And the camera position for that picture is a height of 8,773 meters. In the game files, that cityscape was actually four different images, and after pasting the images together, Rscreamroad compared it to real cities, eventually discovering that the view of City 17 from the top of the Citadel was actually created from a picture looking down on New York City. He loaded the level that takes place at the top of the Citadel and looked down at the texture of the city below, which he eventually assumed was based on a real satellite image. The track the pod rides on is quite long and implies an interior width considerably bigger than 250 meters. 250 meters (820 feet) doesn't seem quite big enough to hold everything we've seen in there, from fleets of gunships to striders stomping angrily around inside. We've seen not just how tall the building is but how thicc it is, having taken an extensive Combine pod ride through its interior near the end of Half-Life 2.

Part of Rscreamroad's issue is that if the height of 2,569 meters is correct, that would mean the Citadel is only about 250 meters wide, which doesn't make a lot of sense for those who have been inside the Citadel. 'I want to at least try to deliver my ideas to the community and resume this discussion.' 'Over the course of these 9 years, I had a lot of objections that destroyed my immersion in the game,' Rscreamroad says in the post. He decided to do some re-calculating, and posted an extensive account of his findings on Reddit. But a redditor named Rscreamroad didn't quite buy it, and it's apparently bothered him for the past 9 years or so, ever since the Citadel's height was calculated.

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