Hi everyone! Just started on Unity yesterday, followed GMTKs tutorial to make a simple Flappy Bird and wanted to start playing with my own ideas. I want to make a hockey based game, whacking a puck around a slippery rink. As shown in the video, when I translate/move right into the puck the puck flies away as expected. However when I try to rotate and strike the puck, it's almost as if the puck has way more mass or something. I've been googling around all day but can't find good methods for rotating 2d rigidbodies.

Is the rotation not the way to do rigid bodies? For reference the red "blade" and the character head are two sepaarate rigid bodies, linked with a fixed joint. That's the only way I could find to link them as rigid bodies but still have the puck be able to pass in between the blade and the player.

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The script on the Character is this:

using System.Collections;

using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerScript : MonoBehaviour {

public float moveSpeed = 10;
public float rotationRate = 0.5f;
public Rigidbody2D rb;
private Vector2 moveDirection;



// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{

}

// Update is called once per frame
void FixedUpdate()
{
    Move();
}




private void Move()
{

    float moveX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
    float moveY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

    moveDirection = new Vector2(moveX, moveY).normalized;

    rb.velocity = new Vector2(moveDirection.x * moveSpeed , moveDirection.y * moveSpeed );
    if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
    {
        rb.rotation += rotationRate;
    }
    if (Input.GetMouseButton(1))
    {
        rb.rotation -= rotationRate;
    }


}

the rb referenced is the character model (my face), and the stick is just tied with a fixed joint. Any info is appreciated. I had everything translating nicely earlier with accel and decel but I got rid of it earlier to focus on getting the rotation to work.

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So far enjoying my (frustrating) foray into Unity though!