Camera always looks forward

do you have this in your character class?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/images/Engine/Animation/CharacterSetupOverview/CharacterBPGraph.jpg

if not you also need the inputs setup in your project settings.
which i cant easily find right now… its in the fps template game, you can export the settings as an ini and then load it in your current project.

… not sure if that helped.