I'm not sure if stealth works as intended during conversation.

 

You can enable stealth mode with one character. Then go to the most crowded area with chests or any different kind of "loot boxes". That character will be spotted ofcourse. Then it's simple. Start conversation with different character in the party. Detection circle will decrase, wait in conversation until vision's marker disappears, then end conversation, pause the game. Use hidden character to loot any nearby chests without beeing spotted.

 

With enough stealth you can even pick locks. The hardest part in such cases is to get closer to loot boxes undetected and it's most of the time impossible due to crowd and their sight's cones. Normally character will be spotted passing through sight's cones, but if you start conversation while the stealth character is already behind or in middle of crowd, and wait until that character disappears, you can steal from anywhere and anyone before you will be detected.

 

This trick simply allow to toogle stealth mode in places where the character is spotted from the start and normally can't disappear from plain sight. With conversation - can.

Edited June 2, 20187 yr by Silvaren

Nice find. Did you report that in the bug section?

Nice find. Did you report that in the bug section?

Not yet. Is it bug or diversion?

Edited June 2, 20187 yr by Silvaren

 

Nice find. Did you report that in the bug section?

Not yet. Is it bug or diversion?

 

 

bug that the circle decreases....what i think is supposed to work is that you can start a conversation and force an npc's vision into another direction...but the decrease stealth circle and then quickly exit the conversation and grab the stuff is clearly a bug

I reported this as bug.

I reported this some days ago, but seems was already reported with video footage too:

 

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/100873-gameplay-dont-need-stealth-to-steal-when-you-can-have-a-dialogue/

 

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/100374-bug-npcs-stop-observing-you-during-dialog/