It doesn't matter if you started the beta late. As long as you logged in to pso2 with the Microsoft account used for the beta, or linked it to your steam account by July 7th. Contact sega and submit a request about it.
Your inventory and character storage are tied to the character. These will be separate for each character. They won't interfere with any other chars' inventory/char storage. The items in the shared storage from Ship 1 (Basic, extended, material, premium, etc) will be shared with the transferred char.
Any items in ship 4 in any shared storage will not transfer. These will be left behind in ship 4, that is if there is any character left on the ship or otherwise they be gone.
Your welcome. If you go back and forth between base PSO2 n NGS, don't forget to carry Meseta on your char on the Base side as well as storing items you want to your character storage.
Items in your Inventory and Character Storage will be transferred. Any items that are in storage that shared among other chars within the same ship like Material, Extended, Default storage won't be.
Meseta on your char will be transferred as well. But Meseta in storage won't transfer.
Items you want to transfer make sure they are in your inventory and character storage. As well have your Meseta on your character.
Have you used a different profile or platform to play the base PSO2 like steam or the epic store?
Have you checked the right ship(s)? Might be on another ship if you requested a ship transfer. Did it also download/installed base pso2?
From what I can tell you won't see the animation when you are in photon dash. You see the full animation on a normal jump or fall without moving. But when you land and continue to move forward, from a normal jump or fall, you may just see the landing of the animation or just the crouch.
Base PSO 2 and NGS are merged together. It is close to 100 GB with both. 70 GB for the base pso2 + 38 GB for NGS. Though I don't see any separate downloads, there might be an option somewhere to download them separately.