This script isnt working no matter what I do

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I’m trying to make a 3D game like some 2D pixely games you would see in old Arcades. But this script that lets the enemys attack back isn’t working. The enemy ship is just flying somewhere really fast and the Lasers which is what I want them to attack with is spawning a little in front of the enemy ship but the enemy ship is still flying elsewhere. I am only 13 and just started with unity. So I’m not the best debugger so please help me, the code is written in C# (Some people think is hard but I see it easier than Java Script) here it is:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class EnemyAttack : MonoBehaviour {

    private float shotInterval = 2;
    public GameObject Laser;
    private Vector3 laserPos;
    public int laserSpeed = 7;
    private GameObject Player;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
        
        
        StartCoroutine(MyCounter(10));
		StartCoroutine(Shoot());
    }

    IEnumerator Shoot() {

		Vector3 laserPos = transform.position;
        laserPos.z -= 2;

        Player = UnityEngine.GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
        
        float angle = Vector3.Angle(Player.transform.position, Vector3.right);
        Instantiate(Laser, laserPos, Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0f, 0f, angle)));
        transform.Translate(Player.transform.position * laserSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
    }

    IEnumerator MyCounter(int number)
    {
        int i = 0;
        while (i < number)
        {
            yield return 0; //Wait 1 Frame
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
            i++;

        }
    }
}
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Ok so the problem is under the IEnumerator Shoot, you transform.translate the ship causing it to move at the player. I’m assuming that that is meant to move the laser so what you can do is something like this GameObject lzr = Instantiate(Laser, laserPos, Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0f, 0f, angle))) as GameObject; lzr.transform.Translate(Player.transform.position * laserSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
if that doesnt work you could get rid of the line where you transform.translate attach a script to the lazer and have it transform.translate the script would look something like this public GameObject player; public float laserSpeed; void Start () { transform.Translate(Player.transform.position * laserSpeed * Time.deltaTime); }

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Instead of using transform.translate, use a Rigidbody2D with IsKinematic checked. Then, you could use the Rigidbody2D.addForce method.