• 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:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

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

• 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

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!

Upcoming map for the Zombie Map Pack "London: 28 Turns Later"

We're quite proud of that reference :)

We'll be adding this map to the Zombie Pack for free to everyone who has already bought the pack.

This is part of the goal to get all the packs to have at least 4 maps.
US Cities and Pirates will also be receiving free map additions in 2020.
Smash that like button for more free stuff!!



We're still working on the final treatment of how to handle the landmarks. But they add a bit of 3D fun to the map and showcase which of the spread out territories form the "continent" bonus.

Crikey! It looks like SMG has gone the full troll on his fellow Aussies and also tried to fix the previous injustices of NZ being missing by making it huge!

That said when you line up the countries like this you see it fits like a glove! 🤔🤔🤔
We're not scientists but I'm sure this is legit how it was millions of years ago.



OK, seriously though we are debating internally whether it should be pǝddᴉlɟ like this or the "right way" up.



P.S it was Phantoniso's comment that triggered the idea. So yes we do listen to what the community says.

We tallied the votes, removed 90% of them (they were for Turkey which was already in the set) and then made an editorial decision to pick S̶c̶a̶n̶d̶i̶n̶a̶v̶i̶a̶ (Northern Europe) from the valid votes cast.


We haven't ignore all the other requests as plenty of time for us to add other packs in the future but for now we're getting all Scandinavian (<--- this was the first time I actually typed it and didnt have to fix the spelling error! The muscle memory on that will never come in handy again but hey glad you were here for that moment)

We dont have a solid date on this pack but expect it in the next 3-6 weeks.

The Countries and Continents Pack 2 will be...

1. Turkey
   
2. Japan
   
3. Australia + NZ
   
4. S̶c̶a̶n̶d̶i̶n̶a̶v̶i̶a̶ (Northern Europe) (Damn :( I typed it wrong again and had to fix it!)

We still have the Australia and NZ map to reveal and we'll show that next week. It's pretty funny to be honest as we did something special with it. You'll never guess... OK try and guess in the comments.

Coming to Countries and Continents 2 pack it's Japan!

Another popular request and quite unique in it's sea connections. It's actually tough to make this all fit in the space we needed so had to get creative with the inset Ryukyu Islands.

Coming soon to Countries & Continents 2 Map Pack is Turkey!

Thanks to all our Turkish players who were VERY VOCAL about this :)



Here's some facts about Turkey that I found to drop into dinner conversation and feel much more cultured.

1: The tongue-twisting, 70-letter Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine, or “as if you are from those we may not be able to easily make a maker of unsuccessful ones,” is thought to be the longest word in Turkish. (But seriously it's thought to be? Can't someone just look this up and confirm?)

2: Santa is from Turkey: Saint Nicholas was born far from the North Pole, in Patara.

3: Istanbul is the only city in the world which straddles two continents: Europe and Asia.

Know anything about Turkey you'd like to share with the world? Drop a comment below!

Update 28/07
We have updated the map to reflect Australia's and the rest of the world's foreign policy on Cyprus. We did not intend any offence with this inclusion. Sorry for the stress caused.



When looking at Cyprus from a Turkish angle
The official position of the Turkish government regards the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) as an own, independent state, recognised by Ankara. Therefore it should not be part of the Turkey map.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus

We were close to getting this out in June but slipped a few days to allow for extra QA.


- Spain, added to the Countries & Continents Pack. (Big thanks to IbaiLlanos!)

- Streamlined friend and game invites (YASSSS!!!! Thanks for patience everyone while we fixed this)
- See who is online and check out their profiles

- New Emotes collection UI in-game
- Crying, laughing and rage General emotes (The three basic emotions all RISK players need)

- Different in-game text messages each week nominated by our Discord community. (we're closing in on 40k members now!)
- Your stats button settings remembered between games (Can't think of anything funny to add to this one)
- Set your preferred avatar colour in your profile (So we can finally tell the people who ask all the time to shut up about it :)
- Exit button added to home screen (Steam exclusive feature!! Woooo)
- Bug fixes, memory optimizations and map improvements! (We posted about them before but we really did massage and tweak every map to make them better)

This update was a combination of some quality of life, some major fixes and new stuff. The 2.7 update is already underway and we'll have more info and an ETA on that when we're closer.

If you're enjoying RISK then drop us a review, or a follow on Twitter or Facebook (ewww 😂)

Cheers
RISK Team @ SMG

Update for JULY!

OK looks like the instructions were a little unclear, sorry. Turkey was already a LOCK! We wanted to know the 4th

But we have narrowed down the 4th option to the following.

1. South America, focused on Argentina and the Falklands
   
2. Scandinavia with Denmark + Balticum
   
3. India
   
4. Indonesia + Philippines
   

Original post below.
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We want to know what YOU think should be turned into an official RISK map for an upcoming pack.



We have already planned;

• Turkey (because it's one of the top countries on Steam for RISK)
  
• Japan (because Japan is awesome)
  
• New Zealand and Australia (because that's where we live)
  
• and ???

Spain map is coming in the next update (ETA First week of July now) as a free update to the Countries and Continents pack so we've got that covered already.

If the period in time is important add that too. Add as little or as much reasoning as you like. Mmmm delicious reasoning.

We already have a small poll going on Discord with Ireland beating out Mexico by a fair margin. But wanted to open up the suggestions a little wider before we lock in a decision.


You can tell your grand kids: "Yes your mother's right, it was me on the Steam forums back in 2020 during the great lock-down. I remember it like it was yesterday... I suggested a country, still can't believe no one thought of it before me, I just typed it out on a noisy mechanical key board, clickety-clack!, the universe applauded the suggestion, SMG listened (i mean how could they ignore it) and it was made.

If only it was on Reddit because I would have gotten so much Karma...

That's actually how I met your grandmother. She saw my suggestion and fell in love instantly. 43 years we've been together. We still play RISK together daily, I really got my money's worth by going premium back in 2019.

Greatest day of my life kids. Greatest day."

That could be you!!

No longer will Steam users have to feel inferior to their emote wielding, mobile playing enemies.





Steam users will be able to purchase and use them from the next update.





We have more emotes coming but for now it's just The General.



Look at him all smug!


Shout out to TopSpin for the awesome animations!

The art team went back through all the previous maps to tidy them up.

A cleaner outline, better centering on the map, more spacing on the territory for the pucks (#teampuck!) a nip/puck if you will?

While for some it's minor, we wanted to ensure players on all devices (mobile and PC) get a highly readable map.

Here's a few of the alterations. We'll have them all done for the update at the end of June.




























And don't worry if they look the same, just trust us they are better ;)