Geoguessr's HARDEST Map has a SEQUEL 

oh yeahhh

I was thinking the same thing, his 8 score in Indonesia should have been at least 2k

@@LightningEthan he did explain that it's because all locations are very close in latitude, so points go down much faster with distance

@@Naowakk ahh I see I thought all locations would be around the entire world which would balance it out

Things appear farther apart on higher latitudes on a 2D map (with this projection type at least, don't remember what it's called). So you can miss by "farther" in the north or south and get less penalty because those two points in reality are closer than they appear. Think about how Greenland looks WAY bigger on a map than it is in reality, and Antarctica looks like it is the diameter of the whole Earth. Different areas of Greenland/Antarctica are actually much closer to each other than they look. As you get closer to the equator, the map distances become less skewed, so the same linear distance on the map is actually larger at the equator than in the north/south.

@@B3Band while this is true (this map projection is called mercator) and it does play a big role in score calculation, it's not the only reason. The score is calculated from both the distance of the guess (the geodesic distance, without projection) and the spread of the map itself, so that smaller maps (for example of small countries) require more accuracy for the same amount of points. So by reducing the spread of the locations in at least one of the 2 dimensions on the sphere (here the latitude spread is restricted), less points will be awarded for the same distance. You can see it for example on his Indonesia guesses, which would usually give more points.

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imma release them as a video on my 2nd channel because i can’t remember what they’re called 😭

Correct, pronounced horrendously here, but hey i wouldn't expect an aussie to pronounce icelandic words correctly, so it's all good haha

@@Tvngsten It's "Bare det værste" in Bokmål Norwegian so I was able to fill fill in the middle word :P. Some dialects do use bara and versta

I'm Icelandic and can confirm :) Þþ and Ðð are pronounced like "th" in "the", but you let out more air on the second one. These characters are in Old English but Þ was phased out when printing press characters were imported from Germany where they didn't have the Þ, instead it got substituted with Y, which is why we have stuff like "Ye Olde English" but in reality Ye was always pronounced "The". Only in modern day do we say it how it's written.

@@Gilsworth I've looked up Iceladnic and old English letters before. I felt like I had a good idea of how it was pronounced. it's nice to see that coming to fruition! The phrase would be "Bare det værste" in Norwegian but we use "kun" often instean of bare if it's an absolute

⁠@@GilsworthI've heard the thorn is voiced and the eth(?) is voiceless. So thorn would be in "the" but the eth is like in "breath", right?

That botanist would wreck this map. I've even started using his tips to improve my scores. It's wild how accurate his tips are.

I thought he said mouse

true!

Or Madeira

This 100% "Guess where these plants are from" over and over is boring af

nope 😭

most welcome laddo

cause all of the locations are centered around the equator

@@antibab5023 yeah that's what I realized later!

nope never had 70