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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint

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Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 1

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans harder on reads: Guards adapt loadouts across missions, light modeling.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans harder on optimization: Mother Base, loadouts, fulton economy deeply 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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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint