Hey @SupportiveEntity !
I ended up not using ALS, because it was a bit too complicated for me as a beginner!
I also ended up following the first half for a few reasons, mostly because the game is going to be solely coop, and the first was a lot simpler; however, I was actually following the second one to begin with, but I couldn’t follow it exactly because I didn’t have the ‘spawn local player’ function- I only had ‘spawn player’.
It’s not a problem though, as the first half works perfectly for the game premise!
I haven’t been able to get it to work yet- so I have a few questions!
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you referred to the characters as children. Originally, I had one character as a ‘child’ of the other, but should they both be children of another BP?
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I was able to set the player IDs, however, only the player tagged to ‘Player 0’ actually worked and was able to move- the other would just stand beside them idling.
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did you change anything in the project settings or BP for this method?
I actually ended up messing around with the project too much and deleted something I shouldn’t have which pretty much broke the game 
It’ll probably take me a little while to set the characters up with their animations again- but this is just part of being a beginner in Unreal haha ^^