Maybe this will help you: In the new version, no entity related data is accepted by new connected clients as long as they didn't call enet_ent_sync(). Why do you need to load an empty level?
As i said, i had to load an empty level in older versions. Havent used the new ones yet
But good to read about this new functionality.
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