FileAccess.StoreLine not working randomly

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Godot Version

4.4.1

Question

I’m having trouble writing my Player’s inventory to a save file, but only when I am accessing the Player using a list of the current players in the game. When I access the same Player using a static localPlayer variable, it works as expected.

    public void SaveGame () {
        NonArraySave();
        // ArraySave();

        if (Player.localPlayer == Player.players[0]) {
            GD.Print("THEY'RE THE SAME PERSON");
        }

        if (Json.Stringify(Player.localPlayer.equipmentManager.SaveCurrentEquipment()).Equals(Json.Stringify(Player.players[0].equipmentManager.SaveCurrentEquipment()))) {
            GD.Print("THEY'RE THE SAME STRING");
        }
    }

    void NonArraySave () {
        using FileAccess saveFile = FileAccess.Open(fileName, FileAccess.ModeFlags.Write);

        string saveString = "NonArrSave\n";
        saveString += Json.Stringify(Player.localPlayer.equipmentManager.SaveCurrentEquipment());
        saveFile.StoreLine(saveString);
    }

    void ArraySave () {
        using FileAccess saveFile = FileAccess.Open(fileName, FileAccess.ModeFlags.Write);

        string saveString = "ArrSave\n";
        saveString += Json.Stringify(Player.players[0].equipmentManager.SaveCurrentEquipment());
        saveFile.StoreLine(saveString);
    }

The only difference between the 2 methods is that the NonArraySave method uses Player.localPlayer instead of Player.players[0], but somehow ArraySave doesn’t work; the save file is just completely empty.

The player is the same and the Json strings being stored are identical but 1 method works and 1 doesn’t. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong?

I am using Linux Mint if that changes anything.

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I’d be inclined to merge your NonArraySave and ArraySave functions into a single function that takes the player as an argument, and then see if you get the same results between handing in Player.players[0] and Player.localPlayer.

What I’m wondering is if there’s some shenanigans going on where they aren’t the same type somehow, but one can be downcast to the type of other so they appear to be under some circumstances.