Building comparison
head to head
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)vsMount & Blade
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Global flight sim built on real weather and procedures.
Mount & Blade
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Sandbox warfare testing directional combat skill atop an optimisable army and trade economy.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mount & Blade leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)Mount & Blade
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Procedure execution, instrument flying skill
Mount & Blade
Directional blocking and couched-lance timing demand real skill
Reads0 vs 1
Mount & Blade leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
No adaptive opponents, ATC scripted
Mount & Blade
AI lords and battle tactics are mappable scripts
Variance3 vs 3
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Real weather and live traffic
Mount & Blade
World events, prices and tournaments shuffle each campaign
Optimization6 vs 7
Mount & Blade leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Flight planning, systems mastery, routing
Mount & Blade
Army composition, trade economy and fief management drive conquest
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.
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