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EVE: Dust 514 leans Execution (Grand Arena); Star Wars: Squadrons leans Execution (Grand Arena).

EXECUTION7 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
EVE: Dust 514Star Wars: Squadrons

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Star Wars: Squadrons leans harder on execution: Drifting, aim, and throttle tricks decide dogfights

Reads6 vs 6

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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