Community Bulletin - May 2025
Hey everyone, and welcome back to Community Bulletin - May 2025 (Also known as Community Bulletin #31)!
As always, it’s been busy around here with tons of exciting updates from the dev team and the community. Let's jump straight in!
UPDATE v3.19 PREVIEW
Update v3.19 is on the way! With it comes some powerful new tools designed to make Risk fairer and more enjoyable for everyone. Here are some highlights:
Block Lists: Finally here! Block players who disrupt your games and prevent unwanted interactions.
Creating a safe space for the Community: Enhanced Streamer Mode, new report types for stream snipers, and players cannot re-enter pregame lobby when kicked out by Host
Postgame step for players who surrender: Even if you surrender early, you'll still get important post-match information and placement clarity.
Read the full article on what’s coming to v3.19 here.
UPDATE v3.18 HOTFIXES
Update v3.18 has well and truly landed after a huge content update as well as a bunch of hotfixes and minor updates to get it ticking over nicely. Our latest release 3.18.4 should have resolved any remaining issues players had with new visual glitches and disconnects, but if you believe you've found problems that are still present, as always, please reach out here. 
This RISK community never ceases to amaze us with your dedication (and creativity) to the game. Here’s what you’ve all been up to lately!
Content Creators
We’re always grateful for our amazing RISK content creators. It’s genuinely exciting to see pros mastering our game and creating the ‘meta’ (yes, we're talking about the Europe Advanced map with Blizzards and Caps!).
Here are some creator highlights of the month:
Super sus plays made by iNoobLive on the Among Us Airship Map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD2wEvI7C0o
Another sus game over here by Kylted also on the Airship Map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ethwYf5-4
We got the classic (or maybe not so classic) Europe Advanced with Blizzards by one of our biggest creators, CG Plays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr2mccW33zE
If you’re looking to master every position on the Classic RISK map, check out the advice from a Grandmaster player and one of our biggest creators, The Kill Pete Strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcePhNw7Z7I
Now who doesn’t love a good Zombies x RISK battle? Check out Ellis’ gameplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTqmJxavDUo
If you’re feeling a little risky, we’d recommend checking out AkaSpudTopped (his words not mine) on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2457105390
We got another Grandmaster player over here that I’m sure we can all learn from! Shoutout to JJbruhh_.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2453726108
MapGenie - Map Making Tool
We're excited to share the release of MapGenie, a community made project by Barry/CQG in the Risk Community Discord!
MapGenie is a modern, interactive web‑based tool that lets you design and export custom Risk maps.
Full info on the tool can be found here: MapGenie - A Risk Map Creator
You can use the tool right now: Just click here
MapGenie Features:
Various drawing tools to define your territories,
Continent/Bonus management & colouring,
Connection/Sealane management,
Image upload to trace over,
Export various stages of your map to PNG/JSON for sharing or saving
Short message from CQG:,
"This is a passion project and I really hope you find it useful, I have a lot of ideas for the project but I welcome all ideas, suggestions, feedback and bug reports to really make this a community tool we can all enjoy."
Community Maps
Speaking of community maps...
Our next map pack features 4 maps designed by the RISK community, straight from the Discord's Map Design Competition held back in December 2023!
We were blown away by the creativity and detail in these entries, so much so that we reached out and collaborated with some of the original artists to bring their visions to life in-game.
These are the 4 maps from the competition that will be entering our game!
Drained Great Lakes - Jamoz
Terraformed Venus - Remix GameYT
Abandoned Crystal mines - Afotika
Crown of the Skies - SerakHawk
Thank you again to everyone who entered!
Memes
A few months ago the RISK community discord ran their own meme competition!
Congratulations to the winners:
🥇 @Marcellus Fuse 98 votes / 32%
🥈 @Rocket Powered Fitz 71 votes / 23%
🥉 @Humanthenarrator 56 votes / 19%
These memes definitely gave us a good laugh!
Reviews
We got some Risky and Risk-free reviews for you this month which might just make you laugh 😉.
Seeing OG Risk board game players playing our game never ceases to amaze us. Thank you for playing! While on the topic of the board game, if you’ve played, which version is your favourite?
A bit off topic but we got some fun facts about Sandy Soils and Farming in the Netherlands!
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See ya next time.
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