I'm Having Difficulty Making A Special Ability For a Sword

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#1

I’ve been working creating a special ability for a sword for a while now, and each time have ran into the same problem. I have a local script and a server script.

Local Script:

local player = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent

repeat wait() until player.Character 
local character = player.Character

local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local CAS = game:GetService("ContextActionService")
local tool = script.Parent.Parent

local ready = tool.SpecialAbility.Ready
local activated = tool.SpecialAbility.Activated
local equipped = tool.SpecialAbility.Equipped
local canDamage = tool.SpecialAbility.CanDamage

local activationTime = 0.5
local coolDown = 4.5

local specialAttackAnim = tool.SpecialAttack
local specialAttack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(specialAttackAnim)

tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	equipped.Value = true
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	equipped.Value = false
end)

local function special(actionName, inputState)
	if actionName == "Special Ability" and inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Begin and equipped.Value == true and ready.Value == true then
		ready.Value = false
		specialAttack:Play()
		wait(activationTime)
		activated.Value = true
		wait(coolDown)
		ready.Value = true
		activated.Value = false
		canDamage.Value = true
	end
end

CAS:BindAction("Special Ability", special, false, Enum.KeyCode.Q)

Server Script:

local player = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent

repeat wait() until player.Character 
local character = player.Character

local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local tool = script.Parent.Parent
local damagePart = tool.Blade

local activated = tool.SpecialAbility.Activated
local canDamage = tool.SpecialAbility.CanDamage

local damage = 100

damagePart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and activated.Value and canDamage.Value == true then
		canDamage.Value = false
		hit.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(damage)
	end
end)

The local script is for playing the animation as well as controlling some bool values. The server script is for doing damage. I’ve tried doing these tasks only in local scripts and it has worked, but obviously it will only apply to the client. So, I made the damage script a server script so it applies to all clients. Inside the tool, I have there four bool values, as seen in the local script. My thoughts were that the local script changing those values will allow the server script to read them as well. However, this did not work. The local script is working, but the special ability does not do damage. Here I have a video of me testing out the ability on a dummy with a humanoid object.

As you can see the animation is working perfectly fine, just the dummy is not getting damaged. I would really appreciate someone pointing out what’s wrong with my script.

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#2

The client cannot replicate value changes to the server due to FilteringEnabled. Try using a RemoteEvent to handle the value changes.

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