sv3672;n10121462 said:
it is not fun to switch back and forth between combat armor, trading outfit, crafting outfit, and whatever else with the appropriate stat bonuses for each situation.
Oh yes, gear roulette is always choresome when the achieved benefit as if nickle and diming for tiny benefits (i.e. hauling and wearing a +1 smithing outfit to get +1,25 bonus from crafting and repair instead of +1,0). Hauling a wardrobe in your pocket with all possible "job-uniforms" to change when ever there's the need like that is awful and not what I am looking for at all.
I would hope that "armor" in CP2077 is more of a tool than casual wear.
I don't think there should be +stat apparel (unless it logically fits, that there is an effect -- i.e. cool shades might make you more charismatic on the outset and ease some
initial disposition penalties, but you certainly shouldn't get more dialog options from sunglasses) either - like 'used carsalesman outfits' to give you price bonuses, or anything like that. A toolbelt might give you a bonus to repair (because the belt has tools) but a blue oilstained overalls would not.
I think that most of the time the PC should wear normal clothes and uses the "wardrobe and style" and "personal grooming" skills to gain access to people and places, that otherwise would not be open to him. You might need a very expensive and sylistic suit and to look very classy to get to that uptown highroller joint and talk with the manager for job opportunities; no change you get there in casuals or in riot armor. Similiarly the afore mentioned suit might be too classy for that suburban joint (they might think you're just a peacock who came in to show off and look down upon others, and while you get in and get service, you might not be looked at nicely by anyone but the bartender when he takes your peacock money -- should've chosen a more humble suit for that joint).
And it's a big bustling city. You might not even need to run "home" and back to always change to the "right" kind of overalls. You might be able to hire a sylist to suggest you something and rent a suit for the occasion - if you can afford it - and hope the puffy there was up for the task (if you haven't chosen to build that kind of character yourself, and thus don't have the required sense of style to get the right apparel and grooming); might not be cheap and it might not even work the way it is supposed to, but at least you have a chance to try.