Talk:Thief/@comment-90.180.130.74-20160209205637/@comment-8.33.16.141-20161208212401

You can hide in combat in the original BG2, but ONLY if there are no enemies in your thief's sight range and *only* the thief's;  enemies your other party members can see but not in the thief's own sight range don't count. Combat status (which you can tell by trying to rest: it won't let you if in combat) otherwise doesn't matter.

If you were hiding in plain view of the enemies from the thief's PoV when playing BG2, you were either mistaken since other party members could see enemies but they were not in view of the thief (remember as the "eye in the sky" you see a composite of everything the entire party sees), or you were experiencing a bug/had a mod installed that allowed it.