SKYRIM IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - How To Break Sneak And Steal Everything

Hello there, ladies and gentlemen!Like all good Brits, I love stealing things, from historical relics to bits of land missing a flag.We really have perfected the art of getting away with anything, so I thought it was my time to test my skills in Skyrim, as I challenge myself to steal everything from inside Jarl Balgruuf's palace without being caught, given a bounty, and potentially, without even being detected.So let's dive into this amazing game and make a new character who is ready for this secret task.This is Agent 74.Yes, you might have heard of the hit video game series Hitman, where you play as Agent 47, an incredible assassin at the absolute peak of their game.

This is instead Agent 74, the exceedingly elderly version of that gentleman, the only special agent in the force that needs multiple knee operations every year.So of course our goal is simple, break into the Jarl's palace and steal absolutely everything without being detected.However, the execution is incredibly complicated.But I'm the Spiffing Brit, breaker of all video games.So of course, we're going to use perfectly balanced exploits to make this all the more possible.Right, there we go.

We've made our way inside of the keep, and immediately this is where the exploits are going to begin.All right, so Ralof is going to free us from our prison binds, which I personally think he might regret later.And he directs us to popping on his dead friend's clothes.Splendid stuff.This 74 -year -old guy's now ready to rock and roll.Right, so in come our first Imperials, and it's time to do a bit of combat.

We kill the first.

and then finish off the Imperial Captain.Now, you want to do this as fast as possible because our goal is to quite simply grab the Helghan Keep Key.

If we're able to snipe it from the body first, then Ralof isn't able to pick it up and unlock the door, meaning he can't leave this place until we open the door.This allows us to exploit one of the fundamental aspects of this game's design.

Normally, if we were running around the game and we attacked one of our friends, if we kept hitting them enough times, they'd eventually turn hostile and fight back, or they'd run away or they'd die.

In the opening tutorial, however, Ralof can't do any of those things.He's an immortal god who at the same time can't be turned hostile to any of our actions.But what we're going to do is something very cheesy.

Firstly, we're going to max out the game's difficulty to Legendary, and then we're going to equip ourselves some Iron Daggers.The reasoning is simple.

Iron Daggers do the largest amount of sneak damage, and we're going to be farming our sneak skill.If I want to break my way inside of the Oz Palace, then you can be damned certain that I'm doing it with 100 % sneak, and we're going to be achieving that right now.And there we go, ladies and gentlemen, sneak level 100.Immediately gained before even leaving our starting location, meaning we're already much harder to detect and our sneak attacks do substantially more damage.All right, now let's just quickly make our way out of this tower.

Oh look, there's some gentlemen's here looking for some loot.Stab it.Oh my goodness, Agent 74 still got it.Do -do -do -do -do!Ho -ho -ho!

Yeah, it turns out max levelling Sneak immediately might make you ever so slightly too powerful relative to this game's normal curve.Still, this is exactly the kind of nonsense overpowered stuff we like to have on this channel and oh my goodness.

We have to defeat ourselves the torturer's assistant.And he's gone.Now it's just the torturer.And we did it.I actually really want to steal the torturous hood because it's such a cool disguise.

Oh, yes.Now this is an incredible outfit.Now, of course, since we're going to be doing a lot of thieving, one of the other skills we are going to want to start leveling up is lock picking.

Unfortunately for us, this isn't something we can power level up.as there is only a finite supply of locked things.Alright, and so as into the next room we go as a super sneaky individual.Most importantly, I'm not here.They can't detect me.And so I'm able to sneak my way through the combat undetected, unexpected, back to being hidden again.

Yes, whilst everyone else is actively engaged in combat, I am simply the completely naked man sneaking my way around.Have I been detected?No, I'm hidden.Look at this, look at this, they're finding me.Come on, still not quite detected.Okay, now detected.

So yes, we're pretty good at being undetected, but still, we have a long way to go.

Right, so it's time for Agent 74 to head out into the lovely world of Skyrim.Yes, what a great starting point for this video game.Anyway, Ralof, it was an absolute pleasure to see you.I'm noping on out of here.So first things first, we need to massively improve our character's abilities.Yes, technically, if I check my inventory, things are looking very nice and I've got yet more level ups.

And my goodness, we're technically already level 18.But my sneak skill is only 100.And whilst that's good, it's not perfect, mostly because sneaking skill in Skyrim is a complicated algebraic nightmare that looks like this.To simplify it, the higher your sneak skill, the less likely you are to be detected, and the less sound you make, the less likely you are to be detected.This means we're on the lookout for multiple things, mostly enchanted equipment that can buff up our sneak skill, and enchanted equipment that has the muffle effect on it.Provided we can get enough of these, Agent 74, despite his creaking old bones, will hopefully be nearly invisible.

I mean, the guy hardly stands out at all.being a 74 year old man running in a loincloth through the countryside as we made our way to the guardian stones because we have the thief stone here a very useful skill for us because it's going to increase the amount of experiencewe gain for all of the other Thief stats, namely things like lockpicking and pickpocketing.Now I wouldn't actually recommend playing the game in the way that I have, because the main issue of power levelling this skill in the tutorial is that most of the enemies in this game actually scale with your level.This means that outside of the basic set enemies like these wolves here, the game's random bandits are significantly more likely to be of an exceedingly high level.equipped with better gear and better loot.

Still, my plan isn't to stop off and move slowly.We're going to be charging right the way through Riverwood on our quest to reach Morphel, one of the locations in Skyrim.And yes, I do say it like that because I genuinely detest Morphel.This is my least favorite location.I think it sucks.Right, so I've made my way over past Morphle to my first destination of the game.

This is Movarf's lair.As you can tell by all of the blood, it's quite spooky in there.It turns out that this is a vampire lair, quite a dangerous place to live near, but inside of it is a pair of boots that I desperately want to get my hands on.There's just one issue.We're not exactly built for combat.These are going to be some pretty high level vampires, and I'm just wearing some basic clothing.

So ideally, we go through this without being detected at all.In order to help with that, we're going to need a few more perks, an extra point into stealth to make us even harder to detect and a perk point into muffled movement, which gives us effectively a 50 % muffled effect.Very useful indeed.I'm then actually going to sink in the rest of some perk points into useless things like Lightfoot, but we will be grabbing great stuff like Silence and Shadow Warrior, which basically gives us a temporary invisibility spell to use in combat.Right, so into the lair we head.Hopefully we can get through this without being detected.

Oh, well, there's some spiders, so we'll have to deal with that first.Okay, so another fun fact about stealth in this game, weapons above the size of daggers make noise.This basically means that for us, one of the optimal ways to play this game

is to exclusively use tiny daggers of course for us our sneak attacks are being buffed by a huge amount but in the unfortunate chance that doesn't happen we're basically kind of screwed ah this is a spider let's hit it with some fire Huzzah!Yeah!Take that, crispy boy!So yes, we're finding combat provided we're able to get a stealth attack off.If we can't, it very rapidly becomes squeaky bum time.Still, we managed to sneak our way through here.

And I can clearly see a little vampire here who I'm pretty sure I can sneak up on.Stabby!Huzzah!Yes!Oh, we've got another vampire's fraud.Okay, right, we're going to have to sneak our way around here.

stabby oh my goodness okay he detected us somehow that sneak attack didn't go through right well we'll run away and then crouch and this temporarily engages invisibility which allows me to just flee even more And hopefully, yes, I am now not detected.All right, well, that was a bit of a beans up.Let's give it another go.Yeah, the main downside of using daggers is that they have next to no reach at all.All right, let's sneak up behind this gentleman and stab.OK, 15 times attack damage was apparently not enough.

Yeah, let's go.Power attacks.Right.Stabby.Stabby.And fantastic.

It took a lot of excessive hits, but we did it.Another vampire's fraule destroyed.In this room, we can clearly see a huge amount of vampires whom we would have absolutely no chance of defeating.Yep, they're going to be far too dangerous for us.However, if we just ignore them and go all the way around to the left, we get to my actual goal, this bed over here.Oh.

Yep, but just to the left of this bed, we're able to pick up some boots, and we are now immediately out of here.Goodbye, blooded vampire.Farewell.So yes, they were able to detect me, but they won't be able to catch me.

After all, I'm now Naruto, running my way through the cave system, and with a little crack in my back.combat, I'm suddenly free!Goodbye!Right, so we haven't solved the vampire problem for the people of Morpho, but that's not exactly my problem, is it?I'm here for the cool loot.And so huzzah, we have ourselves Movarf's boots here, which improve our sneaking by 15%.

This is an absolutely fantastic ability to have, but we can also be doing a lot better.So it's now off to Windhelm I go to pick up another piece of this puzzle.Right, so the next quest you want to pick up is Missing Merchant.You can get it from randomly talking to the innkeeper in Windhelm, and she'll give me a letter telling me to go and investigate the nearby building called Trader's Post.Now just one slight issue, I know that this building is going to be absolutely filled to the brim with very dangerous bandits, so it's time for a very quick trip to Dawnstar for everyone's favourite, it's the Dawnstar Trader Chest.So of course we wander on over to the mines and see what the chest has for us today.

We've got the dwarven armor of eminent destruction, some brawler's gauntlets, a bow of fear, boots of lifting, thief backpack that makes lock picking easier, a bunch of really overpowered cork bulb arrows, aloe vera leaves, wait, sorry, is this a bot?

All right, so I've made my way over to this house where we shall find ourselves, presumably a very large quantity of bandits.Yes, I mean, there's one literally just right there.saying i'm warning you i don't even think they can see me oh they're talking to the they're talking to the fox i just missed all of those shots so i'm going to withdraw a bit and ah here's erwan the individual who we need to kill we're doing literally no damage to them The good news for me is that despite the fact that I'm sending off a bunch of arrows, none of them have been able to detect me.They're still all just chasing after some random fox.Okay, so we're now noticing one of the classic Skyrim limitations, which is that I'm simultaneously detected and not detected.The enemy hasn't actually found me yet and this means that they are hostile but not actually able to path their way towards me and every once in a while my attacks are technically classed as a sneak attack.

That is when I can actually land them.

Still, we get to loot the body, which is most important.And now we just need to make our way inside of the bandit building, because right here on this chair is exactly what we're looking for.This is Gunther.Gunther has one lovely item on him.The Ring of Massa.It's an absolutely insane item added in the creation club that not only increases your stamina and makes illusion spells cheaper, but also buffs your sneaking by 20%.

This is horrifically broken.Thanks game for adding it in.So let's have a quick stock of how sneaky we are.We have sneak skill 100 with all five perk points in stealth, making us 40 % harder to detect.And we have two enchanted items making our sneaking 35 % better.

And now here we go.We found ourselves the bandit plunderer who can't quite detect us But we are here, in front of them, still managing to somehow occasionally paralyze them.Now he is going to start running towards me and oh there we go he has detected me.Flee!

Yes unfortunately our detection stats still aren't quite good enough and this bandit plunderer here is still able to spot me if I'm standing in front of him.So we're getting better at staying invisible but we're not quite there.We need to truly break the game.As that means we must activate Skyrim's greatest exploit of all, the single most overpowered thing that will help Agent 74 on his quest today.I am of course talking about making potions.So how to easily do the fortify restoration loop in Skyrim.

This entire process is easier the higher your alchemy and enchanting skill is, so try and level these up beforehand.Our goal is to create infinitely powerful sets of potions and enchantments.To do this we need four alchemy ingredients, salt piles, easily found at the Riften Dog,Yellow mountain flowers, found inside the Ancestor's Glade.Snowberries, found everywhere in cold climates.And blue butterfly wings that can be farmed by entering and leaving the Riften orphanage.

Once you've collected about 20 of each, you need to find an enchanted item that fortifies alchemy.You can do this by repeatedly punching merchants and loading saves to refresh their stock.Then make your way to the Dragonsreach alchemy table.Now the loop begins.We use salt and mountain flower to make a potion of fortify restoration.We then take off our alchemy boosting gear, drink the potion of restoration and put them on again.

Thanks to a glitch in the game, the potion also buffs the enchanted stats on our equipment, allowing us to create even more powerful potions than we should be able to.Meaning we can now repeat the process of making a potion, stripping and drinking until we hit the cap of the potion strength.To go beyond this limit, we need to increase the enchantment strength of our gear.So we combine the snow berries and the butterfly wings to create a fortify enchanting potion then consume this potion and enchant something with fortify alchemy.With this new gear we've increased the strength cap of the potions we can make and so now we can repeat this process as many times as we like until all of our potions are so powerful they crash the game.Have fun!

Right, so ladies and gentlemen, I have been away maxing out our power levels and currently we have in our possession multiple potions of fortifying enchanting that will boost the strength of any enchantment by four million percent!Yes, this is the equivalent of drinking straight Yorkshire gold.It's truly a perfectly balanced thing indeed.And you remember earlier, we picked up Movaf's boots, which made our sneaking 15 % better.This is good, but it's not great.Luckily for us, we can disenchant these boots, destroying them in the process, but it means we can now make our own more powerful sneak enchantments.

So I'm going to take a potion to fortify enchanting, select the enchantment to fortify sneaking, and whack it on a pair of boots.and I shall christen them normal shoes.After all, these are perfectly normal shoes.Todd Howard, please do not arrest me for doing anything nefarious.These are just perfectly normal things.So here we go.

Our lovely pair of normal shoes that, as we can see, boost sneaking by 326 million percent.That is a number.

So now when we pop on our normal shoes, our sneaking skills should be a little bit better.And yet that would indeed appear to be the case.After all, I'm physically bumping to Farangar here and he has not actually detected me.

Let's go find some bandits to test this out on.So we are currently experiencing what can only be described as the least optimal conditions for sneaking.Agent 74 here is a completely naked man wearing only shoes and a backpack standing out in broad daylight.

However, whilst we were ever so slightly spotted on our walk in and potentially detected, we are now going to try and stealth our way to the top of this bandit camp and see if we can loot the chest without them noticing us.I am currently standing in front of this man.He physically cannot see me.Wow.This is truly Incredible.

So these are just low level bandits.Statistically, they have some of the lowest detection radius in the entire game.

So we still have to be a little bit careful when sneaking our way inside of this forge.Yes, we've got three enemies in here.They're all looking pretty good, right?Don't mind me I'm just gonna open up this chest steal the money all in this fancy necklace.Thank you I can use that for some enchanting and then whilst I'm here don't mind me I'm just going to take the book that you're currently hammering and then I'll also take that axe.Thank you very much and This other book.

Thank you kindly.It's been a pleasure bandits.It's been a true pleasure Okay, here's the thing.I want to find out all my daggers still quite effective.Let's give it a try But um oh agent 74 you've done a splendid job.You've dropped that enemy.

Let's try this one.That wasn't enoughOkay, two hits.Right, now let's try you.You're dead.Okay, so bandit outlaws might be able to live after an attack, but he still wasn't going to be able to find me.

Yes, I do feel rather confident now that even, say, the Jarl's guards in Whiterun won't be able to detect me.Mission successful, Agent 74.Please proceed to extraction and on with your next mission.So ladies and gentlemen, Agent 74 is looking fantastic and...Oh look, the Kray is coming to get me.

Oh great, a new museum!Fantastic, right back to what I was doing.

Okay, Agent 74 has completed his first mission and successfully looted the bandits without them even being able to discover him.we have a carry weight limit, meaning despite my best intentions, there's a finite amount of nonsense we can actually keep on us at any one time.So this means we're going to go on a quest to find ourselves some more carry weight, and that requires heading over to this part of Solitude.Alright so round the side of the mountains we go and this right here is exactly what I'm looking for.This is the steed stone ladies and gentlemen.By activating the steed stone we now get plus 100 carrying capacity which is really good but most importantly it removes the movement penalty from wearing armor.

This means if we were to wear heavy armor we would no longer run slower.This is all highly important.Now there is one aspect of our stealth gameplay that we are currently missing and that is the fact that we are technically still audible.Yes, currently the only perk we have to make us a little bit more quiet is this perk here, muffled movement, which gives you a flat 50 % muffle.We've got our sneak stat really low so that way we can't be seen but we can still be heard.And so in order to become truly imperceivable,

we need to get another bit of muffle boosting armor.And the best one that exists in the game is the Ebony Mail.And you can get this armor from completing the Boethius Calling quest line.There's just one slight issue.You need to be level 30 before you can start it.So I need to level up and the fastest way to do that is combat.

So I've made my way to Fort Ragstad just up the road and let's crouch on down.Wow, I can shield bash and they can't even detect me.This is great, I can just level up my shield bash this way.Okay, I need to go make myself some vegetable soup and then we're gonna come back here and shield bash our way through some levels.

Back in a second highway bandit people.And the reason we make vegetable soups for power leveling block is very simple.The quickest way to level a block is by shield bashing, which requires a lot of stamina.If you shield bash when stamina is low, it goes into the negative.However, the vegetable soup regen locks our stamina to minimum of one, meaning we can always shield bash.So by drinking this soup for 720 seconds, we can bash away to our heart's content.

So I've got my lovely shield out.It's time to drink some soup and get bashing.Let's go.So, yes, you'll notice as my stamina does go down, but when it hits the bottom, it doesn't stop.I can just keep going and oops I accidentally killed this man.Welp.

That was an accident.These things happen.Excuse me.Hello.I'm looking for people to bash, bash, bash, bash, bash, bash.There we go.

Right.We're just going to be grinding up our block skill by doing this because these enemies are hardly taking any damage.And it's a nice way to get some experience.Yeah.You know, you heard something.It's the bashing sound of your head being dented by this massive dwarven shield that you can't detect.

Whoops.I killed another one.

Right.We're back, ladies and gentlemen, with Agent 74 looking King, absolutely fantastic over here near our destination because we've now achieved level 30 but there's another reason why I chose to grind block not just because it was incredibly easy but alsobecause of one perk over here.Block Runner.Skyrim is a spaghettily coded game, meaning that the movement speed whilst crouched is kind of finite.This is the speed at which we go.

Pretty normal stuff.If we choose to raise up our shield, we basically move to a slow crawl like this.We're hardly going to be getting anywhere on time at this rate.

However, if we select this perk over here, the Block Runner, to move faster with a shield raised, suddenly, a shield raised whilst crouching, we actually move faster than if we didn't have a shield equipped.

This is the entire reason why I chose to get a shield.Now we are a high speed snail of death, wiggling our way through the landscape ready to strike at a moment's notice.

I mean look, here we are, in this bandit hideout where I'm sure they 100 % know exactly where I am.You're dead, goodbye.Shield up to move faster.And oh, we've got one more bandit thug.Let's just quickly shield to move behind him.Shiv, shiv, and goodbye.

Quick shield around this way.Oh, we have ourselves a bandit marauder.They've got a lot of health.Unfortunately for them, they can't detect me.So, um, he's just going to die all the same.Farewell.

He's got some pretty fancy gear.Nordic carved heavy armor.Ooh, lovely.The problem is I can't wear this kind of fancy heavy armor.Otherwise I'd be rattling around making too much noise.Hence why we must go on this quest to get ourselves a lovely high powered muffly thing.

I think there's some trolls hanging out here.Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, there's some trolls hanging out here.Hi, Mr. Horse.I hope you have a nice commute, sir.What is going on here?Hello there, troll.

Unfortunately, you're dead.All right, quick shield slide up the hill and we've made our way to the quest.

Yes, we found the cult.It's all very cool.Hello there, Boethius faithful.So basically, this is a cult and we are walking straight into the initiation process by signing ourselves up.Basically, we've been given a fun mission and this blade of sacrifice.

And the mission is quite simple.We need to gain the trust of someone.lie to them and tell them to come all the way here so that way we can sacrifice them to a dark god.

But how on earth are we going to find someone naive enough to follow us up onto a freezing cold mountain full of half -naked people who are drinking a copious amount of skooma and bashing each other off?

Right, so hey Feindel, please climb up these steps.I'm just gonna need you to do something.Can you use the pillar of sacrifice?So he says okay, got it and in you go Feindel.Perfect stuff.It was an absolute pleasure, sir.

Really nice time hanging out with you.So with this, a follower is now ready to be sacrificed and we can all bask in the joy of Feindel's last few moments.Right, Feindel, I'm afraid this is the part where you die, so goodbye.Cheers.

So we've now caught the attention of a god.And after a quick little chat, they give us the task of murdering their previous champion and their merry crew of bandits.Right, so we have made our way to Knife Point Ridge, where our mission is quite simple.Slay everyone very stealthily.

So don't mind if I do.We get to sneak our way in and we find our first target, this archer.Goodbye.Then we find this bandit thug.Alvidazin, an orc smith who appears to be trying to set himself on fire.Au revoir.

And this bandit outlaw who I'm just gonna kill and I can't think of any other foreign words for goodbye.So yeah, we're just gonna have to kill everyone now.Sir, are you eating bread out of a mug?Yes.Yes, you are.Wow.

I think it's a mercy for me to kill you.I think it truly is.Alright, so that's all the exterior bandits dealt with.It's now deep into the mine we go.Alright, so we've got the last few enemies in this area.Of course, none of them actually know who I am.

And, um, for some reason they've decided to fight each other now, which is...I don't know why, but this is the previous champion we're chasing behind, the main person we're aiming to kill, and now they're fighting a wizard.Right, well, goodbye champion.it's been a pleasure and they're dead And here we go, we get the main reason why we actually bothered killing them in the first place.

This ebony male, that means you move nice and quietly and any opponents that get too close to you take 5 points of poison damage per second.All very nice indeed, meaning our muffle stat is now raised up to 100, meaning we no longer make any noise whilst moving.

We are now completely imperceivable to the human mind.And we emit a foul, poisonous thing that means enemies near to us will slowly take damage.Look, his health bar is going down.So there we go, glorious success, we now have ourselves our perfect silent armour, meaning we don't even make so much as a footstep when we walk around.We are now ready to begin our quest of theft.

Before we go robbing, there is only one final thing we're missing.The ability to hold all of the loot that we will steal inside of our pockets.So I will consume my potion of enchanting and enchant something with fortify carry weight.These ebony gauntlets shall be known as the bag of holding.Perfect.This handy pair of gloves will increase my carrying capacity to a nice and comfortable negative two billion, which is great.

It basically means we can carry every single item in this entire game as if they've got some kind of pocket dimension going on.

So ladies and gentlemen, I do believe it's time to begin.Engage the montage of stealing everything from Jarl Balgruuf's palace.

Imagine being this guy and just watching as slowly all of the cutlery and plates on the table that you're looking at just disappear.But you can't quite tell why.They're just all gone.Steal from the wardrobe, of course, gotta take everything.Sorry mate, we're gonna be needing all of the books off of your bookshelf.I've got to individually press E to steal every single book.

Oh, this is gonna take a while.long time.I now realize this was a terrible idea for a video.This was a terrible idea.

I've cleared out the entire right side of the bottom floor of the Jarl's Palace.There is nothing remaining here.

Jump, jump.Oh, we get to steal the sword from the display case.A sword behind a single display case.I can do it.Yes, master lockpick.Oh, OK.

That was a tough one.So you might be asking, what enough am I going to do now that I've successfully stolen absolutely everything from Jarl Balgruuf?Well, I think it's time we do a little bit of wealth redistribution.So I'm going to stand right in the market square and I'm going to show these people everything that the Jarl has been hiding away in his house.

All of the Jarl's supplies lovingly transported right out from under his nose in his very house where no one could even detect my presence right into the market of Whiterun just in time to crash my ga - Anyway, there you have it ladies and gentlemen, I've been the Spiffen Brit.I hope you've enjoyed today's adventure into Skyrim.If you have then make sure to give it a like and why not consider subscribing.It's always a treat for me to return to this game.But of course, it wouldn't be possible without the wonderful YouTube channel members and patrons for helping fund all of this nonsense.Each and every one of you majestic sausages is greatly appreciated by myself.

Anyway, I'll see all of you in the next one.Have a wonderful day and goodbye for now.