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Blood WestvsVampyr

Blood West leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Vampyr leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Blood West leans harder on execution: Aim and stealth positioning carry every fight

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Blood West leans harder on variance: Unknown level layouts and loot until explored, then mapped

Optimization7 vs 7

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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