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PlanetSide 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Throne and Liberty leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
PlanetSide 2Throne and Liberty

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

PlanetSide 2 leans harder on execution: Gunplay and vehicle piloting at FPS standards

Reads4 vs 5

Throne and Liberty leans harder on reads: Large-scale guild PvP and Conquest feature real adaptive opponents

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 7

Throne and Liberty leans harder on optimization: Weapon skill trees and accessory builds are well-documented by the community

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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