A player used a free camera to inspect character models in Cyberpunk 2077 and discovered that some female employees at Arasaka Tower lacked separate underwear models beneath their skirts. The game's handling of NPCs is inconsistent, with different characters employing various modeling approaches.
Some NPCs have more complete body models, while others lack basic details. Some characters even have underwear painted directly onto their skin textures, including Hanako Arasaka. Player discussions note that most NPCs use a base female model that originally included underwear, suggesting that the removal of related models for certain characters was likely a deliberate choice during production.
From a technical perspective, skirts fit closely to the body, and adding separate underwear models could cause clipping issues during character movement. Compared to adjusting animations individually, removing these models or representing them via skin textures might be simpler to handle.
As for whether this difference relates to the gilded skin of Arasaka Tower employees, Arasaka Corporation's aesthetic, or the game's lore, it remains merely an interesting interpretation without confirmation from the development team.