PUN 2 - FREE

Name: PUN 2 - FREE
Brand: Photon Engine
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (385 reviews)

LaunchedAug 20187.8y

UpdatedNov 20256.9moModerate

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Pros

Photon PUN 2 is widely regarded as an exceptionally accessible entry point for multiplayer development, offering a shallow learning curve, extensive community documentation, and a vast library of tutorials that simplify complex networking tasks like matchmaking and state synchronization. It is highly effective for rapid prototyping and smaller-scale projects, particularly in VR, allowing developers to offload server-side infrastructure management to Photon's cloud services, which significantly reduces the technical barrier to entry for solo developers and small teams.

Use PUN 2 only for rapid prototyping or low-stakes hobbyist projects, but avoid it for any serious commercial title where security, scalability, and long-term cost-efficiency are non-negotiable requirements.

Cons

The platform suffers from a restrictive and potentially prohibitive pricing model based on Concurrent Users (CCU) that can become financially unsustainable as a game scales, alongside significant security vulnerabilities stemming from its client-authoritative architecture, which makes games highly susceptible to cheating. Users also report frustrating technical hurdles, including poor integration with the Unity Package Manager, outdated documentation, and occasional stability issues that can jeopardize long-term projects, leading some developers to view it as a legacy solution compared to more modern, performant alternatives like Fusion.

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Description

LATEST NEWS --------------------------------------------------------------

For new projects, consider using Photon Fusion or Photon Quantum.

Photon Fusion: The leading state sync multiplayer SDK with Client-Side Prediction, Lag Compensation, Interest Management, KCC, Multiple Topologies, Tick Accurate Animation, VR Inputs & more in a seamless Unity integration.

Photon Quantum: Photon Quantum is the leading deterministic game engine for multiplayer & single-player Unity games. Input/Physics prediction-rollback, high-performant decoupled simulation, KCC, cross-platform, Bots, and more.

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PUN 2 is now in maintenance / LTS mode.

It supports Unity 2021 and up to Unity 6.x, but no new features will be added.

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Photon Unity Networking 2

PUN is all you need to easily add multiplayer to your games and launch them globally.

Forget about hosting, connection issues, and latency.

Support: if you need help with any issues, please first

check our online documentation
join our Discord Community Server and check for soutions
mail our developer support team

Export to all platforms: mobile, desktop, consoles (including PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Switch), TV, VR, AR & WebGL.

Global low latency: Photon Cloud hosting centers in North & South America, Europe, Asia & Australia provide low latency for your games all over the world.

Battle-tested service: Photon's reliability is proven in countless top games.

Automatic scaling: scales without limits, even to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users

Always connects: works across networks and platforms, no punchthrough issues.

Integrated by top tools: Opsive Ultimate FPS, Playmaker Ecosystem, Tanks Multiplayer and many more are all integrated with Photon.

Unity beta versions are not supported. While PUN 2 supports all render pipelines and input systems, our demos use the built in render pipeline and do not support Unity's New Input system. Enable the old system, feel free to update the code or disable the demos. Your projects can use either system.

For details, please read our PUN 2 documentation.

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