How do you use the wire cutter tool? I use Focus and see the wires, but when I approach them, there's no prompt to cut them. I figured they'd work the same as the wrench, which gets used automatically when you approach a grate or other object that requires that tool and interact with it. I also see wire junction boxes near the traps, however when I approach them nothing happens. What am I missing?
How to use the wire cutter tool
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Yes you can.
There is some loot you can't get to without taking damage if you don't have the wire cutters but you can reach the level goal without them.
After some time away from the game I saw things from a different perspective and figured out how to get to the goal a different way.
If you are stuck and can't figure it out:
You flip one of the switches, climb up the wall that the switch is on, walk over the cage careful to avoid the trap pressure plates up top and then drop down next to the other switch and flip it, avoiding the pressure plates that reset the switches. If you are in focus mode, the trap plates glow red and the ones that reset the switches glow blue. You need to be relatively quick but not nearly as perfect as the route under the stairs that I had previously been trying.
The savegames are nested. In the "load" mean I first had to select the current save slot:
Afterwards I got a list of all savegames, including one to restart the chapter:
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Best Answer
I finally figured it out. Use Focus to follow the wires for pressure plates, trunks, safes, etc. They'll sometimes lead you to a panel and when you interact with it, the wire cutters are automatically used to snip a wire and disable all of the traps attached to it. In some cases, this panel is several rooms away from the traps. The first one I encountered like this was in Oxheart Perry's residence for the Silence is Golden quest.