I’m kinda sick of walking around Witcher 3’s world looking like Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. I’m supposed to be a gruff and grizzled monster hunter, living in a filthy world and at the bottom of the social hierarchy, dishing out menacing threats in a monotone voice, yet I’m dressed in pristine baby blue prince pyjamas because they happen to be the strongest clothes I’ve come across so far. Let me cut & paste the stats from these Pierrot cumrags into a butcher’s apron or something. And let me do it freely, with no in-game wank about having to visit a special magic tailor in the bumhole of nowhere, and with no restrictions on how often I can do it.
Fuckin’ 17th century unsuccessful baroque composer lookin’ ass. If someone came up to me dressed like my Witcher character, and challenged me to a fight to the death, I’d take the challenge because I know that no just universe or god would allow any harm to come to me from a person wearing that outfit. They could thrust an obsidian-tipped spear directly into my belly, and it’d harmlessly curve around me like a snake climbing a banana tree. The sacred blood of Christ would not allow for even a mild abrasion to befall me by the lace-gloved hand of a ballet theatre’s chief bathroom attendant.
What’s your criticism of Cyberpunk 2077’s wardrobe system?
The vanity/cosmetic aspect is all-or-nothing. As far as I can figure you can’t mix and match properly equipped items with a wardrobe outfit (i.e. by leaving those slots empty on the wardrobe side of things). It’s doubly annoying with Johnny’s stuff because they can’t be cosmetic, so you are forced to properly equip them and any other cosmetic choices instead of creating a vanity setup.
It’s a nitpick, but it has been an annoying barrier for me more than I would have expected throughout my playthrough.
I didnt experience this with Johnny’s outfit, the wardrobe menu definitely let me overwrite my appearance with his stuff while wearing whatever random crap underneath for the stats.
Don’t know how you managed it. His items are flagged as quest items so you can’t deposit them in the stash (which seems to be what the wardrobe menu populates its list from), and I tried everything I could think of the get a mix of properly equipped + cosmetic and it has never worked. My original assumption was that left/right/middle clicking the little hangar icon on each slot would let me toggle that particular cosmetic (since that’s what it indicates), but no dice. Neither did just leaving particular cosmetic slots empty, or equipping actual items after applying a wardrobe preset.
Would love to find out there’s a solution I just didn’t discover, but I certainly tinkered to the point of giving up.
His items are only marked as quest items until you have them all. Then you can stick them in the stash.
Also the wardrobe populates from any item you have acquired, not just the ones in the stash. I know this because I always go buy a bunch of street clothes in watson before talking to Jackie. I don’t stick them in the stash. I just buy them and disassemble them and use the parts for upgrades.
TIL! Good to know on all fronts, though I’m not sure why his stuff isn’t showing up in the wardrobe menu. Unless they don’t use the unique “iconic” background so I glossed over them without realizing? Hmm… guess it’s time for me to double-check the list, disassemble the absurd amount of clothes I have cluttering my stash, and further tinker to see how to allow mix-and-matching…
They don’t have the iconic background in the wardrobe. That also confused me the first time I went looking to make his outfit. You’ll have to either remember the icon of each item or hover over them to see the names.
That’d explain it then. I know at one point I’d had that thought and hovered over some of the items, but I guess I didn’t look seriously enough.