Mobile Reset Button working once and never again

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#1

Title says it all, I’ll press the mobile reset button and it’ll reset me and It won’t reset me anytime after that. Here’s the script:

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer 
local character = player.Character 
local contextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")

function onButtonPress()
	character.Head:Remove() 
end
local mobilebutton = contextActionService:BindAction("Reset", onButtonPress,true)
contextActionService:SetPosition("Reset",UDim2.new(0.72,-25,0.20,-25))
contextActionService:SetTitle("Reset", "Reset")
#2

Where is this script located? StarterCharacter, StarterPlayer, StarterGui? If its inside starterplayer then the character variable you have will not reset when you die meaning the new character that is spawned will not be referenced by character. You should either place this inside startercharacter or get the character when you call reset so that the character variable always references the most recent player character.

Also, I’m not sure why you aren’t just setting the humanoid’s health to 0 to kill them

#3

Located in StarterGui, implemented this in the early stages of the game so I literally have no idea either. Guess I could just change that.

#4

I wouldn’t usually recommend using StarterGui for standalone scripts without any UI elements, because StarterPlayerScripts basically does the exact same thing in that case.
I would do something like this:

local Player 		= game.Players.LocalPlayer 
local ContextAction = game:GetService("ContextActionService")

function ResetPlayerCharacter()
	local character = Player.Character
	if character and character:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') then
		character.Humanoid.Health = 0
		-- Simple Kill character
	end
end

local ResetMobile = ContextAction:BindAction("Reset", ResetPlayerCharacter, true)

ContextAction:SetPosition("Reset",UDim2.new(0.72,-25,0.20,-25))
ContextAction:SetTitle("Reset", "Reset")

It’s very similar to your original code but if placed in a localscript in StarterCharacterScripts it should do everything you need it to.

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#5

I’d highly suggest that you kill the player on the server, not the client. You can do so by firing a remote event from the local script and receiving it in a server script.

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#6

Yes, in an end product you would handle stuff like this from the server. I stuck to the client just for ease of understanding:

function ResetPlayerCharacter()
	local character = Player.Character
	if character and character:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') then
		ServerReset:FireServer(character.Humanoid)
		-- Don't actually provide the humanoid on the client, let the server do that. This is just an example.
		-- Request that the server kill the specified humanoid
	end
end

Something like this would be good practise

#7

That’s very insecure. An exploiter could fire that remote event to kill any player that they want, not just themselves.

ServerReset:FireServer(Players.Blokhampster34.Character.Humanoid)
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#8

I know, I just used that as an example. You would just fire it without parameters and use the returned plr as the player to kill