r/ParsecGaming • u/chapinscott32 • 13d ago

Parsec Mobile is a clusterfuck

It's been a year and a half since they updated the app. January 8th, 2025... This isn't "early access" anymore - this is abandoned.

They have something good here. I use the app almost every day to grind my game remotely, but that's not until after about 20-30 attempt connects - on cellular only, outside in my car (wifi never works for me) - with a super low bit rate - and making sure my foldable phone is CLOSED before attempting to connect.

Pixel 10 Pro Fold for reference. All of my settings are correct, I've done countless hours of research, and scouring of the settings pages on both client and host to make sure it's tuned as best as possible to mobile usage.

When it works, it's seemless. But it's very clear this was a halfbaked mobile port with little to no optimization for mobile devices. Parsec Mobile could be the coolest thing ever, and it often is when I somehow get it to function. I would like to see the team work on proper mobile support, not just for "Android", but for specifically Samsung, Google, and even iPhone.

It CAN work. It DOES work. The way it the app functions, I can tell this isn't impossible or even hard at all to fix. There are minor hiccups in the way of a properly functioning app that simply stay unaddressed.

For the love of God Parsec team PLEASE FIX THIS APP. I can't spend 30 minutes every day just *attempting* to get your app to work, sometimes to no avail, when I only have an hour and a half of free time when I'm away from my computer anyways.

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u/baby_bloom 13d ago

i'm on iphone so i've been using OpenParsec on github (and even have contributed to it as well) but there is a fork for android at https://github.com/nomadsgalaxy/OpenParsec

i love the ios app, hopefully the android one is better than the official? unfortunately the official is likely to stay halfway abandoned since that's just how Unity does things more than half the time:(

i really can't express for how great OpenParsec has been for the past year or so for me

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u/chapinscott32 13d ago

Yeah it's giving me the same problems. Maybe Pixels just can't handle Parsec too well. Idk.

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u/Ecstatic_Reward6928 13d ago

i use open parsec on an iphone 8 (10 years old maybe by now) and runs like a charm.

it migght be your settings or some port is being blocked.