Component "bCanEverTick" has no effect

[imtrobin2]

So I made a test and confirmed, UE4 works but not UE5. Repro here

Major UE5 BUG - ActorComp C++ bCanEverTick behave different from UE4

I found a major bug with bug with UE5 and narrowed it to this. I made a custom C++ actorcomponent, and set PrimaryComponentTick.bCanEverTick to false in ctor. In BeginPlay, I read bCanEverTick and print to screen. In UE4, the value is correctly set, but in UE5, it is not. When PIE [Window-2023-08-31 09_29_02] UTestActorComponent::UTestActorComponent() { PrimaryComponentTick.bCanEverTick = false; } void UTestActorComponent::BeginPlay() { Super::BeginPlay(); if (PrimaryComponentTick.bCanEv…