GeoGuessr Updates and København Trip

New GeoGuessr Updates?!?!?

The New Season System

I’ve been pretty inconsistent with GeoGuessr lately, mostly because I’ve been binge-watching TV shows and catching up on my reading. Returning to the game, I found several changes that took some time to wrap my head around. I initially thought the new system overhauled the existing divisions, but it’s actually the other way around.

From what I can gather, it’s essentially a dynamic leaderboard system instead of than the static global one. It’s very strange to call it a “Season” when it only lasts a month. Basically, the higher your division, the more points are at stake. Lastly, your final rank earns you specific rewards and trophies. This style is very similar to most modern battle royales. Not sure, if I like it yet, seems like a nice addition to for the rewards but now might be harder to track progress since the UI is getting very busy.

The New Multiplier System

The new individual multipliers system is a more controversial change. I think it was introduced to prevent insta-guessing. It’s definitely more fair in a sense, but now it’s way harder to make clutch comebacks. This hurts because I’ve lost count of how many games I’ve won solely because of a massive clutch comeback Additionally, it can feel punishing when a 1-point difference grants the winner the full +0.5 multiplier while the loser gets nothing. Hence, the community has suggested adding a “buffer” zone where multipliers are not added¹.

København Trip

I recently traveled to Copenhagen to visit my brother over the Easter holidays, and I was immediately struck by the city’s flat, bike friendly streets and great urban infrastructure. There is a distinct tangible sense of design that you can almost feel just walking down the street. Denmark feels instantly recognizable to anyone who has sunk enough hours into GeoGuessr. The road markings are clean and minimal, the signage features that characteristic Danish typography, and everything looks almost too open (d’ya get it). It’s the kind of location where you second guess your in-game spawn because it feels like a trick.

What stood out most, however, was the sheer consistency of the environment. In GeoGuessr, Denmark is usually identified through a mental checklist of subtle, isolated cues, but being there in person makes you realize how cohesive everything is. I guess I really need to play the Moving more. I found myself spotting a meta in every direction: those yellow unmistakable commercial yellow plates contrasting with the normal white ones, double middle road lines and wide, and the square guardrails that uniquely lack reflectors. Even the smaller details, like the outer road lines made of small white squares and the five striped pedestrian signs, felt like a déjà vu.

Something else that surprised me was how there’s just one app that you toggle on your phone and then it automatically knows what station you got on and off. That also applies to buses, it’s way nicer than in London for example where you have to tap on and tap off at their gates. And it adds to the foot traffic, it just slows everything down. It really creates a noticeably smoother rhythm to getting around. On top of that, nearly every car on the road seemed to be electric.

A Picture I took of Nyhavn on my Camera ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ.

The trip mostly reinforced the patterns I already knew from the screen. What I did notice, though, was something I’d completely overlooked before: the pavements. In Copenhagen, they’re carefully structured using large, uniform slabs broken up by narrow bands of smaller cobblestones, almost like subtle rails running through the walkway. As in the image, these darker, textured strips create a distinct visual. Once you see it, it’s hard to unsee and it’ll be something I’ll look out for in my future GeoGuessr games.

Structured Copenhagen Pavement with Guiding Cobblestone Strips².

Tech Updates

• Following the self-hosting trend and due to GitHub’s uptime being affected after its acquisition by Microsoft³. I have move to a self-hosted instance of Foregjo for git. I did lose my stars unfortunately, but it’s a small trade-off for having full control over setup that doesn’t depend on external platform decisions or service degradation.

• I plan to have this website also be hosted via I2P and Tor to increase accessibility and privacy.