Variable Flickering in new update

Loving the new mcreator update! However after backing up my mod and porting it to the new version I noticed that a lot of my gui that relies on constantly updated variables start to flicker between their intended value and 0. I did a lot of troubleshooting and have determined that any of my variables that are set to 0 at the beginning of a procedure and then count up to a greater value by the end do this. This does not happen in the previous Mcreator version so my belief is that it has something to do with the new variable packet changes?

Is anyone else experiencing this or know a work around?