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Hell is UsvsStarfield

Hell is Us leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Starfield leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Hell is UsStarfield

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Hell is Us leans harder on execution: Melee timing against hollow creatures has real twitch demands

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Starfield leans harder on optimization: Ship building, outpost, perk routing

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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