- Read or search the FAQ (Ctrl+F is your friend). Chances are, someone has asked your question before.
- Make sure you have essential stability and bugfix mods installed. For information on what mods are essential for stability, read up to the end of the Tweaks section on this website.
- Use MO2 and FNVEdit to determine mod conflicts. Confirm which mods are conflicting with NVR3R or confirm that nothing is conflicting. It is extremely easy to do this using FNVEdit. If any mods are conflicting with NVR3R, you have to fix those conflicts.
- Isolate the problem. Disable all your mods except essential ones. Chances are, the problem is on your end.
- Take screenshots or videos of your problem. If something is wrong with an NPC, find its Editor ID (you can do this in the console).
- If you’ve confirmed that there are no conflicts and your game is stable, make a bug report in the BUGS section. Include all the information you gained from the above steps in your post, along with a pastebin of your modlist and plugin list. This is obtainable using MO2.
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Now, you’ll find backpacks sold by vendors and carried by NPCs, both named and unnamed. Effort has been taken to give these to NPCs where having them makes sense (and avoids any unnecessary clipping with armor). Since Qwib included models for multiple factions and groups pre-war and post-war, the items have been distributed in a way that makes sense and is somewhat worked into the lore. This means that there are several varieties to find and collect throughout the Wasteland.
For various reasons (lore, model clipping, balance, not wanting to delete entries in existing leveled lists), not every member of every faction carries their faction’s backpack. Instead, a subjectively healthy amount have been added for the sake of variety in the loot pools, and their value has been adjusted to their rarity. You can explain their scarcity due to factions having difficulty manufacturing and transporting their own backpacks in the Wasteland, where brahmins are the closest thing to vehicles. The player should also have plenty to repair their own backpack with, though they shouldn’t be flooded with them.
In general, backpacks increase your carrying capacity at the cost of Agility and Sneak. Heavier, armored backpacks reduce your movement speed as well. Vendors such as Chet and Lacey sell them. They can be repaired by a variety of items, including other backpacks. There are three categories of backpacks:
- Caravan Backpacks: These are bigger makeshift packs mostly used by travelers. They come in a few colors. They are big and have a huge carrying capacity, but they limit the player’s ability to move around quickly and quietly. Raiders and the caravaneers they prey on often have these.
- Field Backpacks (from Qwib’s Canvas Backpacks): These are more ergonomic normal-sized backpacks manufactured in mass numbers and come in many colors. They have less negative stats. Mercenaries and those wearing Leather Armor or Combat Armor may also spawn with these.
- Special Backpacks (from Qwib’s Canvas Backpacks): Each faction’s own version of the Field Backpack, often modified for their own needs. Some pre-war companies have their own versions lying around the wasteland as well.
- Duffle Bags: These are small packs that spawn all over the Wasteland, just like the Field Backpacks.
NCR troopers of every variety now have a chance to carry an NCR backpack with their uniform. As the NCR is a big industrialized faction, these backpacks are quite common.
Legion veterans and explorers may have Legion-branded duffle bags. As a melee-based faction, they value the ability to sneak up on enemies and have modified their captured bags to do so more quietly.
Backpacks don’t work great with power armor from both a practical and a model clipping standpoint, but Brotherhood backpacks can be found on certain NPCs. You can also buy them from Knight Torres in Hidden Valley.
VaultTec and WestTek backpacks can be found in vaults and with the few Vault dwellers in the game as well as the Boomer faction. You can also buy VaultTec backpacks from Sarah Weintraub.
Although they’re not a big faction, the Followers have their own version since they used to be associated with the NCR.
Each faction backpack can be stolen from their camps and looted from their corpses. If you can score enough points to get into their safehouses, you’ll find them there as well.
Other backpacks (RobCo, Sunset Sarsparilla, NukaCola) are hidden throughout the wasteland in places that make sense and with special named NPCs. If you really want to spoil their location, go ahead and look at the world/cell edits in xEdit.
Generally, most backpacks look fine in vanilla without clipping with most armors and weapons. Thicker weapons may ruin the immersion, since they extrude from the back and clip with backpacks quite heavily. For this, I recommend “Armed to the Teeth - Redux”, which comes with built-in compatibility for backpack mods. When ATTR detects that the player is wearing a backpack, holstered weapons now take up slots on either side of the backpack and generally look much better.
ATTTR does not work for NPCs yet. The mod author has stated he may implement this functionality, so pray to the kNVSE gods and we’ll have a NPC version as well.
xEdit and GECK. I recommend Wabbajack and Viva New Vegas as a starting point to get a good dev environment.
Look at the Miscellaneous files under Files for "(Modder's Resource) CIBS Integration Example".
It's 100% not CIBS. You're probably using an old distribution mod like NCR Trooper Overhaul - Distributed that isn't properly written.