How to make a 2d object(bullet) move the way its facing

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so im making a 2d space shooter type game that player looks where the mouse is at. The problem is player has cannons that shoots lazers but idk how to make lazers go to the way its faacing i tried Vector3.forward but it was moving it in the z axis. Like if my player is looking down i want the lazer to go down if the player is looking at northwest i want my bullet to go northwest if my players rotation is x = 90 i want my lazer rotation x = 90
can someone help?
and here is the laser code

public class Laser : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField]
private float speed = 10f;
void Start()
{

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed, Space.Self);
    if(transform.position.y > 20 || transform.position.y < -20 || transform.position.x > 20 || transform.position.x < -20)
    {
        if (transform.parent != null)
            Destroy(transform.parent.gameObject);
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}
2

Did you parent the lasers to the player? can you send your hierarchy?

3

laser is a prefab controlled by that script i posted. Player script does the job for spawning lasers.
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