Game can mismatch after transferring a multiplayer map containing a map.ini file

[xezon]

Game can mismatch after transferring a multiplayer map containing a map.ini file. Ini file likely needs a few values changed, so that game state is changed from original. Client who received ini file in map transfer, likely does not load ini file on map load.

[kABUSE1]

When you start the game, the engine loops through your custom maps folders and checks each map folder for containment of an ini file. What's interesting is that any corrupted or invalid .map or .ini files will freeze your game up at this point.

This check is not repeated. So only maps that already existed and contained an ini file on game start, will load ini files when they are played.

So for people who just received the map, the ini file changes are not applied, as the map didn't exist when they started their game.

Ideal fix for this would be to have game check for existence of ini file when map is loading, not when game engine is starting. Would also be cool if engine didn't freeze if any map file is corrupted or invalid, mainly because with a little bit of tinkering, you could abuse this to send corrupted ini files to people, so their game no longer restarts until they manually delete the evil map files.

[FireRainV]

This issue is exclusive to ZH, it works perfectly in original generals.