What's wrong in this script?

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#1

Basically i have this script

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	print(plr.Name)
	print(plr.Character.Name)
end)

I just changed it to a print() for testing but it results in the same error:

attempt to index nil with 'Name'

I have always used plr.Character and it always worked so i’m not sure why it’s not now.

Note:

print(plr.Name)

Is working fine

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#2

Could it be an issue with loading, what I mean is does the character have time to load before it tried to read the name? Could you fix the by like doing a waitforchild or something.

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#3

Well i can try that but technically the player.Character is not inside the plr instance.

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#4

Yes but you still have to wait for the character instance to spawn. The player instance like happens before the character spawns in to the game.

That would then make sense why the print(plr.Name) works cuz it is faster then the character itself to spawn

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#5

As the player character still does not load, it gives nil, this will take or wait for the player character

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	print(plr.Name)
	local Character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	print(Character.Name)
end)
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