how do i sneak and pick pocket?

[reveilleun]

i press a to sneak and my character doesn't do anything! and have no idea how to pick pocket

[Carver]

Do you have the skill for pickpocket? It should give you a dialogue option to steal from someone if you talk to them. Though it may not work for all NPC's.

[reveilleun]

i've just started the game and in order to join the old camp i need to get good words from the important people. one of them, wants me to sneak or pick pocket in order for him to give me good words. i have no idea how to do either? and when i try to select one in the dialogue options with him it says i don't have experience points.

do i need to gain experience points first and then go to him and spend those points on sneaking and pick pocketing abilities?

just really confused atm

[Carver]

I believe both Pickpocketing and Sneaking require 10 LP each to learn from Fingers. You can see how many LP's you have by going to the character menu (C).
You gain 10 Learning Points (LP) each time you level up. There should be enough scavengers and mole rats in the vincinity of the Old Camp to level you up a bit.

Personally I would advise against Sneaking though, as it's practically useless in my opinion.
If you want to steal from houses you can either wait till there is no one around, or you can use the jumping glitch to get around. The glitch allows you to jump around a place quietly even if someone is sleeping in the same room, making it easy to steal at night. Just don't move forward or backward as that will wake people up.

Edit: Actually I don't recall if that glitch also works in Gothic 1 though. I know it does in G2.

[reveilleun]

i'm only going for sneaking to impress the important fellow. unless i dont have to impress him and i have a choice who i need to impress?

[Carver]

You just need to learn the skill to pass his test.

[reveilleun]

so level up spend points in sneak skill and i'm sorted?

[Carver]

Yup. There isn't much to that quest.

[reveilleun]

thanks for the help

[Poefi]

pickopocket is useless in g1.

you practically have to be unseen (hide or stay in cover) even to get in sneak position, and you cant really move too far away from that position, else you are seen break out from sneak. and this narrows down the available targets, so even level 2 pickpocket you wont be able to pickpocket everyone. once you are in sneak and behind your target just ctrl+up on him and you can loot him.

you can get the same loot by simply beating the people.

[Wafflesaurus Supreme]

Doesn't Fingers refer you to Cavalorn to learn the Sneak skill? I think Sneak is one of the best skills in the game.

[hoskope]

Originally posted by CoinbraHUN:

pickopocket is useless in g1.

you practically have to be unseen (hide or stay in cover) even to get in sneak position, and you cant really move too far away from that position, else you are seen break out from sneak. and this narrows down the available targets, so even level 2 pickpocket you wont be able to pickpocket everyone. once you are in sneak and behind your target just ctrl+up on him and you can loot him.

you can get the same loot by simply beating the people.

Who can you beat in start of the game? :)

[kevintheradioguy]

Hm. Guys? I've learned lvl2 sneak, however, I cannot. I hit the button, and nothing happens. I hold the button and nothing happens. I do use+sneak and nothing happens. How the F do I sneak at all?