The creator embargo is over. Star Wars Zero Company is being streamed in full right now, a day before Thursday's 3pm UTC unlock, by creators EA granted early access. When we looked, the biggest Twitch stream sat at 2,600 viewers, and this is real retail-build campaign play, not a curated preview slice.

Where to watch

  • Stormfall33 (Twitch): the biggest early stream so far, tagged early access.
  • Star Wars Explained (Twitch, simulcast on YouTube): running a "chat builds my squad" format. Viewers submit names in chat and the operators get named live on stream.
  • Blind Wave (Twitch, simulcast on their Star Wars channel Wave Squadron): playing the day before release with EA's permission, per the stream title.
  • DerAva (Twitch): community-focused stream, questions welcome.

Why it matters

If you are still deciding on Zero Company, this is the first chance to watch long, unedited sessions of the finished game before spending anything. Reviews tell you what a critic thought; four hours of raw campaign shows you the mission pacing, the squad AI, and how it runs.

And if you already know you are in, the squad-naming streams are the fun part: drop a name in chat and there is a decent chance an operator carries it for that creator's whole campaign.

The spoiler warning

This also means campaign story content is now flowing freely a day early, on top of the broken street date. If you want to go in clean tomorrow, watch the opening missions at most, or mute Zero Company communities until you have played.