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hplus0603 said:
Note that most of the Steam-using games (including Left for Dead) are not actually peer-to-peer.
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Oh yes. I've been using P2P to mean small scale multiplayer vs one with a dedicated headless server, which is incorrect. My assumption has always been that one player “hosts” the game and the other 3 players connect as clients.
Kylotan said:
Multiplayer in Unity is currently unsupported - as in, there is no multiplayer functionality currently shipped with the Unity engine that is not either deprecated or in an alpha/unstable state.…
Wow yuck. A while back I followed a Unity multiplayer tutorial, I had 2 players moving around but the syncing was 15 fps and very jerky, and I could see I was going to have to implement my own position smoothing. I assume it's possible but the existing features are very primitive and you'll have to do a lot of ground work whereas UE4 it's very complete so you can get on with making the rest of the game.
I would agree that it is “more complete”, but it is hardly what I would call “very complete”.
Even within UE4, for any non-trivial multiplayer game you'll be devoting a tremendous effort to getting the networking side working well. UE4 gives a framework for some parts of it, a large set of basic building blocks --- interest management, coarse bandwidth controls, and some synchronization tools --- but they will require significant effort and a lot of learning to use the building blocks effectively. You will also be writing many of your own unique building blocks and customizing the ones they provide.
