Creating a cooldown system in Unity

When shooting, it is good to create a cooldown system, so the player can shoot the laser after a time delay

Time.time is the time passed since the game began

Let’s create 2 float variables and 2 conditions in Update

When Time.time = 5f and space key is pressed, both conditions are true, so the player can shoot a laser

After that, we set the canFire value to Time.time + fireRate, so canFire = 5.7f This way, the player needs to wait until Time.time = 5.8f to shoot again

FireLaser method to be called in Update

Without cooldown system

With cooldown system

Have a nice time!