Zero Company chance to hit explained

This sounds obvious and is not. Several games in this genre quietly adjust the displayed odds — nudging low rolls in the player's favour on easier difficulties, or hiding a streak-breaker. Whether Zero Company does anything of the kind is unknown, and this page will not guess.

What is known is that both tails exist. A trophy rewards landing a shot at 10% or lower Chance-to-Hit; another rewards missing one at 90% or greater. Neither would be a sensible achievement in a game that clamped its own odds, and together they establish that the displayed range spans at least 10% to 90%.

Four confirmed positional inputs, each with its own page. Cover reduces an attacker's chance to hit, and some cover can be destroyed rather than worked around. Flanking removes the benefit of the target's cover. High ground grants an accuracy advantage to whoever holds it. An Overwatch cone's chance to hit is affected by how far out the cone is placed — reach costs accuracy.

Two further inputs come from class kits rather than from position. The Scout's attacks apply Spotted, which removes range and smoke penalties against a target. The Sharpshooter's Zero In and the Gunslinger's Keen Eye both buy accuracy or critical chance with Focus Points, which makes accuracy partly a progression decision and not only a positional one.

The practical rule before launch is that a displayed percentage is the only honest input available, and every build decision claiming to improve accuracy should be checked against it rather than assumed. A build that raises hit chance by moving competes directly with one that raises it by spending Focus Points, and the two are not interchangeable: position is free and temporary, ranks are permanent and paid for.

The 90% achievement is the one worth internalising. A squad that only functions when its shots land is a squad with no plan for the turn one of them does not, and on a permadeath run that is the turn that ends campaigns.