I'm not sure what's going on, but suddenly, I can't pick up items, which sucks for certain quests, and I can't use Combat Arts. What do I do?

What do you mean? What does prevent you from picking up items? And why can't you use combat arts - does nothing happen when you do, or is it something else?

That's just the issue, I have no idea. I'll click on gold, an item, or a potion, and he'll start the motion to pick it up, but then he'll stop immediately. Whenever I right click to use a combat art, or a combo, he'll twitch his arms, and then stop. I'd hate to restart my game, but it looks like I might have too.

I don't think that's a corrupted character.
First, try turning off pick up animations (you can do so in the options menu) - maybe this will help.
If the problem persists, try starting a new character to see if that one can pick up items or not - that way we'll know if the problem is with the game or your character.
It might be that you need to reinstall the game.

I'll try that first option for sure! I have a few save files, and they can pick up said items, I even tried using "A", but no dice. I'll let you know how it works!

It's a known bug that came with the 2.28 version:
http://forum.sacred2.com/showthread.php?t=41896

If you make a Combo that uses the Combat Jump the game will break, eventually. Your character is doomed, unless you have a saved instance before the glitch.

OK, it's been six years, but I reinstall Sacred at least every two years anyway and every single time I find this same page because of this same problem, so I'll add a note to myself:

Dear Piposquac,

If there are hostiles within a certain range, your character won't pick up any item, even if the enemies are not currently attacking you, and even if you click the items directly.

Just kill every hostile creature in your vicinity and it should work again (btw, that's how you solved it the last three times, you doofus).

A mere seven years later, I stumbled across this looking for a solution to the very same problem - and I have a solution.

I got a bit worried after seeing the post from pedromiguel83 saying it's a known bug and my save is borked.

So, your character is in a bugged state, but can be un-bugged: simply use the Combat Jump ability on the nearest enemy!

Whatever bit of program state that caused it is now corrected.

Just had this happen to me in Sacred 1 because I was spamming Stomping Jump on a Gladiator. When it happens, you can't pickup items from the ground when the pickup animation is enabled in the menu and most enemies will not aggro on you and just let themselves be killed.

Persists throughout saves and loads, but luckily, what tonymke said fixes it.

I can't use Stomping Ground on enemies because Combat Arts are just not triggering so tonymke's solution is not working for me :(

Is there a fix or another workaround? I'll, probably have to quit the game because of this, such a shame :(

Thanks for any help community!

I have the same problem. Could fix the item stuff but stil lcant use combat arts. None of them is working

This game is broken. It's almost unplayable for me. For the past few years, the game has been published by "Strategy First". It's a lazy company that hasn't released a single patch for the "Sacred Gold". Not a single patch! Not a single fix!

Last time I tried "Sacred Gold" about 2 years ago and it was totally unplayable for me.

1. It is not possible to pick up all loot using the hotkey. Only with mouse clicks! I still have an old CD-version of classic Sacred (without Underworld addon) - there is "A" hotkey button to quickly pick up all loot. But it's not working in GOG version. I can't even find how to set up hotkey button for quickly looting in game menu!

2. Half of the hotkeys on the game bar don't work! Can't open map with hotkey. Can't open inventory. Only with mouse clicks.

3. The game camera has never been smooth. As the character moves, the camera seems to twitch. It was in 2004 and it still same now. But this is a "feature" of the game engine. This can only be fixed in the new Remaster version.

4. Many other ancient bugs that have never been fixed...

Due to broken hotkeys and other bugs, it is not possible for me to complete the game...

As I can see, starting from 2020 the THQ Nordic is a new publisher of "Sacred". Let's hope they release a great remaster of this awesome game! This game need love. :)