ContextActionService won't run code; no output nor script analysis errors

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I’ve been trying to make a simple script using the knowledge I recently learned, but I keep failing, and I have no idea why the code won’t work, it’s slowly consuming my sanity… I want to make a simple dynamic: whenever you press a specific key, your field of view will increase, your camera will go greenish and a sound will play, all of that for a specified time; and after the time assigned has passed everything will return to normal (inspired by Halo 3).

The issue is semantic as long as I’m aware, there are no errors in the output. Something I think could be the problem is the UserInputState, I only want to listen for a key tap; not a press and release, so I only use the ‘Begin’ property and ignore the ‘End’ property, not sure if that’s what I should do.

I first solved the only output error I got, which was ‘Invalid arguments’ when trying to get a ModuleScript from ServerStorage, I just relocated the Module inside the LocalScript, and it stopped erroring. But after that, I’ve been trying to figure out why the rest of the code won’t work xc.

This is the LocalScript:

local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")

local FloodVoice = require(script.FloodVoice)

local COOLDOWN = 5

local function UserInput(actionName, inputState)
	if actionName == Enum.UserInputState.Begin then
		FloodVoice(true)
		wait(COOLDOWN)
		FloodVoice(false)
	end
end

ContextActionService:BindAction("Flood", UserInput, false, Enum.KeyCode.M)

This is the ModuleScript:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")
local StarterGui = game:GetService("StarterGui")

local FOV_FLOOD = 110
local FOV_STANDARD = 70
local SPEED_FLOOD = 2
local SPEED_STANDARD = 14
local SOUND = StarterGui.Sounds["Flood Sound"]
local SOUND_LENGHT = tonumber(SOUND.TimeLength)

local function FindHumanoid()
	local LocalPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer
	local Character = LocalPlayer.Character
	if Character then
		local Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
		return Humanoid
	end
end

local function FindPlayer()
	local LocalPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer
	local Character = LocalPlayer.Character
	if Character then
		return LocalPlayer
	end
end

local function CameraEffectsOn(player)

end

local function CameraEffectsOff(player)

end

local function FOV(pressedKey)
	local Humanoid = FindHumanoid()
	local Camera = Workspace.CurrentCamera

	if Humanoid and Camera then
		if pressedKey then
			Camera.FieldOfView = FOV_FLOOD
			Humanoid.WalkSpeed = SPEED_FLOOD
			wait(15)
			Camera.FieldOfView = FOV_STANDARD
			Humanoid.WalkSpeed = SPEED_STANDARD
		else
			Camera.FieldOfView = FOV_STANDARD
		end
	end
end

return FOV

Also, the script’s location is inside the StarterPlayerScripts folder.

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You are comparing actionName to Enum.UserinputState.Begin. This will never be true because actionName will be a value you passed as the first action to BindAction i.e. “Flood”. You need to change this to compare the inputState argument

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if inputState.UserInputState == Enum.UserInputState.Begin then