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“Heart of Deimos: Interim Update 29.2.1” has officially been sent to Cert!
We are also remastering our textures and lightmaps game wide - When the update goes live, Warframe will go from ~64 GB to ~31.2 GB after it has been fully downloaded again! This is part of the first steps we are taking towards the “ensmallening” on consoles that we’ve seen over on PC - more details in the official dev workshop here. Keep in mind the information in the workshop was specifically directed to PC users at the time, but the following quote is relevant to our efforts towards this specific remastering on XB1:
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One of the things we’re doing to reduce our footprint involves changing how our texture data is compressed. Although it isn’t a perfect analogy it’s similar to the trade-off between image-quality and file-size you get with different image formats: PNG is lossless but can mean very large files, JPEG files can be very small but may contain visible artifacts of the compression. The technology we’re using is called Oodle Texture and we’re extremely pleased with the savings we’re getting: our files are roughly half the size on disk and the visual differences are negligible.
In this first update we’re going to change our Lightmaps. We spent a lot of time carefully analyzing the quality of the results and we doubt anyone will even notice anywhere but the harshest of tests.
More changes will come in stages, but for now we are starting with textures and lightmaps. Due to the remastering, Warframe will be re-downloaded in its entirety. This will appear no different from any other update, business as usual! It will download in the background as is expected with all updates.
Here are some things to keep in mind before the update goes live:
- You do NOT need to delete Warframe before the update.
- You do NOT have to back-up your data before the update.
- Your Warframe settings should be saved after the remaster launches, but we have run into issues in the past where they have - we apologize if this occurs!
Once we have passed Cert we will share the news and an official launch time!
Note: Us Canadians have a long weekend coming up (Monday, Oct 12th the “studio” is closed)! So you will likely hear from us later on in the week next week on Cert status.