As part of the Unity Services, this entire namespace was removed. It didn't work well to begin with, and was incredibly complex to be part of the core networking package. We expect this, along with other back-end services, will be provided through standalone apps that have integration to Mirror.
NetworkDiscovery was a UNet component intended for UDP projects. Since Mirror was built on TCP, it was removed. Now that all transports are separate components, it would be up to the UDP transport devs to re-implement Discovery at that level.
## networkPort in Network Manager
Network Manager's `networkPort` property was removed now that all transports are separate components. Not all transports use ports, but those that do have a field for it. See [Transports](https://vis2k.github.io/Mirror/Transports) for more info.
The core networking was greatly simplified by removing this low-hanging fruit. It was buggy, and too convoluted to be worth fixing.
## Network Transform
This component was significantly simplified so that it only syncs position and rotation. Rigidbody support was removed. We will create a new separate compontent for NetworkRigidbody that will be server authoritative with physics simulation and interpolation.
## Quality of Service Flags
In classic UNET, QoS Flags were used to determine how packets got to the remote end. For example, if you needed a packet to be prioritized in the queue, you would specify a high priority flag which the Unity LLAPI would then receive and deal appropriately. Unfortunately, this caused a lot of extra work for the transport layer and some of the QoS flags did not work as intended due to buggy or code that relied on too much magic.
In Mirror, QoS flags were replaced with a "Channels" system. This system paves the way for future Mirror improvements, so you can send data on different channels - for example, you could have all game activity on channel 0, while in-game text chat is sent on channel 1 and voice chat is sent on channel 2. In the future, it may be possible to assign a transport system per channel, allowing one to have a TCP transport for critical game network data on channel 0, while in-game text and voice chat is running on a UDP transport in parallel on channel 1. Some transports (such as Ignorance) also provide legacy compatibility for those attached to QoS flags.
The currently defined channels are:
- Channels.DefaultReliable = 0
- Channels.DefaultUnreliable = 1
Currently, Mirror using it's default TCP transport will always send everything over a reliable channel. There is no way to bypass this behaviour without using a third-party transport, since TCP is always reliable. Other transports may support other channel sending methods.
