TF2 Heights Don't Make Any Sense

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[@C.A._Old]

*holy hell. we still dont have comic 7 in 7 years. who knows bay raitt what he is doing right now?*

[@The_Recruit]

wait a sec, wouldn't you be measuring average height from the time that Tf2 takes place rather than modern day to take into perspective how tall they'd be on a logical scale and whether that'd consider them short or not?

[@SquimJim]

@The_Recruit There is VERY little difference in the average height now vs the 1960s. At no time in modern history would 5'6" be above average.

[@The_Recruit]

@@SquimJim Thanks for responding, this was when I was about 3 mins into the video. The standard in 19272 (when tf2 roughly takes place after MvM) was 5'9 so your video remains correct. Good video :3

[@MicrowavedGod]

​@@SquimJim *MAKE THE SPEED ONE OR I WILL STEAL YOUR SKELETON*

[@ApuwiAubrey]

50 iq: the 4chan height chart is correct 100 iq: the 4chan height chart is arbitrary and incorrect 200 iq: the 4chan height chart is correct

[@goobert89]

so true mastema. this post was fact checked by true law aligned individuals

[@gameworldjt]

the bell curve tolls

[@drdca8263]

Should be more like 85, 100, 115

[@ComfortsSpecter]

@@drdca8263Yeah 80-100 Really Isn’t All That

[@ComfortsSpecter]

We have Gone Full Freedom and Full Circle Perfection

[@postaldude9779]

What 6 years with no Update does

[@cuenta007]

To a mann

[@Bell-rf2kk]

🤓

[@mrsentrybuster]

Backstabbed before they could finish

[@santiagoduenas2122]

Ranking of The letters of tf2

[@alexbluecyndaquil]

What 6 feet does to a man

[@nikeiyomiuri2728]

Knowing tf2 lore I would believe it if someone told me that the reason everyone is so short is because back in the olden days people above 5’9 were executed for witchcraft until the tall genes got wiped out

[@Putrid_N_Stupid]

Unironically would fit in 100% with the TF2 canon

[@dumpanimator]

But still merasmus is not as tall as on game if you see comic In fact he just at same size as soldier

[@nickythehickey]

⁠@@dumpanimatorwho are we to assume merasmus can’t change his size at will

[@foxy-48514]

​@@dumpanimatorhe's a wizard

[@xiphosura413]

Perhaps this is why in the setting Australians are so huge, Australium shields them from the shrinking effect and makes them as tall as they actually are.

[@funnydude69]

"take it like a man, shorty" -- the shortest class in a game that can be classified as a dwarf

[@blacklight683]

I think that's engineer's voice line for dominating another engineer💀he knows

[@phantomblue523]

Engie is projecting.

[@ajmickey6747]

@@blacklight683 funnily enough it isnt, its just a voiceline for a melee kill

[@blacklight683]

@@ajmickey6747 oh... I never actually knew there was melee kill voice lines💀

[@moonlitlake]

​@blacklight683 I thought it was a domination line for when an engie dominates a scout 😭 I might be wrong but idk

[@SquibGourmand]

Wow, a world where 5'6" is considered tall! Where might someone find this place? Asking for a friend.

[@SquimJim]

Tell everyone you know that you're as tall as Heavy from TF2.

[@phantomstriker7996]

THE Philippines!!! But that requires great sacrifice.

[@Adolphus_of-bysantanium]

South asia i guess

[@SuperZePe2]

​@@phantomstriker7996 What's thay sacriface?

[@phospenguillite8895]

Third world countries.

[@TheSteelPuffin]

measure spy's cigarette and find the difference between that and an average cigarette then multiply every merc on screen by that amount.

[@razorbladeflamingo3635]

That's... actually a great idea!

[@noahthecrazy1632]

Americans are desperate not to use the metric system

[@commitfelonyfeline]

Cigarettes burn away

[@rotothedragonlord7198]

I scaled the disguise kit model to fit the width of the cigarette from his mouth to discover he uses 100mm cigarettes. After stacking cigarettes I determined spy is 23 100mm cigarettes tall. So Spy is apparently over 7 feet tall if he smokes true 100mm cigarettes. Even if we say the disguise kit is wrong and he smokes regular cigarettes in the 75ishmm range, he's still close to or over 7 feet based on what I can tell.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

I suspect they'd be even smaller since that cigarette is not an average cigarette in 2024.

[@Mrkarton]

To be honest there is a good chance that 4chan heights were used while making the comics.

[@edvinkaziunas5847]

That's possible, if the artist didn't have any height chart on hand they could have googled it and assumed the first result was correct, it has happened a couple of times in the Transformers franchise

[@buttersddragon]

​@@edvinkaziunas5847 as a veteran fnaf fan since all the way back in the fnaf 1 days... don't even get me started on official sources using fan content 💀

[@Edamori]

That's exactly what I thought, the reason why the guess was exactly correct is because the guess was used as a resource in the first place!

[@geist6032]

​@@buttersddragon Seriously, was Splinks ever paid for official merch using his models?

[@LucasTF]

@@geist6032Usually not Splinks

[@maskofthedragon]

An anon getting it completely right from guesswork is pretty on brand

[@Shotgunshogun_]

Never underestimate a 4chan user with nothing to do about his useless math he probably crunched the numbers for hours

[@DMAN99]

4chan aka Weaponized Autism.

[@aidenyorke2132]

@@DMAN99 im autistic and this joke is hillarious

[@yourunclejoe9500]

@@aidenyorke2132 that's cool but i dont think anyone needed to know

[@aidenyorke2132]

@@yourunclejoe9500 shut

[@goldbreezed]

It's from tf2chan and it (was) filled with women

[@tyrusing]

Engi is living proof that dwarves are the true master race. Just look at him, the shortest merc yet also the one that carries his team the hardest.

[@taxing4490]

Doc, cmon man!

[@diegorafaelgaio2767]

Medic!

[@nathanielballantyne8990]

cmere sweetheart

[@kinyt3887]

engineer is dwarf artificer confirmed

[@thosebloodybadgers8499]

Team and Fort to the bone!

[@trueblue1056]

i'm pretty sure that the artist behind that panel googled how tall the merc's are and they found that 4chan height chart and just made it canon

[@TwoHeadedMeerkat]

The actual height of the mercenaries tying back to the beginning and proving the 4Chan user correct is the truest epitome of "I don't know how, but you used the wrong formula and got the correct answer."

[@d4n737]

It's 4chan so it's more like "You crazy sonovabitch, you did it". Because he actually used the correct formula. It's everybody else who was wrong. We discovered what he knew all along... Fucking 4chan with its arcane knowledge

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Hey, still worth a point. Now wrap the answer into a sentence and you got another point.

[@TwoHeadedMeerkat]

@@HappyBeezerStudios I have no idea what you just said, but you phrased it in such a way that I feel oddly compelled to agree. 2 points for you then

[@MASRIDER.]

2:45 Heavy: I can deny it no longer…. I am small

[@kristinglab]

:(

[@ninjasuperman9538]

My guess is that no one every really thought about it until the comics and then Googled their way into the 4chan chart and worked from there. Valve (at the time) strikes me as a company that would rather it look and play good before being lord accurate as well as the lore for TF2 kinda being an afterthought

[@SquimJim]

I was actually thinking the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened!

[@alexbluecyndaquil]

The level 3 sentry gun is the same height as Charizard

[@vibethecat4194]

Engineer's buildings could be pokemon-

[@tf_is_this_shit]

Holy shit

[@NovaAge]

A fair fight then? ­*­Holsters The Wrangler­*­

[@taylor3512]

Sentry gun I choose you!

[@NovaAge]

@@taylor3512 Sentry gun used a gun, it's super effective!

[@the_hiroman]

Remember, Team Fortress 2 takes place in the 60's, and back then the average height was smaller than today's.

[@tau-5794]

It really wasn't notably different. People don't just get taller over time, they just get shorter when there is poor nutrition, as was the case for most of history until recently. The 1960s isn't so far in the past that an average person then would be considerably shorter than one now.

[@donbasuradenuevo]

@@tau-5794 Oh hello, "Acshuallyyyyyyy" guy that never fails to always shows up.

[@tau-5794]

@@donbasuradenuevo Bro who asked

[@the_hiroman]

@@donbasuradenuevo LOL

[@donbasuradenuevo]

@@tau-5794 Same could be said about your comment XD

[@Bbing888]

I honestly think it's less likely that the 4chan guy made a really good guess, and more likely that a certain artist at valve had to google the character's heights and found that image... Which is pretty funny if true.

[@tragnemalm]

The engineer technically classifies as a dwarf? *rock and stone, partner*

[@d4n737]

For Karl! Yeeee-Haww!

[@wr3nche5]

the engineer class DOES exist in DRG along with scout

[@d4n737]

@@wr3nche5 Ye-heah! Rock n' stone, leaf lovah'! WOO!

[@Tneal78]

My headcannon after watching this is that the entire tf2 world is just a slightly smaller version than ours.

[@Woopor]

Average heights today are taller than they used to be so it could just be the time period

[@gamingmoth4542]

Soldier also wears Jungle Boots which probably give him an extra 2 to 3 inches.

[@outofideas42]

A master of his runes (blueprints) and a master craftsman of unmatched weaponry. Engie is a true dwarf.

[@ColonelKlink1965]

Casual reminder that the last major update came out on October 20, 2017.

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

How tf did Jungle Inferno come out 7 years ago

[@ColonelKlink1965]

@@bruhbruh-us6gl It did, that's how.

[@secondBAR]

Competitive reminder that the last major update came out on October 20, 2017.

[@ColonelKlink1965]

@@secondBAR You said the c word, how could you?

[@TheBcoolGuy]

When TF2 was 10 years and 10 days old.

[@doctormedic2682]

Fantasy world? Short? 5’6 is HUGE! Giant. Enormous. Well endowed as some may say I think. No I’m not coping, you’re coping 😡

[@DT-Source]

Glad i could help out Squim!

[@_Dot_Mp4_]

This comment appeared as soon as you were mentioned

[@DT-Source]

@@_Dot_Mp4_I am the Master of Timing.

[@Subject_Keter]

What 6 updates with no years does

[@the_average_zelda_player]

Do you mean what 6 years with no update does (still funny though)

​@@the_average_zelda_playerswitching words to make something weird.

[@mikays7059]

the fact i read this three times to realize it's (intentionally) worded wrong lol

[@proving9606]

@@the_average_zelda_player He meant what he meant

[@Ojito33]

Does years with 6 no updates what

[@eylookvulheimiik7538]

They all grew up in the 1920s-30s ish era, they probably few up very malnourished

[@megarigged]

I don't know if that entirely justifies it. Scout, for example, certainly grew up in the 40s and 50s, during the most economically prosperous era in the US. I would believe malnutition for Medic, Soldier, and Heavy, though.

[@fojisan2398]

​@@megariggedDemoman also canonically confirmed to be very malnourished, thiugh that seems to be by choice.

[@megarigged]

@@fojisan2398 Oh, really? Where?I don't remember that, although I definitely believe it.

[@fojisan2398]

@@megarigged That panel where Demo has an internal monologue with his organs leaving him because of his alcoholism and Spy mentioning how he "lives off of grain alcohol"

[@mekhie.r.duncan3825]

​@@megariggedin the comics when Pauling demo and spy are captured by the old team fortress

[@truestbluu]

i mean heavy has the proportions of a gorilla

[@GeZz.]

yeah long arms, short legs

[@moony_otter]

I'm a nerd and must nerd out Giant Snipers do exist in Two Cities as Giant Huntsman Snipers :) That's my uhm ackshully moment, thank you for your time!

[@SquimJim]

The wiki says those are 1.5X size! Semi-giants?

[@moony_otter]

@@SquimJim Only a spy would lie about being a giant like that! the TF2 MVM lore deepens

[@wizardii4961]

@@moony_otter Those are not giants. They lack attributes Miniboss. Additionally they can be instantly be killed via backstabs.

[@Ultimaximus]

Imagine being wrong when doing an uhm ackshully

[@moony_otter]

@@wizardii4961 I got out-uhm ackshully'd :( lol gg, yeah i never really noticed the difference, personally, but that was my bad

[@QuintessentialWalrus]

Quick note about Hammer Units from a Source mapper: 1 HU is actually equivalent to 1 American inch, but only for characters and props. Walls, floors, ceilings, and doors use the 1 HU = 0.75 inch scale because it's more compatible with Hammer's grid system (long story) and it helps levels feel less claustrophobic. HOWEVER, the extra complication here is that TF2's character models are intentionally made larger than the characters in other Source games, so these scales are meaningless for TF2 specifically. For example, in HU the Engineer is actually taller than Coach, the tallest character in L4D2 who's supposed to be 6'3".

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, there is a default, but a developer doesn't has to use that default.

[@thewolfofthestars1847]

6'4" Engineer will haunt my nightmares

[@charleschamp9826]

Since the height guide from 4chan is from years before the comic, perhaps the artists just googled TF2 Class Heights and used it as a reference.

[@NovaAge]

Dyslexia, figure one: I somehow read that as "TF2 _heists_ make no sense" and somehow was convinced that stands for... Payday 2.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Tayfay 2!

[@Dmanthepowerful]

I misread it as “TF2 Highlights make no sense” and thought it was going to be trashing on highlight reels lol

[@-RandomStranger-]

2:55 counter argument: Heavy isnt an American man, hes *Russian* man

[@P-Bean]

He is a global man.

[@Pudding404]

We all know by now that an average 4chan user with too much time on their hands may as well be special ops.

[@AlmyTheAlien]

A bunch of teenagers triangulating contrails and weather patterns solely to screw with Shia Lebouf's flag is still the most simultaneously terrifying and hilarious thing I've ever seen.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

But how many of them have over 300 confirmed kills and are trained in gorilla warfare?

[@sif7712]

9:50 Jim, iirc giant robo- engineers, sniper, and spy were using the default MiniBoss size which is 1.75 times bigger than their regular variant.. which is pretty silly for what they're supposed to do.

[@NoelJoyeux8]

When it comes to niche research and guesswork, 4chan is actually a pretty reliable source. They've cracked multiple cyphers that comic authors created, correctly predicted secret twist endings to shows, and even tracked down a flag in the middle of nowhere using vapor trails and star charts

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Prolly need to find an in-game item that either has One Single Possible Size (like from standardization) or is literally a tool for measuring size/distance if you wanna be TRUE certain.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

One person here used Spy's cigarette to measure. I suggested taking a gun barrel. Then there are obviously the oil drums on many maps. And pieces of wood like the bridge on 2fort, which most likely are bought following a standard and not custom tooled. Individual steps on staircases might also work, they aren't always the same, but fall into a pattern that is comfortable to use.

[@rockowlgamer631]

All I know is being 6'2" myself sucks, my dad 6'4" himself can agree with me being tall sucks. Finding pants with proper length, finding good seats that don't scrunch our legs, possibly banging our heads atop of door frames, etc. Enjoy being short.

[@eccomi21]

short privilege

[@jessehunter362]

lord i wish i was shorter

[@Adolphus_of-bysantanium]

Nah average is better than both

[@the_epic_memer553]

You're lucky. As a 5'5 man, I have to climb up a mountain just to get in bed. Good news tho is that a savage size slim jim is about a years worth of food.

[@jessehunter362]

⁠@@the_epic_memer553 you can just sleep on the floor, it works fine.

[@jonsku6662]

Some 4channer: "I'll just assume that.. sniper is 6.1 and base the heights of others from that. Idk." SquimJim years later: "After several sources to get a believable height chart... son of a bitch he's right!" Math teacher: "Idk how, but you used the wrong method yet the right answer!"

[@iminumst7827]

Statistician : Let's assume the median class Spy is the average male height 5'6. Scientists: Let's compare the heights of the class to the heights of known objects in their environment. Mathmeticians: Lets use the defined hammer unit to inch conversion ratio. Historians: Let's assume the height of Spy matches what is recorded in the comic. 4Chan: I just guessed lol

[@monkeeboy830]

and somehow, the guy on 4chan was right.

[@commanderboom2626]

The scaling difference in TF2 is something you can see between different versions of hammer. If you take a TF2 character into a map correctly scaled for half-life, the TF2 characters will have trouble moving around in some areas. Likewise when playing a TF2 map in a game like Gmod the map will appear slightly larger than in TF2.

[@vxnished99]

Today I had a very strange low. I started watching Latin American Inca documentaries and Chris Marker video essays and eventually ended up watching a video about the height of TF2 characters.

[@cheeseboi8891]

maybe everything in texas isn't bigger…

[@shadowknight_2505]

😭😭😭

[@mascugz]

valve has a real level 1 centry in their headquarters so you can use that to figure out the height

[@Ophidius7]

Ngl, engie the dwarf makes sense to me Also sniper is cheating, he has lifts in his shoes that engie made for him so he could peek over walls better

[@thelunchking4069]

Its funnier to think that all of the mercs are manlets in a huge brawl Also isn’t there an in game scale or something in the spawn room? If it has legible numbers that could be more accurate to the in game heights

[@davidmacdonald1855]

I always took that original height chart picture as being official. Glad you dug deeper and enjoyed how you looked at a bunch of different sources (figures, hammer units, comics etc.) Really well done video:)

[@xScruffyDaSasquatchx]

Wonderful video. As a Halo modder we deal with the same issue. The "lore" height assumes Master Chief is exactly 7ft but the direct export height is like 5ft something.

[@graphitewarrior]

Dude this is such a perfect representation of the awkward height to real world translation in TF2. I tried doing this for fun once and I was doing (much looser) Game Theory style door measurements. Seeing someone else get the same answers feels vindicating, I thought I was just bad at math XD

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Keep in mind that doors in games tend to be larger than in real life. And that is for regular doors like in houses. Most doors on the maps are extra large.

[@demi-femme4821]

5 bucks says the comic artists referenced the 4Chan height chart.

[@No_Name_U]

I think the artists use to post on TF2Chan so I'd believe it.

[@aneasteregg8171]

But how tall is Merasmus?!

[@Markiz93]

Merasmus seems to be based on Sniper model scaled up to be twice as tall as him.

[@dumpanimator]

Merasmus in game and comic have different size tho In the comic Doom-mates his height is just a few inch taller from soldier and a woman on that comic But sience he can alter human size it is not really surprise if he actually just increase his height in game

[@alextunneyware]

Something to note about Heavy usually towering over Scout, Scout is almost always slouched in game, or at least has his knees bent and his centre of mass lower than it should be (for what I can only assume is for balance)

[@Small_child_punter]

Well done on whoever did that height chart! Perfectly accurate guess! I hope he’s still around enough to see this video and learn how right he is. That said, for total accuracy, all the mercs would be a little shorter without their boots on. They all have heels, sniper probably has the most pronounced ones.

[@foolofdaggers7555]

wait. i can combine the hammer unit to real world measurement conversion with another piece of random knowledge I've had for years. the gay miniatures from night at the museum are exactly three hammer units tall. and somehow this is actually going to be really useful because i'm trying to build the entire museum from night at the museum (as it appears in canon, which is entirely different from the museum they used to film the exterior shots) in hammer.

[@Chaos_Vergil]

Here's my theory as to how they got the 4chan post got the height right: they made an assumption for the heights and the makers of TF2 and the comics saw that and said "Yeah, that seems accurate" and made those the officials heights

[@TheFoxMcfat]

I remember recently working with hammer, and some of the variables (im not sure but i think it was the lip variable for func_door brushes) specified how much space "in inches" it should move more by and i don't think the devs made that variable mean that it would move by a weird fraction of an hammer unit, (if a hammer unit really is 0,75 inches), so i think they meant that 1 hu = 1inch in that case at least so the heavy would in that case be 223,52cm tall - just a theory tho, not entirely set in stone on anything there 🙂

[@fantastikboom1094]

That's left from older Source engine games where a player is 72 inches/units tall. They didn't change the descriptions for TF2 Hammer 😔

[@diegov1743]

Doesn't Valve have a real life sentry in its HQ? Someone could measure it lol

[@QuintonMurdock]

It’s similar to how the dwarves in DRG are like 9 feet tall

[@TheKoriKasai]

What?!

[@rorystockley5969]

How is that calculated?

[@tbotalpha8133]

DRG uses the Unreal Engine, which uses metric units. The dwarves are 1.5 metres tall. Or, 150 cm, or 4 ft 11 in.

[@ronanclark2129]

People when they thought you'd be taller:

[@grokcaveman]

Gaben might be compensating

[@laf1993]

Worth the weight

[@Crazy_Dave_-lv2pu]

Giant sniper bots do appear as the giant huntsman snipers on one of the mannhattan missions.

[@jollythewolf4998]

To be fair to short heavy heights do change often throughout the years like the in the 1950s I’m pretty sure people were shorter on average than nowadays

[@51stconch]

i wonder in theory if you use collab items (such as ones from deus ex, grordbort, and alien) you could in theory find their height. but i remembered the phlog's proportions in tf2 and grordbort canon (MIGHT BE) very off edit:the phlogistinator apparently dosent exist? i only saw models of the unnatural selector. which looks exactly like the phlog but has a longer stock and no dongle?(the tank in the bottom). if this is truethis has heavy implications to the lore and might explain how pyro managed to run frontier engineering and uh. wdym pyro is able to make stuff

[@51stconch]

ok, ok. THE PHLOG IS ACTUALLY A MODIFIED UNNATURAL SELECTOR! the lever is weld. and pyro somehow managed to turn a rifle into a flamethrower. while yeah this creates two headcannons that (one of them is in line with tf2 while the other is wack) for me. a. the pyro is insanely good at engineering and b. we now knew how the phlogistinator worked ngl i genuinenly thought that things like the scottish resistance, the flare gun, and maybe even the widowmaker to have good explanation but i guess its the phlog's crit is probably powered by the dongle and that's probably some generator connected to the rifle

[@chivix4949]

@@51stconchTf2 mercs get most of their weapons from Mann Co, so it must be Mann Co's engineers building phlogs and other jury rigged stuff they have. Pyro is high as a kite in pyroland, so i don't think they can really build anything. (except Mmmph meter with phlog.)

[@omppusolttu5799]

What are the odds the comic makers were unsure about how tall the spy was and decided to just look it up assuming someone had properly done the math? (I'm thinking pretty high)

[@gelitonman1753]

Cool, I have always been the same height as Pyro Cosplay idea!!!!!

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

burn the convention center down

[@randomnessnecesity9627]

7:16 I was half expecting “not only is he standing at a perfect 6 feet tall, but the spy HAS A GUN!”

[@Big_Bantha]

I'm stumped that no one thought of this: the in-game Righteous Bison is a 1:1 version of WETA's Righteous Bison. Use that model as a measuring stick, and you can get real measurements.

[@princesscadance197]

Wow, I guess I'm taller than Heavy. Even though he could still probably break me like a twig...

[@pyrofromtf2]

I am Pyro. I have become real.

[@SquimJim]

Hello real Pyro

[@AceW.Kermitcat]

*Dear God…*

[@mikeyaftony2464]

Real pyro wouldn't say this Real pyro would probably say something along the lines of: "WOW ❤🍭🍭❤️‍🔥💛🍬🍫🍬👍💘💚😍🍥😭🍫❤️‍🔥🍭🍫🍬💚🍬🍥❤️‍🔥👍😍💘💚"

[@jk0273]

❔

[@pyrofromtf2]

@@SquimJim hi!

[@Nedoiko]

I would looove a video on the mercs speed! Great job on this one!

[@jerma984]

It would have been interesting if you found a known scale in game to compare with. Something like assuming the bonk can is standard. I’m sure there is a good scale in the game somewhere.

[@potatosoup9536]

I absolutely hate the fact that something coming from 4chan of all places is pretty accurate.

[@elloo98]

Why?

[@makerrov]

I fricking love how the whole video is spent doing calculations literally anything that could be used to measure the mercs' heights after finding out the 4Chan height chart is just a guess, only to turn around and say that yes the 4Chan height chart is accurate rendering the whole video pointless, truly is what 6 years with no updates does to a gamer lmao, A+ video, Great content.

[@Superkidra]

Hey, cool and good video as usual... But this all seems slightly tall? Like I could easily imagine Engineer standing below other classes around, like, 5'4, 5'5, which would put the rest of the mid-range more closer to average and not have appraoching-7ft tall Heavy or whatever. Not a huge deal, theyre all fighters or whatever so maybe even the shorter classes being big compared to 50's average or the environment is expected? idk, shorter just seemed simpler to me, even with some of the circumstantial confirmation like the robot figure (kinda) and Anon's guesswork. I am also now curious how other in-game objects measure up now though, as well as Valve's irl Level 1 Sentry :o

[@supermaro2349]

I wonder what that would make Ms Paulings height since I would assume her standing next to scout shows her to be a bit shorter than him in expiration date so maybe around 5 feet 7 inches would be my guess

[@DakkaScrappa]

while tf2 has no major update in years heavy weapons guy took his time off and flown to canopy to take a vacation

[@LordRemiem]

Thanks for including the non-usa measure units, my brain was melting from all the mental math ❤ [(feet * 30) + (in * 2.5)]cm

[@Roxor128]

Hey, at least they didn't have to do area. That would have involved square roots. (sqrt(sqfeet)*0.3)^2 m^2

[@MachuThePichu]

according to the valve developer wiki hammer units for humans follow the rule of 1foot is 12 hammer units, I am not good at imperial but I think that comes down to 1 inch per hemmer unit (with the 0.75 inch=1 hammer unit being for map architecture) but this is on a general page for the source engine and the tf2 page says that measurements are a little different in tf2 without specifying what they are

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

a foot is 12 inches, so yes, 1 inch would be 1 hammer unit in this case

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

8:34 Oh wow!!! 11:17 No this was way better. Remember, it was BASED OFF ASSUMING SNIPER WAS SIX FOOT ONE.

[@cheezkid2689]

I don't know if I love the idea of the 1/4th Freeman being 20 inches tall. Sure, maybe the HEV suit boots are big, but c'mon, Gordon Freeman is not 6'8. I imagine Black Mesa's (admittedly arbitrary) stat of just barely shy of 6'0 is more accurate.

[@fantastikboom1094]

Yep, Gordon Freeman is 72 inches tall ingame.

[@theguyforbrawlz1961]

Hey SquimJim I ran into you and Jib during a round of Barnblitz a few days ago. I didn't get the chance to say it in game but your videos are great. Thanks for always managing to come up with interesting and unique ideas for videos. They're always a joy to watch. The fact you do your own art is incredible too.

[@stroodleloodle2909]

The artist who made the thumbnail deserves a platonic smooch for their masterpiece

[@touhoutrash2436]

Oooooh boy a new SquimJim video Bois on the tf2 mercy hights !

[@MausOfTheHouse]

Discussion around height on the internet never ends well.

[@Zaneyboy2_0]

I learned I'm as tall as heavy. So, I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now.

[@scraub8913]

This has been in my feed since it was uploaded, I get it youtube. I'll watch it. (I enjoy your videos, so that's probably why)

[@MACKYBOY-41]

I didn't know this was all your art until I saw your DA (That's not an insult, lol.) But yeah little side note to the video, nice art :]

[@theengineer-dellconagher]

could always estimate saxtons height using the jungle inferno vid

[@theengineer-dellconagher]

little bit taller than scout from what i can guess, so maybe ~6 foot?

[@Iron_Soil]

Shoud have used the soldier grenades as scale models as they are possibly real life sized

[@davitdavid7165]

I dont trust valve to know weaponary. They designed the scattergun and made the spas12 shoot 2 rounds at once

[@tbotalpha8133]

@@davitdavid7165 Also Soldier shoves 4 rockets in the front of his rocket-launcher at once. And Demoman loads 3 grenade into the Loch-N-Load, which only has 2 barrels. It's pretty clear that these guns are not realistic in any way.

[@davitdavid7165]

@tbotalpha8133 the rocket launcher could be excused as cartoon logic and the Loch n load capacity is because of balancing after it was added, so I won't hold them against it too much. The scattergun simply defies reason. Trying to understand how it works will give you a stroke

[@GentleWruzzPuppet]

Could always do the game theory methods by finding a model in game that is based on a standardized size object and then do some pixel measurements to get a vaguely in game accurate result.

[@kamakiriad]

A squimjim video always does put a smile on my face

[@geist6032]

9:56 "But giant Engineers, Snipers, and Spies, never appear in any missions that I'm aware of" the giant huntsman Sniperbot on Big Rock destroying my sentry nest: also, a bus-sized Russian robot with a minigun that rocks the earth, or American machine with a trible-shot rocket launcher, or a Scottish automaton with a rabid fire cannon with Hiroshima sized explosives, would make me piss myself either way

[@blacklight683]

When someone's guess sounds more logical and possible than using the game itself

[@HappyGingerWolf]

Maybe the comic artists googled the merc heights and saw the 4chan thread, thus accidentally making it become canon

[@sentrydraws25]

You could maybe use the jungle inferno trailer to scale saxton

[@davitdavid7165]

You could try to use the weapons and their calibers as an alternate scale. Even standard soda cans. The laser guns with irl counterparts would be the best picks, but ejected shells from the others wpuld be too Also, i have to say one thing: the avrage height has increassed as people started being less malnurished. The mercs being short by modern standards shpuldnt be too concerning

[@TheChowder001]

For all we know an artist making the comic might've googled the height and came across that same info and just went with it

[@sheacorduroy5565]

For what it’s worth L4D has a similar problem where the survivors listed heights are separate from what they actually are in game. (Also, Left 4 Dead’s arbitrary height of 6’5” for Francis is at the very least backed up by a statement from a valve employee about his design)

[@xhongi3390]

What 6 years with no updates does to a mfer

[@LightsJusticeZ]

Interesting video. Never would have guessed to look at merchandise for merc measurements. Or not even the comics honestly. I would have just compared the sizes of in-game objects like the Bonk drink and how that measures up to a soda can, or the handle/trigger of Pyro's flamethrower compared to a gas station nozzle, or even how Pyro's propane tank measures up to like a 5lb propane tank.