Game breaking bugs

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#1

Good morning yall. I have been working on a game and it has been going well, until during the play tests when someone joins mid-round. The issues caused when someone joins mid round is that the round systems stop and like the while loop doesn’t do anything. Another thing that doesn’t work is my lifetime wins tracker gui and it doesn’t update when the player joins the game.

Core Gameplay Script:

local firstLayer = workspace.firstLayer


local playersLeft = 0


local colorInGame = false



local colors = {BrickColor.new("Alder"), BrickColor.new("Baby blue"), BrickColor.new("Beige"), BrickColor.new("Bright blue"), BrickColor.new("Bright bluish green"), BrickColor.new("Burgundy"), BrickColor.new("Med. reddish violet"), BrickColor.new("Camo"), BrickColor.new("Cadet blue"), BrickColor.new("Bright orange"), BrickColor.new("Buttermilk"), BrickColor.new("Cashmere"), BrickColor.new("Daisy orange"), BrickColor.new("Carnation pink"), BrickColor.new("Lavender"), BrickColor.new("Mint"), BrickColor.new("Light blue"), BrickColor.new("Laurel green"), BrickColor.new("Tawny"), BrickColor.new("Seashell")}                         
while true do
	
	for i = 15, 0, -1 do
		game.ReplicatedStorage.statusText.Value = "INTERMISSION: " .. i 
		wait(1)
	end
	
	game.ReplicatedStorage.statusText.Value = "GAME ON-GOING"
	for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		v.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(math.random( 1, 41), 150, math.random( -213.5, -178))
		v.varibles.inRound.Value = true 
	end
	
	repeat
		playersLeft = 0
		
		for _, v in pairs(firstLayer:GetChildren()) do
			local color = colors[math.random(1, #colors)]
			v.BrickColor = color
		end
		for _, v in pairs(workspace.secondLayer:GetChildren()) do
			local color = colors[math.random(1, #colors)]
			v.BrickColor = color
		end
		
		for _, v in pairs(workspace.thirdLayer:GetChildren()) do
			local color = colors[math.random(1, #colors)]
			v.BrickColor = color
		end
		
	
		
		local chosenColor = colors[math.random(1, #colors)]
		
		game.ReplicatedStorage.colorTeller:FireAllClients(chosenColor)
		
		wait(5)
		
		
		for _, v in pairs(firstLayer:GetChildren()) do

			if v.BrickColor ~= chosenColor then
				
				v.Transparency = 1
				v.CanCollide = false
			end
		end
		
		for _, v in pairs(workspace.secondLayer:GetChildren()) do

			if v.BrickColor ~= chosenColor then
				v.Transparency = 1
				v.CanCollide = false
			end
		end
		
		for _, v in pairs(workspace.thirdLayer:GetChildren()) do

			if v.BrickColor ~= chosenColor then
				v.Transparency = 1
				v.CanCollide = false
			end
		end
		for i, v in pairs(workspace.levelBarriers:GetChildren()) do
			v.CanCollide = true
		end
		wait(5)
		
		for i, v in pairs(workspace.levelBarriers:GetChildren()) do
			v.CanCollide = false 
		end
		
		for _, v in pairs(firstLayer:GetChildren()) do
			v.Transparency = 0
			v.CanCollide = true
		end
		for _, v in pairs(workspace.secondLayer:GetChildren()) do
			v.Transparency = 0
			v.CanCollide = true
		end

		for _, v in pairs(workspace.thirdLayer:GetChildren()) do
			v.Transparency = 0
			v.CanCollide = true
		end
		
		for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do 
			if v.varibles.inRound.Value == true then
				playersLeft = playersLeft + 1 
				print(playersLeft)
			end
		end
		
		
		
	until playersLeft <= 1
	
	playersLeft = 0 
	
	for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		if v.varibles.inRound.Value == true then
			v.varibles.wins.Value = v.varibles.wins.Value + 1
		end
		local spawnPoint = workspace.Spawns:GetChildren()[math.random(1,#workspace.Spawns:GetChildren())]
		v.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = spawnPoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0, 5, 0)
		v.varibles.inRound.Value = false
	end
	
	
end

Data Store Script:

local dataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local winsStorage = dataStoreService:GetDataStore("winsStorage01")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local varibles = Instance.new("Folder")
	varibles.Parent = player
	varibles.Name = "varibles"
	
	local inRound = Instance.new("BoolValue")
	inRound.Parent = player.varibles
	inRound.Value = false
	inRound.Name = "inRound"
	
	local wins = Instance.new("IntValue")
	wins.Parent = varibles
	wins.Value = 0 
	wins.Name = "wins"
	
	
	local success, numWins = pcall(function()
		return winsStorage:GetAsync(player.UserId.."E")
	end)
	
	if success then
		print("Data Loaded")
		player.varibles.wins.Value = numWins
		print(player.varibles.wins.Value)
	end
	
end)


game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	
	local success, err = pcall(function()
		winsStorage:SetAsync(player.UserId.."E", player.varibles.wins.Value)
		print(player.varibles.wins.Value)
	end)

	if success then
		print("Success!")
	end
end)
#2

still haven’t found a fix. I’m trying to do the data store right now.

#3

were there any errors at all? Perhaps the code is struggling when it comes to the player for loop as it’s trying to find something that may not exist yet (the variables folder)