Cyberpunk 2077 Players Want to Be Able to Preview Clothes Before Buying Them

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Even after a year and a half, it's tough to bring up a discussion on Cyberpunk 2077 without at least giving passing thought to the disaster that was its initial launch. While recent events have come to light which suggest that CD Projekt Red may not have been fully responsible for Cyberpunk 2077's bugs, there are still plenty of people who are having a hard time letting go. Still, there's no denying that things have significantly improved since December 2020, but there's evidently one feature that fans would like to see get added.

From a recent post on the Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit, it seems that, of all the things the developer could have added to the game, fans are puzzled that one feature wasn't implemented from the start. When players customize V's clothes, there is no option to preview any of the potential new threads. Instead, items need to be purchased before the player can see how their character looks in their new clothes. Comments in the thread agree with the sentiment that this is quite a large oversight and that having to buy the clothes only to find out they look ugly on V is something that could be prevented with a preview feature.

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Of course, there are mods for Cyberpunk 2077 which can rectify this, such as one called «Virtual Atelier,» as pointed out by user efvie, but it does seem a little odd that CDPR didn't think to add this in from the very beginning. Whether the ability to preview clothes before buying them will get put in eventually remains to be seen, but hopefully the studio will see fit to implement the feature in a future update. For now, users like Zebra-Tux say they have to quicksave the game before choosing clothing items so they can reload if they