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Kingdom Come: DeliverancevsMount & Blade: With Fire and Sword

Kingdom Come: Deliverance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans harder on execution: Directional melee and mounted gunplay reward manual skill

Reads2 vs 3

Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans harder on reads: Multiplayer duels reward feinting humans; campaign AI is mappable

Variance2 vs 3

Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans harder on variance: Sandbox political events and loot inject noise

Optimization6 vs 7

Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans harder on optimization: Army composition, economy and gear math drive campaign power

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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