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Suggest a name for a tall skyscraper map!

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I'm making a HL2 map where you climb a very tall skyscraper in the middle of a big city, similar to Vertigo from HL2 beta but in reverse. The climax of the map involves walking across narrow ledges construction beams at the top of the skyscraper, with strong winds howling in your ear and a very long fall to the streets below. I want to evoke a sense of anxiety similar to crossing the underside of the train bridge in Highway 17, but multiplied by 1000 along with the height involved.

I don't want to use the name Vertigo because it's already taken by the beta map and CS. So far I can only come up with "Acrophobia" and "Dizzying Heights" as alternatives. Please help me come up with a better name!

Posted Feb 11, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

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