Health/Damage system in Photon Cloud

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Hello!

I am doing the health/damage system now. I am in doubt… Should I use only RPCs or OnPhotonSerializeView. Maybe I should combine them?

The problem is that if I use only RPCs, the later connected players does not have any information about HP of others. Of course, I can use buffered. However, it should work, theoretically, until the sender quit. How to fix the problem? Could you provide me a solution? I do not need code, but performance of how it should be.

Thank you!

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Buffering wouldn’t be that good because new connected player will be bombed with all buffered messages.
OnPhotonSerializeView would be the best way to sync clients health.

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Yeah, okay. Thank you for the answer!

So, my way of thinking:

  • I press fire, check the hitting and other game logic. Afterwards, send RPC to the victim (with option of PhotonTargets.All).
  • Victim’s realization of the RPC request decreases hp of the player.
  • Somewhere in the bottom I use OnPhotonSerializeView anyway to sync hp if some new players connect to us.

Correct? This is the best way to solve the task?

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Yeah, fire,detect,send to target. That’s all ^^

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