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Red Faction: Guerrilla leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Riders of Icarus leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Riders of Icarus leans harder on reads: PvP colosseum has limited reads against real opponents

Variance3 vs 4

Riders of Icarus leans harder on variance: Familiar taming success rates add meaningful hidden variance

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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Red Faction: Guerrilla

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