Missions
Mission preparation, difficulty choices, objectives, and permanent-loss rules.
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Difficulty should match the amount of tactical punishment and campaign recovery you want to manage. Official information confirms selectable difficulty, optional permadeath, and limited saves on higher difficulties. Adjust these settings deliberately; a harder campaign changes roster risk as well as individual battles.
Verified guidePrepare for each mission by reading the objective, expected positional demands, and roster risk before selecting the squad. Zero Company includes tactical operations and investigations accessed through the campaign structure and galaxy map. Bring Operators who can complete the objective, not only win a stationary firefight.
Verified guideOperations are optional Galaxy Map activities that expire with the current cycle; story missions are obligatory campaign steps and tactical missions describe the battle format.
Verified guidePermadeath is enabled by default but can be turned off. On standard difficulty, an Operator who loses all health is downed and takes a wound; an ally can revive them, but wounds reduce combat statistics, and accumulating three wounds causes permanent death. Protect injured Operators and maintain roster depth.
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