Turns out, it took 9 years to accurately measure the Citadel Tower in Half-Life 2

GAMEFINITY.ID, Denpasar – The Citadel Tower is one of the iconic places in the game Half – Life 2. This Citadel tower towers very high into the sky, and it looks epic. This Citadel tower is often the talk of Half – Life fans, they often argue about the actual height of this tower. Well, there is a Half – Life fan who is willing to spend 9 years to determine his height accurately.

One of the Half – Life fans had asked Marc Laidlaw (as the author of the Half – Life 2) story about the height of the tower, Marc also answered that the height of the tower was only 1 mile (or equivalent to 1.6KM). Because it sounded too short, since then, fans began to measure the height of the Citadel tower in detail.

At first, this tower was proven to have a height of almost touching 3 KM, but in 2012 it underwent several revisions, and the height of this tower proved to be “only” 2.5 KM or to be accurate it was 2,569 Meters. Many fans still doubt this fact, one of them is the owner of the Rscreamroad reddit account. Since he had doubts, he began to measure the height of the Citadel tower accurately with his own method.

He starts measuring from the chapter where the player is placed at the top of the tower, then he looks down from the top of the tower. After he examined, which was at the bottom seen from a satellite map image in New York, it turned out that the image was taken from a height of 8,779 meters.

To be more accurate, he also imported Citadel tower assets into Blender, and the results show that the height is not much different from the previous satellite results, with a height of 8,406 meters. So that you have an idea Rscreamroad make a comparison between this tower and Mount Everest or the Burj Khalifa.

But even so, he is still not so sure about the number because Source Engine has several Citadel tower models and Blender itself often does the object size conversion itself, so he still can’t confirm the exact height of this tower.