Hi folks!

I downloaded Fallout 1 recently and have a serious problem with gameplay. I play it on Hard with NPC mod. I'm in Hub now, slept 4 days in a row on the street to catch FGT caravan. Unfortunately, when I leave a map through exit-point or enter a sector from world map (random encounters, entering a town etc.), an Ian's corpse will spawn right next to me. But Ian is still alive and healthy, standing by my side. This corpse has the same armor like living one, but has no equipment. It keeps spawning every time I left a sector ant it's quite a bummer, because if I enter an enemy sector (random encounter for example), the corpse has the priority and it will spawn BEFORE the living version of Ian. The game evaluates it as normal and does not spawn the living version then. Therefore I'm one gun short in theese encounters. An old save works, but when I sleep again it will happen again. Is there some permanent way to fix it???

I don't know whether this is a (mod-)bug or a corrupt savegame, which occurs quite often. I'd try going back even further to an older save and see what happens.

Older save works fine so far, I will let you know if something happens.

It happened again, just before leaving Necropolis. I decided to fire/kill Ian and continue the game, but after an hour of gameplay the same thing happened to Tycho. I pressume that this bug must have something to do with NPC mod.

Yes, that's very likely. If it's a genuine bug, there's probably no easy solution. The only thing you could do is pinpointing the circumstances when it happens and make it reproducible. Then try to avoid the bug and contact the mod devs for a patch.

I didn't completely figured it out yet, but I found out one curious thing. I use my party mebers as mules for all the loot and equipment I find during the game and when I wanna sell it, I have to use stealing. Usually, I can steal anything in any quantity from them or put anything in their inventory. They don't notice a sh*t. But if they chatch me, I save the game after that unsuccesful attempt and then load the game from the same slot, the glitch will occur at 100% after leaving a map.