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PlanetSide 2 cover artvsTribes: Ascend cover art

PlanetSide 2vsTribes: Ascend

PlanetSide 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tribes: Ascend leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
PlanetSide 2Tribes: Ascend

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 9

Tribes: Ascend leans harder on execution: Skiing routes and mid-air disc leads are brutal hands tests

Reads4 vs 6

Tribes: Ascend leans harder on reads: Human cappers and chasers constantly adapt routes

Variance3 vs 2

PlanetSide 2 leans harder on variance: Massive battles produce constant chaos

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Tribes: Ascend