Duplicating paragon characters changes their behavoir

hi,

i wanted to add a line trace so i can get a paragon character to shoot. i’m still learning. i can do the line tracing just fine. anyway, i duplicated belica and her anim bp as i didn’t want to mess with the original. the problem i have is that my duplicate will only fire once. it’s strange. if i add, on the LMB in the level blueprint, the print string ‘fired’ then the original blueprint also only fires once.

i’m obviously missing something. could someone point me in the correct direction. i’m not doing anything but duplicating the character and animation bp.

thank you,

ellie