RemoteEvent being fired, unexpected nil value (string expected)

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#1

Currently, I am working on a brand new game, starting from scratch. This bit of code will detect how many players are in-game, and edit a UI.

	if TotalPlayers >= PlayersReq then
		local timeRemaining = 10
		while timeRemaining > 0 do
			toClient:FireClient(Player, "Intermission... "..timeRemaining)
			wait(1)
			timeRemaining -= 1
		end
		afterIntermission()
	else
		toClient:FireClient(Player, "Must be 2 or more players to play!")
	end

Which will send to this local script inside a GUI:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local PlayerService = game:GetService("Players")

local PlayerGui = PlayerService.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui
local Label = PlayerGui.Upper.Base.Label

local toClient = ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("coreToClient")

toClient.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Player, Text)
	Label.Text = Text -- Error here.
end)

Output:
14:09:26.380 - Players.Aerosphia.PlayerGui.Upper.Base.Code:10: invalid argument #3 (string expected, got nil)
I’m sending a string, am I not? I don’t get it.

Help would be appreciated, thanks.

#2

When firing a remote from server to client, the player argument is used to specify which client is to receive the remote. When you have the OnClientEvent function, the player argument has already been used, and so your first argument should be the Text variable.

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