Tyr Ping Wheel

Tyr’s August 2026 content patch shipped the ping wheel as the real starting point for callouts. A temporary ping existed earlier; this is the one Stoke asked players to use. You bring the wheel up by holding T while looking at something in the world. This page is the habit layer on top of controls and spotting. It does not replace voice. It replaces silence.

Why pings matter in one-life 8v8

You do not respawn. A Fuse that sees a heavy and types a paragraph is already late. A ping on the hull, the bush, or the cap ring is a shared marker the way spotting assists are shared Energy. If your squad is three people, pings are how the pug four understand the plan. Match rules live on how to play.

Pings are not a substitute for LoS. You still need the 400 m circle and a clean line. A ping on fog is a guess. A ping on a Spotted Fortis is a contract: shoot tracks or wait for green paint. Armor.

How to open it

1. Look at the tank, rock, or zone you mean.
2. Hold T (default). Do not tap-spam.
3. Pick the call on the wheel — danger, going here, help, and the other slices Stoke listed as the starting set.
4. Release. Confirm it landed on the minimap, not on the sky.

If T does nothing, open Settings. Legacy tank layouts and rebound keys can steal T. Rebind before you flame the patch. Controls.

What to ping, in order

• Unspotted proxy ticks. The 35 m warning without a model is the number-one ping. Your heavy cannot see Fuse. You can.
• Gray faces. Ping the plate you want ignored so teammates stop feeding bounce Energy. Energy.
• Cap progress. If three hulls can stand in the ring, ping the ring, not a highlight duel on mid.
• Recall gates and ramps. Tempest gates can be stolen. Ranger ramps are height you did not budget. Ping them so a Maul does not drive off a cliff or a light does not miss a free crest.
• Energy zones. 50 Energy to everyone in the circle, including enemies. Ping before you 1v1 a heavy on the pad.

Do not ping every reload. Noise trains the team to ignore you.

Pings and vision

A ping does not automatically Spot. Snitch, Sonar, and bushes still do the lighting. If you ping a hidden Ark, you have marked a guess. Follow with a silenced peek or a Seeker drone. Light tanks and heavy tanks use the wheel differently: scouts ping first, heavies ping the wall they want held.

Squad size three

Clans (20 members, Discord-linked chat) do not change the in-match squad cap of three. You still pug. Pings are how a clan stack of three talks to five strangers. Details: clans. Custom games with share codes are where you practice wheel discipline before Ranked. Community.

Common throws

• Pinging after you already fired unsilenced. You just lit yourself; the ping is a tombstone.
• Pinging a skyline you are about to crest in Atlas. You announced the death.
• Never pinging the cap while you farm damage. Overtime is capture percent first.

Practice the wheel in Sandbox if the build lets you, then in a Custom on Ravine. The maps page is the geometry; this page is the finger that points at it. When a patch moves the bind, it will show up in patch notes. Until then, hold T, mark the heavy, and play the clock.