Function won't detect NumberValue change?

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6 years ago

I have been working on a fighting game where you can send out a blast forward from your hands. When you press Z, a large blast is fired and a hitbox is cloned and put in to the local character's model. After that, the script inside the hitbox that was cloned is re enabled and this simple script runs. Afterwards, the script is destroyed and then you can fire the blast again after the cooldown.

All worked well up until I tried making a value that you can change to determine how much damage your blast did to another player. For every player that spawns in, they get their own folder in replicated storage which stores their variables, etc. Strength is one of those variables.

The problem I'm having is the script works fine, but when I attempt to change Strength's numbervalue the previous value is still being loaded, even though the referencing should be fine. Please help!

01local char = script.Parent.Parent
02local playername = script.Parent.Parent.Name
03local folder = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild(playername)
04hasbeenhit = false
05 
06script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(touched)
07if touched.Parent ~= nil and touched.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and hasbeenhit== false then
08    if touched.Parent ~= char and touched ~= char then
09    touched.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(10 + folder.Vars.Strength.Value/2)
10                hasbeenhit = true
11            else   
12                --do nothing            
13            end
14    end
15hasbeenhit = false
16end)

This is most likely occurring because you are changing the value from the client. Any changes done through a local script cannot be seen by the server, so the value doesn't appear to change. You can fix this by changing the value from a normal script. mattscy 3725 — 6y

This is a normal script, summoned from another script, triggered by a remote function from a local script. AgencyDrone 0 — 6y

Function won't detect NumberValue change?

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