diff --git a/core/networkpacket.cpp b/core/networkpacket.cpp
index 98f38188d..a6eb26cf2 100644
--- a/core/networkpacket.cpp
+++ b/core/networkpacket.cpp
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ bool NetworkPacket::unserialize(const QByteArray& a, NetworkPacket* np)
     auto variant = parser.toVariant().toMap();
     qvariant2qobject(variant, np);
 
-    np->m_payloadSize = variant[QStringLiteral("payloadSize")].toInt(); //Will return 0 if was not present, which is ok
     if (np->m_payloadSize == -1) {
         np->m_payloadSize = np->get<int>(QStringLiteral("size"), -1);
     }