Is there any good template/library for modern multiplayer netcode for Unreal or Unity or anything else, or is it truly everybody rolls their own as the secret sauce in their AAA games?
No, people literally still roll their own multiplayer networking in 2023. Seriously. Unreal Engine 5's out-of-the-box multiplayer code isn't production ready, and they're probably the "best" of the major engines people use today.
It pales in comparison to older engines from other game companies. It's effectively unusable.
This seems wild in the free-to-play era, where multiplayer with in game purchases is, like, the main business model. Maybe Unreal figures the multiplayer implementation is the metric on which the game studios compete, so there’s no hope to commoditizing it, or something like that?
andrewmcwatters|3 years ago
It pales in comparison to older engines from other game companies. It's effectively unusable.
bee_rider|3 years ago