Can anyone shed some light on this? I haven't been on since the last major dupe glitch and I come back to see that my backpacks have changed from the free states backpacks to "standard standard" backpacks. Honestly, what the fuck is going on?
Cosmetic backpacks now works as a skin rather than a separately crafted backpack item. You should be able to apply the Free States skin to your backpack at the armor workbench.