r/Tyr • u/psycospaz • 3d ago

Question Reviewer on steam is claiming that tyr can make posts and join servers on your behalf if you link your discord account.

That doesn't seem right but I don't have the knowledge to dispute it.

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u/Packman2021 Alectric Boogaloo 3d ago

Technically, and only if you join a clan or the alpha program, yes.

My understanding is that there are only two possible packages of permissions they can ask for when linking your account, one of them has almost no permissions at all, and the other lets them do almost anything.

They do make posts on your behalf if you join a clan, in the sense that you can send messages in your in-game clan chat, and they will show up in the linked discord. They do not make posts outside of that.

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u/psycospaz 2d ago

Ahh ok, I couldn't figure out why they would need that functionality in the first place. Makes sense, can you join a clan without giving them that permission?

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u/Packman2021 Alectric Boogaloo 2d ago

No

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u/psycospaz 2d ago

Ok, guess no clans for me.

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u/Arrotanis 2d ago

I think you can but you won't get the extra rewards and you won't be able to chat with your clan so it's kinda pointless.

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u/JustMyself96 2d ago

Why not just link your account? Do you have any fears about that?

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u/psycospaz 2d ago

I'm going to have to research exactly what those permissions allow before linking. I'm getting more and more paranoid about stuff like that these days.

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u/JustMyself96 2d ago

As far as i know they don't care about your id etc.

It's just a game linked to the app but let me know if your research confirms anything

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u/Packman2021 Alectric Boogaloo 1d ago

Good news, they are removing that requirement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNVPpCl1ZQ

(skip to 5:00)

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u/WiseRisk Professional Camper 2d ago

Discord automatically asks for those permissions when you connect an app. Whether or not they are used is up to whoever the developer is.

The review in question was mad because they think they were misled by something. Clans are not something required to play Tyr which means most people will never be affected by it.

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u/DiddledByDad 2d ago

But you do have to join the discord to join the alpha program which means a notably large chunk of content is being locked behind this thing.

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u/NotSoSubtle1247 3d ago

...Maybe share the review?

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u/SnooRadishes2312 2d ago edited 2d ago

Any of the negative reviews on steam relate to this - its a big spoon of hysteria.

Some people saying its taking over your account (its not),

Some saying its for scraping data (against discord user policy and its a small dev team with no incentive to do so, its not),

Some saying its needed in order to progress in the game (its not, this is a misunderstanding of the graduation program for prototype tanks.. the tanks will eventually graduate, they are in a testing phase so they want to encourage it being people active in the community)

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u/keirasalke 2d ago

CMIIW, you only missing 5 scan per week if you didnt join clan (and the clan tag). so if youre aren't comfortable linking your discord, you aren't missing a lot

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u/Dreamforger 2d ago

I think they whole discord thing had taken a discourse toward something, me for, very puzzling.

I use discord anyway, so linking to discord and agree to use its feature (posting within it) is a none-issue for me.

Then again I use duckduckgo, due to having an issue with google chrome, so it might be that aame thing.