From 82f35bbe1ccf3669e0fe5679a5a4f045dd496dd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20Mail=C3=A4nder?= <matthias@mailaender.name>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:22:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Don't crash when a client that was dropped sends another
 order.

---
 OpenRA.Game/Server/Server.cs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/OpenRA.Game/Server/Server.cs b/OpenRA.Game/Server/Server.cs
index 1e52bfdbad..f99f777ed6 100644
--- a/OpenRA.Game/Server/Server.cs
+++ b/OpenRA.Game/Server/Server.cs
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ namespace OpenRA.Server
 					frame += OrderLatency;
 					DispatchFrameToClient(conn, conn.PlayerIndex, CreateAckFrame(frame, 1));
 
-					orderBuffer.AddOrderTimestamp(conn.PlayerIndex);
+					orderBuffer?.AddOrderTimestamp(conn.PlayerIndex);
 
 					// Track the last frame for each client so the disconnect handling can write
 					// an EndOfOrders marker with the correct frame number.