I truly think this asset is an amazing, high-quality, and highly versatile tool. If I can learn to use it properly, I believe it would bring me very close to becoming a high-level indie game developer. Because it is so powerful, the learning curve for beginners is steep. The Discord server is mostly community-driven, and while the official forum provides solid support and helpful responses, beginners will likely need to rely on the forum to fully understand the workflow and get started smoothly. If there were a dedicated Udemy course that teaches how to use this asset step-by-step, I would definitely buy it. I sincerely hope that more beginner-friendly onboarding resources will be added in the future.

Its one of the cornerstones in my project. Yes, you can build your own character controller but you'd spend so much time adding stuff that this asset already has out of the box. Things like event hooks, audio hooks, health/mana systems, damaging systems like bullets/magic/shields, animation syncing, etc, etc. Yes, as with all big code projects, there's a lot of code and some things do need getting used to. But if you spend the time on it, it will give you time back. (and then im only using it for a third person game, this also has support for many other type of games, like 2d, top down, etc, I havent even check those out...)

Overcomplicates simple things, for the price you pay it should be less painful to work with

The asset is very good, but the documentation is too superficial, and some of the links don’t even work. Please update the documentation — it’s very important.

Everything, visually, is amazing. I'm impressed by what it can do. With some custom Netcode for Gameobjects integration I can have UCC in multiplayer. However, I hope you guys are considering ECS and tick-based simulation for UCC 4.

Purchasing Opsive Ultimate Character Controller is among the best decisions I've made during my game dev journey. Powerful tool, amazing customer support. I love to code so I started by creating my own controller. I quickly realized - I don't like to code THAT MUCH. :) However, the experience I gained trying to create my own controller has been extremely beneficial as I learn to navigate Opsive's Ultimate Character Controller because Opsive is a powerful and complex system. It is well worth the time to learn and when you do learn how to use all the features - it really will save you 100's of hours over making your own controller! That experience also helps me understand the VALUE of this software - RESPECT!!!! This character controller system is an amazing tool that helps me develop my games AND have a life! It has a steep learning curve, but if you take the time to understand what is going on under the hood - you will be amazed and I think the sky's the limit as to how you can customize Opsive's system, so your game maintains its uniqueness. I'm still working on connecting the dots and figuring out who talks to who, why and how they influence each other - but I'm getting there. The documentation is very detailed and helpful. I think the surface system is worth the price all by itself! That is a quick and easy drag/drop set up that saves tons of time over manually setting up all of those interactions to make your game juicy! Opsive's customer support is quick and helpful. I've had a problem - caused 100% from my newb status as a designer - late on a Friday night on two occasions. I really didn't expect help until at least Monday. But I got a reply within a few hours via their forum. I can't wait until I know enough (to be dangerous) and interesting so I can jump into the Discord! I have most all of their add-ons and many assets that they integrate with like the Opsive Ulitmate Inventory and Behavior Trees, and more. That is another reason I chose Opsive - all of the systems which they provide integration with. In other words, I have worlds to build that will last a lifetime with all the resources Opsive provides. Thanks for an amazing game dev tool! Rebecca

I am working on a large project where I have to do most of the coding myself. I have never coded before let alone use Unity before so I was very overwhelmed. I found Ultimate Character Controller and it has been a large help for me and has done a lot of things that would've taken me months. It's very overwhelming and you're given a lot of information at once and some of the tutorials are a little outdated however by joining the discord and utilizing the opsive forum I met some great people who have helped me a long the way in understanding how to utilize the controller. I would definitely recommend especially if you are completely new to coding and have no idea how to start.

This is an extraordinarily powerful tool - IF you want to put time into learning it. This is not a "it will make games for me" thing. This is a learn it to love it type tool. Opsive makes it easy to set up, but it's also easy to get overwhelmed. Learn the core setup. Learn the core architecture of the Character. Things make a LOT more sense if you do so, rather than try to crash course it. The Opsive UCC videos are a bit out of date, but their actual support docs have everything you need to learn the system of this controller, as well as to extend it and to create your own functionalities. In the past 4 months that I have actually put effort into learning this asset, I've gone from "man I gotta stop buying stuff on sale from the asset store" to being able to mock prototypes up very quickly and at a level that I feel like meets my guidelines for quality. I've recently started working with a friend with this asset, and I hope he can lend a review as well. ---------------------------------------------------------- Some other thoughts: Opsive sells a lot of add ons for these - agility, climbing, etc. While I find these hugely helpful as just a resource to base things off of, the core asset is extensible and you can do a lot with it just by itself. The PUN multiplayer add ons work great. I also recommend FastSkillTeam's assets if you want a very quick PUN multiplayer prototype toolset. I am currently between the 3rd party UCC Mirror add on (which Is in a WIP state) and implementing my own ObjectNet or other networking solution. It is possible to do so yourself. One thing I would like to see is some of the 3rd party integrations such as Puppetmaster see an update. Opsive is great with updating their integrations - for example, they just added Realistic Car Controller Pro support after it was mentioned that the Realistic Car Controller integration didn't work. But some integrations ( I am not sure which) are managed by 3rd party developers. Something to take note of. Regardless, you can always use other tools or make your own integration. Their discord is not the most active community compared to others in terms of an active off topic/general etc,, but Justin from Opsive will respond to you. Others will as well, shout out to everyone who lends a helping hand. My biggest con so far was that the source code was locked down but it was never truly necessary for MOST like 95%+ of developers. Even in its current state you can extend everything for the most part and create your own implementations / integrations, such as switching to Animancer or using another Active Ragdoll tool. It looks like they are moving towards offering the source code, which is awesome! It elevates my review to higher than 5 stars. I would love to see it.

I bought this asset, and the previous one (in 2021). After spending the last 4 years in dev, and one of them fighting with this character controller on and off, I can not recommend it for 4 major reasons. As a beginner, this asset made me feel like I was doing something right, however over the years I came to discover the following show stoppers that should be announced in marketing materials long before purchase is suggested: 1) Compiled closed source (DLL) critical code. When I launch my game, I will need the ability to manage, version control, and care for my community. With core libraries wrapped in DLLS (with methods marked private) it is exceedingly difficult to work around pre-production issues. 2) Dense "invisible" coupling. I have about 21 years coding experience, where I worked on around 450 software projects spanning many industries. We called "invisible" coupling the problem of having non IDE (software) and non configuration based runtime dependencies between components. Due to the size of the project, the developers have done their best at making light components that rely heavily on event subscription. The problem is that without traceability, such systems are impossible to debug. (Meaning, yes, the event system is indeed inside the DLLs, which and those classes cant be inspected, edited, or otherwise debugged, so the traceability problem is challenging) 3) Deprecated code, practically forced upgrades. Mid way though my journey in my game, my controller was deprecate. To continue to purchase assets I needed for my game Opsive, and because of the DLL issue I was forced to buy more Opsive assets which let me to spending in total over 500 dollars. 5) Off Asset-Store code. Lastly, critical software modules are kept on an off-asset-store server, run by the Opsive developers themselves. This means that (as was the case for me) after I could not get my systems running, I had to wait for their team to edit my account on their servers manually. Overall, the problem of vendor lock-in (compiled code, dense coupling, deprecation, off unity code file hosting) all combines to create an experience that vendor locks the developer. In 2024 Q3 we began the work of removing opsive, as we cant face the risk of launching an app with these dependencies into production. If the developer ever open sources all runtime code, so end users may have the right to repair and maintain their own games, I will change my rating :)

The basic controller is ready in 1-2 minutes. It is ready for any situation and has a modular structure that will easily meet your requests. It is not difficult to get the results you want as you learn and understand. Support is very good and there are many people outside the team who can help you on the forum. I definitely recommend it.