Value Waiting For Child Not Working

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#1

I am making a system and I have this point where it gets a value and uses it but when I wait for child sometimes this errors appears, anyone know why?
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This is the line of code:
local combatengage = plr.Character:WaitForChild("combatLockClient").combatEngage

#2

Your gonna need to show more of the code.

#3

Maybe at times, the Character of the player is not loaded yet.
Try changing to:

local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local combatengage = char:WaitForChild("combatLockClient").combatEngage
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#4

Most likely, your line of code is attempting to run before the Character has spawned. So you need to wait for the character first.

Since it’s in a Backpack which refreshes on each spawn, it could look something like this:

local character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local combatengage = character:WaitForChild("combatLockClient").combatEngage

Edit: Absolutely ninja’d by @Daronion lol

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