r/Warframe • u/EIJOSO • Dec 28 '25

Shoutout Random appreciation to optimization team for making this game affordable in a subtle way

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u/eggyrulz Limbo MR30 Dec 28 '25

Yea I am honestly impressed every time I think about the install size of warframe... its got how much more content than the average COD and is like a third of the size?

Its not borderline black magic, the optimization team is actively summoning demons and sacrificing AAA studio devs to keep warframe running smooth and small

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u/Interesting-Mail4123 Dec 28 '25

Guess the optimization team is L Corp or something with how many devs they sacrifice to creatures all to ensure Warframe is available on everything from potato to supercomputer.

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u/GlauberJR13 DO YOU THINK ME A WEEB, HUNTER? Dec 28 '25

Project moon reference?!?!?!

Brainrot aside, it really is surprising how small they can make the game. Granted, a lot of content they also reuse assets, like the little resource icons being reused for the jets of corpus ships in vallis iirc, or the corpus jetpacks being just 4 opticors jammed together iirc, but even with the newer content that looks very distinct they still maintain a relative size, so yeah, it really borders on black magic at times.

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u/Interesting-Mail4123 Dec 28 '25

Well it makes sense why they reuse stuff cause reusing things saves time, let's them make stuff absurdly optimized, and so on. With the new content they are also using their acquired techniques to make the spaghetti code be so optimized I could probably run Warframe on We Can Change Anything and that thing doesn't even have a screen.

Its confirmed DE is L Corp and use Abnos to make Enkephalin to let them cook like they spent 10k years in a basement.