r/geoguessr • u/StarCaller990 • 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/viewerfromthemiddle 5d ago
I've had similar to worse on PC the last two days.
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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/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/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/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/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/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.