Weapons

Overview

Every Operator in Star Wars Zero Company carries a weapon that defines their primary attack options in combat. Weapons can be customised with Modifications and swapped out entirely from the Armory in the Den. Each weapon has an AP cost to fire, a range profile, and a damage value displayed before each attack is committed.

Figures on this page were checked against the launch build on 30 Aug 2026. See Game Updates.

Weapon Types

Every Operator carries a primary weapon that helps define their role on the battlefield. There are four confirmed types, and each is classified as a Fast Weapon or a Slow Weapon according to how it spends AP:

Icon	Type	Class	AP rule	Damage profile
	Blaster Pistol	Fast Weapon	1 AP per shot, fired without limit	Lowest Base and Critical Damage of the blaster types
	Blaster Rifle	Fast Weapon	1 AP for the first shot each turn; every additional shot costs 2 AP	Decent Base Damage, good Critical Damage
	Repeater	Uses all available AP	Firing consumes the whole remaining AP pool, with damage bonuses at 2 AP and 3 AP	Modest Base Damage, scaled up by the AP spent
	Longarm	Slow Weapon	2 AP to fire	Highest Base and Critical Damage

The pistol is the only weapon with no per-turn limit, which makes it the reliable option for an operator who has already spent most of their turn. The rifle’s escalating cost (1 AP, then 2 AP per extra shot) means a full three-shot turn is not possible with it. The Repeater sits outside the Fast/Slow split entirely: it is all-or-nothing, and rewards firing it with a full pool.

In the combat UI these appear as named attacks: Fire Blaster Pistol (Fast Action, 1 AP), and Fire Repeating Blaster, a Final Action costing all remaining AP that deals Blaster Damage plus additional Rapid Fire Damage scaled to the AP consumed.

Combat Stats

EA publishes the base figures for each Weapon Class. Every type shares the same 5% Critical Chance, so the differences sit in damage, critical damage, and range:

The four stats mean:

• Weapon Damage: the damage dealt by the weapon when attacking
• Critical Hit Damage: the additional damage applied when an attack critically strikes
• Critical Chance: the chance of critically striking for that extra damage
• Range: the weapon’s optimal range. Attacking beyond it incurs a Strike Penalty

These are base values before Modifications, Talents, and Specialization passives are applied.

Any weapon can be combined with any Specialization. Weapon choice is a loadout decision rather than a class restriction, so a Sharpshooter is not locked to a Longarm nor a Soldier to a Repeater, and each pairing changes how the operator spends their turn.

EA’s Weapon Class Guidance

EA’s official Specialization and Weapon guide, published 28 August 2026, suggests a Weapon Class by playstyle. This is the publisher’s own guidance, reproduced as published:

EA also notes that Longarm Blasters “can be more difficult to handle”, and that for the Scout, Scoundrel, and Medic Specializations no particular Weapon Class is required: it advises choosing one that supports the operator’s position on the battlefield instead.

DC-17M Weapon System

One weapon sits outside the four classes. The DC-17M Weapon System is unique to Trick and arrives with his Commando armour late in the campaign. It is Assault-class, and the in-game description calls it “an advanced reconfigurable blaster with multiple firing modes, including a Longarm, Grenade Launcher and Repeating Blaster.”

Its stats sit well above every standard weapon, and the cost is stated in the same tooltip: it does not benefit from Weapon Upgrades, and Weapon Modifications are not compatible with it. Where a Longarm can be tuned with mods across a campaign, the DC-17M is fixed at what it is.

Its Fire DC-17M Repeater mode is a Final Action consuming all AP for a base 18 damage plus Rapid Fire Damage scaled to the AP spent, and unlike the standard Repeater it always damages the target’s Cover. See Exotic Classes for the other two modes.

Ion Weapons

Ion weapons are confirmed as a counter to droids: Bit Reactor recommends them for handily disposing of the Separatist Alliance’s droid forces. How Ion damage is delivered (weapon type, mod, or ammunition) has not been detailed.

Weapon Modifications

Weapons have Modification Slots: sockets for stat-altering attachments. Modifications can:

• Alter weapon stats (damage, range, accuracy)
• Apply distinct combat effects

Slots come in four categories, Barrel, Cell, Scope, and Stock, and an operator can carry only one modification from each category at a time. A weapon cannot take two Scopes, so a fully fitted blaster draws on one mod from each category rather than a stack of the best single type. Stabilizers are the family of mods that fit the Stock slot rather than a slot of their own.

Each weapon starts with a set number of Modification Slots. Slots can be increased through upgrades during the campaign, reaching at least four on a single weapon, which is what the Fully Geared trophy asks for. Modifications can be purchased from the Black Market in the Armory using Credits, or earned as rewards from Operations and Tactical Missions.

Because there are only four weapon types in the campaign, modifications rather than weapons are the axis a loadout is tuned on: the blaster is chosen once, the mods keep changing.

Modifications come in four rarity tiers, in ascending order Basic, Superior, Exquisite, and Exotic, and each carries a Credit value. Basic is the common tier and Exotic the rare one; Superior and Exquisite are the tiers Missions and Operations hand out most of the time, so the Black Market is where the ends of the range are worth looking for.

The 64 Modifications

The list is unusually regular, and seeing the pattern is worth more than reading the table top to bottom. There are four slots, four effect families in each slot, and four rarity tiers in each family, which is why there are exactly 64 modifications.

That means a slot is really a choice between four effects, and the rarity tier only decides how much of that effect you get. The Scope slot, for example, offers cover negation, range penalty reduction, Critical Chance, or Assist Damage, and the Targeting Scope line runs 10%, 15%, 20%, and then Auto-Scope, which negates cover entirely.

The Exotic tier is priced flat at 3,250 Credits for every one of the sixteen, whatever it does.

The Capacitor family in the Cell slot is a separate thing from the Capacitor resource spent at the Den’s Upgrade Facility, which shares the name and nothing else. See Resources.

Loadout Management

Every Operator comes with a default weapon that can be changed at the Armory. Weapon appearance (blaster model and colour) can also be customised independently of stats, allowing visual personalisation without affecting combat performance. Each of the four weapon classes offers 4 to 6 cosmetic models to choose from.

The five Clone Wars-era painted weapon themes included in the Deluxe Edition are purely cosmetic and do not affect gameplay stats.

AP Cost and Shot Breakdown

Before committing to an attack, the combat UI displays:

• AP cost for the attack
• Chance-to-Hit percentage against the target
• Damage value
• Shot Breakdown panel with full details (range, modifiers, cover impact)

The Repeater is the weapon that consumes all available AP when fired, which makes action ordering matter more for the operator carrying one: anything else they do that turn is taken out of the damage. The combat UI labels this a Final Action, and it pays the AP back as damage: Fire Repeating Blaster adds Rapid Fire Damage on top of its Blaster Damage in proportion to the AP consumed, with bonuses at 2 AP and 3 AP, so firing it with a full pool hits harder than firing it with one point left. Fired with a full 3 AP pool it has been recorded at 22 damage, against a base Weapon Damage of 8.

The Longarm is a Slow Weapon rather than a Final Action one: it costs a fixed 2 AP, leaving a third point for movement or an ability.

See Combat System for how Final Action compares to the other action types.

References

If information is missing, it has not yet been confirmed. Corrections are welcome.