Tyr playtest group | Pilot NET | Page 1

fiery charm Dec 6, 2025, 4:02 PM

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Creating a group to manage the pnet tyr stack for today's playtest at <t:1765051200:F> <t:1765051200:R>

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@earnest notch @lunar pendant @flat radish @waxen vine

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hmm who else

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@hollow hull ?

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@fringe jacinth ?

fringe jacinth Dec 6, 2025, 4:05 PM

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Yeah, I've tooled around in the sandbox a minute and got a pilot and should be ready to go with a medium tank

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 4:06 PM

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oh, pastel tanks real

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let me fire it up and do something similar ahead of time

fiery charm Dec 6, 2025, 4:10 PM

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@worthy tendon ?

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@vapid gazelle ?

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 4:11 PM

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I'm waiting for no AI

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🖤

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 4:13 PM

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I appreciate this highly convenient Where To Shoot simulator that lets you load up all the tanks and all the weapons and see where to hit people

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merry crane Dec 6, 2025, 4:28 PM

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Yay playtest

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 4:36 PM

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I am going to get myself killed so often with this turn-into-plane option

merry crane Dec 6, 2025, 4:40 PM

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I had a lot of fun with blink shenanigans last playtest

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 4:41 PM

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so how does this work, do I pick one tank to buy with the starting currency for the actual playtest?

merry crane Dec 6, 2025, 4:42 PM

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You should start with a few tanks already

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 4:44 PM

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yeah, I have four, but I would like to dabble in Ikarus or Deadeye rather than any of these

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silly extendo-turret has charmed me immensely

merry crane Dec 6, 2025, 4:53 PM

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Also I'm going to say this now: You cannot track (immobilize) hover tanks

fringe jacinth Dec 6, 2025, 4:57 PM

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waxen vine so how does this work, do I pick one tank to buy with the starting currency for ...

Yeah they give you enough to buy a pilot you like better than the default 4, I bought the deployable wall one

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 4:58 PM

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torn between plane boy and levitating turret medium

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I suspect the medium will get me killed less because that plane is just asking for it

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 5:07 PM

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RAM is very fun if you want to try and break the level designs.

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That is what I spent my playtesting doing. You can use the boost to try and clip out of the map, or turn sideways on walls, etc.

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 5:16 PM

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I am wondering how many of the impassable mountains you can land on with Ikarus

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Did some brief poking in the test range and this giant railgun tank seems surprisingly low in damage compared to the normal medium

fringe jacinth Dec 6, 2025, 5:20 PM

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The tanks are pretty durable overall, even with a 90mm pen gun it's a good few hits to get a destruction

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 5:22 PM

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Yeah, the lights especially are pleasingly durable at first glance

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Deadeye seems to really chunk things with two 200-300 damage shots

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 5:26 PM

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Mhm. The goal, as I understood it, was that it took a very coordinated team strike to kill any of the Tanks quickly - even then, probably a volley and a bit.

fiery charm Dec 6, 2025, 6:37 PM

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I'm absolutely playing hot teleporting Asian lady

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Those ladies are made just to get me to download games

worthy tendon Dec 6, 2025, 7:39 PM

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waxen vine Did some brief poking in the test range and this giant railgun tank seems surpri...

Railgun has good alpha and iirc outtrades anyone plus very good pen but you don't have the dps to burn someone down

fiery charm Dec 6, 2025, 7:57 PM

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6759E2FB created a squad

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@earnest notch @lunar pendant @normal stag @waxen vine

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@flat radish

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oh my god.

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it only allows squads of 2

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:I

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 9:52 PM

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pastel tanks good

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despite the unequal distribution of the polygon budget

fringe jacinth Dec 6, 2025, 9:53 PM

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Managed to get wall tank to 20 and heal tank to 19 in the 2 hour time limit which would be a nice rate of progression in the real game and totally won't actually happen

hollow hull Dec 6, 2025, 9:53 PM

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Oh, I had forgotten this playtest was today

hollow hull Dec 6, 2025, 9:53 PM

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fiery charm it only allows squads of 2

...though maybe I'll wait until this changes before joining one

merry crane Dec 6, 2025, 9:59 PM

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fiery charm it only allows squads of 2

Yea in an earlier playtest than ran into issues with large squad sizes

fiery charm Dec 6, 2025, 10:00 PM

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hollow hull ...though maybe I'll wait until this changes before joining one

yeah they confirmed they'll do larger squad sizes later

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 11:16 PM

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How was it?

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Was pnet victorious?

normal stag Dec 6, 2025, 11:16 PM

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I think I wont all but 1 of my games

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 11:18 PM

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Woooo!

normal stag Dec 6, 2025, 11:18 PM

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Thijs carried me to victory
The one time we got 2 squads on the same team we had an incredible push

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So I'm very interested in playing with larger squads

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 11:20 PM

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Who did you play?

normal stag Dec 6, 2025, 11:21 PM

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Mostly the Mines tank, but a little bit of the Heal tank as well

fringe jacinth Dec 6, 2025, 11:21 PM

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I was grouped up with Misc and Misc did very well, I'd never done a tank game so I got got early a bunch on account of "oh I'm somewhere where there's no cover and folks were holding an angle, no time to back up"

Wall tank and heal tank are both very powerful force multipliers

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 11:22 PM

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Brilliant.

normal stag Dec 6, 2025, 11:23 PM

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I never got to try it but in like exactly 1 game Thijs was the Ram tank and I wanted to see what the Speed Boost Heal would do for him.

fringe jacinth Dec 6, 2025, 11:24 PM

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My tank knowledge consists entirely of "don't go over a hill to get the drop because now your undercarriage is exposed" from tank airport fiction where it opens up with a training sequence where that happens

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 11:26 PM

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I laugh

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How did survival feel? Did it take a while to get killed, even when you were caught out?

flat radish Dec 6, 2025, 11:29 PM

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heal tank seems crazy

flat radish Dec 6, 2025, 11:33 PM

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vapid gazelle How did survival feel? Did it take a while to get killed, even when you were cau...

depends a bit on the tank but you usually could back up at least once if you mess up sorta

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but you could pretty easily just get trapped in a bad spot too

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 11:35 PM

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I died a lot but I think I fought reasonably well, I never felt that I was just eradicated without being able to make plays

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whenever I bought it quickly it was usually because I made a bad call about where to stand and failed to take the painful escape route early enough

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you're definitely more durable than in WOT or WT

normal stag Dec 6, 2025, 11:36 PM

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or because I was hunting specifically to kill you >:)

waxen vine Dec 6, 2025, 11:36 PM

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I nearly had you that one time you shot me from the rock formation in the pass

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I was 0.2 seconds from being loaded

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I really like the Deadeye

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rock solid medium tank with an ability that's great for peeking

vapid gazelle Dec 6, 2025, 11:43 PM

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waxen vine whenever I bought it quickly it was usually because I made a bad call about wher...

Nice, exactly what I hoped for!

silver elm Dec 6, 2025, 11:48 PM

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what

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oops

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what's this?

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(hit enter early)

fringe jacinth Dec 6, 2025, 11:50 PM

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silver elm what's this?

Tyr's an upcoming tank 8v8 hero blaster currently in playtest
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445260/Tyr/

Steam

Tyr

This is Tyr, an 8v8 vehicle shooter where strategic teamwork and mastery of unique vehicle powers reign supreme.

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===🪧 We're looking for playtesters. Sign up at 👉 stoke.firstlook.gg. 🪧===…

Release Date

To be announced

silver elm Dec 6, 2025, 11:52 PM

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huh
inchresting...

flat radish Dec 7, 2025, 1:53 AM

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I quite liked the recall tank

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revolver mag is fun

waxen vine Dec 7, 2025, 1:55 AM

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after some poking, Ramp seems to have really solid all-rounder medium stats, feels relatively easy to maneuver

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the jetbikes feel really awkward to me, might just be an acquired taste compared to Icarus and Drone which both get high-damage autoloaders and still shift pretty quickly

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stealth bike especially has a fixed-forward gun and is paper thin, at first glance it's a WOT-style dedicated spotter above all else rather than a zoomy skirmisher per se

flat radish Dec 7, 2025, 2:39 AM

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yeah the stealth bike does have a nice gun at least

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but yeah it feels awkward at best

waxen vine Dec 7, 2025, 2:40 AM

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I can see what Ashley meant by the dialogue, Deadeye has none so I was not experiencing the world's most uninterested voice acting

flat radish Dec 7, 2025, 2:40 AM

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its kinda interesting there are no like, conventional tank destroyers

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fixed gun heavy front armour

waxen vine Dec 7, 2025, 2:40 AM

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jetbike australian man is not enthused by anything whatsoever

flat radish Dec 7, 2025, 2:41 AM

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yeah the voice acting is just I dunno

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stock video game voices #52312512

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has zero charm to it

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I mostly tuned the science lady out

waxen vine Dec 7, 2025, 2:42 AM

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I think I prefer deadeye to science tank in basically all particulars performance-wise, but the teleporter is such a good bit of support tech compared to the jack-in-the-box turret

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even if teammates can't use it it's still just a convenient don't-cap-me button

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I am interested to see what starts happening when people have enough of a vehicle stable to take modules off one tank and put them on another

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there are some great energy farming components that I imagine might be good pickups for healtank or something with a cheap ability like Deadeye

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and lots of stuff that I just want to play with in combo generally, like the precision aim bonuses and Signature Obscurer/Weakness Analyser

flat radish Dec 7, 2025, 3:06 AM

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waxen vine I think I prefer deadeye to science tank in basically all particulars performanc...

I can see that I never really got a chance to try that

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but I really liked the autoloader on the science tank

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just 5 shots that do 100-150 depending ish in fast succession

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the teleporter is so sloooooow

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I kinda like the idea of the boopy turret

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I think a stacked heal tank might go crazy

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or a few of them together

waxen vine Dec 7, 2025, 3:10 AM

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the deadeye has incredible burst

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pop up, put 600 damage into a guy, hide until reloaded

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considering going module hunting to get +1.5s off my reload when I go unspotted + 15% faster reload when unspotted and trying a total coward build, or the 10e refund on ability use + heal for energy cost of ability + lifesteal shells to get 25hp out of every 15 energy

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the heals are definitely clutch

fringe jacinth Dec 7, 2025, 3:13 AM

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Yeah in a game with traditionally no heals, being the only heals on the go and not a 20 second static zone cap means the heal tank leads the day

waxen vine Dec 7, 2025, 3:16 AM

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I'm definitely a fan of the autoloaders of all kinds offensively, I wonder if the amount of facechecking relative to the amount of cowardice will decrease as people gain experience

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I imagine it will, nobody knows the maps yet

flat radish Dec 7, 2025, 3:22 AM

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damn ok 600 is pretty good

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I'll give that shit a try in like

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I dunno

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a month when we get to play again

waxen vine Dec 7, 2025, 3:23 AM

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the main advantage is the intraclip reload is like a second, so you spend very little time standing there emptying the magazine

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science tank has nearly as much DPS but I found I could sometimes be cheeky about the deadeye and not get hit in return

normal stag Dec 7, 2025, 3:27 AM

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flat radish a month when we get to play again

Looks like there will be 2 playtests in January:

<t:1768075200:F>
<t:1769889600:F>

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so yeah, basically exactly 1 month away

flat radish Dec 7, 2025, 3:43 AM

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the science tank is also like moderately robust if you invest but yeah, 1s is pretty fast I think the science tank is maybe 2s or so

lunar pendant Dec 7, 2025, 9:07 AM

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I enjoyed the little zippy VTOL tank although every time I pressed the vtol mode I crashed it in hilarious fashion

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if I just pretended my F key did not exist I did great with it though

fringe jacinth Jan 5, 2026, 5:31 PM

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Happy 2026 y'all, Checking in early to see who's tuning in for the <t:1768075200:F> playtest this weekend coming up, I'm down to do more tanks

normal stag Jan 5, 2026, 5:36 PM

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Do you know if the devs have mentioned increasing party size?

fringe jacinth Jan 5, 2026, 5:37 PM

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I'm researching that now on the Tyr Discord and I'll update because that was a buzzkill last time for sure

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Got a dev response, looks like the 10th will also be 2 person queues, they're aware people want bigger queues and will update in playtest announcements when the queue size will increase

normal stag Jan 5, 2026, 8:02 PM

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Well, I'd still be interested. It was fun to queue into each other too, though admittedly I'm more interested in larger scale teamwork.

agile crystal Jan 5, 2026, 8:25 PM

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yeah same

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we ended up having to alternate who was on the team most the time and then just hope we landed in the same game anyway

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(which in our defence, we actually did, a few times. sometimes same team sometimes opposing which was funny)

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i understand the reasoning but i do also want that

fiery charm Jan 5, 2026, 10:27 PM

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I'll pass - I'm definitely waiting for larger queues

waxen vine Jan 5, 2026, 11:11 PM

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I am 100% down for more tanks, I have been kind of wishing I could play more Tyr over the Xmas period

lunar pendant Jan 10, 2026, 12:37 PM

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today is the day

fringe jacinth Jan 10, 2026, 12:41 PM

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I'm hype, I'm good for the first two hours of blasting at least, might run out of gas by the time the ranked queue rolls around, and we'll see how the afternoon plays out

normal stag Jan 10, 2026, 5:33 PM

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in 2.5 hours right?

lunar pendant Jan 10, 2026, 5:37 PM

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yeah

normal stag Jan 10, 2026, 7:46 PM

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What's our head count looking like today?

lunar pendant Jan 10, 2026, 7:47 PM

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I shall be there

fringe jacinth Jan 10, 2026, 7:53 PM

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normal stag What's our head count looking like today?

From the count in the chat from this past week looks like four to five - if it winds up being a even number that's not bad for duo queues

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Temp voice channel's up for those Tyr enjoyers today, catch y'all there

normal stag Jan 10, 2026, 8:01 PM

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waxen vine I am 100% down for more tanks, I have been kind of wishing I could play more Tyr...

targeted Misc ping

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lunar pendant Jan 10, 2026, 8:12 PM

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waxen vine Jan 10, 2026, 8:13 PM

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flat radish Jan 10, 2026, 9:30 PM

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ah damn forgot about this

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its only up for another 30 right?

fringe jacinth Jan 10, 2026, 9:31 PM

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The unranked is up for 30, then there's 2 hours of ranked if you got 2 tanks to max rank

flat radish Jan 10, 2026, 9:32 PM

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yeah probably not happening in 30

agile crystal Jan 10, 2026, 10:26 PM

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kwame squad

waxen vine Jan 10, 2026, 10:27 PM

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unranked remains open for all 4 hours

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if people want to come join me

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@flat radish

flat radish Jan 10, 2026, 10:50 PM

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ah damn jumped into a thing already

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maybe I'll catch the next playtest

waxen vine Jan 11, 2026, 7:16 AM

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ended up playing for all 4 hours in the standard queue, it's very moreish

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definitely my favourite tank game so far

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Lizard and Deadeye remain my favourites because I am a huge coward

waxen vine Jan 11, 2026, 8:27 PM

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useful tanking information that the devs have promised to explain better in the guncam UI but haven't yet

fringe jacinth Jan 11, 2026, 8:33 PM

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I thought it was weird the purple track shots got an immobilize but no damage

waxen vine Jan 20, 2026, 3:02 PM

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Queues open for about an hour in a surprise playtest if anyone wants to join me

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going to get some midday tanking in

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deadeye supremacy

waxen vine Jan 20, 2026, 4:03 PM

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deadeye supremacy again

fringe jacinth Jan 20, 2026, 4:03 PM

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Ah dang, I was out on an errand, missed the tanking; still down for the next playtest on <t:1769889600:F>

waxen vine Jan 20, 2026, 4:08 PM

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so nearly managed to get the important level on Ikarus

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next time

waxen vine Jan 30, 2026, 5:47 PM

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we're up to 3-size parties for tomorrow, it seems

fringe jacinth Jan 30, 2026, 5:50 PM

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I should be good to tank it up tomorrow, changelog patch notes look good with performance boosts and better tank slope climbing

waxen vine Jan 31, 2026, 4:41 PM

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three hours and change to Tyr

fiery charm Jan 31, 2026, 5:28 PM

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oh @earnest notch ^

waxen vine Jan 31, 2026, 6:39 PM

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I will personally be around an hour late, but I will be there for the rest of the evening

lunar pendant Jan 31, 2026, 7:06 PM

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I think I'll skip today, I would like the full size party

normal stag Jan 31, 2026, 7:55 PM

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what's our count looking like then?

fringe jacinth Jan 31, 2026, 7:58 PM

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normal stag what's our count looking like then?

Right now based on posting in the last day it might just be 2 (me and you) with a 3rd joining later (Misc)

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I've got a Temp voice comms channel up for the folks that want to tank up

normal stag Jan 31, 2026, 8:04 PM

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I'm in a mechabellum game but I'll join you after this

waxen vine Jan 31, 2026, 8:13 PM

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sneaking in a game during my break then I'll be gone again for 30 minutes, then back

waxen vine Jan 31, 2026, 9:14 PM

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858E17C7

waxen vine Feb 14, 2026, 7:47 PM

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got all my tanks unlocked and in a row for tomorrow's playtest

flat radish Feb 15, 2026, 12:09 AM

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monday 9am on a work day

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not ideal

fringe jacinth Feb 15, 2026, 12:13 AM

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Yeah the USA has advantage some folks get the Monday off on account of President's Day holiday, and that's not standard

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I'm 50/50 if I can make it, severe weather may hinder internet, and I'll confirm closer to session time. Tomorrow's test is same build as last one with 3 player queues so probably won't be 'til the 28 February test they get bigger

fringe jacinth Feb 15, 2026, 8:06 PM

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I'll be out of action today for the playtest, looking forward to the 28 February playtest though, should be good blasting

waxen vine Feb 28, 2026, 9:20 PM

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Tonight's playtest is up, with a few new silly custom gamemodes like All Ikarus

agile crystal Feb 28, 2026, 9:22 PM

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i already miss the characters 😔

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it feels weird with them absent

waxen vine Feb 28, 2026, 9:26 PM

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just got out of a work thing but I'll get a squad together in about 10 minutes

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@fringe jacinth are you around tonight for tanks or are you occupied

agile crystal Feb 28, 2026, 9:31 PM

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also i am so tired of scorch it is unreal

waxen vine Feb 28, 2026, 9:33 PM

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new graphics are funky

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not bad just not used to them

fringe jacinth Feb 28, 2026, 9:40 PM

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waxen vine <@214630836027260939> are you around tonight for tanks or are you occupied

I'm tied up tonight, should be around for the next one

waxen vine Feb 28, 2026, 9:43 PM

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alas

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getting a lot of odd frame drops

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60fps smooth 90% of the time and then occasionally it just crunches down to 3fps for 5-10 seconds, which is not the best

fringe jacinth Mar 14, 2026, 1:48 PM

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Anyone feel like doing the playtest later today <t:1773514800:F> <t:1773514800:R> ? I should be around for at least the first two hours of that

waxen vine Mar 14, 2026, 2:21 PM

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I can maybe catch some of it but I'm travelling tomorrow so it depends how well I manage to get everything sorted

waxen vine Mar 14, 2026, 7:07 PM

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OK, going to Tyr for a bit

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4344A13E

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fringe jacinth Mar 14, 2026, 8:18 PM

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@waxen vine I gotta hop off for a bit to tend to some IRL things, good gaming, catch you at the next playtest

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For those not keeping up with the Tyr Discord, the NDA's off as of today 14 March 2026, so now acknowledging the game's existence is good to go

waxen vine Mar 14, 2026, 8:19 PM

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all good, until next time

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and yeah looks like they've cleared up the performance issues and I'm really having a good time with this one

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next playtest I will definitely try to rally up a larger party

fringe jacinth Mar 14, 2026, 8:23 PM

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Yeah today's tests had the 3 squad size still so if that changes for the next one I'll toot the horn here so folks can proper squad up

fiery charm Mar 28, 2026, 12:33 PM

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https://youtu.be/C54NB_et7AA

YouTube

Tyr

Overhauling the in-game HUD in Tyr

We've overhauled the HUD, made changes to a prototype map, and a playtest is happening this weekend.

✅ Wishlist and Join the Playtest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445260/Tyr/?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=yt-dev-update-032726
🎞️ Register for the Tyr Creator Program https://is.gd/TyrCreatorProgram

0:00 Intro
0:30 Next Playtest a...

▶ Play video

fringe jacinth Mar 28, 2026, 7:10 PM

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I'll be a bit late for tanks today on account of an errand going long, it's an updated client so should run nice

waxen vine Mar 28, 2026, 7:37 PM

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yeah I'm mid exalted session right now, will also be down for tanks once we're done

waxen vine Apr 11, 2026, 8:17 PM

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first playtest after the server wipe, UI is much nicer now

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also I got shot out of the air in Ikarus and my wings stayed deployed so I was just a taxiing plane for a bit, interesting bug to report there

fiery charm Apr 23, 2026, 11:55 PM

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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2445260/view/666111203904324597?l=english

Tyr - Tyr is releasing into Early Access this summer - Steam News

Plus, watch our brand new trailer.

waxen vine Apr 24, 2026, 6:55 AM

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I have really been enjoying the recent playtests, they smoothed out the performance issues from the early ones a lot

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technically they did a reset but they also handed everyone enough in-game resources to immediately get all their stuff back, so it was really just "remake all your builds"

pastel thistle May 5, 2026, 5:16 PM

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just found out we have this here

fringe jacinth May 5, 2026, 5:18 PM

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They're doing another playtest on the 8th of May this Friday since the 2nd had such a big turnout

waxen vine May 5, 2026, 5:43 PM

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this one is specifically for 30 hours straight, so lots of time to get a squad together

pastel thistle May 5, 2026, 5:51 PM

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yippe i can get 10 terrain scans instead of 5

pastel thistle May 6, 2026, 1:47 PM

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fuck im gna miss most or all of the new playtest because i have to go out of town

pastel thistle May 6, 2026, 3:28 PM

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nvm i got it working on my laptop

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