Player does not die if humanoid health is set to 0 while within seconds of its character being added

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#1

I’m trying to make system where if a player dies while the game is currently in-round they will respawn as a creature, but it seems like there is a temporary immunity the player has and the player does not die if I set it’s health to 0 or below within seconds of the character being loaded and remains alive with 0 health (somehow), I just want to know if there is some other more efficient method for respawning/setting the players character ON JOIN or to getting around this temporary immunity the player character has a few moments after loading, I’ve tried using LoadCharacter() but only for it to error and fill up the game with 10 different player models.

I have also tried setting the players health to negative math.huge only for the player to still not die and continue to be playable- I have no idea what is happening.

In the API it says " When the value of the character’s health reaches 0, the [Humanoid] automatically transitions to the Dead [HumanoidStateType]." but if I set the Humanoids health to 0 within a few seconds of the character being loaded for the first time the players HumanoidStateType doesn’t get set to the Dead [HumanoidStateType] and the player is still able to play (with 0 health), I think there is something wrong here.

Thank you.

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#2

Please provide some code so others may assist you.

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#3

Potentially try this:

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#4

Don’t use Humanoid:TakeDamage to kill the player, instead use
Humanoid.Health = 0

Additionally, you can change the Humanoid’s state to dead:
Humanoid.State = Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead

If all this still doesn’t work, the forcefield spawn locations create might be the issue. You can just wait for it and then destroy it
Character:WaitForChild(“ForceField”):Destroy()

#5

I do use Humanoid.Health = 0 but as you can read above it does not work on a newly loaded character, and I just tried to set the state to Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead but I got an error saying “State is not a valid member of Humanoid “Noobap0.Humanoid””, also all forcefield durations on every spawn is set at 0.

#6

Here is the code for my PlayerAdded function that takes care of all the team changes for players.
It works perfectly aside for if someone joins while in-round, the players team is set correctly but I cannot set their avatar to the creature for the life of me for no apparent reason.

local function PlayerAdded(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		local Humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		
		if InRound.Value == true and player.Team ~= TrollTeam then
			player.Team = TrollTeam
			Humanoid.State = Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead
		elseif InRound.Value == false and player.Team ~= HumanTeam then
			player.Team = HumanTeam
			Humanoid.State = Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead
		end

		Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
			task.wait(3)

			if InRound.Value == true then

				local TrollClone = TrollCharacter:Clone()

				TrollClone.Name = player.Name
				TrollClone.Parent = workspace

				player.Character = TrollClone

			elseif InRound.Value == false then

				if Players[player.Name] then
					player:LoadCharacter()

					player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").BreakJointsOnDeath = false
					player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").RequiresNeck = false
				end
			end
		end)
	end)

	player:LoadCharacter()

	if InRound.Value == true and player.Team ~= TrollTeam then
		player.Team = TrollTeam
	elseif InRound.Value == false then
		player.Team = HumanTeam
	end
end
#7

I found out that using ChangeState on a Humanoid only works in LocalScripts for example:

player.Character.Humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead)
and
game.Workspace."PlayerCharacter".Humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead)
only work client-side, it would’ve been helpful if it said this on the api.

#8

I was able to get it to an acceptable rate of function by sending a remote from inside a Servers-Side PlayerAdded function that loops sending a remote to a local script to set the players health to 0 until the player is identified as dead on the Server-Side.

Here are the scripts that I used for those that are in this post because they encountered the same issue.
Server-side script

local db = false

player:LoadCharacter()
	
repeat
	task.wait(0.1)
until player:HasAppearanceLoaded()
	
if InRound.Value == true then
      player.Team = TrollTeam
		
      player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").Died:Once(function()
            db = true
      end)

      repeat
      task.wait(0.1)
                  StartRemote:FireClient(player)
      until db == true
		
      elseif InRound.Value == false then
      player.Team = HumanTeam
end

Client-side script

StartRemote.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").Health = 0
end)

Although this is definitely a bug on Roblox’s end (being unable to kill the player by setting their health to 0 in Server-Side on the players first loaded character in-game) and I hope it is acknowledge and fixed by Roblox’s engineers.

#9

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