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Star Wars Zero Company

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Not much to go on besides this tweet and a web page. Will find out more 4-19-25.

https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/zero-company



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I like the use of Force but other than that I hope Zero Company can do better than the name of their company. A game like this is niche big time borrowed IP games don't do well unless it's totally pulled off right.
 
I like Xcom games but I almost always lose interest in them. Still, it looks decent. Hopefully reviews are good.
 
polonyc2 said:
as soon as they said 'turn-based' it was an instant pass for me
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Kotor series was technically turn based. It can be done well. Hopefully this one won't be terrible.

After watching the trailer, it looks like it plays like Rabbins which definitely isn't my thing, but I like star wars games so I'll probably buy it anyway. 😕
 
It certainly does look like a Star Wars themed X-Com 2012. I'd wait for real reviews.

I like how the Official Gameplay Trailer showed 5 seconds of actual gameplay. Teetering on false advertisement there.
 
I haven't played the game but the previews make the tactical combat look a lot less interesting than Rogue Trader. Then the 3rd person walking-simulator part between missions makes think that it's just wasting my time anyway.
 
Bankie said:
I haven't played the game but the previews make the tactical combat look a lot less interesting than Rogue Trader. Then the 3rd person walking-simulator part between missions makes think that it's just wasting my time anyway.
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From the little I have seen it looks pretty linear. Like scripted missions and lame unit powers with little variation. I guess we will have to wait and see. I would pick it up just for the story, however, I can always just watch that on youtube.
 
A score of "90" from PCGAMER and a "Strongly Recommended" from Skill Up.

Releases on Friday.

I know what I'm doing this weekend------hopefully playing a squad of Darth Mauls!!!
 
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Its tomorrow, the 27th, looks to be 8am pst release. I've heard there should be streamers playing it tonight to show it off.
 
I don't trust PCGAMER at all. SkillUp I trust quite a bit more but he's also had some pretty bad takes as well. Waiting for Steam Reviews.
 
Early access streamers are live now on twitch etc.. Early impressions from just the tutorial, this looks really good. Multi part missions where you walk between battle points. Graphics look good so far. Overall scenery is very pretty.
 
Well you can't make a Darth Maul guy.

But you can make some kind of horned guy. So.......this is Visco Hawk!
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Solid graphics.

I'm playing with HDR on. So, these screenshots relied on Steam's auto conversion to SDR. The results may have lost a little quality. But overall, they look more/less pretty correct.

I capped it to 60fps with Rivatuner, using Front Edge Sync. 1440p DLSS Quality. I use DLSS Swapper to force 4.5 Preset M.
All settings maxed. My 5080 doesn't break a sweat.
I did not update to the latest game ready driver for ZCOM. I have the immediately previous driver.
 

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chameleoneel said:
Well you can't make a Darth Maul guy.

But you can make some kind of horned guy. So.......this is Visco Hawk!
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Solid graphics.

I'm playing with HDR on. So, these screenshots relied on Steam's auto conversion to SDR. The results may have lost a little quality. But overall, they look more/less pretty correct.

I capped it to 60fps with Rivatuner, using Front Edge Sync. 1440p DLSS Quality. I use DLSS Swapper to force 4.5 Preset M.
All settings maxed. My 5080 doesn't break a sweat.
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That's a Devaronian.
 
Alright I re-started and gave him a bit of leg armor. And changed the shirt collar from white, to match the sleeves. Makes his head features and color more striking.

Oh and it turns out, there are Darth Maul people for the character creator. But they are colored very different from Maul. So I didn't realize it. Anyway, I like this Devaronian. So, this is it!
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I was on the fence about this, but the gameplay seems to be a downgrade from XCOM2, that has randomly patrolling enemies, this has only scripted encounters as far as I've seen, and smaller linear maps. Plus totally pointless third person view traversal between encounters. The squad banter is like Chimera Squad, it makes you want to murder your own squadmates more than any enemies. And the epic star wars orchestra playing under a slow paced turn based in game is extremely out of place, but of course this is the least of the problems assuming in game music can be turned off.

What also stood out to me is that you get extra long moves, you can traverse very far within one turn and still get an attack, and it's even allowed to move after an attack sometimes. I wasn't paying attention to the exact rules, but there are tons of crutches and abilities that make the game easier right from the start, abilities that only unlocked late game in XCOM2 like passing action points from one squad member to another. Overwatch also seems extra OP.

Disney also helped make the decision easy: Of course the character creator has body type 1 and body type 2, not even once, but twice. And of whatever would we do without vitiligo or WTF its called. Hard pass.
 
Lots of random crashing to desktop. and 1 hard freeze.

So used DDU on my Nvidia drivers, and isntalled the latest game ready driver. We'll see if that makes a difference.
 
chameleoneel said:
Lots of random crashing to desktop. and 1 hard freeze.

So used DDU on my Nvidia drivers, and isntalled the latest game ready driver. We'll see if that makes a difference.
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same, started it yesterday and had a crash to desktop in the first 3 hours.
hopefully that doesnt happen too often. pretty frustrating having to save every 5mins, or redo 20mins of conversations and contracts
 
mQzz said:
same, started it yesterday and had a crash to desktop in the first 3 hours.
hopefully that doesnt happen too often. pretty frustrating having to save every 5mins, or redo 20mins of conversations and contracts
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I was having a crash about every 1-1.5 hours.

I DDU'd and udpated to the latest game ready driver. And then had a crash within 30 minutes.

So, for a couple of years, basically since I bought this CPU: I have had Curve Optimizer on my 9800X3D set to -20 and PBO set to not add any extra clock speed (so basically a straight undervolt with Curve Optimizer). Never had a crash. Higher CO like -27, would crash.

I completely disabled curve optimizer and PBO for Zero Company.
And played a few hours, no crashes.


*I have seen lots of people commenting about how CPU heavy the game is.
And lots of people complaining about crashes.


I suspect people doing any kind of undervolting and/or extreme overclocks, may have found a new limit-----this game!
 
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getting constant crashes after 4 hours of playtime now, im talking once every 5-10mins.... guess i'll have to wait for a patch, what a fucking shame.
 
mQzz said:
getting constant crashes after 4 hours of playtime now, im talking once every 5-10mins.... guess i'll have to wait for a patch, what a fucking shame.
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Any undervolts or overclocks active?

Disabling Curve Optimizer for Ryzen CPUs in the BIOS, fixed my crashing in Zero Company.
 
The game is very CPU heavy for sure. This game is going to murder systems that were fine in other games. I haven’t had any crashes myself, but it’s pegging my 5800x3d for sure. Graphically, I’m pretty impressed with it. Some of the scenes are pretty impressive, and the texture quality and design is pretty good as well.

I’m enjoying the game, it’s not better than XCOM2, but it’s also only a $40 game with decent production. The story is also pretty decent for modern Star Wars, and there hasn’t been a Star Wars product in years that has been this interesting to me.

Once I finish though I’m probably just going to go back and do a run of xcom2 or battletech. Really wish we could get a new battletech game.
 
fiddled around with the ini and the ingame settings, gane's been running much more stable now for the last 2 hours. it also seems heavily level dependent, there are just some missions where there is too much going on and my CPU becomes a bottleneck and the game crashes.
 
I'm tempted to get this just to see if it runs at all on a 4790k. I see it wants a 6 core minimum.
 
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I'm tempted to get this just to see if it runs at all on a 4790k. I see it wants a 6 core minimum.
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i got the 5800x, so benchmarking wise close to your 4790k i think?
not sure about the 6 cores though, maybe your 4 are just gonna be a headache
 
After disabling Curve Optimizer, I thought I was all good with no crashing. Played for a few hours.

Then the next night, lots of crashing.

So, I updated my X870 BIOS, which was about 10 months old.
And I relaxed my 64GB of DDR5 6400 from 6400 to 6000. I mostly did that, to be able to keep the SOC voltage at stock. As the memory controller required a boost to SOC voltage, to run 6400.
I think the RAM itself is totally stable. But, maybe the memory controller and/or SOC, weren't one-hundred-percent, with 64GB of 6400 and boosted voltage.

Played a few more hours with no crashing. We'll see!

The game certainly has some bugs and weirdness here or there. I'm not sure if its actually truly revealing instability, or if its haywire code. This computer has never crashed games with the settings I had been running.
 
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