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Zenless Zone Zero: How to switch characters when exploring New Eridu

Discover the city with different Agents

Marco Wutz

HoYoverse

HoYoverse has begun implementing one of the most frequently requested features in ZZZ – the ability to explore New Eridu with different characters. As of Zenless Zone Zero 1.2, players can freely switch between Belle, Wise, Caesar, and Burnice at any point to hang out in town. 

All other characters will be added to this feature with the release of version 1.4, which should be set for launch in the middle of December 2024. Note that aside from Belle and Wise, you’ll need to actually own the Agents you want to explore New Eridu with, similar to how things work in the other HoYoverse games, such as Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail.

As for how to switch your character in ZZZ to explore the city, take a look at the process below.

ZZZ: How to switch characters when exploring New Eridu

Switching between protagonists is fairly straightforward: Click on the time display in the top left corner (or simply press ‘T’ on your keyboard), which is also used for skipping time in ZZZ, and navigate to the “Character Selection” tab.

Zenless Zone Zero screenshot of Belle standing on the road.
You can find the character switch feature in the top left corner. / HoYoverse

Here you will find all of the characters you can currently switch to. As mentioned above, this will only be Belle, Wise, Caesar, and Burnice until update 1.4 is being rolled out. From then on, you’ll find all the Agents you have obtained in this section.

Zenless Zone Zero screenshot of the character switch menu.
It's currently a little empty, but this screen will be filled with version 1.4. / HoYoverse

HoYoverse is working on an even cooler feature, though: An “Agent accompany mode” that will allow you to explore the town with another character in tow, providing interactions with them as you hang out. There is no tentative release date for this function yet, so it’s safe to assume that the fully completed character switch feature will be available first.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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