victim.DamageMobJ is not dealing damage?

[XASSASSINX]

Hello everyone, i've made this nailgun weapon that hits multiple enemies, but i want its damage to reduce for each enemy that it hits. If i put any random intenger there, it works fine but without said damage reduction. However, if i use some custom variable, the damage does not work? Or rather, it seems to work only at random minium distances, which is even more confusing. Here is the code for it:

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Class Scalliano_PlayerNail : FastProjectile
{
 int HitTimes;
 int HitMax;
 int NailGunDamage;
 actor HitMonster;
 Default
 {
  Damage 0;
  Speed 40;
  MissileHeight 8;
  MissileType "Scalliano_PlayerNailTrail";
  Radius 3;
  Height 2;
  Decal "FadingBulletChip";
 }
  
   override Void PostBeginPlay()
   {
    int NailGunDamage = 20;
   }
  
   override int SpecialMissileHit(actor victim) 
    {
        if (victim && target && victim != target && victim != HitMonster) 
        {   
	        victim.DamageMobj(self,target, NailGunDamage, "Normal");
			A_SpawnItemEx("Blood");
			HitTimes++;
            HitMonster = victim;            
        }
        return 1;                        
    }
 
 States
 {
 Spawn:
  TNT1 A 0 NoDelay { HitMax = random(2, 4); }
 SpawnLoop:
  TNT1 A 1
  {
   if (HitTimes > HitMax)
    return ResolveState("XDeath");
   return ResolveState(null);
  }
  Loop;
  
  ...
  

Why is this happening?

Small edit: the reason it is a fast projectile with 40 speed is because i thought the collision system for fast projectiles was bugging it, alas i put it to 40 speed, but its actually a very fast 150 speed projectile.

[Jarewill]

Taking a quick glance at the code, I suspect it's because you define NailGunDamage as a new variable in PostBeginPlay, which means that it will only have a value of 20 in that function.
Anywhere else it will remain 0, remove int before NailGunDamage and it should work.
You could also put the code in the Spawn state into PostBeginPlay as well.

[XASSASSINX]

Oh yeah, that was a dumb mistake of mine. That made it a temporary variable. Even so, i did what you said earlier of putting it in the first tic of the spawn state with NoDelay and yet it wans't working, sometimes rather. Anyways this fixed it, thank you!