Doesn't detect when a player joins

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#1

Hey Roblox devs. I have a script that is supposed to detect when a player joins, but it doesn’t. Either it doesn’t because the server script does not load in time when the player joins for it to detect the player joining, or I got some code wrong which is very unlikely. From what I can see after the tests I’ve ran, when I press play the server script loads AFTER the player joins, meaning it won’t detect the player joining. I’ve already tested this in a server with 2 players. Everytime a player joins I made the server print “joined,” and it only printed it out once.

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#2

Can i see the code?

(charrrrrrrrrr)

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#3

That’s a common error I’ve seen, I hope this helps you:

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#4 
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(PlayerAdded)
	print("joined")
	local GunEquip = PlayerAdded:WaitForChild("gunEvents").GunEquip
	local Blackout = game.ReplicatedStorage.guns.Blackout

	GunEquip.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, ARselected)
		if ARselected == ".300 AAC Blackout" then 
			local BlackoutClone = Blackout:Clone()
			BlackoutClone.Parent = player.Backpack
		end
	end)
end)

don’t worry about the “gunequip” stuff

#5

I just looked over that, I don’t think that works for the context of my game. I also don’t see why it’s necessary to use a function for looping, or why it’s necessary for a “for _, player in pairs() do”, since all that’s doing is printing each individual player and that doesn’t help at all.

#6

Local script:

game:GetService("Players").ChildAdded:Connect(function(player)
end)

Server side:

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
end)
#7 
GunEquip.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, ARselected)

Just so you’re aware, this is being connected each time PlayerAdded fires (memory leak).

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#8

I think what you should do is loop through all the current players aswell because maybe the script didn’t load in time

#9

Make sure there are no wait(…) before the playeradded runs.

#10

does “joined” print when you join the game?