UE4 Bug? Server only updates bone transform on object when object is actually rendered

Thanks to Zeblote who answered this on the forums.

It’s an optimisation setting in the skeletal mesh settings.

C++:

SkelMesh->VisibilityBasedAnimTickOption = EVisibilityBasedAnimTickOption::AlwaysTickPoseAndRefreshBones;

BP:

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