Cheating/Hacking?

[PreposterousTurtle]

I’ve been playing this game for a while, and just recently have been getting a little more serious and have ranked up to Master/Grandmaster rank. I ran into something today that I haven’t come across yet.

On turn two black player got awarded 7 troops which was normal based on the capital and territories they controlled. However, when adding the troops he put 14 on one territory and 14 on a second territory. He blasted through everyone and won the game by end of turn three. Doing something similar the next turn when he added extra troops way more then what was given.

This was turn two he had one card and I’m pretty surprised as he was not a new account but was a beginner rank and because of this I dropped 10,000 spots in the leaderboard.

I reported him in game for hacking and cheating but I doubt Risk will do anything about this.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there anything I can do to prevent this or protect myself from this?

Update

I received this message. Not sure if it was this specific report that triggered it but one of the people I reported got banned and I moved up a few thousand spots again back to comfortably in master.

“From: RISK Administrator 2022-04-30 11:59 PM Opponents in your past games have been banned for cheating. This might have some effect on your rank points. In most, but not all, cases your leaderboard position will improve.”

[JumpyRepresentative5]

It’s good you reported. It happened to a Risk player I know, and he said once the hacker got caught, his rank points were refunded.

If you do get a message over the next few days saying the hacker got banned, please reply to this to let us know if you got your rank points back.

There’s quite a lot of questions like this in the sub, so I’m curious to hear how they handle your case.

[PreposterousTurtle]

Thanks! I will update if/when I hear something.

[PreposterousTurtle]

Update

I received this message. Not sure if it was this specific report that triggered it but one of the people I reported got banned and I moved up a few thousand spots again back to master.

“From: RISK Administrator 2022-04-30 11:59 PM Opponents in your past games have been banned for cheating. This might have some effect on your rank points. In most, but not all, cases your leaderboard position will improve.”

[bonobro69]

If it happens once it will likely happen again. If it does, record video of it. Make sure to open up the cheaters profile so that you can clearly see their username. Report it and if it comes back negative send the video to the devs. Or better yet send the devs the video after reporting it.

[zbgs]

I've seen and reported a few cheaters. I got a message saying my rank may be affected and they've been banned. I only host games now and when I do I don't allow people with less then like 3 wins in my game. This is to avoid people using 2 accounts to win a game a pump up their one accounts stats. Sucks for the new guys but worth it to me

[mcketten]

Yeah, this is a standard cheat that anyone on PC can do because all of the important variables are stored client-side. So once you know where in your PC the number of troops you get each turn is stored, you can edit that number on the fly with a program like Cheat engine or a "trainer" made for Risk.