This is kinda annoying, honestly… does someone know what’s up? Do you HAVE to do the knockout or something? I haven’t been able to get that to work yet either. Everyone always breaks out (xbox one for reference).
lock picking is broken for me on PC (remapping the controls via the in-game “controls” UI seams to brake the ability to turn the lock despite the UI tool-tip which button it is to turn the lock).
and why do I need to knock people unconscious, I am not playing as a thief, its also not what the info tip for that skill says (at lest that last time I looked at it).
Go to Privslavitz and do stealth there, crouch and kill. Try killing all ~27 Cuman/Bandits without being seen or heard. You’ll get plenty of stealth skill while doing so. We’re black clothes and soft shoes.
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You can’t stealth kill until the level 5 perk… and I can’t get any stealth xp… level 0. xp 0. cannot do.
Simply sneaking does not appear to level your stealth ability but accomplishing stealthy acts such as picking locks pickpocket and knocking people out.
So far I have had the best success leveling my stealth by following random farmers sneaking (make sure your clothing gives no noise) and knock them out. this has had no effect on my reputation and its a nice way to get a few groshen and stealth experience.
I also train my stealth by picking peoples pockets while they are asleep.
Stealth combat does not appear to increase stealth skill, but rather the stealth based skills.
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You can also go to the miller Peschek. he offers a training for stealth and lock picking. but it costs groshen
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No but you can knock them unconscious and then stab them.
Wow… they really need to fix that. That is terrible if you’re playing a “good” character who doesn’t steal
Stealth killing is considered dishonorable though so either way if your trying to stealth kill it would go against you playing as a “good” character.
Don’t forget that the game gives NPC’s an option to give up and surrender, you can choose to be merciful and let them live. Alternatively you can be dishonorable and kill them.
Stealing from innocents, corpse-robbing, and other such “not-good” acts are not necessarily the same as stabbing someone who participates in the slaughter of innocents. What the game and or times consider honorable matters less than my personal view of what my character’s compunctions are, so if I backstab a few of the worst arseholes in the world, so be it… Until someone my character respects tells him that’s “wrong”, there’s no reason for him not to. Growing up, you’re likely taught not to steal, or attack any innocents, but if the goal is to kill a whoresson, then there’s no reason to know that a specific method is wrong until told otherwise. It’s not like old dad likely said son don’t kill anyone, but if you do definitely don’t stab them in the back.
That being said, my response about killing was merely in regards to the suggestion to stealth kill a bunch of guys for xp.
I just want to be good at scouting, but I can’t do that without choking out, pickpocketing, or lockpicking… That seems a bit poorly designed in my opinion.
You can sneak around camps and gain stealth experience a believe.
Also, you don’t have to kill. You can sneak up on sleeping bandits and knock them unconscious while they are sleeping.
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Sneaking alone gives no xp. I’ve tried for days. I have about 20 stealth xp now because I’ve started picking locks and not opening the trunks.
Also, every time I’ve tried the knockout on an enemy that I’m right behind, whether they were asleep or awake, they instantly get out.
I uncovered the entire map, hunted all the Cuman/Bandit camps and posted them Here. Go to them and level up your stealth. Not too difficult.
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That shouldn’t be the case. I’m knocking people out regularly using it.
People suggesting I run to find bandits are clearly missing the point. I’d like to have at least a modicum of experience at being strealthy BEFORE heading off to find bandits. It’s not a hard concept to grasp.
As for the knockouts not working, I have no idea why but it always lets go. I’ve tried clicking the button, holding, etc and it never works no matter which method I try, and in the case of sleeping people (bandits), when I get to them and do knockout, they always slowly stand, get into position, then get grabbed and pop out, which makes no sense all around.
How much noise is your clothing making when you are doing this?
before you develop a solid base of stealth experience your noise makes a huge difference.
Early on I was getting mad because I couldn’t even knockout a sleeping person. I tried stripping down to the base underclothes noise registering at 0 and I had 0 issues from then on.
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I’ll look into that. I should have been between 12 and 14% due to the things I wear to drop conspic/vis much lower. My pasty skin and white underclothes are problematic so I have either leather or hunting gloves and hunting boots on, plus brown leggings, a brown shirt, a brown waffenfrock, and a black padded coif.
Is sound really what determines success in a choke out??? That seems pretty ridiculous. I just thought my agility character didn’t have enough strength with only 4.
it managed to knockout with lower noise… that is very illogical to me, but oh well I guess. Thank you McW.B.
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Think about it this way if your clothing on your body makes noise as you move your going to draw more attention to yourself.
When you make more noise the person you are attacking is more aware of you’re presence.
This would be more obvious if there was a visual cue as to how much attention you were drawing at the time, like in oblivion.
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Then they should see me… or look or something, not auto escape