How do you stealth kill an animation in Skyrim?

Stealth Takedowns
Last Updated: January 7th, 2020
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How do you kill animations in Skyrim?
How do you trigger animations in Skyrim?
Are there Stealth kills in Skyrim?

The mechanics of the stealth kill system are a complete copy of my Stealthy Takedowns mod, integrated directly into Crime And Punishment. In essence, they provide you with the means to sneak up on your enemies and then trigger a silent paired kill animation, that is based on the weapon type you currently have equipped.

In order to use stealth paired kills, you will need to have Sneak level 1 perk, as well as Mister Sandman level 1 perk. Once you have both, you need simply sneak up behind an enemy without triggering their hostility detection and press the secondary action key, as indicated onscreen, to perform the kill.

Stealth takedowns also use CAP's witness detection system. If there is noone within line of sight or within a set minimum distance to approximate someone seeing or hearing your action, then the kill will not trigger anyone else around you into a combat state.

Note: You can use this function in conjunction with disguises, but always pay attention to your surroundings! If someone sees you, it will not only initiate a combat stance, but will also ruin your disguises cover for 24 game hours!

Noted Game Bug: Sometimes the paired kill animations simply do not play. Even Bethesda faced this same issue and made allowances for it in places where they manually stipulated a paired kill to take place, for example, when Hancock kills Finn when you first enter Goodneighbor. The coding for this event has allowances for the animation not playing at all and will just kill Finn outright. The takedowns in CAP are no different - there may be times when your target just drops dead with no animation playing. This is not a CAP bug, but a game bug.

Stealth is one of the best aspects of the gameplay for this game and yet you cannot stealth kill using weapons, only with your fists. It's really dissapointing not to be able to use the katana to stab someone, or the monowire to garrote someone, or the knife to stab someones neck from behind. I know im not the only one who wants, this It would add a level of polish to stealth gameplay that is really needed.

Hum... I mostly kill everybody in stealth with my overture
The others enemy are alerted only if they see the guy who just died (or the body). If you explose the head of one guy, his buddy next to him will obviously see it...
For a group, it could help to use optic reboot QH for killing all the enemy without enter in combat (others are alerted, but that all).

Also work with katana if you kill all of them quickly

Stealth is one of the best aspects of the gameplay for this game and yet you cannot stealth kill using weapons, only with your fists. It's really dissapointing not to be able to use the katana to stab someone, or the monowire to garrote someone, or the knife to stab someones neck from behind. I know im not the only one who wants, this It would add a level of polish to stealth gameplay that is really needed.

I sort of agree and sort of don't, heh

I agree because yes, it would be really cool to have variations on the stealth kills with non-ranged weapons.

I don't agree because in the current way that the game functions, being in an animation then locks the photo mode camera to first person (because V's head resides under the floor (somebody with more technical insight can confirm/ correct me on this) during them. This would take away a lot of the fun that comes from using photo mode for kills;

If there comes a day where the way that V's head interacts with the all of the gameplay mechanics allows for more things to happen during animations/ scenes, then I'm totally on board for better stealth kill animations.

Stealth is one of the best aspects of the gameplay for this game and yet you cannot stealth kill using weapons, only with your fists. It's really dissapointing not to be able to use the katana to stab someone, or the monowire to garrote someone, or the knife to stab someones neck from behind. I know im not the only one who wants, this It would add a level of polish to stealth gameplay that is really needed.

actually you're right! agree with you ! we need some cool stealth kills animation !
But i think we also need a sort of improvement of the basic routine of the enemies ! too much easy all the stealth kills.
Another thing is, the devs need to rebalance the math behind the game, behind the damage system. One shot of Overture need to be the trophy at the end or almost the end of the game, not in middle i guess

actually you're right! agree with you ! we need some cool stealth kills animation !
But i think we also need a sort of improvement of the basic routine of the enemies ! too much easy all the stealth kills.
Another thing is, the devs need to rebalance the math behind the game, behind the damage system. One shot of Overture need to be the trophy at the end or almost the end of the game, not in middle i guess

We need more finisher animations in general would love to see some finishers added to melee weapons and cyberware mantis blade for example only has one finisher when it should have at least 3 for variety.

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Stealth is one of the best aspects of the gameplay for this game and yet you cannot stealth kill using weapons, only with your fists. It's really dissapointing not to be able to use the katana to stab someone, or the monowire to garrote someone, or the knife to stab someones neck from behind. I know im not the only one who wants, this It would add a level of polish to stealth gameplay that is really needed.

Ah, yes, I'd like that, which'll probably happen in the future game.
As an Arkane's Dishonored franchise huge fan, I miss animated weapon stealth kills. And throwing (pushing) enemies would be great too.
Good call.

Yes game could use more killing animations not only steatlh kills.

I just want to be able to garrote someone with my monowire. It's pretty silly that you can't do that.

How do you kill animations in Skyrim?

Activating Kill Cameras The opponent must be the last enemy on the radar. Special One-handed or Two-Handed fight perks must be unlocked. Performing a Power Attack (by pressing the corresponding attack trigger) while the opponent is off-guard or about to attack the player will activate a special Kill Camera.