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What is the cons of using unity built in network manager?

Why do Unity game developers implement server by themselves instead of using unity built-in NetworkManager?

It seems like multi online games can easily be developed by using NetworkManager, but why do developers implement server by themselves using node.js, ... etc??

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Fredrik Widerberg
Fredrik Widerberg

Reputation: 3108

Its my understanding that it is not possible for two separate unity projects to talk to each other using the Unity HLAPI (High Level API, which is what NetworkManager is utilizing).

That means that you would have to have all the server code, and all the client code, in the same project. This doesnt have to be a problem really, but for larger scale projects, separating the server from client can be easier to work with, and you dont push out all the server code to the clients to possibly reverse engineer.

Lets say you have a round-based, non-realtime game like scrabble, in this case it would make sense to use node or any http protocol, where you have a centralized server with a database for persisting game states.

But i honestly have no clue why anyone would prefer pure sockets when you have the Unity TLAPI (Transport Layer API)

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UNetUsingTransport.html

I hope this was somewhat helpful and not just a rant.

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