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fcaldas
Bahamas1 Post
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robzholmes
United States1 Post
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Nebuchad
Switzerland12375 Posts
Especially if you play it in no moving mode, it's a game that is well designed in that it rewards playing it a lot. You start out and it's kind of dumb, how are you supposed to know anything it's just a patch of grass, whatever. You guess Mexico and it's Turkey or Brazil. Being wrong doesn't really feel bad because how are you supposed to know anything. After a while you start to notice some stuff, and you start making good guesses, and that feels absurdly good in comparison to how little being wrong feels bad. After a while you kind of develop a feel for most places. It's hard to describe how it works but you can be dropped in some random countryside site and think "this looks like Ukraine" and be right. I'm not at a point where I'm confident yet but I'm starting to get some decent scores overall. The people who have Youtube channels for this game are ridiculous at it. I recommend playing a map like A Diverse World rather than the actual World map, because the World map puts you a lot in places that are stupid: a lot of rural Russia just looks exactly like everywhere else in rural Russia to me, same with forest Russia (Russia sucks really :p), or Brazil. I struggle with North of US vs Alberta/Saskatchewan as well, and you get that a lot. A Diverse World is better because you are rarely in those huge places; it's frustrating to "know that this is Russia", find out that it is indeed Russia, and you still made 1800 points out of 5000 because you were kind of in the right part of Russia but not really. Some stuff that I noticed: + Show Spoiler + If you can see the sun, check out if it's north or south. North is southern hemisphere, south is northern hemisphere. Southern hemisphere you want to know if people drive left or right, if it's right it's South America, if it's left it's South Africa/Botswana, Australia or Tasmania/New Zealand. In cold/northern forest stuff, yellow lines on the road is North America, white lines is Sweden/Finland, no lines (or bad quality road) is Russia. You can only get Germany in very big cities so don't guess in the german countryside, that's gonna be Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark or Poland most likely. Similarly you won't get India or China, so if you're in South Asia it's Bangladesh or Sri Lanka (good luck on that one, you can try and figure out if there are a lot of muslims maybe, that's Bangladesh) and if you get some chinese script you want to think Taiwan or Malaysia. If you get something random like the inside of a building, check out the name of the person who has the copyright at the bottom right, it won't be Google. From their name you might figure out where in the world they're from, it's not foolproof but it's something. If you're playing Diverse world and you get some countryside with absolutely zero mountains in Europe, you're in the Baltics 95% of the time. If you're in Africa and there's a police car following the Google car, you're in Nigeria. If the google car is blurred in a way that is easily visible on the picture and it looks south american, you're in Guatemala. If the google car is blurred in a way that is easily visible on the picture and it looks like a desert in the northern hemisphere, you're in Kyrgyzstan. If you get some cyrillic try and see if there's a vowel repeating itself near the end of words because that's gonna be Mongolia. Images of poor quality (World map) are either in the center of the US (Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, sometimes south Illinois/Indiana) or anywhere in desert Australia. If someone has tips for narrowing down US small city stuff that would help me quite a lot, I frequently guess somewhere in the South when I was in Ohio or something. | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
It's a fun game for groups of people since fringe knowledge can come in useful. Like maybe one person knows Brazilian phone codes, or someone can recognize the colour of license plates from different us states. US small city stuff can be tough. The best indicators are probably vegetation. Like the West coast has more evergreens, Florida and the neighbouring states have palm trees, the prairies are pretty recognizable and so on. If you're really try-hard you can learn about US highway signs: https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-the-top-tips-tricks-and-techniques/ . | ||
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Nebuchad
Switzerland12375 Posts
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Nebuchad
Switzerland12375 Posts
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