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Frontier: Elite II cover artvsTerraria cover art

Frontier: Elite IIvsTerraria

Frontier: Elite II leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Terraria leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Frontier: Elite IITerraria

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Frontier: Elite II leans harder on variance: Procedural galaxy hides markets and encounters until charted

Optimization8 vs 8

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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Frontier: Elite II

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