Star Wars Zero Company patch 1.1 fixes crashes, Beskar saves, and the 100% miss bug

Star Wars Zero Company's first post-launch patch is out, and it tackles some of the most frustrating bugs that have been plaguing the game since release. Patch 1.1 arrives roughly two weeks after launch, and the headline fixes are hard to argue with.

The update addresses several crash issues, including a specific crash that could occur in Beskar mode — the game's iron man permadeath option — and a bug where Beskar saves were temporarily deleted. Also fixed is a particularly maddening issue where shots with a 100% chance to hit could still miss, which had many players second-guessing whether the game was quietly rounding displayed percentages down. Overwatch received some attention too: the patch fixes cases where it was triggering against units outside the targeting cone or behind solid objects. However, the opposite problem — overwatch failing to fire at all when enemies walk through multiple targeting cones — doesn't appear to have been addressed yet.

Zero Company is a turn-based tactical RPG developed by Bit Reactor and published by EA and Respawn, set in the Star Wars universe. The studio reportedly furloughed most of its staff shortly before the game launched, leaving a skeleton crew to handle post-launch support — which likely explains why it took two weeks to ship fixes for issues this fundamental. Bit Reactor was founded by veterans of Firaxis, the studio behind XCOM, so comparisons to that series are inevitable; Zero Company is generally considered more accessible than XCOM, with a stronger narrative focus.

With crashes and the Beskar save deletion bug now fixed, Beskar mode is a more viable proposition than it was at launch — but the overwatch reliability issue still gives reason for pause. Another patch addressing that specific problem would go a long way toward making the permadeath run feel trustworthy. Here's hoping Bit Reactor can bring more staff back on board to accelerate the pace of fixes.