How to pickpocket more items at once?

[Vilda]

So I have 2 points in Efficiency and 1 in Dexterity, but it does not seem to do anything for me. When I turn on focus and try to pickpocket, it still takes only one item, and seems to be buring focus at the same rate as at the start.
Am I doing something wrong or anyone has/had the same issue?
Playing with graphics settings does nothing to it (had hopes for same sollution as intuition).

EDIT: Name of topic changed to reflect wherein the issue is.

[Panic Fire]

Works for me, both efficiency and dexterity, dexterity 2 though is kinda meh. The internal lockpick mini needs some attention as its kinda ♥♥♥♥♥ on mouse and keyboard.

[Vilda]

I ve just upgraded dexterity to 2 and lockpcking seems to be working, even though I wanna kill something - its not helping at all, at least to me.
So I may be doing something wrong with pickpocketing - I just press F and try to pickpocket, thats it, ni?

[Amber]

yes i appear to not be able to pickpocket more than one thing at a time. is there a different mechanic (like targetting idfferentintly or smething)?

[MC1_Judge]

I've just realised that I have the double pick-pocket too and it only lifts one item at a time. Maybe we are doing something wrong. I've seen it working in walkthroughs on YouTube, so it possibly isn't a bug.

[Vilda]

Name of topic changed to reflect wherein the issue is. Ive seen it on videos too, but just dont know how to do it :-/

[Steven Brattac]

maybe you had no fail due this 2 times try to pickpocket on one target ! jutst one more chance to not fail!

[Garudin]

Honestly I found focus pretty useless so I already started a playthrough without it but I believe to use ANY of those bonuses you need to be using focus, for example to see the tumblers when picking a lock you need to use focus the bonus isn't passive.

If you already are using focus and it's still not working it looks like this is another problem to add to the this with this game

[Lucifer]

I've seen some glitches with multiple item pickpocketing... seems to work best when target it stationary and you have plenty of focus, if your focus is low or target is moving it will sometimes abort the multiple attempts and just snag one item... but with over 50% focus and slow-moving targets I've used this frequently to clean out the 2-3 purse patrolling guards fast.

As for the level 2 lockpicking, yeah it's a bit of a pain with a mouse/trackball compared to a controller where you can keep the stick pushed in one direction; however, the benefit is the severely decreased time flow for others compared to normal lockpicking. There was a container I needed to pick where a guard could see me and started getting the eye filling up, I didn't have time to do more than one tumbler in normal lockpick mode but with focus lockpick (even though it seemed to take me longer) I could get all four before having to duck in the shadows and he never even got a single dot of awareness... it's clunky with a trackball but it is great for dangerous locations if you're ghosting as opposed to causing others head trauma.

[Vilda]

Lucifer: Well I'll be damned, your suggestion worked. Lots of focus, stationary target and voilá.
Still burning through focus like hell to be anything more that situational help :/ Hmm, might even be designed like that.

[Lucifer]

Yeah, I did get it to work on the client going into Madame X's at the start of Chapter 3 to snag all three of his pouches while he going down the stairs, but usually it's very situation to get multiple things quickly and swoop back to shadows before an NPC turns back around.

[Lucifer]

I've found an indicator as to when it will work and when it won't. If the items to be pickpockets are orange instead of blue while in Focus (usually when the target is suspicious or alerted) you will only get one item at a time.