diff --git a/code/controllers/mc/globals.dm b/code/controllers/mc/globals.dm
index f647a38588..f785ee5823 100644
--- a/code/controllers/mc/globals.dm
+++ b/code/controllers/mc/globals.dm
@@ -14,23 +14,11 @@ GLOBAL_REAL(GLOB, /datum/controller/global_vars)
 
 	var/datum/controller/exclude_these = new
 	gvars_datum_in_built_vars = exclude_these.vars + list(NAMEOF(src, gvars_datum_protected_varlist), NAMEOF(src, gvars_datum_in_built_vars), NAMEOF(src, gvars_datum_init_order))
-	qdel(exclude_these)
+	QDEL_IN(exclude_these, 0)	//signal logging isn't ready
 
-	var/global_vars = vars.len - gvars_datum_in_built_vars.len
-	var/global_procs = length(typesof(/datum/controller/global_vars/proc))
+	log_world("[vars.len - gvars_datum_in_built_vars.len] global variables")
 
-	report_progress("[global_vars] global variables")
-	report_progress("[global_procs] global init procs")
-
-	try
-		if(global_vars == global_procs)
-			Initialize()
-		else
-			crash_with("Expected [global_vars] global init procs, were [global_procs].")
-	catch(var/exception/e)
-		to_world_log("Vars to be initialized: [json_encode((vars - gvars_datum_in_built_vars))]")
-		to_world_log("Procs used to initialize: [json_encode(typesof(/datum/controller/global_vars/proc))]")
-		throw e
+	Initialize()
 
 /datum/controller/global_vars/Destroy(force)
 	// This is done to prevent an exploit where admins can get around protected vars
@@ -44,8 +32,18 @@ GLOBAL_REAL(GLOB, /datum/controller/global_vars)
 /datum/controller/global_vars/Initialize()
 	gvars_datum_init_order = list()
 	gvars_datum_protected_varlist = list(NAMEOF(src, gvars_datum_protected_varlist) = TRUE)
-	for(var/I in typesof(/datum/controller/global_vars/proc))
+	var/list/global_procs = typesof(/datum/controller/global_vars/proc)
+	var/expected_len = vars.len - gvars_datum_in_built_vars.len
+	if(global_procs.len != expected_len)
+		warning("Unable to detect all global initialization procs! Expected [expected_len] got [global_procs.len]!")
+		if(global_procs.len)
+			var/list/expected_global_procs = vars - gvars_datum_in_built_vars
+			for(var/I in global_procs)
+				expected_global_procs -= replacetext("[I]", "InitGlobal", "")
+			log_world("Missing procs: [expected_global_procs.Join(", ")]")
+	for(var/I in global_procs)
 		var/start_tick = world.time
 		call(src, I)()
-		if(world.time - start_tick)
-			warning("[I] slept during initialization!")
+		var/end_tick = world.time
+		if(end_tick - start_tick)
+			warning("Global [replacetext("[I]", "InitGlobal", "")] slept during initialization!")