Trouble with inheritance

[n00ben]

Hi guys. I am having a really annoying problem with inheritance.
I am using UI to dynamically populate a shop with Weapons from a list.

Weapon is the base class and I then have other classes such as Pistol, Machinegun, etc, that extend Weapon.

public abstract class Weapon : MonoBehaviour{
	public int weaponID;
}

…

public class Pistol : Weapon {
public Pistol() {
	weaponID = 1; // test value;
}

…

public class MachineGun : Weapon {
public MachineGun () {
	weaponID = 2; // test value;
}

…

for (int i = 0; i < weaponsForSale.Length; i++) {
			GameObject weaponPrefab = Instantiate (weaponsForSale *);*

•  	Weapon weaponComp = weaponPrefab.GetComponent<Weapon>();*
  

•  	Debug.Log(weaponComp); // this displays the correct class, Pistol, Machinegun, etc*
  

•  	Debug.Log(weaponComp.weaponID); // this displays 0, the base stat of weapon instead of the pistol, machinegun, etc*
  

[spraw]

You cannot/shouldn’t call a constructor in Unity like that. Instead call Awake, Start, etc.

public class Pistol : Weapon {
 void Start() {
     weaponID = 1; // test value;
 }
}

Classes - Unity Learn

[n00ben]

@spraw I was using Start to no avail, problem persists.

Edit: Awake seems to be working, but not Start o.o
Thank you.