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DCS WorldvsGuild Wars 2

DCS World leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Guild Wars 2 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
DCS WorldGuild Wars 2

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

DCS World leans harder on execution: Precise stick-and-throttle handling and BFM have a high ceiling.

Reads4 vs 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 7

DCS World leans harder on optimization: Full-fidelity avionics, weapons and tactics are a vast learnable system.

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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