Trouble getting local player controller on clients?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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This is incredibly stupid but at the same time, I can’t figure it out. I know player controllers only exist on the client, but I don’t understand why I can’t get the controller on the clients themselves either. I have the following code in the BeingPlay() of my Character class :

myController = Cast<AFPSGameController>(GetController());

if (myController) {
FString msg = “Controller fetched in " + GetName();
UKismetSystemLibrary::PrintString(this, (TEXT(”%s"), *msg));
}

I would expect this code to print 1 line each on the instances. What I mean is if I start 4 instances of the game (1 server, 3 clients), I thought each client would be able to successfully get their own player controllers. So suppose Char_1, Char_2, Char_3, and Char_4 get spawned for server, client 1, client 2, and client 3 respsectively, Char_1 would successfully fetch and print the message on server, Char_2 would print the message on client 1, Char_3 on client 2, Char_4 on client 3.
But the logs being printed look like this :

LogBlueprintUserMessages: [EBaseCharacter_C_1] Server: Controller fetched in EBaseCharacter_C_1
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [EBaseCharacter_C_0] Client 3: Controller fetched in EBaseCharacter_C_0
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [EBaseCharacter_C_0] Client 1: Controller fetched in EBaseCharacter_C_0
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [EBaseCharacter_C_0] Client 2: Controller fetched in EBaseCharacter_C_0

Really sorry for being a noob but I’m having a tough time with this. Any help would be appreciated.

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This looks correct to me. Characters and Controllers will not share the same object names accross different instances of the running game so ID’ing the object by it’s name isn’t a reliable way to identify it.

E.g, The Server (assuming it’s a listen server in this case) will have four controllers - it will create it’s own controller first (suffix _0) - then client controllers (suffix _1 - _3)

Clients will only ever have their own controller. Since it will be the first controller, they will all be suffixed with _0. Characters may be received in any order, depending on which one replicates first.

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@TheJamsh You’re right. Added a IsLocalController() check and got the same results. Thanks for the help!