huh.. after i entered that portal. My crew appeared around me in the dataspace..
and they can combat sorta.. and are..
they can damage everything. haven't been hit yet so idk if they can die etc
but they do not show up on the turn order.
also every few turns. My decker main character will have 3 turns to himself.
i.e. 3 ap a turn, and 3 turns before anyone else on the field gets a turn.

I hard jacked out.. and everyone is still in there... and not in my apartment
My main char/decker left the scene and they were still stuck in..


further they can NOT jack out. the option simply does not appear to them.. so I can't progress from here at all.

I'll try reloading again and seeing what happens.. but counting the first time the door didn't work this would be the 2nd time.
for the fun of it I killed off all my chars in the net. The only one who survived was frosty. but she was also the last one to die so i think she was saved via character scene movement


Specs:

I"m a decker of pretty high skill. with conjuration, punching and chi. I have the furita? (2nd best? ) decking board
I am using shadowrun dragonfall's beta optional update as well so it might be that

I am not sure what the beta optional update is. In the matrix did you at any point exit combat? I may have made a mistake on that part. Where the matrix is concerned you have to keep combat going the whole time or the triggers to teleport you will cause the entire team to tag along. If they tagged along they were still behaving as if they were in meat space instead of the matrix which is why the decker gets more turns. Virtual movement is much quicker than normal so deckers tend to get several turns before the rest of the team moves again. If I allow character import then I have to allow gear otherwise any cyberware you should have vanishes and you never get your essence back. What weapon do you have that is allowing chakra buffs? This mission is designed as a follow up from Desert Wars. Is your character an import from that campaign or a different one?

I left combat.. when I had killed everything? but they teleported before combat actually started. As ssoon as I activated the first data file-which creates the door. As soon as I went through that door combat started and the whole crew was there.
Once combat ended and I hit the last node (past the enemies) i could leave but the crew was stuck. I haven't retried it since I last posted this stuff. So it might work on the third try. Just bee nplaying skyrim/fallout

I didn't import Desert Wars, I just used Karma to push him up to around 200 and import one from part way dragonfall. I started playing Desert Wars but stopped. It wasn't really my style. and the intro just said a follow up for around 200karma not that you had to play it (i.e. deser wars items from in game would be needed)
The chakra attacks didn't show up on my punching, punch weapon or baseball bat. but I had leveled up far enough so they should have. and I could use the chakra spells I bought. Showed up fine prior to import. so I thought maybe it was the punch weapon I brought it and bought a different one in game but didn't seem to change it.
The only major item issue was just the programs used in cyberspace. I'm guessing because they are not formally equipeed when not in dataspace. So when it imported it didn't register it as "on person" equipment nad likely was left behind

As for the beta thing. On the front page for shadowrun dragonfall it announced that they' opened up beta stuff for anyone who wanted it. So it could cause issues. It has a list somewhere of what it changes. and its activated by rightclicking the game and going to properties and betas. so it could easily be that if it changes something specific thats used.

Thanks for the info. Desert Wars isn't required, it is just a prequel to Darkness Falls. I was asking to make certain the gear issues weren't something importing from that campaign. Some story elements may leave you in the dark since they are a reference to Desert Wars, but it won't be anything major. Mainly just character backgrounds.

Interesting. I can not opt into the beta with my dragonfall but I can with my original DMS. Doesn't do me any good here, but I'll keep checking on it. Hopefully that will change.

Do you have Jane "Frosty" Foster with you or just Cullen and your optional hired character? I keep trying to get it to do that for me in the matrix, but I haven't ran it yet with Jane in my team. So far it is working properly for me.

Okay I just tried it with her in my team as well. I can't reproduce the matrix issue. However, on the off chance that it is a glitch in the steam side I went ahead and repatched it. I think I'll add a small matrix part in the first scene now so one can test to see if their programs came through with them on import. At least it would give a better idea of where you are gear wise.

Yeah Frosty is the girl from the snow-beast mission-thats is just you and her running around killing them then they revert back into humanoids right?
yeah she's with me.

cool thanks. I'll try it again tonight/tmrw since i'm finally freeish haha. I'll letcha know and i'll take screen shots if it goes weird.