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however I was able to get the clients and servers on Android to connect, like the OP was, by entering in my IP into the field.

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If you do go this route and get stuck after logging in a player, I can help with your matchmaking code.Д¬lick to expand.I also am having problems getting Mirror to connect to other clients/servers that are not on the 'localhost' AND not running on PC (my PC builds connect to localhost fine, the Android builds just timeout(Client) or start their own game alone(Server, Server-Client)). If you don't plan on using PlayFab's backend to store player profiles it's quite a lot to learn just for matchmaking! However, if you do want to have player profiles online I suggest you check out some of their tutorials, and once you've created and logged in a player you could then move on to trying out their matchmaking service. At that point you exchange IP details, decide who is host and who is client, and tell the client to connect to the host. You can use their matchmaking system separately to their dedicated server hosting, so each player looks for a match, and then PlayFab lets your clients know when another player has matched with them. However, I wasn't necessarily suggesting that you upload a server build to PlayFab - although good for a certain type of game, you usually need to host one in each region which gets expensive fast.

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Hope that helps, feel free to ask any more questions!ДЎ) The way you have it at the moment, where one of the clients is also a host.Дў) Create a separate server build using StartServer() which all of your hosts connect to. Services like Photon get around this by having all communication go through their relays, and with Mirror a dedicated server also gets around this problem by being something both clients can connect to. The above said, pure peer-to-peer networking does bring some challenges, as highlighted by Joe - you will need to use NAT punchthrough to get around firewall issues and even then that doesn't work 100% of the time. If you need player profile storage their services work very well. If you've not used PlayFab before it would take a few days to setup as you'd need to learn about authenticating and logging in the player, but once you do it's great - free for up to 100,000 unique players. In my case the IP and Port of one of my dedicated servers gets returned, but using this method you could instead get your host client to send their IP with the attributes field: The general workflow is that anyone who wants to play together submits a 'ticket' to their service, and then when two people on the same queue are compatible (you can just make it so anyone is compatible with anyone) the status of each ticket changes and allows each player to get the other's details. I have just integrated the PlayFab matchmaker (free as far as I can tell) into my game alongside their dedicated multiplayer severs 2.0 (with a Mirror build) and it works well - here's what the unity integration looks like once you've authenticated the player.

You probably want some kind of cloud matchmaking service to get your players playing together. Sorry if my question is bit convoluted but I'm trying my best to be as clear as possible and I would reaaaaally appreciate any help. Now, given that scenario, will I have to have some sort of cloud service(AWS or something) to be able to achieve that using Mirror? Before, I suppose, Unity had (or still has) a cloud service called Multiplayer where you'd hook things up (as in UNET + Multiplayer service). I did get it to work giving the Network Address in NetworkManager a static one (which is my computer's IP) but I still don't seem to understand how that 'localhost' becomes the actual IP address that the 2nd player's device will be connecting to once the game is live. I've been reading up on Mirror examples but they all seem to sample its own matchmaking/lobby feature all across, which is defaulted to localhost. 2nd player connects to 1st player's device 2-player game, one mobile device as a host

Kudos!) but have been struggling to understand the concept of multiplayer as a whole. I've been playing with Mirror (which looks slick tbh. First of all, I'm new to unity's network layer/HLAPI concepts and all that jazz.

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