I found this while I try to do respawn, if in a GameMode blueprint, you use getDefaultPawnClass function to feed into SpawnActorByClass it will work the first time you do it in Editor.
However, if you then save everything(all compile dirty is cleared), close editor and then reopen the project, there will be compile error and then disconnect whatever output on the SpawnActorByClass node.
I think this should be consider a bug because in a GameMode BP, this should be the intended behavior so people can just set their GameMode default to say versioned up Pawn instead of have to use drop down menu to select it.( as it might be from testPawn->protoTypePawn->alphaPawn…etc. )
If I’m using this wrong, please answer with proper way to do it.
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