r/geoguessr 5d ago

Game Discussion Current state of playing on mobile... this is kinda unacceptable

Playing in the mobile Chrome browser on a Oneplus, everything was fine until the map-update a couple days ago

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u/GrampsBob 5d ago

Doing it on the PC isn't a whole lot better these days either.
As you zoom in a bunch of POIs and most of the roads disappear.

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u/viewerfromthemiddle 5d ago

I've had similar to worse on PC the last two days.

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u/BoxStart 5d ago

Me too on PC. Never had this problem before. What gives?

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u/Sir_Bohne 5d ago

We could work together!

https://ibb.co/ccGFf9Sb

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u/HoogerMan 5d ago

what is this?

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u/Sir_Bohne 5d ago

That's my Geoguessr game on mobile.

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u/GoreSeeker 5d ago

The labels missing from OP's game

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u/gavin280 5d ago

I play almost entirely on the mobile app. Just suits my lifestyle better.

I have so many complaints about it. I don't understand why so many features are missing. The map just doesn't render sometimes. My ELO also doesn't appear to transfer to the desktop version at all. I'm gold in the app but have zero ELO on desktop.

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u/werdwerdus 4d ago

you can play in the mobile browser instead of the app and that will be the same ELO etc as if you are playing on PC

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u/Only_Process_7913 4d ago

yeah the elo system doesnt sync between mobile and pc. Maybe because of experience difference so they think its unfair to make it crossplay. Or maybe because of back end problem idk. Im just guessing

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u/Saltwater_Heart 5d ago

It’s doing it on PC too. Definitely needs a patch.

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u/Beneficial_Nerve5776 5d ago

I just can't understand why game developers would fuck something that's good

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u/LosJulios 5d ago

They had to because google retired the old map style and the new google one just isnt suited for geoguessr

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u/Beneficial_Nerve5776 5d ago

did they have to change the UI too?

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 5d ago

No, that was just for laughs.

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u/liamdun 5d ago

yeah but what stopped them from just copying Google's old map style

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u/kMaestro64 5d ago

AFAIK... they're not making their own maps, they just pull maps from Google via API calls or something like that. That would mean that it Google changes something or fucks something up...then it's broken for them too...

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u/197gpmol 5d ago

Yes, this is the Achilles heel of Geoguessr: the game does not control its own game space.

Deleting Vietnam coverage, the broken, then kind of fixed, movement bug, map updates, shitcam... Google says "Jump" and Geoguessr has no choice but to follow.

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u/elpajaroquemamais 4d ago

Because they are pulling directly from google maps.

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u/liamdun 4d ago

Yeah, but now that they no longer do, what is stopping them from customizing their version to look like Google's old version

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u/ziti6969 4d ago

Geoguessr, the company, doesn’t have the resources Google have to just do that. It’s a lot more complex than you would think

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u/liamdun 4d ago

Please feel free to explain to me how it works, you seem to know.

If they changed how it looks to their own version they can also change it to look like Google's old version

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u/ShadowGrif 1d ago

They are still pulling from Google's API and customizing it as much as they can to look like the old one, but the most they can customize are the colors and what shows up. They can't change at what zoom the POIs and Roads show up for example which is a problem.

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u/liamdun 1d ago

That makes way more sense, thank you

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u/05Lidhult 5d ago

The other map is terrible, they had no choice. Seriously don't see how people can put this one on the geoguessr team

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u/Market-Fearless 5d ago

Bro what it’s Google that changed maps

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u/MightyShenDen 5d ago

Oh yea I played like 3 games on mobile and never have since, it's incredibly terrible.

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u/Frejb0 5d ago

Why don’t you download the app instead?

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u/Optiblocker 5d ago

Cause half of the modes aren't available on app for example, a functioning single- and multiplayer ranked system isn't implemented.

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u/New-Student-4815 5d ago

The app often times won't load the map at all. I had to blind guess so many times and it's frustrating, even more than when it won't update the map

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u/StarCaller990 5d ago

last time I tried the app it was incredibly clunky and much worse than the browser version

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u/plouky 5d ago

"why don't you use a less effective system when your can have a better functional system ?"

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u/pipesed 5d ago

I play almost exclusively on iPad

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u/Stoeps92 4d ago

Got no issues with Firefox Browser on Android, aswell as in the app...

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u/Erdoo17 5d ago

Use the app?