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Card SharkvsFar Cry Primal

Card Shark leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Far Cry Primal leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Card SharkFar Cry Primal

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Card Shark leans harder on execution: Cheating gestures require precise timing and sleight-of-hand inputs

Reads2 vs 1

Card Shark leans harder on reads: NPC marks follow scripted reactions; not truly adaptive

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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