i like the new editing style, the transitions and images are clean but i feel like the facecam pops around too much on like every cadence and its kind of distracting. very insightful video
Yeah agreed, good video and good editing but the facecam changes size way too much for me haha, it's borderline annoying but doesn't ruin the video, I just feel like it would have been a better video without the facecam changing size that often.
Interesting vid! Editing wise, the constant camera expand/shrink is distracting, especially when mid sentence. I appreciate the sample pictures for things.
Hi, Slovakian here. I have to mention one tip with Slovakia. Aside from the letters which we don't have but f.e. Poles and Czechs do, we have regional thing on signs when you enter a town. It's a small blue sign under the main bigger one, it's mainly in the south in Hungarian language and in the east in Ukrainian language (but that are just a few villages)
i don't like it honestly. maybe it's a generational thing, but it makes me feel as if i am watching something for gen z teens with adhd. i hope oscar returns to the old editing style
@@valentinaroldan7764 I agree too. It’s just a bit much for me. I don’t need the webcam constantly resizing and stuff like that. I think you nailed it saying it’s generation. It does feel like this is for kids who need like a “look here, no here, no here!” Obviously it’s not that bad and I still will** watch but I hope a better balance can be found and I’m sure it will.
I know this would be a huge undertaking, but I think an amazing idea for a series would be a guide to all tips for individual countries and playing some rounds on that country to show examples. (as far as I know) im pretty sure this hasnt been done before, and it would be super helpful for beginner/intermediate level players, as well as a reason to play the specific map.
great vid as per! although i do think that this style of editing isnt suited for geoguesser content. far too fast paced. the constant resizing of your webcam is really distracting, and in my opinion the cuts to reduce blank space during sentences is a bit excessive, and seems unnatural at times. with no downtime it just feels like a constant barrage of information, and gets really hard to watch after awhile. really appreciate the example pictures! super helpful personally i find it so much easier to learn when videos like this are more chill, i much prefer the slower paced editing style! really hope you can find a happy medium with editing, cant wait to see more of your content!
13:10 Estonia can be very easy if you see any text somewhere. Just learn to detect that unique language. 15:03 there are dashed sidelines in Finland on Åland islands. That can be tricky because that area looks very much like Sweden, but the road pavings are usually reddish on Åland.
@@mayonnaisemaniac6220 There are differences that can be spotted. Estonian has quite lot of letters B, G , Ü and Õ that don't exist in Finnish at all. There are lot of D's too that is a very rare letter in Finnish. Also, Estonian contains many words that end with a consonant, but in Finnish great majority of words end with a wovel. With those you can see if the text is Finnish or Estonian without understanding the language. Both languages contain a lot of double wovels because in their writing systems long wovels are marked with double and short wovels with a single letter.
@@B3Band Taiwan and Hong Kong flags are complicated and contentious. They have flags but the usage of them can cause problems with China, even here on RUclips. It would probably be fine to show the flags but it's possible that the video could be demonetized if they are used. RUclips has done that to people before if they talked about Hong Kong as an independent country. Idk if the images on this ranking website were added by him or not but either way they probably aren't there because the situation surrounding them is complicated and controversial (to some people).
i’ve never seen any in the bahamas, chad, or djibouti, but mali actually does have some official coverage! there are 6 specific cities (bamako, djenne, timbuktu, niono, mopti, and gao) that all have google coverage in and outside some historical mosques. there is also a very small amount of official coverage in the middle of nowhere, a bit east of mopti, and i’m not sure why it’s there.
Isn't it that the lowlands used to be one thing under spanish rule? I'd say belgium looks the way it looks because of netherlands not the other way around
just wanted to say, ive never had a bulgaria round that i didnt know its bulgaria, but i guess it has something to do with the fact that i live in bulgaria
Im from Norway and the yellow stripes in the middle of the road just gives away that you are in Norway instantly. Its definately a never miss on country streak.
@@rgshadow3813 nah theres so many rural rounds on some field path with no license plates visible which are just a 50/50, theres literally no real way to tell those apart
I'd love this content, but I agree with several comments that the face-cam constantly sizes is distracting. Also did you do something to remove the audio empty space? Non-stop pacing like that tends to drive me away from vidoes. You do amazing content though and keep it up!
if youre in a country with the Cyrillic alphabet there are some unique characters for a lot of countries. for me what makes Bulgaria a lot easier is the use of ъ, correct me if im wrong but in most other cyrillic countries this is rarely used as it relates to the palatalization of consonants and has basically been phased out. whereas in bulgaria ъ is used as a vowel "uh", so will be in the middle of words. I realise this may be practically useless as if youre somewhere with posters there may easily be a url advert etc, but could help with roadsigns maybe
Good tip! A unique one, as far as I'm aware, for Ukraine is the I-umlaut: ї, as well as the standard single-dot version: i. I believe they are equivalent to, or approximate to, the backwards и used elsewhere, like in Russia.
I was hanging out with some friends on geoguessr playing 3v3 duels (we are all 1200+ rated) and we all guessed Australia but it was South Africa. The funniest thing was that someone missckicked a d ended up guessing the ocean by Maldives and ended up winning the game
@@0de1337 someone in our group is super high rated. I myself am not that expert, but a team of 3 strong players should be able to guess the right country almost every game. It was a. Very difficult roubd
Hei zig, maybe u can start a series of how to identify a country, like every video is one or two country, maybe if u can start with argentina/brazil, or maybe just brazil cos i cant differentiate it with mexico or nearby country with the spanish
I don’t know how reliable this is, but sometimes when you think it looks fairly balkan and you see some not-too-clear but somewhat distinguishable autumn coverage, it can be Croatia. It’s a meta I found myself and it’s helped me a couple of times but not too sure how reliable.
Hi, im spanish, and even I am of spain, I find it so diferent to other localitations outside spain, and spainish is internationally known and is easy to identity. Why is it that hard to you? THANKS!!
Nice. But the vid would be better if you had actually kept record of your streak breakers, done the stats and then there would be actual data behind your ranking.
I.was on a 20 country ADW streak the other day and got a Peru round literally miles, no joke 5 or 6 miles from the Chilean border and i guessed Chile (i know stupid of me to not look at the Google car but i was really confident that it was northern Chile and the road lines were white) and was very sad. 😅
Right off the bat i disagree with albania in somewhat difficult and australia in very easy. Australia has many similarities to nz, sa and na. Albania on the other hand have so many things that guarantees that you are in albania such as language, architecture, rift, car panels (both red and blue distinguishable)
I really like the video, but I’ll echo the other comments and say I really don’t like the resizing of the facecam. I think that can be a good edit sometimes but here it’s too often and just distracting. This kinda fast-paced editing just doesn’t really feel right, and I think that would be even more true for an actual game of geogeussr, which is more analytical than I think this editing style allows.
What? AU and NZ look exactly the same in many urban locations, literally impossible unless you see some distinct clues. (same issue as CA vs US, but only applies to urban locs) Rural locations are very easy indeed. SanMarino: super easy. Italian looking but usually not italian plates. Also you can see a trashcan in most locs and the lightish green color is basically uniqe, sets it apart from IT.
AU and NZ are pretty easy to tell a part in an urban setting- coming from a kiwi. Just look at the trees, it will be a dead giveaway (if you're in the suburbs or not the main city there are usually lots of trees everywhere on the side of the streets).
Take this as the friendly criticism it is. But a long video like this really needed a different soundtrack. That repetitive tune was driving me crazy by the end.
Why are you scared of China? Just curious. No flags for Hong Kong and Taiwan? Like how petty are you? Whatever you think of them, they still have flags.
i like the new editing style, the transitions and images are clean but i feel like the facecam pops around too much on like every cadence and its kind of distracting. very insightful video
Yeah agreed, good video and good editing but the facecam changes size way too much for me haha, it's borderline annoying but doesn't ruin the video, I just feel like it would have been a better video without the facecam changing size that often.
Also agree
Do you like the edit where he decided to use a flag set with no Hong Kong and Taiwan?
@@B3Band u r weird
Interesting vid! Editing wise, the constant camera expand/shrink is distracting, especially when mid sentence. I appreciate the sample pictures for things.
i agree
I liked it, i guess the animation was a bit too much but if limited a bit more it would be perfect
I agree
I agree
Agree, very disturbing.
You should do a separate video for how easy it is to get a good score in the country
He should do a separate video on why he removed the Taiwan and Hong Kong flags
@@B3Band cuz they're bad countries
@@B3BandHe is just using a site he didn’t create the tierlist
Hi, Slovakian here. I have to mention one tip with Slovakia. Aside from the letters which we don't have but f.e. Poles and Czechs do, we have regional thing on signs when you enter a town. It's a small blue sign under the main bigger one, it's mainly in the south in Hungarian language and in the east in Ukrainian language (but that are just a few villages)
I got Andorra and it was fully snowy and I thought it was Antarctica or Greenland. Quite a streak breaker.
I think I’ve gotten that round too. Was it like a ski resort?
@@Joemamahahahaha821 I’ve had one similar to that as well, I think they have a lot of ski coverage ;)
@@Joemamahahahaha821 yeah I think so
did you get a new editor? The editing style seems different and i'm liking it
i don't like it honestly. maybe it's a generational thing, but it makes me feel as if i am watching something for gen z teens with adhd. i hope oscar returns to the old editing style
@@valentinaroldan7764 Ngl kinda accurate hahah. I was subbed since 600 subs and I preferred it old style
@@valentinaroldan7764 I agree too. It’s just a bit much for me. I don’t need the webcam constantly resizing and stuff like that. I think you nailed it saying it’s generation. It does feel like this is for kids who need like a “look here, no here, no here!”
Obviously it’s not that bad and I still will** watch but I hope a better balance can be found and I’m sure it will.
@@quite_unknown_1 so just cuts nothing else?
@@Joemamahahahaha821 Editor here, next videos will not have that many zooms. Thanks for the feedback! :)
I know this would be a huge undertaking, but I think an amazing idea for a series would be a guide to all tips for individual countries and playing some rounds on that country to show examples. (as far as I know) im pretty sure this hasnt been done before, and it would be super helpful for beginner/intermediate level players, as well as a reason to play the specific map.
great vid as per!
although i do think that this style of editing isnt suited for geoguesser content. far too fast paced. the constant resizing of your webcam is really distracting, and in my opinion the
cuts to reduce blank space during sentences is a bit excessive, and seems unnatural at times. with no downtime it just feels like a constant barrage of information, and gets really hard to watch after awhile.
really appreciate the example pictures! super helpful
personally i find it so much easier to learn when videos like this are more chill, i much prefer the slower paced editing style!
really hope you can find a happy medium with editing, cant wait to see more of your content!
13:10 Estonia can be very easy if you see any text somewhere. Just learn to detect that unique language.
15:03 there are dashed sidelines in Finland on Åland islands. That can be tricky because that area looks very much like Sweden, but the road pavings are usually reddish on Åland.
It literally looks like Finnish wdym
@@mayonnaisemaniac6220 it is Swedish speaking and right between sweden and mainland finland so it's similar to both.
@@mayonnaisemaniac6220 There are differences that can be spotted. Estonian has quite lot of letters B, G , Ü and Õ that don't exist in Finnish at all. There are lot of D's too that is a very rare letter in Finnish. Also, Estonian contains many words that end with a consonant, but in Finnish great majority of words end with a wovel. With those you can see if the text is Finnish or Estonian without understanding the language. Both languages contain a lot of double wovels because in their writing systems long wovels are marked with double and short wovels with a single letter.
@@o7d461 i think Mayonnaise Maniac meant that Estonian looks like Finnish.
@@oh2mp Very informative, thank you
Love the editing here! Also the example photos are very helpful
Do you love the missing Taiwan and Hong Kong photos too?
@@B3Band Taiwan and Hong Kong flags are complicated and contentious. They have flags but the usage of them can cause problems with China, even here on RUclips. It would probably be fine to show the flags but it's possible that the video could be demonetized if they are used. RUclips has done that to people before if they talked about Hong Kong as an independent country. Idk if the images on this ranking website were added by him or not but either way they probably aren't there because the situation surrounding them is complicated and controversial (to some people).
i’ve never seen any in the bahamas, chad, or djibouti, but mali actually does have some official coverage! there are 6 specific cities (bamako, djenne, timbuktu, niono, mopti, and gao) that all have google coverage in and outside some historical mosques. there is also a very small amount of official coverage in the middle of nowhere, a bit east of mopti, and i’m not sure why it’s there.
Bahamas has a black truck with Gen 4 from like 2016
@@ExZeMIP i’ve looked through most of the bahamas and never found it, where exactly is it?
@@kxxthl you’re right I mixed Bahamas and Bermuda up I think Bahamas has only unofficial coverage with very bad quality, my bad
The areas in France and Netherlands that are close to Belgium look similar to it because they used to be part of it
Isn't it that the lowlands used to be one thing under spanish rule? I'd say belgium looks the way it looks because of netherlands not the other way around
Thumbnail : Slovakia is ez
Video : Slovakia is hard
funfact: if you're brazilian, every place on the globe that isn't straight up cold looks like somewhere there, so it makes it harder
true, i was exploring bulgaria in google earth just for fun and some streets looks like shit straight out of brazil
just wanted to say, ive never had a bulgaria round that i didnt know its bulgaria, but i guess it has something to do with the fact that i live in bulgaria
lol i also find bg easy but i dont live there
Technically Vanuatu would be a Geoguessr country, too, as there is some coverage on Ambrym island
Im from Norway and the yellow stripes in the middle of the road just gives away that you are in Norway instantly. Its definately a never miss on country streak.
I feel like the U.K is one of the easist countries you can guess automatically just by the street and houses.
But then ireland exists...
@@Mat3906_ It's still easy to guess between the two
@@rgshadow3813 nah theres so many rural rounds on some field path with no license plates visible which are just a 50/50, theres literally no real way to tell those apart
As someone who can never tell if it s Australia or New Zeeland I m so happy to find out Australia it s in fact very easy :)
11:31 Danish houses look quite Danish indeed
I'd love this content, but I agree with several comments that the face-cam constantly sizes is distracting. Also did you do something to remove the audio empty space? Non-stop pacing like that tends to drive me away from vidoes.
You do amazing content though and keep it up!
if youre in a country with the Cyrillic alphabet there are some unique characters for a lot of countries. for me what makes Bulgaria a lot easier is the use of ъ, correct me if im wrong but in most other cyrillic countries this is rarely used as it relates to the palatalization of consonants and has basically been phased out. whereas in bulgaria ъ is used as a vowel "uh", so will be in the middle of words. I realise this may be practically useless as if youre somewhere with posters there may easily be a url advert etc, but could help with roadsigns maybe
Finally someone noticed
Good tip!
A unique one, as far as I'm aware, for Ukraine is the I-umlaut: ї, as well as the standard single-dot version: i. I believe they are equivalent to, or approximate to, the backwards и used elsewhere, like in Russia.
We forgot Monaco 🇲🇨, very easy though!
If you live in one of the Baltic countries, and you get one of the Baltic countries, you will know immediately
i really liked the video, i took a break from geoguessr but watching this video somewhat made me remember and learn new things, very cool
I learned that Hong Kong and Taiwan apparently don't have flags.
@@B3Band nah i think its just that they didnt want to get into political controversies/conflicts
I was hanging out with some friends on geoguessr playing 3v3 duels (we are all 1200+ rated) and we all guessed Australia but it was South Africa. The funniest thing was that someone missckicked a d ended up guessing the ocean by Maldives and ended up winning the game
okey but who were asked
@@0de1337 he said it's ez to tell apart south Africa from Australia, I was saying that even good players can get tripped up sometimes by those roubds
@@snakeixirTM okey but you is only 1200 ratings
@@0de1337 someone in our group is super high rated. I myself am not that expert, but a team of 3 strong players should be able to guess the right country almost every game. It was a. Very difficult roubd
@@snakeixirTM okey but 1200 is notted a high ratedr
Did you give your barber a picture or rainbolt? 🤣 much love!
Hi from Bulgaria, I agree it can be very hard even for a bulgarian
As a Brit I’m proud to say despite being dreadful at geoguessr I’m better than him at noticing Britain.
MY NEVER MISS
You can tell the difference between Northern Ireland and County Donegal in Ireland in NMPZ?
belgium is very hard, i hate guessing that country with every bone in my body
Really? Brick house = Belgium.
I instantly recognize Belgium, however sometimes it's possible it could be Denmark, but maybe it's because I'm Dutch
I find it easy but can look like Netherlands, denmark maybe sometimes Luxembourg or uk
It’s funny that I’m actually really good at Estonia but really bad at a few of the never misses
Yeah just like Albania way easier than he says, it's 50/50 with the Rift and the license plates are only there
How'd you get that transition screen with your logo on it? it looks clean af
bro, your so underrated, defo my fav geography youtuber
even if the uploads are 3 times a week, theyre still amazing videos
3 times a week is plenty tbh
Bro he uploaded 7 times in a week
@@vainilla2712 true
he does also stream
@@wakey.9711 yeah its really hard to daily upload, take it from someone who does
Hei zig, maybe u can start a series of how to identify a country, like every video is one or two country, maybe if u can start with argentina/brazil, or maybe just brazil cos i cant differentiate it with mexico or nearby country with the spanish
omg Slovakia in thumbnail! my peoplee
New editing style, nice.
Albania is very easy, the rifts make it 50/50 but if you see the license plates it can only be Albania
Really like the type of editing
Kinda annoyed you forgot Greenland. Would definitely be easier then Faroe Islands in my opinion. Also what about Madagascar?
i would say UK is easy because if you see english you just already know, and it’s super super easy to region guess although you aren’t counting that
I don’t know how reliable this is, but sometimes when you think it looks fairly balkan and you see some not-too-clear but somewhat distinguishable autumn coverage, it can be Croatia. It’s a meta I found myself and it’s helped me a couple of times but not too sure how reliable.
Both identifying Hong Kong and Taiwan as countries yet not using their flags for some reason 🤔
Yeah, fucking weird. Why would he be so petty?
@@B3Band bro its not even his fault stop hating
I mostly play battle Royale countries and most rare country I've ever got is Christmas island
Hi, im spanish, and even I am of spain, I find it so diferent to other localitations outside spain, and spainish is internationally known and is easy to identity. Why is it that hard to you? THANKS!!
Im not a pro player but Spain has a wide diversity of landscapes, a very common language and can be confused with portugal making it difficult
Did you just forget to mention the most important and basic meta for Kenya which is the Snorkel on the car?
Vietnam’s coverage was sadly removed. You can no longer get it, and the official map of Vietnam in geoguessr was also removed :(
Why though?
@@scientiaestpotentia2007 idk
I am suprised that Vietnam and Laos even had coverage, I mean they're communist countries
@@gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 same for cambodia and china
@@xsuperl Hong Kong and Macao still have a bit of autonomy while Cambodia is no longer communist
You should do a video ranking countries by how difficult they are to 5k
zi8gzag be like
>rest of the world? ez
>eastern europe? *confused screaming*
The editing on this is 👏 chefs kiss.
Jacksucksatgeography, geopeter and you.
Great Collab
why u didnt put hongkong flag
I once had a round in Liechtenstein🇱🇮.. was not expecting it😅
lyinnnn
I wonder what would happen when pro GeoGuessrs go travelling. Would you constantly have déjà vus?
AHH TIER LIST MY LOVE I MISSED THIS
4:26 Also the red plates.
im from faroe islands. glad to be SSS+ god tier country :D
for me Singapore is the #1 easiest but also Japan just because I can practically see any single thing visible and determine it is Singapore or Japan
I carnt be the only one who don’t play geoguesser but watches zig every time he uploads
amazing video ☺️
For me every country would be in very hard lol
hey zigzag, can you give the link to make this tier list?
And the link to the missing Taiwan and Hong Kong flags?
@@B3Band he's using the geoguessr icons and I dont think the game has those
Why doesnt hongkong have a flag but all the others do :D
I think Estonia is really easy if you see any language tho cuz the language is very similar to finnish
i was playing geo the other day and i got a country i never seen before but i saw some boats and i thought monaco and i won from that
Pakistan, Madagascar and US Virgin Islands could’ve been included too
Taiwan and Hong Kong's flags could have been included too.
@@B3Band True but in the game both countries are counted as part of China so that's probably why they weren't included
Amazing idea!
I 😅died when he said cambodia
Nice. But the vid would be better if you had actually kept record of your streak breakers, done the stats and then there would be actual data behind your ranking.
I.was on a 20 country ADW streak the other day and got a Peru round literally miles, no joke 5 or 6 miles from the Chilean border and i guessed Chile (i know stupid of me to not look at the Google car but i was really confident that it was northern Chile and the road lines were white) and was very sad. 😅
Is China not in Geoguessr?
only Hong Kong has google street view coverage
Hong Kong and Macau
@@RidiculousCombo Does the Chinese gov not allow Google to film in mainland China?
@@andrewjones575 google never got perms to upload mainland china coverage I think
China is possible to get but it’s very rare. I’ve had a location in a Shanghai parking lot before.
i see slovakia, i click.
What's going on with the camera? Couldn't stop focusing on it.
great video idea this is gonna be good!
Right off the bat i disagree with albania in somewhat difficult and australia in very easy. Australia has many similarities to nz, sa and na. Albania on the other hand have so many things that guarantees that you are in albania such as language, architecture, rift, car panels (both red and blue distinguishable)
This is a masterclass
Love this one 💪
Sweden is interesting it can look like denmark Finland and norway up northwest it looks a LOT like norway i Don’t Think You have had rounds there
Example stora sjöfallet nationalpark
I like the editing, but the camera getting bigger & smaller is quite distracting :/
I really like the video, but I’ll echo the other comments and say I really don’t like the resizing of the facecam. I think that can be a good edit sometimes but here it’s too often and just distracting. This kinda fast-paced editing just doesn’t really feel right, and I think that would be even more true for an actual game of geogeussr, which is more analytical than I think this editing style allows.
There are of every country atleast photospheres
If you see old MB its Albania
and if you see eu tag on plates and russian letters its Bulgaria
those too, are quite easy and I am average player.
i’ve been studying geoguessr and i’m a pro in africa but europe is impossible like half the time i guess across the continent
shoutout to estonia for being the hardest country to guess 💯
I have an idea for a challenge. Guese only on the name of the country.
Like the video but the camera constantly zooming in and out is completely unnecessary.
SLOVAKIA S TIER
Editting reminds me of a jacksucksatlife video and I like it a lot
The easiest country is the one you're from and those nearby.
Useful tips.
What? AU and NZ look exactly the same in many urban locations, literally impossible unless you see some distinct clues. (same issue as CA vs US, but only applies to urban locs) Rural locations are very easy indeed.
SanMarino: super easy. Italian looking but usually not italian plates. Also you can see a trashcan in most locs and the lightish green color is basically uniqe, sets it apart from IT.
AU and NZ are pretty easy to tell a part in an urban setting- coming from a kiwi. Just look at the trees, it will be a dead giveaway (if you're in the suburbs or not the main city there are usually lots of trees everywhere on the side of the streets).
Take this as the friendly criticism it is. But a long video like this really needed a different soundtrack. That repetitive tune was driving me crazy by the end.
Why are you scared of China? Just curious.
No flags for Hong Kong and Taiwan? Like how petty are you? Whatever you think of them, they still have flags.
He didn’t make the tierlist
nice hoodie
I live in Estonia so I would be easier for me then others
geo guessers all have the same haircut
How much money do you earn as a pro geoguessr?
Chile = “Chee’-Lay”. “Chee’-Lay”.
some countries are missing
Where's Venezuela??