arcattackandClaude Opus 5
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Prompted by "does the steam path still generate our logs?". Answer: yes -- play_steam.bat sets BT_LOG=steam.log with append, and matchlogs arm because both Steam launch paths pass -net (the default trigger). But the audit found two evidence-destroying bugs on the way: 1. play_steam.bat DELETED the previous steam.log at every launch -- the same pattern fixed in join.bat/join_lan.bat last night. A Steam player who crashes and relaunches loses the stack. Now rotates to steam.old.log. 2. WORSE: play_solo.bat and joyconfig.bat deleted content\join.log -- the MULTIPLAYER log, not theirs. A player who crashed in MP and then ran solo to investigate (or ran the joystick wizard) DESTROYED THEIR OWN CRASH EVIDENCE. That is a very plausible part of how Conn Man's owens-laser stack vanished (#35) -- he had every reason to poke around after crashing. Each bat now writes its OWN log (solo.log / joyconfig.log), rotates it, and never touches join.log. Their launch-forensics + "send the operator" lines are repointed to match. VERIFIED in the zip layout (the bats need build\ + content\ beside them, so a repo-relative test is meaningless -- my first two attempts hit the badpath guard and proved nothing): solo.log = [boot] btl4 4.11.599 ... (the NEW run) solo.old.log = OLD-SOLO-CONTENT (rotated, not deleted) join.log = SEEDED-MP-EVIDENCE (untouched by the solo run) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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3.2 KiB
Batchfile
74 lines
3.2 KiB
Batchfile
@echo off
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rem BT411 -- STEAM play (EXPERIMENTAL, dev testers). Launches the glass
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rem front-end menu: HOST a Steam lobby or JOIN one from the menu -- there
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rem is no address to configure; sessions form through the Steam lobby.
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rem Requires: the Steam client RUNNING and logged in, and the steam build
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rem extracted next to content\.
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cd /d %~dp0
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if not exist "build\Release\btl4.exe" goto badpath
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if not exist "content\BTL4.RES" goto badpath
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set BT_PLATFORM=glass
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set BT_STEAM_NET=1
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rem KEEP the previous run's log (a crash report died 2026-07-26 because a
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rem re-run deleted the only evidence). Rotate, never delete.
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if exist content\steam.old.log del content\steam.old.log
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if exist content\steam.log ren content\steam.log steam.old.log
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set BT_LOG=steam.log
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set BT_LOG_APPEND=1
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rem Cockpit view + MFD gauges -- the same client flags the join bats set
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rem (field report: players booted 3rd-person without them). Inherited by
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rem the menu's mission relaunch.
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set BT_START_INSIDE=1
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set BT_DEV_GAUGES=1
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rem full menu here (all modes + steam buttons); clear the solo trim in
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rem case this shell ran play_solo.bat first
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set BT_FE_SOLO=
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cd content
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..\build\Release\btl4.exe
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rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
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rem HANDOFF WAIT (2026-07-25). The front end does NOT stay resident: it
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rem CreateProcess()es the mission generation and ExitProcess(0)s itself
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rem (btl4console.cpp). So OUR child exiting means "the menu handed off",
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rem NOT "the game closed" -- without this wait the window announced "The
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rem game has exited" while the game was still loading, which reads as a
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rem crash to a playtester. Wait for the handed-off generation(s) to go.
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rem
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rem NO EXTERNAL TOOLS: `find`, `findstr` and `timeout` are all shadowed by
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rem Git-Bash / MSYS / GnuWin32 builds of the same names when those are on
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rem PATH (a dev box, or a player who installed git). The MSYS `find` is
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rem the Unix one and dies with "find: '/I': No such file or directory",
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rem and GNU `timeout` takes different arguments. So: parse tasklist with
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rem a pure-cmd for/f, and call both helpers by ABSOLUTE System32 path.
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rem A genuinely dead exe leaves no process and falls straight through, so
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rem the #41 launch forensics above still work. If tasklist is missing
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rem entirely the loop degrades to reporting immediately -- the old
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rem behaviour, never a hang.
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rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
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:btwait
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set "BT_STILL_RUNNING="
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for /f "tokens=1" %%P in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\tasklist.exe /FI "IMAGENAME eq btl4.exe" /NH 2^>nul') do (
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if /I "%%P"=="btl4.exe" set "BT_STILL_RUNNING=1"
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)
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if defined BT_STILL_RUNNING (
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%SystemRoot%\System32\timeout.exe /t 2 /nobreak >nul 2>nul
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goto btwait
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)
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echo.
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echo The game has exited. If it closed unexpectedly, send the operator
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echo content\steam.log. Steam not running = the menu still works but
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echo lobbies will not appear.
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pause
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exit /b
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:badpath
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echo.
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echo ==================================================
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echo ERROR: this file is not in the right place, or
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echo the zip was not fully extracted.
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echo.
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echo It must sit in the EXTRACTED game folder, next to
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echo the 'content' and 'build' folders.
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echo ==================================================
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echo.
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pause
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