Magic Staff working properly on PC, but not mobile

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1

It’s pretty basic, but I have a staff that you click and hold to fire (sort of like a magic machine gun). It works fine on PC, but on mobile it only fires one projectile, and even then it’s kind of hit or miss whether it does it or not. It still goes where you aim it, it just doesn’t stay firing if you hold you finger down.

Local code:

local CanFire = false
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = nil

function Fire()
	CanFire = true
	
	while CanFire == true  do
		wait()
		mouse = player:GetMouse().Hit.p
		if mouse ~= nil then
			script.Parent.FireStaff:FireServer(mouse)
		end
	end
end

function EndFire()
	CanFire = false
end

function UnEquip()
	CanFire = false
end

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(Fire)
script.Parent.Deactivated:Connect(EndFire)
script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(UnEquip)
2

Why don’t you create a popup button when equipping the Magic Staff in mobile that shoots fire?

3

That’s not helpful at all. Can you elaborate?

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4

I have tested the Activated and Deactivated events with a tool on a mobile device and I seem to not get any inputs.

You can use UserInputService.MouseEnabled to check if the client is on a mobile device, then you can use UserInputService.InputBegan and UserInputService.InputEnded to check if the user is touching their screen:

local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gpe)
    if gpe then return end
    if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Touch then
        CanFire = true
    end
end)

uis.InputEnded:Connect(function(input, gpe)
    if gpe then return end
    if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Touch then
        CanFire = false
    end
end)

Hasn’t been tested, but it’d probably work