Is there an official Steam transport for NGO?

[alpine bloom]

I am using Steamworks.NET with the community Steam Networking Sockets (https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/multiplayer-community-contributions/tree/main/Transports/com.community.netcode.transport.steamnetworkingsockets) and have discovered that it doesn't implement NetworkTransport.OnTransportEvent().

While it's nice to have a community repo with transports, I think it's time that Unity create an official Steam one that properly implements their own transport. Come on, Unity, it's 2025, it's time you made your own. Or have I just missed it in an update.

[gentle bloom]

There's not really much reason for them to make a transport for Steam P2P/Relay when they provide their own solution for it.

[dapper girder]

You can checkout how the Facepunch Transport implements InvokeOnTransportEvent and add it to this one

[alpine bloom]

Thanks, evil, I'll give that a gander.

The mind boggles that Unity doesn't have support for Steam, instead relying on OSS. Where the maintainers are long gone.

Steam support should be a checkbox with an app IDs. Because it's ... well, it's Steam!

Do most people who do Steam networking (join friends, lobbies etc) use the Unity relay? Is that the preferred option? That seems lunatic.

[gentle bloom]

Unity Relay or Epic Online Services, yeah. AFAIK you do not need to use or interact with Steam Networking Sockets or any of their low level networking in order to integrate Steam friends, lobbies, etc.

[alpine bloom]

Thanks Dylarno - I'll have to persevere, finding things like this late in the process means I can't bounce onto another transport so easily.

Unity, I doubt you're reading this, but it's 2025. Where's your out-of-the-box Steam support.

[dapper girder]

You don't need the Steam Transport to interact with the rest of Steamworks.

[alpine bloom]

Yep, so it would seem.

[dapper girder]

I would also imagine that having to keep up with the Steamworks API would be a huge pain

[alpine bloom]

Steamworks.NET has one a year. https://github.com/rlabrecque/Steamworks.NET/releases

Proper engine level Steam support is a huge miss by Unity - multiplayer aside, even the other Steam functions. They need to sort that out.

Anyway, no need to belabour the point, thanks for you help.

[pure drift]

But how would they sell their unity cloud solution then?

[alpine bloom]

The Steamworks API is much greater than punchthrough and it would be an officially supported transport along with all the others. If you're targeting itch/Epic/gog then you will need separate one. However, Steam is the big market and Unity should support it out of the box.