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Stealth and armour placement rule supreme in Tyr, the new tank shooter from former Destiny and Valorant devs, with a public playtest now live

Kaboom! A trailer has just landed in your inbox, blasting your laptop apart in a sputter of copper and fossilised breadcrumbs. You scan the horizon desperately with your binoculars, but there is no sign of the aggressor. Then: kablam! An incendiary press release whistles into the wreckage of your computer. You unscrunc...

Kaboom! A trailer has just landed in your inbox, blasting your laptop apart in a sputter of copper and fossilised breadcrumbs. You scan the horizon desperately with your binoculars, but there is no sign of the aggressor. Then: kablam! An incendiary press release whistles into the wreckage of your computer. You unscrunch it with smouldering fingers, and read the words: the first public playtest for Tyr is underway, running till 2nd August.

What is Tyr? Kablooie! A high-explosive Steam page link reduces what remains of your PC to atoms. Ah, I see: Tyr is a new multiplayer tank shooter from Stoke Games, a team of former League of Legends, Valorant, StarCraft 2, and Destiny 2 developers. In case I hadn't spelled things out enough, it puts a high price on visibility and reconnaissance. What you can't see can most definitely turn you into a crater. Here's that trailer.

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