Resolved

[haughty compass]

you cant manually set their direction

you have to set the direction for a location, and then tp the player to that location

set {_loc} to location of player
set yaw of {_loc} to player's yaw+90
teleport player to {_loc}

phone does not want me to codeblock shit

[pulsar gazelle]

Just tp to their own loc offset by a vector