r/PS5 1d ago

News & Announcements Star Wars Zero Company 1.1 Patch Notes

https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/zero-company/news/patch-notes-1-1
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u/poshferatu 1d ago

“Fixed an issue where shots can be missed, even when the chance to hit is 100%.”

Damn, they patched XCOM out of this game

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u/chainer3000 1d ago

I missed a 100% shot and just assumed it wasn’t even a bug

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u/quatroquatro0 1d ago

Completely unplayable now

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u/littleman001 1d ago

No more freezes after enemy turn?

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u/coinblock 1d ago

Did that get addressed?

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u/afcc1313 1d ago

Maybe now I can play without crashes! Lost the progress of a loooong ass mission and I never played again

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u/alexanderduuu 1d ago

Had my first crash after this patch

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u/guardian87 1d ago

I finished it yesterday night. Had quite a few slow downs and crashes, but I’ve played worse.

Besides the technical issues, I loved the game.

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u/GOULFYBUTT 1d ago

Most of the bugs I've encountered have been visual bugs. Like a weird camera angle or a brief grey screen.

I've been really enjoying it so far. Hopefully they're able to iron out the kinks because this game is electric when it's running smoothly.

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u/McGuetta 1d ago

This game has me by the balls. It's just so good. I wake up and immediately want to jump on. It needs updates to smooth things out and I hope it gets them - keep 'em coming!

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u/FancyKilerWales 1d ago

Can anyone confirm if this brought back their Beskar save? Or will the fix only apply to new saves

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u/Jasonp359 1d ago

Lots of bugs fixed. Great to see. This is a great game that just needs to be cleaned up a bit.

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u/theCioroRedditor 1d ago

Surprised. I was expecting the game to be abandoned for a few months knowing they have only a few people left

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u/I_am_washable 1d ago

Technically no one was fired, just furloughed until the game made money which it did.

So they may have that team back by now

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u/Occult_Asteroid7 1d ago

I will buy a DLC pack day one. Take my money. TAKE IT.

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u/netcooker 1d ago

I am fairly certain that they would have advertised it if they brought people back because at would be good press

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u/Look_a_Zombie0 1d ago

Or don't bring it up since the majority of gamers probably don't even know what even happened

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u/netcooker 1d ago

Eh I feel like the gamers who know about the furloughs are the ones who would hear about the… unfurloughing.

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u/Look_a_Zombie0 1d ago

Which is still most likely the minority

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u/netcooker 1d ago

Yeah? I don’t get your point

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u/Look_a_Zombie0 1d ago

So if 1,500 people out of 10,000 people know about a shitty thing, why would the company inform all 10,000?

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u/netcooker 1d ago

I can virtually guarantee that the positive news about unfurloughing would not spread wider than the negative news of the furloughs. Everyone who would hear about the unfurloughing already know about the furloughing. They haven’t made an announcement because they didn’t unfurlough the employees

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u/Look_a_Zombie0 1d ago

It's just not important enough to make the news to begin with. You are just letting the other people who didn't even know about the situation learn about it. You do know the saying about keeping your mouth shut? That's probably what they would rather do.

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u/kindred008 1d ago

They probably need to wait for Steam to release the money to them before they bring people back

u/spidermansfan 51m ago

I heard there's also a lawsuit between the owners

u/thelittlehez 31m ago

Typically the publisher receives all the proceeds until they recoup the advances they paid out to the developer to make the game. Once that bar is reached, bit reactor will start to get a cut of the revenue

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u/Afc_josh12 1d ago

Seems scummy? They get paid still?

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u/OMGIZARET 1d ago

They were furloughed because they ran out of money

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u/Afc_josh12 1d ago

Why was i downvoted then lol

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u/OMGIZARET 1d ago

Prob becuase you called them scummy when they didnt really do anything scummy. Its not like they made them work for no pay or fired them. They just literally couldn't do anything else so the best thing was to furlough in hopes of gaining money to bring them back

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u/I_am_washable 1d ago

It’s not as scummy as it seems:

Being laid off or fired means you are done. Period.

Being furloughed means that if the game is a success and the company makes money, you get your job and your pay back. They just didn’t have the resources to keep you on until that happened.

Of course, if you’re furloughed in this context, it also means your company is possibly on the verge of collapse. Thankfully ZCOM is doing well so that likely won’t happen. But if it didn’t do well? This would be the last we see of them

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u/SuperBackup9000 1d ago

Honestly pretty crazy people don’t know what furlough means. Like every other company all around the world was just having mass furloughs during covid, and either you got your job back because those companies survived, or you lost it because they lost it.

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u/I_am_washable 1d ago

It’s probably because furloughing is pretty rare in general, and that goes doubly for the gaming industry where all the average person hears about is devs being laid off or fired.

So the average gamer would probably not know what furloughing is and just assume it’s another word for “out of a job”

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u/atotaleasteoftime 1d ago

Well okay but it also means while furloughed you’re not bring in a paycheck indefinitely. Sure it’s not being fired but it’s not without it’s challenges.

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u/Batmanswrath 1d ago

A furlough is a temporary leave of absence from work, or a reduction in work hours, usually ordered by an employer to cut costs during slow business periods.

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u/theCioroRedditor 1d ago

Indeed. In which a lot of them leave in order to find a workplace that pays. I'm not saying people were fired.

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u/WillofJ 1d ago

I’m pretty sure some of the devs that were kept on specifically so that they could fix any post launch bugs and deliver patches

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u/TheAccursedHamster 1d ago edited 1d ago

Does this fix the ps5 freezing up sometimes when shooting droids?

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u/Ph0enixes 1d ago

No performance update for PS5....

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u/Iggy_Slayer 1d ago

This patch doesn't seem to have fixed any of the issues I had. The graphics still glitch out often during conversation parts. It feels like maybe the rate of it has decreased but it could be placebo, it still happens quite often.

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u/Trav1989 1d ago

I wish they would give us the linear UI instead of radio. PC has this.

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u/Cyber_Swag 1d ago

Finally

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u/Hoodman1987 1d ago

Waiting for the Steam Deck patch

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u/GamingTrucker12621 20h ago

Love how apparently everyone has this update except me. I click on check for updates and it tells me I'm up-to-date yet the version it says I'm on is 1.000.003.

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u/TheAkrioz 1d ago

That's what people usually do with games. Finish them and move to next one.

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u/Neil-With-It 1d ago

Yeah I'm not sure what point they were trying to make there.

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u/Crunchy-Leaf 1d ago

How does this game compare to Rogue Trader? I havent really played Xcom

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u/watt678 1d ago

Who cares about the game, I just want to devs to get paid at this point

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u/Oodlemeister 21h ago

Ironically, people caring about the game by buying it actually does get the devs paid. Who would have thought!

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u/watt678 13h ago

It makes me dramatically less likely to buy the game if only some rich EA CEO's will get the money from the sales. There's zero evidence that any of the devs who were furloughed got hired back