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Unity has completely destroyed my faith in their ability to deliver on anything other than marketing. - It took them YEARS to deliver their new input system. T

Unity has completely destroyed my faith in their ability to deliver on anything other than marketing. - It took them YEARS to deliver their new input system. Think about that. A company with Unity's resources took YEARS to develop a system that takes inputs from keyboards, mice, and gamepads and routes them to C# callbacks. YEARS. - They completely abandoned their networking system (UNET) without a replacement system... This was YEARS ago and we STILL don't have a production-ready replacement. - They wrote a new render pipeline called the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) and marketed it as a production-ready replacement for the old built-in renderer. However, the new pipeline isn't even close to feature-parity and the remaining features are still in development. How in the world is that a "production-ready replacement"???

jayd16 6y ago
Its not that they can't build anything. URP is ok. It cuts out features that made it slower so its not going to ever hit feature parity. The problem is indeed that the marketing oversold it. They should have never suggested devs "move" to URP. For new games its alright.
- zlsa 6y ago
  URP doesn't support casting dynamic shadows from point lights[0], something which many games use and should really be a feature in a production-ready game engine. [0]: https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-point-light-shadows.881902/ https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-point-light-shadows.8819...
ffhhj 6y ago
I really like making games and apps in Unity, and I don't like Unreal's workflow, but this is the hard truth. Unity's strategy is adding as many features as possible to cover as many cases, a tool to make anything, an asset market to find anything, but you know one more half-baked feature will replace another broken feature soon, or you'll need to buy an asset to make it right. Being messy is their strategy, unless they make a new engine with a unified plan and solid features, Unity won't be the best engine.

jayd16 6y ago

Its not that they can't build anything. URP is ok. It cuts out features that made it slower so its not going to ever hit feature parity. The problem is indeed that the marketing oversold it. They should have never suggested devs "move" to URP. For new games its alright.

zlsa 6y ago
URP doesn't support casting dynamic shadows from point lights[0], something which many games use and should really be a feature in a production-ready game engine. [0]: https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-point-light-shadows.881902/ https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-point-light-shadows.8819...

ffhhj 6y ago

I really like making games and apps in Unity, and I don't like Unreal's workflow, but this is the hard truth. Unity's strategy is adding as many features as possible to cover as many cases, a tool to make anything, an asset market to find anything, but you know one more half-baked feature will replace another broken feature soon, or you'll need to buy an asset to make it right. Being messy is their strategy, unless they make a new engine with a unified plan and solid features, Unity won't be the best engine.