My DefaultPawn won't receive input unless clicked on in the world outliner

Development Programming & Scripting
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My pawn is meant to control the camera in an RTS like control scheme. It seems the pawn does not tick or receive input unless I click on it in the world outliner. My player controller possesses this pawn in it’s BeginPlay method.

Any ideas?

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You used a ready template? such as the TOP-DOWN?

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@Kostor Nah, it was just the most basic project option.

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Still need help with this. Any movements done in tick also won’t happen until it’s clicked on.

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I changed a few things and it worked:

Inherited from APawn instead
Recompiled in visual studio while the editor was closed

I’m guessing it has to do with the last one. I had to build manually in VS before this worked. Note that restarting the editor alone did not help.