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Battlefield 1 cover artvsMarathon cover art

Battlefield 1vsMarathon

Battlefield 1 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Marathon leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Battlefield 1Marathon

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Marathon leans harder on execution: Gunfights against other crews reward raw aim heavily

Reads6 vs 7

Marathon leans harder on reads: Predicting human crews' rotations and ambushes is constant

Variance3 vs 5

Marathon leans harder on variance: Loot spawns and unseen squads create hidden information

Optimization5 vs 5

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

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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Battlefield 1

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Marathon