Event firing but not receiving

[eighthpill (fed)]

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

1. What do you want to achieve? When pressing Q (located in a different script), an animation plays. There are two bats: welded to the player’s hand and welded to the player’s backpack. Depending if it’s being equipped or unequipped, one goes transparent and the other goes visible.
   I also have another script that handles creating a boolvalue, named after the player, and goes true or false depending on whether the bat in the player’s hand is transparent or not. It is located inside a folder named PlayerEquips (see below)
   

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	
	local playername = player.Name
	
	local val = Instance.new("BoolValue")
	val.Name = playername
	val.Parent = game.ServerStorage.PlayerEquips
	
	wait(0.25)
	
	if player.Character:WaitForChild("HandBaseballBat").Transparency == 1 then
		val.Value = false
		
		if player.Character:WaitForChild("HandBaseballBat").Transparency == 0 then
			val.Value = true
		end
	end
end)

2. What is the issue? The event in ReplicatedStorage is firing (it prints in the output), however, it does not print that the signal is being received, and no further code in the script runs.
   

3. What solutions have you tried so far? I’ve searched DevForum and have found similar posts and issues, however, none of the solutions worked for me.

Here’s my script:

debounce = false

local anim1 = script.GetBat
local anim2 = script.Unequip
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local BatEvent = ReplicatedStorage.Events:WaitForChild("BatEquipped")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local Character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChild('Humanoid')
	local handbat = Character.HandBaseballBat
	local backbat = Character.BackBaseballBat
	local equipped = game.ServerStorage.PlayerEquips:WaitForChild(player.Name)
	
	
	local function BatEventFired()		
		print("The signal to Equip was received!")
		
		if handbat.Transparency == 1 then
			if equipped.Value == false then
				
				debounce = true	
				wait(0.1)
				
				local Animation = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim1)
				Animation:Play()
				wait(0.85)
				
				Character.HandBaseballBat.Transparency = 0
				Character.BackBaseballBat.Transparency = 1
				
				wait(1)
				
			end

			wait(1)
			debounce = false
			
		else
			
			debounce = true
			wait(0.1)
			
			local Animation = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim2)
			Animation:Play()
			wait(0.85)
			
			Character.HandBaseballBat.Transparency = 1
			Character.BackBaseballBat.Transparency = 0
			
			wait(1)

		end

		wait(1)
		debounce = false

		BatEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(BatEventFired)
			
	end
end)

Sorry this is long, I just feel like it needs a proper explanation of what’s going on.

[itsLevande (Levande)]

BatEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(BatEventFired)

You need to move that line of code outside of your BatEventFired function.