Displacement into Overwatch

What it needs

The Overwatch holder gives up its whole turn to set the cone, and the displacement costs a second Operator's action. Two turns are spent to kill on the enemy's. Done with a grenade it also costs a Utility slot and a charge, on an Operator who starts the campaign with one slot. And since Patch 1.1, one outlet reports the cone can fail to fire on a legitimate trigger — so the turn spent setting it is not yet a certain one.

• Medic + Gunslinger Combat Stim✓Confirmed
  Put the Medic's damage buff on the Operator that attacks most often — the clearest confirmed synergy in the game, and the one EA and the developers describe most directly.
• Force Push & Overwatch Squad✓Confirmed
  Stop waiting for enemies to walk into your reaction cone — push them into it.
• Hawks Pico-5 Support◇Theorycraft
  Build the mandatory Operator into an action-economy engine that hands an extra Action Point to whoever needs it most — and banks Bond progress every time it fires.
• Force Push + Sharpshooter Exposure◇Theorycraft
  Push enemies out of cover with the Force, then remove them at range.
• Tel-Rea Vokoss build◇Theorycraft
  The one Operator with nothing to choose: both her Specializations are fixed. Her build is what you put around her, and how you spend Harmony.
• Cly Kullervo build◇Theorycraft
  The only Operator whose class is both fixed and expandable: locked to Mandalorian Warrior, and able to add any of the eight as a secondary once dual Specializations unlock.
• Overwatch Trap◇Theorycraft
  Do not shoot the enemy. Push it into the guns you already aimed.
• Scout Advantage Battery◇Theorycraft
  One Scout exists to fill the Advantage pool, and one Operator exists to empty it. The rest of the squad stays off the pool entirely.
• Dual Specialization squad◇Theorycraft
  Four authored Operators paired with the second Specialization that compounds their fixed Talent rather than repeating it — the arrangement a launch-week creator arrived at, argued here against the mechanics.
• Mandalorian unlimited turn squad◇Theorycraft
  Two astromechs feeding Action Points to the one Operator whose signature move costs none, so her turn ends when the enemies do rather than when the points do.
• The published-loadout squad△Community
  Three Operators as a launch-week guide actually played them, mods and Utilities included — the first build here to carry a loadout, because it is the first whose loadout somebody observed rather than reasoned.

Read next

• The squad built on it
• Overwatch
• Displacement

Sources

• Lead Zero Company To Victory on August 27

  Electronic Arts · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 6 August 2026

  Supports: Operator introductions; 3 Action Points per turn; Advantage caps at 10; the eight Specializations; Bonds in the Personnel Facility; Hawks' species options

• Star Wars Zero Company: How Some of the Greatest Minds in Tactics Games are Pushing the Genre, Again

  Xbox Wire · Tier 2 — Developer interview · accessed 6 August 2026

  Supports: Greg Foertsch and James Brawley on the eight Specializations, Combat Stim + Gunslinger synergy, Advantage, and Specialization changes on authored characters

• Star Wars Zero Company: A New Hope for Turn-Based Tactics

  Xbox Wire · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 19 August 2026

  Supports: Difficulty — the writer played on Hard, "third highest out of four difficulties", and "the cutely named Beskar mode is this game's equivalent for XCOM's Ironman, with no reloading previous saves". That line was the basis of this site's difficulty record from 2026-08-19 and was missing from this locator until 2026-08-27; a cited claim whose location is not recorded is a claim nobody can re-check. Combat and squad sections — Advantage accumulating when a squad member successfully deals damage, and capping at 10; respeccing Hawks from Scoundrel into Gunslinger to exploit a Weapon Mod that applied an accumulating Burn status on every attack; unique-specialisation recruits being unable to respec the same way; an astromech with no basic attack, carrying three different Utility items with two uses each; a Concussion Grenade knocking enemies clean out of the combat space. 15-hour preview build.

• Star Wars Zero Company Tips for Tactics Padawans

  Xbox Wire · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 27 August 2026

  Supports: "Fit Check" — "utility items like grenades and health packs are refreshed at the start of every battle (even when you have multiple battles in sequence as part of a larger story mission)", and "you'll likely be shifting your best equipment around between different operators as you field different teams". "Action Economy Is King" — "The limit of 3 action points per turn only applies to how many they can hold at any given moment", a free assist available every turn, and abilities that grant additional actions to teammates. Opening paragraph — four difficulty settings, changeable in the menu at any time between missions. Autosave on the first round of a battle, then at cycle start. Bylined Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor. Published 2026-08-26

• STAR WARS Zero Company — Patch 1.1 Notes

  Electronic Arts · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 14 September 2026

  Supports: Published 9 September 2026, the first post-launch patch; re-read in full on 14 September 2026, when it was still the newest entry on EA's News & Updates page. **Every item below is listed by EA under bug fixes**, which is what makes each one a statement about 1.0 as well as about 1.1. Secondary Specializations: their passive Cross Trainings "now correctly enter the selection pool at Relationship +8", and Secondary Specializations "now count for Specialization-specific Operation requirements and results". Chance-to-Hit: attacks displayed at 100% "can no longer erroneously miss". Scattergun: Tiers II, III and IV "no longer incorrectly use Tier I values". Droid Dismantler: Harmony "is granted only on Droid deaths, not on every enemy death". Tel-Rea: the Ranged Damage Cross Training bonus "is now applied once rather than twice" to her Force attacks, and Critical Damage bonuses "now correctly apply" to them. DC-17m Anti-Armor: it "can now critically hit" and "receives damage bonuses that apply to grenades". Ion Blasters "no longer double Critical Damage". Sweeping Salvo: "enemies outside the targeting cone are no longer hit". A Life of Labor II "can no longer infinitely accumulate bonuses when purchased repeatedly". Immovable: the status "now provides its intended bonuses". Bacta Tank, missed on the first read and added 14 September: "Fixed an issue where the Bacta Tank could be used more than one in a cycle" — EA's wording, typo included; the intended rule is one use per cycle. Overwatch, three lines, quoted verbatim on 14 September because the first pass had paraphrased the first of them too loosely: "Fixed an issue where Overwatch shots triggered against attackers caused the enemies to fire through solid objects at Operators they couldn't see" — an enemy-side line-of-sight failure, not the player's reaction shots passing through walls; "Fixed some instances of Overwatch triggering on a unit outside of the targeting cone"; and "Fixed various Overwatch issues that caused enemies and Operators to be unintentionally attacked". A fourth mentions it in passing: "Fixed a turn ordering issue that caused the Coil Captain to heal a target already slain by Overwatch". **Checked for and absent**: any figure for anything — no Scattergun tier statistics, no Harmony amount, no DC-17m damage, no figure for what Immovable now provides, no Bacta Tank cost. Also absent: any fix for Overwatch *failing* to trigger. Every Overwatch line corrects a shot that should not have happened, and none claims a shot that should have happened now does.

• Star Wars Zero Company gets much-needed first patch so you won't miss shots with a 100% chance to hit any more

  PC Gamer · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 14 September 2026

  Supports: Registered for one claim, and it is the one no patch note can make about itself: what the patch did *not* fix. The outlet's own playthrough had Overwatch failing to fire — in the passage as it surfaced through search, the main bug experienced was Overwatch not triggering even when enemies jog through multiple targeting cones on their turn, and that does not seem to have been addressed, although the bugs where Overwatch triggered on units outside the cone or behind solid objects have. The article body could not be retrieved by this site — pcgamer.com returns a membership interstitial to an automated fetch, as it did for `retail-pcgamer-talents` — so the byline and the exact build tested are unrecorded, and the claim is filed as one outlet's account rather than corroborated. It is consistent with EA's notes, which fix only shots that should not have happened, and it is why every Overwatch record here carries a reliability caveat rather than reading the patch as a guarantee. **Checked for and absent**: any statement of how often the failure occurs, any reproduction steps, and any acknowledgement from EA.