The Melbourne Citadel spans 212 floors. It is so imposing that it is spotted for miles and yet it does not exist. It is the result of a bug in the game “Flight Simulator. ”
Australia is among the most dangerous animals in the world and, if we are to believe the hyper-realistic Microsoft’s Flight Simulator (2020), the tallest skyscraper ever built. It took just a few days after its release on PC for players of the new flight simulator to discover its first major bug. After all, you might say, considering his size, it would have been hard to miss him. As they flew over Melbourne, aspiring virtual airplane pilots noticed that a huge 212-story brown building overlooked the Australian sky. For comparison, the tallest skyscraper in the world, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa does not feature than 163 floors. Of course, there is no building of such height in the Australian city. Following this unexpected encounter, the players quickly gave it a name: the North Melbourne Combine Citadel or Melbourne Citadel, in reference to the Citadel, turn of the game Half-Life 2 built by the Cartel (or “Combine” in English).
In Microsoft Flight Simulator a bizarrely eldritch, impossibly narrow skyscraper pierces the skies of Melbourne’s North like a suburban Australian version of Half-Life 2’s Citadel, and I am -all for it- pic.twitter.com/6AH4xgIAWg
— Alexander Muscat (@alexandermuscat) August 19, 2020
Unfortunately for curious players, land on the roof of the enigmatic Melbourne Citadel (Snake Plissken style on the World Trade Center in New-York 1997) is most often impossible. As shown by a certain Conor O’Kane, apparently a fan of this kind of games, in a video below, landing there irreparably leads to a crash of the game. The existence of the Melbourne Citadel is of course a bug, of which EnGadget discovered the origin. According to the American media, it would be due to a simple typo made on the open and collaborative mapping platform, OpenStreetMap. The latter was one of the main sources of information taken into account by the developers of the Redmond firm when designing Flight Simulator. Unfortunately, it seems that they did not look twice at the amount of data added to their game. The description of the building in question, written by an individual named “nathanwright120”, mistakenly indicates that it has 212 floors instead of… only two. The error has since been corrected, but obviously after Microsoft copied it on their behalf. Now that the bug has gained fame on social media, it shouldn’t be long before it gets fixed.
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