Is there an ETA for the Room API?
Hi, I'd like to ask if there is an estimation about the release date of the Room API. Not knowing about the active rooms (or checking if a room is active, etc) is a bit making things harder 🥲 And also, is there a roadmap you can share with us (not too detailed of course)?
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I don't know but you can just use unity Lobby for now, they work the same
We are; but I don't think it'll be the same. Managing (or checking/controlling) two separate services is not stable. And of course, UGS limits are a bit low and it complicates things. We've too many users and many different devices/conditions (right now only mobile users), etc. So, using Unity lobby to check if a room is alive (and/or what it's current state, etc) is not 100% trustable. We even tried Firebase RTDB; but if the last user just closes the game (or puts the game to the background), then we can't be sure about the room anymore. All services have different timeouts, different regions, etc.
mechanically they are the same
normcore lobby works this way too
users heartbeat the lobby server every few seconds and if they stop it'll timeout the lobby
same as other solutions