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Battlefield 3 cover artvsStalcraft: X cover art

Battlefield 3vsStalcraft: X

Battlefield 3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Stalcraft: X leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Battlefield 3Stalcraft: X

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Stalcraft: X leans harder on variance: Anomalies, artifact spawns and who you meet inject randomness

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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