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Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)vsPeace, Death!

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Peace, Death! leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)Peace, Death!

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) leans harder on execution: Procedure execution, instrument flying skill

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Peace, Death! leans harder on variance: Random client streams force on-the-fly recognition

Optimization6 vs 6

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

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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Peace, Death!