Overview
This is guide contains step by step instructions for macOS users to be able to play the Dead Man’s Switch Campaign in the Shadowrun: Dragonfall Director’s Cut.
Preface
Credit to munnleit for creating his/her guide allowing me to notice the need to create this one for other macOS users.
How you can accomplish this
Note: You will need to have purchased both Shadow Run Returns and Shadowrun: Dragonfall Director’s Cut on Steam to follow these instructions. Also, I tried to idiot-proof these as much as I could.
Do not have either game running while doing this.
1. Open two Finder windows. Position one on the left side of your screen, then position the second one on the right side.
2. With the left Finder window selected and active, press Shift + Command + G.
A box labelled “Go to the folder” will pop up. Copy and paste the following into the box then click “Go”:
~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Shadowrun Returns/Shadowrun.app/Contents/Data/StreamingAssets/ContentPacks/dead_man_switch
This folder is inside your Shadowrun Returns Steam installation. It contains the campaign data.
3. Now, with the right Finder window selected and active , press Shift + Command + G again.
A box labelled “Go to the folder” will pop up. Copy and paste the following into the box then click “Go”:
~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Shadowrun Dragonfall Director’s Cut/Dragonfall.app/Contents/Data/StreamingAssets/ContentPacks/dead_man_switch
This folder is inside your Shadowrun: Dragonfall Director’s Cit Steam installation. It contains the destination where we want to copy over the data from Shadowrun Returns.
4. With the Finder window that is on the left selected and active, hold down the Alt key and drag the file named “project.cpack.bytes” over to the window on the right. When prompted that the item already exists, select the “Replace” option.
Note: It is very important that you hold down the Alt key while dragging the file from left to right. If you don’t, then the file will not be created as a copy and the original will be moved instead.
5. With the Finder window that is on the right selected and active, open the folder named “data”.
6. With the Finder window that is on the left selected and active, open the folder named “data”.
7. From the left Finder window, hold down the Alt key then drag the folder named “maps” over to the Right Finder window. This should copy over the entire “maps” folder.
8. From the left Finder window, hold down the Alt key then drag the folder named “scenes” over to the Right Finder window. This should copy over the entire “scenes” folder.
9. Close both Finder windows. Open Steam and start up Shadowrun: Dragonfall Director’s cut.
10. Enjoy the Dead Man’s Switch campaign.
11. Rejoice!
12. Have a victory sandwich.
How you undo this for whatever reason
If for whatever reason you wish to undo this change, or have somehow managed to make a mistake, then just select either game in your Steam library, right click and select “Properties”. Then, go to the “Local Files” tab and click on the “Verify Game Files” button.
Doing so will force Steam to check your installation and only download/replace problematic/missing files.