Unable to set player controller reference inside a variable?

It’s not a single player game so I have to run everything through the player controller.

Validation is successful.


Also, I just realized, I’m not even able to set the variable through base class… So I don’t think it’s an issue with the player controller… I tried creating a float variable in base class and setting it too through the base class’ begin play and it still shows the float variable as 0 in the child actor. Wut.