Kingdom Come: Deliverance - This is how pickpocketing works
Pickpocketing and burglaries are familiar to experienced role-players from genre representatives like Skyrim or the MMO offshoot of the series The Elder Scrolls Online - but the realistic Kingdom Come: Deliverance also allows breaking the law.
We've already explained lock picking elsewhere, but this time it's all about pickpocketing. However, it is a bit more complex in Kingdom Come than in other games, which is why we will help you with our detailed instructions.
As a warning beforehand: Picking pockets is much more risky than picking locks, which is why you should only try it if you have saved manually shortly before or if the game has saved automatically for you.
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Learning pickpocketing
Like so many other skills in the game, of course, you're not a born pickpocket from the start: Heinrich must first learn this less glorious skill as well.
However, you won't be able to do so until you've completed the prologue. Once you have paid off your debts from the side quest "The Honorable Thief", Müller Peschek will teach you pickpocketing for free. You can and should practice on him a few times before you try your hand at real victims.
Müller Peschek in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Pickpocketing step by step
As mentioned at the beginning, pickpocketing in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a bit more complex than in other games.
Therefore, we'll explain in detail how the whole thing goes down, so that hopefully you'll get out of it uncaught and with stolen goods.
Choosing the victim
Especially at the beginning of your thieving career, you should take more time to choose your victim. Instead of stealing from someone in broad daylight or in a city, you should rather try your luck at night in secluded inns .
Here, sleeping or drunk people are just waiting to be stolen from. Of course, you should still be careful not to make too much noise when sneaking up on someone or to touch them too hard, otherwise they will get suspicious.
Sneaking up carefully is especially important when pickpocketing.
Sneaking up
Of course, it's an advantage if you've already improved the Stealth skill. In addition, you have to make sure that neither your victim nor anyone else can see you - so choose wisely who you want to rob.
It also helps to wear inconspicuous clothing that makes little noise when sneaking up on someone. If you follow these tips, you should be able to sneak up on your potential victim from behind without too much trouble.
Tip: At night, dark clothing makes you even more inconspicuous, but during the day it makes people suspicious. So if you want to strike in broad daylight, which we would absolutely not recommend for the beginning, you should wear clothes with normal colors.
The time you spend searching will help you tremendously in the second step of the mini-game.
Searching the victim
However, successfully sneaking up on the poor sap you want to relieve of his belongings is only the first step to successful theft.
Once you've mastered this, it's time to search your victim - after all, you have to find out what he or she is carrying before you can rob them.
You can start a mini-game by pressing a buttonwhich is initially a kind of recharging process. The longer you search the victim, the more time you have to select your stolen goods.
But at the same time, the higher the chance that you will be caught.
Master thieves have all the time in the world to clean out their victim and also see all the items in their pockets.
When searching, you'll get a display with four extremely important pieces of information:
- The color in the middle tells you how likely you are to be caught. This is quite self-explanatory: if the indicator is green, you are safe, if it is red, the risk is higher. The indicator changes, for example, when your victim moves and also depends on how long you search your victim or how well he can perceive you.
- The yellow loading bar shows how thoroughly you searched your victim and how long you have afterwards for the actual theft.
- The yellow arrow marker on the loading bar indicates the minimum amount of time you have to search your victim before you can steal from them. Until this time is up, the color indicator is red. So don't let this scare you off, because otherwise you'll almost certainly get caught.
- The seconds indicator in the middle tells you exactly how much time you have for the theft
The actual theft
When you have searched your victim long enough, release the button and proceed to the actual theft. A new circular menu will open.
Here you can see in the circles at the edge, which items you have found during the search. In the middle you can see how much time you have left to choose your stolen goods, while the progress bar on the right side also runs backwards.
Important: You can, at least in theory, bag all of your victim's belongings , but in practice you won't have time to choose all of the items. So choose wisely what you want to take, but also quickly, after all the clock is working against you.
Beginners don't get to see all the items in their victims' pockets, and they also have to decide quickly what to take.
Especially at the beginning of your dubious career as a pickpocket, you will be confronted with a lot of question marks in this menu - they are placeholders for items you haven't discovered yet. Accordingly, you won't get any information about the item from the game and can only hope for the best if you decide to get it.
This is remedied by the skill improvement "Item Expert" - for its first level, however, you must have already upgraded the skill Stealth to level 6 in total.
Once you have made up your mind, navigate to the corresponding item in the menu, discover or mark it, and then select the door to successfully complete the theft.
Tip: The most valuable items are usually at the bottom of the menu. Here, however, the risk of making it back to the door icon in time is also higher.
Further help for Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Of course, we have even more tips and tricks for the realistic medieval role-playing game up our sleeves.
For example, we have an overview of all alchemy recipes for you. With this, you'll be well prepared if you want to try your hand at brewing potions.
We have also compiled general tips for beginners in Kingdom Come: Deliverance and explain how you can increase Henry's character values. This way, you'll be prepared for the first hours of play.
More advanced warriors, on the other hand, can take a look at our guide, which explains how to sharpen your sword and repair equipment that gradually gives up the ghost in battles. Or we explain which horses you can buy.
Last but not least, we'll give you some tips on how to save in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, since the role-playing game deliberately does without a free save function.
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