Mirror vs Photon

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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?

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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.

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photon has more than pun, server can beat out of the box mirror for scaling.

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Also take a look at this thread: What are the pros and cons of available network solutions/assets

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Thanks!

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Hi do you have any tutorial in using Mirror for Online Multiplayer?

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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…

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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 :stuck_out_tongue:

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This was pretty useful. I have used PUN2 on a number of projects and like it. I may try Mirror now:

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I already Enroll the Course the Dapper dino with Gamedev.tv use Mirror And I Comes in internet and search (mirror vs Photon2) this is cause

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You and Jason Weimann just collectively saved my ass!!! THANK YOU!!!

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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!

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This looks great, thanks for sharing. Added it to the Mirror documentation now :slight_smile: