Private bool changing of its own accord!

This has really been battering my head and, as always, I imagine it will be some stupid mistake. But I can not for the life of me figure out the behaviour of this code. I'm using a system called Mixins to create weapon/spell behaviours and the following code is just for a cooldown/fire rate effect. As you can see, I set isReady = true when I declare the variable. However, for some reason the bool returns false instantly, and never gets set true again! (I put a breakpoint just under the if statement in the Update function, and it gets hit as soon as the script gets instantiated, meaning that within) Except, I can see via the inspector that the bool remains true the whole time. I really hope someone can explain this.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2.  
3. public class Cooldown : MixinBase
4. {
5.     public string cooldownDescription;
6.     public float cooldownTimer;
7.     private float cooldownTime;
8.     [SerializeField] private bool isReady = true;
9.  
10.     public override bool Check()
11.     {
12.         return isReady;
13.     }
14.  
15.     public override void Action()
16.     {
17.         isReady = false;
18.         cooldownTime = 0.0f;
19.     }
20.  
21.     private void Update()
22.     {
23.         if (!isReady)
24.         {
25.             cooldownTime += Time.deltaTime;
26.             if (cooldownTime >= cooldownTimer)
27.             {
28.                 isReady = true;
29.             }
30.         }
31.     }
32. }

P.S I also used this exact same script in another project with no problems whatsoever (checked said project after updating Unity and it still functions correctly).

 

Serialized fields are reset to whatever the value in the inspector is set to when you save the object / prefab. Your initializing value there is only accurate when you first add the script to an object.

If, for some reason, you can't set the value to true in the inspector before running the game, you can override the value in Awake().

 

I tried to set the value via the Awake function, however had the same issue.

I have fixed it since though. I had a slight reference error when I assigned my skills to their skill buttons (assigned the prefab and not a clone of the prefab). Thanks for the help.