Every guide on this site passes the same process before it is published. This page is that process, written down so you can hold us to it.
Step 1: Official sources first
Facts about the game itself, its install model, maps, modes and update contents, are checked against official game material and the game store listings before anything is written. Where launch material makes performance claims, we report them as claims and test the direction on our own phones.
Step 2: Real handsets, worst cases
Settings are tested on a mid range phone and a budget phone, not a flagship, and judged under worst case conditions: hot drops, vehicle rotations through towns, smoke heavy final circles and third matches in a row, when heat has had its say. A recommendation that fails any of those does not ship.
Step 3: One change at a time
Sensitivity and graphics work follows a single variable rule: change one slider, play three matches, then judge. Notes are kept, because memory flatters whatever changed last. Our published numbers are starting points with a testing method attached, never magic codes.
Step 4: Corrections stay visible
When an update changes the game or a reader catches an error, we fix the guide and move on without pretending the first version was perfect. Accuracy over ego is the whole editorial policy, in one sentence.