Earlier this year, Warframe developer Digital Extremes announced the action-RPG game's engine was in for some graphical upgrades, with a new option for 'deferred rendering'. Now, the studio's taken that one giant leap further with the announcement of an "Enhanced Graphics Engine" for Warframe, which will usher in a "complete redesign" and snazzy new visuals to drool over.
"We're moving into 'Next Gen' by phasing out our old rendering engine!" the developer announces on the free PC game's forums. "The launcher option has been moved into the 'options' screen as we want to get more Tenno onboard for testing it!" The Enhanced engine - which was referred to as 'Deferred' before - is "a complete redesign to achieve more accurate reflections and give us the ability to utilise dynamic lighting and shadowing across the entire game".
The main place you'll see these dazzling new upgrades is in Warframe's landscapes, the studio explains, offering some before-and-after previews of the changes in effect. You can eyeball these further down this story. Otherwise, the differences frame-by-frame "will be subtle", the forum post explains.
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