Hey all,
So I’m finally starting to get into the stealth gameplay and noticed something odd about the noise rating on certain pieces of gear when equipped. It is my understanding that if no armor is equipped at all your noise rating should potentially go down or be zero. It is also my understanding that the noise rating on the character sheet is somewhat an average of all the pieces of gear equipped.
My question is, I’ve noticed in my game, that when I equip certain pieces of gear (For this instance I’ll explain the character’s head) such as a padded coif (Noise rating of 72) my overall noise goes up to 14. However if I then equip the Noble Mail Coif (Noise rating of 100) over the Padded Coif, my overall noise rating drops to zero. I do not have Stuffing unlocked, so I’m not sure why this is happening. The coifs are just one example, I noticed this with certain cuirasses and pauldrons as well.
Any ideas? Is it just a bug on the character sheet? Or are the noise ratings for these pieces bugged? Or is there just some mechanic I’m not aware of?
Any help is awesome!