The only sane way to optimize your game is by having good profiling metrics. Unreal Engine comes packed with several good profiling tools and "stat commands" is one such feature. It allows us to measure pieces of our (C++) code in different ways. In this short article I explain how you can use this to your advantage. While it's good to avoid pre-mature optimization in your project, it's a good practice to add metrics to certain areas of your code. As features may perform fine initially, but may degrade as content changes. Having profiling stats...