1.5's Balance Changes sadly made clothing an even bigger issue than before.

[Shadowbane1992]

Don't get me wrong, I like what they're going for but now that some clothing types are getting set stats, but it's made the whole "clown character" issue even worse. Which is terrible for the current balance as well when many face clothing, which is now the only clothing that takes certain special mods such as Bully and Deadeye.

For instance the Kang Tao Manganese Combat Ocuset (The black/red single eyepiece on sell from Appel De Paris) Instead of having it's only mod slot that face clothing gets now it has the stat: "+0.20 Weapon Zoom" instead of being able to slot the Bully/Deadeye mods.

BIG

Really hope clothing gets a minimum mod slot regardless of assigned stats in an upcoming patch, or more than likely a mod that'll give us some slots back

[48 YEARS OLD VIRGIN]

Hopefully they'll add a transmog system but right now, yeah, you can't have style and good stats at the same time.

[ZombieHunter]

There is a simple fix that most games have adopted. One set of clothes is visual only and one is armor only. That way you can dress however you want yet retain your stats. And lets be honest when you saw all those half naked bandits in Skyrim running aorund with giant swords kicking your butt you had to ask....how do they have so much armor wearing that?

[Karax]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

There is a simple fix that most games have adopted. One set of clothes is visual only and one is armor only. That way you can dress however you want yet retain your stats. And lets be honest when you saw all those half naked bandits in Skyrim running aorund with giant swords kicking your butt you had to ask....how do they have so much armor wearing that?

To be fair, most armor in vanilla skyrim is well designed, the only half naked armors being the very first low-level sets, everything else from iron and steel to daedric, glass and bone, covers pretty much everything.

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by Karax:

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

There is a simple fix that most games have adopted. One set of clothes is visual only and one is armor only. That way you can dress however you want yet retain your stats. And lets be honest when you saw all those half naked bandits in Skyrim running aorund with giant swords kicking your butt you had to ask....how do they have so much armor wearing that?

To be fair, most armor in vanilla skyrim is well designed, the only half naked armors being the very first low-level sets, everything else from iron and steel to daedric, glass and bone, covers pretty much everything.

Yeah but b/c the world levels with you those little half naked bandits get pretty nasty later in the game. And yet they are wearing next to nothing except cave man armor. But overall the armor system is much more well designed than what we have here. I feel like a fashion disaster walking around in CP2077. And I can't do anything about it b/c that is the stuff I have that has the best stats. It seems no effort was taken to ensure best stats came in groups of clothes that actually, um, matched.

[Pedra]

its most likely is a 2 step process they are in for rebalancing the whole armor thing.
letting only certain mods only fit certain armors fixes some balancing problems.
but the problem is bigger and the whole system needs an overhaul. a certain mod already showed this and maybe they are working to integrate his feedback. but sadly not in this patch.
and transmog/ or armor upgrade system might be something that they are still working on as part of this

[Zoot_Allures]

go naked and carry a sniper rifle

[ZombieHunter]

My V is a walking fashion reject but the stats are good. And since I never see my V then it doesn't matter. In fact I took everything off and the NPCs were none the wiser. But I looked down and had shorts on. But in the mirror I was naked.

[Fake]

You can perfectly play the game with just Vs starting outfit.

I know that it's possible because my first play through, my V was dressed in his starting corpo suit throughout the main storyline.

Heck, the poor guy didn't have any cyberware besides the starting one + the epic Kiroshi.

This was on 1.31 on Hard, not sure how it'll work in 1.5 on Very Hard.

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by Fake:

You can perfectly play the game with just Vs starting outfit.

I know that it's possible because my first play through, my V was dressed in his starting corpo suit throughout the main storyline.

Heck, the poor guy didn't have any cyberware besides the starting one + the epic Kiroshi.

This was on 1.31 on Hard, not sure how it'll work in 1.5 on Very Hard.

You don't even need the cyberware. I gave up on it midway through the game. It was useless. I just went in guns blazing. Much quicker and more effective. Everyone always came running out like they had some kind of deathwish anyways. Easy kills.

[Karax]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Originally posted by Fake:

You can perfectly play the game with just Vs starting outfit.

I know that it's possible because my first play through, my V was dressed in his starting corpo suit throughout the main storyline.

Heck, the poor guy didn't have any cyberware besides the starting one + the epic Kiroshi.

This was on 1.31 on Hard, not sure how it'll work in 1.5 on Very Hard.

You don't even need the cyberware. I gave up on it midway through the game. It was useless. I just went in guns blazing. Much quicker and more effective. Everyone always came running out like they had some kind of deathwish anyways. Easy kills.

Cyberware can be super OP especially for a stealth-type built, you can easily override security surveillance systems, and launch cyber attacks on your enemies without even knowing where you are

[N7 Andy]

Actually it's done the opposite. It's made clothing much more cosmetic by reducing the amount of mod slots they have, so now you can wear what you like and not worry about stats so much. You have way less armor overall (lucky to hit a few hundred, before you could have 5000+) which means the game is harder overall. Mod slots will not make you OP anymore. They are ok bonuses, totally optional tbh.. but the main stats come from your character build and attribute / perk choices now. I'm about 30 hours into my current 1.5 playthrough, and I haven't died once on Very Hard. I'm still wearing nothing but the default clothes because it's a nice, matching outfit. I have ♥♥♥♥ all armor but I'm good at the game.