now also assuring that -console is stripped out

prepare-nosteam.sh

@@ -57,17 +57,26 @@ if [ ! -d "$GAME_ROOT" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-# ── 1. rev.ini: ensure -vulkan launch parameter ──────────────────────────────
+# ── 1. rev.ini: ensure -vulkan launch parameter, strip -console ─────────────
 # Uses Python operating on the raw file bytes rather than sed — rev.ini has
 # Windows-style CRLF line endings, and two earlier sed-based attempts here
 # both mishandled embedded/stray \r characters in different ways, corrupting
 # the ProcName line. This version is fully idempotent and self-correcting:
-# it strips any \r and any existing -vulkan occurrence(s) from the matched
+# it strips any \r, strips any existing -vulkan occurrence(s), and strips any
-# span (using a lookahead for the TRUE \r?\n line ending, so it can't stop
+# existing -console occurrence(s) from the matched span (using a lookahead
-# early on a stray embedded \r the way earlier attempts did), then cleanly
+# for the TRUE \r?\n line ending, so it can't stop early on a stray embedded
-# re-adds -vulkan exactly once — producing the same correct result whether
+# \r the way earlier attempts did), then cleanly re-adds -vulkan exactly
-# the line was already correct, missing -vulkan, or corrupted from a prior
+# once — producing the same correct result whether the line was already
-# buggy run.
+# correct, missing -vulkan, had -console, or corrupted from a prior buggy
+# run.
+#
+# -console must never survive here: it forces the in-game developer console
+# open from boot, which the whole autoexec.cfg console lockdown (con_enable
+# 0, blanked toggleconsole/showconsole/hideconsole aliases) cannot suppress
+# retroactively — those only stop it being toggled back OPEN after startup,
+# they don't stop it opening in the first place. A shipped nosteam.zip's raw
+# rev.ini has been observed to carry -console by default, so this has to be
+# stripped on every prep run, the same way -vulkan has to be re-added.
 REV_INI="$GAME_ROOT/rev.ini"
 if [ -f "$REV_INI" ]; then
     if grep -q "^ProcName=" "$REV_INI"; then
@@ -82,6 +91,7 @@ def fix_line(match):
     line = match.group(0)
     line = line.replace(b'\r', b'')
     line = re.sub(rb'\s*-vulkan\s*', b'', line)
+    line = re.sub(rb'\s*-console\b', b'', line)
     return line + b' -vulkan'
 
 new_content, n = re.subn(
@@ -97,7 +107,7 @@ if n == 0:
 with open(path, 'wb') as f:
     f.write(new_content)
 PYEOF
-        echo "[rev.ini] ProcName line normalized with -vulkan"
+        echo "[rev.ini] ProcName line normalized with -vulkan, -console stripped"
     else
         echo "WARNING: [rev.ini] no ProcName= line found — check manually" >&2
     fi