QFG4 - Fast way to train Acrobatics?

[Xander77]

The only place I found to train is the hillocks in the swamps - but it takes forever, a full stamina bar for about 15 points (and a minute or so of my time). Any other way to train?

[Rithm Fluffderg]

The screen south of the town gate (or really, any forest screen)
Turn speed up to max
Select acrobatics
Pick literally any spot where the hero can walk (it won't matter because you won't actually be moving from your spot)
Hold down the enter key

[Xander77]

Huh. I've been playing this game for years, and was somehow quite convinced that your skill only raises if you jump around in the swamps. Welp.

[Rithm Fluffderg]

you can get some impressive distance in the swamps with max acrobatics.

Just be careful on the entrance to the swamp screen - trying to jump far enough with enough skill to do so can crash the game. Fortunately, that's also a screen where the game will autosave upon entering.

[Xander77]

On that note - you can't learn acrobatics before QFG4, can you? What do the tightrope walker in 2 and the rope seller in 3 teach the thief?

[Lady_Regret]

Agility

[Rithm Fluffderg]

Mechanically, no, "Acrobatics" didn't exist as an individual skill until 4.

It was just considered a part of your agility score if you were a Thief before then.

I wish Acrobatics was more interesting in the 5th game - all it does is serve as a check for tightrope walks, and giving you a visually fancy kick occasionally when fighting unarmed.

(incidentally, in QFG5, the best way to train Acrobatics is, basically, shadowboxing with no weapon equipped.)

[SAMBO]

I know this thread is two years old, but does the Import Character glitch for acrobatics still work? I know it did when I was a kid.

[mistermiller]

Originally posted by SAMBO:

I know this thread is two years old, but does the Import Character glitch for acrobatics still work? I know it did when I was a kid.

It very much does still exist. :)

[Xander77]

Thank you both for not bothering to explain what the glitch actually is.

[Rithm Fluffderg]

Originally posted by Xander77:

Thank you both for not bothering to explain what the glitch actually is.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Quest+for+Glory+4+Acrobatics+Glitch

[mistermiller]

Originally posted by Xander77:

Thank you both for not bothering to explain what the glitch actually is.

I typed "acrobatics glitch qfg4" into Google, and it came up. Typing "Quest for Glory 4" was too many keystrokes.

[GandGolf]

Somewhere I think I read that there is some place where you train acrobatics without using any stamina, but now I can't remember where I read that and I can't find it again.

[GandGolf]

Originally posted by GandGolf:

Somewhere I think I read that there is some place where you train acrobatics without using any stamina, but now I can't remember where I read that and I can't find it again.

After some messing around it seems that the room with the obelisk and goo where you get the bonsai bush is a fairly good place to train acrobatics by jumping back and forth between the ledges near the top right of the room. The stamina consumed appeared to be very little.

[GandGolf]

Originally posted by Xander77:

Thank you both for not bothering to explain what the glitch actually is.

To make use of the import glitch just import your character, put all the points into acrobatics and then cancel, then if you import your character again, or even a different character those points you invested in acrobatics will still be there. Using this bug I was able to start the game with 300 acrobatics, (could have gone for 400, but that would have been pushing it).