Video summary
The video provides an in-depth look at the new tactical game *Star Wars Zero Company*, focusing primarily on its difficulty settings and character customization options. The host begins by explaining the various difficulty tiers, noting that the lowest setting is designed for players who prefer a story-focused experience with minimal challenge or those unfamiliar with tactical gameplay. In this mode, all player actions deal increased damage while enemies have significantly reduced accuracy and health. Conversely, the highest difficulty, referred to as "Bestar" mode, is reserved for advanced players and features a persistent save file that cannot be manually saved, effectively implementing an anti-save-scum policy where critical squad failures result in immediate game over conditions. The host also highlights a specific perma-death mechanic that applies only to companions rather than the player character, adding a layer of permanent consequence to companion injuries.
A significant portion of the gameplay session is dedicated to character creation and customization, which the host finds surprisingly deep and reminiscent of *Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader*. Players can modify their operators' appearances extensively, choosing from various species like the colorful Malian natives or human variants, and adjusting gear colors to match specific themes. The host spends considerable time tweaking his character's look, eventually settling on a brown leather aesthetic and customizing his droid companion to resemble R2-D2 by selecting specific skins. Beyond visuals, the video details the unique roles available in the game, including the frontline-heavy "Heavy" class, the healing-focused "Medic," the versatile "Soldier," and specialized units like the "Scout" for ambush tactics or the "Sharpshooter" for long-range engagements. Each class comes with distinct keywords and abilities that define their combat style, such as the Scout's ability to create opportunities through planning or the Soldier's capacity for both melee and blaster attacks.
The core gameplay loop involves tactical squad management where players must coordinate movements, use cover, and utilize special abilities like "Overwatch" to maximize damage output while surviving enemy fire. The host demonstrates how different units complement each other, using the droid R2-D2 to grant additional action points (AP) to allies or debuff enemies with enhanced scanners that negate their defenses. Combat is described as a mix of strategic positioning and quick reflexes, where players must manage limited resources like AP and health while dealing with destructible cover and environmental hazards. The host admits to struggling initially with the mechanics, particularly regarding range limitations and timing for abilities like "Overwatch," but eventually finds a rhythm by coordinating attacks and healing between turns. Despite some frustration with missing shots or taking unexpected damage, the host expresses genuine enjoyment of the tactical depth and the immersive *Star Wars* atmosphere, even joking about Disney ruining childhood memories before diving back into the action to complete the mission.
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All right, chat. Here we go. Star Wars
Zero Company new camp
difficulty. Is there something lower
than than than the journalism story?
This is the lowest one.
Intended for players who prefer to enjoy
the story with minimal challenge and for
players with no familiarity with
tactical games. All players and actions
deal increased damage. Enemies are
significantly easier to fight with much
lower accuracy and damage.
Intended for players new to tactical
games.
Uh, this is normal. Enemies deal normal
damage with normal accuracy. Weapon
ranges are generous. Uh, can you change
this at any time?
Oh, it says at the top. Uh, difficulty
can be changed at any time. All right.
So, I'll start with normal, and if they
start smacking my face, I'm going to
drop it. Bestar mode recommended for
advanced or expert players.
Bescar mode maintains a single
persistent save file that is constantly
updated. The setting remove Oh, you
can't save scum. This setting removes
the option to manually save making
choices permanent. Ah, this is anti-save
scum mode. I can respect it. If disaster
befalls the team, the consequences are
not reversible.
When operators die, they cannot be
recovered. Oh, so it's perma death, too.
Wait, no. Perma death is you, not not
your operators. If Hawk dies, any other
critical member of squad dies or crucial
member is failed, the best mode game is
over.
Okay, then we got perma death. By
default, this enable disabling this
feature will prevent operators from
permanently dying when they receive a
third injury.
Okay, so that's different.
So, it's perma death for companions.
Yeah, I'm going to need tutorials.
I'm not about that life. Oh, I'm going
to I'm telling you, I'm going to drop
this in a heartbeat. Start camping.
We're going to go normal, non-bescar
mode.
You guys can see that, right? We're
going to go normal, nonbescar mode,
leaving perma death on, and we're going
to show tutorials.
Sorry, chat. I'm probably going to be
boring and go human or we can go Darth
Maul people. There's a brack all this
time. I thought Darth Maul did that to
himself. I didn't know that that was
actually a race, but I didn't watch
Clone Wars. I need to watch Clone Wars,
man. I really need to watch Clone Wars.
I'm going to be a disadvantage in this
game because I know there's going to be
a lot of references to Clone Wars. I
don't know. Pro I'm probably going to go
Malion. Many members of colorful Malian
species native to Dis Muriel sport
traditional geometric facial tattoos.
Every time I tried to watch um Clone
Wars, I got bored because it starts
slow. random.
There's no random. All right. Well,
we're gonna make a beautiful person,
chat. You know me. I'm all about
beautiful people. There we go.
Oh,
it's the Patrick Mahomes. Wait, can you
turn people? Yeah, I can turn them.
Show me the Patrick Mahomes.
[laughter]
It's It's the alpaka cut.
Oh, what is these? Wait a minute.
Star Wars doesn't have What is this?
Where's my Patrick Mahomes?
Take me back to Patrick Mahomes.
Man bun,
dude. What?
That's weird. I like it. That That seems
very Star Wars. It's very weird.
That's just weird.
makes me want to use it because it's
just like why is there a a highway in
the middle of your head?
Oh,
go full on Santa.
Oh,
that's quite that's quite that's quite
the that's quite the thing you got
there. Click on that face in the gray
image.
Oh, here we go.
I like that one. How do people in Star
Wars get scars? Lightsabers makes you
wonder. I mean, yeah, the wars, but they
using freaking lasers. How you get scars
from lasers? Like, I think of scars. I
think of blades. Like, how what did the
laser scrape his face? Did somebody
shoot down the building? Oh, the
beasties. Okay, so the the monsters.
Okay,
you can do all that work and give him a
helmet.
That I mean, I like blue, but that just
doesn't fit Star Wars
comp. It can. It can, I guess. I don't
know.
Holy crap. This is way too much
customization.
Set no one ever.
Control the zoom. Oh.
Uh, I don't want the backpack, but I do
kind of like the Oh, never mind. This
reminds me of um mercenary and in um the
Old Republic. I just noticed channels in
the sidebar can get marked but
viewership surging. Keep it. Yeah. Yeah.
Twitch has added or Yeah, Twitch added
that. Okay. Do they have anything like
just black? No, they got the default
color. I guess that's black. Yeah.
Glovens. Let's keep the default leather
color. Paloonis. Keeping with the theme.
You may fire when ready. Kind of want a
darker blue. They don't have it. They've
got super saturated blue. A super
saturated green. Oh, that's the knee pad
color ring or the ring of fire. I don't
know who's gonna be looking at his feet.
Not me. I kind of don't care about some
of this stuff. Cut scenes are not going
to show his sho strings chat. It has the
little accessory thing there. Oh, it's
okay. Phone. I didn't want you to fall
like that. Uh, let's see here. Let's go
ahead and get these guys here on a
default color cuz ain't no way. All
right, let's go back to the jacket
because I don't like this blue. I like
the lighter blue, not the darker one. I
need some contrast here. There we go.
Brown. I need leather dookie brown like
matches that
I don't have anything that matches. Now
I'm all like discombobulated. I don't
have doodoo doodoo green. How about
hands? I can just force it. There we go.
We can force it. There we go. Let's go
with that one.
They're the same color now. Hey, Chris.
All right. You know, I can't see without
my glasses. Brown. What's this? Mr.
Strap. Okay, I think we're set. This is
our dude. Continue. Specialization. Here
we go. Now we got to start reading. And
now we have to start paying attention.
We have Gul Sweeping Salvo, which is our
ultimate. Unleash aggressive blaster
fire that deals damage and disorients
all enemies within a large cone. So
that's a conal attack. That's the
ultimate. And then bull rush. Charge
into the enemy dealing melee damage and
pushing it backwards. Fleet of foot.
Increase the operator's first movement
by one meter and strike the flanks.
Operator gains 20% critical chance.
That's assault. So assaults assault.
Gunslinger. Fire two times at any
combination of enemies.
Fire lightning fast sidearm pistol shot.
Keen eye increases the operator's
critical chance for all range attacks by
6% and onslaught a passive. Each attack
within a single turn grants operator
plus one blaster damage. Heavy weapons
guy and this is my weapon. The heavy is
a frontline I guess I should read the
flavor text. The guns specializes in
multi-target blaster attacks and fast
tracks that allow them to spread offense
across multiple targets. The heavy is a
frontline combatant, heavily armored,
tough as nails. These operators uh
specialize in survivability and soaking
up enemy attacks while out in the open.
The medic excels at healing and
preserving their teammates. Medics can
also boost their teammates both
physically and psychologically.
Scoundrel is a wild card, adept at
taking advantage of situations without
much preparation and taking advantage of
every opportunity in combat. So yes,
marks never play fair. Oh, these
keywords. Okay, this is very much uh
Warhammer 40k rogue trader. Lots of
keyword highlight stuff. The scout is a
tactical operator trained in ambush and
reconnaissance uh tactics. Their
planning and timing benefit their entire
team, creating opportunities where none
exists. Precision shot fires a
calculated blaster shot that always
hits. Sharpshooter is an expert marksman
that excels at long range engagements
focused on singling out and defeating
chosen en chosen enemies in battle. The
soldier is a mainstay offensive unit
capable of engaging enemies at close to
medium range with melee grenades, heavy
blaster fire, and powerful rocket
launcher. That sounds good. Close to
medium range. I was going to go heavy,
but now I'm leaning towards this. He
does melee, blaster damage. Yeah, I'm
going do soldier for him. Range medium
blaster pistol repeater. Salamanda
Stevens. Oh, I can't change his name.
Last name. Your character is giving me
oddball vibes from Kelly's Heroes with
those goggles. Good. Good.
>> Everything all right over here?
>> Welcome to the team.
>> Silver Hawks.
Partly metal, partly real.
Silver Hawks.
I can read that.
>> They're exactly what we've been looking
for.
I'm watching this and I just I just hate
Disney.
You don't realize how much I love Star
Wars and Disney just
took my freaking childhood memories and
squatty pottied on it.
>> Who's ready to blast SOME CLANKERS?
>> I'M READY, SG.
>> He said the C word.
>> Yeah, I'm spoiling for scrap. Pilot,
look out,
>> man. My hair is white.
Wait, I can't I think I made my hair too
white. Looks like I got a disease.
>> You still got it all, man.
>> Just a bit ashy.
>> Lucky cab.
>> It's like I fell in a vat of flower head
first.
>> Hey, [music] you hear me?
>> I almost want to start over now.
>> Getting hot over here.
>> That that's going to distract you.
>> Keep on it, papa.
>> Can you get new clothes?
>> Buy some time.
>> I need a helmet. Oh, there's the
stuff.
My her
eliminate all hostiles. Here we go. What
we got here?
Some guys shooting there.
I got my eye on you.
I got my eye on you,
Flint Lightwood.
>> Yeah,
>> goodly.
>> Missed.
Darn it.
>> Blood's keeping an eye here.
>> No, Overwatch is on me.
>> Oh crap.
Sheesh.
What terrible shots you have?
I can't shoot. Oh, wrong guy.
>> Wait, no.
>> Back me up, boy.
>> Papa, help me out.
Wait, why can't I shoot?
No targets available.
I guess I got to move first. Okay. Uh,
let's go there.
There we go.
>> In hand, hopsy.
>> Thanks. [screaming]
>> I can't take
>> my dude has terrible range. Crap.
Hello Overwatch.
>> Oh, I was going to say
>> polish them off.
There's our score.
>> Captured the attack
for the Republic.
>> Let's go.
>> Everybody ready to leave?
>> Evacuate all operators. Oh, that's how
that works.
Perfect.
I missed this guy, too.
>> Dead good.
Fight me flighty.
I suppose.
>> Sighty sound.
>> Safe and sound.
We have done the thing.
Any
trouble with customs?
>> Fathom wants these distributed
planetwide.
We must not disappoint her.
>> As long as we get paid.
>> You have [music] been indiscreet.
>> What are you talking about?
Criff, you with me. Dispatch them.
So much for the quiet approach.
Didn't anyone ever tell you it's suicide
to cross the slug rats?
>> Friend, today's the first time I've
heard slug and rat in the same word.
>> Smart mouth won't help you breathe at
the bottom of a canal.
Hy.
>> Going to PAY YOU BACK DOUBLE FOR THAT.
[music]
You're done. Got him.
got my back.
>> Quality shot, Jay.
>> Part of the job.
>> [groaning]
>> I knew I should did Overwatch there.
[screaming]
[clears throat]
>> Oh no.
Oh, I took damage before the animation.
>> [groaning]
>> Ah, huh? Oh,
>> how are you not dead?
>> Got it in you.
>> Can I get a stank stem?
>> One more down.
>> Nicely done.
>> Anytime, anywhere.
>> All too easy.
There it is.
>> I'm hurting here.
I ain't through with you yet.
>> Really?
You'll regret that?
>> Look down.
>> Well, yesterday, bud.
Hey, let's give him the old one, too.
>> I'm hot today.
>> Not badly bad.
Just can't miss today.
>> All right.
>> Yep.
Oh yeah.
H
Keeping an eye see.
Okay.
>> Rushy the pest. Summon arrest.
More company. Looks like close support.
Eyes up. We got intruders.
Hat.
No one's getting past me.
Okay.
>> If you were smart, you'd surrender now.
We've got this.
>> 7 eight. Shooty straight.
>> Oh no.
>> Had worse.
>> That's too bad.
That's not a good spot.
>> Follow my lead.
>> Word.
>> If cab majesty,
>> appreciate the help.
All too easy.
BLOOD'S NOT THE
BELIEVING eh
>> what's for SUPPER [screaming]
>> he lived
>> oh leaving biggy brew
>> never mind
dead.
>> He better not live through that.
one for us.
What?
Uhoh.
>> Not doing too good over here.
>> Ground team to Quesan.
>> That was close.
>> We found your coil. All right.
>> Any idea what they're planning?
>> Seems they're running some large-scale
shipping operation with the help of
local smugglers. They got away with the
cargo before we could see what they're
hauling. But they left behind the cargo
manifest.
Toco potoyco.
And we're going to need to learn more
about these smugglers.
>> Solid copy. Let's get back to the den
and see what we can piece together.
That's a good amount of droids.
>> Systems active.
>> I can't even see what that was. Oh, is
that a sniper unit? Oh, it is.
Get to Sawtooth. Six turns remaining.
Oh, it's one of these.
>> There he is. Won't last long. Let's get
going on.
All right, let's F5 here.
>> There's the target.
>> Shoot her.
>> I don't like this at all.
>> I can't go anywhere.
>> Gabby, ready?
>> Let's get him out of here.
Please miss.
>> You will submit.
>> He's not going to miss.
>> Yeah, he got Okay, he got He hit the
right guy.
>> Back [screaming] up.
>> Okay. Wait, I can't shoot.
Oh no. Or just got back up for nothing.
In theory, I should be able to get here
now.
Theoretically,
get in my belly.
>> Ready for evac.
>> We did it.
>> Fled Beats dead.
You happy to have the droid repair bay
up and running?
>> More work. I'm thrilled.
>> Cha baso, my friend.
>> That is not how you say you're welcome
in her tease. In fact, there is no such
expression as huts rarely show
gratitude. Sound familiar? Is the
Astromemech ready or not?
>> Hello to you, too. You're looking good
as new.
>> Truthfully, your paint job is a bit out
of date, but that can be rectified.
>> Great idea. Thanks, Me. Truly,
>> I live to serve.
But the joint astronomer should now
appear as operators in the recruitment
facility. Oh,
well, shut up.
Oh,
so what can he do?
Grant an ally plus plus one AP.
All utility items have limited uses can
be you.
I like that a lot.
Enhanced scanners. All affected enemies
are scan, negating all defense.
Easier to hit.
That increases the range. I like that,
too.
You can make him R2. Oh, heck yeah.
R2. R2.
12.
>> I'm hurting 10.
>> 12.
>> Follow my lead.
>> See if I can do the pistol.
>> You missed.
>> All according to plan. Stan.
One for the count.
>> So long.
>> Yay.
I my droid. I completely changed them to
look like R2-D2. I made that. They
That's not a preset.
Yeah, I No, this is the first droid you
get, but I had enough skins and colors
to make it look like R2.
So, in my brain, he's R2-D2.
We can get all three of these guys in
one grenade.
>> You got one.
>> All right, let's get out. Dodge. Hide.
R2. Hide.
I guess I could just do a normal shot on
this guy
100%. If you hit T, you can see your hit
and crit chance, too. R2, move fast. He
did.
>> Hey, we got him. And smug.
>> Okay, so now I'm going to move here.
>> What we'll do
is
see here, get you out of here first.
Yeah. Hopefully he'll miss. Nope, he
didn't miss.
>> He did not miss. And we're going to need
some assistance from you.
>> Focus fire on my target.
>> Roger.
>> And now we're going to hope to hit this
guy.
>> All right, we got him once.
>> Need a hand.
>> Assistance.
>> Cheers.
>> He's dead. Perfect. Yeah, let's mark
him.
>> So, he's marked any
>> So, I could theoretically hit him and
kill him. HK, welcome. Thanks again for
the gift, man. I'm enjoying this. I am
definitely I am definitely enjoying
this. This is This is fun. Except when I
shoot boxes. I don't like that very
much.
No, it's too far away. Um, how about the
Granada?
Oh,
Granada.
Nice shot. There goes your cover.
Uh, who needs AP? Nobody yet, but I'll
save that for him.
So, what I can do is I can just do this
now. Use safe cracker.
>> Securing the goods.
>> Cab must survive. Oh, okay.
Defend the safe cracker. Okay.
Overwatch. I really like that. Most of
the cover is destructible. That caught
me off guard.
Like when I first saw that, that really
caught me off guard.
Um, let's do you.
What?
>> Wait, what did he do?
>> I'm hit.
>> Oh, he canceled my Overwatch. No, I'm
>> not feeling too hot. Wait,
>> wait. This dude's about to died.
heal him.
Like really help.
Can I scan now? Is it going to reach?
Yes. That's big. That's huge. That's
going to drop their defenses. [snorts]
All right, last dude is here.
>> You got to take this guy out, man. Like,
this is dumb.
>> Dude, I need more advantage.
All right, R2.
Uh, we need to stun these guys. Can I
hit all three?
I get these two.
Okay, that killed.
>> And now we can debuff these guys
for the scan.
>> They're all scanned.
All right. Now, we're going to go here
and we're going to move him out of that
grenade
right there.
>> Securing the zone.
>> I think R2 can give him some more AP.
So, we're gonna ask this guy to help me
out.
>> Little help.
>> Uh, and I probably should heal myself.
>> They got me.
>> Do it
>> for my brother.
>> That'll show him
>> for the Republic.
Please kill him.
Then we can overwatch this door.
There we go.
All right, R2, we're going to need you
to concuss this guy.
Boom. Okay, you killed him. That's a
bonus. Uh, and
Put him here.
Little half cover there.
All right, cool.
Looks good, chat.
>> Back me up.
>> Please kill him.
>> All right, he's dead.
>> Anytime. Uh,
gonna smoke right here.
No shot. They have no shot.
Okay, that's not going to help either.
All right, next turn.
>> Hard fought victory.
>> That that smoke grenade and them
grenades and all that stuff. Boy, boy,
boy, boy, boy, boy.
I tell you what, boy. Buy cheap, never
sleep. 100 intel capacitor.
Oh, we got some upgrades and I missed
it. Oh, no.
Psycho 8. Smugglers and slug rats.
>> Beep boop.
>> Let me guess.
>> Can I change his name?
>> There goes the galaxy's greatest boss.
Put a pin in that.
>> Let me go to personnel. Can I change his
name?
Like I just want to name my my rename my
droid
profile,
R2D2
or
We can call it Teimu R2-D2.
There we go. I like that better.
Teimu R2-D2.
Given that I did it so many times.
All right, we have five right before
this. So, if I fail, I should be able to
reload.
>> Your friends are Fathom, are you?
>> Not likely. We just got finished tuning
up her guards.
>> Stay low. She's about to start.
>> Uh-oh.
>> All right, that's most of them gone.
Still time to free those converts.
>> I'll help.
>> You got a weapon?
>> The Force is MY ALLY.
>> JEDI?
>> UNDERSTOOD.
All right, we'll take on the coil. What
do you think you're SOME KIND OF JEDI
WAVING YOUR HAND LIKE THAT?
>> Right into the freaking Overwatch. Yes.
And the taunt. And he missed the
retaliation.
Okay. Um
[groaning]
my quick
Good mercy.
Okay, we're going to mark him
QUIVERING AND SHIVERING. ARE you
[screaming]
two times Overwatch?
All right, buddy. It's up to you, man.
Should I just run to him and beat him up
today?
>> I'm injured.
>> Holy crap. What a mission.
Where'd you come?
Let's go here.
Let's do it.
Oh no, my temporary cover is gone.
Whatever shall I do?
And I overwatched the wrong side. I
should have spun this around to see how
it looked.
Then
>> follow my
>> from this guy. Any
>> I'm probably going to miss that. That's
okay.
And now assist me.
>> Ow.
>> That's on target.
>> Good. And now we get the old uh the old
overwatch.
>> I got eyes on them.
And as for ye,
let's go here.
And
this this
>> well,
>> now's our chance. Quote,
>> let's go.
So, we're set.
>> Hooray.
All righty, guys. Thanks so much for
watching. Thanks so much for hanging
out. Let's do a hard save
and um
going to head out.
Appreciate you all. Thanks again HK for
the gift.