Meredith Stout's shaved head was explained by missing hair physics

If the player betrays Meredith Stout or ignores her plan, the Militech agent's body later turns up in the bay by the Watson docks: feet in concrete and a shaved head. Players read it as a cruel detail of the criminal world. Paweł Sasko, replying to a fan, explained the production.

He likes hiding strokes like this and writes that in Night City there is always a bigger fish, and the price of a mistake is high. The head is shaved for another reason: at the time there was no budget or capacity for a rig and for hair physics underwater. Sasko rewrote the limit into the story. Public shaving has often meant humiliation, and for a Meredith who lost inside Militech it fit the same execution.

His post ends on the idea that technical walls often produce the cleanest invention.

A detail praised as lore began as an inability to draw wet hair.