I have 100 sneak with all perks excluding the left branch (however, I have tried it with all the left branch perks as well). I'm currently at Knifepoint Ridge, on a quest to stealthily kill all the bandits. Although it's not necessary to kill the bandits stealthily, I choose to do so because I'm a stealth character.
The problem is that whenever I sneak up behind a bandit and cut his/her throat stealthily with muffled boots, stealth rings and necklaces with 100 sneak the sleeping/awake bandits still manage to 'hear' something and say "What was that?" or something along those lines and follows up by detecting me. This has never seemed to happen before. Any advice?
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- Non-dagger weapons are not silent. If you are using a sword, they are hearing you.
- Do you have a follower? They are notoriously loud.
- There's a chance that the victim dropped a large, metal item (weapon, shield, etc) that landed somewhere unfortunate and skidded along the ground noisily. I can't imagine this is the case every time, though.
Are you fighting Forsworn? They have heightened senses and are harder to sneak kill than other human characters.
Make sure you're wearing equipment that's been enchanted by muffle. Also be cognizant of the shadows. Walking onto any surface with light reduces your chance to successfully sneak on a NPC. Sometimes even the slightest inconsistencies can easily cause detection. Walking over pressure plates, weapons, or any miscellaneous objects are all ways of making noise. As a fellow Nightingale, walk with the shadows.
2Silly question, but you should use Light Armor(5/5), Muffle Spell (but your boots already provide it), daggers to avoid making noise when hitting someone.
You can check if its a bug by using a invisibility potion or that spell you can get after completing the thiefs guild questline that makes you invisible while crouched.
If you are doing all these steps,i just can't figure out while you are getting caught. Probably a Bug.
7Heavy armor:Makes a lot of noise on it own. If it is really heavy more noise such as Dragon Bone armor. Light armor: makes less noise and a lot lighter so (faster). Being able to kill quick is very good for someone like you. If you use a dagger UPGRADE ONE HANDED only straight up. Power attacks are good if you think a normal crouching attack will not kill this also enables a stealthy kill. UPGRADE SNEAK SKILL COMPLETELY! Dark Brother hood gloves and boots are very good as well, same with Astrids Blade of Woe. Hope this helps now go upgrade these two skills at the very being of the game with either person i became level 100 sneak and level 50 one handed in the first room in Helgan! P.S. you should try using two daggers at once also upgrade that on one handed!
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