User blog:GlowLightMario/OLD Cloak of the Undying vs NEW Cloak of the Undying

So recently, I've kept thinking if I should buy the "Cloak of the Undying" gear on the Catalog because I heard you can be "invincible" from that thing. Well, not technically invincible but more like invincible from Melee and Ranged weapons. I tested the gear on ROBLOX Studio 2013...

And I'm completely confused with it. First, I started a Local Server with 2 Players on ROBLOX Studio 2013 to see, what's the weaknesses from transforming as a bat. I tested with random Melee weapons first and the bat was hurtable/killable from the sword. Ranged weapons were the same.

Now, I checked back to this Wikia and it says that "The user is invincible to any sword or non-explosive tool, as the bat itself has no health bar". Yet when I tried it, I died from a sword. But then I thought, was there an old version of the Cloak of the Undying? And yes, there was. And now, I'm going to analyse these 2 versions of the gear.

Before we start, here's the link to the old "Cloak of the Undying" gear (it's a model btw).

Overview
Let's make things simple. The old gear name was called "BatCloak" while the current version is called "CloakOfTheUndyingBat". Nothing interesting, I know. Also, holding the old gear makes your player stand still (also, no walking animations and other stuff. I assume it was when you had the old animations).

Both gears have the same ability to jump higher. What I did is just rapidly click and then jump. And now, we can finally start the real part...

Bat Transformation
As I tested on ROBLOX Studio 2013, I saw some changes of the new/current version. Here's a list I noticed: That's what all I got for today. But, I have something more...
 * 1) When transforming into a bat with the current one, your backpack will disappear including your gears. The older one didn't make the backpack disappear, so you were able to do something with your other gears.
 * 2) When returning back to human with the current one, your hats are gone. The older one doesn't have that problem.
 * 3)  You're no longer able to go through walls due to the mesh update (stated by the Wikia).  And of course, the older one ALSO doesn't have that problem.
 * 4)  The current one has the humanoid more recognizable.  Not sure if you understand this but what I'm trying to say is, that the current one can be recognized by the NPCs. The older one, well, when you transformed, the NPCs didn't recognize the bat.
 * 5)  Like I said, the current bat is hurtable from Melee or Ranged weapons.  I am not 100% sure if it's true but I didn't get hurt 'from the Melee or Ranged weapons in the older version.
 * 6)  The bat flapping its wings are more smooth and detailed.  The old version has like 3 frames of flapping its wings with different meshes (what I assume).

Glitches
Not sure if it's just me or the server. So basically, I spawned the current Cloak of the Undying gear on a server I published and let's say... I reset or die from a NPC. What happend?

My entire backpack is gone. Is this a problem, you may ask? '''This is a huge problem! You're no longer able to wear/use gears because of that glitch!''' The only thing I know is leave and rejoin the server. Now, when I tested this on ROBLOX Studio 2013 in Play Solo, it was everything normal. I had my backpack and got everything.

In conclusion
I haven't bought the gear yet but I'm not sure if I really want to buy this when it's heavily nerfed. ROBLOX updated a lot of gears, which are heavily nerfed such as the Darksteel Katana of Ancient Illuminators or the Body Swap Potion. I also have another questions for you people.

If you have the current "Cloak of the Undying" gear, did it remove your backpack after you died? Please send me a comment if you have one!

That's all I got for today. I hope you have a nice day from reading my very first blog :D

See you around!

- GlowLightMario, 07/01/2017