Enemy shooting randomly / Isn't this solution simpler and less intensive?

[ZoidbergForPresident]

public class EnemyController : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject Projectile;
public Transform ProjectileSpawn;
public float ProjectileSpeed = 8f;
public float MaxFireRate = 0.3f;
public float MinFireRate = 0.5f;
public float Health = 200;

float TimeSinceLastShot = 0f;
float currentFireRate;

private void Awake()
{
    currentFireRate = Random.Range(MaxFireRate, MinFireRate);
}

private void Update()
{
    if(TimeSinceLastShot >= currentFireRate)
        Fire();
    TimeSinceLastShot += Time.deltaTime;
}

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{
    Projectile go = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Projectile>();
    if (go != null && go.GetComponent<Projectile>().Owner != "Enemy")
    {
        Health -= go.Damage;
        go.Hit();
        if (Health <= 0) Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

void Fire()
{
    GameObject shot = Instantiate(Projectile, ProjectileSpawn.position, ProjectileSpawn.rotation);
    Projectile script = shot.GetComponent<Projectile>();
    if (script)
    {
        script.Owner = "Enemy";
    }
    shot.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = new Vector3(0f, -ProjectileSpeed);
    TimeSinceLastShot = 0f;
    currentFireRate = Random.Range(MaxFireRate, MinFireRate);
}

[whalleyrulz]

I think it’s about equivalent in terms of simplicity, but it does look like it’d perform a little better not having to calculate something each frame.

The only real drawback I can see is that if you were playing against an enemy with a lot of health, having a constantly predictable rate of fire might get a little boring once you got used to it - the random amount of time between each shot adds a bit of unpredictability.

(I love unpredictable enemies though; I also put an ‘accuracy’ stat on my enemy shots that does a random.range calculation to pick the x value from a small range)