head to head
vs
Dying LightvsStarship Troopers: Extermination
Dying Light leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Starship Troopers: Extermination leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Dying LightStarship Troopers: Extermination
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Starship Troopers: Extermination leans harder on variance: Swarm timing and breach points vary run to run
Optimization5 vs 6
Starship Troopers: Extermination leans harder on optimization: Base layout, class roles and objective routing decide survival
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.