I'm running in PC Vulkan, and I've seen with with many different backpacks and friends. The backpacks seem only ok in a 5m radius, after that they seem like a possessed entity trying to leave the body of my friends. Same for the parachute.
I've seen similar backpack glitches on my AI teammates, when I'm flying an Overseer chopper. The backpacks look like they're being sucked into the chopper's rotor blades.