NPCs health bar shows only after damaging a second time

Summary

The NPCs health bar doesn’t show the first time you damage an NPC. It shows after you damage it a second time. I will include a video in the replies.

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

AI

Steps to Reproduce

  • Place an NPC spawner device and assign an npc definition (can be either Fortnite guard or custom, doesn’t matter)
  • Start Game
  • Damage the NPC

Expected Result

The health bar is shown after damaging the NPC

Observed Result

The health bar isn’t shown after damaging the NPC. Damaging it again will show the health bar.

Platform(s)

All

Additional Notes

The health bar also doesn’t update when you use fort_character.SetHealth() instead of Damage().

Here’s a video of the issue