Replay falling into desync due to mods not loading (but present in downloads folder)

[maxsupermanhd]

Describe the bug When Warzone 2100 is being started with command line argument --loadreplay it does not load the mod and proceeds playing replay with a desync. Replay file was recorded with a mod loaded and information about loaded mod is present in it. If mod is not present in downloads directory it will fail to load replay, but if it is here and present with correct hash it will not fail but not load it!

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Join Autohoster to download autoMasterBalance mod (updated daily)
2. Fetch replay dating same day as mod that you just downloaded from Autohoster website (https://wz2100-autohost.net/games)
3. Put it into replays directory
4. Launch replay with CLI argument or via menu
5. Observe mod not being loaded and following desync on 1st frame and when game reaches potential difference between modded and vanilla balance

Expected behavior Either defined hard fail or correct loading of the mod.

Your System:

• Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa) Kernel: 5.15.0-69-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2
• Game version: 4.3.5

Additional context Logs indicate that mod was found: [restoreOptions:8517] Downloaded mod found: mods/downloads/a4efa4f8d0e4a774e277ca1d7aa458e143c6ae0275f32deb73b8ba76e9a9b5e0

[maxsupermanhd]

JSON diff of replays from host and spectator: (minus is autohoster, plus is spec)

@ ["gameOptions","ingame","side"]
- true
+ false
@ ["gameOptions","multistats",2,"losses"]
- 0
+ 44
@ ["gameOptions","multistats",2,"played"]
- 0
+ 306
@ ["gameOptions","multistats",2,"totalKills"]
- 0
+ 145039
@ ["gameOptions","multistats",2,"totalScore"]
- 0
+ 524014915
@ ["gameOptions","multistats",2,"wins"]
- 0
+ 262
@ ["gameOptions","netplay.players",17,"ready"]
- false
+ true
@ ["gameOptions","netplay.players",16,"ready"]
- false
+ true
@ ["gameOptions","netplay.players",15,"ready"]
- false
+ true
@ ["gameOptions","netplay.players",14,"ready"]
- false
+ true
@ ["gameOptions","netplay.players",1,"ready"]
- false
+ true
@ ["gameOptions","netplay.players",0,"ready"]
- false
+ true
@ ["gameOptions","selectedPlayer"]
- 13
+ 17

I wonder if "side" has something to do with the mods loading