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Payday 2 cover artvsSparklite cover art

Payday 2vsSparklite

Payday 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sparklite leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Payday 2Sparklite

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 5

Sparklite leans harder on variance: Procedurally rearranged biomes reset map knowledge each drop

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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Payday 2

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Sparklite