👉 A cached weapon is a temporary storage mechanism used in game development, particularly in real-time strategy (RTS) and first-person shooter (FPS) games, to store frequently used or recently accessed game data, including weapon configurations, positions, and states. This optimization technique significantly reduces load times and improves game performance by avoiding the need to fetch this data from slower storage sources, such as hard drives, every time a player interacts with the game. Instead, the cached weapon data is quickly accessed from memory, ensuring smoother gameplay and faster response times.
