RISK: Global Domination News

To celebrate Halloween we've just added Pirate's Bay to the Pirate Map Pack for no additional cost.

It's a big one. Enjoy!

[h2]Sale time[/h2]
We've also put the Zombie pack at 50% off (for Halloween) so why not toss some coins our way.
We have some pretty awesome plans for those that own map packs and ways to unlock more content and rewards through them. So buy now and reap the rewards in 2021.


P.S Pirates are part of Halloween right?

Let us know if you think Pirates should be part of Halloween in the comments. Or tell us your fave pirate joke. Best jokes win Pirate Pack DLC

We'll keep this short and meme free.

We have dropped the price of RISK Premium -40% and all the maps (except the latest) to -30%. as part of the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest.

This is the highest discount we'll do on Premium for a long time so if you've been on the fence now is the time. FYI: Next sales for Q4 and Q1 2021 are all 20% off.

Your purchase also carries across to mobile (IOS and Android) so you can play on the go / toilet / snuggled into bed all warm)

We have another decent update coming in Dec (new maps, AI fixes, better user flow) and then a LOT more in 2021 (heaps of stuff as we say in Australia)

So thanks for supporting us as we continue to grow this version of RISK into the best there ever was.

If you already own the US City Map Pack check the map selection screen for a surprise!

🎲 Las Vegas 🎲 is now available to play. Just like a magic!! 🐅🐅🧙🧙

For everyone else US City Map Pack now has 4 maps in the pack to purchase 💰

[h2]Free stuff? What's the catch[/h2]
Why did we update a 2 year old map pack with free content?! Because we started with 3 maps per pack and then some had 4 and a couple had 5! So make them all visually even and fair value we've circled back to older packs to make sure every pack has at least 4 maps.

This leaves Pirates and Zombies (which also have avatars and dice) as the next to get free updates! The next Zombie map will update close to 🎃 Halloween 🎃 so, wait for it.... stay 👻 toOOOOooOOooned* 👻 for that update.


[h3]* Dad joke disclaimer: [/h3]
There's been some hating on the use of memes and silly jokes in these updates. All I can say is that adding these silly jokes are what make these update fun for me. That said in 2021 we'll be hiring someone else to help with these (and other things) so if you think you can do better then apply for that job. Then pay you to make these updates so then I can complain they arent funny enough or 'that meme is dead'.

If you like saving money and playing RISK (who doesnt!) then we have a deal for you.



Until Oct 8th we have 33% off RISK Premium and 30% of a bunch of the map packs.

You purchases can be used in the mobile versions of the game for playing on the go. Although maybe like most of us these days there's been much less "going" as we've all be working from home :/

Stay safe, buy our game and support us to keep making more maps, more updates and silly memes.

[h2]NEW MAP PACK![/h2]

• As voted by our community, the new ‘Continents & Countries 2’ pack features 4 new maps: Japan, NZ + Australia, Turkey and Grip of the North!
  

(Giggity! No one actually requested “Grip of the North” it’s a mash together of Sandinania and a few other countries)


One of the most-requested RISK maps ever: Turkey!


Looks like Team Boring won. It’s Australia the right way up. Don’t worry we’ll offer a “flipped/down under” version soon after for no extra cost:


And, finally your chance to be BIG IN JAPAN:


[h2]COUNTRY FLAGS & LEADERBOARDS![/h2]

• Time to represent your country on the leaderboards. Or totally skew the stats and pick a random country like Chad to represent. Not saying Chad’s a bad place, just we don't have any players from Chad, so you’ll be like the #1 player from Chad if you choose it.
  
• The top countries will be ranked on http://hasbrorisk.com/
• Player avatars on in-app leaderboards also now link to their profiles.
  
• You can also tap avatars in your friends list to view their profiles. So tap your friends!
  

You’re assigned a country based on your IP, but this can be changed in the app settings because maybe you’re an English-person living in Australia (there’s many! But you still want to represent the UK) Or like my previous example you just want to be #1 from Chad. Maybe your name is Chad (i’m sorry) and you think it’ll be really meta to also be from Chad.

[h2]FAIR PLAY![/h2]

• New detection (and penalties) for players using unfair stalling tactics to delay winning by accumulating troops to force their opponent to quit. (WHY do people do this?! Seriously! Isn’t the world already in such bad shape that we don't need people stalling for no reason? If this happens to you and we don't detect it please report these people so we can penalise them.
  
• Additional detection and automated warnings for friends playing together in ranked Global Domination matches. Just don't do it.
  
• If a ranked 1v1 game is determined to be “between friends”, it will be converted to unranked.
  
• We’ve also added a minimum Single Player win requirement to unlock the ranked Global Domination mode. Scenarios will not count towards this total. This will reduce people using “burner” accounts.
  

[h2]OTHER IMPROVEMENTS![/h2]

• Check your friends list to now see when they were last online. If it’s been a while please hit them up on other channels to say “hey! Let’s play RISK!”
  
• To get you fired up for battle we finally polished-up the loading sequence.
  
• Talking of polish, we’ve made several improvements to the troops and dice rendering. This is just stage one of several improvements planned this year.
  
• Copy button added to GAME ID in the Play Friends lobby for the game host.
  
• Social avatars removed. (There is a pinned news for that)
  
• Multiple memory improvements for improved stability and performance. At least 5 more HP!
  

[h2]MAP POLISH & FIXES[/h2]
That’s polishing as in “making better” not Polish as in Poland which is officially the Republic of Poland, a country located in Central Europe. Divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres, and has a largely temperate seasonal climate.


Minor:

• Asia 1800s visual clean-up of the short bridges in the bottom of the map
  
• Africa: minor visual clean-up of outlines
  
• Russia 2010: Fixed z-fighting on bridge points. Damn Zs always fighting. We warned them and now they are banned from fighting at all.
  
• Moscow [Advanced]: Fixed weird line on Territory Vostochny. “Weird” as in ‘OK I thought I left my keys on the couch but they ended up in my shoes?!’ weird and not ‘my neighbor is doing weight training at 4am everyday in the garage while coaching himself in 3rd person’ weird. Because that’s really weird and the police wont do anything about it even though it wakes me up every morning. I might have to move.
  

Important

• Pangaea: fixed missing connection between Peru and Argentina below is after image. Peru swiped right so now they are connected!
  
• Central America Removed incorrect connection between Massachusetts and Pennsylvania territories. Mass blocked Pennsylvania and wont return texts and hasn’t felt this good for a while. Good for you Mass for moving on.
  
• Also added a missing dashed connection line between Cuba and Haiti
  

[h2]BUG FIXES[/h2]

• Fix for missing dice visual and soft lock on replay after setting the device to manual roll.
  
• Fix for Error 778 is triggered upon attempting to play “Tutorial 3: Crush Rome!”
  
• Fix when clicking on a territory in the attack phase does not zoom in to include connections that are far away
  
• Fix for Error 698 when attempting to start scenarios
  
• Fix for when eliminated player Avatar is not greyed out for all players in Multiplayer games
  
• Fix for when selecting help tooltip(?) during the game causes soft lock.
  
• Multiple checks to prevent broken game state with unclaimed territories or unresponsive AI in multiplayer games
  

[h3]Phew![/h3]
Well that’s quite an update. We have a LOT more coming that isn't ready yet so this isn't everything we’ve been working on. Some will drop in 2020 but other larger changes in 2021. As always if you have suggestions on how to make the game better drop into the Discord https://discord.gg/risk

And if you thought my dad jokes were funny thumbs up this post!