Why won't my script work?

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1

So I’m trying to have it so that when you equip a weapon, it waits until you have died to equip it. But this script doesn’t seem to be working. The print statement is not going off.
Script:

local button = script.Parent
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
button.Activated:Connect(function()
	game.ReplicatedStorage.EquippingNextRound:Fire()
	player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	print("Equipping Baseball Bat.")
end)

I can provide any other necessary scripts etc. just ask.

2

Try debugging to see if the event is even firing.

local button = script.Parent
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
print("Found Player")
button.Activated:Connect(function()
    print("Activated")
	game.ReplicatedStorage.EquippingNextRound:Fire()
print("Fired")
	player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	print("Equipping Baseball Bat.")
end)
3

All of the print statements are firing, just seems to be the equipping one that isn’t.

4

Your main goal in here is to EQUIP the bat when player DIES right?

5

Equip the bat once the player respawns after dying, yes.

6

Can you try replacing the CharacterAdded delay with a task.wait(1)? I would love to see if the problem is an infinite yeild.

7

Hello Batmanissupercoolbro,

based on your explanations and past posts I’m guessing you want to give a player a bat when they die.

Firstly, to check if a Humanoid (player) is dead, you use Humanoid.Died. Here is an example:

game:GetService('Players').PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").Died:Connect(function()
			print(player.Name .. " has died!")
		end)
	end)
end)

The code below would print the player’s name, followed by “has died!”, whenever a player dies. For example, if the player was named “Batmanissupercoolbro”, “Batmanissupercoolbro has died!” would be printed to the output when you died.

Secondly, to equip a tool to a player you should get the bat you plased in your game (like in ReplicatedStorage or ServerStorage), and parent it to the players backpack.
This is an example on what I mean:

local bat = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Bat")
bat:Clone().Parent = player.Backpack
8

This is a script inside the ‘StarterGui’ container meaning that it’s being cloned into the local player’s ‘PlayerGui’ container each time their character is added/loaded.

Move the script to the StarterPlayerScripts container and reference the gui from there.

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9

I was wondering if it was this that was the problem.
But here’s the script I have, and it isn’t working.

local button = game.StarterGui.EquipTools.ToolsPage.ScrollingFrame.Weapons.bat.TextButton
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

button.Activated:Connect(function()
	game.ReplicatedStorage.EquippingNextRound:Fire()
	print("activated")
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		print("Equipping Baseball Bat.")
	end)
	print("script finished")
end)