Player made maps not working in multiplayer.

[Kharos]

Hello, I've made a map in Dark Crusade mission editor and placed it in the Soulstorm folder (Steam/steamapps/common/Dawn of War: Soulstorm/DXP2/Scenarios/MP) and the map seems to work fine in skirmish. Today, my friends and me tried to play Ultimate Apocalypse on it, I sent them the 2 map files they need so they can install the map in their game and it worked fine for them aswell. It was all good till we tried playing together, then things started to get wierd. No matter who hosted, the game start countdown would go to 0 and then the "starting game" window would appear and after 5 seconds it would disappear for everyone except the host who is in the loading screen "waiting for players" while we are in his lobby from which we can exit and go anywhere we want. I want to know if theres any coding needed in the map to make it work for multiplayer or if we did something wrong, any help would be appriciated and I know that you might ask why am I posting this here, it's because Ultimate Apocalypse developers have the maps for this mod so I'm hoping they can help me and probably other people that make maps and have the same issue. Thanks.

[Sectator Pragmaticam Lex]

Have you tried putting the map files in \Dawn of War Soulstorm\UltimateApocalypse\data\scenarios\mp?
Also I haven't had a chance to confirm this first hand, but I'm told that if some players in one end have custom map files in one directory and other player have the files in another, it can cause a sync error as well.

Also worth noting, the multiplayer coding has been quite wonky in recent patches of Soulstorm, always check this page http://steamcommunity.com/app/9450/discussions/0/522729359236720293/ for relevant update notes. Another somewhat reliable source of information on the status of multiplayer is the Soulstorm General Discussions page:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/9450/discussions/0/

[Kharos]

I tried putting it in the UA one, yeah, but it didnt work. Well the thing is-multiplayer works fine. The maps I make dont seem to work, im hoping you could help me and explain how you made the (apocalyzed) and some other maps that are in the mod, would help me out a lot. I can send you a link to my map (it's my first one one so dont expect a miracle of it XD) if you want and you or whoever makes maps for this mod can check out what's wrong, then explain and help everyone that has this issue in the future on what they have to do with it.

[Sectator Pragmaticam Lex]

Well, it wasn't me in particular who made the apocalyzed maps or pretty much none of the code in UA, I'm more in charge of community managing, making icons, uploading stuff and other misc tasks. So I would basically be relaying this to someone on the team who has a clearer idea on custom maps.
But yeah, if you can send me a download link to your map, that would help.

[Kharos]

Okay here it is: http://www.gamefront.com/files/24503128/BlackDayMap_rar and I'm sorry if I'm bothering you too much now IF you know who made those maps, tell me so I can contact him and talk about it. Thanks. (BY THE WAY i called it *apocalyzed* becuase i think it has the fog and everything else off in the map so zooming out isnt buggy, i named it like that so i can make a difference between the default one and the one without fog AND becuase UA maps without fog have that name just so you know I didn't try to copy your map names completely)

[Sectator Pragmaticam Lex]

>> I can send you a link to my map
>> IF you know who made those maps
I'm confused. So you didn't do this map you've just linked to, then?
Also: The team's mapping-knowledgeable member is offline atm, so my reply will be delayed until he gets online and has some kinda answer :S

Oh! And an additional note: Right now it doesn't present much of an issue because UA's mapping guy lives in a country whitelisted for download by Gamefront. But I don't, so while I can see the website and upload files there, I can't download *anything* from Gamefront, because they have a suboptimal country-based whitelisting policy for allowing downloads, and my country's not on their whitelist.

[Kharos]

I'm sorry English is not my first language :S, what I meant is "if you know who made the ultimate apocalypse maps" and by that yeah i meant the team's mapping member. I did make the map i linked you to.

[Kharos]

Ow... okay, well until you inform me about the map maker getting online I can send you the 2 map files via email or try upload it on another site if you really want.

[Sectator Pragmaticam Lex]

Gah and I forgot about this, sorry :S
OK so I linked the team's map person to this thread, and from there... things kind of didn't move onwards any further. I would like to give you an answer but honestly I have no idea as to what the issue might be.
I know playing vanilla is a bummer once you get used to mods, but maybe check if this also happens on the unmodded game? If that's the case I think it'd be a more than legitimate reason to put up a thread on the Steam Soulstorm general discussions page ( http://steamcommunity.com/app/9450/discussions/ ).