I followed the steps and I still get a black screen with music and nothing else, the loading bar apprears for 3 sec and disaprears.

@Mad Villainy - Are you using Steam or Nexus? Do you recognize the music? IE - could you say where in Dead Man's Switch the music appears? What OS are you on? What version of SRR are you on?
There is a small percentage of people who trouble getting it to start, and I have yet to identify what they have in common...

I have noticed sometimes it takes a few restarts / downloads for modules to properly update. I don't know if that is related or not.

The prop pack should be mentioned in the description for the mod. Right now, you have to either dig through the comments or find this support thread *after* it doesn't work. If it were in the description, folks would have an easier time getting it to work.

@Thunderforge - I definitely want to update the description, but I have yet to receive confirmation that doing so will no longer break the publish. Last time I updated the description it published as a new pack and made all the subscribers quite unhappy or confused. :(

Using Steam. OS X Maverick, SRR version 1.1, SRR starts normally, I click on the subscribed content and it asks if I want to import or use a default/new character. Clicking on any option results in... nothing. Stays on the intro screen, plays music, nothing happens.

@stoopid_munkeyb - The most likely cause is that you aren't subscribed to the resource pack we use or you are subscribed but your computer hasn't updated it yet. (the link is available in the title post of this thread). If subscribing and making sure that updates doesn't work, let us know.

I'm also having the problem where the module does not work. I followed the steps here, and did download the product pack. It does start but immediately freezes, and you can hear the normal menu music playing. You can barely make out the figure of Jake (I assume it's Jake) in the black screen (Im also assuming it's doing a fade from black in the intro). I'm running it in Steam on Windows 7 64 bit. I first tried this on 1.9.0 and now trying on 1.14.0 but nothing has changed.

hmm... i'll have to check the opening scene, maybe a trigger or something broke.
thanks for the info.

Same issue Zatos has, Steam on Win7, 64bit, SRR+Dragonfall, subscribed to this of course and the portraits & props pack. Start new game, load bar pops up for a split second, disappears, black screen with menu music and barely visible player character. I noticed this happened to a few other UGCs that were broken post-Dragonfall.

There needs to be some variable I'm missing... Something to explain why it works for some steam users but not all. @MinganIsABeast - Just confirming, you are using the default character? a new character? or an imported character?
I'm wondering if its a problem with Jake himself...

Same issue here, black screen, menu music, when selecting default character. When choosing a new character, the character generation starts and after that the mod starts ok.

Fixed. And he gets a powerboost too.
This freeze was being caused by the Jake "model". When I created my own using appearance numbers it worked fine.
He also was boosted to 53 karma starting (he may or may not stay at that level)

I have latest steam version, subscribed Portraits and Props (a long time ago). And I cant start this module, its just get back to main menu, after choosing New/Import/Default Character (no matter what I choose). Same repeats on my second PC.
Output_log.txt contain some error messages like :
(Filename:C:/BuildAgent/work/cac08d8a5e25d4cb/Runtime/ExportGenerated/StandalonePlayer/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 54)
LOAD [WARN] Unable to switch to project: 51a9844d633461e82400002a
(Filename:C:/BuildAgent/work/cac08d8a5e25d4cb/Runtime/ExportGenerated/StandalonePlayer/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 54)
LOAD [WARN] Unable to switch to project: 51a9844d633461e82400002a
(Filename:C:/BuildAgent/work/cac08d8a5e25d4cb/Runtime/ExportGenerated/StandalonePlayer/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 54)
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at SaveManager.CreateNewSaveGame (isogame.ProjectDef project, isogame.StoryDef story, Boolean makeActive, System.String startScene) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at FileLoader.SwitchToProject (System.String projectId, Boolean prepareNewGame, System.String startScene) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at NewGameScreen.NewCharacter (.NewGameEntry entry, Boolean isHardcore) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at NewGameScreen.OnPopupClosed (PopupContents result) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

My best guess would be that you do not have the Berlin expansion. We gave it careful thought and decided to utilize it for the new props.
We wanted to avoid using the props so that people would not need to buy the expansion, but the majority of our fans already have it. (and realistically its worth it MUCH more than Dead Man's Switch)
We announced this elsewhere in the forums but neglected to update this thread with that info. (which I will do now)