Has anyone tested the Reliable UDP protocol in GameMaker?

[GhostlyImprints]

I don't know when the reliable UDP protocol was implemented for GameMaker Studio, but I just found out about it.

Is it actually decent? Has anyone tested it? Are there any problems with it in terms of order of datagrams, order of segments, or lost datagrams?

Or does it work very well for P2P games? Would anyone recommend it over say, the GMNet Punch extension?

 

[Yal]

"Reliable UDP"? UDP has the "uncertain delivery protocol" mnemonic for a reason, so it sounds like a bit of an oxymoron....

 

[GhostlyImprints]

"Reliable UDP"? UDP has the "uncertain delivery protocol" mnemonic for a reason, so it sounds like a bit of an oxymoron....

There is a reliable UDP protocol now in GMS2. I just want to know if it's fit for P2P multiplayer games and can be relied upon.

I can't find a lot of information about it other than that one documentation page.

 

[YellowAfterlife]

Reliable UDP had been around for a while - originally as an undocumented option.

When I tested it, it did deliver packets in right order and with integrity, but it wouldn't request missed packets too quickly, so in the end I wrote a custom solution instead.