Better Backpacks 1.4.2

• Renamed from Invisible Backpack Fix: the download is now BetterBackpacks.vmz and the loader shows "Better Backpacks". No gameplay changes.
• Updating: delete InvisibleBackpackFix.vmz from your mods folder and drop in BetterBackpacks.vmz. It's the same mod id, so your settings carry over (and if you forget, the loader keeps the newer one and hides the old).

Requires Metro Mod Loader v3.4.1+ and Road to Vostok Build 2 (v0.2.0.0 through v0.2.1.0). Drop BetterBackpacks.vmz into Road to Vostok/mods/.

Better Backpacks 1.4.1 (formerly Invisible Backpack Fix)

• Checked against game version 0.2.1.0: works unchanged (the AI and ragdoll code it hooks didn't change). Version bump only.

Requires Metro Mod Loader v3.4.1+ and Road to Vostok Build 2 (v0.2.0.0 through v0.2.1.0). Drop InvisibleBackpackFix.vmz into Road to Vostok/mods/.

Invisible Backpack Fix 1.4.0

Invisible Backpack Fix 1.4.0

• Bodies now settle onto the ground whenever you take their backpack, even long after they died. Before, a body
  that had already come to rest stayed propped up in mid-air where the backpack had been.
• How: a body still wearing its backpack keeps its ragdoll live (the game normally freezes it 10 s after death).
  Once the backpack is taken it settles for a moment, then freezes like vanilla. Up to 8 bodies at a time, 3 minutes
  each. A frozen ragdoll is never restarted, so no ghost bodies.

Install: drop InvisibleBackpackFix.vmz into Road to Vostok/mods/ (replace the old one) and check it in the loader
window. Requires Metro Mod Loader 3.4.1+.

Invisible Backpack Fix 1.3.2 (hotfix)

Hotfix. Taking the backpack off a body whose ragdoll had already come to rest could make the body vanish and reappear as a collapsed "ghost" at its original death spot. The mod no longer restarts frozen ragdolls: bodies stay exactly where they lie (if you take the backpack within ~10 s of death, the body still settles onto the ground).

Update: replace InvisibleBackpackFix.vmz in Road to Vostok/mods/ with this one.

Invisible Backpack Fix 1.3.1

Fixes three backpack problems in Road to Vostok:

• Invisible backpacks: dead AI no longer drop a pile of hidden, lootable backpacks (every AI secretly carried one of each model).
• Buried backpacks: a dead AI's backpack is now part of the ragdoll, so a body that falls on its back lies on top of it instead of pushing it into the ground. Loot it and the body settles back down.
• Rarity: about 1 in 4 AI now carry a backpack (vanilla ~1 in 20): low-tier for bandits and Nomads, Patrol/Jaeger for Guards, Jaeger/Kantamus for Military. Set chance_percent in rtv_backpackfix.cfg to 5 for vanilla rates.

Install: drop InvisibleBackpackFix.vmz into Road to Vostok/mods/ and check it in the Metro Mod Loader window.
Requires Road to Vostok Build 2 (v0.2.0.0) and Metro Mod Loader 3.4.1+.