UnreliableRemoteEvents Stop Working After a Few Seconds

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#1

Hi everyone, I’ve been running into a strange issue with RemoteEvents — specifically the ones under Unreliable.

I have a few RemoteEvents set up in my game:

  • First unreliable remote: ReplicatedStorage.Remotes.Events.Unreliable.ReplicateSound
  • Second unreliable remote: ReplicatedStorage.Remotes.Events.Unreliable.Tracer
  • And a regular one: ReplicatedStorage.Remotes.Events.Gun 
-- Regular RemoteEvent
_janitor:Add(GunEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(onGunClientEvent), "Disconnect")

-- Unreliable RemoteEvents
_janitor:Add(ReplicateSoundUEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(owner: Player, action: string, ...: any?)
	onReplicateSoundClientUEvent(self, owner, action, ...)
end), "Disconnect")

_janitor:Add(TracerUEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(onTracerUEvent), "Disconnect")

The regular RemoteEvent works without issues, but after a few seconds, the unreliable ones stop receiving events. The output keeps logging things like:

Remote event invocation discarded event for ReplicatedStorage.Remotes.Events.Unreliable.ReplicateSound; did you forget to implement OnClientEvent?
Remote event invocation discarded event for ReplicatedStorage.Remotes.Events.Unreliable.Tracer; did you forget to implement OnClientEvent?

Even though those events were connected and working properly at first.

I’ve confirmed that I’m not calling :Cleanup() anywhere prematurely — it only runs when the player leaves the game or intentionally cleared. So I’m not sure why only the unreliable RemoteEvents stop working.

Is this a known issue with unreliable RemoteEvents? Or could I be missing something? Any help or advice would be really appreciated. Thanks!

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#2

This is not a solution but have you tried just normally connecting to the events without adding them to the maid for cleanup? This will let you know if its actually the event’s problem

#3

Thanks a lot for the help, I really appreciate it!

I figured out the issue — it was caused by using :LinkToInstance, which automatically triggers :Cleanup() when the linked instance gets destroyed.

I ended up replacing :LinkToInstance(...) with :Add(object, "Destroy") for objects created via Instance.new() or :Clone(), and that solved the problem. Everything works perfectly now without unexpected cleanup.

Hopefully this helps someone else who runs into the same issue!