What does Unity offer over Classic?

[EndingPop]

Hi everyone,

Long time FGC user here. My group plays PF1e and only just learned that Classic is being discontinued and Unity is a thing. We're all on Windows and Unity appears to run fine for me on my laptop (Intel UHD graphics). Is there anything we're getting if we upgrade to Unity? LoS isn't a huge deal for us, but I was wondering if there were other quality of life improvements that would make the upgrade worth it to us.

Thank you!

[Zacchaeus]

Line of Sight, Lighting, map making, a new interface, ruleset updates (Classic stopped getting any updates over a year ago), new modules (again nothing released in the last year is available for Classic), forthcoming features such as sound integration and theatre of the mind play. So much else that I've probably forgotten.

Really there's no real reason not to upgrade.

[Zarestia]

Many extensions only work/are developed for FGU.

If you want to upgrade, I'd first check with the if FGU runs smoothly on your and your players' machines.

[LordEntrails]

Products in the store that were developed and released recently (check the product description) only work in Unity. Unity has cloud brokered connections so those who had to port forward no longer do.

If you weren't aware, here's the official notice: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?68964-Important-Notice-New-Product-Support-ending-June-24-2021-Fantasy-Grounds-Classic

Then for a list of all the changes since July 2021, take a look at both of these patch notes (one is core application, one is rulesets). Everything there are enhancements/changes that have been made to FGU and not FGC.
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/filelibrary/patchnotes_v4.html
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/filelibrary/patchnotes_ruleset.html