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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"v5 rework","articleBody":"V4 has a number of problems.\n- The patcher matrix is large. large enough that builds take a *very* long time!\n- Each entry added to the matrix adds megabytes to the nupkg's size\n- NetCode V2 has a lot of new conditional compilation symbols based on what packages are installed in the project.\n  - This would necessitate expanding the already large matrix.\n- There is file overlap between the patchers, causing problems when patching a different Unity version.\n\nThis list is not exhaustive.\n\nTo try to resolve these, we make a few assumptions/restrictions:\n- All users of netcode patcher have a `dotnet` SDK available, i.e. we can do csharp compilation on their machine.\n- Most users of netcode patcher have a `git` client available. \n\nv5 should be fundamentally different from v4.\n- Patchers could be compiled by users at build-time.\n- Or, a very restricted set of patcher 'presets' could be bundled.\n  - This set would need to be updated each time a game updates.\n  - Could we host these somewhere, e.g. NuGet, GitHub?\n    - GitHub release assets would do the trick\n    - could use Actions artefacts, but that is more hacky + not persistent\n    - Could use GitHub nuget registry\n      - would necessitate setting up something to auth. with the registry\n- To build a patcher, the following must be known:\n  - The targeted Unity version (some Editor assemblies are required)\n  - Versions of all (relevant) Unity packages in the project, *especially* of NetCode\n  - Whether native collection support was enabled.\n\nOutstanding questions:\n- Can we cache built patchers? what input(s) should influence the cache key?\n- How should required Editor assemblies be supplied?\n  - 'BYO' editor assemblies could be helpful\n  - in CI, editor assemblies need to be accessible *without* running a unity editor action, they are too slow\n- How should users provide the required 'spec'?\n  - Can we include some spec 'presets' e.g. `--preset lethal-company-v81`, `--preset  mycopunk-v1.4` ?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Lordfirespeed","@type":"Person","name":"Lordfirespeed"},"datePublished":"2026-04-10T13:51:56.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/47/UnityNetcodePatcher/issues/47"}