Yea i did, i found the solution for this problem, seems there was an issue with hot reload, i had to delete the component and re-add it, i found the solutiion here:
[UPROPERTY value keeps resetting on every compile - #16 by arhiDavid](o UPROPERTY value keeps resetting on every compile - #16 by arhiDavid)
PS: how do i mark this as solved?