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Killing Floor cover artvsQuake II cover art

Killing FloorvsQuake II

Killing Floor leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Quake II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Killing FloorQuake II

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Quake II leans harder on execution: Fast strafe-aim against hard-hitting enemies demands clean inputs

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Killing Floor leans harder on optimization: Perk levelling, holdout spots, dosh economy solvable

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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