Wrong step count in challenges
planned
velopower
I played some coop moving with friends and we had a surprise in the result table. The steps count was very wrong on the challenge for everyone, for example I have more than 3k steps on a 35sec round 1 where I did less than 10 clicks. the game link is here : https://www.geoguessr.com/results/AAGJdADbNT5bOJS0
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Lennin
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sup3roff
There something weird going on with the step counting in this game too:
sup3roff
In 5th round i wasn't moving and get 5k, in theory my step count for this round should be 0. But i saw that in r5 i had 932 steps, which is completely wrong. It also looks as if steps in the current round are added to steps from previous rounds. For example: steps r2 = steps r1 + steps r2; steps r3 = steps r1 + steps r2 + steps r3 etc.
I hope that the dev team can fix this bug. Otherwise, i think it's completely useless and even harmful because it gives the user false information about their step count.
Anyway, thanks for your attention!
MMtracy
sup3roff , your idea about 'previous rounds steps being added to the current round' is something I've also considered when I look at some of my game results.
The only thing I'd add to what you said is a "+1" component, so the whole thing would look something like this:
Geoguessr's R1 step count = a seemingly random number (which probably includes the true R1 step count, but I can't be sure).
GG's R2 step count = <GG's R1 step count> + <the true R2 step count> + 1
GG's R3 step count = <GG's R2 step count> + <the true R3 step count> + 1
... with similar logic for R4 and R5.
The reason I add the "+1" is because I've noticed the step counter would increase by 1 each round even if I didn't move. For example, I've had a game where my step counts were 335, 336, 337, 338, 339 and I don't think I ever moved for any of the rounds.
Does that align with what you're seeing? I haven't played the challenges that you or OP linked to (I don't want to be a party crasher), so I can't see your results.
sup3roff
MMtracy Thanks for the observations! Honestly I don't know what could be causing this bug. I tried playing the same map as in the challenge without moving (IntersectionGuessr - Latvia, https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/6294c65cf6507e6b8d92069f) in Moving mode and with no time limit, and the game said I took 15 steps (even though I was playing in NMPZ). Link to the game: https://www.geoguessr.com/results/8IiiXxa1EPMpJdF5 . I don't know - maybe some maps have same issues or something else is wrong, but on maps like this the step counter works incorrectly.
sup3roff
MMtracy And yes, you can play this challenge, its results aren’t counted anywhere and anymore. It was a daily challenge from Geoguessr French community server :)
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Lennin
under review
Checking with the team, thanks for the report. We will update you once we get more information.