Players who enjoy stripping Bethesda NPCs (often literally) of everything they're worth won't have such an easy time of it in Starfield as pickpocketing will happen in real-time.
Space thieves will have an extra level of intensity when picking the pockets of poor NPCs as, unlike in previous Bethesda games like Skyrim or Fallout 4, time won't pause while doing so in Starfield.
A Reddit post from OkPain2022 shared a sliver of Starfield gameplay previously gone unnoticed that shows the player creeping around behind an unsuspecting guard as they pull items from their person.
Players no longer have all the time in the world to weigh up the odds of taking items (which are presented alongside a percentage chance of alerting the NPC)...