Why does attaching a specific mesh to a socket result in my characters movement to be reversed?

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started out with a basic static mesh of a torch. worked just fine, movements and all, then i imported a Sword static mesh, and replaced the reference i had to the torch with the sword. now my character moves in the reverse direction when i play the game and give it

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move input. im really stumped on why its acting like this. Please help!

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Guess: the sword mesh has collision enabled, and your character is colliding with it when trying to move forward.

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Thank you so much! that was the issue! needed to remove collision. thanks again for the fast response!