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"Integrating Umbra's state of the art rendering optimization technology early on in development, ArenaNet is making sure that Guild Wars 2's beautiful world of Tyria is set in is realized in the "most optimized fashion possible".
What exactly does that mean for Guild Wars 2? Umbra 3 is a rendering and performance optimizing middleware that is being used to "improve frame rates and help create visually striking game worlds". It does this by optimizing critical parts of the game like rendering, audio and game logic and automatically generating portals for game environments, freeing up time for the game artists."
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Translation of the article into actual meaning: "GW2 uses Umbra3, whatever it is, for graphics optimization".
That's it.
P.S. And everyone owes me 2 minutes of their life for not having to read the damn article.
Umbra 3 is a piece of software that is being used by many game companies:
http://www.umbrasoftware.com/en/clients/clients/
Block the trolls, don't answer them, so we can remove the garbage from these forums