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Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Bulletstorm leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Bulletstorm leans harder on variance: Arenas and spawns are fixed and learnable

Optimization7 vs 6

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon leans harder on optimization: Build crafting trivializes many bosses

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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