Microsoft’s most recent Flight Simulator entry does not do nearly anything modest. It is a title that comes on 10 DVDs and will allow you to check out the globe in pretty much its entirety. It turns out that scale even extends to its accidental inclusions. Flight Simulator end users lately uncovered an abnormal landmark: a 212-story monolith towering about an or else nondescript suburb in Melbourne, Australia.
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In Microsoft Flight Simulator a bizarrely eldritch, impossibly narrow skyscraper pierces the skies of Melbourne’s North like a suburban Australian edition of Half-Lifetime 2’s Citadel, and I am -all for it- pic.twitter.com/6AH4xgIAWg
— Alexander Muscat (@alexandermuscat) August 19, 2020
After some sleuthing, the title’s community discovered what had induced the tower to seem in Flight Simulator. When developer Asobo Studio created its specific recreation of the world, they pulled facts from OpenStreetMap, a absolutely free map of the earth to which any one can lead. About a calendar year back, a user named “nathanwright120” added a tag that reported this one particular creating in Melbourne had 212 flooring instead of two. Primarily based on their other contributions, it appears the edit was a straightforward typo, not them seeking to mislead anyone. The mistake was later on corrected by an additional OpenStreetMap contributor, but not just before it produced its way into Flight Simulator.
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