Stop player holding shoot button

Scripting
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I am making a side scrolling shooter and I want the game to be a challenge. I find that holding down the shoot button makes the game a lot easier, is it possible to force the player to have to press the key repeatedly so they cant just hold it down?

2

You can use GetButtonDown instead of GetButton to check the input, that will only be true on the same frame they pressed the button.

3

Maybe have a bool called CanShoot, on key down it shoots, and canShoot is then false, on key up CanShoot is reset to true? Obviously in your shoot method have an if (canshoot == true)

Just an idea :slight_smile:

4

Perfect, many thanks :slight_smile: I’ve only been using Unity for a little over a week so I still have many of the basics to learn.

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That bool idea will work for single shot, if you want a timer you can always do a Time.deltaTime and set the bool to false if it’s say longer than 1 second of holding

6

You can do this too, I use it in my games often.

You can instantiate this from an update

public float fireDelay = 0; // with this you delay first shoot, you can keep this at 0 in your case
public float fireRate; // this delays next bullet, so let’s say every one second it will fire another bullet

if(Time.time > fireDelay){
fireDelay = Time.time + fireRate;
//here you instantiate your gameobject, like bullet
}

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