Passing pointers to RPC

Development Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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Hi there! I have a short question. How do pointers behave in the RPC? I’m a little confused. Example:

void AMyCharacter::Event()
{
	MulticastCallback(this);
}

void AMyCharacter::MulticastCallback_Implementation(AMyCharacter* _Owner)
{
	if (_Owner == this)
	{
		UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("_Owner == this"));
	}
}

I’m running server+client mode. Why when I call a custom event from the server and pass a pointer to the current object to the RPC, I get _Owner==this twice? Although I expect this to happen once when the server itself does it.

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Pointers to replicated actors are translated into the unique ID of the actor, sent across the network, and then the same actor is looked up on the other side.

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