Velocity value for server character is 0.0 but on client it works fine

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I have just realised, that its not printing the server’s velocity at all, the 0.0 i am seeing is the clients velocity. It is always printing the clients velocity and it works fine, but the servers velocity isnt even being printed

I have a character, and a custom charactermovementcomponent. In the character I do simple things like moving forwards and right, and a simple replicated jump (using impulse) function. But in the movementcomponent, in the tick function, I am printing the string of the characters velocity. I have tried two methods.

CharacterOwner->GetVelocity()

and

Velocity.X

The top one access’ the characters velocity, where as the bottom one gets the velocity of the movementcomponent.
I am then just printing them to the screen by this for example

 GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-2, 0.05f, FColor::Yellow , FString::SanitizeFloat(CharacterOwner->GetVelocity().X))

or

GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-2, 0.05f, FColor::Yellow , FString::SanitizeFloat(Velocity.X))

Either method works perfectly when I am moving on the client’s character, but when I am using the server’s character, it will only ever read 0.0 for the velocity (in any direction).

I have no idea what could possible be the problem.
I need this because I am going to store the current velocity, and then perform some calculations, and then addmovementinput() based on those calculations.

Thanks

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Also, nothing in the character’s movementcomponent is replicated (nor should it need to be right?)

The only replication I have done is the customjump in my characters class. It seems be be some kind of replication problem, but I am not using replication at all. Do server characters not have a velocity or something?

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Turns out I think it was a problem with printing the string?

It works if i use UKismetSystemLibrary::PrintString