For anyone who does encounter this issue, it seems there maybe was some sort of weird error surrounding components and the GetOwner() function. For whatever reason when I booted up UE5 today, my HealthComponent’s GetOwner() function returned the base class of my actor instead of the instance.
Using a print message, with the code
UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("%s's Health component is owned by %s (Should be %s)"), *GetActorLabel(), *GetHealthComponent()->GetOwner()->GetActorLabel(), *GetActorLabel());
returned the log message
"BP_FirstPersonCharacter0's Health component is owned by BaseCharacter (Should be BP_FirstPersonCharacter0)"
Which is how I figured out the issue. Changing my HealthComponent variable to HealthComponent2 fixed the issue entirely. I’m not really sure how this bug occurs but I think it’s a bug present in 5.2.
