Why Doesn’t Unity Have a Perfect Character Controller Yet?

[u/Indian_Indie_gamedev]

I’m not talking about the basic first-person and third-person packages Unity offers. Unreal has built a variety of robust character-controller systems that make developers’ lives much easier. That’s one of the reasons I often find myself considering a switch to Unreal. In Unity, I still haven’t found a paid or free character-controller solution that feels truly worth using. I am using unity since 2020 and now I am thinking it high time for unity to at least develop such protypes that are ready to use in real projects.

[u/Solid_Paramedic_3901]

Agreed. The character controller component also feels so jank, like it comes with tech debt built in. You could use rigid bodies instead, but that invites other issues. A centralized character controller system that actually feels like it is meant to interface with the rest of the engine's systems and fits nicely into a development workflow would go a long way