Hello,
I am wondering if there is a roadmap for PUN? Different ideas you could implement:
* Bit compression, delta and other performance boosts
* Something similar to syncvar, used in UNET.
* Hosting a headless server while using PUN (without the hack method of 1 room being a "server")
* Simple solution for LAN games where everything does not have to go through photon cloud.
* Send rates based on proximity. Check if other player is close enough, if is, then increase/decrease send rate.
Unity devs have published a post, plus written on forums what their current status is and what they plan to achieve. The biggest one being the option for dedicated server and implementing host migration. If these features are done and they have many more planned then why should I stick with Photon (if we exclude pricing). If they improve their product then why should I stick with Photon? What are future plans for Photon? Or is it a complete product with nothing new in mind? Only occasional bugfixes and performance increase?
PUN's low level api code is not open source either, while UNET's is. This means if you don't improve your product, your customers can't do it either. I've developed a product, using PUN for couple of months now. But I'm starting to see that if I want to create a game with 64 players in one room then I could have huge bandwidth issues and I cannot optimize the netcode for it to suit my needs. Plus having the option of creating dedicated servers with PUN, so players/clans could cost servers (like in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Quake), would reduce my costs related to PUN. Just add necessary files to server, start up the server with an exe and you're ready to go.
Other thing I have noticed is that many questions on this forum are left unanswered. Mods are not active, at all. Or if they are then they are very selective about the questions, which they answer. What is the reason for it? Are you planning to increase the activity? If so, then how?
Why should I continue using PUN? What guarantees the fact the Photon stays on top in atleast the upcoming 5 years while competition is working hard to make their products better? (forge, unet).
Cheers,
Frosty
I am wondering if there is a roadmap for PUN? Different ideas you could implement:
* Bit compression, delta and other performance boosts
* Something similar to syncvar, used in UNET.
* Hosting a headless server while using PUN (without the hack method of 1 room being a "server")
* Simple solution for LAN games where everything does not have to go through photon cloud.
* Send rates based on proximity. Check if other player is close enough, if is, then increase/decrease send rate.
Unity devs have published a post, plus written on forums what their current status is and what they plan to achieve. The biggest one being the option for dedicated server and implementing host migration. If these features are done and they have many more planned then why should I stick with Photon (if we exclude pricing). If they improve their product then why should I stick with Photon? What are future plans for Photon? Or is it a complete product with nothing new in mind? Only occasional bugfixes and performance increase?
PUN's low level api code is not open source either, while UNET's is. This means if you don't improve your product, your customers can't do it either. I've developed a product, using PUN for couple of months now. But I'm starting to see that if I want to create a game with 64 players in one room then I could have huge bandwidth issues and I cannot optimize the netcode for it to suit my needs. Plus having the option of creating dedicated servers with PUN, so players/clans could cost servers (like in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Quake), would reduce my costs related to PUN. Just add necessary files to server, start up the server with an exe and you're ready to go.
Other thing I have noticed is that many questions on this forum are left unanswered. Mods are not active, at all. Or if they are then they are very selective about the questions, which they answer. What is the reason for it? Are you planning to increase the activity? If so, then how?
Why should I continue using PUN? What guarantees the fact the Photon stays on top in atleast the upcoming 5 years while competition is working hard to make their products better? (forge, unet).
Cheers,
Frosty