@echo off rem BT411 -- single-player play. Opens the MISSION MENU: pick your mech rem (all 18), map, experience level, colours, weather, mission length and rem more, then launch. SOLO MISSION = timed with scoring; RAW SOLO = rem endless practice. The menu returns after each mission. cd /d %~dp0 rem ONE unified build (2026-07-21): the exe carries every layer; the GLASS rem platform env arms the desktop cockpit (clickable MFD buttons, trigger rem config, bindings.txt keymap). set BT_PLATFORM=glass if not exist "build\Release\btl4.exe" goto badpath if not exist "content\OPERATOR.EGG" goto badpath set BT_START_INSIDE=1 set BT_DEV_GAUGES=1 rem LOGGING (2026-07-28): the bat no longer names or rotates the log. With rem BT_LOG unset the exe names a PER-DAY file itself -- content\solo_YYYYMMDD.log rem -- and always appends, so every session of the day lands in one file with a rem "===== BT411 SESSION ... =====" header between them. rem rem WHY: rotation kept only TWO generations (del *.old.log, then ren *.log rem *.old.log). On 2026-07-27 a player crashed twice, kept playing, and his own rem relaunches deleted both crash sessions before anyone could ask for them -- rem the stacks were lost permanently. A per-day file has no rotation window to rem fall out of. The stem still separates solo from the MULTIPLAYER log, so a rem player who crashes in MP and then runs solo still cannot destroy their own rem crash evidence. set BT_FE_SOLO=1 rem Clear any INHERITED BT_LOG: with it set the exe uses that path verbatim rem and, with no BT_LOG_APPEND, TRUNCATES it -- the exact evidence loss this rem change removes. Empty forces the per-day self-named file + append. set BT_LOG= cd content rem LAUNCH FORENSICS (#41): bracket the exe from outside, so a launch that dies rem before it can log anything still leaves a record. The exe APPENDS its own rem block to lastrun_solo.txt at first breath (build, pid, local time, and WHICH rem day-log it chose -- cmd cannot derive that name itself, %DATE% being rem locale-ordered and full of '/'). So: delete the file here and do NOT rem pre-write it -- its ABSENCE afterwards is what means "never reached rem WinMain". Writing a line here first would make that test always pass. rem This REPLACES the old "if not exist solo.log" probe, which a per-day log rem silently breaks: that file survives earlier launches, so the probe could rem never fire and every healthy run would be reported as blocked. rem No find/findstr probe -- MSYS shadows both (see the note above :btwait). if exist lastrun_solo.txt del lastrun_solo.txt rem ------------------------------------------------------------------ rem OUR GENERATION ONLY (2026-07-27). The wait loop below used to hold rem this window open for ANY btl4.exe on the machine -- a second client, rem the operator's own pod, or an orphan left by a crash. The window rem then never printed the sign-off and looked hung: the reported "it rem leaves the terminal open". Snapshot the PIDs alive BEFORE we launch; rem those belong to somebody else and must not hold us here. rem ------------------------------------------------------------------ setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set "BT_PRE=," for /f "tokens=1,2" %%P in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\tasklist.exe /FI "IMAGENAME eq btl4.exe" /NH 2^>nul') do ( if /I "%%P"=="btl4.exe" set "BT_PRE=!BT_PRE!%%Q," ) ..\build\Release\btl4.exe set BT_EXITCODE=%ERRORLEVEL% if not exist lastrun_solo.txt echo THE EXE NEVER REACHED WinMain: blocked before it could run (loader failure or antivirus) > lastrun_solo.txt echo [%DATE% %TIME%] btl4.exe exited with code %BT_EXITCODE% >> lastrun_solo.txt rem ------------------------------------------------------------------ rem HANDOFF WAIT (2026-07-25). The front end does NOT stay resident: it rem CreateProcess()es the mission generation and ExitProcess(0)s itself rem (btl4console.cpp). So OUR child exiting means "the menu handed off", rem NOT "the game closed" -- without this wait the window announced "The rem game has exited" while the game was still loading, which reads as a rem crash to a playtester. Wait for the handed-off generation(s) to go. rem rem NO EXTERNAL TOOLS: `find`, `findstr` and `timeout` are all shadowed by rem Git-Bash / MSYS / GnuWin32 builds of the same names when those are on rem PATH (a dev box, or a player who installed git). The MSYS `find` is rem the Unix one and dies with "find: '/I': No such file or directory", rem and GNU `timeout` takes different arguments. So: parse tasklist with rem a pure-cmd for/f, and call both helpers by ABSOLUTE System32 path. rem A genuinely dead exe leaves no process and falls straight through, so rem the #41 launch forensics above still work. If tasklist is missing rem entirely the loop degrades to reporting immediately -- the old rem behaviour, never a hang. rem ------------------------------------------------------------------ :btwait set "BT_STILL_RUNNING=" for /f "tokens=1,2" %%P in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\tasklist.exe /FI "IMAGENAME eq btl4.exe" /NH 2^>nul') do ( if /I "%%P"=="btl4.exe" ( rem a PID that was NOT in the pre-launch snapshot is ours set "BT_STRIP=!BT_PRE:,%%Q,=!" if "!BT_STRIP!"=="!BT_PRE!" set "BT_STILL_RUNNING=1" ) ) if defined BT_STILL_RUNNING ( %SystemRoot%\System32\timeout.exe /t 2 /nobreak >nul 2>nul goto btwait ) echo. echo The game has exited. If it closed unexpectedly, send the operator echo BOTH of these from the content folder: echo content\lastrun_solo.txt (tiny -- send it EVEN IF there is echo no solo_*.log at all: that combination echo is how we spot a blocked launch) echo content\solo_YYYYMMDD.log echo (just take the NEWEST solo_*.log -- do not go by the date in the name. echo A log day runs 6am to 6am, so anything you played after midnight is echo still filed under the evening you started, which keeps one night in echo one file. Each session inside starts with a "===== BT411 SESSION" echo line naming your build and PC, so it identifies itself even if the echo filename gets changed in transit.) pause exit /b :badpath echo. echo ================================================== echo ERROR: this file is not in the right place. echo. echo It must sit in the EXTRACTED game folder, next to echo the 'content' and 'build' folders. echo. echo Fix: right-click the .zip - Extract All, open the echo extracted folder, and run this file from THERE. echo (Do NOT run it from inside the zip.) echo ================================================== echo. pause