Since UUNET has been deprecated, https://unity3d.com/unity/features/multiplayer what is the best (as in robust and easy to learn) option for building multiplayer with Unity? In particular what are the pros and cons of Mirror vs Photon?
Depends on what type of game you are going for. I haven't used much of mirror but from what I gathered it was designed off of the old UNet with intentions of having a lot of people connecting at once. Photon is more based off of small lobby games such as 4 player coop, deathmatch between 8-16 players, etc. Photon does this through a server that listens and directs players making it p2p I believe while Mirror does not. Mirror is more server to client based which I would imagine would be better when dealing with hackers maybe? Not positive on that though as even in those games people cheat and I've never made a successful one myself. So it comes down to what you want. Pun2 Easy to use Easy to setup peer to peer after finding games through cloud Chatrooms/lobby Plenty of tutorials Has Free version Mirror Larger scale connections Larger scale projects Maybe more prevention of cheaters? Free I wish I could give more insight on Mirror, but I ended up choosing Pun2 for my projects as it just fit my game. And so far it's been the best thing I've added to my projects yet. In a 2 month period I have made a multiplayer game with game mode selection, player nicknames, Player lobby with chat, and learned so much in the process.
Also take a look at this thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/wha...of-available-network-solutions-assets.609088/
You can check Dapper Dino on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6sInD7ThM1aUDj8lZrF4b4lpvejB2uB I believe Gamedev.tv is also dropping a new course on udemy.com next week with Dapper Dino being one of the instructor..
yea they did, i am following that only and its awesome. makes multiplayer games really easy to make edit, i just realised the post was about an year old
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Nervermind, KarthikRaghuraman and Dapper Dino just one upped it, damn, finally some light at the end of the rabbit hole! Thanks so much everyone!