbox sitting on a table next to an extra Advanced Decryption Key. Inside, you will discover the Tactical-Trajectile Defense-Dome, which provides the Safety Sphere ability automatically destroying incoming projectiles at the cost of your own energy. A real lifesaver when you’re under heavy fire.
Native Species
While doing The Lab That Shouted Incoherently and Often quest from Ormsby at the Eden’s Bounty Agricenter (east of Fairfield), you will be sent to collect spores from the Red Spires to the northwest. As you climb the hill past a Raptidon-infested camp, you will come across a small cave on the left.
Inside, near a limbless scientist and a lantern, you will find the lockbox. Inside is Native Species, a chest piece that comes with From Nowhere reducing your weapon sound radius by 25%, and up to 50% with higher Sneak skill. Perfect for stealthy players.
Remote Detonator
In the northwest corner of Westport, outside the city walls, look for the largest house in the second row. Take the stairs along the side to reach the upper floor, and you will find the lockbox on a desk. Opening it reveals the Remote Detonator, a sniper rifle that fires sticky explosive beacons. When you reload, every beacon you’ve fired detonates with the blast damage scaling according to your Explosives skill. It’s a devastating weapon for players who like planning their shots.
Murder’s Best Friend
In the far north of Paradise Island lies the Raptidon Den. As you explore, look for a body lit by a nearby lamp. The lockbox is right beside it. Inside, you will find Murder’s Best Friend, a deadly sentry blade. Its perk, Killing Spree, coats the weapon in blood after every stealth kill, boosting your damage and movement speed while crouched. Stack it three times and your footsteps become completely silent. Ideal for assassins who prefer staying unseen.
Auto Hacker 5000
Inside the main building of the Vox Relay, head into the contraband storage area and check the caged section on the left. The lockbox inside contains the Auto Hacker 5000, a volt machine gun that can Scramble Automechs turning them against their allies. The chance of scrambling increases based on your Hack skill and the enemy’s electrocution stacks. It’s chaos in gun form.
Bowlzerker
Up in the western region of Golden Ridge, near the top of the Guardian Estates, there’s a train station. Step inside and check the booth to your right to find the lockbox. Inside is the Bowlzerker helmet, which gives you the Brawler perk increasing your damage by 20% for three seconds every time you take a melee hit. Great for aggressive brawlers who love trading blows.
The Lonesome Ranger
Head to the refugee settlement in the far west of Golden Ridge, near the Guardian Estates. As you enter the camp, look for the first house on your left that’s where the lockbox is. Inside lies The Lonesome Ranger helmet, which grants Between the Eyes: while in combat, your damage steadily increases by 33% every two seconds as long as you’re not attacking, reloading, or swapping weapons (up to three stacks). It rewards patience; the longer you wait, the harder you hit.
The Bullet Blender
In the far northeast corner of Praetor lies the Scrapper Camp, where you will find the Grounding Tower Replacement Part during your mission. The lockbox here is tucked inside an open shipping-container-like structure with a workbench nearby. Unlock it to claim The Bullet Blender, an assault rifle that never needs to reload and can use any type of bullet you have. It’s the ultimate all-purpose gun just hold the trigger and watch everything in front of you disappear.
Dead Man’s Jacket
You can get this item from a High-Security Lockbox that needs five Advanced Decryption Keys to open. The lockbox is tucked away inside the Automech Hangar at the Euphoria Coast Automech Repair Center. Before you head in, make sure you’ve completed the quest “An Aegis Against the Miasma.”
That’s how you will get the Gas-Energy Deflection Apparatus, a gadget that protects you from the toxic Zyranium gas leaking throughout the hangar. To reach the lockbox, you can either hack the terminal to unlock the main door or take the vent by the ramp to sneak inside.
Scrutinizers Eye
You will come across this lockbox while exploring the N-Ray Range during the main questline in the Golden Ridge region. Once you make it down to sub-level 2, look to your right there’s an elevator that leads back up to the top of the facility. The container you’re looking for is tucked away on the side of a small room nearby.
Inside, you will find the Scrutinizer’s Eyepiece, a useful mod that comes with Critical Exploit. It lets you weaken strong enemies 5% faster up to 25% with a higher Observation skill and gives you a +30% critical hit chance against enemies that are already weak.
A New Point of View MK2
Go towards the Arbitrary Measures; you will need to search the camps on the left side. Inside the camp you will find the lockbox containing the A New Point of View MK2
Merciless Master
Inside the Cold Storage, go towards the main control panel. At the corner of the computer, you will find the lock box lying on the floor.
Gunner’s Mobile Turret Suit
As you progress through the main story, you will eventually make your way into an area called Cold Storage. While exploring inside, keep an eye out for a lockbox that requires Advanced Decryption Keys to open. Inside, you will find the Gunner’s Mobile Turret Suit, a powerful piece of armour that automatically reloads ammo into your weapon over time, with the speed depending on your Guns skill.
Shadow Hacker
Go to the location marked on the map above. You will need to move through the broken rail to reach the upper platform. You will need to double jump between the platforms. You will find the lock box beside the dead body.
Auntie’s Acidic Dematerializer
Right after you wake up from the prologue, head into the hold of The Incognito. Valerie will hand you your first Advanced Decryption Key, which unlocks a nearby lockbox. Inside, you will find Auntie’s Acidic Dematerializer, a nasty little weapon that melts corpses into nothingness. It’s the perfect tool for anyone who doesn’t like leaving evidence behind.
Valerie’s Mod Kit
There’s another lockbox aboard The Incognito that you can open later, once you start Valerie’s A Healthy Improvement companion quest. You will need four Advanced Decryption Keys to open it. Unlocking this box is actually part of Valerie’s questline and helps you access new upgrades for her at the workbench, making her even more effective in combat.
